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• Tribune Editorial: We are all guinea pigs now

  09-05-2020 23:00
  
  We are all guinea pigs now.We have no choice. We have signed no informed consent forms and have no opportunity to say we aren’t comfortable having our lives subject to two inescapably intertwined global experiments — one in biology and another in economics.But, like even the most lowly lab rat, each of us has some choice in which path to take through the maze.With people at the top worried about the economy and people at the bottom suffering from, at best, cabin fever, pressure on go
  
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• NBA ‘bubble’ concept: How it would work and the questions that still remain

  09-05-2020 22:26
  
  The road to the entrance of Walt Disney World has few cars Monday, March 16, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The Magic Kingdom, Epcot and Hollywood Studios were closed along with other theme parks around the state to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/John Raoux) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — It’s been nearly two months since the NBA suspended its season because of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s looking like it could be at least another couple of months before we p
  
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• Colorado shooting victim now focused on helping others

  09-05-2020 21:53
  
  Denver • Josh Jones sometimes reaches down to feel the scars on his legs, the skin still slightly numb to his touch.It’s the physical reminder of when Jones, then a high school senior, was shot twice in his English class on May 7, 2019, after leaping from his desk to disarm a classmate threatening to open fire, The Denver Post reported.Jones says he doesn’t think about the shooting inside the STEM School Highlands Ranch all that often. But when he runs his fingers over those sca
  
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• Neemias Queta’s return to Utah State has the Aggies thinking about a third Mountain West title

  09-05-2020 21:12
  
  Justin Bean wasn’t sure what Neemias Queta was going to do.The Utah State men’s basketball season was cut short after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the NCAA Tournament’s cancellation. Sam Merrill, Abel Porter and Diogo Brito were gone. Queta, who had already declared for the NBA Draft the summer before, was thought to be mulling that option again after another good season with the Aggies.But then Bean saw the news come across Twitter — Queta was returning for his junior se
  
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• Jack Connelly and Jim Sedinger: Will science or politics guide the future of greater sage grouse?

  09-05-2020 20:00
  
  Scientists have spent decades studying greater sage grouse, creating a compelling body of scientific information that can be used to responsibly manage sage-grouse populations and habitats.Sadly, critically important information is being ignored by current Bureau of Land Management leadership as sage-grouse populations and habitat continue to decline. Many natural resource experts are concerned — and here’s why.In 2010, the range-wide greater sage grouse population was considered war
  
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• Small tribes seal borders, push testing to keep out virus

  09-05-2020 19:51
  
  Picuris Pueblo, N.M. • On a dusty plaza in a Native American village that dates back nearly a millennium, a steady trickle of vehicles inched through a pop-up coronavirus testing site.From the bed of a pickup truck and backseats of cars, wide-eyed children stared from behind hand-sewn masks and then sobbed as testing crews in hospital gowns swabbed their noses. The workers packed the samples into a plastic travel cooler for a return trip past the tribe's guarded roadblock to a state lab.The
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah, BYU, Utah State football players deserve the right to an NFL dream, and a way back if their dream is folly

  09-05-2020 19:48
  
  The percentage of college football players who are absolutely convinced they’re one day going pro is remarkably high, even among scrubs with little or no shot. The dreams blow deep into double-digits, the reality is a shallow fraction of that.And that’s one of the reasons why Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s ideas for those players — the way they are treated by the NFL and college football — need to be heard. The rules need to change, not unlike the way the NBA and col
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, May 9: Five more Utahns die from COVID-19, bringing state’s death toll to 66

  09-05-2020 19:12
  
  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 Saturday, May 9. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:10 a.m.: Five more Utahns die from COVID-19, bringing state’s death toll
  
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• The State Room holds a poster auction, selling 11 years of music memorabilia

  09-05-2020 19:00
  
  Fans of live music still have to wait to go to concerts, as the reopening of coronavirus-impacted businesses rolls out slowly across Utah — but until then, they can revel in memories of shows past.The folks who own two of Salt Lake City’s popular concert venues, The State Room and The Commonwealth Room, are catering to those fans — and raising some money to fill in the revenue gap caused by the closures — with an online poster auction, starting Monday.“The wheel has
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 119 new coronavirus cases

  09-05-2020 17:58
  
  Window Rock, N.M. • The Navajo Nation’s health department is reporting 119 new cases of COVID-19 and a total of 96 deaths as of Friday.The tribe says there have been 2,876 confirmed cases so far. Most of them are in McKinley County in New Mexico and Apache County in Arizona.Residents on the reservation are under a weekend lockdown that begins Friday night and ends Monday morning around dawn.Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and others on Friday distributed food, water and other sup
  
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• Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus at 75

  09-05-2020 17:52
  
  Las Vegas • Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act’s famed white tigers, has died. He was 75.Horn died of complications from the coronavirus on Friday in a Las Vegas hospital, according to a statement released by publicist Dave Kirvin.“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher said in the state
  
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• Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87

  09-05-2020 17:05
  
  Nashville • Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died Saturday. He was 87.Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard's, told The Associated Press that Little Richard died Saturday morning. Minson said he also spoke to Little Richard's son and brother.Minson added that the family is not
  
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• Carmen Valdez: This era is not the ‘great equalizer.’ But it is the time for great change.

