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• Looking Back At The Draft: The No. 12 Picks

  24-05-2020 22:57 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  David Yapkowitz assesses the 12th picks made in recent NBA Drafts and identifies the hits, misses and everything in-between.
  
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• U.S. deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss

  24-05-2020 22:11
  
  They Were Not Simply Names on a List. They Were Us.Numbers alone cannot possibly measure the impact of the coronavirus on America, whether it is the number of patients treated, jobs interrupted or lives cut short. As the country nears a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths attributed to the virus, The New York Times scoured obituaries and death notices honoring those who died. The 1,000 names listed here reflect just 1% of the toll. None were mere numbers.Patricia Dowd, 57, San Jose, Calif., auditor
  
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• Trump’s pitch to voters: Trust me, economy will soar in 2021

  24-05-2020 21:56
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump has a new pitch to voters for this fall: Trust me.As the economy faces a once-in-a-century recession, with more than 38 million people out of work, Trump is increasingly talking up a future recovery that probably won't materialize until after the November election. He's asking voters to look past the pain being felt across the nation and give him another four-year term on the promise of an economic comeback in 2021.“It’s a transition to greatn
  
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• Police shoot and kill man after short chase early Saturday morning

  24-05-2020 21:25
  
  Salt Lake City Police officers shot and killed a man after responding to a call involving threats with a gun at around 2 a.m. Saturday.Officers tracked down a suspect in the area of 900 South and 300 West, according to FOX 13. The suspect fled a short distance before police confronted him, then shots were fired. The suspect died at the scene.No officers were injured.Police were still searching for a second suspect as of Saturday morning.“At this point in time, we believe there may be a sec
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Cases and deaths see slow increases as Utah experiences largest weekly toll yet

  24-05-2020 20:59
  
  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. As the Memorial Day holiday approached, Utah had its worst week yet in terms of both deaths and positive cases due to COVID-19.Overall, the state has seen 1,154 cases in the past seven days after the Utah Department of Health reported 1
  
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• Matt Haarms is — almost — out of quarantine and ready to become a Cougar

  24-05-2020 20:44
  
  With everything closed down in West Lafayette, Ind., due to COVID-19, there wasn’t much for Matt Haarms to do after finishing up the semester earlier this month. Haarms made waves in April when he entered the transfer portal and later picked BYU to continue his collegiate career at.Originally from the Netherlands, the 7-foot-3 center originally considered moving to Provo once school facilities started opening up and the Cougars could start getting together. But if it came down to staying i
  
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• Paul Krugman: How many will die for the Dow?

  24-05-2020 20:00
  
  In mid-March, after weeks in denial, Donald Trump finally admitted that COVID-19 was a serious threat and called on Americans to practice social distancing.The delayed acknowledgment of reality — reportedly driven by concerns that admitting that the coronavirus posed a threat would hurt the stock market — had deadly consequences. Epidemiological modelers believe that tens of thousands of deaths might have been avoided if America had started lockdowns even a week earlier.Still, better
  
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• Navajo Nation has 104 new coronavirus cases, 4 more deaths

  24-05-2020 19:01
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation officials report 104 new cases of the coronavirus with four more deaths from the pandemic.The Navajo Nation has been hit hard from the outbreak and tribal officials said the latest figures raised the tribe’s total number of cases as of Saturday night to 4,633 with 153 known deaths.Navajo Department of Health officials said preliminary reports from eight health care facilities indicate that 1,397 individuals have recovered from COVID-19 with more repo
  
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• Layton police arrest man who said he killed a woman he met through Tinder

  24-05-2020 18:24
  
  A man was arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of murder after reporting the death of a 25-year-old woman, Layton police say.Ethan Hunsaker, 24, told police he met the victim, a connection from the dating app Tinder, on late Saturday night. At 3:19 a.m. Sunday, Hunsaker called 911 to report that he had killed someone inside a home near 1300 N. Reid Avenue in Layton, according to a news release from Layton Police Department. Officers found a woman lying on the floor with multiple stab wounds to h
  
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• Don Gale: Artificial intelligence needs the balance of human intelligence

  24-05-2020 17:00
  
  Artificial intelligence. Big deal. What we really need is more good old human intelligence.Artificial intelligence may help one or two of us eventually get to Mars. Human intelligence will help us get along together here on this planet. Artificial intelligence may speed up manufacturing and distribution of “things.” Human intelligence will speed up our appreciation for one another. Artificial intelligence may help solve the problem of global climate change. Only human intelligence ca
  
