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• Recap the news of the week with The Tribune Friday morning on KCPW’s Behind the Headlines

  30-04-2020 23:46
  
  Utah suspends its contract with a controversial surveillance company after its founder is revealed to have once been an active member of the Ku Klux Klan. Questions emerge about the TestUtah initiative after data shows a lower positive test rate than is seen in other labs. And Utah gets a refund for the $800,000 it spent on malaria drugs to treat COVID-19.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Erin Alberty and Bethany Rodgers, and Washington bureau chief Thomas Burr join KCPW’s R
  
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• Looking for a job? These Utah grocery stores and restaurants are hiring

  30-04-2020 23:36
  
  Since the coronavirus pandemic hit in mid-March, at least 150,00 Utahns have filed for unemployment benefits. Across the nation, 30.3 million Americans have been laid off or furloughed according to the U.S. Department of Labor. That’s after 3.8 million Americans applied for benefits last week alone.But if you’re looking for a job in Utah, there’s good news.Right now there are about 20,000 jobs listed on jobs.utah.gov website, said Christina Davis, strategic communication manage
  
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• Virtual meetings set for drilling plan near New Mexican national park

  30-04-2020 22:30
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • Federal land managers plan to hold a series of virtual meetings on a contested plan that will guide for at least the next decade oil and gas development around a national park and other areas in northwestern New Mexico that are revered by Native American tribes.A World Heritage site, Chaco Culture National Historical Park and its collection of massive stacked stone walls and circular ceremonial subterranean rooms called kivas have been at the center of a decades-long fig
  
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• LDS Church giving $5.5M in cash to relief agencies to help against coronavirus

  30-04-2020 22:11
  
  Five charities will receive a total of $5.5 million in cash donations from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of relief efforts in response to the coronavirus pandemic, church officials announced Thursday.“We want to help and know that we can rely on these trusted partners, who are already doing so much good, to reach those who are in greatest need,” Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé, the ecclesiastical authority over the faith’s vast charitable,
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, April 30: Another death raises Utah’s toll to 46. Herbert sees reason for hope, says state will keep eye on testing.

  30-04-2020 22:06
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.It’s Thursday, April 30. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---2:05 p.m.: Herbert says Utah will take steps to ensure coronavirus testing i
  
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• A coronavirus drug that helps — why researchers are excited about remdesivir and what caveats remain

  30-04-2020 22:04
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Watch Dr. Anthony Fauci’s body language during this video.Dr. Fauci speaks on the clinical trial for potential coronavirus treatment drug remdesivir:“What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus ... This drug happen
  
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• Addison Graham: Politicians practice selective forgiveness

  30-04-2020 22:00
  
  Less than two weeks passed between the time I first heard the word “coronavirus” until I was on a chartered Delta flight leaving Chile with more than 200 other missionaries. My 20-month break from our nation’s political circus was refreshing. But if I’ve learned anything from my transition back into American life, it is that forgiveness has a wide range of meaning in our culture and politics.On one end of the spectrum is the real, down-to-earth, and sincere kind of forgiv
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, April 30: Another death raises Utah’s toll to 46. New cases make biggest jump in nearly a month.

  30-04-2020 20:59
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.It’s Thursday, April 30. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---1 p.m.: One more Utahn dies of the coronavirusUtah has recorded another deat
  
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• National parks balancing demands for cell service, silence

  30-04-2020 20:39
  
  Phoenix • Musetta Vander has been to several of the most iconic national parks and landscapes in the U.S., capturing herself doing a yoga pose among the Joshua trees, driving on a tree-lined highway framed by Yosemite’s towering rock formations and sitting at the edge of a cliff overlooking a horseshoe-shaped bend in the Colorado River.“Sometimes it’s so beautiful you want to share it with the world immediately,” said Vander of West Hollywood, California. “Howe
  
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• Steven Rattner: The coronavirus stimulus package is a mess

