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• Utah leaders impanel commission to guide reopening of state’s economy as COVID-19 cases continue to mount

  18-04-2020 23:57
  
  As Utah’s COVID-19 cases continued to mount Saturday, Gov. Gary Herbert signed legislation passed during last week’s special session establishing a framework for reopening the state’s economy once the pandemic eases. Two more deaths were recorded Saturday, bringing the state’s total to 25 for the number of residents whose lives were cut short by the virus.The number of cases grew by 126, bringing the total to 2,931 cases.SB3004, sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Daniel He
  
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• Husband and wife killed in apparent West Jordan home invasion

  18-04-2020 23:41
  
  A husband and wife were killed early Saturday, when someone apparently broke into their West Jordan home and shot them.West Jordan police spokesman Sgt. J.C. Holt said the family’s three children — the oldest, age 4, and the youngest an infant — were at the home near 3200 West and 6900 South and were unharmed.Police learned about the shooting after a neighbor called around 1:15 a.m., reporting that she heard gun shots and a woman screaming.When police got to the home, they foun
  
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• Gordon Monson: Our green cathedral needs worshippers. Boy, we could use baseball right now.

  18-04-2020 23:25
  
  Salt Lake City’s green cathedral stands empty now, just like every other cathedral, green or otherwise, all of them emptied by a virus from a far-off land.It is far off no more. It is all around. Everyone is fully aware.On account of that, baseball at Smith’s Ballpark has been pushed back, shoved so hard that nobody can sharpen their view enough to see exactly when it might return. We can only guess, while badly missing an annual tradition that may not be at the Major League level, b
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Making political games of a pandemic

  18-04-2020 23:00
  
  “The question ‘Who ought to be boss?’ is like asking ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”— Henry FordOne of the nation’s most accomplished business leaders has been deliberately, and churlishly, excluded from the president’s council of advisors who will chart a course out of the pandemic-related recession.Members of the Utah Legislature are looking to horn in on the governor’s lawful and ne
  
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• Navajo Nation orders masks be worn in public on reservation

  18-04-2020 20:50
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation is ordering all people on the tribe’s sprawling reservation to wear protective masks when out in public to help fight the spread of the coronavirus.Tribal officials announced Friday night that the Navajo Department of Health issued an emergency health order for the reservation, which includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.The Navajo Nation has been hit harder by the coronavirus than any other Native American tribe.The tribe and the Navajo
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 18: Two more Utahns die of COVID-19; number of positive cases jumps to 2,931, more than half in Salt Lake County

  18-04-2020 20:50
  
  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 Saturday, April 18. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:50 p.m.: Two more Utahns die of COVID-19; number of positive cases
  
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• This is one key metric Utah should track as the state considers easing coronavirus restrictions

  18-04-2020 20:27
  
  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.What we as Utahns are doing is working.You might be getting tired of staying at home or wearing masks or having your favorite restaurant limited to just take out, but the measures we’ve implemented to stop the spread of COVID
  
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• John Seaman: Bringing evidence-based parenting methods home

  18-04-2020 20:00
  
  Perhaps the most common vocation is parenthood. Worldwide, an estimated 2.8 billion people are parents. About 90% of us become parents (either biological or step parent). For many, child-rearing is a source of identity which brings purpose and meaning to life.Arguably, parenting is our most important vocation. The parent, in union with educators, passes the torch of knowledge to the child. This inter-generational function helps secure our future.Today, many careers require a minimum level of edu
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 18: Two more Utahns die of COVID-19, number of positive cases jumps to 2,931

  18-04-2020 19:42
  
  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 Saturday, April 18. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----11:40 a.m.: Two more Utahns die of COVID-19; number of positive cases
  
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• Salt Lake Olympic officials see delay of the Tokyo Summer Games as similar to their 9/11 moment

  18-04-2020 19:35
  
  Jeff Robbins remembers another time when it felt like the world screeched to a stop. It was Sept. 11, 2001, the day terrorists attacked several sites within the United States, most recognizably the Pentagon and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.Robbins and the other members of the organizing committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics paused — like concerts, sporting events and mass transit across the country — but not for long. There was work to do. After more th
  
