• Utah should expect 2nd wave of COVID-19 in Utah this fall, state epidemiologist says

    Utah should expect 2nd wave of COVID-19 in Utah this fall, state epidemiologist says
    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. As the state loosened COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, the state epidemiologist warned Utahns to expect a second wave of the disease this fall — and for it to linger as a threat for perhaps a year.“We are anticipating a seco
  • BYU, San Diego State agree to a two-game men’s basketball series

    BYU, San Diego State agree to a two-game men’s basketball series
    Provo • Nearly six months after San Diego State made its return to the Marriott Center for the first time in more than eight years, the Aztecs have penned a home-and-home men’s basketball agreement with BYU.The Cougars will travel for the first meeting, playing at Viejas Arena on Dec. 1, 2020 and will host San Diego State in the Marriott Center during the 2021-22 season.Both teams were previous conference foes, having played in the Western Athletic Conference and the Mountain West tog
  • Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: As Utah begins to open again, state epidemiologist warns of a probable second wave of virus

    Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: As Utah begins to open again, state epidemiologist warns of a probable second wave of virus
    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 Friday, May 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---2:50 p.m.: Farmers, ranchers can apply for state grants up to $40KUtah farmers an
  • Joro Walker: Leverage stimulus to invest in Utah’s clean air

    Joro Walker: Leverage stimulus to invest in Utah’s clean air
    While our skies here on the Wasatch Front have been crystal clear in recent weeks, winter inversions and summer ozone buildup mean we are all too aware of the connection between air quality and our health. Now, researchers are finding greater health risks from the coronavirus due to air pollution, underscoring the importance of cleaning up our air permanently, for our health and our future prosperity.State policy makers and business leaders have begun contemplating economic recovery plans for Ut
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  • ‘I’m so excited to sit down and have a meal’ — Utah restaurants open to eager diners

    ‘I’m so excited to sit down and have a meal’ — Utah restaurants open to eager diners
    Angelic Quintana and Alex Olmos were walking in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday and spied something they hadn’t seen for many weeks: Diners eating inside a restaurant.Bonus that it was at Siegfried’s Delicatessen, one of their favorite lunch spots.“I’m so excited to sit down and have a meal,” Quintana said. “I’ve missed that.”The German deli at 20 W. 200 South was one of many Utah eateries that opened on the first day that dine-in service was all
  • Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: State deploys ‘strike team’ to COVID-19 hot spot for first time

    Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: State deploys ‘strike team’ to COVID-19  hot spot for first time
    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 Friday, May 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---2:10 p.m.: State deploys ‘strike team’ to COVID-19 hot spot for first
  • Utah drops price gouging complaint against Nevada company that sold to police

    Utah drops price gouging complaint against Nevada company that sold to police
    The Utah Division of Consumer Protection has dismissed a citation it brought forward last month against a Nevada-based company it alleged price gouged two Utah law enforcement agencies that bought personal protective equipment during the coronavirus outbreak.SwabTek, which sells test kits to help law enforcement officers identify narcotics and explosives, said Friday that the complaint was dropped after the company provided additional information to division investigators and agreed to comply wi
  • Matt Haarms is literally (7-foot-3) the biggest thing to hit BYU in years. Here’s why he became a Cougar.

    Matt Haarms is literally (7-foot-3) the biggest thing to hit BYU in years. Here’s why he became a Cougar.
    Provo • When Purdue center Matt Haarms entered the transfer portal on April 6, he did so with the intent of finding a place where he could earn more minutes for his final year of college eligibility. Specifically, he wanted a bigger opportunity to be a bigger part of a winning team.He wanted to expand his horizons. He'd consider any school that would reach out to him.Ultimately, Haarms chose BYU because there was “never any doubt” with the Cougars.“That’s the reason
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  • Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: No new deaths, but state reports 156 new coronavirus cases and 13 new hospitalizations

    Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: No new deaths, but state reports 156 new coronavirus cases and 13 new hospitalizations
    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 Friday, May 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---1:20 p.m.: No new deaths, but state reports 156 new COVID-19 cases and 13 hospita
  • MLS says players can start individual training next week

    MLS says players can start individual training next week
    The players of Major League Soccer can start to feel like athletes again. The league announced Friday that starting Wednesday, it will allow players to start training individually at outdoor facilities. All workouts are voluntary and can’t conflict with directives from local health officials. “By allowing players, on a voluntary basis, to utilize team-operated fields for individual workouts, MLS clubs will be able to provide a controlled environment that ensures adherence to safety p
  • Sen. Mitt Romney proposes ‘Patriot Pay’ to give essential workers a $12 per hour raise

    Sen. Mitt Romney proposes ‘Patriot Pay’ to give essential workers a $12 per hour raise
    Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney is pitching the idea of “Patriot Pay” for frontline workers, an idea that would offer an incentive to businesses to pay employees an additional $12 per hour through July.The Utah Republican says the proposal would help offset a concern that some people would benefit more from joining the unemployment rolls — given Congress has augmented that pay in the near-term — and compensate essential workers, like those in grocery stores, the trucki
  • Utah’s historic State Amateur golf tournament is pushed back to September

    Utah’s historic State Amateur golf tournament is pushed back to September
    The world’s longest continuously held golf tournament is being rescheduled for Sept. 1-5, when the Utah Golf Association intends to stage the 122nd State Amateur at Jeremy Ranch Golf and Country Club. The State Am originally was booked for late June at Jeremy Ranch, with Bonneville Golf Course co-hosting the first two days of play. The schedule would have required the UGA’s launching an extensive set of qualifying events at courses around the state in mid-May; that phase is being res
  • Commentary: Now is a good time to rebuild Utah’s infrastructure

    Commentary: Now is a good time to rebuild Utah’s infrastructure
    Life as we know it has come to a complete standstill with each passing day of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re witnessing record unemployment numbers and a plummeting GDP, both of which have led to travel advisories, road closures, and tanking bus ridership numbers.With Utah bus ridership down 73%, FrontRunner commuter rail down 89%, light rail down 74% and paratransit down 88%, we’re in an unparalleled moment when construction would present the least amount of disruption for the traveli
  • Salt Lake City is asking the public to help redesign its flag. Again.

    Salt Lake City is asking the public to help redesign its flag. Again.
    Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall wants to revamp the city flag, and her office is calling on the public to submit design ideas.The current banner came to be in 2006, when it replaced a flag full of pioneer tributes that was created by high school students in the 1960s. The mayor at the time, Rocky Anderson, said it “looked like it was designed by a Sunday school class.” The city’s latest flag has earned its own share of ridicule, mainly because it has too many colors, lette
  • Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: Drive-thru light show set at Rio Tinto Stadium; you can pick up an ice cream sundae kit.

    Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: Drive-thru light show set at Rio Tinto Stadium; you can pick up an ice cream sundae kit.
    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 Friday, May 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---11 a.m.: Donate meals to hospitals, homelessFor every $12 meal donation customers
  • Federal judge has ‘serious concerns’ about the way Utah trains drug-sniffing police dogs

    Federal judge has ‘serious concerns’ about the way Utah trains drug-sniffing police dogs
    When Tank, a West Valley City police dog, began sniffing around the silver Mazda Protege during a traffic stop last February, the police officers with him had a hunch that there was drugs in the car.Detective David Allen had been watching their suspect, who he thought he’d seen buying drugs weeks ago. Allen pulled him over for speeding, and called Officer CJ Moore to bring Tank.During the search, Tank sniffed the car, but was sometimes distracted by passing traffic or something on the side
  • University of Utah conducts virtual commencement for 8,628 graduates

