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• Three more Utahns die of coronavirus, but governor is optimistic about easing more restrictions soon

  07-05-2020 23:42
  
  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. Utah reported three more coronavirus deaths, along with increases in hospitalizations and cases on Thursday, but officials remain optimistic about the state’s trajectory in combating the disease and have released new data to expla
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: An Abuse of Justice

  07-05-2020 23:39
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, May 8, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/06/bagley-cartoon-aliens/" target=_blank><u>Aliens Among Us</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/05/bagley-cartoon-wall"><u>Wall Street Bubble</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/04/bagley-cartoon-cov
  
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• Gordon Monson: Two twin Utes tricked ex-Utah basketball coach Jim Boylen by switching identities. This is their story.

  07-05-2020 23:26
  
  What you’re about to read here is 100-percent true. At least the scoundrels who pulled this stunt off swear it is true. They wouldn’t … like, lie, would they?Matt LaFrance was scared, afraid former Utah and current Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen was going to kill him that day. Boylen would clutch him by the throat, he figured, shake him like a sock doll, and leave him in a sorry heap on the floor. It was in the minutes immediately after a Utes practice in the fall of 2007
  
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• Utah freeway traffic returns to near-normal as coronavirus restrictions ease

  07-05-2020 23:18
  
  Freeway traffic has returned to near-normal level in many areas — but not all — this past week as Utah loosened coronavirus restrictions to allow more businesses to open.“We’re seeing a return to closer to normal. I won’t say normal yet, especially in Salt Lake County,” where most of the state’s COVID-19 cases have been reported and residents may be more cautious, said Rob Wight, operations director for the Utah Department of Transportation.But elsewhere
  
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• Utah Museum of Fine Arts sends 1,500 ‘art kits’ to help students finish their school projects

  07-05-2020 23:09
  
  In a normal time, when a global pandemic hasn’t shut down schools and cultural venues, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts would have hundreds of schoolchildren visiting on field trips, admiring its art and learning the stories behind each work.This week, staffers at UMFA found a different way to connect with students during the coronavirus pandemic, by putting art supplies and inspiration inside a brown paper bag.UMFA is assembling and distributing 1,500 “art kits” to students in nee
  
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• Q&A: What will the future of travel look like?

  07-05-2020 22:59
  
  By every measure, the coronavirus pandemic has decimated the travel industry.The images of the world’s shutdown are eerie, the numbers are staggering. Approximately 100 million travel sector jobs, according to one global estimate, have been eliminated or will be. Passenger traffic on U.S. airlines is down 95% compared to last year, while international passenger revenues are expected to decrease by more than $300 billion. Domestic hotel occupancy rates fell off a cliff and now hover around
  
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• The science of Sundance: Digging into a theory the coronavirus was spreading early in Utah

  07-05-2020 22:51
  
  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. Have you noticed how many people think they’ve already had the coronavirus?It’s a common refrain in Facebook messages, among Salt Lake Tribune commenters and more: a significant number of people think that the bug they faced
  
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• Utah Jazz look to gain the upper hand in the NBA draft using technology and statistical modeling

  07-05-2020 22:32
  
  Dennis Lindsey, executive vice president of basketball operations for the Utah Jazz, said the team will miss having as many NBA draft prospects come to Utah in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, but “what we’ve been doing is what we always do. I’ve been spending a lot of time in video and statistical work.” | Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — In an unprecedented time, NBA executives are hard at work preparing for a draft with an unknown date.
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• BYU looking at a wide array of options for playing the 2020 football season, including independent, regional schedules

  07-05-2020 22:32
  
  COVID-19 has canceled or postponed a multitude of events, celebrations and gatherings since being named a pandemic in mid-March. More than half of states, including Utah, have reopened, with a few more states planning to start up the economy again soon.However, the pandemic is far from over.Utah’s state epidemiologist is actually expecting a second wave of the coronavirus to hit this fall, when the number in cases will coincide with the flu season. Both are viruses and spread in the same w
  
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• Stephan Seabury: Teachers must get involved in the legislative process

  07-05-2020 22:00
  
  We as educators are in the middle of the new now which, in reality, will impact our near future.Schools nationwide have closed, affecting millions of students nationally and hundreds of thousands here in Utah. In the wake of this, our initial goals were centered around how to support our students and ourselves as we learned and taught online.Naturally, as we continue through the last month of school, we must maintain that focus and help our students through this unique experience. But, at the sa
  
