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• Report: NBA course of action to return taking shape, starting with plan to recall players to team markets

  20-05-2020 23:50
  
  The Zions Bank Basketball Campus, where the Utah Jazz train and practice, photographed in Salt Lake City on Monday, May 11, 2020. According to an ESPN report, the NBA is putting together a plan to resume the 2019-20 season that would include a two-week quarantine after the recall of all players into team markets, one to two weeks of individual workouts, and a two- or three-week training camp-like period prior to games resuming.| Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — NBA teams are g
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Mike Conley announces $200K donation for COVID-19 relief, discusses his impending return to Salt Lake City

  20-05-2020 23:27
  
  Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley said that when the coronavirus pandemic broke out nationwide, “my knee-jerk reaction was to do something right away.” The problem was, he had no idea where to focus his time, effort, and money, no idea who could most benefit from his help.And so on Wednesday, with the hindsight of a few months to assess how COVID-19 has most impacted people, Conley announced he was donating $200,000 to programs in five communities nationwide that he has a connection
  
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• Will ESPN exposure help boost NBA 2K League?

  20-05-2020 23:13
  
  Utah Jazz GamingSALT LAKE CITY — The NBA 2K League is in position to get a big boost of exposure.
  In the league’s first two seasons, games could be seen on online-only platforms such as Twitch and YouTube Gaming, but in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is now getting picked up by ESPN as the network searches for live programming.
  When the league’s season began earlier this month, ESPN announced that games would air on ESPN2 each Tuesday evening through May 19 in additi
  
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• NCAA lifts facility ban starting June 1; Utah planning limited opening

  20-05-2020 23:03
  
  The NCAA has taken a significant step towards football being played this fall, potentially with an on-time start.According to a Yahoo Sports report, the college sports governing body’s Division I Council on Wednesday voted to approve voluntary athletic activities in football as well as men’s and women’s basketball from June 1 through June 30. The Division I Council is expected to address the status of other sports inside the next week.There had been a nationwide moratorium on i
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: A Latter-day Saint artist’s take on the church’s move to display more paintings of Jesus

  20-05-2020 22:33
  
  A week ago, top leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints directed that all displays in foyers and entryways in the faith’s meetinghouses across the globe be reserved exclusively for artwork that depicts Jesus. They even included a list of 22 paintings for such use.While the push to focus on Christ won wide praise, some observers questioned the approved pieces, suggesting they lacked gender and cultural diversity while offering only a narrow, Eurocentric vision.In this wee
  
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• Dave Porter named new BYU director of tennis, head coach of men’s tennis program

  20-05-2020 22:18
  
  BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe announced Wednesday the hiring of Dave Porter as the new director of tennis and head coach of the men's tennis program. Porter comes to Provo after a 33-year career at BYU-Hawaii, where he led the Seasiders tennis teams to 11 NCAA Division II or NAIA national championships (nine women's and two men's). During that time, Porter had a combined record of 1,410-188 for a .882 winning percentage. He is the winningest coach in collegiate tennis history.“We are ve
  
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• Jerry Brady: Caution makes more sense than showboating

  20-05-2020 22:00
  
  Open a business now and or stay the course? Sacrifice lives or sacrifice jobs? The issue is almost as fraught as the simple choice facing all of us: Do we wear a mask to protect others or go bare-faced in public?Those willing to take risks that seem reckless to others include Lauren Boebert, the always-armed owner of Shooter’s Grill in Rifle, Colorado, who served patrons despite Gov. Jared Polis’s order, and Doug and Christine Lohman, owners of Hardware Brewery in Kendrick, Idaho, wh
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 20: Two more Utahns die from COVID-19; Governor releases updated plan for response and recovery

  20-05-2020 21:51
  
  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. It’s Wednesday, May 20. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]1:45 p.m.: Governor releases a new stage of state’s 'Utah Leads Together&rsqu
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 20: Two more Utahns die from COVID-19

