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• BLM seeking public comment on proposal to develop popular trailhead in Bears Ears National Monument

  05-05-2020 23:54
  
  South Mule Canyon, one of the most heavily used hiking trails in Bears Ears National Monument, doesn’t have much in the way of improvements.The estimated 8,000 people annually who hike 1.5 miles to House on Fire, a prehistoric Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling, pay a day-use fee at a Bureau of Land Management self-service station and park along the shoulder of a dirt road.There are no pit toilets at the trailhead and signage is minimal. Braided paths crisscross the area, some of which have
  
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• Utah Jazz will go beyond guidelines in cautiously reopening practice facility

  05-05-2020 23:51
  
  Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City is pictured on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz have taken a cautious and educated approach throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to do so.
  Jazz Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Dennis Lindsey sat down for a video conference call with reporters Tuesday to discuss an array of topics, including the state of the NBA and the potential for opening up the practice facilit
  
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• Dennis Lindsey says Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell ‘ready to move on and put this behind them’

  05-05-2020 23:51
  
  FILE: Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) blocks Atlanta Hawks forward Taurean Prince (12) for Utah Jazz Donovan Mitchell (45) at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb.1, 2019. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News Dennis Lindsey, Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Utah Jazz, participated in a video conference call with members of the media Tuesday. Here are the highlights of what Lindsey said:
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• Coronavirus and kids — how dangerous is it, can they spread it, and how much do school closures help?

  05-05-2020 22:58
  
  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. The coronavirus is killing tens of thousands of people who lived in nursing homes, and tens of thousands more who had underlying health conditions. Many of the warnings are rightly focused on protecting people who are older than 65.But
  
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• UHSAA upholds decision to cancel spring sports season, despite pleas for it to resume

  05-05-2020 22:34
  
  The Utah High School Activities Association’s board of trustees Tuesday upheld its decision to cancel spring sports and state championship tournaments amid calls to bring spring sports back in some capacity.The association announced on April 14 that the spring season was over after Gov. Gary Herbert said K-12 schools across the state would keep their soft closures through the end of the school year. Athletes and coaches from across the state voiced their displeasure about the cancellation.
  
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• Zoos turn to social media to delight, raise money amid virus

  05-05-2020 22:08
  
  Phoenix • The Phoenix Zoo, struggling like others worldwide during coronavirus closures, has found an unlikely savior in a sloth.While Fernando may be a slow mover offline, the 4-year-old Linne's two-toed sloth has risen rapidly on the internet. Since Fernando joined Cameo, a video-sharing platform where people pay for celebrity shoutouts, the zoo has received 150 requests for a personalized clip. His popularity let the zoo boost his fee from $25 to $50."I think we've gotten more creative,
  
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• Here come COVID-19 tracing apps - and privacy trade-offs

  05-05-2020 21:36
  
  As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic.But their decisions on which technologies to use — and how far those allow authorities to peer into private lives — are highlighting some uncomfortable trade-offs between protecting privacy and public health."There are conflicting interests," said Tina White, a Stanford University researcher who firs
  
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• New study pans airport rail lines in Utah, Denver, Dallas as pricey boondoggles

  05-05-2020 21:31
  
  A new study says light rail lines to airports may be popular politically, but they don’t make sense economically. Exhibit A: The Utah Transit Authority’s Green Line TRAX to the Salt Lake City International Airport.“The extension receives middling ridership, even by the standards of a light rail system with generally poor performance,” says the study by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank whose mission is to “develop ideas that foster greater economic
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 5: Utah reports six new deaths, the state’s highest number since the pandemic began

  05-05-2020 20:58
  
  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 Tuesday, May 5. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---12:35 p.m.: Utah reports six new deaths The Utah Department of Health announced
  
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• Hell’s Backbone Grill is temporarily closed due to coronavirus, but Utah chefs win nod as finalists for national James Beard award

  05-05-2020 20:41
  
  The co-owners of Hell’s Backbone Grill in Boulder are finalists in the 2020 James Beard Foundation’s annual awards competition.Jen Castle and Blake Spalding were named in the “best chef” Mountain region division, along with three chefs from Denver, one from Aurora, Colo., and another from Jackson, Wyo.The honor is bittersweet, the owners said on their social media page, because the restaurant — which opened for its 21st season in March — is now temporarily clo
  
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• These are some of the people taking the surge of domestic violence crisis calls in Utah

