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• Police in Utah aren’t issuing coronavirus-related citations, they’re educating people

  06-04-2020 23:57
  
  Local police departments in Utah are working to keep people safe from the coronavirus, but they’re trying to keep their enforcement of health orders low key.“Our directive has been to educate the public when we see violations,” said Sgt. Clayton Swenson of the Sandy Police Department. “When we see people on playgrounds and things like that, we’re encouraging them to stay home and practice social distancing.“But we’re not issuing citations or formal warni
  
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• What does Utah football stand to lose if the 2020 football season is altered or even canceled?

  06-04-2020 23:37
  
  Inside the University of Utah athletic department, or at least on many conference calls via Zoom, there has to be at least some level of concern that the 2020 college football season will be altered or, worse yet, cancelled.The COVID-19 pandemic rolls on, there is no real, tangible end in sight. While President Donald Trump believes the NFL could begin on time in September with full stadiums, that remains to be seen and a decision on such a move is still months away.It stands to reason that if t
  
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• Utah has set up an emergency hospital. This is what it looks like.

  06-04-2020 23:28
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Rows and rows of cots and medical supplies have filled the Mountain America Expo Center, a place that, in years past, have hosted more light-hearted events like off-road expos and travel shows.But as coronavirus continues to spread
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Justin Zanik to interview for Chicago Bulls GM gig

  06-04-2020 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz General Manager Justin Zanik has been granted permission to interview for the Chicago Bulls' open General Manager position. Justin Zanik, the Gen...
  
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• A serial rapist who attacked strangers in Davis County will spend the rest of his life in prison

  06-04-2020 23:06
  
  Farmington • Mark Douglas Burns says it’s been nearly 20 years since he last committed a crime.It was then, in 2002, that he began to see a change in himself. That he started to feel emotions he had never before: Guilt. Remorse. Shame.But before that, he had been a self-described “monster.” He had broken into womens’ homes and raped them. He may have even killed one of them.Authorities say that, two decades ago, Burns sexually assaulted at least eight women in Davis
  
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• Utah Jazz: Justin Zanik to interview for Chicago Bulls GM gig

  06-04-2020 23:02
  
  Utah Jazz General Manager Justin Zanik has been granted permission to interview for the Chicago Bulls’ open General Manager position. Justin Zanik, the General Manager of the Utah Jazz, has enjoyed quite a rise over the years when it comes to front office reputation. The former player agent was promoted to General Manager of the […]
  Utah Jazz: Justin Zanik to interview for Chicago Bulls GM gig - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 6: Huntsman Corp. makes hand sanitizer; University of Utah bus to help test underserved people

  06-04-2020 23:01
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Monday, April 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:55 p.m.: A University of Utah bus will bring tests to underserved peop
  
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• Four of Utah’s five new coronavirus deaths are tied to nursing homes

  06-04-2020 22:36
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Four of the five people added Monday to Utah’s death toll from COVID-19 were in nursing homes, bringing the state’s total to 13.All five patients died on Saturday, Angela Dunn, the state’s epidemiologist, said at
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak hits Utah center for people with mental disabilities. Four test positive.

  06-04-2020 22:20
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Four people who reside at the Utah State Developmental Center have tested positive for the coronavirus, state Department of Human Services officials confirmed Monday.State officials said that the COVID-19 cases are isolated to a si
  
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• Jordan W. Smith: Utah’s outdoor spaces can help us reconnect. At a distance.

  06-04-2020 22:05
  
  Restaurants that once bustled every night of the week are now open for takeout only. The sports venues, shopping centers, gyms and museums that used to fill our nights and weekends are now empty. And many religious gatherings, which serve as a cornerstone to so many Utahns’ lives, have been halted. The COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to have a massive impact on the social lives of Utahns.While many of the social interactions that are essential for our economy have started to transi
  
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• [Deseret News] - Joe Ingles, Chip Cookies teaming up again for a good cause

  06-04-2020 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — For the second consecutive April, Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles and his wife Renae are joining with locally owned Chip Cookies and Vivint Gives Back for a cause that is close to...
  
