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• A helicopter dropped rolls of toilet paper onto a home in Utah. We have some answers.

  02-05-2020 23:46
  
  Update: The helicopter toilet paper drop-off was apparently as part of a 40th birthday celebration, according to posts on Instagram.The woman wrote in the post commemorating the day, “Oh yeah, did I mention my best friends arranged for a helicopter flyby? As the helicopter made passes over the house, toilet paper dropped out of the sky and looked like ribbon against the sunset. Magic."Videos of the flyover were also posted to the account.She didn’t immediately respond to The Salt Lak
  
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• The Utah Jazz finally make it to the NBA conference finals, only to find heartbreak — the first of many

  02-05-2020 23:15
  
  Editor’s note: If not for the coronavirus outbreak, the NBA regular season would be over, and the Utah Jazz would likely be in the playoffs right now. In the spirit of postseason fervor, The Salt Lake Tribune is doing a multi-part series on the most impactful playoff runs in Jazz history. Today: Part 3 — 1991-92: A huge step forward, but still coming up short.After the Utah Jazz surprisingly extended the world champion Los Angeles Lakers to a seventh game in the 1988 Western Conferen
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Stepping onto the ice

  02-05-2020 23:00
  
  Mike Leavitt was out doing his social distancing the other night when he remembered he was supposed to be on C-SPAN. So he sat down and connected with his smartphone.The former governor of Utah, former head of both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services, had just the right image for what Utah, the nation and the world will be doing in the coming days and weeks as we gingerly move to restart the economy without reenergizing the COVID-19 pandemic. (The
  
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• Utah’s Hogle Zoo is back open — even as the state reports 3 more COVID deaths. Here’s what it looked like on the first day.

  02-05-2020 22:41
  
  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.When 3-year-old Atlas McComb turned the corner and caught sight of the elephants — his favorite animal — he squealed so loud that the monkeys nearby turned their heads. “So big, so big,” he said, pointing his fing
  
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• Coronavirus throws Utah Paralympic hopeful Dani Aravich’s goal of competing in Summer and Winter Games for a loop

  02-05-2020 21:37
  
  When they realize they’re working too much and exercising too little, most people might join a gym or maybe hire a personal trainer. Dani Aravich decided to train for Tokyo 2020. In the 400- meter dash. An event she had never raced.In the midst of pursuing that lofty goal, she caught the eye of a Nordic ski coach, who invited her to a Team USA developmental camp. A downhill skier since age 3, she had only tried cross country once in the 20 years since. Still, she decided to make a run for
  
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• AP Exclusive: Harassment, assault absent in Biden complaint

  02-05-2020 21:36
  
  Washington • Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, says she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment.“I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. “I know that I was too scared t
  
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• Pressure mounts as tribes seek more time on drilling plan

  02-05-2020 20:47
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • After more than a decade of planning and protests, U.S. land managers have crafted a proposal for how to manage oil and gas development across a wide swath of northwestern New Mexico that includes a national park and areas held sacred by Native American tribes.The clock began ticking in February when the Bureau of Land Management gave people 90 days to review the proposal and offer comments.Then came the pandemic.In recent weeks, life for many has taken an unexpected tur
  
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• Quin Snyder shows off ice cream pie-making skills in Utah Jazz’s new ‘Quarantine Cookbook’ series (+recipe)

  02-05-2020 20:25
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder calls time out during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) | AP Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder is known around the NBA for having a brilliant basketball mind and caring deeply about his players.
  It turns out Snyder has some skills in the kitchen, too.
  The Jazz on Saturday launched a new video series they’ve titled “Quarantine Cookbook,” which wi
  
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• Quin Snyder shows off ice cream pie-making skills in Utah Jazz’s new ‘Quarantine Cookbook’ series