  30-04-2020 20:19
  
  The next round of economic stimulus has now emerged from Congress’s sausage factory, with more rescue efforts inevitably to follow.Hats off to Congress for moving quickly, particularly in passing the gargantuan $2.2 trillion package late last month. But even amid a crumbling economy, we need more attention to the details — less rough justice and fewer special-interest pleadings — and more effective administration.Most prominent have been the flaws in the wildly underfunded Payr
  
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• Gordon Monson: Amid the coronavirus crisis, Frank Layden has an important message for Utahns

  30-04-2020 20:00
  
  If there’s a man well positioned to dispense sound advice to the greater community in the midst of trying times, in the midst of this coronavirus crisis, it’s Frank Layden. He’s seen so much in his 88 years — the Great Depression, World War II, and darn-near every difficulty, every calamity since — and gone straight on, gathering wisdom while powering forward — living, learning, suffering, loving and conquering.The late Larry Miller once said this of the forme
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, April 30: Tracy Aviary to reopen. LDS Church cancels treks, pageants. Four cases at state-run care center.

  30-04-2020 19:46
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.It’s Thursday, April 30. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---11:47 a.m.: Four coronavirus cases but no deaths at state-run care facility
  
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• Many low-income and homeless Utahns qualify for a $1,200 government relief payment. Here’s how to get it.

  30-04-2020 19:45
  
  Homeless and low-income Utahns, who are especially vulnerable to the novel coronavirus pandemic, are eligible for an Economic Impact Payment from the federal government regardless of whether they file taxes.“The IRS is working hard to find new ways for people who don’t have a filing requirement to receive their Economic Impact Payment,” IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a news release. “The Non-Filers tool is an easy way people can register for these payments.”L
  
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• Utah State AD John Hartwell is making tough budget calls as pandemic grinds on. There are still more questions than answers.

  30-04-2020 19:36
  
  The Utah State University athletic department currently sponsors 16 intercollegiate sports, which is the minimum allowed for an FBS school.If Aggies athletic director John Hartwell has anything to say about it, USU will remain at 16 whenever college athletics get rolling again.Earlier this month, commissioners from the Group of Five conferences (AAC, Mountain West, MAC, Sun Belt and Conference USA) sent a letter to NCAA president Mark Emmert asking for alterations of NCAA bylaws in order to save
  
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• Lower income Utahns, young people and students make up most of UTA’s ridership

  30-04-2020 19:30
  
  Two of every five UTA riders now are students. Half of all passengers come from households with incomes of less than a low $40,000 a year. About 61% are younger than age 34. And one of every four riders is a racial minority.Those are among the findings of a large onboard survey of riders — with more than 13,000 completed questionnaires — that the federal government requires the Utah Transit Autority to conduct once every five years mostly to compare minority and nonminority riders&rs
  
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• Eliminated candidate Jeff Burningham wants a judge to put him on the GOP primary ballot for governor

  30-04-2020 19:10
  
  After he failed to gather enough signatures to earn a spot on the primary election ballot and was eliminated from the race altogether during a party convention over the weekend, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Burningham filed a motion in court late Wednesday asking a federal judge to grant him a spot on the ballot.Burningham tacked his request on to the lawsuit filed earlier this month by candidate Jan Garbett, who argued that if not for the “unprecedented limitations” the s
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, April 30: Tracy Aviary, like the zoo, will open Saturday. LDS Church cancels treks, conferences, pageants.

  30-04-2020 19:07
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.It’s Thursday, April 30. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---11:10 a.m.: LDS Church cancels treks, youth conferences and summer pageants
  
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• Utah Jazz: Latest trade rumors offer two different directions

  30-04-2020 18:27
  
  Draymond Green and Rui Hachimura, two potential Utah Jazz trade targets, offer two totally different routes when it comes to the future of the franchise. Ever since the NBA suspended the 2019-20 season, it’s been nothing but rumors and speculation surrounding the Utah Jazz and their All-Star pairing of Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. While […]
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, April 30: Tracy Aviary, like the zoo, will open Saturday