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• Despite coronavirus, antler hunters descend on Jackson Hole

  07-05-2020 22:00
  
  Jackson, Wyo. • Alta resident Gill Kushman had good company Friday morning as he combed over the Bridger-Teton National Forest on horseback, trying to stay lawful by letting valuable elk antlers lie where they may.“It was terrible,” Kushman said. “We rode past like dozens of horns.”Trying to do the right thing came back to bite. Invariably the antlers he had eyed disappeared, courtesy of less lawful shed hunters who scoffed at a new regulation requiring them to wait
  
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• Gordon Monson: Two twin Ute basketball players tricked ex-coach Jim Boylen by switching identities. This is their story.

  07-05-2020 21:30
  
  What you’re about to read here is 100-percent true. At least the scoundrels who pulled this stunt off swear it is true. They wouldn’t … like, lie, would they?Matt LaFrance was scared, afraid former Utah and current Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen was going to kill him that day. Boylen would clutch him by the throat, he figured, shake him like a sock doll, and leave him in a sorry heap on the floor. It was in the minutes immediately after a Utes practice in the fall of 2007
  
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• What is the real coronavirus toll in each state?

  07-05-2020 20:52
  
  As the coronavirus pandemic cuts through the country, it is leaving behind large numbers of deaths that surpass those of recent history. A New York Times analysis of state data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how many lives are being lost in the pandemic in each place — as the virus kills some people directly, and other lives are lost to an overwhelmed health care system and fears about using it.Our analysis examines deaths from all causes, beginning in mid-M
  
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• New Ogden’s Own Distillery will boost vodka and whiskey production tenfold

  07-05-2020 20:32
  
  Ogden’s Own Distillery, the makers of Five Wives Vodka and Porter’s Whiskey, has opened its new distillery, allowing for a tenfold boost in production.“We’ve evolved from a two-person startup conceived on a hope and a prayer a decade ago to a multimillion-dollar operation,” President Steve Conlin said in a statement, “and with that has come a sense of responsibility to both serve and reinvest in our local community that helped us get here.”The new facili
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Gov. Gary Herbert says legitimate questions raised on contracts; three more die

  07-05-2020 20:21
  
  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 Thursday, May 7. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---12 p.m.: Three more Utahns die of the virus; 95 people are currently hospitali
  
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• Carrie Gold: Online education can be the key to better learning

  07-05-2020 20:21
  
  During a Costco run the other day, I looked around and noticed that, even though it was noon on a weekday, many customers were paired up with their school-age children. It was a reminder of how one of the most dramatic changes to our daily life caused by coronavirus happened when our children were sent home and school moved online.Watching my stepdaughters study at home, I’ve been impressed with their public school teachers who have risen to this challenge. It’s proving something: On
  
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• University of Utah terminates its contract with Banjo

  07-05-2020 20:20
  
  The University of Utah will officially stop doing business with Banjo by the end of the month.In a letter sent to the surveillance company, the U.'s chief safety officer demanded the return of all documents and data sent to Banjo.The university was part of a July 2019 state contract with the firm that was facilitated by the Attorney General’s Office. State agencies and local governments quickly began suspending business with Banjo when news emerged last week that the company’s CEO, D
  
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• The ‘Big One’ still likely because Magna quake didn’t relieve much stress on Wasatch fault lines

  07-05-2020 20:13
  
  The magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck Magna in March didn’t relieve much stress on the fault lines running along the Wasatch Front and a major temblor — the Big One — is still expected in the future, a seismologist told a state committee on Thursday.“There’s still a lot of strain and there’s still a lot of energy waiting there on the fault that can be released,” said Keith Koper, director of the University of Utah’s Seismograph Stations and a pr
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Gov. Gary Herbert feels optimistic, says Utah has nation’s lowest death rate

  07-05-2020 19:43
  
  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 Thursday, May 7. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---11:35 a.m.: Governor praises Utah’s low death rateGov. Gary Herbert open
  
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• Utah economists expect a tough summer before a winter recovery, as 9,000 more file for unemployment

  07-05-2020 19:00
  
  Another 9,057 Utahns filed for unemployment last week, the lowest figure since mid-March when the pandemic really began roiling the economy but still high in historic terms.Those residents joined roughly 3.2 million across the country in seeking help for lost work for the week ending May 2. And in the past seven weeks more than 33 million Americans have filed for unemployment thus far in the health crisis, the Department of Labor reported Thursday.Utah economists say this is likely an undercount
  
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• Nearly half of men say they do most of the home schooling. 3% of women agree.

