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• Farhad Manjoo: The worst is yet to come

  23-05-2020 23:37
  
  For as long as I can remember, I have identified as an optimist. Like a seedling reaching toward the golden sun, I’m innately tuned to seek out the bright side.Of course, in recent years this confidence has grown tougher to maintain. The industry I’ve long covered, technology, has lost its rebel edge, and grown monopolistic and power hungry. The economy at large echoed these trends, leaving all but the wealthiest out in the cold. All the while the entire planet veered toward uninhabi
  
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• Why Jerry Sloan was different from other NBA coaches

  23-05-2020 23:28
  
  USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Zillgitt and former Jazz center Mark Eaton discuss the impact Jerry Sloan had not only on the game of basketball but on the lives of people he encountered as well.
  
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• Brodi Ashton: My Uber driver wasn’t wearing a mask, and then he shared this ...

  23-05-2020 23:27
  
  So, it’s been a minute since I wrote a column. And during that minute, I’ve been sick with a respiratory virus (not COVID-19). I even ended up in the hospital for a week (seriously, stop looking at me like that, it was not the coronavirus).I won’t bore you with another hospital story, but whatever you’ve heard, the nurse started it, and the scrubs were mine. I brought them from home.This is a weird time we’re living in. The other day, after an appointment with my ne
  
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• Salt Lake City parks provide a space for people to come together while remaining apart amid the coronavirus outbreak

  23-05-2020 23:26
  
  An elderly man pushes a small dog in a big stroller. Two roommates chat as they eat lunch on top of a hill. A dad counts to three and races his daughter from tree to tree. People run — quickly, slowly, some of them gasping lightly for breath. They rollerblade and they bike and they toss frisbees and they lift weights and they sit on blankets in the sun.They cook eggs and toast on outdoor grills and they play old Beatles songs on the drums and they walk their dogs and they watch the ducks w
  
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• Holiday amid pandemic: Americans divided on how to respond

  23-05-2020 23:10
  
  New York • President Donald Trump played golf at one of his courses Saturday at the start of the Memorial Day weekend as he urged U.S. states to reopen after coronavirus-related lockdowns. Yet many Americans remained cautious as the number of confirmed cases nationwide passed 1.6 million.In California, where many businesses and recreational activities are reopening, officials in Los Angeles County said they would maintain tight restrictions until July 4. Some religious leaders took issue wi
  
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• RSL’s Nedum Onuoha uses podcast to connect with teammates, other athletes and everyone in between

  23-05-2020 22:52
  
  Nedum Onuoha likes to talk. About soccer. About music. About life. No matter the topic, Onuoha will likely engage, and do so in a manner that feels like the person across from him has known him for years.So it may not come as a surprise that for the past year, Onuoha, who plays center back for Real Salt Lake, has put his penchant for conversation on the air with his podcast, “Kickback with Nedum.” It's a show that’s featured guests like teammates Albert Rusnák and Corey
  
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• NBA officially in talks planning to resume season at Disney World in Orlando

  23-05-2020 22:45
  
  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 — On Saturday, NBA spokesperson Mike Bass officially confirmed what has been reported for weeks: the league is working with the Walt Disney Company on a plan that would allow the league to resu
  
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• Gordon Monson: The power of one; Jerry Sloan’s Utah Jazz legacy lives on

  23-05-2020 22:14
  
  The spirit of Jerry Sloan lives on within the Utah Jazz.That much is apparent to anyone who read Quin Snyder’s response to Sloan’s passing on Friday and, more importantly, anyone who watches the Jazz play.“Before coming to Utah, I certainly was aware of Coach Sloan and what he meant to the NBA and to the coaching world,” Snyder said. “But, upon living in Utah, I became acutely aware of just how much he truly meant to the state.“I was honored by the opportunity
  
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• Utah sees four additional deaths from the coronavirus as state reports 203 new cases

  23-05-2020 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. Four more Utahns have died from the coronavirus, state health officials reported Saturday, bringing the state’s death toll from the pandemic to 97.The state also reported 203 new confirmed cases of the virus on Saturday, bringing
  
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• BYU announces it will open its athletic training facilities on June 1