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• Upbeat ‘cancer dancer’ lifts souls during coronavirus pandemic with her virtual hip-hop messages from a Utah hospital

  24-05-2020 16:36
  
  Dance long has been Tia Stokes’ love language.Starting at age 10, she grooved her way through a southern Utah adolescence and added funky movements to her cheerleading routines at Hurricane High School. Tia then took her ambitions to Los Angeles, where she backed up Beyonce, and to Hawaii, where she performed Tahitian techniques at the Polynesian Cultural Center, twirled pompoms at professional football and basketball games, and finally returned to the Beehive State to create her own dance
  
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• Maureen Dowd: COVID dreams and Trump nightmares

  24-05-2020 16:16
  
  Washington • My corona dreams are so crazy and vibrant, with star turns by politicians, celebrities, zombies and my late mother, that sometimes as I wake, I groggily think the virus that devoured the globe has to be a dystopian vision.Then, still sliding into consciousness, I muse that Donald Trump lumbering around the White House must have been a dream, too. How is it possible that this man is actually president?But the Trump carnival of dread, with its twin fixations on masks and unmaskin
  
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• ‘Cancer dancer’ is winning online fans and lifting souls with every spirited step from her Utah hospital

  24-05-2020 16:13
  
  Dance long has been Tia Stokes’ love language.Starting at age 10, she grooved her way through a southern Utah adolescence and added funky movements to her cheerleading routines at Hurricane High School. Tia then took her ambitions to Los Angeles, where she backed up Beyonce, and to Hawaii, where she performed Tahitian techniques at the Polynesian Cultural Center, twirled pompoms at professional football and basketball games, and finally returned to the Beehive State to create her own dance
  
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• Is Best Friends losing friends? Kane County officials push back against Utah animal sanctuary.

  24-05-2020 15:56
  
  By any measure, Best Friends Animal Society is a “a Utah success story, self-made and homegrown,” in the words of its CEO Julie Castle. Thirty-six years after establishing its famed pet sanctuary outside Kanab, the nonprofit organization has mushroomed from “almost nothing” into a global brand with millions of members.As many as 37,000 guests a year visit the sanctuary on a former ranch in Angel Canyon, where the society employs 425 people full time and supports several K
  
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• Robert Kirby: Come, come — back — ye Saints

  24-05-2020 15:00
  
  After a layoff of more than two months, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced tentative steps for its members to gather once again.In a news release entirely invented for the purposes of this column (meaning that there is not a shred of truth in it, even though some of you will believe it anyhow and wind yourselves into whiny snits), the faith’s governing First Presidency announced:“We are concerned that the recent quarantine may result in otherwise valiant member
  
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• Here’s how Utah’s Republican candidates for governor say they’d deal with the affordable housing crunch

  24-05-2020 15:00
  
  Matthew Wunderli says it’s become “near impossible” to find a home in Salt Lake City for his family of five, as housing prices continue to skyrocket and the state experiences a severe crunch in the availability of affordable places to live.“A good neighborhood that’s safe, clean [and has] good schools should not be the cost that they are right now,” he said.As elected leaders grapple with how to address the state’s affordable housing crisis, Utah’s
  
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• 'Cancer dancer’ is winning online fans and lifting souls with every spirited step from her Utah hospital

  24-05-2020 14:47
  
  Dance long has been Tia Stokes’ love language.Starting at age 10, she grooved her way through a southern Utah adolescence and added funky movements to her cheerleading routines at Hurricane High School. Tia then took her ambitions to Los Angeles, where she backed up Beyonce, and to Hawaii, where she performed Tahitian techniques at the Polynesian Cultural Center, twirled pompoms at professional football and basketball games, and finally returned to the Beehive State to create her own dance
  
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• The ‘Aila test’ evaluates how indigenous women are portrayed in media

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  Tired of seeing bland and underdeveloped portrayals of indigenous women, Anishinaabe writer Ali Nahdee came up with the Aila test — a three-question assessment that seeks to evaluate the quality of indigenous female characters. Named after the strong female protagonist of Jeff Barnaby’s “Rhymes for Young Ghouls” (2013), the Aila test is similar to the Bechdel test, which mandates that at least two women in a movie have a conversation about something other than a man. The
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Is HBO Max worth $14.99 a month?