    University of Utah conducts virtual commencement for 8,628 graduates
    On Thursday evening, 8,628 new graduates of the University of Utah may have donned their real caps and gowns and regalia, but the walks they made across a stage to take hold of the 9,280 degrees they earned were limited to the realm of the imaginary.Such are the unfortunate concessions being made to combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Even as locales across the country prepare for limited and phased reopenings of businesses and services that have previously been closed, even as stay-at-home ord
  • Allison Coffelt: Planting trees can help us lay down roots

    Allison Coffelt: Planting trees can help us lay down roots
    This pandemic has left me thinking of transformative leadership — what it can do and what we miss in its absence. I’m thinking of how we’ll get through this, what it will look like, and, someday, what will be left.Picture this: it’s 2030. A young girl and her mother walk along a sidewalk. It is a wide boulevard; it is a narrow one-way. It is any street in our city — no, every street in our city. The girl was born the year of the virus and now she is taller than her
  • Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo pageant winner with dreams, dies of coronavirus at 28

    Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo pageant winner with dreams, dies of coronavirus at 28
    Albuquerque, N.M. • Valentina Blackhorse, the winner of one pageant after another in the Navajo Nation, was known for helping others. When the coronavirus began tearing across her reservation, she counseled family members to stay home, wash their hands and wear masks.Then the virus somehow made its way into her own home in Kayenta, a town in the Navajo Nation near the sandstone buttes of Arizona’s Monument Valley. Her companion, Robby Jones, a detention officer with the Navajo Departm
  • Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: Drive-thru light show set at Rio Tinto Stadium; free coffee for medical pros during Nurses Week.

    Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: Drive-thru light show set at Rio Tinto Stadium; free coffee for medical pros during Nurses Week.
    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 Friday, May 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---9:50 a.m.: Drive-thru ‘Light the RioT’ show to raise money to support
  • Utah national parks prepare to reopen, but don’t expect a normal park experience

    Utah national parks prepare to reopen, but don’t expect a normal park experience
    Utah’s last national park to close as the coronavirus swept the nation, Bryce Canyon is poised to be the first to resume operations May 6 even as new infections climb in other parts of the state.For the time being, visitors will be restricted to limited reaches of the high-elevation park and services will be all but nonexistent."We shy away from saying 'reopening' because people won't be able to experience the parks the way they have in the past," said National Park Service spokeswoman Van
  • Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: Free coffee for medical pros during Nurses Week

    Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 1: Free coffee for medical pros during Nurses Week
    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 Friday, May 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---8:50 a.m.: Health care workers can get free coffee during Nurses WeekHealth care
  • Joe Biden on sexual assault allegation: It ‘never, never happened’

    Joe Biden on sexual assault allegation: It ‘never, never happened’
    Washington • Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying “this never happened.”Biden’s first public remarks on the allegation by a former employee, Tara Reade, come at a critical moment for the presumptive Democratic nominee as he tries to relieve mounting pressure after weeks of leaving denials to his campaign.“I’m saying unequivoca
  • States and cities seek $1T to avoid layoffs from coronavirus, Nancy Pelosi says

    States and cities seek $1T to avoid layoffs from coronavirus, Nancy Pelosi says
    Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that state and local governments are seeking up to $1 trillion for coronavirus costs, a stunning benchmark for the next aid package that’s certain to run into opposition from Senate Republicans.Pelosi acknowledged the federal government may not be able to provide that much. But she said money for “heroes” is needed to prevent layoffs as governors and mayors stare down red ink in their budgets. Many jurisdictions are fac
  • Brandon Dayton: Zoning codes must change to allow better urban design

    Brandon Dayton: Zoning codes must change to allow better urban design
    I was eager to read David Ross Scheer’s recent article questioning the aesthetics of the unrelenting boom of podium construction across Salt Lake City. Too often we take for granted that we need more housing, and Scheer’s question rightly asks us to consider how we grow and what the implications will be for the future.There is much that Scheer gets right when looking at podium construction. He understands the incentives, he understands the difficulty in getting podium construction to
  • Coronavirus closures cause some Salt Lake County residents to travel for hair care

    Coronavirus closures cause some Salt Lake County residents to travel for hair care
    Ashlenne Sperber wanted to feel normal.As a nursing student at the University of Utah, Sperber’s schoolwork had moved online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A formal stay-at-home order was in place in Salt Lake County. And she’s just a few months away from transferring to Weber State University, which will involve a move of about 40 miles amid the outbreak. She was beginning to struggle with all the uncertainty.So Sperber decided to do something for herself. Something to make her f
  • Robert Kirby: You think we have it rough? Look at what Utahns were enduring 75 years ago.