  20-05-2020 21:24
  
  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 20. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]1:20 p.m.: Two more Utahns die from COVID-19, state reportsTwo more Utahns have die
  
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• Utah State basketball team adds Ukrainian guard to roster

  20-05-2020 21:23
  
  The Utah State men’s basketball team has added another player to next year’s roster.The Aggies signed Max Shulga, a native of Ukraine, to a national letter of intent, the team announced Wednesday. The 17-year-old shooting guard played for his country in the 2019 FIBA Under-18 European Championship.“We are thrilled to announce that Max Shulga will be joining the Aggie family,” USU coach Craig Smith said in a statement. “As witnessed by his numbers, Max is a versatile
  
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• Utah Jazz: New York is a threat to snag Donovan Mitchell… in six years

  20-05-2020 21:05
  
  The New York Knicks appear to be competitors in hopes to land Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell. The soonest that can happen, though, is in 2026. Ever since the NBA suspended the 2019-20 season, the rumor mill has been super active for the Utah Jazz. That’s exactly what it is, though — rumors. Donovan Mitchell, […]
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• Gail Miller and Marc Harrison: Economic recovery depends on the continued health of our people

  20-05-2020 20:04
  
  If you’ve wondered what a surge of COVID-19 is really like — if you’ve wondered if it’s just like an especially bad flu season — listen to what Intermountain Healthcare physician R.J. Bunnell said after he came back from serving for two weeks in a New York City hospital that’s been overwhelmed by coronavirus patients.“I want to make it clear that we’re not dealing with the flu,” he said.“The hospital where I worked had handled flu seaso
  
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• Census: Pandemic bashes Utah families economically

  20-05-2020 20:02
  
  The coronavirus is walloping Utahns economically — from cutting pay to making it hard to buy enough food, meet rent or mortgage payments or afford medical care, according to a quick survey by the U.S. Census Bureau.But the pain here actually is less than what most Americans are reporting, according to an experimental Household Pulse Survey released Wednesday, which the bureau intends to conduct weekly to measure the effects of COVID-19 on households.From May 7-12, the survey interviewed 94
  
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• Salt Lake County mayor spent public money on former campaign Facebook page, leading to review

  20-05-2020 19:52
  
  Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson spent hundreds of dollars in public funds to boost posts on her unofficial, now deleted Facebook page, causing some County Council members to request a review of social media policy.The mayor initially set up her page during her campaign for U.S. Senate in 2017, screenshots show. She then used the page to campaign for the vacant mayor’s seat left in 2018 when Ben McAdams took office in the U.S. House of Representatives. Wilson only changed her page name
  
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• Former Utah Congressman Howard Nielson dies

  20-05-2020 19:49
  
  Howard Nielson, described by one associate as “the smartest man on the planet,” had already established himself as a mathematical wizard as a professor at Brigham Young University when he jumped into a successful political career at both the state and federal levels.Nielson, a conservative Republican who was elected in 1982 as the first representative of Utah’s new 3rd Congressional District and served four terms, died Wednesday at the age of 95, his son Jim Nielson wrote in a
  
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• Crews completely contain La Verkin Hill fire

  20-05-2020 19:47
  
  After slow progress had been made on the La Verkin Hill fire, , things took a turn by Wednesday midday.By 11:30 a.m., the fire — which started Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. about a half-mile east of La Verkin in Washington Count — was 100% contained. And updated mapping showed a more accurate size of 150 acres. Just a couple hours earlier, it was announced the fire was still burning over 200 acres and was 10% contained.The cause of the fire is still unknown.Fire crews are working to increase
  
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• Utah Royals to host summer NWSL tournament as league makes plans for return to play

  20-05-2020 19:36
  
  All nine National Women’s Soccer League teams will play a tournament this summer in Real Salt Lake venues, the Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed.The tournament, first reported by The Washington Post, could be officially announced before the end of the week. The NWSL would be the first professional sports league to announce a return to play after COVID-19 shut practically everything down in mid-March.The tournament will go from June 29 to around July 22 and be played at Rio Tinto Stadium and
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley donating $200,000 to five communities