  07-05-2020 18:52
  
  Home schooling, the new parental chore brought about by coronavirus lockdowns, is being handled disproportionately by women, according to a new poll by Morning Consult for The New York Times. Fathers don’t necessarily agree — nearly half of those with children under 12 report spending more time on it than their spouse — but just 3% of women say their spouse is doing more. Eighty percent of mothers say they spend more time on it.There is also more of the usual housework and chil
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Harvard says 9 states have the testing capacity to consider reopening — Utah is one of them

  07-05-2020 18:32
  
  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 Thursday, May 7. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---10:30 a.m.: Utah one of nine states with testing capacity to start reopeningRe
  
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• For workers, no sign of ‘what normal is going to look like’

  07-05-2020 18:09
  
  Layoffs continue to tear through the country, enveloping more industries even as states take tentative steps toward reopening the economy, with the government reporting on Thursday that an additional 3.2 million jobless claims were filed last week.The weekly tallies have declined since reaching a peak of 6.9 million claims in late March, but the numbers are still stupefying: more than 33 million people have joined the unemployment rolls in seven weeks. In many states, more than a quarter of the
  
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• Trailblazing German soccer restart faces numerous risks

  07-05-2020 18:05
  
  Dusseldorf, Germany • When the German Bundesliga restarts on May 16 in empty stadiums, it will blaze a trail for other leagues shut down by the coronavirus.The English Premier League, Serie A and La Liga will all be watching closely as the German competition faces risk factors which could lead to more disruption or another shutdown. The German league says its plans minimize the risk from the virus. However, it's aware it needs to remain alert to finish the season in June as planned."Every g
  
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• U.S. shelves detailed guide to reopening country amid the coronavirus pandemic

  07-05-2020 17:58
  
  Gainseville, Fla. • The Trump administration has shelved a document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging coronavirus outbreak.The 17-page report by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team, titled “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework,” was researched and written to help faith leaders, business
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Another 9,000 Utahns file for unemployment; farmers kick off campaign.

  07-05-2020 17:01
  
  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 Thursday, May 7. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---9 a.m.: Campaign helps Utah farmers stay in business while helping feed famili
  
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• U.S. shelves detailed guide to reopening country

  07-05-2020 16:48
  
  Gainseville, Fla. • The Trump administration has shelved a document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging coronavirus outbreak.The 17-page report by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team, titled “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework,” was researched and written to help faith leaders, business
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Remembering faces of the flu a century ago. Nelson looks to ‘wonderful days.’ Kate Kelly on her blessed excommunication.

  07-05-2020 16:48
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Faces of the flu
  (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress) Nurses are seen at Red Cross influenza center in Salt Lake City during the 1919 outbreak. (Library of Congress; The Crowley Company/)With the world in the gri
  
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• 11 Utah Latter-day Saint temples to reopen Monday, but only for husband-wife sealings

  07-05-2020 16:37
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints soon will be back in the temple marriage business in Utah, Idaho, Sweden and Germany — albeit with extreme restrictions due to the coronavirus.Beginning Monday, brides and grooms can be wed — in Mormon parlance, “sealed” — in one of 11 temples in the Beehive State, one of three in Idaho, one of two in Germany or the one in Stockholm.Both parties in the couple must already have gone through temple a ritual known as the
  
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• In reversal, Trump says coronavirus task force to stay but evolve

  07-05-2020 16:07
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force, attempting to balance his enthusiasm for “reopening” the country with rising infection rates in parts of the nation.The indecision on the fate of the expert panel was emblematic of an administration — and a country — struggling with competing priorities of averting more death and more economic suffering. Trump appears focused on persuading Americans to accept the price
  
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• Two teenagers missing on Utah Lake

  07-05-2020 15:32
  
  The search for two teenagers missing on Utah Lake resumed Thursday morning, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.Family members reported the 17- and 18-year-old girls missing Wednesday evening. According to police, the teens had gone to the Knolls area on the west side of Utah Lake late that afternoon. Items believed to belong to the two — including tubes they are believed to have been floating on — were found along the shoreline, but authorities were unable to locate
  
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• Letter: Blame the banks, not the SBA