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• Joe Ingles, Chip Cookies teaming up again for a good cause

  06-04-2020 21:53
  
  Utah Jazz forward-guard Joe Ingles visits with patients and family members at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — For the second consecutive April, Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles and his wife Renae are joining with locally owned Chip Cookies and Vivint Gives Back for a cause that is close to the Ingles family.
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• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care with coronavirus

  06-04-2020 21:52
  
  London • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened Monday, just a day after he was admitted for what were said to be routine tests.Johnson was admitted to St. Thomas' Hospital late Sunday, 10 days after he was diagnosed with COVID-19."Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Uni
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 6: Utah has 1,675 total cases and a death toll now at 13, four of five new deaths tied to nursing homes

  06-04-2020 21:51
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Monday, April 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----1:40 p.m.: Four of Utah’s five new deaths were nursing home reside
  
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• Bulls to interview Arturas Karnisovas, Justin Zanik

  06-04-2020 21:36
  
  The Bulls plan to interview Denver Nuggets general manager Arturas Karnisovas and Utah Jazz general manager Justin Zanik, sources told NBC Sports Chicago.
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 6: Utah death toll now at 13, with 1,675 total cases

  06-04-2020 21:17
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Monday, April 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----1 p.m.: Death toll in Utah up to 13Thirteen people have died in Utah fro
  
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• [NBA] - Join the #JazzBearHunt!

  06-04-2020 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  
  We're going on a Jazz Bear Hunt ... and we want YOU to join us! During this time of social distancing, it's become a common neighborhood game for homes, apartments & essential businesses to place a
  
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• A serial rapist that attacked strangers in Davis County will spend the rest of his life in prison

  06-04-2020 20:46
  
  Farmington • A Utah man who has admitted to sexually assaulting multiple women in Davis County two decades ago will spend the rest of his life behind bars.Mark Douglas Burns, pleaded guilty in February to eight charges of aggravated sexual assault, six counts of aggravated kidnapping, two charges of aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated robbery. All are first-degree felonies.Second District Judge John Morris ordered Burns to serve back-to-back sentences, which would equate to a mi
  
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• British Open canceled, Masters moved to November in major rescheduling

  06-04-2020 20:25
  
  The British Open will not be played this year for the first time since 1945, golf officials announced Monday as they tried to reconfigure a major championship schedule that would end with the Masters being played two weeks before Thanksgiving.Still to be determined is when — or even if — golf can resume depending on the spread of COVID-19 that has shut down sports worldwide.The R&A announced that the British Open, scheduled for July 16-19 at Royal St. George's in England, will be
  
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• Work starts in Montana on disputed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline

  06-04-2020 20:11
  
  Billings, Mont. • A Canadian company said Monday that it’s started construction on the long-stalled Keystone XL oil sands pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border despite calls from tribal leaders and environmentalists to delay the $8 billion project amid the coronavirus pandemic.A spokesman for TC Energy said work began over the weekend at the border crossing in northern Montana, a remote area with sprawling cattle ranches and wheat fields. About 100 workers are involved initially, but
  
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• How technology helps Utahns with substance use disorders in a pandemic

  06-04-2020 19:55
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.About three weeks ago, Polly H. walked into her last Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, at least for a while, and she didn’t even know it.Now instead of sitting around a big table, the dozen or so people she leans on for support a
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 6: Gov. Gary Herbert shoots down pharmacy rumor; Democrats push him to issue stay-at-home order

  06-04-2020 19:49
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Monday, April 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----11:30 a.m.: Utah’s senators are out of quarantineWashington •
  
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• [NBA] - Donovan Mitchell shares his pregame superstitions on Georges Niang's Drive & Dish

  06-04-2020 19:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang is back with another episode of the Drive & Dish video podcast. This week on the show, Niang chats with Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell about his COVID-19 diagnosis,
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 6: Gov. Gary Herbert shoots down pharmacy rumor; Dems push him to issue stay-at-home order

  06-04-2020 19:10
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Monday, April 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----11 a.m.: Dems call on the governor to issue a statewide orderThe Utah Ho
  
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• San Juan County uranium producer seeks federal bailout, copper mine loses its state permits

  06-04-2020 18:41
  
  As the coronavirus pandemic ripples through the global economy, San Juan County’s mining sector is feeling the impact.Utah’s second largest copper mine, which is located northeast of Monticello, has forfeited its permits with state regulators after it abruptly shut down its operations in mid-March.And Energy Fuels, a uranium company with operations in San Juan County, is asking President Donald Trump to make good on a February budget proposal to set aside $1.5 billion over 10 years t
  
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• A serial rapist that attacked strangers in Davis County to be sentenced today

  06-04-2020 18:01
  
  Farmington • A Utah man who has admitted to sexually assaulting multiple women in Davis County two decades ago is expected to be sentenced Monday.Mark Douglas Burns, 69, pleaded guilty in February to eight charges of aggravated sexual assault, six counts of aggravated kidnapping, two charges of aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated robbery. All are first-degree felonies.Burns admitted to sexually assaulting three women in Davis County between 2000 and 2001. But police allege that
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 6: Gov. Gary Herbert shoots down pharmacy rumor; Zions offers cash back when getting takeout

  06-04-2020 17:35
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Monday, April 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----9:35 a.m.: Zions Bank helps Utah restaurants with cash back offerZions B
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 6: Herbert shoots down pharmacy rumor

