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• Congress eyes a 9/11-like commission on coronavirus response

  14-04-2020 23:52
  
  Washington • Support is growing for the federal government to establish a commission to investigate the shortfalls and mistakes in the response to the coronavirus outbreak and to help prepare for the next pandemic, though some allies of President Donald Trump worry the effort is aimed only at casting blame at the White House.Several members of Congress have introduced legislation to create a bipartisan panel, modeled after the 9/11 Commission that looked at multiple failures by U.S. officia
  
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• Mobile coronavirus testing dispatched to hard-hit Navajo Nation

  14-04-2020 23:48
  
  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.If the Navajo Nation were a U.S. state, it would rank No. 3 for per-capita COVID-19 infections, behind only New York and New Jersey.As of Monday, the country’s largest Native American reservation — which overlaps with U
  
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• [The Ringer] - Can Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert Salvage Their Relationship—in Public?

  14-04-2020 23:45 via sportspyder.com
  
  A public feud between NBA teammates is nothing new, but the Jazz’s All-Stars don’t have the benefit of trying to reconcile an unprecedented rift behind closed doors
  
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• Coronavirus case counts are way off in Utah and elsewhere. What’s a more realistic estimate?

  14-04-2020 23:43
  
  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.Coronavirus testing has been pretty mangled from the beginning.In the U.S., authorities rejected a working test created elsewhere in favor of having the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention establish its own. The CDC’s
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Power Grabbers

  14-04-2020 23:11
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/13/bagley-cartoon-president/" target=_blank><u>President Flimflam</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/10/bagley-cartoon-working/"><u>‘Working’ From Home</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/
  
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• Dave Davis: Food service workers are a new class of first responders

  14-04-2020 23:00
  
  Since the introduction of coronavirus (COVID-19) to our communities, daily life has changed for most Utahns, and doesn’t look to return to normal for some time.In times of uncertainty, we often look to first responders who courageously answer the call, routinely putting their own safety in jeopardy, in order to protect complete strangers. We revere and respect the sacrifices these brave men and women make in an effort to protect our families and communities.Over the last couple months, a n
  
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• Lawsuit targets Utah school district for failing to stop a teacher who sexually abused students

  14-04-2020 22:52
  
  Two former students are suing Ogden School District, alleging it failed to protect them from a junior high teacher who had inappropriate conversations with and sexually abused several students.Both plaintiffs were teenage girls when Drew Tutt taught at Mound Fort Junior High School. Their lawsuit alleges that between 2015 and 2016, Tutt “groomed” them and other young students by adding them on social media, chatting with them late at night and putting some in positions as “teac
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 14: One new death reported, bringing Utah total to 19; Two arrested Utahns allegedly cough on officers deliberately

  14-04-2020 22:41
  
  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 Tuesday, April 14. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:40 p.m.: Two Utahns allegedly cough on officers deliberately, in sep
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - NBA 2K: How would the Utah Jazz have finished the regular season?

  14-04-2020 22:35 via sportspyder.com
  
  With the NBA season on hiatus, I left it to NBA 2K20 to simulate how the Utah Jazz would have finished the 2019-20 regular season. The date is April 14th, ...
  
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• Delta seeks bailout to pay workers - and also applies for unemployment

  14-04-2020 22:35
  
  Atlanta • Nearly 35,000 of Delta Air Line’s employees have volunteered for unpaid leave, yet the company is still seeking aid from the federal government to pay its workers.The Atlanta-based airline also is applying for unemployment benefits in Georgia for those taking leave.In the federal stimulus package approved by Congress, $25 billion is earmarked to go to airlines, which have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic as travel has slowed significantly. Airlines are supposed to u
  
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• Utahns of color far more likely to get sick, hospitalized from coronavirus than white residents

  14-04-2020 22:33
  
  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.The coronavirus pandemic is more lethal and spreading faster among communities of color in Utah — where minorities are being infected, hospitalized and killed at higher rates per capita than the state’s dominant white p
  
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• More drought predicted for western U.S. amid low river flows