  07-05-2020 15:11
  
  I would like to propose an adjustment on the political cartoon by John Cole in the May 2 Salt Lake Tribune.The adjustment would be to change the referee from the Small Business Administration to banks.The banks are the institutions that first receive the loan applications, approve the applications and then forward the applications to the SBA for their approval. The SBA doesn't have the money to directly give to the applicants. It goes through the banks.As a retired SBA employee, I am sure some o
  
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• Letter: Online learning is not a switch

  07-05-2020 15:10
  
  In a letter to the editor, Kathy Hathaway writes that she feels blessed that her son is being educated in an online school (“Online school can be a blessing,” April 30).I am a teacher, and I want Hathaway to know that I am truly glad that she found an educational solution that works for her son; that is what all teachers hope for all children. However, it works for her son now without a hitch because the school is full-time online. That school has developed over time the materials, t
  
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• Letter: Trump doesn’t understand what he doesn’t understand

  07-05-2020 15:07
  
  First of all, understand that I am not being sarcastic. The topic is the way our president so often lies in so many ways, and then gets so mad at anyone who gets upset at his lies, or who has the nerve to think that he has lied in the first place.I haven’t been able to find anything about how he performed in K-12 schooling, other than he attended the Kew-Forest School in Queens until, at the age of 13, due to behavior problems, he had to leave that school and was enrolled in the New York M
  
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• Letter: Now, do clean air

  07-05-2020 15:07
  
  Ben Abbott’s recent op-ed in The Tribune highlighted the importance of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day for our fight against pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic (“Earth Day at 50 has never been so relevant,” April 21). I thank him for his wisdom and the reminder that pollution kills 15.1 million people a year, a statistic much greater than the worst projections for COVID-19.I know that pollution is a very important issue for us Utahns, most Utahans rank concern for air qualit
  
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• Letter: Trump and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

  07-05-2020 15:06
  
  When I heard President Trump asking doctors about disinfectants and UV light, I was horrified, like many others.What I heard in the media following was disappointing. On the left, guests and pundits assailed the president for "encouraging" people to go inject themselves with bleach. On the right, Trump was given a pass. "That's just who he is." “He was spit-balling."To be clear, he did not encourage anyone to consume or inject anything. He asked doctors to look into those things as potenti
  
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• Letter: Teacher Appreciation Week

  07-05-2020 15:06
  
  This year, our family is celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week with renewed excitement.Teachers are heroes and give kids like our son, Daniel, the support and structure he needs to succeed in virtual learning.Daniel’s a kindergartener at Utah Virtual Academy (UTVA) and has thrived under the guidance of teachers like Charity Hinton.We worried he would be distracted in a traditional brick-and-mortar academic environment, and Ms. Hinton is a big part of the reason his enrollment in virtual sc
  
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• Census Bureau asks Utahns with P.O. boxes to wait before filling out online questionnaire

  07-05-2020 15:05
  
  Utahns who live in rural areas and use post office boxes for mail delivery are being asked to wait to fill out the 2020 census questionnaire until paper packets arrive at their homes.Most of the 88,600 households in Utah that lack home mail delivery will be visited by a census worker in the next four weeks now that field operations have resumed in the state, according to Cathy L. Lacy, director of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Denver Regional Office and Dallas Regional Census Center.“Utah
  
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• Start the movie! Redwood Drive In is open, with COVID-19 safety precautions in place

  07-05-2020 15:04
  
  After a false start, the Redwood Drive In is open for business — the first movie theater in Salt Lake County to open since the lifting of safety restrictions put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.The drive-in, at 3688 Redwood Road in West Valley City, started double features at four screens last Friday. And this Friday, the theater will open two movies that have yet to show on local screens: A horror thriller, “The Wretched,” and a musical remake of the 1980s cult cl
  
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• AmeriCorps members came to San Juan County to build trails. They ended up delivering food.