  20-05-2020 18:34
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) celebrates the Jazz’s win against Washington at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. | Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Mike Conley announced Wednesday that he is donating $200,000 to communities that he has ties to to help ease some of the suffering caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
  “Giving back and helping others is very important to me. The COVID-19 crisis has allowed me to slow down and appreciate who I am and
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley donating $200,000 to 5 communities

  20-05-2020 18:34
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) celebrates the Jazz’s win against Washington at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. | Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — When Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley was a youngster — he guesses he was 4 or 5 years old — his father, Olympic gold medalist Mike Conley Sr., took him to a charity golf tournament.
  Given his age at the time, it’s natural that Conley Jr.’s main focus was on the fact that Michael
  
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• Real estate fraudster Rick Koerber now has coronavirus — but he still won’t be let out of prison

  20-05-2020 18:23
  
  A federal judge has once again ruled that a convicted Utah real estate fraudster won’t be let out of prison, even though Rick Koerber apparently has the coronavirus.Koerber’s attorneys asked a month ago that Koerber be allowed to leave a California federal prison so he could serve his 14-year sentence at home in rural Utah, saying he is more at risk to contract COVID-19 because of underlying health issues.U.S. District Court Judge Fredric Block denied that request. Koerber’s at
  
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• Cameron Rising came to Utah for a shot at the starting QB job; COVID-19 put that on hold

  20-05-2020 18:17
  
  When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down Utah spring practice in mid-March, Cameron Rising had an early leg up in the Utes’ spring/summer quarterback competition with Jake Bentley and Drew Lisk.In hindsight, that was to be expected. Rising spent the 2019 season in residence after the NCAA denied his immediate-eligibility waiver. Instead of being eligible right away, Rising ran the scout team, while working with first-year offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig. Rising even spent home game days in t
  
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• Trapped moose is back on the loose after a little help from humans

  20-05-2020 17:35
  
  A moose is back on the loose after getting stuck in a Park City construction site Tuesday.The Park City Fire District tweeted that the moose got trapped inside the foundation of a building under construction, and firefighters, joined by officers from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, responded. The animal was lassoed and removed from the flooded foundation.Firefighters along with several DWR officers were called to help a moose that got trapped in a foundation today. It took a little tria
  
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• Powwows move online to keep Indigenous communities together

  20-05-2020 17:27
  
  Phoenix • As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, some Native Americans have found a way to safely host traditional powwows by moving them online.In many Indigenous communities, powwows are celebrations of culture in which tribes gather to share art, stories, food, song, dance and the company of one another.But the ongoing pandemic has made it impossible to hold these gatherings safely – in person, anyways. The Navajo Nation, for example, has set curfews and asked the 173,000 tribal membe
  
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• Marie Pino, Navajo teacher who educated generations, dies at 67

  20-05-2020 17:21
  
  Marie Pino, a teacher who educated generations of children in a remote part of the Navajo Nation, knew how deadly COVID-19 could be. Just weeks ago, the viral disease took the life of her son.Marcus Pino was 42 when he died in April. He was the basketball coach at the Alamo Navajo Community School in Alamo, New Mexico, the same rural school where his mother taught for years.“She got sick at the same time she was mourning,” said her daughter Natalie Pino, 32, a health care worker.Afte
  
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• LDS Church stock riches drop by $8 billion, as it sells Exxon shares, buys Zoom

  20-05-2020 17:11
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ largest investment fund plunged by 21% in the first quarter of 2020 as stock managers reallocated the multibillion-dollar portfolio amid the slumping coronavirus economy.By comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined about 23% over the same time period.Ensign Peak Advisors, the investment arm of the Salt Lake City-based faith, reported to federal regulators that the value of its stock holdings fell by $8.1 billion, to $29.7 billion
  