  09-05-2020 17:00
  
  Recent global and local data have shown how drastically emissions have dropped as more people are staying home due to COVID-19.While some have celebrated this cleaner air, environmental groups like the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL Utah) believe that these celebrations are premature and oversimplify an intricate topic. However, by recognizing what makes this issue complicated, important lessons may be learned.The decrease in emissions stems primarily from reduced commuting. For some
  
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• As Utah’s national parks reopen, visitors should brace for a ‘new normal’

  09-05-2020 16:55
  
  Bryce Canyon National Park • With the coronavirus still in full swing, the National Park Service is testing public access at several parks across the nation, including two in southern Utah, with limited offerings and services. Visitor centers, campgrounds, ranger programs, concessions remain largely shuttered at Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef, but visitors are welcome at some of the sites overlooking redrock wonderlands.“I felt like they did it right here because if they opened all the
  
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• Acting National Park Service director talks about what to expect in Utah and why it will vary from park to park

  09-05-2020 16:55
  
  It may go without saying, but acting National Park Service Director David Vela said it anyway:The safety of park visitors and staffers is the top priority as the park service enters a daunting new era.At the direction of the White House, the Interior Department is increasing recreational access at national parks, monuments and other sites as quickly and safely as possible, Vela said Friday in an interview.To that end, the agency has developed guidelines and a risk assessment matrix with help fro
  
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• Charlie Warzel: Is the cure for COVID-19 in the Rocky Mountains?

  09-05-2020 14:03
  
  Hamilton, Mont. • It’s entirely possible that the secret to understanding — perhaps even vanquishing — the coronavirus rests in this quiet town of 5,000 nestled at the edge of the wilderness.Hamilton is home to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, run by the National Institutes of Health. Outside, the campus looks west toward the meandering tributaries of the Bitterroot River and panoramic views of the snow-capped Bitterroot Mountains. Inside, in a windowless, air-locked room, eli
  
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• New book: War against yellowface in the arts won a victory in Salt Lake City

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  Phil Chan is fighting racism in America, one ballet company at a time.The co-founder of the advocacy group Final Bow for Yellowface fought one of his bigger battles in Salt Lake City, helping Ballet West navigate reviving a 1925 ballet that included movements, steps and makeup that were undeniably racist by 21st century standards.The rather sticky process surrounding the Utah revival of George Balanchine’s “Le Chant du Rossignol” is detailed in Chan’s book “Final Bo
  
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• Letter: Why we need a nosy press

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  Well, I, too, am shocked, simply shocked, that Stephen C. Pace is so shocked that the state of Utah has again become embroiled in another cockup when it comes to spending public money.Had not an inquiry been made into plans to spend millions of dollars on unproven medicine, this cockup would have gone unnoticed and the entire kerfuffle would have gone off as planned.This state can’t do anything when it comes to public money that does not get messed up. Look at the prison. Way over budget.
  
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• Letter: Reason wins in Canada

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Canadians are so entirely reasonable.When it was made clear that assault weapons, created for the purpose of killing as many victims as possible in the shortest possible time, will be used for that purpose, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau banned the sale, import and transport of all of the variety of makes and models of such weapons in one decisive statement.Would that Americans had such wisdom.Louise Ewing, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Look how clean the air has become

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  Are we ready to ease stay-at-home restrictions? Will the coronavirus spread? This is a concern, of course, but there’s a bigger one tugging at my heart, my mind, lungs and my senses.Never in my adult life did I believe I would see Salt Lake City as beautiful, as clear, and as quiet as it has been since mid-March. Experiencing our city in its natural splendor has been the best part of my retreat from society.With fewer cars on the road, fewer planes in the sky and less industrial pollution,
  
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• Letter: Don’t tell me not to pet the rats

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  I heard today that people are upset with being told to wear masks before entering a store or business.Really?These must be the same people who, during the plague in Dark Ages, would have complained about being told not to pet the rats, while at the same time muttering, “What a blatant violation of our Magna Carta rights!”Jeff Clawson, M.D., Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Bad things happen when we aren’t looking