  02-05-2020 20:25
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder calls time out during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) | AP Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder is known around the NBA for having a brilliant basketball mind and caring deeply about his players.
  It turns out Snyder has some skills in the kitchen, too.
  The Jazz on Saturday launched a new video series they’ve titled “Quarantine Cookbook,” which wi
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, May 2: Three more Utahns have died from COVID-19; state closing in on 5,000 positive cases of the virus

  02-05-2020 20:16
  
  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 Saturday, May 2. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---12:15 p.m.: Three more Utahns have died from COVID-19; state closing in on 5,00
  
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• James Czerniawski: COVID-19 shows that drone reform is needed in Utah

  02-05-2020 20:00
  
  As perhaps one of the most disruptive issues of our time, the coronavirus has had an impact on numerous industries across the world. It has forced entrepreneurs to be creative in how they solve the unique problems we face. Small unmanned aerial vehicles is one such industry. Drones have been able to play a helpful role in containing COVID-19 thus far.For example, drones have been used to deliver medical supplies. In Ireland, drones were used for the first time to deliver insulin to a patient on
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, May 2: Three Utah state parks closed Saturday after reaching capacity

  02-05-2020 19:28
  
  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 Saturday, May 2. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---11:30 a.m.: Three Utah state parks close after reaching capacitySome Utah state
  
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• Gordon Monson: How safe — or sane — is it for Utah, BYU, USU or any other school to play college football this fall?

  02-05-2020 18:47
  
  University of Alabama president Stuart Bell says there will be a college football season in Tuscaloosa this fall, despite the coronavirus pandemic. He says further, as reported by an Alabama television station, that “our plan is that we will have a football season and fans will be a part of it in our stadium.”Scattered school administrators at other schools have indicated similar designs.University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld says his school’s football team will be “b
  
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• Pandemic leads to more green thumbs in northern Utah

  02-05-2020 17:48
  
  Ogden, Utah • The latest products to fly off the shelves because of the COVID-19 pandemic? Gardening supplies.Unlike toilet paper and flour shortages, though, the demand for gardening supplies isn’t solely due to panic buying. Northern Utahns are taking up gardening for a variety of reasons, from filling the time and calming stress to growing their own food to supplement patchy produce sections at grocery stores.Northern Utahns aren’t alone in their newfound urge to garden. Peop
  
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• Maximilian Werner: Lawmakers decide based on emotion, not science

  02-05-2020 17:00
  
  A couple months ago I went to the Utah Capitol to oppose House Bill 228 (the brainchild of state Rep. Casey Snyder), otherwise known as the Livestock Predators Removal Amendments. The bill was one of two designed to do what all predator-related bills are designed to do, which is to make it easier to kill predators while all but eliminating accountability.Opaque, ill-defined and ecologically illiterate, these poorly written bills are emblematic of the anti-predator mentality of legislators throug
  
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• 2010 census changed voting maps in San Juan County, but fears of an undercount loom for 2020

  02-05-2020 16:57
  
  When the results of the 2010 census for San Juan County landed on Leonard Gorman’s desk, it was clear change was coming.The data showed Native American residents outnumbered white residents in the southeastern Utah county, but two of the three County Commission voting districts — which had been drawn decades earlier under information from the 1980s — were majority white.“My office initially assessed the then-voting districts,” said Gorman, who is executive director
  
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• Farina King: Diné heroes facing monsters through generations

  02-05-2020 15:00
  
  My father practices medicine in Monument Valley, Utah. I used to joke that he would work until he died, but now I fear that every day since the monstrosity of COVID-19.We are Diné (Navajo) of the Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House) clan. Our people have always faced the naayéé’ (monsters). In Diné oral history, the Hero Twins defeated Yé’iitsoh and other terrible monsters. Generations of Diné heroes have risen and fallen, confronting the
  
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• Health violations pile up at nursing homes around the state owned by Beaver City’s hospital

  02-05-2020 14:30
  
  The following story was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune, the Daily Herald and the Standard-Examiner.“It was horrible. It was one of the worst buildings I’ve ever seen.”That’s how Nigel Kooyman, a certified nursing assistant and phlebotomist with eight years of experience working in nursing homes, describes Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing, a facility turned into a dedicated COVID-19 care cent
  