  23-05-2020 20:37
  
  A couple days after the NCAA decided that Division I football and basketball student-athletes can participate in on-campus voluntary athletic activities beginning June 1, BYU Athletics announced it will initiate a multiphase plan to allow its student-athletes that option.The NCAA encourages programs to follow all applicable local, state and federal regulations regarding use of such facilities, group size restrictions and any other limit. Council members also extended a blanket waiver allowing te
  
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• Michael Jordan’s ‘Last Dance’ was also the last chance for the Utah Jazz, who have never gotten closer to a title

  23-05-2020 20:25
  
  Editor’s note: If not for the coronavirus outbreak, the NBA regular season would be over, and the Utah Jazz would likely be in the playoffs this spring. In the spirit of postseason fervor, The Salt Lake Tribune is doing a multi-part series on the most impactful playoff runs in Jazz history. Part 1 — 1983-84: The Jazz save professional basketball in Utah. Part 2 — 1987-88: Trading haymakers with the champs. Part 3 — 1991-92: A huge step forward, but still coming up short.
  
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• Trump declares places of worship ‘essential,’ setting up standoff with some governors

  23-05-2020 20:20
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump has unveiled new guidance classifying houses of worship as “essential services” and insisting that governors allow faith groups to worship despite the risk of furthering the spread of the novel coronavirus.Trump made the announcement Friday afternoon at a news conference at the White House and appeared to set up a potential standoff between his administration and governors who have halted worship services during the pandemic.“Today I&rsq
  
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• Commentary: Mormon pioneer grit helped prepare me for this pandemic

  23-05-2020 20:06
  
  When mid-March hit and people were going crazy trying to buy everything they’d need for the pandemic, I acknowledge that all I felt was confusion. I wasn’t worried about running out of food, even though grocery stores had begun to run out of certain items. Or even toilet paper. And even though I’m not attending The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints anymore and I have a lot of criticisms of both its doctrine and its leadership, I had a moment of real gratitude that I&r
  
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• Terry Marasco: It is time to revive the social contract

  23-05-2020 20:00
  
  A societal social contract may be thought of as a community whereby everyone is, in no small way, responsible for the health and welfare of everyone in that community.Rousseau wrote in 1762, as a political statement, in the “Social Contract:” “In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all.” And, “an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social b
  
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• NBA says it is talking with Disney about resuming season

  23-05-2020 18:51
  
  The NBA is in talks with The Walt Disney Company on a single-site scenario for a resumption of play in Central Florida in late July, the clearest sign yet that the league believes the season can continue amid the coronavirus pandemic.The National Basketball Players Association is also part of the talks with Disney. Games would be held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, a massive campus on the Disney property near Orlando.NBA spokesman Mike Bass said the conversations were still "explorato
  
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• Rural areas, tribal lands hit hardest by census interruption

  23-05-2020 18:46
  
  Orlando, Fla. • Even though they’re neighbors, two New Mexico counties couldn’t be further apart in the rate of people answering the 2020 census.Los Alamos County, where the atomic bomb was born and many people are highly educated, has one of the nation's highest response rates at 79%. Rio Arriba County, where a language other than English is spoken in over half of homes, is at the bottom at 9%.The reason for the difference? Households in Rio Arriba and other rural counties acro
  
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• How Jerry Sloan helped save one woman’s life

  23-05-2020 18:44
  
  Utah head coach Jerry Sloan talks with the media after practice for Game 2 on Sunday at the Toyota Center in Houston on April 22, 2007. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News A story written in the Chicago Tribune by Melissa Isaacson during the 1997 NBA Finals between the Utah Jazz and the Chicago Bulls illustrates the kind of person the late Jerry Sloan was.
  In the article, Isaacson relays the story of a 15-year-old girl who attended a girls basketball camp run by Sloan in Chicago. Her mother didn&
  
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• As Native Americans fight coronavirus, basketball takes a timeout

  23-05-2020 18:29
  
  Phoenix • Basketball is woven into the fabric of Native American life.Kids dribble balls on dirt courts and shoot at makeshift rims on some reservations while tournaments are held in state-of-the art buildings on others. Players and fans may travel hundreds of miles to play and watch games of "Rez ball," the fast-paced, no-shot-is-a-bad-one version of hoops played by Native Americans. The game also brings already tight communities even closer.Now, during the pandemic, the balls have all but
  
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• Speedskater Ben Thornock put an LDS Church mission ahead of Olympic aspirations. Now he’s changed focus.

