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• Coronavirus in Utah: State has its deadliest week but there is also a glimmer of hope

  26-04-2020 23:46
  
  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.Utah’s deadliest stretch so far under COVID-19 ended Sunday.For the first time in 12 days, the Utah Department of Health reported no new deaths tied to the highly contagious coronavirus. Despite that, this has been Utah&rsquo
  
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• Muted and vacant, Las Vegas struggles to survive shutdown

  26-04-2020 23:43
  
  Las Vegas • Slot machines are powered down, casinos boarded up and barricaded.Sidewalks are largely deserted and electronic marquees that once flashed neon calls for nightclubs, magic shows and topless revues instead beam somber messages of safety.The famous fountains of the Bellagio casino, where water choreographed to lights and music shoots hundreds of feet in the air, are still. Throngs of visitors who made it tough to maneuver on sidewalks have been replaced by the occasional jogger or
  
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• Taysom Hill to stay in New Orleans, signs 2-year extension with Saints

  26-04-2020 23:36
  
  If the new contract extension is any indication, it seems Taysom Hill could get what he’s wanted — a shot at the starting quarterback gig.The former BYU quarterback has been playing in a utility player role and as backup quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, but he made it clear this last season he would like to be the one to take over for Drew Brees when the 19-year veteran retires.After many rumors swirled of retirement, Brees, who signed with the Saints in 2006, instead signed a
  
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• White House aiming for Trump pivot from virus to economy

  26-04-2020 23:17
  
  Washington • After two months of frantic response to the coronavirus, the White House is planning to shift President Donald Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by the pandemic.Days after he publicly mused that scientists should explore the injection of toxic disinfectants as a potential virus cure, Trump has now rejected the utility of his daily task force briefings, where he has time and again clashed with scientific experts.
  
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• Navajo Nation now has 1,637 coronavirus cases and 59 deaths

  26-04-2020 22:52
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation has 97 new cases of coronavirus and another death, according to health officials.The Navajo Department of Health said there are 1,637 known coronavirus infections across the reservation as of Saturday evening and 59 people have died.The numbers don’t include cases from towns that border the vast reservation that spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.Updated totals of cases and deaths are expected Sunday afternoon.Navajo Nation President Jon
  
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• George Pyle: To rescue ourselves from COVID-19, we can’t always get what we want

  26-04-2020 21:45
  
  Fifty years ago this month, the damaged Apollo 13 was limping back toward earth. (If traveling at 3,500 meters per second can be called “limping.”) One of the many crucial improvisations the crew and Mission Control needed to make was to figure out how to turn the delicate electrical systems in the Odyssey command module back on.All the switches and dials and alarms in the command module had been turned off to save power after a fuel cell in the spacecraft exploded. The three astrona
  
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• Healed from a ‘freak’ injury, Troy Warner is ready to get back in the game for BYU football

  26-04-2020 21:25
  
  It's been a long road. It started back in 2017, but it seems Troy Warner has finally reached the end of his recovery period that included three surgeries and multiple months of rehab.Now he's raring to go at any opportunity he can get.“There's obviously no words for how excited I am and how eager I am to just go out and show what I'm capable of,” Warner said. “I mean, if I were to tell people what kind of goals I have set for myself, they think I'm crazy. But I really believe t
  
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• Coronavirus tests top 95,000 in Utah, no new deaths reported

  26-04-2020 21:22
  
  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.More people are getting tested for COVID-19 in Utah, but the increase in the number of diagnosed cases is remaining steady.For the second straight day, the number of people tested for the novel coronavirus in Utah rose by more than
  
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• Coronavirus cases top 95,000 in Utah, no new deaths reported

  26-04-2020 20:51
  
  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.More people are getting tested for COVID-19 in Utah, but the increase in the number of diagnosed cases is remaining steady.For the second straight day, the number of people tested for the novel coronavirus in Utah rose by more than
  
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• Timothy Egan: How the Republicans became the party of death

  26-04-2020 20:00
  
  I look at the numbers every day, sometimes every hour, sometimes before dawn. China is not to be trusted. Nor is Russia. I’m always curious about the latest death toll out of Sweden, a country with a riskier, more self-regulated approach to keeping people apart. And cheers for long-suffering bell’Italia, finally seeing a drop in active COVID-19 cases.All of us want the same thing — a road map to the way out. The scientific consensus is clear and not that complicated: We need a
  
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• Frank Bruni: Injections of bleach? Beams of light? Trump Is self-destructing before our eyes.