  05-05-2020 20:19
  
  Once a week, usually on a weekend, Lynn Fasciano takes a seat at her wooden Shaker-style desk and prepares to take calls.The phone could start ringing one minute into her four-hour shift. Sometimes no one calls at all. It varies shift by shift. Fasciano waits there anyway, just in case someone needs her.And as Utahns self-isolate at home, Fasciano said, her nights staffing the domestic violence helpline are busier. “It’s the same type of call I’ve always gotten,” she said
  
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• Dr. Angela Dunn talks with The Tribune about the coronavirus and her concern about Utah opening

  05-05-2020 20:18
  
  She didn’t say it outright, but if officials were considering only the trajectory of the coronavirus, it seems safe to say state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn wouldn’t have opened Utah up just yet.“From a public health perspective, it would make me feel more comfortable if we were seeing that actual decline in cases," Dunn said Tuesday morning in an episode of Trib Talk, a live interview on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Facebook page with Salt Lake Tribune columnist Gordon Mon
  
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• Social distancing informants have their eyes on you

  05-05-2020 20:03
  
  Kevin Rusch was at home on a recent Sunday evening scrolling through Facebook when he saw a photo that shocked him: A man with an American flag bandanna wrapped around his head stood at a rally demanding Wisconsin lift orders that had shuttered schools and businesses.That man was David Murdock, a cardiologist from his hometown, Wausau. And, like the hundreds of other people at the rally, Murdock was maskless and did not appear to be practicing social distancing. In one photo, Murdock’s arm
  
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• Orem family loses two loved ones on back-to-back days to COVID-19

  05-05-2020 19:34
  
  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 family in Orem says COVID-19 first killed a great-grandmother and then a grandfather on consecutive days last week.Manuela Nieto Palacios, 86, died Thursday, FOX 13 reported. The next day, her son-in-law, Moises Alonso Chavez, 77, die
  
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• Gordon Monson: Michael Jordan’s gambling ‘hobby’ edged toward the danger zone for professional sports

  05-05-2020 19:30
  
  Watching Michael Jordan talk about his affinity for gambling, claiming in the current ESPN documentary about his life that he didn’t — or doesn’t — have a gambling problem, he had a competitiveness problem, reminded me of research I once did for an in-depth story on aggressive-to-compulsive gamblers who also didn’t have a gambling problem, they had a competitiveness problem.And that competitiveness problem led them, in some cases, to all kinds of heartache, from the
  
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• LDS Church proposes new community near future Tooele Valley Temple

  05-05-2020 19:24
  
  Real estate developers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have unveiled plans for building a new walkable residential community around the still-to-be-built Tooele Valley Temple.The plans, which need approval from the Tooele County Commission, call for several hundred single-family homes on a variety of lot sizes, located northwest of the intersection of Erda Way and Highway 36 in Erda.The community would also include more than 32 acres of open space and an additional selection
  
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• Utah Jazz: Before Jordan Clarkson’s bench eruption, there was Alec Burks

  05-05-2020 18:56
  
  The Utah Jazz added an instant-offense type of scorer to their bench during the 2019-20 season in Jordan Clarkson, their first legitimate Sixth Man since Alec Burks. Before the Utah Jazz acquired Jordan Clarkson from the Cleveland Cavaliers in December, you wouldn’t need glasses to know that bench scoring was a major problem for the […]
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 5: Taylor Swift sends a big thank you to a Utah nurse; SLCC offers free workshops; only one state has fewer restrictions than Utah

  05-05-2020 18:38
  
  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 Tuesday, May 5. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---10:35 a.m.: University of Utah receives 10,000 donated masks from ChinaThe Univ
  
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• A new reality as American malls begin to reopen

  05-05-2020 18:23
  
  New York • Many Americans are getting their first taste of what pandemic shopping looks like at their local mall.Simon Property Group, the nation's largest mall operator, reopened several dozen shopping centers across Texas, Georgia and roughly ten other states between Friday and Monday.There, a new reality is on display: Play areas and water fountains are off limits. Employees wear masks and shopping in groups is banned. Shoppers can also get their temperature checked for free on the premi
  
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• Hospital praises lockdown on city on edge of Navajo Nation

  05-05-2020 18:09
  
  Santa Fe, N.M. • Medical personnel on the front lines of a rural coronavirus hot spot on the outskirts of the Navajo Nation are praising an aggressive lockdown involving roadblocks and the National Guard as they grapple with infections that have spilled over to hospital staff.About 30 employees at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services have tested positive for the coronavirus — half of those from the medical staff — adding to the logistical and psychological challenges
  
