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• Utahns Ted Ligety, 36, Steve Nyman, 38, are now the U.S. Ski Team’s elder statesmen

  06-05-2020 23:58
  
  Ted Ligety and Steven Nyman will serve as veteran voices for a squad of Olympic hopefuls after being named to the U.S. Alpine Ski Team on Wednesday.Ligety, of Park City, has competed in four Olympic Games (2006, ’10, ’14, ’18) and won two gold medals. Nyman, of Sundance, has skied in three Olympics (2006, ’10, ’14).In addition to having the most Olympic experience, the former Park City Ski and Snowboard Team proteges are now the team elders. Nyman is 38 while Ligety
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 6: Virtual town hall set for Thursday on ‘COVID-19 and its impact within the Black Community’

  06-05-2020 23:37
  
  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 Wednesday, May 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---3:40 p.m.: Virtual town hall set for Thursday on ‘COVID-19 and its impa
  
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• Utah State’s Sam Merrill working toward NBA draft, which may not take place as scheduled

  06-05-2020 23:13
  
  Sam Merrill has frequent access to a gymnasium in Lindon. A friend in Farmington also has gym access for him, so as far as basketball workouts go, the two-time All-Mountain West first-team selection has that covered in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.Merrill has not been able to consistently get into a weight room, so that end of things is tougher. At his parents’ home in Bountiful, Merrill has a couple of dumbbells, a couple of kettlebells, a jump rope. As Merrill prepares for the NBA
  
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• Irish return an old favor, helping Native Americans battling the coronavirus

  06-05-2020 23:08
  
  Dublin • More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor. In recent decades, ties between Ireland and the Native American tribe have grown.Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness, giving to a charity drive for two Native American tribes suffering in the COVID-19 pandemic. As of Tuesday, the fundraiser has raised more than $1.8 millio
  
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• How are the Utah Jazz staying connected during the pandemic? Lots of Zoom meetings, personalized workouts

  06-05-2020 22:52
  
  In addressing select Utah media in a videoconference chat on Tuesday afternoon, Utah Jazz VP Dennis Lindsey acknowledged the inherent weirdness of the ongoing NBA shutdown.What, exactly, is everyone up to during this time with go games going on, and no sense of when the draft or free agency might begin?Players, of course, are working out to the degree they can, but unless you’re Rudy Gobert or Mike Conley and have self-contained gyms and workout facilities at your residence, there are even
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 6: UTA will offer free masks on Thursday; state working with Utah County in probe of two business where COVID-19 outbreaks occurred

  06-05-2020 22:31
  
  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 Wednesday, May 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---2:30 p.m.: UTA offers free masks on ThursdayThe Utah Transit Authority will o
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: A graphic designer who worked on a previous church logo evaluates the new symbol and how it measures up

  06-05-2020 22:11
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled a new symbol last month as part of President Russell M. Nelson’s continuing efforts to emphasize — to insiders and outsiders alike — that the faith is centered on Jesus Christ.Does this logo, from a design perspective, help accomplish that aim?Yes, says Randall Smith, a Salt Lake City graphic designer who helped craft a previous logo for the church. But the new symbol, while “safe and expected,” he adds, is &l
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 6: State working with Utah County in probe of two business where COVID-19 outbreaks occurred

  06-05-2020 22:01
  
  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. It’s Wednesday, May 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---2 p.m.: State working with Utah County in probe of two businesses where COVID
  
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• Shirley Ann Higuchi: Fight back in the war against expertise

  06-05-2020 22:00
  
  Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, rumors spread that some of the Japanese American residents of Hawaii had blocked the path of emergency vehicles that were heading to the naval base to put out fires and save lives.Such incidents, it was said, showed that the nation’s Japanese American community cloaked a secret army of saboteurs and spies who would undermine the budding U.S. war effort and had to be isolated from the rest of the country.By Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Ro
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 6: National Guardsmen will assist with COVID-19 testing around the state; church congregations can begin meeting again, with restrictions

  06-05-2020 21:44
  
  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 Wednesday, May 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---1:45 p.m.: National Guardsmen will assist with COVID-19 testing around the st
  
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• Irish return an old favor, helping Native Americans battling the virus