    Robert Kirby: You think we have it rough? Look at what Utahns were enduring 75 years ago.
    After four years of the worst carnage the world had ever known, the May 1, 1945, issue of The Salt Lake Tribune was surprisingly optimistic.Seventy-five years ago, the front page featured a photo of the bloody bodies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, hanging upside down in Milan’s Plaza Loreto.The news was big in other areas as well. The Red Army took Berlin. The U.S. 7th Army seized Munich. In the Pacific, an airfield on Okinawa was captured in preparat
  • Marina Gomberg is not happy so this is the column you get

    Marina Gomberg is not happy so this is the column you get
    For the record, I want you to know that I intended to write an uplifting column or maybe a funny one, but, friends, I can’t. Not today. My arms are too tired.That sounds dramatic. I’m actually fine. We’re healthy. We’re safe. Everything’s fine.Quite frankly, that’s what makes this weight I’m carrying all the more annoying. Spring days at home with the people we love most are the dreams those amazing fabric softener commercials are made of. Close your eye
  • For Utah grandparents, there is nothing grand about social distancing

    For Utah grandparents, there is nothing grand about social distancing
    Love in the time of COVID-19 can be heartachingly painful.Social distancing has prevented proper mourning at funerals, shared merrymaking at weddings and festive celebrating at birthdays — all the while depriving many of the hoopla, handshakes and hugs that come with the loss of missionary homecomings, junior proms and high school graduations.With one segment of society — senior citizens — such isolation is doubly difficult. Not only are they the most at risk from the coronavir
  • Scott D. Pierce: Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’ is gorgeous, disappointing and dumb

    Scott D. Pierce: Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’ is gorgeous, disappointing and dumb
    Television uber-producer Ryan Murphy (“Glee,” “American Horror Story,” “American Crime Story,” “9-1-1”) made a truly great series about old Hollywood. But that was 2017’s “Feud” — about the rivalry between legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford — not “Hollywood,” which starts streaming Friday on Netflix.“Hollywood” is a big, sprawling, gorgeous mess. The costumes, sets and 1940s feel are amazing.
  • Pandemic TV: CBS legal drama ‘All Rise’ produces Monday’s episode via social media

    Pandemic TV: CBS legal drama ‘All Rise’ produces Monday’s episode via social media
    The coronavirus pandemic has shut down production on most series television. Seasons are ending early, and the fall television season is all but assured of not happening for the first time since network television began more than 70 years ago.But the CBS legal drama “All Rise” is bucking the trend just a bit with a new episode (Monday, 8 p.m., Channel 2) produced after the shelter-in-place orders went into effect. How? It was written, acted, directed and produced by people staying at
  • Letter: Will today be the day?

    Letter: Will today be the day?
    I don’t know whether I’m too optimistic or too naïve. Probably the latter.I wake up every morning and say to myself, “Today is the day. The man who was elected president is gonna step up, and start acting like a president, start acting like the leader we need.” It’s his time to shine.Is this a challenging time? Yes. Is he being criticized? Yes. Check your history, criticizing the president started the day George Washington was inaugurated and has always been br
  • Letter: When the risks outweigh the benefits

    Letter: When the risks outweigh the benefits
    Provoked by so many misleading, irresponsible reports of late, I feel compelled to address this issue: which medicine to take for the COVID-19 virus.The United States has some of the greatest minds in medicine, and we are free to read publications from around the world to enlighten us, so why would anyone of average intelligence consider taking an antimalarial drug after a few minutes reading about that drug's serious side effects?Some drugs that are FDA approved for certain illnesses have been
  • Letter: Trump had two choices

