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• Jazz head coach Quin Snyder talks about new ways to approach film sessions during the pandemic

  21-05-2020 23:36
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder walks to the bench during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in San Antonio. | Darren Abate, AP Six-year Jazz coach joined the finale episode of the first season of the Ingles Insight podcast on WednesdaySALT LAKE CITY — Joe Ingles and his wife Renae wrapped up the first season of the Ingles Insight podcast Wednesday with a finale episode featuring Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder.
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• Jazz coach Quin Snyder talks about new ways to approach film sessions during the pandemic

  21-05-2020 23:36
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder walks to the bench during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in San Antonio. | Darren Abate, AP Six-year Jazz coach joined the finale episode of the first season of the Ingles Insight podcast on WednesdaySALT LAKE CITY — Joe Ingles and his wife Renae wrapped up the first season of the Ingles Insight podcast Wednesday with a finale episode featuring Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder.
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• Radioactive waste from Estonia may soon be coming to San Juan County mill

  21-05-2020 23:02
  
  The Silmet rare metals processing plant in Estonia is more than 5,000 miles from San Juan County, but the White Mesa Mill south of Blanding could soon be receiving radioactive waste from the eastern European facility.In April 2019, Energy Fuels Resources, which owns and operates the White Mesa Mill, requested to modify its radioactive materials license with the state of Utah in order to accept the waste, and a hearing on the proposal was conducted Wednesday over video chat by the Utah Division o
  
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• Bad omen for busy Memorial Day: Utah road deaths rose amid light traffic in COVID-19 shutdowns

  21-05-2020 22:58
  
  It’s not a good omen for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend start of the “100 deadliest days” of driving each year during summer: Fatal accidents already increased in Utah even as traffic thinned during coronavirus stay-at-home orders.“When traffic has been reduced by sometimes 50% of the vehicles on the road, we’re seeing an increase in fatalities. And that really doesn’t make sense,” said Utah Department of Transportation spokesman John Gleason at an ev
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Free-dumb

  21-05-2020 22:42
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, May 22, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/20/bagley-cartoon-utah/" target=_blank><u>Utah Ballot Box</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/19/bagley-cartoon-red-queen/"><u>Red Queen</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/18/bagley-cartoon-conduct
  
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• Elizabeth T. Craft: Voices from Theater in the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  21-05-2020 22:38
  
  “I’m hoping and expecting that by the time these notes are read [the] epidemic will be no more than an ugly memory, but it was certainly a blow to the theater while it lasted,” wrote critic Burns Mantle in 1919, in the wake of an influenza pandemic that killed over 50 million, including 675,000 Americans.A century ago, live theater was a vital part of American life; it was also big business. As a musical theater scholar watching the devastating fallout from COVID-19, I’ve
  
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• Joe Ingles not playing if season resumes?

  21-05-2020 22:15
  
  Ingles, a key member of the Utah Jazz who sit in fourth place in the Western Conference, has said he is prepared to “walk away, fly to Australia and never play another game in my life and be very content with it” to protect his family from the virus. His wife, Australian netball great Renae Ingles, is expecting their third child and four-year-old son Jacob has autism and a weakened immune system.
  
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• Kaysville chases away COVID-19 protest concert with threats of turning on sprinklers, and cutting power

  21-05-2020 21:55
  
  The Kaysville City Council — in a revolt against Mayor Katie Witt — was considering turning on sprinklers and cutting power to a city park to stop a protest concert she backed there that openly aimed to defy state COVID-19 restrictions.Word about these possible city actions was enough Thursday to chase away the May 30 concert featuring country star Collin Raye, which now will move to the Studio Ranch Amphitheater near Grantsville.“The city of Kaysville is really, really confuse
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 21: Utah announces two new deaths; Another 6,200 Utahns filed for unemployment

  21-05-2020 21:23
  
  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 Thursday, May 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:20 p.m.: Utah announces two new deathsTwo more Utahns have died from COVID-19,
  
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• TV cliffhanger: New season in jeopardy amid virus shutdown

  21-05-2020 21:00
  
  Los Angeles • The first new TV season of the coronavirus era is facing an understandably shaky start that comes with a tacit disclaimer: No one is sure when it will arrive.Studios, guilds and trade groups are huddling to find ways to ease a near-complete production shutdown, among the nationwide efforts to curb the pandemic. While streaming services parcel out series year-round, broadcast TV still relies heavily on a September filled with fanfare and high-profile scripted shows.How that wil
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Let’s remember that the coronavirus is still a mystery