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• LDS Church stock riches drop by $8 billion, as it sells Exxon, buys Zoom

  20-05-2020 16:44
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ largest investment fund plunged by 21% in the first quarter of 2020 as stock managers reallocated the multibillion-dollar portfolio amid the slumping coronavirus economy.By comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined about 23% over the same time period.Ensign Peak Advisors, the investment arm of the Salt Lake City-based faith, reported to federal regulators that the value of its stock holdings fell by $8.1 billion, to $29.7 billion
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 20: Salt Lake City cafe becomes first known coronavirus dining casualty

  20-05-2020 16:35
  
  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. It’s Wednesday, May 20. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---8:30 a.m.: Small-bites cafe is Salt Lake City’s first known coronavirus di
  
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• Salt Lake County mayor spent public money on campaign Facebook page, leading to review

  20-05-2020 16:32
  
  Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson spent hundreds of dollars in public funds to boost posts on her unofficial, now deleted Facebook page, causing some County Council members to request a review of social media policy.The mayor initially set up her page during her campaign for U.S. Senate in 2017, screenshots show. She then used the page to campaign for the vacant mayor’s seat left in 2018 when Ben McAdams took office in the U.S. House of Representatives. Wilson only changed her page name
  
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• One driver is dead, another injured after a wrong-way crash on I-15

  20-05-2020 16:20
  
  A 28-year-old man was killed and a 22-year-old woman was seriously injured when a car driving the wrong way on I-15 in Utah County collided with a second vehicle on Tuesday night.At 11:35 p.m., the Utah Highway Patrol received reports of a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of I-15 at mile marker 273 in Lindon. Shortly thereafter, two cars collided.According to a news release from UHP, the man was not wearing a seatbelt and was “likely killed on impact.” The woman w
  
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• John Stockton deserved more from ‘The Last Dance,’ national columnist writes

  20-05-2020 16:16
  
  The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan (23) tries to work his way around Utah Jazz guard John Stockton during the first quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals Friday, June 6, 1997, in Salt Lake City. | Susan Ragan, Associated Press Viewers of “The Last Dance,” the ESPN documentary about the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan’s 1997-98 season, saw Jordan examined from every angle — his childhood, getting cut from his high school basketball varsity team, his time at North Caro
  
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• Did John Stockton deserve more from ‘The Last Dance?’

  20-05-2020 16:16
  
  The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan (23) tries to work his way around Utah Jazz guard John Stockton during the first quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals Friday, June 6, 1997, in Salt Lake City. | Susan Ragan, Associated Press Viewers of “The Last Dance,” the ESPN documentary about the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan’s 1997-98 season, saw Jordan examined from every angle — his childhood, getting cut from his high school basketball varsity team, his time at North Caro
  
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• Crews battle two early-morning fires

  20-05-2020 15:58
  
  Fire crews responded to two fires in the Millcreek area early Wednesday morning — one at an apartment building and the other at a commercial building.According to FOX 13, the first call came in just before 2 a.m. at an apartment complex in the area of 3900 South and 700 West. Residents were evacuated and no one was injured, but the building suffered heavy fire, smoke and water damage.The second call came in around 4 a.m. in the area of 3900 South and Highland Drive. When crews arrived, the
  
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• The recent good, OK, and intriguing news about coronavirus vaccines

  20-05-2020 15:10
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. There’s a good case that the topic I’m writing about today is, without hyperbole, The Most Important Topic In The World.With thousands of people dying each day, economies stuck in limbo, and political futures defined by the
  
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• Salt Lake County to review social media policy after mayor spends public funds on former campaign page