  07-05-2020 15:04
  
  Vanessa Fron had never been to Utah before she arrived in Monticello on March 17. She’d been hired through an UServeUtah AmeriCorps program to lead youth conservation crews with the Canyon Country Discovery Center this summer, removing invasive species and performing trail maintenance on public lands.But just as the leader training program was supposed to kick off, the country was closing down.“You’re driving west into a more and more rural landscape while you’re learning
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Another 9,000 Utahns file for unemployment

  07-05-2020 15:02
  
  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 Thursday, May 7. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---6:50 a.m.: Historically high unemployment filings are unrelentingAnother 9,057
  
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• Robert Gehrke: These Utah leaders need to stop undermining our public safety and get on board with our coronavirus plan

  07-05-2020 15:00
  
  Leadership — real leadership — is about making the right choices, especially when they’re unpopular.There have been two remarkable features of Utah’s COVID-19 response. First, how effective it has been, thanks in part to the second feature, how the vast majority of our leaders, whether they’re in government, religions, community or business, have been focused on a unified purpose, made hard choices and spoken with one voice.The goals articulated from the outset have
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Are we all in this together?

  07-05-2020 15:00
  
  We’re all in this thing together.Or so we are told by celebrities, politicians and every third TV commercial. It's the lullaby with which America soothes itself every time these shores are attacked. That's why Monday, Dec. 8, 1941, saw long lines at military recruiting offices and millions of dollars pouring in to the American Red Cross. Because Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Because we were all in this thing together.But we weren’t, a point driven home just two years later when rioti
  
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• Letter: The Trumpian era of magical thinking

  07-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Trumpian era of magical thinking — anti-science, anti-truth, anti-logic — all bespeaks the age of lies to seduce the uniformed and conspiracy theorists and perverse politics.Now we have a major crisis being impacted by powerful people, like the president and Vice President Mike Pence, as they degrade medical science with arrogance, lies and fantasy. We need scientific solutions to limit the spread of the coronavirus. It’s all very mystifying.Pence avoids wearing an obligato
  
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• Letter: Science moves too slowly to address COVID-19

  07-05-2020 14:00
  
  In a letter published April 28, Andrew Kramer admonishes us to “Follow the experts on COVID-19”. A similar phrase I hear going around is “trust in the science.”As someone dedicated to discovering truth through the scientific method, I find little meaning in either of these phrases.First, there is very little consensus among experts about SARS-CoV-2. The extent of infections within the population, the date the virus arrived in the U.S., and the lethality of COVID-19 are al
  
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• Letter: Many conservatives loathe Trump

  07-05-2020 14:00
  
  George Pyle’s April 19 column about getting hate email from both ends of the ideological spectrum was excellent. I agree that ideological balance and representation in the media contributes to a better-informed citizenry.The letter writer who claimed that half of The Salt Lake Tribune’s readership consists of conservatives who approve of Trump seems to believe that conservatism and positive opinions of Trump are synonymous. That is untrue.As Pyle noted, many prominent conservatives a
  
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• Letter: Lose the ideological blinders

  07-05-2020 14:00
  
  Recent Public Forum contributors Paul Sharp and David Haughey, both of whom blame Democrats for fomenting hatred (presumably in criticisms of Donald Trump), need to take off their ideological blinders and recognize that it is, of course, Trump himself who, through his ongoing attacks on the Chinese, on Muslims, on Mexicans, on NATO, on WHO, and any other individual or group he sees as the enemy, that has created this environment of hatred.In fact, most of Trump's political messaging is angry and
  
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• Letter: Climate change is like COVID-19

  07-05-2020 14:00
  
  Did you know climate change and COVID-19 share a number of similarities? Certainly both are bringing unwanted changes to our communities.As we watch pandemic statistics, we see the deadly impact on families of COVID-19. Our daily routines have disappeared and we're reassessing our lifestyles, wondering when we can emerge from our homes. Individuals, businesses and countries question if and how they will survive these unprecedented financial challenges.Damage to the climate has similar characteri
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Make America Immune Again

  07-05-2020 04:00
  
  If Joe Biden is looking for a bumper sticker for his campaign against Donald Trump, I’d suggest this one: “Make America Immune Again.”This pandemic has both exposed and exacerbated the fact that over the last 20 years we as a country have weakened so many sources of our strength. We’ve simultaneously eroded our cognitive, ecological, economic, social, governance, public health and personal health immune systems — all the sources of resilience we need to get through
  
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• Utah Jazz offer refund to season ticket holders for remainder of 2019-2020 season

  07-05-2020 03:50
  
  The Utah Jazz on Wednesday laid out how season ticket holders can have the opportunity to be refunded or receive credit for postponed games. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Despite continued optimism from the NBA that the season will resume, the Utah Jazz are offering season ticket holders a number of credit and refund options for the remaining 10 home games of the 2019-20 regular season.On Wednesday, the Jazz sent an email to season ticket holders saying the NBA has al
  
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