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• These University of Utah students had their graduation ceremony inside a video game they created

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  Press A to jump. Hold B to walk. And use ctrl + ↑ to move across the stage and collect your diploma.During a one-of-a-kind ceremony Friday, that’s how students in the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts & Engineering (EAE) program graduated: in a video game they designed.It was their workaround to the coronavirus pandemic, which has upended celebrations across the country this spring, including graduations. With classes moved online, too, some of those finishing up colle
  
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• Letter: What the next president will face

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  As I read the exuberance and support for the president by the GOP candidates seeking the nomination for the 4th District, I thought I would share my take on the challenges the next president will face.Even assuming there will be a treatment and a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, the next president will face a greatly diminished economy, meaning less revenue to the federal coffers.The economy was growing on average about 2% to 2.5% over the last decade. The expansion of the stock market by 30% was
  
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• Letter: That antimalarial medicine could come in handy

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  Let’s please try to be a little more positive about the state stockpiling hydroxychloroquine.If climate change refills Lake Bonneville the Salt Lake Valley could be fringed with malarial swamps. Then that stockpile could come in handy.Oh, wait...Henry Whiteside, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Our state is behind the curve

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  I am shocked, shocked that Gov. Gary “Available Jones” Herbert would have us believe that he was asleep at the switch when his buddies in the Utah Legislature got the state to pony up $800,000 for malaria medication — and that he had somehow forgotten about the group of local doctors who had written to him stating what a fundamentally stupid use of public money this was — in hopes that said meds would be useful in warding off the coronavirus plague.I am even more surprise
  
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• Letter: Enough of our Mafia president

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  How long must this nation endure our Mafia president? This nation deserves better.The essay in The Atlantic last year by George Packer describing “The Mafia Style in American Politics” developed by Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn during the McCarthy era is an accurate description of the depth of corruption, dishonesty and fraud that has allowed Trump to deceive many voters.To be blunt, Trump is fundamentally a Gadianton robber, a Mafia guy or, as Rep. Chris Stewart affectionatel
  
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• Letter: Doctors should speak out against Trump’s lies

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  Donald Trump’s speech on cures and prevention for COVID-19 shows what a reckless and dangerous person he really is.Any medical professional on the White House staff who does not speak out against Trump's lies and misinformation on COVID-19 or any other medical matter should be fired, have their licence to practice medicine revoked and barred from the medical profession.The fact that they are willing to stay silent, and put peoples lives at risk all to preserve Trump’s fragile ego sho
  
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• Letter: A black eye to the pharmacy profession

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  Here’s to Dan Richards and Meds in Motion Pharmacy where, according to its website, “Our goal is to get you the medication that you need at the discounted prices you deserve.”He has just given a huge black eye to the profession of pharmacy. I cannot understand how he can justify charging $40 per dose for hydroxychloroquine when a bottle of 60 tablets retails for as little as $6 at local pharmacies (check GoodRx.com).Hydroxychloroquine treatment has not been proven effective for
  
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• Interest in adopting a dog has surged during COVID-19, but experts recommend answering key questions first

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  By this point, many Americans have been social distancing and self-isolating for more than a month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And all that time at home, and alone for some, has sparked people to get creative with their downtime.Some are taking to the kitchen and attempting to bake, or passing time with puzzles. Some are making lifestyle changes they’ve wanted to try for years, but always thought they didn’t have the time to do.Then there are those who are choosing to get a new pup
  
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• Experiment ends as only 1 of 13 arrivals in Utah bothered to fill out requested health forms

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  An experiment to identify people arriving in Utah who pose a risk to spread COVID-19 never went well from the beginning — when it accidentally sent repeated, annoying texts to residents near state borders. So it was allowed to expire quietly on Friday.In the end, only one of every 13 cars or airline passengers that entered the state bothered to file forms as requested asking if they had symptoms or had been in coronavirus hot spots, according to analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune of data it
  