  26-04-2020 19:48
  
  “And he’s going to get reelected.”Not a day goes by without several friends — Republicans as well as Democrats — saying that to me. It’s the blunt coda to a bloated recitation of Donald Trump’s failures during this pandemic. It’s a whimper of surrender following a scream of disbelief.Tens of thousands of Americans die; what does the president do? Spreads bad information. Seeds false hope. Reinvents history, reimagines science, prattles on about his
  
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• Utes’ NFL Draft haul represents strong recruiting, evaluating by Kyle Whittingham and staff

  26-04-2020 18:35
  
  On Feb. 3, 2016, the University of Utah announced a football recruiting class of 24 players, 18 of whom were high school prospects.In terms of recruiting rankings, the group did not collectively make huge waves. The class was ranked 37th nationally by 247sports.com, including just eighth in the Pac-12. Two of the three four-star recruits were junior college transfers, everyone else was a three-star.When the dust settled Saturday evening on the NFL Draft, four of those three-star recruits —
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Coronavirus and the price of Trump’s delusions

  26-04-2020 17:52
  
  In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that a second wave of coronavirus infections this coming winter “will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” because it will coincide with flu season. He also called the protests against stay-at-home orders “not helpful.”Donald Trump was apparently not pleased, tweeting that Redfield was “totally mi
  
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• Don Gale: Coping with the loss of a child

  26-04-2020 17:00
  
  My youngest daughter died three weeks ago. She was 60. First my wife, then my brother, and now my daughter.It’s another penalty of old age — the most painful penalty. You can make stress-relieving jokes about aches and pains, but there is no such remedy for the loss of those with whom you shared most of your life.Current restrictions made it impossible to provide Christine’s many friends an opportunity to come share memories, but during brief graveside services I offered a few
  
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• Utah leaders want people to wear face masks. We tracked 1,500 people at stores. Here’s what we saw.

  26-04-2020 16:04
  
  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.Utah officials have time and again stressed the need for residents to wear face coverings in public. Gov. Gary Herbert has said masks should be considered part of everyone’s “fashion statement.” Health and economi
  
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• Bret Stephens: America shouldn’t have to play by New York rules

  26-04-2020 16:02
  
  In 1976, artist Saul Steinberg drew a cover for The New Yorker — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” — that became an instant classic. You know the one: Manhattan heavily in the foreground, the Hudson River, a brownish strip called “Jersey,” the rest of the America vaguely in the distance.It could almost be a map of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States.Even now, it is stunning to contemplate the extent to which the country’s COVID-19 crisis is
  
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• Utahns treating coronavirus patients in New York tell about the moments that have stuck with them

  26-04-2020 15:00
  
  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.They’d read the reports and seen the numbers. They thought they had a pretty good idea of what they were signing up for.But when doctors and nurses from Utah walked into New York hospitals last week, they were not prepared.Th
  
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• Utah women’s suffrage became ‘hotly debated issue’ in bid for statehood

  26-04-2020 15:00
  
  Utah women had already received, and lost, the right to vote once. So when a second opportunity came around to enshrine equal suffrage in the state constitution, they were ready.Suffragists across Utah lobbied politicians and submitted thousands of petitions in favor of their efforts. But they faced a looming fear from their opposition: Would enfranchising women risk Utah’s chances of statehood?This question became the most “hotly debated issue” of the state’s constitutio
  
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• Utah County deputies were investigated for beating suspects, but not charged. Here are the details.