  20-05-2020 15:00
  
  Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson spent hundreds of dollars in public funds to boost posts on her unofficial, now deleted Facebook page, causing some County Council members to request a review of social media policy.The mayor initially set up her page during her campaign for U.S. Senate in 2017, screenshots show. She then used the page to campaign for the vacant mayor’s seat left in 2018 when Ben McAdams took office in the U.S. House of Representatives. Wilson only changed her page name
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Latest outrage in Lauren McCluskey murder demands answers and accountability

  20-05-2020 15:00
  
  We thought it couldn’t get any worse.I mean, after University of Utah police ignored Lauren McCluskey and her concerned friends and family pleading for help and protection leading up to her killing in 2018, one would think we had witnessed the absolute limits of incompetence and callousness.Then this happened: When McCluskey reported that she was being threatened with the release of intimate images if she didn’t pay $1,000 in cash, the officer assigned to the case did the unthinkable
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Are they lying to us or are they lying to themselves?

  20-05-2020 15:00
  
  Are these people lying to us or are they lying to themselves?For years, that's been the great imponderable of American politics, the question the rest of us asked as we watched nominal "conservatives" sink ever deeper into a morass of conspiracy, lies and alternative facts. Were they yanking our collective chain, working some deep strategy, invisible to our eyes? Or did they actually believe Barack Obama was a Muslim, born in Kenya? Or that Hillary Clinton ran a child-sex ring out of a pizza par
  
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• Feds cut oil and gas royalties in a move that could hurt Utah’s local governments

  20-05-2020 15:00
  
  The Bureau of Land Management has begun lowering royalties owed by companies that produce oil and gas on public lands, including tens of thousands of acres in Utah, to ease the financial strains created by the coronavirus pandemic.Forbearance on royalties may relieve the pain felt by the industry and keep some noneconomic wells in production, but it could drastically reduce a key revenue source for local governments at a time when the services they provide are being stretched in the face of a pu
  
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• LDS Church sells Exxon, Marriott shares, pumps more money into Zoom, Grubhub as its stock riches fall by 21%

  20-05-2020 14:57
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ largest investment fund plunged by 21% in the first quarter of 2020 as stock managers reallocated the multibillion-dollar portfolio amid the slumping coronavirus economy.By comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined about 23% over the same time period.Ensign Peak Advisors, the investment arm of the Salt Lake City-based faith, reported to federal regulators that the value of its stock holdings fell by $8.1 billion, to $29.7 billion
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Is Trump challenging Mother Nature to a duel?

  20-05-2020 14:56
  
  On Easter, as the coronavirus was rapidly spreading, NPR’s “Weekend All Things Considered” carried excerpts from sermons from across the country. I was particularly touched by the way Presiding Bishop Michael Curry ended his talk at Washington National Cathedral, singing, “He’s got the whole world in his hands, he’s got the whole world in his hands. ...”It was a powerful close that left me thinking: Just substitute “She” for “He”
  
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• Letter: Work together to slow the spread

  20-05-2020 14:55
  
  A discussion is needed in our community. As of May 1, the Polynesian community was ranked No. 1 in Utah for COVID-19 infections, according to the Salt Lake County website. The reason is simply because of people not staying home and not obeying safety and health regulations in Salt Lake County.Yes, things have opened up, but it doesn't mean everything is back to normal — things are far from normal, actually.As a Polynesian resident of Salt Lake County, I have found it very difficult to stay
  
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• Letter: Trump was asleep at the wheel

  20-05-2020 14:55
  
  The coronavirus has focused a spotlight on the incompetence of our president.Our system of government is based on the concept that cities deal with city issues, counties with county issues and states with state issues. The virus is a national issue and should have been confronted head-on by our federal government.President Trump, however, was asleep at the wheel and, when he finally woke up, he abdicated his responsibility, outsourcing the problem to the states’ governors who have been com
  
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• Letter: Port is a disaster waiting to happen