  14-04-2020 22:24
  
  Rio Rancho, N.M. • The mighty Rio Grande is looking less mighty as U.S. forecasters predict spring flows will be less than half of average — or worse — and that signals potential trouble for the already stressed waterway.One of the longest rivers in North America, the Rio Grande delivers drinking water and irrigation supplies to millions of people from southern Colorado into Texas and Mexico under a decades-old water-sharing agreement. With more dry years than wet ones over the
  
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• Utah K-12 schools will remain closed through academic year due to coronavirus

  14-04-2020 22:13
  
  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.All public K-12 schools in Utah will now be dismissed through the end of the academic year — instead of coming back next month, as hoped — as the state continues to fight the spread of the coronavirus.As such, graduatio
  
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• NBA 2K: How would the Utah Jazz have finished the regular season?

  14-04-2020 22:10
  
  With the NBA season on hiatus, I left it to NBA 2K20 to simulate how the Utah Jazz would have finished the 2019-20 regular season. The date is April 14th, and we are still in the unknown as far as whether the Utah Jazz will get a chance to finish their 2020 campaign. Had things […]
  NBA 2K: How would the Utah Jazz have finished the regular season? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 14: One new death reported, bringing Utah total to 19; Utah schools will remain physically closed to end of school year

  14-04-2020 21:50
  
  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 Tuesday, April 14. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----1:45 p.m.: Utah schools will not reopen this school year, Gov. Gary He
  
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• Police cancel search for missing Utah woman. She’s no longer endangered.

  14-04-2020 21:24
  
  The Tooele County Sheriff’s Office, which on Friday asked for the public’s help to find a 23-year-old woman who is deaf, diabetic and has the mental capacity of a child, has canceled the alert.According to police, Shaley Nicole Tracy “is still missing but no longer considered to be endangered.”Authorities released no further information.
  
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• NASCAR driver Kyle Larson fired after sponsors drop him over slur

  14-04-2020 20:53
  
  Charlotte, N.C. • Kyle Larson was fired Tuesday by Chip Ganassi Racing, completing a stunning downfall for the budding NASCAR star who uttered a racial slur during a live-streamed virtual race and then watched nearly every one of his sponsors drop him.The 27-year-old Larson, in his seventh Cup season with Ganassi and considered the top free agent in NASCAR just three days ago, is now out of a job in what could ultimately be an eight-figure blunder. "After much consideration, Chip Ganassi Ra
  
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• Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dies at 63

  14-04-2020 20:48
  
  New York • Hank Steinbrenner, the oldest son of George Steinbrenner and one of the four siblings who own the controlling shares of the New York Yankees, died Tuesday at age 63.The team said he died at home in Clearwater, Florida, due to a long-standing health issue.A chain smoker and miniature drag racer, Hank hoped to succeed as father as the team's controlling owner. Between the 2007 and 2008 seasons, he became the public voice of the Yankees' ownership."We're keepers of the flame, I gues
  
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• Richard Davis: What social distancing has taught me about religion

  14-04-2020 20:42
  
  When people I know have been social media posting recently about their experiences with “home church,” one said that she had been doing “home church” for some years and enjoyed it.Frankly, she was admitting that she was, in the LDS vernacular, “less active.” But all Latter-day Saints are now, in a sense, “less active.” And it is quite likely those of us in my faith tradition (as well as others belonging to other churches) will remain that way for s
  
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• Second Salt Lake City nursing home to become facility for coronavirus patients

  14-04-2020 20:31
  
  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.A second Salt Lake City nursing home will care for COVID-19 patients who have been discharged from the hospital, the Utah Department of Health confirmed Tuesday.City Creek Post Acute, 165 S. 1000 East, is a 72-bed facility that wil
  
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• Gubernatorial candidate Jan Garbett sues state over signature gathering rules

  14-04-2020 20:30
  
  Businesswoman and gubernatorial hopeful Jan Garbett filed a lawsuit against state leaders on Tuesday after she was rejected from a spot on June’s primary election ballot for failing to gather enough signatures to secure her place by Monday’s deadline.In the 15-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Garbett argues that if not for the “unprecedented limitations” the state imposed in response to the coronavirus, she would have met the threshold required. Instead, she fel
  