  26-04-2020 15:00
  
  Members of the Utah County major crimes task force badly beat two suspects in separate incidents just days apart last year, sparking an excessive force investigation.The encounters are laid out in detail in internal reports written by the county attorney’s investigator, Sgt. Richard Hales. These documents, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through a public records request, shed new light on the violence and show how the investigator felt stonewalled by officers who saw what happened.The Ir
  
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• Utah author tackles monsters, and dyslexia, in comic book ‘My Video Game Ate My Homework’

  26-04-2020 15:00
  
  When Dustin Hansen, a video game designer-turned-author, speaks to third graders — the target audience for most of his work — the question they always ask is, “Where do you get your ideas?”It’s happened so often that he’s turned it into a workshop when he visits a classroom.“We take two random properties and see what it turns into,” Hansen said over the phone from his home in Ephraim. “So ‘Star Wars’ and ‘The Care Bears&rsqu
  
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• Robert Kirby: Faith is both virtual and real when it comes to church changes

  26-04-2020 15:00
  
  The pandemic has forced a lot of changes in the way we think and behave right now. Some of it eventually will go away. Some of it won’t.Among the most notable changes locally is the number of empty churches. Latter-day Saints don’t technically attend anymore because we’ve been told not to.Although it applies to all faiths, I’m talking about Mormons right now because I am one. We’ve been counseled to participate in the gospel “virtually.”The point of mani
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: New ‘Penny Dreadful’ focuses on ‘The City of Angels,’ but the message gets somewhat lost behind the magic

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  There’s an awful lot happening in “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.” Racism. Nazis. Police brutality. Anti-immigration views. Religion. Folklore. Greed. Ambition. Urbanization. Inter-family warfare. Horrific murders.And there’s a demon and the angel of death.Showtime is calling “City of Angels” (Sunday, 8:10 p.m.) the “spiritual descendant” of the original “Penny Dreadful,” but the two have no links other than the title and the same crea
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Not only did Utah buy unproven meds to treat coronavirus, it paid way, way too much for it

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  The state of Utah’s contract to buy a bunch of anti-malaria drugs its backers touted as a treatment for COVID-19 was disastrous in almost every imaginable way.There is still no reliable evidence that the drugs help treat this virus, just as the experts have been saying from the start.After a Veterans Administration study found no benefits from the drugs and, indeed, potential harms, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration warned against using them outside of
  
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• Letter: What about price gouging at the pharmacy?

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  I recently read your article titled “Utahns go after sellers over illegal price gouging.” The points made in the article were well stated. The Utah Division of Consumer Protection is a needed government agency. Price gouging on products such as eggs, hand sanitizer, N95 masks, toilet paper, etc. during a pandemic should be illegal.My question is this: “Why do consumer protections not apply to prescription drugs?” Prescription drugs are vital to consumers all the time, not
  
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• Letter: Stephen Miller is responsible for Trump’s immigration stance

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  In the past three years, Stephen Miller is perhaps the least publicly exposed yet most prolific policymaker within the Trump administration regarding immigration laws.He jockeyed himself to be placed on the Domestic Policy Council where he has significantly reshaped the council's deliberations on immigration. As an unelected official in this position, he is close to President Trump and does not answer to congressional oversight.The Southern Poverty Law Center explains that “Hatewatch [a bl
  
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• Letter: Constant negativity is hurting this country

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  As I read the comments in The Salt Lake Tribune, it amazes me that nobody can see any positive results being done by our president during this crisis. Everyone loves to criticize and bash him and express their negativity, but in order to get this country back on its feet, people and the news media need to start putting a positive spin on this situation and encourage, not continually discourage everyone that we are doomed to fail.Constant negativity instead of a positive outlook is what is destro
  
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• Letter: Are Utah officials hiding the real numbers?