  23-05-2020 18:22
  
  Ben Thornock could almost forget about the Olympics while serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in northern Japan. He had no access to television or the internet and was limited to one email a week, from his parents, as he concentrated on proselytizing for his church.Every once in a while, though, the Taylorsville High graduate’s route would take him past a store with a TV. He’d catch a glimpse of a speedskater, and he’d feel a pang in his
  
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• BYU professor wants to make rare variety of penstemon available for landscaping

  23-05-2020 18:19
  
  PROVO • Brigham Young University professor Mikel Stevens will never forget the day when he stumbled across something that was unlike anything he’d ever seen throughout his passion for plants.Stevens had started studying the penstemon flowers of Utah when he made the discovery. He was driving along a two-wheel track near Soldier Summit in Spanish Fork Canyon when he spotted a penstemon that was different than any he had seen before."I really love being out in nature," Stevens said. "I
  
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• Parts of Navajo water pipeline near completion amid coronavirus

  23-05-2020 18:06
  
  Crownpoint, N.M. • Growing up without running water or electricity in rural New Mexico on the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation in the 1950s, Daniel Tso contracted tuberculosis at the age of 5 and had to spend the next five years of his childhood in a TB sanatorium in Albuquerque.Tso, who is serving a third term as Navajo Nation Council delegate and is the chairman of the Council's Health, Education and Human Services Committee, remembered that on the first day at the Torreon Day School,
  
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• How the coronavirus spreads in those everyday places we visit

  23-05-2020 17:34
  
  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 hasn’t even been five months since health officials in Wuhan, China, reported unusual pneumonia cases to the World Health Organization.But those five months have been the most active in the history of epidemiology. Since that r
  
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• Your guide to how the coronavirus spreads wherever you go

  23-05-2020 17:15
  
  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 hasn’t even been five months since health officials in Wuhan, China, reported unusual pneumonia cases to the World Health Organization.But those five months have been the most active in the history of epidemiology. Since that r
  
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• As they gradually reopen, Utah’s national parks brace for busy holiday weekend

  23-05-2020 17:05
  
  With the arrival of the busiest holiday weekend, three of Utah’s national parks are bracing for their largest crowds since reopening earlier this month with reduced services, while the other two, Canyonlands and Arches, are preparing to open later this week with nearly all their terrain available for public access.After Zion’s partial reopening May 13, visitors streamed into Utah’s most popular national park, but at numbers far below what is usual for this time of year, as was
  
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• David Burns: The American way of accounting for Soldier Dead

  23-05-2020 17:00
  
  Since the Civil War, Americans have observed a Memorial Day each year to honor those who have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. Our fallen total more than a million souls (not including Confederates).But what happened to these military fallen after they died? Before a soldier can be laid to rest in a military or hometown cemetery, his remains must be recovered and identified.Alone among nations, the United States has gone to extraordinary lengths to care for its Soldier Dead — a
  
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• Speedskater Ben Thornock returns from LDS Church mission to make a run at Beijing Olympics

  23-05-2020 15:00
  
  Ben Thornock could almost forget about the Olympics while serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in northern Japan. He had no access to television or the internet and was limited to one email a week, from his parents, as he concentrated on proselytizing for his church.Every once in a while, though, the Taylorsville High graduate’s route would take him past a store with a TV. He’d catch a glimpse of a speedskater, and he’d feel a pang in his
  
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• Letter: Who cares what Trump is taking?