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• U.S. grants Navajo Nation authority to use unassigned airwaves

  18-04-2020 19:02
  
  Phoenix • The federal government is giving the Navajo Nation temporary authority to use unassigned airwaves to provide wireless broadband service over the tribe’s sprawling reservation that includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.The Federal Communications Commission said its wireless telecommunications bureau on Friday granted the requested authority for 60 days to help the tribe’s emergency response to the coronavirus outbreak.According to the commission, the authority
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2020 Draft: 10 early entries to look at in first round

  18-04-2020 18:28 via sportspyder.com
  
  While the NBA season remains paused, the pre-draft process has begun. Here are 10 early draft entrants the Utah Jazz should keep an eye on. There's so much...
  
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• Utah Jazz 2020 Draft: 10 early entries to look at in first round

  18-04-2020 18:15
  
  While the NBA season remains paused, the pre-draft process has begun. Here are 10 early draft entrants the Utah Jazz should keep an eye on. There’s so much uncertainty going on right now. While the remainder of the season/playoffs is in doubt for the Utah Jazz, the 2020 NBA Draft will happen at some point. […]
  Utah Jazz 2020 Draft: 10 early entries to look at in first round - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Bob Sawatzki: Where were you in the great pandemic?

  18-04-2020 17:00
  
  Where were you during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020? How did you spend those social-distancing days?People will be asking each other these questions when this crisis passes, as we talk about JFK’s assassination, Nixon’s resignation, the day we landed on the moon, the day the space shuttle exploded and 9/11. Where were you then, and what were you doing when the direness of the situation first hit home to you?I was parked at the top of the road to Snowbasin, admiring a small glade of m
  
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• Utah attorney general’s race turns into a name-calling slug fest

  18-04-2020 16:56
  
  While eclipsed by the governor’s race, the election for Utah attorney general is heating up as the state political party conventions approach, with some candidates calling each other crooks or liars.Incumbent Republican Attorney General Sean Reyes is under attack for once promising to return $51,000 in donations from a company whose principals were convicted of fraud, but later said the money had been spent. He’s also taking big donations from industries ranging from high-interest le
  
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• Most of Utah’s candidates for governor believe humans are changing the climate

  18-04-2020 16:56
  
  Nearly all of Utah’s candidates for governor recognize that humans are contributing to the planet’s changing climate, a promising sign to environmental advocates that global warming is becoming less of a wedge issue.Republican and Democratic rivals who completed a voter guide survey for The Salt Lake Tribune also articulated ambitious plans for purifying the air and decreasing emissions if they win the state’s highest executive post.Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and former Gov. Jon Hunt
  
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• Drag queens go all ‘Queer Eye’ in ‘Dragnificent’ on TLC

  18-04-2020 15:00
  
  Two decades into the 21st century, drag queens are kind of mainstream. At least closer than they’ve ever been before, as evidenced by the continuing success of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”It used to be that the term “drag queen” was thrown around as an insult. A way to denigrate someone who was, well, different. These days, drag queens embrace it.“I think reclaiming the word just takes the power from the person who’s using it against you,” said Juju
  
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• No student should get an F grade this quarter as learning shifts with the coronavirus, Utah superintendent says

  18-04-2020 14:30
  
  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 state superintendent is asking that no student be given an F grade this quarter as they adjust to schools being closed and trying to learn remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.Sydnee Dickson, who oversees instruction at Uta
  
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• Silicon Slopes has tested a wide swath of Utah for coronavirus — even people without symptoms

  18-04-2020 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.Jarrod Phillips felt fine, but a digital newsletter he subscribes to encouraged him to take the coronavirus survey at TestUtah.com.The Farmington resident answered the questionnaire Wednesday. Despite his lack of symptoms, the webs
  
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• Samuel Wolfe: An inclusive plan of happiness