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• A state investigator said Utah’s plan for malaria drugs may violate the law, but then her supervisor stepped in

  02-05-2020 14:00
  
  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.A Utah regulator alerted a Draper pharmacist that his plan to sell the state massive quantities of malaria drugs to treat COVID-19 patients likely violated the law. In a mid-April phone call, she urged him to abandon his plan.By that tim
  
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• A helicopter dropped rolls of toilet paper onto a home in Utah and it’s not clear why

  02-05-2020 06:56
  
  Don Pyke said at first the helicopter was just hovering low over some apartments. Then, it dropped something.The stream of ribbony material floated to the building’s roof and cascaded over the edge to the ground. Pyke crossed the street to check it out.“And sure enough, it was toilet paper," Pyke said. “It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”A low-flying helicopter normally draws questions; one unloading rolls of toilet paper — considered a prec
  
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• Paul Krugman: Crashing economy, rising stocks. What’s going on?

  02-05-2020 06:00
  
  The economic news has been terrible. Never mind Wednesday’s GDP report for the first quarter. An economy contracting at an annual rate of almost 5% would have been considered very bad in normal times, but this report only captured the first few drops of a torrential downpour. More timely data show an economy falling off a cliff. The Congressional Budget Office is projecting an unemployment rate of 16% later this year, and that may well be an underestimate.Yet stock prices, which fell in th
  
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• Rich Lowry: No, science can’t tell us how to respond to the coronavirus

  02-05-2020 05:00
  
  If you thought the coronavirus presented difficult policy questions, don’t worry — we have science.Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted the other day, "The West Coast is — and will continue to be — guided by SCIENCE."Joe Biden has urged President Trump, "Follow the science, listen to the experts, do what they tell you."Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls the crisis "a giant experiment in whether the world will listen to scientists, now and going forward."The invocation of science as the ultim
  
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• Utah man allegedly shoots through front door and kills neighbor

  02-05-2020 04:32
  
  A 21-year-old Duchesne County man who was hot in the head while “pounding” on his neighbor’s front door died at a hospital Friday.The 59-year-old neighbor allegedly fired a sawed-off shotgun through his door as he tried to answer it Thursday afternoon, according to a probable cause statement.Kyler John Smith was badly injured when Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived. He was flown from the home, near 80 N. 300 East in Myton, to a hospital, where he died.The s
  
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• Ivan Weber: After 50 years in Utah, all I can say is, ‘My mistake’

  02-05-2020 03:30
  
  It’s sad, if not downright pathetic, to find it necessary to observe the 50th anniversary of my move to Utah. But, worse than that, this occasion also forces me to grasp the deeper meaning of transplanting myself from what appeared at the time to be the ultimately gullible state, Kansas, to one that appeared to be less so, Utah.Then dominated by the John Birch Society, Kansas had relegated itself to the ongoing obsession with radical right-wing political mythologies, and to the industrial
  
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• Judge dismisses unequal pay claim by U.S. Women’s Soccer Team; travel and medical support complaints can go forward

  02-05-2020 02:07
  
  A federal judge threw out the unequal pay claim by players on the U.S. women’s national soccer team but allowed their allegation of discriminatory travel accommodations and medical support services to go to trial.Players led by Alex Morgan claim they have not been paid equally under their collective bargaining agreement to what the men's national team receives under its labor deal and asked for more than $66 million in damages under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act o
  
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• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un appears in public amid health rumors

  02-05-2020 01:53
  
  Seol, South Korea • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang, state media said Saturday, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he may be seriously ill.The North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim attended the ceremony Friday in Sunchon with other senior officials, including his sister Kim Yo Jong, who many analysts predict would take over if
  
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• NBA postpones draft lottery and combine