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• NBA Draft deadline is having effect on Pac-12 teams, including Utah

  05-05-2020 18:08
  
  Until the league says otherwise in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NBA Draft is scheduled for June 25 in Brooklyn.The deadline for college underclassmen to declare for the draft came on April 26, the deadline for college underclassmen to remove their names from consideration and retain NCAA eligibility is June 3.With 163 underclassmen among the 205 names on the early-entry list, there will not be roster clarity in college basketball until June 3, potentially longer if the draft and its
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Dr. Angela Dunn discusses the coronavirus pandemic in Utah

  05-05-2020 18:02
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune’s Gordon Monson and Dr. Angela Dunn, the state’s epidemiologist, discussed the current state of the coronavirus pandemic in Utah on the latest edition of “Trib Talk.”They covered the state’s move from “red” to “orange,” what we’ve learned about the coronavirus over the last two months, what a “second wave” looks like and more in a live interview on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Facebook page. “Tri
  
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• Census relaunches field operations in Utah

  05-05-2020 17:57
  
  As Utah begins to reopen after coronavirus shutdowns, the U.S. Census Bureau is following suit — and now is starting to send workers to deliver paper census questionnaires in rural areas where most residents use post office boxes.The Census Bureau began hand-delivering census materials in such areas on March 15 but suspended all fieldwork three days later because of the pandemic.It is restarting that operation now. The Census Bureau said in a news release that it plans to contact 88,600 ho
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 5: Taylor Swift sends a big thank you to a Utah nurse; Salt Lake Community College offers free workshops

  05-05-2020 17:46
  
  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 Tuesday, May 5. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---9:45 a.m.: Salt Lake Community College offers free online workshopsSalt Lake Co
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Democrats, Tara Reade and the #MeToo trap

  05-05-2020 17:15
  
  Here is one thing that Christine Blasey Ford and Tara Reade have in common: Intercept reporter Ryan Grim was pivotal in publicizing their stories. Before anyone had heard of Blasey, Grim reported that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had a letter from a constituent represented by a lawyer specializing in sexual harassment and assault cases. It was about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.And it was Grim who helped put Reade, the former Senate aide who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault a
  
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• Watch live: Dr. Angela Dunn on COVID-19 in Utah on ‘Trib Talk’

  05-05-2020 17:09
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune’s Gordon Monson and Dr. Angela Dunn, the state’s epidemiologist, will talk about the coronavirus pandemic in Utah.They’ll discuss the state’s move from “red” to “orange,” what we’ve learned about the coronavirus over the last two months, what a “second wave” looks like and more in a live interview on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Facebook page.“Trib Talk” is produced by Jeni Fitzgibbon and Sara We
  
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• Groups protest state decision to replace Utah’s longtime foster care nonprofit

  05-05-2020 17:07
  
  A state plan to replace Utah Foster Care, a nonprofit created 21 years ago by the Legislature, is drawing fire from the agency, foster families and some legislators who believe an unfair bidding process led to a bad decision.“So we filed a formal protest,” said Rob Gerlach, a foster parent and board chairman for the group that says it otherwise may be forced to disband when its five-year contract ends July 1.Two of the three state officials who evaluated bids gave scores that would h
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump and his infallible advisers

  05-05-2020 16:15
  
  “You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero.”We have contained this, and the economy is “holding up nicely.”It’s not nearly as serious as the common flu.We’re going to have 50,000 or 60,000 deaths, and that’s great.OK, we may have more than 100,000 deaths, but we’re doing a great job and should reopen the economy.You sometimes hear people say that Donald Trump and his minions minimized the dangers of CO
  
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• Treasury says April-June borrowing will be a record $2.99T

  05-05-2020 15:52
  
  Washington • The economic paralysis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is forcing the U.S. Treasury to borrow far more than it ever has before — $2.99 trillion in the current quarter alone.The amount is more than five times the government’s previous record borrowing for a quarter, $569 billion, set in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. It also dwarfs the $1.28 trillion the government borrowed in the bond market for all of 2019.The Treasury Department said the huge sum i
  
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• Tribes have yet to get share of $8 billion in coronavirus pandemic relief money

  05-05-2020 15:44
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • The U.S. Treasury Department has not sent any payments to tribal governments from a coronavirus relief package approved in late March.The agency said it has not determined how to allocate $8 billion in funding that was set aside for tribes. It said it would post details on its website, but nothing appeared as of Monday.The Treasury Department was named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit brought by tribes that sought to keep the money out of the hands of Alaska Native cor
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 5: Taylor Swift sends a big thank you to a Utah nurse