  30-04-2020 18:19
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.It’s Thursday, April 30. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---10:20 a.m.: Tracy Aviary to reopen Saturday, to a few people at a timeTracy
  
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• Though still high, Utah’s unemployment claims slowed last week as federal aid starts to kick in

  30-04-2020 18:08
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Pandemic-related job losses in Utah slowed again last week, down significantly from their highs in early April but still hefty compared to past recessions.The 11,830 Utahns who sought unemployment benefits the week ending April 25 have p
  
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• Just spit and wait: New coronavirus test using a Utah company offers advantages

  30-04-2020 18:07
  
  A new test for the coronavirus is so simple and straightforward, almost anyone could do it: Spit a glob of saliva into a cup, close the lid and hand it over.While not as fast to process as the speediest swab tests, saliva tests could transform the diagnosis of COVID-19. If manufactured in enough numbers and processed by enough labs across the country, they could alleviate the diagnostic shortages that have hampered containment of the pandemic and offer a less onerous way for companies to see if
  
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• ‘Utah Booze News’ podcast: Utahns are buying pricier bottles, and new bars and restaurants are coming soon

  30-04-2020 17:56
  
  Amid the coronavirus, alcohol sales in Utah continue to climb — partly because consumers are buying more expensive bottles of beer, wine and spirits.Terry Wood, spokesman for the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, is the guest on the latest episode of “Utah Booze News: An Alcohol Policy Podcast” — produced by The Salt Lake Tribune and FOX 13. He talks about the agency’s record-breaking liquor sales, how the agency is dealing with store closures because o
  
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• Apostles are reassigning Latter-day Saint missionaries who returned home due to coronavirus

  30-04-2020 17:01
  
  By the end of March, tens of thousands of Latter-day Saint missionaries returned to their home countries due to the coronavirus pandemic and were released from their service. They were given a month to decide whether they wanted to go back to their original or temporary assignment “as soon as conditions allow” or return to full-time proselytizing service within 12 to 18 months with a new end date.Leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set April 30 as the deadline
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: At 101, he lived through the Spanish flu and beat the coronavirus; how to boost women’s voices and views.

  30-04-2020 16:45
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.At 101, he survived the coronavirusMarcelo Vinicio Ulloa got the grim news in late March:His 101-year-old father — a former branch president and patriarch who had been born during the Spanish flu pandemic a centur
  
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• Drug proves effective against coronavirus as economic damage rises

  30-04-2020 15:54
  
  Scientists on Wednesday announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that came as the economic gloom caused by the scourge deepened in the U.S. and Europe.The U.S. government said it is working to make the antiviral medication remdesivir available to patients as quickly as possible.“What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus,” said Dr. Anthon
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, April 30: Unemployment tops 30 million in the U.S., 146,000 in Utah

  30-04-2020 15:07
  
  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 receive top news in your inbox every weekday morning, subscribe to our Top Stories newsletter.To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Thursday, April 30. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete cor
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I want to relax, but my housemate wants me to tidy up

  30-04-2020 15:05
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • My housemate is obsessed with organizing everything and insists I help (because I live here, too) when I really want to be reading or watching TV. How do I deal with this? Without getting arrested? I would appreciate your help.— Your Faithful ReaderDear Faithful Reader • Ugh. Housework.You know, when this whole pandemic thing forced me to stay at home, I decided to go in for some major deep cleaning — especially in my kitchen, where I pretty much discovere
  
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• Southern Utah’s Best Friends pays $6.3M to buy state land that was proposed for frack sand mining

  30-04-2020 15:00
  
  State-owned land that was proposed for an industrial sand quarry outside Kanab soon will be owned by Best Friends Animal Society under a $6.3 million deal that puts to rest a controversy that has divided the southern Utah town for a year.Two of the parcels are in the sweeping expanse of dunes northwest of Kanab, where Southern Red Sands held mining claims on 12,000 acres of federal land. The company proposed extracting and processing sand on state inholdings surrounding a feature called Red Knol
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah has the right strategy to reopen. Let’s hope it goes well.

