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• Commentary: Are we really all in this together?

  26-05-2020 23:56
  
  “ ‘But what will my children do if we die?’ asked my patient’s mother in Spanish. With three other children at home, she had used her limited funds for a taxi to bring her child with COVID-19 symptoms to the hospital. Her husband was hospitalized with COVID-19. She was sick herself, and worried about getting sicker due to underlying health conditions.“Through my N-95 mask and face shield, I yelled so the interpreter on the phone could hear me. When she started sobbi
  
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• Utah teen dies in Oregon on Sunday after tree falls on boat

  26-05-2020 23:50
  
  Salem, Ore. • A teenage girl died at Detroit Lake in northwest Oregon on Sunday afternoon after the top of a large tree fell and hit two pontoon-style boats tethered together near the shoreline in the Box Canyon area.The Oregonian/OreganLive reports the 13-year-old girl, who was visiting from Utah along with family members, was severely injured on one of the pontoons and was taken by boat to Mongold State Park.Marion County sheriff deputies and emergency personnel administered CPR to the vi
  
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• Beneath that gruff exterior, former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan was ‘commonfolk’ — a kind, compassionate man

  26-05-2020 23:49
  
  Former Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan talks with the media Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 at the Zions Bank Basketball Center, the day the Jazz announced Sloan’s retirement, along with assistant coach Phil Johnson. Sloan passed away last Friday.| Scott G. Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — During my four decades as a sportswriter, I was never the full-time beat writer for the Utah Jazz, although I used to cover a lot of Jazz games back in the 1990s and beyond when Jerry Sloan was th
  
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• University of Utah, Utah State will hold in-person classes this fall

  26-05-2020 23:29
  
  At least two major universities in the state plan to reopen their campuses for in-person classes this fall — and more are likely to follow — though administrators stress that it will happen only with strict measures in place to sanitize and limit spreading the coronavirus among faculty and students.Both the University of Utah and Utah State University say they will return, but it will be gradual, at least at first, for the upcoming semester starting in August. Class sizes will be kep
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 26: State’s death toll crosses over 100, including a second homeless patient: COVID-19 hit its peak in late April on the Navajo Nation

  26-05-2020 23:06
  
  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 26. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---2:30 p.m.: Coronavirus hit its peak on the Navajo Nation in late AprilThe peak of
  
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• Pandemic stalls plastic-bag control efforts in northern Utah

  26-05-2020 22:58
  
  Logan • Restrictions aimed at reducing the use of single-use plastic bags have been put on hold in northern Utah during the coronavirus pandemic, but officials close to the issue said the efforts will not be forgotten.In response to COVID-19, some stores have banned reusable bags as part of their safety measures because they are believed to pose more of a risk in spreading the virus than plastic bags, The Herald Journal reported."The very thing that we were promoting as a big part of the so
  
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• Utah downwinders denounce Trump’s talk of restarting nuclear tests

  26-05-2020 22:40
  
  The Trump administration is talking about restarting nuclear arms tests, which alarms Utah “downwinders” — who suffered cancer from atomic tests conducted upwind in Nevada decades ago.“I burst into tears when I read that,” says Mary Dickson, a longtime advocate for downwinders. “I live everyday with watching the effects that testing all those years ago had on so many people I know and love. We're still living with the consequences of fallout from testing&helli
  
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• University of Utah, Utah State will reopen campuses with in-person classes this fall

  26-05-2020 22:37
  
  At least two major universities in the state are planning to reopen their campuses for in-person classes this fall — and more are likely to follow — though administrators stress that it will only happen with strict measures in place to sanitize and limit spreading the coronavirus among faculty and students.Both the University of Utah and Utah State University say they will return, but it will be gradual, at least at first, for the upcoming semester starting in August. Class sizes wil
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 26: State’s death toll crosses over 100: COVID-19 hit its peak in late April on the Navajo Nation

  26-05-2020 22:36
  
  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 26. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---2:30 p.m.: Coronavirus hit its peak on the Navajo Nation in late AprilThe peak of
  
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• Lawsuit dismissed against Traeger over wood pellets claim

  26-05-2020 22:14
  
  Salem, Ore. • A district court judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against barbecue grill manufacturer Traeger Pellet Grills, deciding the defendants failed to establish the court has jurisdiction.U.S. District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins of Utah dismissed without prejudice the suit filed by plaintiffs Michael Yates and Norman Jones that alleged Traeger Pellet Grills doesn’t use the wood advertised in its pellets and instead uses cheaper woods flavored with oils, the Sta
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 26: Seven Salt Lake County homeless people are fighting the virus

  26-05-2020 21:08
  
  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 26. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1 p.m.: Salt Lake County gives update on its homeless populationThere are currentl
  
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• Gordon Monson: What will the Utah Jazz look like coming out of the NBA’s pandemic hiatus?