  06-05-2020 21:23
  
  Dublin • More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor. In recent decades, ties between Ireland and the Native American tribe have grown.Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness, giving to a charity drive for two Native American tribes suffering in the COVID-19 pandemic. As of Tuesday, the fundraiser has raised more than $1.8 millio
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 6 additional deaths due to COVID-19

  06-05-2020 20:47
  
  Window Rock, N.M. • Navajo Nation officials report six additional deaths from COVID-19, raising the total on the tribe’s reservation to at least 79 as of Tuesday.Tribal officials also reported 85 additional positive COVID-19 cases, raising the total on the reservation at least 2,599 as of Tuesday.The Navajo Nation has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, with the tribe implementing curfews to try to stop the spread of the disease among residents of its far-flung communities.The
  
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• UTA works on recovery plan, as ridership is still down 70% on buses and 86% on trains

  06-05-2020 20:35
  
  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. With ridership still down by 70% on buses and by 86% on commuter trains, the Utah Transit Authority said Wednesday that it is working quickly on plans to recover as state and local coronavirus restrictions are eased.“Right now, it
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 6: Event offers underserved communities COVID testing and help with food, housing

  06-05-2020 20:12
  
  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 Wednesday, May 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---10:55 a.m.: Fairpark testing event aims to help underserved communitiesUtah&r
  
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• Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley: One great president and one not

  06-05-2020 20:07
  
  “Now, why was Lincoln so great that he overshadows all other national heroes? … his supremacy expresses itself altogether in his peculiar moral power and in the greatness of his character.” — Leo TolstoyIn “The Irony of American History,” Reinhold Niebuhr writes of the “absurd juxtapositions” of weakness and strength in our history. A recent example of that juxtaposition was the Fox News broadcast of an interview with Donald Trump that used as its
  
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• University of Utah Health to randomly select families for coronavirus blood tests

  06-05-2020 19:46
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.University of Utah Health announced Wednesday that students will go to door-to-door to sign up thousands of Utahns for testing to see if they have ever had the coronavirus, a study they say will help guide state leaders in making decisio
  
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• Conservative group gives awards to Utah’s GOP members of Congress — except Mitt Romney

  06-05-2020 19:22
  
  Washington • A conservative group is awarding all of Utah’s Republican members of Congress — except Sen. Mitt Romney — its highest award for voting in line with its goals last year.The American Conservative Union Foundation, which runs the Conservative Political Action Conference that disinvited Romney to attend, says Sen. Mike Lee and Reps. Rob Bishop, John Curtis and Chris Stewart all had scores of 80% or higher on its metric adhering to conservative principles but Romne
  
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• West Jordan double homicide suspect charged with aggravated murder

  06-05-2020 19:01
  
  The man accused of killing a West Jordan couple in their home last month before fleeing to California is back in Utah — and facing multiple murder charges.Salt Lake County prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they’d filed aggravated murder charges against Albert Johnson in the shooting deaths of Tony and Katherine Butterfield. He also faces counts of aggravated robbery, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary and other charges.Police said Johnson broke into the Butterfield&rsqu
  
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• New campus sexual assault rules bolster rights of accused

  06-05-2020 19:00
  
  The U.S. Education Department on Wednesday finalized campus sexual assault rules that bolster the rights of the accused, reduce legal liabilities for schools and colleges, and narrow the scope of cases schools will be required to investigate.The change announced by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reshapes the way the nation's schools respond to complaints of sexual misconduct. It is meant to replace policies from the Obama administration that DeVos previously revoked, saying they pressured schoo
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 6: Event offers testing and help with food, housing to underserved communities

  06-05-2020 18:58
  
  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 Wednesday, May 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---10:55 a.m.: Fairpark testing event aims to help underserved communitiesUtah&r
  
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• Utah Jazz exec Dennis Lindsey says Rudy and Donovan have put their spat behind them and are ready to ‘move forward’

  06-05-2020 18:33
  
  Dennis Lindsey has been publicly quiet since Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert became the first NBA player to test positive for COVID-19 in early March, which precipitated the league shutting down and going on an indefinite hiatus.On Tuesday afternoon, the Jazz’s executive vice president of basketball operations broke his silence, speaking to Utah media in a videoconference Q&A that addressed myriad shutdown-related topics, including — most pressingly for local fans — the relati
  
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• The second coronavirus wave: How bad will it be as lockdowns ease?