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  “Did you get a testimony that President Nelson is a prophet?” my amigo asked a couple years back.Let’s see what he prophesies, sees and reveals, I said.With April’s general conference, I have an answer.About a year ago, The Salt Lake Tribune published my essay observing: “Church leaders have not yet related a vision of how sexual minorities fit into our Creator’s plan of happiness.”President Dallin Oaks, President Russell Nelson’s counselor, gave w
  
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• Marina Gomberg’s detailed (and innuendo laden) guide for how lesbians can have a kid

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  Lesbian couples often ask me and my wife, Elenor, for advice on how to have a child.And you might think you know how this works, but just in case, let’s have “the talk” — the one about the birds and the birds (the bees and their pollinators are only tangentially involved here).So, listen up, because I’m going to tell you in detail what happens when two family-planning women love each other very much.It starts when they slowly and deliberately shed their restrictive
  
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• Letter: We should be free to make our own choices

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  To truly be able to pursue happiness and liberty we must have freedom. The Founding Fathers of this nation listed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as unalienable rights not given to us by our government but by our creator. The role of government is to protect these rights.In this current pandemic crisis or any other crisis we as a nation face, we should hold firm to our beliefs in freedom.We should be informed of the risks and then each of us should have the freedom to choose what we d
  
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• Letter: We are giving up a lot of freedom for a little safety

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  I'm starting to get real uptight about being stuck at home. I'm asking myself if this is really worth it.It's surprising that people give up huge swaths of their personal freedoms for a little safety. They have given up their freedom of assembly, freedom of worship, freedom of movement, and for what?Last year, 80 people died of gunshot wounds in this state. I don't see anybody sheltering in place until we gather up those dangerous guns. The list goes on. Last year, 1,400 people died of accidents
  
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• Letter: Time to stop singing and start voting

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  We have got to stand up, stop singing “Amazing Grace” and put the blame on the creatures who got us into this mess.We must stop begging the one who had nothing to do with the mess we are in, except to give us the way out of it, with our intelligence, creativity, spiritual goodness and determination, to rescue ourselves from the insanity of Donald Trump and the failed ideology of the Republican Party.We are the creatures that allowed the criminals to take over our country. We are not
  
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• Letter: No mask, no shopping

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  USA Today reports that 30 grocery store workers have died as a result of COVID-19 and that thousands may be infected.We need these front-line people to sustain our food supply chain. It is time for all essential businesses to establish a “no mask, no entrance” rule.Masks protect other customers and protect vitally important employees. The message is simple: When in public, wear a mask, and any mask is better than none.James Anderson, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Make up for a monstrous mistake

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  OK, Republican U.S. senators and representatives, you had your chance. Is there really any doubt in your minds now that President Trump should have been unanimously impeached and removed?Come this November, it is your chance to make up for your monstrous mistake.Stan Jacobson, Ogden Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: A dismal response to the coronavirus

  18-04-2020 14:00
  
  “Got fever? Shortness of breath? Get tested.” This was the headline in The Salt Lake Tribune on April 12.That should have been the headline on March 6. It wasn’t, though, because there were no tests to be had for ordinary people in the state of Utah back then, and certainly none in mid-to-late February, when people with COVID-19 symptoms were told to stay home for two weeks unless temperatures went over 102 degrees.The federal response to this virus has been dismal. Preparednes
  
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• Jets, Dustin Byfuglien agree to terminate his contract

  18-04-2020 07:10
  
  Dustin Byfuglien and the Winnipeg Jets agreed to mutually terminate his contract Friday, potentially marking the end of a playing career for “Big Buff.”The agreement ended a lengthy dispute between Byfuglien and the organization over his absence this season. Because there was no financial settlement as part of the termination, the defenseman walked away from the $14 million remaining on his contract with no guarantee he’ll play again.“This was never our desired outcome or
  
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• Paul Krugman: Starve the beast, feed the depression

  18-04-2020 06:00
  
  So Donald Trump’s name will, in a break with all previous practice, appear on the checks that will slightly mitigate the Donald Trump depression caused by the Donald Trump pandemic. Hey, we’re supposed to put his name on everything, right?The operative word, however, is “slightly.” Those $1,200 checks, it turns out, are only a small fraction of the rescue package Congress passed a few weeks ago. And the CARES Act, in turn, fell far short of meeting the nation’s need
  
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• [Deseret News] - NBA players to receive 25% less in paychecks starting May 15; Silver says the league will weigh several factors as it continues to try to save the season

  18-04-2020 05:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  Commissioner Adam Silver said it remains impossible for the NBA to make any decisions about whether to resume this season and that it is unclear when that will change. But in a clear sign that at...
  