  21-05-2020 20:43
  
  The odd thing about reporting on the coronavirus is that the nonexperts are supremely confident in their predictions, while epidemiologists keep telling me that they don’t really know much at all.“This is a novel virus, new to humanity, and nobody knows what will happen,” said Anne Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA.Some of that epidemiological humility should seep into public discourse.Some conservatives scoffed that the coronavirus was like the flu, which was utterly
  
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• Will Utah play Cal State schools in basketball? 22 Pac-12 games is one contingency plan

  21-05-2020 20:16
  
  When the 23-campus California State University system announced last week that fall semester classes would mostly be held virtually, it brought up questions regarding athletics.Specifically, attention turned to whether or not the Cal State System’s FBS members, San Diego State, Fresno State and San Jose State, would play football in 2020. The Aztecs announced Wednesday they intend to play a full fall sports schedule, but firm, solidified plans remain up in the air.Football decision-making
  
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• Undaunted by COVID-19, developer plans new business parks in Taylorsville, Springville

  21-05-2020 19:32
  
  Real estate developer St. John Properties said Thursday it will build new upscale business parks in Taylorsville and Springville and expand another site in Pleasant Grove.The plans, made public as Utah continues to ease health restrictions related to COVID-19, could mean as much as a $120 million investment in the state’s economy and create new spaces for up to 2,750 workers, the Baltimore-based company said.Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, who participated in an online news conference Thursday, ca
  
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• Gordon Monson: Are live sports still a price too high? We’re about to find out.

  21-05-2020 19:07
  
  People who love sports are stuck in a coronavirus vortex that will not leave them be. It just spins them helplessly up and around, in a way that just as much shakes them down.They miss live games. They want live games. They need live games. All while shuttered leagues like the NBA, NHL, MLB find themselves in a state of perpetual hope and scramble, searching for ways to get started again while the public, sporting and otherwise, wonders if it really will happen.If it should happen.If sports will
  
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• RSL’s Nick Rimando, NFL great Haloti Ngata and golfer Jay Don Blake top Utah Sports Hall of Fame’s class of 2020

  21-05-2020 18:32
  
  Real Salt Lake’s legendary goalkeeper Nick Rimando, NFL great Haloti Ngata and golfer Jay Don Blake will headline the Utah Sports Hall of Fame’s 2020 class, the organization announced Thursday.The Hall of Fame class will also include water polo’s standout Courtney Young Johnson and track and field star Teri Okelberry Spiers. The five inductees will be honored Sept. 28 in a dinner and ceremony at the Little America Hotel. To order tickets, go to utahsportshalloffame.org.Rimando,
  
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• More Utahns are dropping unemployment claims than filing new ones, as economy ramps up

  21-05-2020 18:17
  
  Utah’s new unemployment claims have continued to edge down, but still have a long way to go to get to normal levels.The U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday that 6,275 state residents applied for jobless benefits last week, for a sixth consecutive weekly decline from a high of 33,000 in early April.They are among another 2.4 million Americans seeking unemployment the week ending May 16. That brought the country to a sobering total of 38.9 million people thrown out of work, furloughed
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Netflix’s ‘The Lovebirds’ is crazy fun; ‘Jeffrey Epstein’ is horrifying

  21-05-2020 18:05
  
  In 2017, Kumail Nanjiani and director Michael Showalter teamed up for the utterly delightful romantic comedy “The Big Sick.” Who would’ve thought that the fact-based story of a cross-cultural romance in which the woman spent most of the movie in a coma would be so heart-warming and hilarious?And now Nanjiani and Showalter have reteamed for “The Lovebirds,” a film that has pretty much absolutely nothing in common with “The Big Sick” … except for th
  
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• Detective, nurse, confidant: Salt Lake County’s virus tracers play many roles

  21-05-2020 17:52
  
  Salt Lake City • Health investigator Mackenzie Bray smiles and chuckles as she chats by phone with a retired Utah man who just tested positive for the coronavirus.She's trying to keep the mood light because she needs to find out where he's been and who he's been around for the past seven days. She gently peppers him with questions, including where he and his wife stopped to buy flowers on a visit to a cemetery. She encourages him to go through his bank statement to see if it reminds him of
  
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• Utahns might lose health insurance because of coronavirus layoffs — here’s how to get coverage