  06-05-2020 18:22
  
  Rome • From the marbled halls of Italy to the wheat fields of Kansas, health authorities are increasingly warning that the question isn’t whether a second wave of coronavirus infections and deaths will hit, but when — and how badly.In India, which relaxed its lockdown this week, health authorities scrambled Wednesday to contain an outbreak at a huge market. Hard-hit New York City shut down its subway system overnight for disinfection. Experts in Italy, which just began easing so
  
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• Pageant winner steps up to help her tribe and winds up shipping masks across North America

  06-05-2020 18:19
  
  Phoenix • As Miss Shoshone-Bannock, Stormie Perdash has represented her people all across the United States. Now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, she’s representing them in a different way.Growing up on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, Perdash remembers just how badly she wanted the Miss Shoshone-Bannock title – or Miss Sho-Ban for short.“She was like the coolest thing ever,” Perdash said.She spent her preteen years on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana and
  
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• Intermountain, U. of U. Health to offer limited blood tests for COVID-19 antibodies

  06-05-2020 18:12
  
  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.Two of Utah’s major hospital chains are starting to offer blood tests to check whether a patient has developed antibodies for COVID-19.Intermountain Healthcare announced Tuesday that its doctors will begin offering the blood tests,
  
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• Coronavirus crisis exacts toll on people with disabilities

  06-05-2020 18:12
  
  Salt Lake City • Even before the coronavirus hit, cystic fibrosis meant a cold could put Jacob Hansen in the hospital for weeks. He relies on hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes to stay healthy because he also has cerebral palsy and can’t easily wash his hands from his wheelchair, but these days shelves are often bare.For millions of disabled people and their families, the coronavirus crisis has piled on new difficulties and ramped up those that already existed. Many are immunocompr
  
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• Utah State’s Sam Merrill working towards NBA Draft, which may not take place as scheduled

  06-05-2020 17:58
  
  Sam Merrill has frequent access to a gymnasium in Lindon. A friend in Farmington also has gym access for him, so as far as basketball workouts go, the two-time All-Mountain West first-team selection has that covered in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.Merrill has not been able to consistently get into a weight room, so that end of things is tougher. At his parents’ home in Bountiful, Merrill has a couple of dumbbells, a couple of kettlebells, a jump rope. As Merrill prepares for the NBA
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 6: Murray liquor store reopens; 2 Utah County businesses ignore guidelines, resulting in 68 cases of COVID-19.

  06-05-2020 17:43
  
  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 Wednesday, May 6. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---9:40 a.m.: Murray liquor store has reopenedAll of Utah’s state-run liqu
  
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• How face masks are spurring battles on Utah’s front lines

  06-05-2020 16:29
  
  When Amy and Will Wilson decided to require — not just encourage — face coverings while shopping inside their Cottonwood Heights butcher shop, they got a few angry responses from customers who attempted to explain why most masks are ineffective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus.The owners of Snider Bros. Meats didn’t step away from the heat, though, because face coverings were one of the measures that employees said would make them feel safer at work.Several of the 18
  
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• Salt Lake Police searching for a driver who struck a pedestrian, then drove away

  06-05-2020 15:58
  
  Salt Lake City Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck and critically injured a pedestrian on Tuesday night.Police were called to the scene, between 700 and 800 South on State Street, about 11 p.m. The victim, whose name has not been released, was transported to the University of Utah Hospital in critical condition.The victim was not in a crosswalk, police said. The car, which is believed to have been speeding, struck him and continued north on State Street.According to police, wi
  
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• Military spending millions to buy up — and preserve — land around Utah’s Camp Williams

  06-05-2020 15:00
  
  Not long after Mormon pioneers settled in the Salt Lake Valley in the 1840s and ′50s, the U.S. Army sent troops to Utah to assert control over the territory recently acquired from Mexico.The soldiers honed their shooting and artillery skills 30 miles south of Salt Lake City in the West Traverse hills, terrain that later became Camp Williams, straddling the line between Salt Lake and Utah counties. For decades, this area was comfortably far from homes and businesses as Camp Williams’
  
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• ‘Keep us safe while we try to keep people fed’: Face masks are spurring battles on Utah’s front lines