  30-04-2020 15:00
  
  Dealing with the coronavirus outbreak is a little like being handcuffed to a tiger.Sure, you may want to have a nice, intimate meal at a sit-down restaurant, but the tiger may have other dinner plans for you. So you adapt.You give up your normal routine, you work from home, you keep some distance from friends and family who might fall prey to the beast. You can’t force or coerce or cajole the tiger. Basically, you do everything on the big cat’s terms.Coronavirus is the same, as Dr. A
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Trump, the king of sarcasm ... not

  30-04-2020 15:00
  
  Dear Donald Trump:Man, I have to admit it. You really got me good.When you looked straight at Dr. Deborah Birx last week and started musing how people might be able to cure COVID-19 by exposure to ultraviolet light or injecting household disinfectants, I thought you were serious. I said to myself: “Wow, Donald Trump just seriously suggested people should shoot up with Lysol.” The makers of Lysol even felt the need to issue a statement asking people not to take their product internall
  
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• ‘This is a potential public health disaster:' COVID-19 results from TestUtah.com are raising questions.

  30-04-2020 14:19
  
  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 receive top news in your inbox every weekday morning, subscribe to our Top Stories newsletter. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.The accuracy of coronavirus tests by TestUtah.com has come into question, with state data showing that the rate of positive results a
  
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• Letter: What will it take to prompt homelessness reform?

  30-04-2020 14:00
  
  Last winter’s legislative session saw a staggering lack of bills addressing the issue of homelessness in Utah. This is especially shocking considering that, last year, there was an average of 2,798 homeless individuals state-wide on any given day — a number that should not go overlooked.However ignored this issue has previously been, the current climate of global pandemic must surely draw attention to it. Being high school students, my classmates and I have certainly experienced many
  
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• Letter: Trump should follow Johnson’s example

  30-04-2020 14:00
  
  Seriously, when four American deaths in Benghazi, Libya, were blamed on Hillary Clinton’s ineptitude, it triggered 10 investigations — six by Republican-controlled committees — including her testifying for 11 hours.Now that Donald Trump’s ineptitude has shortened more lives (by a factor of 10,000) shouldn’t his much greater ineptitude and dereliction of duty (he has a duty to tell the truth) trigger far more investigations of this American carnage?Lyndon Johnson is
  
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• Letter: Learn from the past

  30-04-2020 14:00
  
  As many communities are rushing to re-open despite still high rates of coronavirus, relevant information is provided in an article in The Week magazine.The article delineates the devastating economic and health impacts of a parade held in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu pandemic. Although I grew up in Philadelphia, I was born long after this and had never heard of it.The article also reported on a study published this year that, “argued that cities that acted early and aggressively to
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, April 29: Governor’s order downgrades state to moderate risk; Utah reports 152 new cases, no new deaths.

  30-04-2020 05:46
  
  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.It’s Wednesday, April 29. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---9:45 p.m.: Gov. Herbert’s order places Utah under ‘modera
  
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• Banjo suspends surveillance, data collection in Utah after reports of founder’s past involvement in the KKK

  30-04-2020 05:27
  
  A controversial Utah technology company will suspend all data collection and surveillance in the state after reports that its founder was once actively involved in the Ku Klux Klan.Banjo, a Park City-startup, made the announcement on its website late Wednesday night, saying it would not be “providing any services to government entities” amid the scrutiny. That comes one day after the Utah attorney general’s office already suspended its contract with the private business and cal
  
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• Tabitha Pacheco: Some lessons learned from running for office

  30-04-2020 03:30
  
  To everyone who ran for office this convention and primary season, congratulations! Whether your journey ended at the convention or you’re still in the race, running for office shows a deep level of commitment to serving your community. As a first-time candidate, I learned several lessons from my experience.There is no “right” time.I chose to run for state representative in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Working from home full time while also trying to educate my three yo
  
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• Skeptics loom as NCAA builds guardrails around compensation