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  Recently, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the Salt Lake County sheriff’s office will not disclose how many people in the county jail have tested positive for COVID-19. The article also pointed out that correction systems statewide are also keeping mum about their numbers. More cover-ups for the state of Utah as they continue to miscount and downplay the number of people who are sick and dying.Are the people who die with COVID symptoms not counted if they pass away without getting a tes
  
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• Letter: A lesson from ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  In a 1965 episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” we learn that Granny, who fancies herself a doctor, has a secret cure for the common cold. At the end of the episode, Jethro brings a traveling pharmaceutical salesman to the Clampett mansion.After hearing about Granny’s cold cure and announcing that he has the exclusive right to market it on the West Coast, he asks for the directions. Granny tells him, “Take one spoonful of cold cure, eat sensible, get lots of rest, and dri
  
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• Leonard Pitts: I will not die of stupid

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  Someday, I’m going to die.This, I grudgingly accept. I have no idea how it's going to happen. Maybe I will die of having a tree fall on me, of eating tainted shellfish, or of being struck by lightning. But this much I guarantee. I will not die of having wagered my life that TV carnival barkers, political halfwits and goobers in MAGA hats know more than experts with R.N.s, M.D.s, and Ph.D.s after their names.In other words, I will not die of stupid.Not that there aren’t plenty of oppo
  
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• Jazz Mailbag: Fans share who their favorite Jazz bench players have been through the years

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) celebrates a three point shot as the Utah Jazz and the Miami Heat play in an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Utah won 116-101. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Some of my fondest basketball memories, as a fan and as a reporter, have been linked to bench players.There are always the star players and big names who will stick out and make a permanent impression, which is expec
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I’m anxious and depressed. And there’s a pandemic.

  26-04-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • Ever since the pandemic arrived on America’s doorstep and I’ve been sheltering in place, I have grown increasingly anxious AND depressed. Good times! Any tips for managing anxiety and depression during this trying season?— Ann CannonDear Ann Cannon • Wow! I could have written this letter myself. And, in fact, I did!OK, Tribune Readers, I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I suffer from SAD, otherwise known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. D
  
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• Spencer Cox, Greg Hughes win spots on Utah’s GOP primary election for governor, joining Jon Huntsman and Thomas Wright

  26-04-2020 08:16
  
  Former House Speaker Greg Hughes will be on Utah’s Republican primary election ballot for governor, after coming in second at the state GOP Convention following six rounds of ranked-choice voting, the party announced late Saturday night.Lt. Gov Spencer Cox, who had already gathered enough signatures to take his place on the ballot, came in first at the convention, garnering 52.6% of the vote. The two will join former Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Utah GOP Chairman Thomas Wright on the June
  
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• Utah Atty. Gen. Sean Reyes forced into GOP primary with Utah County Attorney David Leavitt

  26-04-2020 07:49
  
  Amid attacks for taking big donations from business executives later convicted of fraud and other questionable donors, Attorney General Sean Reyes was forced late Saturday into a primary race by delegates to the Utah Republican Convention.He finished with 56% of the vote in the final round of voting, just short of the 60% needed to eliminate his competitors. He now will meet Utah County Attorney David Leavitt, the brother of former Gov. Mike Leavitt, in the June 30 primary.GOP delegates eliminat
  
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• Led by LSU, Alabama, SEC players dominate remote NFL draft

  26-04-2020 07:28
  
  Maybe the Southeastern Conference should simply hold onto its players and become part of the NFL.The home of national champion LSU and perennial contenders Alabama, Georgia and Auburn, the SEC dominated the first four rounds of the NFL draft before the flow of talent slowed to a trickle. Or the conference finally began running out of top prospects.The top four rounds are where the vast majority of pro starters are found. So beginning with LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, who went first overall to the
  
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• Spencer Cox, Greg Hughes earn place on Utah’s GOP primary election for governor, joining Jon Huntsman and Thomas Wright

  26-04-2020 07:11
  
  House Speaker Greg Hughes will be on Utah’s primary election ballot for governor, after coming in second at the state convention following six rounds of ranked-choice voting, the Utah Republican Party announced late Saturday night.Lt. Gov Spencer Cox, who had already gathered enough signatures to take his place on the ballot, came in first at the convention, garnering 52.6% of the vote. They will join former Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Utah GOP Chairman Thomas Wright on the June 30 primar
  
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• Slain West Jordan couple remembered at funeral for hard work, devotion to children and Christ