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  The airwaves are filled with news about Donald Trump’s announcement that he claims to be taking hydroxychloroquine. My response: Who cares?First, as a compulsive liar, it’s impossible to believe anything he says is true. Second, he’s waving his magic wand again to distract the country from the devastation his incompetence has caused to the lives of millions of American people. And third, he has consistently adopted an “every man, and woman, for themselves” policy.Tr
  
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• Letter: Remember kindness and forgiveness

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Holy Quran is the most widely read book but it’s also the most misunderstood. There’s a misconception that it only talks about Jihad or violence. Nothing could be further from the truth.The Holy Quran is a book of mercy and teaches my Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s motto, “Love for all, hatred for none.” It is sent as a guidance for the whole of mankind, not just Muslims.The Holy Quran says, “A kind word and forgiveness are better than charity followed by in
  
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• Letter: Make our air better, not worse

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  According to preliminary findings from scientists at the University of Utah, the air in Salt Lake County was about 50% cleaner than normal during the last two weeks of March during the pandemic shutdown. With fewer cars and trucks on the roads, it was truly exhilarating to inhale the fresh, sparkling air for a change.But there are powerful voices in the Utah Legislature who created the inland port and want to take us in another direction from clean air. Using our tax dollars, they are providing
  
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• Letter: Loads of public money

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  The gloves are off and Republicans are upfront about it these days. Whatever it takes, voter suppression, shutting up the whistleblowers, hacking into the alarm, firing the honest public servant, installing the toad, gerrymandering the voting districts, dark money, the sky is the limit.Money is no object.Throw money at a problem? No. Employ a jet engine with a big hopper to take loads and loads of public money.Charles Ashurst, LoganSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: COVID-19 vs. traffic fatalities

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  Without getting into a discussion about false equivalence, think about this.According to 2018 Insurance Institute for Highways Safety statistics, there were 11.2 highway fatalities per 100,000 people in the United States. Compare that to the arguably under-reported and still increasing 28.2 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people.Why would we not take the temporary precautions of maintaining social distance and wearing masks to fight a disease that is about to become three times more deadly than high
  
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• Letter: A lie of mine to go with one of Trump’s

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  This is the truth. Trump is not taking hydroxychloroquine.His personal physician gives him two capsules every morning and leaves the room. Trump unwraps the capsules, tosses the wrappings into a wastebasket where it can be seen, then drops the capsules into his toilet and flushes it. He then fills and empties his water glass leaving a few drops inside and lies about it to the press, again.The Salt Lake Tribune often prints Trump’s lies. Why not print one of mine?John Dombek, Santa ClaraSub
  
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• Johnny Townsend: Securing the well-being of citizens is not tyranny

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  A former missionary colleague of mine explained that he believes both those on the right and the left want basically the same thing — to help people — but his beef is that those on the left want to achieve it through tyranny.If “the government” assists the poor, the rest of us are forced to pay higher taxes. Helping is only appropriate if the behavior is performed without coercion. It was “Satan’s plan” to make people be good. God instead chose to give u
  
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• Brodi Ashton: My Uber driver wasn’t wearing a mask, and then he shared this...

  23-05-2020 14:00
  
  So, it’s been a minute since I wrote a column. And during that minute, I’ve been sick with a respiratory virus (not COVID-19). I even ended up in the hospital for a week (seriously, stop looking at me like that, it was not the coronavirus).I won’t bore you with another hospital story, but whatever you’ve heard, the nurse started it, and the scrubs were mine. I brought them from home.This is a weird time we’re living in. The other day, after an appointment with my ne
  
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• AP-NORC poll: Trump approval remains steady during pandemic

  23-05-2020 06:08
  
  Washington • As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, Americans’ views of the federal and state government response to the crisis are starting to sour — yet President Donald Trump’s personal approval rating has remained steady.A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 41% of Americans approve of the president's job performance, while 58% disapprove. That's consistent with opinions of Trump before the pandemic, as well as throu
  
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• Thanks for the memories, Coach Sloan

  23-05-2020 06:00
  
  A sign honoring former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan appears outside Vivint Arena in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday, May 22, 2020, after Sloan died at age 78. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — A few mornings before he shocked the sports world by resigning during the middle of the 2010-11 season, Jerry Sloan stood on the Sacramento Kings’ court and told a small group of reporters how to defend the pick-and-roll.
  One problem players had, Sloan explained, is that they
  
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• Ryan Wells: Momentum in educational equity suffers during global pandemic