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  Thanks to The Salt Lake Tribune for its recent coverage of the TestUtah/Meds in Motion/Utah Legislature connection.What should have been a transparent process involving the Utah Legislature was anything but. How quickly bad things happen when there is a lack of transparency and public oversight.We've seen too many incidents of people profiting from the misery of others and government institutions working in the dark, enabled by the pandemic. It makes me wonder what else is happening that we're n
  
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• Letter: Agriculture secretary is ineffective and clueless

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  As I sat watching “60 Minutes” on May 4, I was amazed by two things. One, how totally unprepared both our federal and state governments were in dealing with the pandemic. Two, how totally unprepared individuals and families are, as well.Most striking was the segment on the Department of Agriculture. Over the last two years, the department has handed out over $25 billion to farmers. Ostensibly, this was to soften the effects of the president’s tariffs.The glitch here is that a l
  
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• Holly Richardson: Mother’s Day gifts for the burned out mom

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  Sunday is Mother’s Day and, this year, so many moms are exhausted from doing “all the things.” All. The. Things.So what can you give a burned out mom for Mother’s Day? I have some ideas.First of all, be proactive in training yourself to see the “invisible work” moms are engaged in everyday. It’s that behind-the-scenes orchestration that keeps life moving smoothly. Invisible work includes the constant mental juggling of making sure the household has enoug
  
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• Another Utah congressional candidate runs in a district where he does not live

  09-05-2020 14:00
  
  GOP congressional candidate Blake Moore will not vote for himself in the June 30 primary, nor will his wife. They can’t. They don’t live in the 1st District that he seeks to represent.It used to be almost unheard of for congressional candidates to run outside their home district. Before 2008, only two House members ever clearly lived outside the districts that elected them, neither from Utah.Since then, it’s become far less rare. Three Utahns have pulled it off: Republican Jaso
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: McDonald’s workers in Denmark pity us

  09-05-2020 06:00
  
  President Donald Trump thunders that Democrats are trying to drag America toward “socialism,” Vice President Mike Pence warns that Democrats aim to “impose socialism on the American people,” and even some Democrats warn against becoming, as one put it, “[expletive] Denmark.”So, before the coronavirus pandemic, I crept behind [expletive] Danish lines to explore: How scary is Denmark? How horrifying would it be if the United States took a step or two in the dire
  
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• Banjo CEO steps down after news of past KKK membership

  09-05-2020 05:16
  
  The CEO and founder of the Utah-based surveillance technology company Banjo resigned from his position on Friday, 10 days after news emerged that he’d been a member of white supremacist groups.Banjo announced Damien Patton’s departure in a blog post, saying the company’s chief technology officer, Justin R. Lindsey, would replace him.“I am confident Banjo’s greatest days are still ahead, and will do everything in my power to ensure our mission succeeds," Patton said
  
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• Here’s where all Utah’s hospitals and health departments get PPE

  09-05-2020 04:58
  
  Forklifts zoomed across the concrete floor, collecting wooden pallets stacked with plastic-wrapped cardboard boxes, all of them stuffed with the vital protective equipment that will be shipped to medical and emergency workers across the state.The operation takes place in a space too large to be called a room. It resembles a warehouse — a vast open space with concrete floors — until you see the concessions sign adhered to the wall and remember it is a convention center. The Salt Palac
  
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• Here’s where all Utah’s hospital and health departments get PPE

  09-05-2020 04:19
  
  Forklifts zoomed across the concrete floor, collecting wooden pallets stacked with plastic-wrapped cardboard boxes, all of them stuffed with the vital protective equipment that will be shipped to medical and emergency workers across the state.The operation takes place in a space too large to be called a room. It resembles a warehouse — a vast open space with concrete floors — until you see the concessions sign adhered to the wall and remember it is a convention center. The Salt Palac
  
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• Rich Lowry: Everyone deserves to live under the Biden standard

  09-05-2020 04:00
  
  Why should Joe Biden get due process, but not others accused of sexual misconduct?That’s the question raised by the progressive reaction to Tara Reade’s accusation against Biden on the one hand, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ new rules for handling sexual harassment cases on college campuses on the other.There have been voices on the left who believe Reade, but generally the note has been one of skepticism about her allegation, along with admonitions that the evidence mus
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Don’t shame those struggling in the lockdown