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• Commitment of 4-star QB Peter Costelli signals potential Utah football recruiting momentum for 2021

  14-04-2020 20:26
  
  University of Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham and his staff put together a top-30 recruiting for the 2020 cycle, but it came together slowly with momentum not peaking until late in the process.The Utes got the momentum going much sooner as the 2021 cycle starts to crank up.On Saturday, the Utes received a verbal commitment from four-star quarterback Peter Costelli, a junior at Mission Viejo (Calif.) High School. Costelli is Utah’s first high school commit from the Class of 2021, and i
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 14: Check from Uncle Sam won’t cover mortgage for most; Intermountain spells out plans if ICU beds get maxed out

  14-04-2020 20:21
  
  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 Tuesday, April 14. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:20 p.m.: Intermountain spells out plans if ICU beds get maxed outDe
  
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• Looking back: To Larry Bird, a quadruple-double was no big deal

  14-04-2020 20:15
  
  Boston’s Larry Bird defends Utah’s Thurl Bailey on Feb. 15, 1985. Bird came up one steal shy of posting a quadruple-double that night, choosing to take in the lopsided Celtics victory from the bench during the fourth quarter rather than pad his stats. | Ravell Call, Deseret News
  Editor’s note: Second in an occasional series reminiscing about games not to be forgotten.
  Among the many basketball games I got paid to watch back in the days when I was a sports writer, one I won&rsq
  
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• [Deseret News] - Looking back: To Larry Bird, a quadruple-double was no big deal

  14-04-2020 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  
  Editor’s note: Second in an occasional series reminiscing about games not to be forgotten. Among the many basketball games I got paid to watch back in the days when I was a sports writer, one I...
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 14: $1,200 from Uncle Sam won’t cover month’s mortgage for most Salt Lakers, but it will pay for most rents

  14-04-2020 19:50
  
  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 Tuesday, April 14. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----11:45 a.m.: Mobile testing arrives in hard-hit Navajo Nation
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• [Clutchpoints] - Every Time Russell Westbrook Got Into It With A Fan

  14-04-2020 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  
  Nine-time NBA All-Star Russell Westbrook is a fierce competitor on the court. With a motor that won’t quit and a gritty style of play, he’s one of the toughest matchups in the league. Simply put, he doesn’t take any flak, as several fans have...
  
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• Major League Soccer says playing full season now looks 'extremely unlikely’

  14-04-2020 19:46
  
  It looks like Real Salt Lake and the rest of Major League Soccer won’t be playing its full 34-game season. The league announced Tuesday that while it hoped it could return to playing games in Mid-May, that timeline has now become “extremely unlikely.” MLS most recently extended its hiatus until at least May 10, following the outbreak of COVID-19.“Our goal remains to play as many games as possible, and while we currently have enough dates to play the entire season, we reco
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: The negative and the positive of the Donovan Mitchell-Rudy Gobert divide

  14-04-2020 19:25 via sportspyder.com
  
  There are a couple of ways of looking at the Great Ru-Don Divide, the now famous showdown between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, and the effect it will have on the Jazz moving forward.
  
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• Hughes picks Washington County commissioner as running mate

  14-04-2020 19:09
  
  Former House Speaker Greg Hughes will run for governor alongside Washington County Commissioner Victor Iverson, former public lands adviser to Sen. Mike Lee.A Tuesday news release announcing the pick highlighted Iverson’s commitment to low taxes and “love of country, God, the U.S. Constitution and the western way of life.”“Victor is a proven leader with a commitment to conservative principles,” Hughes said in a Tuesday news release. “He has kept Washington Cou
  
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• What one Utah doctor is doing to protect her family from the coronavirus

  14-04-2020 19:02
  
  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.Stay 6 feet apart. Wash hands frequently. Stay home as much as possible. Wear protective gear when going out. Self-quarantine if you present symptoms of the coronavirus.Those are the biggest, most common coronavirus precautions sha
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 14: Some northern Utah gyms reopen; Pride Center plans food giveaway

