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• Live coronavirus updates for Sunday, May 3: City Creek, Fashion Place to reopen; Utah deaths reach 50 with 194 new cases.

  03-05-2020 23:43
  
  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 Sunday, May 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---3:30 p.m.: City Creek Center to reopenCity Creek Center has announced it will reo
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Sunday, May 3: Utah deaths reach 50 as 194 new cases are reported; Fashion Place plans partial reopening

  03-05-2020 21:10
  
  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 Sunday, May 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---12:55 p.m.: Fashion Place Mall to reopen Fashion Place, the centrally located Mur
  
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• As lockdowns ease, some countries report new infection peaks

  03-05-2020 20:55
  
  Rome • While millions of people took advantage of easing coronavirus lockdowns to enjoy spring weather, some of the world’s most populous countries reported worrisome new peaks in infections Sunday, including India, which saw its biggest single-day jump yet.Second in population only to China, India reported more than 2,600 new infections. In Russia, new cases exceeded 10,000 for the first time. The confirmed death toll in Britain climbed near that of Italy, the epicenter of Europe&rsq
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Sunday, May 3: Utah deaths reach 50 as 194 new cases are reported. Zion National Park plans to reopen ‘select areas’

  03-05-2020 20:26
  
  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 Sunday, May 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---12:20 p.m.: Utah deaths hit 50Utah has reached 50 deaths from COVID-19, the Utah
  
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• Grayson Allen’s 40-point game for the Utah Jazz was historically stunning

  03-05-2020 20:04
  
  Excitement might’ve been high upon Grayson Allen’s arrival in Utah back in the Summer of 2018, but his rookie campaign was underwhelming. Still, he did produce an unforgettable, 40-point game for Utah Jazz fans while on the roster. Remember when the Utah Jazz nabbed Grayson Allen out of Duke with the 21st pick in the 2018 […]
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• Carrie McKean: This ‘big oil’ bust Is killing my small town

  03-05-2020 20:00
  
  Midland, Texas • I cried the day I moved to Midland, the capital of our nation’s oil and gas industry. Back then, almost 10 years ago, my husband’s new job designing control systems for natural gas processing plants wasn’t the sort of work I wanted him to take.It didn’t mesh well with my increasingly progressive principles. And so on some level, I understand the response from people when I tell them where I live: an odd mix of curiosity, pity and disgust.Curiosity be
  
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• Former Utah Jazz big man Mike Brown was also a Chicago Bull. Here’s what he has to say about Michael Jordan.

  03-05-2020 19:50
  
  With no new live sports to speak of, owing to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, it seems like just about everyone is tuning in on Sunday nights to watch “The Last Dance,” ESPN’s 10-part documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.Perhaps counterintuitively, one person not caught up on every episode that’s aired thus far is one of Jordan’s former Bulls teammates, Mike Brown.While Utah Jazz fans know and love the “Brown Bear” for the five
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Sunday, May 3: Swiss Days is off for this year; Zion National Park plans to reopen ‘select areas.’

  03-05-2020 19:42
  
  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 Sunday, May 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---11:35 a.m.: Midway’s Swiss Days canceledOne of the largest summer festivals
  
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• Frank Bruni: She predicted the coronavirus. What does she foresee next?

  03-05-2020 19:31
  
  I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra. Everyone is calling her that anyway.She and I were Zooming — that’s a verb now, right? — and she pulled out a 2017 book, “Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.” It notes that Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was prescient not only about the impact of HIV but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens.“I’m a double Cassandra,&r
  
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• Is a Utah Jazz/Derrick Favors reunion an off-season possibility?

  03-05-2020 18:48
  
  Even if the season resumes, the Utah Jazz will face uncertainty during the off-season. Could they look to bring back former fan favorite Derrick Favors? Despite going 41-23 before the NBA suspended the 2019-20 season, it hasn’t exactly been a fun season for Utah Jazz fans. For starters, expectations were set extremely high before the […]
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• Kearns aims to reverse troubling trends affecting its teens

  03-05-2020 18:41
  
  Editor’s note • Through a grant from Solutions Journalism Network, The Salt Lake Tribune is examining how Kearns is trying to improve the lives of its children. Part 1 of this three-part series introduces us to the data-driven approach of the Kearns Community Coalition.Kearns • As adults wander to and from their workouts at the Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center on a day in early March, Mercedes Rodriguez stands at a health fair booth, talking to folks about how to talk to their
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Sunday, May 3: Zion National Park plans to reopen ‘select areas’

  03-05-2020 17:38
  
  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 Sunday, May 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---9:40 a.m.: Zion to reopen ‘select areas’ as national parks begin to r
  
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• Utah and rest of Pac-12 trying to figure out exactly what a 2020 college football season will look like

  03-05-2020 17:00
  
  Maybe college football doesn’t start on time, maybe the start of the 2020 season is pushed all the way back to the winter, but the widely-held assumption at this point is that the sport will be played at some point and in some fashion during the 2020-21 academic year. Whenever medical professionals and university administrators deem it safe to play football, what happens if some schools are ready to play and some schools are not?That unanswerable question, one of many in regards to college
  