  05-05-2020 15:25
  
  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 Tuesday, May 5. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---7:23 a.m.: Utah nurse gets a birthday gift, and a thank you, from Taylor SwiftA
  
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• Charles M. Blow: COVID-19’s race and class warfare

  05-05-2020 15:14
  
  People — mostly white, sometimes armed, occasionally carrying Confederate flags or hoisting placards emblazoned with a Nazi slogan from the Holocaust — have been loudly protesting to push their state governments to reopen business and spaces before enough progress has been made to contain the coronavirus. This is yet another illustration of the race and class divide this pandemic has illuminated in this country.For some, a reopened economy and recreational landscape will mean the opt
  
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• Letter: Pence is lost in the swamp

  05-05-2020 15:13
  
  Dear Vice President Pence,It was sad and disheartening to see photos of you at the Mayo Clinic without a mask. During this moment our country expects leadership. Your decision to not wear a mask at the Mayo Clinic displayed careless behavior, not leadership. It was also disrespectful to all the Americans who have succumbed to COVID-19 and their families and friends who are now grieving.You also risk the health of your family when flouting safety during this time. Your actions show a lack of care
  
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• Letter: Those without sin can cast stones at Banjo

  05-05-2020 15:12
  
  Forgiveness.The law has a statute of limitations. Churches, such as the Catholic Church, have confessionals where sins may be stated and forgiven.And, at least the Catholic Church makes/made a distinction between a mortal sin and a venial sin. The former was similar to a felony and generally was very difficult to forgive. The latter was serious but could be forgiven through confession and penance.However, in our increasingly digitized world, with little, if any, ethical rudders, it seems forgive
  
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• Letter: Promote the general welfare

  05-05-2020 15:12
  
  When the president was inaugurated, he swore on a Bible that he would “uphold the Constitution of the United States.” The first paragraph of the Constitution states: “promote the general welfare.”What is more relevant to “promoting the general welfare” than providing the essential virus testing necessary to reopen our country and prevent further unnecessary deaths? It is the responsibility of the president and the federal government under his leadership to gen
  
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• Letter: What Trump really meant by ‘disinfectant’

  05-05-2020 15:11
  
  I think it can safely be said that Donald Trump doesn’t always express himself well. In his defense, however, when he spoke about the possibility of “injecting” ourselves with disinfectants, it now seems clear that the disinfectant he meant to specify wasn’t Lysol, but simply ethanol, which is the “safe” form of alcohol contained in certain beverages.Also, he was using the word “inject” as a kind of metaphor. He really meant to say only that we sho
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Stuck at home with an abusive spouse

  05-05-2020 15:10
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • I have one for you. Especially during this time of social distancing, what can we do to help a 65+ parent who is constantly being berated and controlled by their spouse and has no outlets of communication because they now have to be with the controlling spouse 24-7? (And in this case, the berated parent is the dad and the controlling and manipulative parent is the mom. Women aren’t the only victims in abusive relationships.)— Worried About DadDear Worried About
  
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• The Kearns model: Strengthening teens through coping skills and mentoring

  05-05-2020 14:30
  
  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. In the final story of this three-part series, we learn how school and community resources are helping teens deal with stress.Kearns • This is not the high school ending that Holly Biesinger had envisioned.She wanted to walk across a stage in front of family and friends. She planned to work as a lifeguard this summer to he
  
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• Robert Kirby: Pets and the marks they leave behind

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  The world’s dumbest dog died Friday. Daisy, a 10-year-old yellow Lab, jumped up to bark at the guy who came to measure our countertops, had a massive seizure instead and fell over.Two hours later, Daisy was helped over the Rainbow Bridge by the vet. It was the end of a yearlong battle with a host of medical problems, the worst being cancer. Anyway, she’s gone now and better for it.Daisy lived a long, loving and incredibly dimwitted life. Her favorite activities were barking at guests
  
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• Letter: Utah schools not prepared to reopen

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  Because of decades of inadequate funding for Utah public schools, these schools are frightfully ill-prepared to reopen during a pandemic.With 40 or more students crammed into classrooms, six foot separation between desks is impossible. As there can be no brick and mortar construction before schools are reopened, thousands of portables will need to be delivered and set up before late summer. Thousands of new teachers will be needed because no classroom, per CDC guidelines on spacing per classroom
  