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  HBO Max launches Wednesday, and the latest combatant in the streaming wars will cost you $14.99 a month. Is it worth it?If you miss streaming “Friends” repeats — no longer on Netflix — or if you’re dying to stream all 279 episodes of “The Big Bang Theory,” sure. If you want to watch every episode of pretty much every original series that’s been on HBO — along with whatever movies are currently airing on the pay-cable channel — absolutel
  
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• Letter: We have met the enemy and he is us

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  In 2014, former President Clinton said in a Jimmy Kimmel interview that “[an alien invasion from outer space] may be the only way to unite this increasingly divided world of ours.”More than two decades earlier, in 1987, President Reagan had said “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world” — in other words, if we humans were facing a global existential threat.And now we are fac
  
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• Letter: Utah doesn’t need any tax incentives

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  In addition to the usual news in Sunday’s Salt Lake Tribune about the virus and Donald Trump’s absolute inability to deal with it, there was an article about Utah bringing three new companies to Utah with the help of tax incentives.Why on earth does the state of Utah need to lure more businesses here in view of our crowded roads, lack of affordable housing, over-crowded schools and disappearance of open spaces? Such thinking, or lack of thought, reminds me of Edward Abbey’s quo
  
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• Letter: Herbert puts his party over Utahns’ lives

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert has once again demonstrated a callous lack of leadership and egregious partisanship.His deflection to the Davis County Health Department to enforce state COVID-19 orders in response to Kaysville Mayor Kathy Witt, a Republican, openly defying these orders is putting us all at risk.When Salt Lake Mayor Jenny Wilson, a Democrat, asked for the county to remain under orange orders to protect citizens in one of Utah’s hardest hit counties, Herbert refused.The governor is willin
  
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• Letter: Health is tied to a healthy democracy

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  One of the hallmarks of democracy is its emphasis on the health of the citizenry. When a democratic nation’s health status begins to decline precipitously, as America’s did around 1990, it is often a sign that the vitality of the democracy itself is waning.Faltering indicators in maternal and child health, obesity and diabetes, more recently paired up in the 21st century with a lack of general preparation to deal with epidemics.In ancient people-oriented governments, top leaders were
  
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• Letter: Bagley makes America great

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  In responding to Chase Kimball’s Public Forum letter criticizing Pat Bagley, I have to say that I strongly disagree with his negative comments of this brilliant, talented cartoonist.He is my reason for getting out of bed and reading The Tribune each day. He takes current events and turns them into something we can ponder seriously or enjoy a fun much-needed laugh.Pat speaks the truth with his clever cartoon drawings and witty captions. We love his work at our house! Thank you, Mr. Bagley,
  
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• Commentary: Our strong partnerships have helped to protect our most vulnerable

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  “It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” – Doe ZantamataAs difficult as it has been for all of us to watch the pain and suffering associated with the COVID-19 virus, it has been heartening to watch our community come together in support of our most vulnerable populations.We’ve seen city, county and state governments partnering with local churches, businesses and servic
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I want to share my good news, but my friends keep beating me to it

  24-05-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • How do I handle friends who take it upon themselves to share my news with our mutual friends? I feel a level of resentment for them not allowing me to bear my own news. At the same time, does it matter if these people are my closest friends?— Frustrated FriendDear Frustrated Friend • I don’t blame you for feeling resentful. In fact, I think most people in your situation would feel the exact same way. You’re not alone is what I’m saying. So, wha
  
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• Tribune Editorial: It’s time to make up with Outdoor Retailer

  24-05-2020 13:00
  
  Even from deep in the coronavirus hole, Utahns still can see splendor.We live in what is arguably the most beautiful state in the Union, and Americans’ desire to live, work and play in that beauty has never been more apparent.And how does Utah’s legendarily productive citizenry interact with that natural beauty? Through the outdoor industry, in all of its manifestations: tourism, outdoor sports events and outdoor products manufacturing. It’s where the Beehive meets the Olympic
  
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• Leonard Pitts: A reminder of how much it took

  24-05-2020 13:00
  
  "Oh beautiful, for heroes provedIn liberating strifeWho more than self their country lovedAnd mercy more than life."— “America The Beautiful,” by Katharine Lee BatesAnd Memorial Day comes around once more.Gateway to the summer, to beaches, beer and barbecue, yes. But gateway, too, to reminders of all that was given, taken, lost, to make America. And is it fanciful to think maybe the reminder is needed more this year than in many years past? Perhaps. After all, previous generati
  