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• John G. Taylor: Empower yourself before you need a hospital

  03-05-2020 17:00
  
  I kick into self-defense when I walk into a hospital. It starts with homework done long before my head is gridlocked by worry, basic research everyone should do.The pandemic is a pointed reminder that we invest more thought in buying hair color than knowing where’s the nearest trauma center. Or why that should even matter.We lump hospitals together with cemeteries and prisons. We shoot them a glance, a glare or a glad I’m not there.I’ve been an insider, working for a hospital s
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: A young doctor, fighting for his life

  03-05-2020 16:12
  
  Dr. Andres Maldonado normally bounded into the emergency department, fit and vigorous, but this time he had to be escorted in, pale and fighting for breath, with a patient bracelet on his right wrist. A nurse, seeing her colleague struggle, burst into tears.Maldonado was 27, a third-year resident physician with no underlying medical conditions. When he came down with a fever March 23, he called in sick. Soon he developed a tightness in his chest and tested positive for the coronavirus.At first h
  
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• Utah Jazz: Quin Snyder, not so evil, looks much calmer in his kitchen

  03-05-2020 16:00
  
  A quarantined Quin Snyder doesn’t look quite as stressed in his kitchen compared to his days (which seem so long ago) pacing the sideline for the Utah Jazz. During his six seasons with the Utah Jazz, fans have grown accustomed to seeing an incredibly intense Quin Snyder on the sidelines, often barking orders at his […]
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• Robert Kirby: Sue my church over its truth claims? That would be like suing myself

  03-05-2020 15:00
  
  North Carolina resident Laura A. Gaddy recently sued The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, asserting it had misrepresented its history and “lied about material facts concerning the creation of key scripture.”Federal Judge Robert Shelby dismissed the suit because, while churches can certainly be held accountable for fraud, the First Amendment bars courts from considering the veracity of any church’s religious claims.I’ve been a Latter-day Saint my entire life.Ha
  
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• Banjo had a contract to collect coronavirus data from Intermountain Healthcare

  03-05-2020 15:00
  
  Surveillance technology company Banjo had struck a deal with Intermountain Healthcare to track data about the pandemic and patients infected with the coronavirus.But like its contracts with cities, the University of Utah and the state of Utah, this one got suspended after revelations surfaced that Banjo CEO Damian Patton was once involved in white supremacist groups and was the getaway driver in a shooting of a synagogue.In a draft contract obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, the health care prov
  
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• As Utah turns the dial from red to orange, here is the coronavirus state of the state

  03-05-2020 14:27
  
  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. Utah’s government turned the official coronavirus risk dial from red to orange this Friday, signaling a new phase of handling the COVID-19 pandemic. People can now get haircuts, visit the dentist and even eat at restaurants. You m
  
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• The Kearns model: One community’s approach to helping its youths

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note • Through a grant from Solutions Journalism Network, The Salt Lake Tribune is examining how Kearns is trying to improve the lives of its children. Part 1 of this three-part series introduces us to the data-driven approach of the Kearns Community Coalition.Kearns • As adults wander to and from their workouts at the Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center on a day in early March, Mercedes Rodriguez stands at a health fair booth, talking to folks about how to talk to their
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Despite the liars, PBS’ ‘George W. Bush’ takes a cold, hard look at the former president

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  How do you make a documentary when you’re interviewing documented liars?The filmmaker behind PBS’ biography of former President George W. Bush had to convince himself that the liars weren’t lying to him. Including former Bush chief of staff Andy Card and former press secretary Ari Fleischer, who appeared before TV critics with Barak Goodman to promote the program.Quite frankly, I couldn’t imagine writing a column quoting either Card or Fleischer. They lied to the American
  
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• Letter: Utah invests in Tide Pods

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  Breaking News: Utah invests $800,000 in Tide Pods to counter the COVID-19 outbreak.Vagn Jensen, Murray Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The COVID-45 cocktail

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  Maybe our Legislature should invest in some Lysol and Clorox as well as an unproven, ill-advised drug to combat the coronavirus.A little lemon Lysol with a splash of Clorox to wash it all down with. Donald Trump said it sounded like a promising idea.Call it the COVID-45 cocktail. Cleans you out real good.Peter Orum, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Our president is a virus

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  I’ve had it. What is it going to take for us to recognize how much of a menace Donald Trump is to responsible governance and the very heart of our body politic?So the president is now advocating injections of disinfectants and exposure to UV rays?From the gutting and jiggering of bureaucracies and regulations across the board, to the hubristic assumption of all-knowingness, the man is a toxic fool. Year after year — and, lately, day after day — he has glaringly demonstrated his
  
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• Letter: Inland port will pollute our air

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  When the stay-at-home orders were issued, and everybody did stay home, I watched the air quality report in The Salt Lake Tribune. The bar for all of Utah stayed green for weeks.Now the bar is yellow, meaning moderate air quality, with no reversal of the order to quarantine. More than 126,000 people have filed for unemployment in the past five weeks, as they have been laid off and no longer work, nor commute. But still, the air is polluted.Can you imagine how terribly polluted our airshed will be
  