  21-05-2020 17:48
  
  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. While many Utahns face the possibility of losing employer-sponsored health insurance due to pandemic layoffs , The Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP) says there are still options for people that need coverage.Low-income Utahns can apply
  
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• Utah Inland Port Authority releases long-awaited business plan

  21-05-2020 17:47
  
  The Utah Inland Port Authority released its long-awaited strategic business plan Thursday, which outlines how the project will develop over the next five years and provides new insight into how leaders envision the logistics hub they’ve billed as the state’s largest-ever economic development project.An 11-page executive summary of the business plan outlines the broad scope of the port authority’s values, mission and strategic direction — including a look at how it will ad
  
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• ‘A source of hope': 1,500 books donated to students in home-isolation on the Navajo Nation

  21-05-2020 17:39
  
  When students at Montezuma Creek Elementary School opened their latest home delivery of school work and meals from the San Juan School District, they found an additional gift: several donated books that the students were allowed to keep.Around 1,500 books were shipped to the school, which is located on the Navajo Nation, last month by a Florida-based literacy program called Bess the Book Bus, and teachers selected titles for each of their students based on interest and reading level.“It&rs
  
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• Utah inmate charged with selling drug-laced postcards in jail

  21-05-2020 17:38
  
  An inmate being held at the Weber County jail on federal drug charges is now also facing state charges after he reportedly sold drugs embedded into postcards to fellow inmates.Joshua Lee Kendall, 34, of West Jordan, was charged in 2nd District Court with three counts of drug possession with the intent to distribute, all first-degree felonies.According to a probable cause statement, on Dec. 20 Kendall was “found in direct possession of several postcards,” addressed to him, which &ldqu
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 21: Kaysville protest concert moved; Another 6,200 Utahns filed for unemployment

  21-05-2020 17:00
  
  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 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---9 a.m.: Salt Lake County to give $750K to Utah Food BankThe Utah Food bank will g
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Polygamy problem persists, Moroni descends, stocks slide, Sunday services resume — soon.

  21-05-2020 16:44
  
  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.The persistent problem of polygamy
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  Emma Smith, wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith.
  A document crafted in 1843 by Joseph Smith to convert one person &m
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert endorses Spencer Cox as his successor

  21-05-2020 16:14
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is officially throwing his support behind his right-hand-man over his former boss.On Thursday, Herbert announced his formal endorsement of Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who has served in his administration for nearly seven years and occupied a prominent role in the state’s coronavirus response.“I trust his judgment and vision, especially in challenging times,” Herbert said in a prepared statement. “This recovery is too important to leave to chance. Spencer
  
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• Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli will serve prison time for college admissions scam

  21-05-2020 15:45
  
  Boston • Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, have agreed to plead guilty to charges in the college admissions bribery case and serve prison time, according to court papers filed Thursday.The couple agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in a plea agreement filed in Boston’s federal court. The charge carries up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.Prosecutors have agreed to dismiss charges of money laundering an
  
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• Vessel Kitchen defies the pandemic odds, opens new location in Salt Lake City

  21-05-2020 15:13
  
  The three co-owners of Vessel Kitchen have wanted to expand into Salt Lake City’s 9th and 9th neighborhood since launching their first restaurant in 2016.Finding a suitable spot in one of the city’s most popular east-side neighborhoods would be their biggest obstacle — or so they thought.They waited two years to get the property; another year to construct the building and another unexpected delay while crews removed underground storage tanks from the gas station that once occup
  
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• Utahns might lose employer sponsored health insurance because of coronavirus layoffs — here’s how to get coverage.

  21-05-2020 15:07
  
  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. While many Utahns face the possibility of losing employer-sponsored health insurance due to pandemic layoffs , The Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP) says there are still options for people that need coverage.Low-income Utahns can apply
  
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• Coronavirus may help Salt Lake airport finish expansion 2 years early and save $300M

  21-05-2020 15:06
  
  Salt Lake City International Airport saw only 13% of its normal number of passengers on Wednesday. But the alarming drop has an upside: an unexpected opportunity to save hundreds of millions of dollars and complete its ongoing $4.1 billion replacement project years early.Officials say the dearth of passengers will allow the early demolition of existing old terminals and concourses, which no longer will be needed during later phases of expansion to supply gates for once-expected high demand now e
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Despicable crimes against children warrant outrage, but don’t blame this Utah judge