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• NBA players to receive 25% less in paychecks starting May 15; Silver says the league will weigh several factors as it continues to try to save the season

  18-04-2020 05:36
  
  Jazz Bear waves a Jazz flag before the Utah Jazz play the LA Clippers in Round 1, Game 3 of the NBA playoffs at the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 21, 2017. | Kristin Murphy Commissioner Adam Silver said it remains impossible for the NBA to make any decisions about whether to resume this season and that it is unclear when that will change.
  But in a clear sign that at least some of the 259 remaining regular-season games that were not played because of the coronavirus pandemic wi
  
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• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert: What we know, and what teammates expect when they return to the court

  18-04-2020 04:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  On Friday, Mike Conley became the latest to stress the point that NBA players are allowed to argue and not get along with one another and still be successful on the court.
  
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• Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert: What we know, and what teammates expect when they return to the court

  18-04-2020 04:01
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) five each other during game against the Miami Heat at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.| Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — No relationship is perfect.
  That’s the message that Utah Jazz players who have spoken publicly about a possible rift between Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert have tried to get across.
  On Friday, veteran guard Mike Conley became the latest to stress
  
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• Holly Richardson: In a world of pandemics and paradoxes

  18-04-2020 04:00
  
  Here we are on day 3 million and something of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world is full of paradoxes. Like how it feels like 3 million days but it hasn’t even been six weeks since the first case of COVID-19 was announced in Utah (March 6), barely over a month since President Trump declared a national emergency (March 13), and just a month since an earthquake rattled Utah (March 18). Now, hundreds of aftershocks later, we are still getting our legs underneath us.There is more physical sep
  
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• Ionescu goes No. 1 in WNBA draft to New York Liberty, Ducks teammate Sabally goes No. 2

  18-04-2020 03:37
  
  New York • Oregon star Sabrina Ionescu was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, as expected.When she’ll play for the New York Liberty is unclear.With sports on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was a draft Friday night like no other with players in their own homes instead of a central location, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced selections from her home in New Jersey, holding up the jersey of the player being chosen.“Of course it was different than what I had expecte
  
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• Ionescu goes No. 1 in WNBA draft to New York Liberty

  18-04-2020 02:39
  
  New York • Oregon star Sabrina Ionescu was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, as expected.When she’ll play for the New York Liberty is unclear.With sports on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was a draft Friday night like no other with players in their own homes instead of a central location, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced selections from her home in New Jersey, holding up the jersey of the player being chosen.“Of course it was different than what I had expecte
  
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• [KSL] - Mike Conley wins NBA HORSE Challenge | KSL.com

  18-04-2020 02:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  Jazz guard Mike Conley won the NBA HORSE Challenge, defeating Bulls guard Zach LaVine in the championship.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Years of preparation helped Mike Conley become the NBA’S HORSE champion

  18-04-2020 02:04 via sportspyder.com
  
  Although Conley may not have spent much time planning out his shots, he said having the competition helped him mentally as he is stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Hundreds defy Idaho’s stay-at-home order at Capitol protest

  18-04-2020 01:59
  
  Boise, Idaho • More than 1,000 protesters gathered at the Idaho Statehouse Friday afternoon in defiance of Gov. Brad Little’s extension of the statewide stay-at-home order.Little announced Wednesday that the order would extend to the end of April in the effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, although he lightened some restrictions so nonessential businesses could begin providing curbside service. Still, the news was met with derision by some members of the far-right in Idaho, and s
  