  14-04-2020 19:02
  
  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 Tuesday, April 14. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----11:05 a.m.: Red Cross gets a ‘lucky’ blood donation from N
  
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• Gordon Monson: The negative and the positive of the Donovan Mitchell-Rudy Gobert divide

  14-04-2020 18:55
  
  There are a couple of ways of looking at the Great Ru-Don Divide, the now famous showdown between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, and the effect it will have on the Jazz moving forward.One is negative, the other positive.Gobert recently tried to clear the air on the mess, admitting that there had been a kerfuffle involving the two Jazz stars, exacerbated by their positive tests for the coronavirus. But he said they had talked “a few days ago,” that they are “grown men,”
  
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• [Deseret News] - NBA considering 25-day transition, training period before playing again

  14-04-2020 18:39 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Don’t expect the NBA to begin the day it’s given the green light to play. It might take at least 25 days for the league to get going again if one plan presented to the NBA is...
  
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• Marcus Mumford, a Utah attorney who represented white-collar criminals and anti-government protesters, has died

  14-04-2020 18:35
  
  A Utah attorney who made his name representing white-collar criminals and anti-federal-government protesters died Sunday.Marcus Mumford was 46 years old. His father, Robert, said Monday that it was an unexpected death, possibly due to an illness."We were told it was a peaceful death," the father said. "We don't know the details."Mumford’s sister-in-law, Katie Mumford, told The Oregonian that a colleague and friend had stopped at his Salt Lake City home Monday to bring him breakfast and dis
  
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• Tokyo has no ‘Plan B’ for another Olympic postponement

  14-04-2020 18:25
  
  Tokyo • There is no “Plan B” for the Olympics if they need to be postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic, Tokyo organizers said Tuesday.Masa Takaya, the spokesman for the Tokyo Olympics, said organizers are proceeding under the assumption the Olympics will open on July 23, 2021. The Paralympics follow on Aug. 24.Those dates were set last month by the International Olympic Committee and Japanese officials after the coronavirus pandemic made it clear the Tokyo Games co
  
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• NBA considering 25-day transition, training period before playing again

  14-04-2020 18:16
  
  A team attendant uses protective gloves to wipe down seats in the players’ bench area during an NBA basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks in San Antonio, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. | Eric Gay, Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY — Don’t expect the NBA to begin the day it’s given the green light to play.
  It might take at least 25 days for the league to get going again if one plan presented to the NBA is accepted.
  ESPN reported that one of the com
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - The Warriors’ 5 worst free agent signings of all time, ranked

  14-04-2020 17:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  Before the Golden State Warriors enjoyed their reign of terror in the back half of the last decade, they were a team decimated by incompetence. A bad roster, inept decision-making from management and a slew of coaches who couldn’t see eye to eye...
  
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• KUER’s ‘Preach’ podcast ending after seven months. Host Lee Hale is moving to NPR in D.C.

  14-04-2020 17:13
  
  Public radio station KUER’s popular podcast “Preach,” a weekly examination of faith in its many forms, is ending its seven-month run this week — because its host and creator, Lee Hale, is leaving Utah for a job with NPR’s “All Things Considered.”The final episode will be posted Friday, and will be an exit interview of sorts, a conversation between Hale and “Preach” producer Tricia Bobeda. It will be available at PreachPod.org, and on many pod
  
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• [The Score] - 5 NBA players who underachieved this season

  14-04-2020 16:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  Each season, several players fall short of their preseason expectations. Some struggle to adapt to their new surroundings, others regress as the mileage on their NBA odometers ramps up, and some are unable to overcome questionable on-court...
  