  21-05-2020 15:05
  
  Nearly 30,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that Utah 3rd District Judge Douglas Hogan be recalled after he handed down what is perceived as a lenient sentence to a child pornographer.Hogan sentenced Doug Saltsman, who is the chief executive of a tech company, to 210 days in jail after Saltsman was convicted of having child porn on his computer.“I was horrified when I heard about this case,” Cathy Hoffman, a survivor of sex trafficking who is now a victim’s ad
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I’m looking for ideas to serve others as well as stay sane

  21-05-2020 15:05
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • During this weird time of the pandemic, I have been struggling to find ways to cheer myself up. I’ve heard it said the best thing you can do is serve others. I’m having a difficult time finding ways to do that. I have one elderly neighbor who needs groceries every few weeks and I enjoy doing that for her. With the social distancing in place, I’m looking every day for little things I can do, but finding very few needs out there. I would love a list of sugg
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 21: More than 180,000 Utahns have filed for unemployment

  21-05-2020 15:04
  
  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 21. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---7 a.m.: Unemployment filings continue to slowUtah’s unemployment filings ha
  
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• Fastest growing city in America? Vineyard, Utah — up 10,687% in the past decade

  21-05-2020 15:01
  
  The city of Vineyard in Utah County — on the site of the former Geneva steel mill — was the fastest growing place in America during the past decade, with an astounding growth rate of 10,687% — meaning it grew to 107 times its original size.It skyrocketed from a tiny town of 110 people in 2010 to 11,866 in 2019, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.“That’s pretty astonishing,” said Pam Perlich, director of demographic research at t
  
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• What can Utahns really learn from a COVID-19 antibody test?

  21-05-2020 14:00
  
  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. Draper • After a quick prick of her finger and a 15-minute wait, Lacy DeLoach hoped the blood test would finally tell her if she’d had the coronavirus.The expecting mother had been sick at the end of January, about two months
  
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• Letter: Protect the birds

  21-05-2020 14:00
  
  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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• Letter: No reason to assign collective guilt

  21-05-2020 14:00
  
  Regarding the May 17 commentary, “Reparations, and the family history we don’t talk about,” by Kristi Thomas Boyce.The author makes the case for collective white guilt for horrible injustices done to blacks, presumably over the last 400 or so years. Her remedy is reparations, money paid, by the government, to the descendants of the victims.One problem is how do you decide who is the victim and who is the perpetrator. Does LeBron James deserve reparations? Tiger Woods? Barack Ob
  
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• Jana Riess: LDS Church’s plan for reopening doesn’t go far enough

  21-05-2020 11:51
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced a two-phased plan for reopening church meetings and activities. I don’t believe the first phase, which is about to begin in some parts of the world, is strict enough to ensure people’s safety right now when we’re still very much in the heat of this pandemic.Although the document uses words like “careful” and “caution” and emphasizes repeatedly the need to follow government safety protocols whe
  
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• Washington draft pick from Liberty says he had coronavirus

  21-05-2020 04:36
  
  Washington rookie receiver Antonio Gandy-Golden said Wednesday he tested positive for the new coronavirus in March and has fully recovered.Gandy-Golden said in a statement that he tested positive during NFL draft training on March 24, had mild symptoms and was cleared on April 7.“I self-quarantined for two weeks and followed all guidelines from health experts,” he said. “I feel 100% now and can’t wait to get on the field with [Washington].”Gandy-Golden played the pa
  
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• Lauren McCluskey’s parents did not reach a settlement with the University of Utah during mediation this week

  21-05-2020 02:54
  
  After two days of mediation, the parents of slain track star Lauren McCluskey did not reach a settlement with the University of Utah over their $56 million lawsuit alleging the school could have done more to protect their daughter.Jim McConkie, the attorney representing the McCluskeys, described the talks as frank and open but ultimately “unsuccessful.”“We understand better now what the issues are,” he added Wednesday evening. And “while Jill and Matt McCluskey cont
  
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• Paleontologists discover ancient insect species in southeastern Utah

  21-05-2020 02:52
  
  A group of scientists from announced a rare find Wednesday – the fossilized remains of a giant bug that crawled around Utah during the time of the dinosaurs.Called “Morrisonnepa jurassica,” the insect roamed the region 151 million years ago and was discovered in the same geological formation as Allosaurus and Stegosaurus. It appears to be related to modern giant water bugs, or Belostomatidae, which prey on fish, amphibians, snakes and invertebrates. The bugs are also known for
  