  26-04-2020 06:02
  
  Tony Butterfield was driven but goofy. He was a good student, a hard-worker and, later, a dedicated parent, who hoped to instill those values in his three children. He also loved to snowboard and gave great hugs.Katherine Butterfield was unabashedly herself. She was singing as soon as she could talk, and when she could walk, she danced. She was a devoted mother, who loved to create memories with her children.Together, the couple’s family said, they were complete — playful and funny,
  
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• AP Source: NBA facilities will begin to reopen Friday

  26-04-2020 03:02
  
  Miami • NBA players will be allowed to return to team training facilities starting Friday, provided that their local governments do not have a stay-at-home order prohibiting such movement still in place as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic.Any workouts that take place would be voluntary and be limited to individual sessions only, according to a person familiar with the league’s decision. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Saturday on condition of anonymity beca
  
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• Kem Gardner: Election for Utah governor is in June, not November

  26-04-2020 03:00
  
  While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has turned life upside down for most Utahns over the past several weeks, it’s difficult to blame anyone for not having the 2020 gubernatorial election as his or her most pressing concern. But the truth is, Utah’s next governor could very well be elected before most voters are even paying attention.Utah’s Republican primary election is set for June 30, but even that is a bit misleading. Because ballots are distributed at least three weeks befo
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 25: FTC sends COVID-related warnings to DoTERRA, others

  26-04-2020 02:01
  
  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 Saturday, April 25. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----6 p.m.: FTC tells DoTERRA to stop marketing items as coronavirus cure
  
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• Seven Utes picked in NFL draft, with Bradlee Anae, Leki Fotu and John Penisini picked up in Rounds 4, 5 and 6

  26-04-2020 01:48
  
  Bradlee Anae did not have a good showing at the NFL scouting combine.He knows it, he is willing to admit as much, and it is clearly a primary reason why his NFL draft stock fell in the lead-up to the three-day event. On Saturday afternoon, Anae finally saw his name flash across the ESPN bottom line after he was selected in the fifth round by the Dallas Cowboys with the 179th overall pick.Anae, an edge rusher and the University of Utah’s career sack leader with 30, was one of three Utah pla
  
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• Cowboys quickly sign Utah linebacker Francis Bernard as free agent after NFL Draft ends

  26-04-2020 01:40
  
  Seven University of Utah players were selected in the NFL Draft, but more than seven will get a crack as a professional.In the minutes after the draft concluded, Utes linebacker Francis Bernard agreed to an undrafted free agent deal with the Dallas Cowboys, a source told The Salt Lake Tribune.With rookie mini-camps off with the COVID-19 pandemic ongoing, first-year players like Bernard will go through virtual workouts and class sessions until team facilities open.This story will be updated.
  
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• Democrat Chris Peterson will face Republican governor’s candidate this fall; McAdams easily wins nomination

  26-04-2020 01:24
  
  Democrat Chris Peterson will face off against the Republican nominee for governor this fall after handily beating his five intraparty opponents at a virtual convention on Saturday.The candidate acknowledged that he’ll face “a tough uphill climb” to the office in a state that has not had a Democrat in that seat since 1985 and where Republicans currently hold all statewide elected offices.But “I think that there are a lot of people out there, moderates, who are willing to m
  
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• Paul Krza: We will get through this. We’ve survived much worse.

  26-04-2020 01:00
  
  My 16-year-old granddaughter is crawling the walls and yelling at her now, work-at-home mother. No, she’s told, you can’t go over to a friend’s house, just hang out and read a book.It’s a new reality we’re experiencing as we try to evade this stealthy, marauding virus, and if it’s socially difficult for the young, we all realize that it’s life threatening for older adults. But we know a lockdown is the best hope to survive and help others to do the same.
  
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• Democratic candidate for governor Chris Peterson will face Republican nominee this fall

  26-04-2020 00:50
  
  Democrat Chris Peterson will face off against the Republican nominee for governor this fall after handily beating his five intraparty opponents at a virtual convention on Saturday.The candidate acknowledged that he’ll face “a tough uphill climb” to the office in a state that has not had a Democrat in that seat since 1985 and where Republicans currently hold all statewide elected offices.But “I think that there are a lot of people out there, moderates, who are willing to m
  
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