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• Jazz mailbag: Fans share memories of Jerry Sloan, plus how his Hall of Fame speech inspired me

  24-05-2020 13:00
  
  SPRINGFIELD, MA - SEPTEMBER 11: Charles Barkley presents Coach Jerry Sloan to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony on September 11, 2009 in Springfield, Massachusetts. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement(Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images) | Getty Images SALT LAKE CITY — When news of the death of Jerry
  
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• Jeff Saunders: Schools, like students, should be held harmless in pandemic

  24-05-2020 07:43
  
  I am a high school history teacher. I understand the importance of history, so I was going to write a Pandemic Journal for posterity. I am certain that the future world would want to know what schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic was like. What we faced and how life changed.I never really got around to writing it. I was still quite busy working from home and trying to help take care of my family, that when I finally thought about the journal, I forgot what I should write or just got tired. May
  
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• Rich Lowry: It’s OK to acknowledge the good COVID-19 news

  24-05-2020 04:37
  
  It’s not March anymore.The coronavirus has taken a heartbreaking toll on Americans, but the course of the virus is not the same as it was a few months ago. We are on the other side of the curve. There are encouraging signs all over the country, and no early indications of a reopening debacle.The question now is whether the media and political system can absorb good news on the virus, which is often ignored or buried under misleading storylines.The press has a natural affinity for catastrop
  
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• One dead after officer-involved shooting early Saturday morning

  24-05-2020 04:11
  
  Salt Lake City Police officers shot and killed a man after responding to a call involving threats with a gun at around 2 a.m. Saturday.Officers tracked down a suspect in the area of 900 South and 300 West, according to FOX 13. The suspect fled a short distance before police confronted him, then shots were fired. The suspect died at the scene.No officers were injured.Police were still searching for a second suspect as of Saturday morning.“At this point in time, we believe there may be a sec
  
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• Police arrest three people connected to drive-by shooting of Sandy teen

  24-05-2020 02:14
  
  Sandy Police have arrested three adults they say are connected to the drive-by shooting of a 17-year-old boy on Friday.James Edward Smith, 19, and Emmanuel Augustus Espinoza, 20, were both charged with criminal homicide and obstruction of justice, according to a news release. Dina Marie Smith, 58, was charged with obstruction of justice. All three suspects were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail. Police also seized a green Ford Explorer associated with the shooting.Updated suspect vehicle pho
  
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• George Pyle: Utah can afford to keep its standards high

  24-05-2020 02:00
  
  Let’s play Jeopardy!Answer: Yes. But only if the sale of, and special assessments on, the old state prison site pay every nickle of the cost. Including ongoing operations and maintenance.Question: Should the Utah Transit Authority spend $1.2 billion or more (it’s always more) running its TRAX light rail system into the Point of the Mountain territory that is expected to boom with development when the prison moves to its new location out by Salt Lake International Airport?The Point of
  
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• Deborah Gatrell: The present is not all that matters

  24-05-2020 02:00
  
  We are living through a slow motion disaster that will mark another major event in future history books. The greater danger is in “presentism” - the idea that only present things exist.We must do a better job remembering.Memorial Day began as Decoration Day in the post-Civil War 1800s as a time to pay tribute to fallen Soldiers. It evolved into the unofficial start of summer and a major shopping holiday. Now, health care professionals are being described as warriors “running in
  
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• Going outside this weekend? Don’t freak out

  24-05-2020 01:16
  
  After being holed up indoors for an extended period of time, perhaps you’re feeling the itch to peer outside: to explore the world beyond the radius of your home, grocery and takeout spot. But is it recommended? Will others adhere to social distancing? What fresh horrors await?Broadly speaking, scientists agree that leaving your home to explore outdoor pursuits is generally safe, so long as you’re maintaining physical distance, wearing facial coverings, and limiting exposure to other
  
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• Was ‘The Last Dance’ for Michael Jordan the last chance for the Utah Jazz?

  24-05-2020 00:20
  
  Micheal Jordan after stealing the ball in the final seconds during Sunday night’s Game 6 of the NBA Finals at the Delta Center, June 14, 1998. | Tom Smart, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — There are some things in life that are best not revisited. Adam Sandler movies, for instance. Ice Capades. High school. The proctologist. Oh, and if you’re a Utah Jazz fan, the 1998 NBA Finals.
  If they haven’t already seen it, Jazz followers should probably skip Episode 10 of “The La
  
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