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• Utah congressional candidate who claims he earned a college degree really completed a certificate program

  14-04-2020 16:38
  
  Utah congressional candidate Kerry Gibson — a former Weber County commissioner, legislator and state agricultural commissioner — says on his campaign website and literature that he “attended Utah State University where he earned his Dairy Herdsman Degree.”This claim of having earned a college degree also appeared on his official Weber County Commission biography archived online, and in some online biographies last year for conferences where he was a speaker.But during a b
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, April 14: Restrictions start to ease in northern Utah as some gyms reopen

  14-04-2020 16:38
  
  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 Tuesday, April 14. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:30 a.m.: Gyms opening in northern UtahSome gyms and fitness centers
  
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• Was your school damaged in the earthquake? Here’s a list of districts, charters and colleges impacted along the Wasatch Front.

  14-04-2020 15:59
  
  At one school, the tiles fell out of the ceiling with such force that the doors nearby were blocked and wouldn’t open without a pry bar.At another, a wall partially collapsed, leaving the building unstable and likely requiring a full demolition. And at a high school, most of the windows in the third floor library popped out and showered the grass below in thick shards of glass.That’s just some of the damage that school districts, specifically, are still responding to nearly a month a
  
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• Charles M. Blow: The coronavirus has become the brother killer

  14-04-2020 15:25
  
  A few weeks ago, Hannah Sparks of The New York Post reported on “a morbid — and chillingly astute — new slang term for the coronavirus pandemic: boomer remover,” because the virus has proved particularly deadly for the elderly.But, because it is also disproportionately deadly for men and for African Americans, I worry about how it will affect black men in particular, and have come to use another chilling term to characterize it: a “brother killer.”And I fear t
  
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• Jennifer Senior: The one kind of distancing we cannot afford

  14-04-2020 15:24
  
  Last week, within the space of just 24 hours, two friends of mine — one an ICU nurse, the other an ER doctor — told me that they’d each watched a 50-year-old woman die of COVID-19.I, too, am a 50-year-old woman. As I listened to their stories, I had to stifle the same unlovely impulse. “But did your patients have a preexisting condition?” I wanted to ask. “Were they fighting cancer, were they smokers, were they already floridly unwell?”Which is ridiculou
  
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• Letter: Having a plan makes all the difference

  14-04-2020 15:23
  
  While the U.S. may not be ready for Andrew Yang’s idea for universal basic income, perhaps it is time to set up the framework for doing it.Right now, the government is struggling to figure out how to get money to millions of Americans to help cushion the damage brought on by the almost total shutdown of the economy. If we had the framework to support the vision of Yang’s UBI already in place, getting that money out would be much simpler, and more importantly, much quicker.While such
  
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• Letter: The two plagues besieging our country

  14-04-2020 15:22
  
  There are two plagues besieging our country: COVID-19 on the one hand, and Donald Trump and his family-mob on the other. Of the two, Trump is by far the worse.Will social distancing or physical distancing translate into political distancing or national distancing? We can only pray that this is the case, and that we may return to relative sanity.On April 8, Trump denounced the honesty, in a near total state of fraud, of paper ballots, claiming that mass cheating occurs due to “living rooms&
  
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• Letter: Utahns must protect our communities

  14-04-2020 15:21
  
  Regarding the April 9 front page Tribune article, “Lawmakers may curb stay-home orders,” I am totally at a loss as to how legislative leaders can even consider limiting the power of local governments to issue stay-at-home orders.They cite the confusion of inconsistency between urban and rural counties of Utah, and express a need for clarification. What further clarification is needed than daily information issued by infectious disease experts, the CDC and the American Medical Associa
  
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• Letter: Trickle-down leadership

  14-04-2020 15:21
  
  The same party who brought us the flawed theory of trickle-down economics is now championing trickle-down leadership? (“Most guv hopefuls balk at a statewide stay-at-home order,” The Salt Lake Tribune, April 10.)Nancy Walker, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Make some workplace changes permanent

  14-04-2020 15:20
  
  During this crisis, it is important that businesses which remain open make what changes they can to protect the health and safety of their employees. However, businesses should learn from these changes and implement some of them more permanently.Take companies that have been able to move large numbers of their staff to work from home arrangements. While critical for today’s crisis, I would encourage these companies to become more comfortable with remote work on a more regular basis in the
  
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