  06-04-2020 16:28
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Monday, April 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:12 a.m.: Herbert pushes back on rumor of state control of anti-malaria
  
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• Silver linings: An unexpected piece of chalk art shows the power of Utah educators

  06-04-2020 16:00
  
  Editor’s note: Do you have a coronavirus silver lining to share? Email The Salt Lake Tribune at [email protected] and please keep your story to 300 words or less.While walking in Granite Park in Sandy last week, I found a high school senior (I wish I’d gotten his name) creating a chalk art portrait. As I walked up to it, I thought it was a cone head. But then I saw that he had written “stand here” along with some shoe prints off to one side.I stood where I was told
  
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• Americans brace for ‘hardest, saddest’ week of their lives

  06-04-2020 15:50
  
  New York • Americans braced for what the nation’s top doctor warned Sunday would be “the hardest and saddest week” of their lives while Britain assumed the unwelcome mantle of deadliest coronavirus hot spot in Europe after a record 24-hour jump in deaths that surpassed even hard-hit Italy’s.Britain's own prime minister, Boris Johnson, was hospitalized, 10 days after testing positive for COVID-19 in what his office described as a “precautionary step.”Amid
  
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• Utahns with substance use disorders are on edge in self-isolation. Here are some ideas for relief.

  06-04-2020 15:16
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.About three weeks ago, Polly H. walked into her last Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, at least for a while, and she didn’t even know it.Now instead of sitting around a big table, the dozen or so people she leans on for support a
  
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• Jennifer Senior: This is what happens when a narcissist runs a crisis

  06-04-2020 15:13
  
  Since the early days of the Trump administration, an impassioned group of mental health professionals have warned the public about the president’s cramped and disordered mind, a darkened attic of fluttering bats. Their assessments have been controversial. The American Psychiatric Association’s code of ethics expressly forbids its members from diagnosing a public figure from afar.Enough is enough. As I’ve argued before, an in-person analysis of Donald J. Trump would not reveal a
  
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• Charles M. Blow: Social distancing is a privilege

  06-04-2020 15:13
  
  People like to say that the coronavirus is no respecter of race, class or country, that the disease COVID-19 is mindless and will infect anybody it can.In theory, that is true. But, in practice, in the real world, this virus behaves like others, screeching like a heat-seeking missile toward the most vulnerable in society. And this happens not because it prefers them, but because they are more exposed, more fragile and more ill.What the vulnerable portion of society looks like varies from country
  
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• [Forbes] - Live Thoughts On Donovan Mitchell’s NBA2K 1-On-1 Tournament Match Vs. Rui Hachimura

  06-04-2020 15:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Donovan Mitchell faced off with Rui Hachimura in the first round of ESPN's NBA2K 1-on-1 tournament Sunday, and we live-blogged the event for fans everywhere.
  
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• Utahns with substance use disorders are on edge in self-isolation. Here’s some ideas for relief.

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.About three weeks ago, Polly H. walked into her last Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, at least for a while, and she didn’t even know it.Now instead of sitting around a big table, the dozen or so people she leans on for support a
  
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• Utahns adjust to life during coronavirus, turning parts of their homes into offices

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Before the coronavirus, this was Brooke Hansen’s routine: Get her children — Jack, 7, and Eden, 5 — off to school, work at her office job as a corporate paralegal, pick up the kids and come back to their Midvale h
  
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• Robert Gehrke: An expert says Utah’s coronavirus peak may be months away. And that’s a good thing.

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.We’re all struggling to make sense of the surreal unfolding of the coronavirus pandemic and all of the news and numbers and nifty charts of curves and spikes we get bombarded with on an hourly basis.In the process, we end up
  
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• New YWCA Utah CEO talks about eliminating racism, her childhood and how she’ll approach the job

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  YWCA Utah’s mission to eliminate racism is “massive” and “beautiful,” incoming CEO Liz Owens believes. But it’s also “complex and, I think, sometimes misunderstood,” she said.“Eliminating racism does not mean that we have done it. It means that we are continually working on it, and that we’re working on it with it front and center,” Owens said.Owens takes on this task when she starts as the CEO of the nonprofit Monday, succeeding
  
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• Letter: Wilson recognizes need for animal services

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  A huge thank you is due to Mayor Jenny Wilson and everyone at the Salt Lake County Mayor’s office for acknowledging the necessity of animal welfare services in the midst of a human crisis.Throughout the country, a lack of certainty surrounds how to best handle COVID-19. In animal welfare, especially, the anxiety of how to best care for our shelter, our staff, and most importantly, the animals during this stressful time has weighed heavily. That weight was made considerably lighter with Wil
  
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• Letter: When the health care bill comes due