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• Utah’s new coronavirus plan includes retraining, big spending and taking care of high-risk people

  21-05-2020 02:02
  
  Utah’s governor wants the state headed toward an economic recovery by summer’s end.To get there, he unveiled a plan Wednesday that includes efforts to get furloughed workers back on the job quickly, retrain those who have been laid off and aim government spending at big public projects that are “shovel-ready.”The latest state road map also includes new guidelines for continuing to protect high-risk and minority populations in greater danger from the coronavirus while othe
  
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• Jennifer Senior: What Elvis, Michael Jackson and Trump have in common

  21-05-2020 02:00
  
  Well, well. The president says he’s spent the last week and a half enjoying his hydroxychloroquine, presumably neat. It’s impossible to say whether it’s true; as doctors on Twitter were quick to note, Sean Conley, the White House physician, said in a memo that he had discussed the drug with Trump, not prescribed it, although together he and the president concluded it was worth the risk.But if you take the president at his word — something I admittedly almost never do, but
  
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• Lauren McCluskey’s parents don’t reach settlement with the University of Utah in $56 million lawsuit

  21-05-2020 01:56
  
  After two days of mediation, the parents of slain track star Lauren McCluskey did not reach a settlement with the University of Utah in their $56 million lawsuit alleging the school could have done more to protect their daughter.Jim McConkie, the attorney representing the McCluskeys, described the talks as frank and open but ultimately “unsuccessful.”“We understand better now what the issues are,” he added Wednesday evening. And “while Jill and Matt McCluskey contin
  
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• State sounds warning about southern Utah COVID cases

  21-05-2020 01:46
  
  Southern Utah could see a surge in coronavirus cases after the area experienced its most contagious two weeks since the pandemic hit, the state epidemiologist warned Wednesday.The five-counties in the southwestern health district recorded 55 new cases this week, and 56 cases the week before, the largest number of new cases since tracking began in mid-March, the Spectrum newspaper reported. The uptick can’t be explained by increased testing, epidemiologist Angela Dunn said.“We’r
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Utah Ballot Box

  21-05-2020 01:24
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, May 21, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/19/bagley-cartoon-red-queen/" target=_blank><u>Red Queen</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/18/bagley-cartoon-conduct/"><u>Conduct Unbecoming</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/15/bagley-cartoon
  
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• Latter-day Saint congregations in Utah can begin meeting again, but they must heed a number of rules

  21-05-2020 01:06
  
  Utah’s Latter-day Saint congregations got the green light this week to resume in-person weekly worship services — but with lots of caveats and conditions.Like the more than 30,000 wards and branches across the globe in the 16.5 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, all public gatherings of congregations in the Beehive State have been suspended since March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Those wards desiring to assemble again in church meetinghouses must first
  
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• U.S. agency lets self-driving shuttle resume carrying people

  21-05-2020 00:54
  
  Washington • A self-driving shuttle service that was ordered to stop carrying passengers in February has been cleared to resume operations with new safety precautions.The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told France-based EasyMile to halt passenger operations on low-speed shuttles in 16 U.S. cities after a mysterious braking problem occurred Feb. 20 in Columbus, Ohio.In a statement this week, the safety agency said it approved EasyMile's return-to-service plan. The agency
  
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• UTA gives rank-and-file workers a 3.25% pay hike

  21-05-2020 00:31
  
  After lacking a contract since December, the Utah Transit Authority Board on Wednesday approved a new three-year agreement with the union that represents its 1,600 bus and train operators and maintenance workers — which will bring them a 3.25% pay hike this year.A 3% increase will come in 2021, followed by a 2% bump in July of 2022. The contract also provides a one-time ratification payment of $300 to full-time employees, and $150 to part-time workers.That means standard pay for bus and tr
  
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• George Pyle: It matters who is in the room when decisions are made

  21-05-2020 00:00
  
  People become journalists so they can see history being made.And to learn that, sometimes, it just depends on who is in the room.In the summer of 1976, I was there when one of the best newspaper writers I ever knew, Dorothy Melland (do I say that because later I married her daughter?) told the local institution named Stuart Awbrey, publisher of The Hutchinson (Kansas) News, that it was time for The News to stop referring to women by their husbands’ names. As in calling someone Mrs. John Sm
  
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