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• Years of preparation helped Mike Conley become the NBA’S HORSE champion

  18-04-2020 01:47
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) lowers his shoulder as he drives on Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox (5) during the Utah Jazz and Sacramento Kings NBA preseason basketball game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A general thought in the game of HORSE is that competitors don’t think much and just make up shots as they go, but as it turns out for Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley, he’s spent a great deal
  
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• Rich Lowry: The absurd case against the coronavirus lockdown

  18-04-2020 01:00
  
  An irony of the coronavirus debate is that the more successful lockdowns are in squelching the disease, the more vulnerable they will be to attack as unnecessary in the first place.A growing chorus on the right is slamming the shutdowns as an overreaction and agitating to end them. A good example of the genre is an op-ed co-authored by former Education Secretary William Bennett and talk-radio host Seth Leibsohn. It is titled, tendentiously and not very accurately, “Coronavirus Lessons: Fac
  
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• Utah lawmakers OK bill on experimental, off-label treatments for COVID-19

  18-04-2020 00:52
  
  Utah lawmakers gave final passage Friday to a measure meant to give health care workers more flexibility during the coronavirus pandemic and establish their legal immunity when prescribing experimental and off-label medication.But first, they stripped out a provision designed to shelter companies that are contracting with the state to manufacture, distribute or dispense drugs for off-label use.Rep. Val Peterson, R-Orem, who presented the bill to fellow House members, agreed to this amendment, sa
  
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• NFL agents, not just draft prospects, adjusting in the face of COVID-19 — just ask the reps of Utah’s prospects

  18-04-2020 00:36
  
  As Vice President of Football for the Los Angeles-based Wasserman talent management agency, CJ LaBoy would normally be spending a lot of time on the ground with his clients this spring during the NFL Draft process.That includes the Senior Bowl, the NFL Scouting Combine, college-run pro days, individual pro days and generally making sure his clients, who include former University of Utah star linebacker Francis Bernard, are informed and properly preparing, both on and off the field.Thanks to the
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, April 17: Leaders announce plan to reawaken state’s economy beginning May 1; Salt Lake County easing stay-at-home restrictions

  18-04-2020 00:25
  
  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 Friday, April 17. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----4:25 p.m.: Salt Lake County easing up on stay-at-home orderSalt Lake Co
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Remember the possibility of a Suns or Jazz NBA Finals appearance?

  18-04-2020 00:20 via sportspyder.com
  
  With a little restraint and further elite play to finish the job, perhaps the champions of the 2007 NBA Finals aren't the San Antonio Spurs. The San Antoni...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Bridge Out

  18-04-2020 00:15
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, April 19, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/16/bagley-cartoon-finger/" target=_blank><u>Finger Pointing</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/15/bagley-cartoon/"><u>Coronavirus Quacks</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/14/bagley-cartoon-powe
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Mike Conley: Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell Can Handle Themselves as 'Grown Men'

  18-04-2020 00:11 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley is confident that Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell can work out any potential issues they might have...
  
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• Salt Lake City officer won’t be charged for fatally shooting mentally ill man, injuring another officer

  18-04-2020 00:09
  
  Prosecutors have reviewed a Salt Lake City police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill man holding a gun, injuring his colleague in the process, and determined the shooting was justified under Utah law.Salt Lake County prosecutors said Friday in a letter to Police Chief Mike Brown and Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera that it was clear that Officer Scott Robinson believed that if he didn’t shoot Michael Brand, that Brand was going to hurt or kill someone else.The shooting occurre
  
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• Hanna Saltzman: Lesson from the pandemic is to prioritize clean air

  18-04-2020 00:00
  
  As The Salt Lake Tribune recently reported, new research from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests that air pollution makes COVID-19 infections even deadlier.It’s no secret that the Salt Lake Valley has an air pollution problem. As an incoming pediatric resident physician with a background in environmental health, I am deeply concerned about the implications of this study for our community.Exposure to air pollution can damage our health. Particularly relevant for the COVID-19 pande
  
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