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  Just after the election this coming November will come the time of year when everyone renews their health insurance for the following year. Estimates are that premiums will rise 40% in order to cover the costs of the pandemic sweeping the country.People who could previously afford to insure themselves and their families will find the choices between insurance, food and housing to drift more toward the immediate needs of food and housing.As people drop off their insurance plans, and the next proj
  
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• Letter: Utah needs a statewide stay-at-home order

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  In too much of rural Utah, the current recommendations from Gov. Gary Herbet’s Coronavirus Task Force are being flagrantly ignored. The governor, like our president, is leaving these orders up to smaller units of government, cities, towns and counties.The national patchwork approach to keeping residents safe is not working in states, cities and counties where there is no stay-at-home mandate. Where these orders went into effect early, California, for example, the number of confirmed cases
  
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• Letter: Make unemployment benefits kick in sooner

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  Governor Herbert,As one of the thousands of Utahns who has been forced to seek government assistance as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, I urge you to call a special session of the Legislature with the intent to waive the one-week waiting period for unemployment benefits.Working-class Utahns have seen their jobs, wages, dreams and careers simply vanish due to no fault of their own and deserve swift and decisive action from our state officials in mitigating the problem.Let's not import the w
  
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• Letter: Less harsh language, please

  06-04-2020 14:00
  
  George Pyle in his March 29 column calls our president “a blithering idiot.” In response to his comment:President Trump had the foresight on Jan. 31 to restrict people coming from China. If he had not done this, the COVID-19 pandemic would have been worse. He appointed a good Coronavirus Task Force (Pence, Birx, Fauci and Mauchin). It is doing a great job.Pyle states that Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York is the “star of the hour.” In 2015, during his second term, the New Yor
  
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• Paisley Rekdal: I’m also Asian American. And ‘The Chinese Virus’ is racist.

  06-04-2020 05:00
  
  In 1910, Jack London published a story called “The Unparalleled Invasion” in the popular magazine McClure’s that depicted the Chinese as mindless, overly fertile robots. Their burgeoning population threatens the livelihood of white workers, so America releases a plague into China that wipes out its population. China falls, to be repopulated by Europeans and Americans, who have together “rescued” the world from the Chinese invasion.I teach Asian American literature a
  
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• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell misses buzzer-beater, eliminated from NBA 2K tournament

  06-04-2020 03:19 via sportspyder.com
  
  It’s a stretch to say that watching two people play video games can get incredibly intense, but Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell certainly helped provide some excitement for sports-starved fans on...
  
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• Donovan Mitchell misses buzzer-beater, eliminated from NBA 2K tournament

  06-04-2020 03:08
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell smiles after making a shot during a Utah Jazz Summer League basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, July 3, 2017. Utah won 87-74. | Kristin Murphy It’s a stretch to say that watching two people play video games can get incredibly intense, but Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell certainly helped provide some excitement for sports-starved fans on Sunday evening.
  Unfortunately for him, he was on the wro
  
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• [KSL] - Larry H. Miller Group of Companies suffer layoffs amid coronavirus outbreak | KSL.com

  06-04-2020 02:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Larry H. Miller Group of Companies has reduced “a small percentage” of its workforce, according to a statement from the company, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Column: Virus will make the timeline for sports, too, putting cloud over NFL season

  06-04-2020 02:47
  
  The unthinkable, at least for sports fans, already has happened.The games, as we know them, are shut down. We’ll never know if San Diego State was a Final Four contender or if Tiger Woods would have defended his green jacket at the Masters.There was no opening day in baseball. The odds are increasingly good there will be no Stanley Cup Final or NBA champion in the year 2020.And now it’s time to consider the unimaginable, at least when it comes to fun and games as we once knew them.Th
  
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• Nelson’s latest surprise: Temples in Middle East and mainland China. A 24th in Utah? Not such a stunner.

  06-04-2020 02:37
  
  Two years ago, President Russell M. Nelson stunned members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by announcing plans to build temples in Russia and India.He dropped some jaws again Sunday, when he said the Utah-based faith would put a temple in the United Arab Emirates, its first in the Middle East, and Shanghai, its first in mainland China.Oh, and Utah will be getting its 24th temple, this one in Syracuse. Nelson also announced temples for Bahía Blanca, Argentina; Lubumbashi
  
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• Latest from Sunday’s LDS General Conference: Temple surprises, a new proclamation, appeals to former members

  06-04-2020 02:30
  
  This spring’s digital-only General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued Sunday, with the faith’s top leaders speaking to a handful of people in a small auditorium in downtown Salt Lake City and an online audience in the millions around the world.On Saturday, besides celebrating the bicentennial of church founder Joseph Smith’s “First Vision,” President Russell M. Nelson unveiled a new church symbol, or logo, that aims to emphasize
  
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