    Letter: Trump had two choices
    Dear Mr. President,You have the most qualified experts in the world advising you on this COVID-19 pandemic. They knew, early on, what was coming our way and you were advised accordingly.Good grief! You are the president of the United States, the commander in chief and you had to know what was going on.I believe you had only two choices:1. Make America Great Again by using your presidential power to command the manufacturing will of the American people — masks, gloves, gowns, face guards, s
  • Letter: Trump deserves a vacation

    Letter: Trump deserves a vacation
    I’m so reassured that our stable genius POTUS was just being sarcastic about injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients.It’s refreshing that someone in Washington can convey a little levity to this overblown plague business. The fake news never saw it coming. How brilliant is our chief? Our hard-working POTUS needs a well-deserved break.Let’s send him on holiday to North Korea.Rand Marcus, MillcreekSubmit a letter to the editor
  • Letter: Online school can be a long-term solution

    Letter: Online school can be a long-term solution
    I’ve seen several articles in the past few weeks sharing the struggles families have as they adjust to online school. Some have questioned how this alternative could possibly work for students.As a parent of a student enrolled at Utah Virtual Academy (UTVA), I want to share how online school has worked for us.When my son Braylon started kindergarten, he was diagnosed with general anxiety and separation disorder. His anxiety left him crying every morning when we’d try to send him to o
  • Letter: Could anything be strong enough?

    Letter: Could anything be strong enough?
    Within a few days, we should see somewhere a cartoon showing a giant syringe sticking out of the White House, labeled “Disinfectant,” with the caption, “Could anything be strong enough?”Ed Hebda, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  • As Salt Lake County salons and barbershops closed due to COVID-19, residents found a solution: Utah County

    As Salt Lake County salons and barbershops closed due to COVID-19, residents found a solution: Utah County
    Ashlenne Sperber wanted to feel normal.As a nursing student at the University of Utah, Sperber’s schoolwork had moved online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A formal stay-at-home order was in place in Salt Lake County. And she’s just a few months away from transferring to Weber State University, which will involve a move of about 40 miles amid the outbreak. She was beginning to struggle with all the uncertainty.So Sperber decided to do something for herself. Something to make her f
  • Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from virus

    Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from virus
    New York • Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has climbed past a staggering 30 million, while Europe’s economies have gone into an epic slide.And as bad as the numbers are, some are already outdated because of the lag in gathering data. The true economic picture is almost certainly much worse.The statistics are likely to stoke the debate over whether to ease the lockd
  • University of Utah conducts virtual commencement for 8,268 graduates

    University of Utah conducts virtual commencement for 8,268 graduates
    On Thursday evening, 8,628 new graduates of the University of Utah may have donned their real caps and gowns and regalia, but the walks they made across a stage to take hold of the 9,280 degrees they earned were limited to the realm of the imaginary.Such are the unfortunate concessions being made to combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Even as locales across the country prepare for limited and phased reopenings of businesses and services that have previously been closed, even as stay-at-home ord
  • NCAA faces lawsuit over violence against women at colleges

    NCAA faces lawsuit over violence against women at colleges
    The NCAA is facing a federal lawsuit accusing the organization of failing to address gender-based violence by male athletes against female students at colleges and universities.Plaintiffs in the suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Michigan, include women who have been athletes at Michigan State, Nebraska and an unidentified America East school. Other plaintiffs have been students at Michigan State or Nebraska.“Defendants routinely issue harsh punishments against student-athlete
  • Jeanette Rusk Sefcik: Even without religion, we need something like prayer

    Jeanette Rusk Sefcik: Even without religion, we need something like prayer
    Nobody is going to church during this pandemic. But everybody is praying.This brings me to the dilemma that I’d like to explore here. In our increasingly secular society, we need an alternative to religious words like “prayer” and “revelation.” Many of us have left religion, but we still have a need to connect to something greater than our conscious selves, even if we don’t know what that is. And we certainly are able to access “inspiration,” which
  • As hard-hit San Juan County eases COVID-19 restrictions, Grand County extends camping closures