  06-05-2020 15:00
  
  When Amy and Will Wilson decided to require — not just encourage — face coverings while shopping inside their Cottonwood Heights butcher shop, they got a few angry responses from customers who attempted to explain why most masks are ineffective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus.The owners of Snider Bros. Meats didn’t step away from the heat, though, because face coverings were one of the measures that employees said would make them feel safer at work.Several of the 18
  
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• Lawsuit challenges Utah’s unique rule — private investigators must live in the state

  06-05-2020 14:12
  
  When Jeremy Barnes and his family decided to move from Washington to a small Idaho town that borders Utah, the former police officer thought it was his chance to change careers.He wanted to be his own boss. Start a business.Barnes wants to be a private investigator, but there aren’t many potential clients near his new home in Franklin, a rural area that’s home to fewer than 1,000 people.He could get some business from Preston, but he hoped most of his clientele would live in Utah &md
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah should have hit pause on Banjo even before we learned of its CEO’s ties to white supremacists

  06-05-2020 14:00
  
  Given how much information Banjo, the gigantic data-sucking company, had access to, they should have seen it coming.The rest of us were surprised to learn, however, that the founder and CEO of the company, Damien Patton had, as a teenager, fraternized with white supremacist organizations and even acted as the getaway driver in the shooting of a synagogue.Even though Patton’s statement in reaction to the news stories seemed remarkably contrite and apologetic, it’s not a good look for
  
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• Letter: There are ways out of Utah

  06-05-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ivan Weber,Regarding your written public confession of a 50-year colossal error in personal judgment (“After 50 years in Utah, all I can say is, ‘My mistake,’” Tribune, May 2) may I offer a workable remedy?For your immediate benefit there exist two interstate highways exiting Utah in all four compass directions. They are open 24/7 and will provide you a means of swift, stealth departure from your torturous experiences amongst the True Believer population of Utah.As a
  
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• Letter: About those transcripts

  06-05-2020 14:00
  
  The man currently impersonating a president has recently suggested that ingesting certain disinfectants might destroy the coronavirus. No wonder he has taken steps to prevent the release of his college transcripts.Steve Wills, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Isaac Reese: University of Utah must sever all ties with Banjo surveillance

  06-05-2020 13:00
  
  The University of Utah has recently suspended its relationship with the Utah surveillance tech company, Banjo, which was founded and led by a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.Banjo has been collecting data and conducting mass surveillance on Utahns across the state including on the University of Utah’s campus. I am a student at the U. and I am concerned about the data has been shared with Banjo by the university. This is a fundamental breach of trust and safety as I was unaware, like most
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 5: State offers hand sanitizer, masks to small businesses; Stadium of Fire concert, but not fireworks, canceled

  06-05-2020 06:44
  
  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.]---8:50 p.m.: Provo’s Stadium of Fire concert is canceled, but July 4 firewo
  
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• Reed Galen: Rage-tweeting is not what we need from our president

  06-05-2020 05:00
  
  Around 1 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday, President Donald Trump tweeted four times about The Lincoln Project, a group of which I am a founder. Our crime, producing an ad called “Mourning in America,” produced in the style of a commercial of a similar name dating back to Ronald Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign.The ad is not uplifting. It does not predict a better future for Americans. In fact, it asserts that another four years of Donald Trump in the White House would spell the end
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 5: Utah reports six new deaths; Stadium of Fire concert, but not fireworks, canceled

  06-05-2020 04:50
  
  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.]---8:50 p.m.: Provo’s Stadium of Fire concert is canceled, but July 4 firewo
  
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• Amid pandemic turmoil, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall introduces first budget

  06-05-2020 04:49
  
  When Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall took office this year, the city was looking at a surplus. What a difference a pandemic makes.A highly contagious virus that has forced businesses to close coupled with a wave of damaging earthquakes means Mendenhall’s administration needed to do some creative rethinking of the proposed budget, which she presented to City Council members in a virtual meeting Tuesday night.“At the start of the last fiscal year our state as a whole was going on
  
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• Denver Broncos QB Drew Lock excited about John Elway’s endorsement, offensive makeover

  06-05-2020 04:48
  
  At least in one sense it’s been an ideal offseason for Drew Lock.Broncos GM John Elway declared the second-year passer his established starter. Then, he went out and added old hands and fast feet in the kind of offensive makeover quarterbacks ordinarily can only dream about.“I’m super pumped about the guys we’ve added,” Lock said Tuesday in a Zoom call from his parents’ home in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, where he’s been staying and training during the
  