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• Letter: Do not forget the human cost of this pandemic

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  I’ve recently felt compelled to consume more local media than I normally do so I can get a better idea of how Utahns are being informed about the COVID-19 pandemic, and I noticed a disturbing lack of mention of any of the victims.Utah’s politics has successfully managed to turn a global public health crisis into a political and partisan fight, less concerned about the well-being of its citizens and more concerned with the well-being of the nebulous “economy.”I have heard
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Hope is what tomorrow is for

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  "Tomorrow, robins will sing."— Stevie Wonder"Tomorrow there'll be sunshine, and all this darkness past."— Bruce Springsteen"Hurry, tomorrow. Tomorrow, I need you now."— The TemptationsIn other words, tomorrow is the place where things will get better. Tomorrow is where everything turns out all right. It is in America's national character to believe that, to build hope upon it.And hope, in the era of the coronavirus, is a commodity more precious than gold.If 2020 is anything lik
  
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• Have the coronavirus and earthquakes wrecked your sleep? Rest easy. You’re not alone. And here’s what can help you nod off.

  03-05-2020 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.Adam Sherman sleeps eight or nine hours a night, and then takes naps during the morning and evening.It’s adding to up to 14 hours of sleep a day.“I’m tired all day,” Sherman said, “and just feel exhausted.&r
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: How can I get my senior citizen relatives to physically distance?

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • My 80-year-old aunt and uncle think that social distancing applies to strangers, but not to family or people they love. They continue to visit their adult children’s homes for dinner, babysit grandkids, and try to hug me if I drop something off at their house. Is there anything I can do to help them understand or be safer?— Call Me ConcernedDear Concerned • It’s interesting to see how people define “social distancing,” isn’t it? And
  
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• An exhibit of Utah’s top artists under age 35 is ‘waiting, unappreciated,’ thanks to COVID-19

  03-05-2020 14:00
  
  What if you put together an art exhibit and nobody came?There are almost three dozen disappointed artists whose exhibition at the Finch Lane Gallery has been seen by, well, pretty much nobody. Every 3½ years, 15 Bytes magazine selects 35 Utah artists, age 35 and under, who it considers worth keeping an eye on. The 2020 show was scheduled to open just as the coronavirus pandemic closed everything nonessential down.“I can’t help but feel disappointed to know that work that I&rsq
  
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• Utah Jazz mailbag: The funny and embarrassing moments of fandom

  03-05-2020 08:01
  
  Utah Jazz fans cheer for their home team in the renovated Vivint Arena as the 2017-18 NBA season tips off in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
  SALT LAKE CITY — Being a sports fan is not easy.
  It takes a large emotional investment to cheer on a team through the rough patches in hope that there will be light at the end of the tunnel. But for all the handwringing and worry that comes with fandom, there is also joy, camaraderie and often unforgettab
  
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• Utah tech CEO behind TestUtah showed early interest in malaria drugs

  03-05-2020 06:43
  
  Seven weeks ago, as the coronavirus began to spread in Utah, the CEO of an Orem software company called on his colleagues in the tech sector to save the state’s health care industry from itself.Otherwise, he warned, squabbling among hospitals, labs and insurance companies would hamper the response to the pandemic.“Let’s solve it,” Nomi Health CEO Mark Newman wrote in an email to other tech entrepreneurs. “We pay for it. We pay manufacturers of tests. Labs and pharma
  
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• Commentary: Even if I’m not a believing Mormon anymore, family will be forever

  03-05-2020 04:14
  
  Late in January, I was with my dad who was on hospice care. Two older Mormon men came by, bringing a tray of sacrament bread and water to share with those who couldn’t make it to regular church services. It was clear this was their calling and that they didn’t know my dad personally. They were making rounds at an assisted living facility, and there were a lot of people on their list. They were kind, told us that they could “feel his spirit,” and went on their way afterwar
  
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• Woman, child hit by FrontRunner train in Provo

  03-05-2020 01:47
  
  A FrontRunner train struck a woman and child Saturday in Provo.It happened around 3 p.m. The pair were taken to Utah Valley Hospital with serious injuries, according to the Provo Fire Department.This story will be updated.
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, May 2: Three more Utahns have died; state closing in on 5,000 cases

  03-05-2020 01:23
  
  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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• George Pyle: News of a death in the news family

  03-05-2020 01:00
  
  I am at that awkward age where I am relatively handy with social media and use it mostly to find out who among my friends and former colleagues has died.A posting I saw the other day really hurt. And it wasn’t even about a person.A friend reposted a Facebook entry about how the printing press at The Garden City (Kansas) Telegram was being hauled off for scrap and the newspaper’s offices, where I began my first real job in 1978, had been sold.The post went on to note that only five pe
  
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• Family of woman killed in suspected Midvale murder-suicide release statement

  03-05-2020 00:16
  
  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. on a report of domestic violence.Police said Isaac Andre Renfro, 26, had sent photos and videos to someone suggesting a woman had been hurt. That person forwarded th
  
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