  09-05-2020 03:00
  
  An aphorism of online life goes: Every day, the internet picks a hero and a villain, and you hope that neither one is you.On Wednesday, the villain was a conservative editor named Bethany Mandel, who tweeted, in what I’m guessing was a moment of extremis, “You can call me a grandma killer. I’m not sacrificing my home, food on the table, all of our docs and dentists, every form of pleasure (museums, zoos, restaurants), all my kids’ teachers in order to make other people co
  
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• VP Pence’s press secretary tests positive for coronavirus

  09-05-2020 02:36
  
  Washington • Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said Friday, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.President Donald Trump, who publicly identified the affected Pence aide, said he was “not worried” about the virus spreading in the White House. Nonetheless, officials said they were stepping up safety protocols for the complex.Pence spokeswoman Katie Mille
  
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• NBA commissioner tells players to expect games without fans and a decision on the season to likely come in June

  09-05-2020 02:18
  
  Oklahoma City coach Billy Donovan meets with officials before an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz was postponed in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. | AP SALT LAKE CITY — On a conference call Friday afternoon, NBA commissioner Adam Silver told players to plan for games without fans until there is a vaccine for the coronavirus, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and the Athletic’s Shams Charania.
  With fans in buildings constituting 40 percent of league reve
  
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• Mobile testing units travel to Utah coronavirus hot spots

  09-05-2020 02:04
  
  In an effort to help address COVID-19 hot spots that have been identified in Utah County, the Intermountain Healthcare Coronavirus Mobile Testing Unit has been traveling to different locations to provide testing to residents. On Friday, the mobile unit was at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo, where health care workers administered tests to several people.For more coronavirus coverage, click here.
  
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• Ivy Farguheson: The risk of running while black or brown

  09-05-2020 02:00
  
  As I was running through Sugar House Park recently, I wondered if anyone had heard of what had happened to Ahmaud Arbery.Back in late February, Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was killed by two white men in Brunswick, Ga., men who thought he was a suspect in a crime. He was not, but that possibility did not cross their minds. This error caused a bullet to enter the body of the 25-year-old who was doing nothing more than what I do five days a week in Salt Lake City.When he told his mother he was
  
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• Extreme lockdown shows divide in hard-hit Navajo border town

  09-05-2020 01:38
  
  Gallup, N.M. • Like clockwork, payday arrives and tens of thousands of people from the Navajo reservation and other rural stretches along the New Mexico-Arizona border flood into Gallup, a freewheeling desert oasis of just 22,000 that can quickly quadruple in size with all the visitors.Not now.As the modern-day trading post reels under a coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 1,450 people and killed at least three dozen in the city and surrounding rural county — overrunning
  
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• No charges for family of boy who drove car onto highway

  09-05-2020 01:33
  
  The family of a 5-year-old boy who drove the family car onto a Utah highway won’t face criminal charges, authorities said Friday.His teenage sister was watching him while his parents worked, and he swiped the keys while she was asleep in hopes of traveling to California to buy a Lamborghini, officials said.Prosecutors reviewed the case, but didn't see any evidence of neglect, said Weber County Attorney Chris Allred.Adrian Zamarripa was pulled over Monday by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper wh
  
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• Bill Tibbitts: Utah must not allow people to be evicted for being sick during a pandemic

  09-05-2020 00:55
  
  There is a very serious risk that people in Utah who are sick with COVID-19 will receive an eviction notice on this coming Friday, May 15. This has not happened before now because Gov. Gary Herbert wisely chose to declare a 45-day statewide eviction moratorium on April 1.The goal of the moratorium was to give our state time to set up a pandemic rental assistance program using newly available federal funding. State officials are working tirelessly to get this program up and running statewide befo
  
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• NBA teams allowed to test asymptomatic players for COVID-19 in approved cities

  09-05-2020 00:42
  
  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addresses the media during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, April 29, 2014.| Kathy Willens, APSALT LAKE CITY — In areas where COVID-19 testing is readily available, NBA teams that are reopening practice facilities will be able to test asymptomatic players and staff, according to a report from ESPN.
  Teams in cities where restrictions allow for it are now able to open practice facilities for individual, voluntary workouts. In a previous memo sent to teams
  
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• Daryl Austin: If our recent trip to Hogle Zoo is the future, we’re going to be OK

  09-05-2020 00:00
  
  While I’ve fully supported all measures taken to this point to slow the spread of COVID-19 — and continue to support all social distancing measures still in place — I’ve become concerned about the many more lives we inadvertently put at risk with a prolonged shutdown. As a result, I’m happy to see many businesses and organizations (cautiously) opening their doors to the public again.One such organization is Utah’s Hogle Zoo.My wife and kids and I ventured up t
  
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