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• Justice Ginsburg in hospital with infection, court says

  06-05-2020 04:08
  
  Washington • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Tuesday with an infection caused by a gallstone, but plans to take part in the court’s arguments by telephone Wednesday, the Supreme Court said.The 87-year-old justice underwent non-surgical treatment for what the court described as acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.She is resting comfortably and expects to be in the hospital for a day or two, the court said.Ginsburg too
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney tells fellow GOP senators Congress may need to help states, local governments with coronavirus-related costs

  06-05-2020 03:44
  
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney carried a large poster into the Republican caucus meeting on Tuesday showing a bar graph with the headline, “Blue states aren’t the only ones who are screwed.”The graphic, pulled from the online news outlet Slate, showed states with big shortfalls in revenue because of the coronavirus outbreak, including drops of 32.4% in Louisiana — which topped the list — 21.3% in Missouri and 19.5% in Florida, all led by GOP governors.Romney's p
  
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• Amid pandemic turmoil, Mendenhall introduces first budget

  06-05-2020 03:35
  
  When Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall took office this year, the city was looking at a surplus. What a difference a pandemic makes.A highly contagious virus that has forced businesses to close coupled with a wave of damaging earthquakes means Mendenhall’s administration needed to do some creative rethinking of the proposed budget, which she presented to City Council members in a virtual meeting Tuesday night.“At the start of the last fiscal year our state as a whole was going on
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 5: Utah reports six new deaths; state offers masks, hand sanitizer to small businesses

  06-05-2020 03:23
  
  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 Tuesday, May 5. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---7:23 p.m.: Utah offers masks, hand sanitizer to small businesses trying to reop
  
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• Rich Lowry: Extremism in pursuit of lockdowns is a vice

  06-05-2020 03:00
  
  We will be in a fight against the coronavirus for months, if not years, and yet it is time to declare mission accomplished on one very important goal.The lockdowns of much of the country were undertaken "to flatten the curve" and largely to prevent the hospital system from being overwhelmed. It was a near-run thing in New York and New Jersey, but the dykes held, thanks to the incredible sacrifices of front-line health care workers.Now, the rhetoric around the shutdowns has shifted, and not very
  
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• Utah lawmaker says state ‘overreacted,’ driven by coronavirus panic and fear; calls for full reopening of the state

  06-05-2020 02:32
  
  A Utah lawmaker says the state government needs to admit it “overreacted” about the coronavirus and move to completely reopen the economy.Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, argued in a lengthy Facebook post Monday that the response to the pandemic has been driven by media reports and panic — not by data.“It’s time to stop closing businesses and putting undue regulations and restrictions on our citizens,” he said.Ray, a COVID-19 Community Task Force member, noted in
  
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• George Pyle: Judge people, and nations, by how they treat the waitress

  06-05-2020 01:20
  
  The next time you go on a job interview — a real one, not Zoom — make sure the person interviewing you takes you out to eat.Breakfast, lunch, brunch or dinner. It doesn’t matter. The point is not just to get a free meal out of it, though that has proved motivation enough for me over the years. The idea is to see how your potential new boss treats the wait staff. If the person conducting the interview is rude or condescending to the waiter or waitress, they are poison and you do
  
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• Trump tours, touts mask factory — but no mask for him

  06-05-2020 01:09
  
  Phoenix • Making himself Exhibit A for reopening the country, President Donald Trump visited an Arizona face mask factory Tuesday, using the trip to demonstrate his determination to see an easing of stay-at-home orders even as the coronavirus remains a dire threat. Trump did not wear a mask despite guidelines saying they should be worn inside the factory at all times.“The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. We have to open,” Trump declared as he left Wa
  
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• New data shows how much cleaner Utah’s air is during the pandemic. Will it drive future decisions?

  06-05-2020 01:03
  
  It’s no surprise that Wasatch Front air is cleaner in the nearly two months since the coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on most driving.Now, for the first time, University of Utah researchers have quantified just how much clearer the air is, according to data released Tuesday, and offered a glimpse at how Salt Lake County residents could tidy up their airshed by steering away from driving or switching to low-emission vehicles.U. researchers crunched air monitoring data gathered during th
  
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