    As hard-hit San Juan County eases COVID-19 restrictions, Grand County extends camping closures
    Some of the first places in the Western United States to see outbreaks of the coronavirus were rural tourist destinations. Summit County in Utah, Colorado’s Gunnison County and Blaine County, Idaho — all home to popular ski resorts — were among the hardest-hit areas in each of their respective states.Looking at the trend in early March, elected officials and health departments in southeast Utah saw the vectors that brought COVID-19 to ski towns also exist in spring tourist dest
  • Utah workers prepare as state shifts down coronavirus risk level

    Utah workers prepare as state shifts down coronavirus risk level
    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.Restaurants, salons, zip lines, companies and a variety of other Utah businesses readied to open Friday even as some workers wondered
  • Leaders condemn death threat against Muslim congressional candidate

    Leaders condemn death threat against Muslim congressional candidate
    Dozens of female activists, leaders and lawmakers have joined a petition denouncing a death threat against congressional candidate Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the first Muslim woman to run for federal office from New Jersey.The 27-year-old is the founder of MuslimGirl.com, an online magazine with a global audience. After hosting a virtual town hall on Instagram, she said someone called her phone, and using racial slurs against Muslims, threatened to kill her and her family.“It’s unnerving f
  • Shifting to orange raises a red flag with some Utah workers — ‘if they made it green, I wouldn’t change my behavior'

    Shifting to orange raises a red flag with some Utah workers — ‘if they made it green, I wouldn’t change my behavior'
    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.Restaurants, salons, zip lines, companies and a variety of other Utah businesses readied to open Friday even as some workers wondered
  • ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball: We have done little to stop a second wave of COVID-19

    ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball: We have done little to stop a second wave of COVID-19
    Here are two truths. First, we must reopen sometime. And second, nothing has so far changed to make the virus that causes COVID-19 any less contagious or deadly than it was before, when social isolation seemed like such a necessary sacrifice.The point of sheltering in place was to buy time to build systems to minimize virus spread (or the virus mortality rate). We have bought the time, at great personal and financial cost. But who has built the systems, passed the laws or worked to normalize the
  • Navajo infections surge as Trump prepares to visit southwest

    Navajo infections surge as Trump prepares to visit southwest
    Santa Fe, N.M. • U.S. health officials say coronavirus infections are beginning a renewed surge across the Navajo Nation and bordering areas that may peak in mid-May — a sign that the worst has yet to come in one of the nation’s hardest-hit rural areas.In a press briefing Thursday, officials with Indian Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described efforts to containing the virus on remote stretches of the Navajo Nation. A widespread lack of indoor
  • Jana Riess: Learning — again — to walk in the dark

    Jana Riess: Learning — again — to walk in the dark
    I got pretty sick last week.I took to my bed and mostly stayed there: I was coughing, battling an intermittent but lousy headache, and feeling utterly fatigued. There was a burning, tight feeling off and on in my upper chest, and sometimes it was a bit hard to breathe. I slept 10 hours one night, 11 hours another night. I took naps during the day. I felt awful.And through that experience, there was of course the nagging question: Was this the dreaded COVID-19? What was going to happen to me?We h
  • Hill Air Force Base honors health care workers, first responders with F-35 jet flyover

    Hill Air Force Base honors health care workers, first responders with F-35 jet flyover
    Utahns from Logan to St. George looked to the skies on Thursday to watch jets fly in formation over the state. Hill Air Force Base’s F-35 pilots from the Demo Team and the 388th Fighter Wing flew four aircraft in support of the health care workers, first responders and essential personnel on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus.The jets took off from Hill Air Force Base in Davis County, flew over Salt Lake City and then south to St. George, then traveled north to Logan and

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