  23-05-2020 05:00
  
  It’s after 10 p.m. on Monday night and I’ve just put my phone down to take a breather. I have been on the phone for the past three hours talking to students and their parent about their AP Spanish Language and Culture test which is scheduled for this Friday at 2 p.m.I am working my way through a list of roughly 90 students who have registered, paid for and endured a year’s worth of essay writing, text analysis, cultural comparison, listening comprehension, presentation practice
  
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• David Brooks: The first invasion of America

  23-05-2020 05:00
  
  I was an American history major in college, back in the 1980s.I’ll be honest with you. I thrilled to the way the American story was told back then. To immigrate to America was to join the luckiest and greatest nation in history. “Nothing in all history had ever succeeded like America, and every American knew it,” Henry Steele Commager wrote in his 1950 book, “The American Mind.”To be born American was to be born to a glorious destiny. We were the nation of the futur
  
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• 70-year-old man dead after 5-day hiking trip in Utah

  23-05-2020 02:34
  
  A 70-year-old man has died after collapsing while returning from a five-day hike in southeastern Utah, authorities said.The Kane County sheriff's office was responding to an emergency incident in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area around 9 a.m. Wednesday when they learned the man was hiking and rafting with a group in the Escalante Canyon for multiple days, KUTV-TV reported.Six people, including the man, were hiking out of the canyon to where their vehicle was parked when he collapsed, dep
  
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• Nguyen Hoang: Trump says, ‘Who is to blame? Not me!’

  23-05-2020 02:00
  
  It’s an indisputable fact that President Donald Trump has never lost control of his Republican party, but the GOP has lost it over Trump – almost right from the start.Owing to this one-sided affair, this party is faced with a historical responsibility to pull the country away from a “national disaster.” How can the party succeed in something it is least prepared to do?In a way, it’s the Republican party which made Trump president in 2016, while he could say otherwis
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: One of the Greats

  23-05-2020 00:34
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, May 24, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/21/bagley-cartoon-free-dumb/" target=_blank><u>Free-dumb</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/20/bagley-cartoon-utah/"><u>Utah Ballot Box</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/19/bagley-cartoon-red-que
  
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• Gov. Herbert denies Bluff’s request to stay at high alert on coronavirus

  23-05-2020 00:19
  
  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.Bluff • As coronavirus restrictions continue to be eased across Utah, tourists have begun returning to visit the canyon country in the southern part of the state, booking hotel rooms and sitting down in restaurants.But for elected l
  
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• Utah should seek to develop federal lands near cities, argues a former lawmaker

  23-05-2020 00:01
  
  Utah officials now have a $700,000 tool that they hope will demonstrate the federal government is paying the state a “minuscule fraction” of what it’s due for its public lands.On Friday, a tech firm called Geomancer unveiled the software that Utah lawmakers bought to help them understand the value of the land — and possibly lobby for more federal cash.The Lehi company’s analysis, presented to a panel of state lawmakers, estimates that local governments in Utah could
  
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• In their own words, Utah Jazz fans share their favorite memories of former coach Jerry Sloan

  23-05-2020 00:01
  
  Former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan died early Friday at age 78. He guided the Utah Jazz for 23 seasons and became the fourth-winningest coach in NBA history in the process. He also left a mark on Utahns, who watched him lead their team to consecutive NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998 and 15 consecutive playoff appearances between 1989 and 2003.Some responses have been edited for clarity and length.I’ll never forget - The Jazz were unveiling their then-new jerseys in 2010. Coach Sloan was on the
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 22: State reports one new death and 183 new cases; Nursing homes to receive $37.3M

  23-05-2020 00:00
  
  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 Friday, May 22. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---4 p.m.: Skilled nursing homes to receive $37.3 million in federal moneySkilled nurs
  
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• John W. Huber: Preventing gun violence and domestic violence homicides

  23-05-2020 00:00
  
  Domestic violence disproportionately impacts Utah’s homicide rates, especially when compared to national averages. In some years, more than half of Utah homicides have a connection to domestic violence, while nationally in a given year less than twenty percent of homicides connect to domestic violence.Many of Utah’s domestic violence homicides involve firearms, and studies find that the presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation exponentially increases the risk of homicide.Un
  
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