  02-05-2020 01:50
  
  Tony Bradley, from North Carolina, shoots during the NBA draft basketball combine Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) | Charles Rex Arbogast, APSALT LAKE CITY — The NBA announced on Friday the indefinite postponement of the draft lottery and draft combine.
  Both events were set to be held in Chicago, with the draft lottery on May 19 and the combine running from May 21-24. The league did not give any estimate on when the events will be rescheduled. As the saf
  
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• MLS says players can start individual training next week; RSL GM Elliott Falls calls it ‘first stage of returning to play’

  02-05-2020 01:45
  
  The Real Salt Lake training facility in Herriman has four fields on a sprawling patch of land that includes a high school, a gym, offices and a video lounge. But for almost two months, it’s been empty.That will change next week after Major League Soccer announced Friday that starting Wednesday, it will allow players to start training individually at their outdoor team facilities. All workouts are voluntary and can’t conflict with directives from local health officials.RSL general man
  
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• Holly Richardson: Having a seat at the table does not mean having a voice

  02-05-2020 01:27
  
  “After years spent analyzing lab and real-life settings to determine what it takes for a woman to really be heard — to truly be perceived as competent and influential — these professors have found the same truth: for women, having a seat at the table does not mean having a voice.”Those findings are summarized in an article published in BYU magazine this week. The professors who did the research are political science professors, Jessica Preece, Chris Karpowitz and economic
  
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• Source: Broncos to decline 5th-year option on former Ute Garett Bolles

  02-05-2020 01:19
  
  The Denver Broncos have declined the fifth-year contract option on left tackle Garett Bolles, whose career-long holding habit has alienated fans, a person with knowledge of the decision said Friday.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Broncos weren’t discussing the decision publicly.Bolles, a former first-round draft pick out of the University of Utah, will make $3.5 million in 2020. A fifth-year option for Bolles would have been worth about $11 mi
  
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• Man, woman dead in suspected murder-suicide after domestic violence call in Midvale

  02-05-2020 00:49
  
  A woman was killed Friday in Midvale after an incident of suspected domestic violence, and police say early evidence indicates the person who shot her then killed himself.Unified Police Department spokesman Detective Ken Hansen said police were called to the Candlestick Apartments, near State Street and 7800 South, around 10:30 a.m. A man there had sent photos and videos to someone else. The images showed the woman had been hurt, and that person forwarded the information to police.Hansen wouldn&
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Feed Me!

  02-05-2020 00:22
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, May 3, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/30/bagley-cartoon-good-ol/" target=_blank><u>Good Ol’ Buddy Network</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/29/bagley-cartoon-kind-blue/"><u>Kind of Blue</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/28/bagl
  
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• Social distancing isn’t stopping acts of personal Christian charity, LDS women’s leaders say

  02-05-2020 00:12
  
  With weekly worship services suspended, temples closed, and many missionaries called home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be tough for women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to meet their religious goals.How are they supposed to do their ministering, proselytizing, and caring for others’ physical needs while self-isolating at home?During a session of Brigham Young University’s 2020 all-digital Women’s Conference on Friday, Relief Society President Jean B.
  
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• First Utahn to get plasma treatment for COVID-19 is released from hospital after 25 days

  02-05-2020 00:01
  
  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. Cynthia Lemus can’t use her voice at full strength, as she’s still feeling the effects of COVID-19.“I’m just tired, trying to get my energy back,” she said Friday. What’s important is where she said i
  
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• David Brooks: Why the Trump ploy of division stopped working

  02-05-2020 00:00
  
  Even in a pandemic there are weavers and rippers. The weavers try to spiritually hold each other so we can get through this together. The rippers, from Donald Trump on down, see everything through the prism of politics and still emphasize division. For the rippers on left and right, politics is a war that gives life meaning.Fortunately, the rippers are not winning. America is pretty united right now. In an ABC News/Ipsos poll last week, 98% of Democrats and 82% of Republicans supported social-di
  
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