  20-05-2020 14:55
  
  Years ago I walked a section of the Great Salt Lake’s south shore many times, participating in a five-summer shorebird survey conducted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. I was captivated by the lake and its surrounding habitat in early morning light, as well as sightings of snowy plovers (status: highly imperiled) on the mudflats, and long-billed curlew and burrowing owls in the playas, wetlands and upland habitats.Now the Utah inland port is being built on 16,000 acres of Great
  
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• Stephen C. Bannister: Our Faustian bargain with fossil fuels

  20-05-2020 14:00
  
  Most of us have enjoyed the much cleaner air since the great COVID-19 shutdown-caused economic collapse. Everything damaging that we normally dump into our common airshed is reduced — carbon dioxide that increases climate warming and the pollutant precursors that cause regional haze we notice as bad air quality and bad health outcomes — and the result has been cleaner air for all to enjoy.But this win has been accompanied by considerable social and commercial costs. The pandemic has
  
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• Letter: Homeowners need a property tax break

  20-05-2020 14:00
  
  Property taxes in Salt Lake County and cities have skyrocketed. I now have a shortfall in my mortgage escrow account of over $400 plus a $25 per month rise in my payments — that is, if I can come up with the money to pay the shortfall — because of these taxes. I don’t doubt that many other homeowners are receiving a sticker shock in their mortgage payments because of these taxes.To continue to collect this raise in property taxes is totally unacceptable during this COVID-19 pan
  
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• Letter: Expensive pipeline is not the right tool

  20-05-2020 14:00
  
  Abraham Maslow said, "It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” That seems to be the case for the Washington County Water “Conservancy” District (WCWCD). The only tool in their box appears to be a very expensive pipeline.WCWCD relies on faulty data to show a need for the pipeline. We are not running out of water. Children growing up here will be able to stay without the pipeline. In fact, the pipeline debt service may make
  
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• Letter: Exaggeration is basic to comedy

  20-05-2020 14:00
  
  Chase Kimball’s emphatic letter published May 19 certainly leaves no question as to his opinion of Pat Bagley’s efforts as a cartoonist.Bagley has been pretty consistently caustic through the years in expressing his ideas in cartoons. It is his style, and it is effective.Kimball obviously doesn’t see humor in extreme exaggeration. Many comedians use exaggeration effectively in their comedic routines. It is a basic element in much of humor and always has been.But looking beyond
  
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• Utah prison’s Serving Time Cafe to close for good

  20-05-2020 05:32
  
  Utah prison officials announced Tuesday evening that it will close the Serving Time Cafe, a popular breakfast and lunch joint staffed by incarcerated women.The cafe, which was located adjacent to the Draper prison location, had been open to the public for the last 13 years. It was temporarily closed recently due to restrictions with the coronavirus pandemic — but prison officials said Tuesday it won't reopen."Out of concern for the ongoing health and safety of the Utah Department of Correc
  
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• States accused of fudging or bungling COVID-19 testing data

  20-05-2020 04:37
  
  Providence, R.I. • Public health officials in some states are accused of bungling coronavirus infection statistics or even using a little sleight of hand to deliberately make things look better than they are.The risk is that politicians, business owners and ordinary Americans who are making decisions about lockdowns, reopenings and other day-to-day matters could be left with the impression that the virus is under more control than it actually is.In Virginia, Texas and Vermont, for example,
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 19: Distiller delivers hand sanitizer to hard-hit Navajo Nation; Salt Lake County Library to offer curbside service May 26

  20-05-2020 03:52
  
  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 19. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---5:10 p.m.: Ogden-based distiller delivers disinfectant to Navajo NationA Utah dist
  
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• Utah reports 8 more virus deaths — the highest daily death toll for the state yet

  20-05-2020 02:51
  
  Eight more Utahns have died from the coronavirus, state health officials reported Tuesday — the highest single-day number of deaths the state has seen so far.That brings the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 88.Tuesday also marked the highest increase of hospitalizations in a single day since state officials began recording data in March, with 24 more people in hospitals who have tested positive for the virus. It’s also the first time that hospitalizations have surpassed 600, with
  
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