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• Letter: Universities owe students a refund

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  Generations will remember for decades how different companies and organizations responded to COVID-19. It will be forever ingrained in people’s minds the excellent actions some companies have taken, like breweries and distilleries making hand sanitizer or factories producing personal protective equipment.However, society will also always think back on those groups that utterly failed in the face of the coronavirus, such as those nonessential businesses that refused to close their doors or
  
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• Letter: No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  To the workers of our communities in businesses large and small deemed essential enough to have remained open: Thank you for your service. To those businesses about to reopen, good luck.Owners and managers, please take an extra step to protect your workers and your customers by requiring that both be masked.Everyone wants to go back to work, but too few of us are willing on our own to make a small sacrifice to help make that happen. Governments large and small wisely do not order it. A legal req
  
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• Letter: Chest-pounding gratitude

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  Yes, I understand that no additional funds were spent for the recent Blue Angels flyovers. It was training they would be doing anyway.But now can someone explain to me how thanks and respect are shown by pounding one's chest and displaying their military might? Gratitude, in my eyes, has always been more quiet and sincere. But that's just me.Scott Perry, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Jennifer Senior: What one doctor’s suicide taught us

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  This commentary discusses suicide. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.Just over a month ago, I got a call at 10:30 at night from a doctor friend who works in one of the busiest emergency rooms in New York City. She’d just returned from a brutal shift, a miserable slog of impossible intubations and fruitless CPR. One patient, more or less her
  
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• David Ross Scheer: Utah must demand the inland port plan we need

  05-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Utah Inland Port Authority has been in business since February 2018, in control of millions of taxpayer dollars, without an official plan. The UIPA hasn’t even said what the inland port will consist of.This lack of planning has been strategic on the part of the UIPA, allowing them to dismiss concerns about the port’s impacts on air quality, wildlife, wetlands and traffic congestion with vague promises to build a “green” port.Now, after more than two years, the UIPA bo
  
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• Navajo leader urges unity after mayor’s alcoholism comment

  05-05-2020 06:48
  
  Page, Ariz. • Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called on elected officials in reservation border towns to work with the tribe to combat the coronavirus after one mayor made a comment he said was insensitive.The Navajo Nation has been hit harder by COVID-19 than any other Native American reservation and has one of the highest per capita rates in the country. As of Saturday, 2,292 people have tested positive and 73 have died.The tribe instituted nightly curfews and weekend lockdowns, clos
  
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• Barbara L. Tanner, Utah human-rights advocate and arts patron, dies at 103

  05-05-2020 04:49
  
  Barbara L. Tanner, who used her family’s jewelry fortune to support human rights and the arts in Utah, has died at the age of 103.Tanner died Thursday from heart failure, according to an obituary posted by Lindquist Mortuaries.“Barbara’s a radical,” her friend Mary Dickson, a retired executive at public television station KUER, said in a 2018 video tribute made by the University of Utah when Tanner received an honorary doctorate, when she was 101. “She believes in r
  
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• Don Shula, winningest coach in pro football history, dies at 90

  05-05-2020 04:17
  
  Miami • Measuring Don Shula by wins and losses, no NFL coach had a better year. Or career.He looked the part, thanks to a jutting jaw and glare that would intimidate 150-pound sports writers and 300-pound linemen alike. He led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in NFL history, set a league record with 347 victories and coached in six Super Bowls.Near the end of his career, Shula’s biography in the Dolphins’ media guide began with a quote from former NFL coach Bum Phil
  
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• NCAA accuses Louisville basketball of recruiting violations

  05-05-2020 04:09
  
  Louisville, Ky. • The NCAA has accused the Louisville men’s basketball program of committing a Level I violation with an improper recruiting offer and extra benefits and several Level II violations, including an accusation that former Cardinals coach Rick Pitino failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance.The notice released on Monday is the completion of a two-year NCAA investigation following a federal corruption probe into college basketball. Louisville acknowledged its involveme
  
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• Government contracts with Banjo could be on pause for months as state conducts audit

  05-05-2020 03:52
  
  Surveillance company Banjo could see its Utah business halted for as long as a year as the state auditor begins to review whether its platform is susceptible to bias or privacy concerns.Civil liberties groups and media outlets began raising the alarm about the secretive company months ago, when Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and staff were working to secure as many state government contracts for the company as possible. But those agencies only took action on privacy concerns after learning abo
  
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