  30-04-2020 01:40
  
  For more than 60 years, NCAA leaders have insisted college athletes had to be amateurs and to be amateurs they could not be paid for being athletes — by anybody.That will no longer be the case. The NCAA announced Wednesday it is moving forward with a plan to allow college athletes to earn money for endorsements and a host of other activities involving personal appearances and social media content.It’s a big deal — “unprecedented,” Ohio State President and NCAA Board
  
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• Boy, 10, dies in dirt-bike crash in Eagle Mountain

  30-04-2020 01:40
  
  A 10-year-old boy was killed Tuesday in a dirt-bike accident in Eagle Mountain.Traygen Shane Johnson was riding his dirt bike Tuesday afternoon in a neighborhood near Golden Eagle Road and Mohican Drive. He lost control of the bike, hit a curb and crashed into a tree, said Sgt. Spencer Cannon of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.Johnson, who lived in the area, was wearing a helmet, Cannon said. He died at the scene, despite life-saving efforts by paramedics.The family has set up a GoFundMe
  
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• Navajo Nation continues weekend lockdown due to coronavirus

  30-04-2020 01:37
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Residents on the Navajo Nation will be under another lockdown this weekend as the tribe seeks to keep the coronavirus from spreading even further into communities.The lockdown is the fourth the tribe has implemented. It comes around the first of the month when tribal members often travel to towns bordering the reservation to shop for food and other supplies.Tribal officials say they are working with businesses on the reservation to create safeguards for Navajo elders, s
  
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• Ammon Gruwell: The time for ranked-choice voting has come

  30-04-2020 01:30
  
  On any given day, you can log into Twitter and read about the latest public figure who did something that the residents of the twitterverse found distasteful. To show their disapproval, people tweet with the hashtag #[insert-name]IsOverParty, and with that, I suppose, the public figure’s career is over, or at least it’s not trendy to like them anymore.Well, this isn’t Twitter, and I won’t be calling out any public figures, but I’d like to explain why, for a number o
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Kind of Blue

  30-04-2020 01:26
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, April 30, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/28/bagley-cartoon-big" target=_blank><u>Big Brother Blues</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/27/bagley-cartoon/"><u>Gubernatorial Graphic</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/24/bagley-cartoon-g
  
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• State accepts $800k refund for malaria drugs, concludes internal review of purchase

  30-04-2020 01:21
  
  The state of Utah will get a full refund for the $800,000 it spent late last month buying malaria drugs that some officials hoped would prove an effective treatment for the coronavirus.The office of Gov. Gary Herbert, who previously said the purchase happened unbeknownst to him, concluded after an internal review that agencies had acted in good faith — although there were admittedly breakdowns in communication between state leaders, according to a statement released Wednesday evening.The s
  
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• Debate flares over legal protections as businesses open up

  30-04-2020 01:04
  
  Salt Lake City • The effort to reopen the economy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has set off a conflict at the state and federal level that is escalating by the day over how much legal protection companies should get if their returning workers get sick.The White House, governors, members of congress and state lawmakers are all getting pressured by business leaders who want to be shielded from potential lawsuits brought by sick workers. They are also feeling heat on the other side
  
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• Utah DMV will reopen lobby service — after weeks of hourslong drive-up lines

  30-04-2020 00:13
  
  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 receive top news in your inbox every weekday morning, subscribe to our Top Stories newsletter.To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.After weeks of waits of up to six hours for its drive-up service during the coronavirus outbreak, the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles
  
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• Remaining governor candidates describe long-term growth plans

  30-04-2020 00:06
  
  The four GOP gubernatorial candidates who have cemented their place in the party primary met in a virtual forum Wednesday, delving into their plans for dealing with growing pains in urban Utah while spreading prosperity to rural residents.The field of Republican competitors narrowed last weekend, when the party delegates knocked three candidates out of the running. On Wednesday, an online event hosted by the nonprofit Envision Utah hosted the remaining hopefuls — Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, form
  
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