  26-05-2020 20:36
  
  It is the Great NBA Crapshoot of 2020.And where and how the Utah Jazz will roll through the thing, if there is a thing, is a competitive mystery full of intrigue.Whispers have become shouts that the league will restart its season in the weeks ahead, aiming for a date prior to the end of July. The exact format for such an endeavor is yet to be determined.Some say the regular season will continue — with regional broadcast money to kick in if teams get to a minimum of 70 games, per contractua
  
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• Judge strikes down U.S. energy leasing rules in sage grouse habitat

  26-05-2020 20:28
  
  Billings, Mont. • A U.S. judge has dealt another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to increase domestic oil and gas output from public lands, saying officials failed to protect habitat for a declining bird species when it issued energy leases on hundreds of square miles.Judge Brian Morris said the Interior Department did not do enough to encourage development outside of areas with greater sage grouse, a ground-dwelling bird whose numbers have dropped dramatically in recent de
  
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• Utah County attorney says officials got it wrong — two businesses didn’t flout coronavirus guidelines

  26-05-2020 20:01
  
  Utah County Attorney David Leavitt said Tuesday that the county’s report that two businesses had flouted coronavirus restrictions and created hotspots of the virus were inaccurate.County commissioners earlier this month called for businesses to comply with coronavirus recommendations after they said two companies had ignored guidelines and required employees with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis to report to work.The commissioners, in a public release, criticized the businesses in question f
  
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• National parks hope visitors comply with virus measures

  26-05-2020 19:58
  
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • A man pets a wild bison on the head. Rescuers pull a treasure seeker from a snowy canyon. A woman taking photos stumbles into scalding water.Visitors to Yellowstone National Park often leave common sense and situational awareness at home, as those examples in the past year show.Now, as Yellowstone and other national parks end a two-month shutdown due to the coronavirus, park officials ask visitors to take simple precautions: wash hands, keep a safe distance apart, wear prot
  
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• Jerry Sloan’s obituary offers a comforting overview of a man who valued giving your all

  26-05-2020 18:22
  
  Retired Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton (right) hugs Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan after a ceremony to retire Stockton’s jersey in the Delta Center Monday Nov. 22, 2004 in Salt Lake City.| Keith Johnson, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — I’m not one who often reads obituaries. Though I’m getting up there, I am not quite to the age where I make the grandpa-approved joke that I read obituaries to see if I’m in there.
  I made an exception this weekend for Gerald Eugene (a
  
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• Utah teen dies in Oregon Sunday after tree falls on boat

  26-05-2020 18:14
  
  Salem, Ore. • A teenage girl died at Detroit Lake in northwest Oregon on Sunday afternoon after the top of a large tree fell and hit two pontoon-style boats tethered together near the shoreline in the Box Canyon area.The Oregonian/OreganLive reports the 13-year-old girl, who was visiting from Utah along with family members, was severely injured on one of the pontoons and was taken by boat to Mongold State Park.Marion County sheriff deputies and emergency personnel administered CPR to the vi
  
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• Utah teen ties in Oregon Sunday after tree falls on boat

  26-05-2020 17:54
  
  Salem, Ore. • A teenage girl died at Detroit Lake in northwest Oregon on Sunday afternoon after the top of a large tree fell and hit two pontoon-style boats tethered together near the shoreline in the Box Canyon area.The Oregonian/OreganLive reports the 13-year-old girl, who was visiting from Utah along with family members, was severely injured on one of the pontoons and was taken by boat to Mongold State Park.Marion County sheriff deputies and emergency personnel administered CPR to the vi
  
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• $1.5 million allocated in Utah for coronavirus overflow and quarantine lodging goes unspent

  26-05-2020 17:49
  
  Utah allocated nearly $1.5 million for quarantine lodging and a hospital overflow site for coronavirus treatment but did not use the funds, a state official said.The quarantine and hospital site contracts will expire at the end of May and June, respectively, KUER-FM reports.The state spent more than $1.2 million on a contract to set up 250 sleeping cots and medical equipment at an exhibition center in Sandy to give hospitals a place to move noncritical patients if there was an overwhelming influ
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: What you should know about visiting national parks during a pandemic

  26-05-2020 17:37
  
  Memorial Day weekend is typically the busiest time for Utah’s national parks. But with coronavirus concerns and two closed parks, the Mighty Five likely saw a dramatic drop in visitors this year.On this episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune public lands and environment reporter Brian Maffly and the National Parks Conservation Association’s Cory MacNulty will discuss the status of national parks opening back up, what to expect and what you need to know before visiting.‘Tri
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: What you should know about visiting national parks during a pandemic

  26-05-2020 17:01
  
  Memorial Day weekend is typically the busiest time for Utah’s national parks. But with coronavirus concerns and two closed parks, the Mighty Five likely saw a dramatic drop in visitors this year.On this episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune public lands and environment reporter Brian Maffly and the National Parks Conservation Association’s Cory MacNulty will discuss the status of national parks opening back up, what to expect and what you need to know before visiting.‘Tri
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 26: All 15 of Utah’s operational LDS temples will be back in service next week

  26-05-2020 16:56
  
  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 26. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---8:50 a.m.: Another LDS temple to reopen in UtahAll 15 operational temples of The C
  
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• Some Utah Democrats and independents are switching parties to vote in the GOP primary

  26-05-2020 14:36
  
  Jim Dabakis — the liberal former Utah senator who once filmed himself eating an edible marijuana product in Nevada on Facebook Live and another time mockingly vowed to amend a bill to name a frontage road after President Donald Trump to “Stormy Daniels rampway” — registered as a Republican for the first time in his life last week.The 66-year-old isn’t having an identity crisis. And he hasn’t changed his iconoclastic views.Instead, Dabakis says the party change
  
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• Utah is sending its most vulnerable coronavirus patients to a care center in Salt Lake City

  26-05-2020 14:35
  
  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. LouDean Jolley received her positive coronavirus result on May 8.Her daughter Beverly Endicott rushed to the skilled nursing home, where her 84-year-old mother was staying to say goodbye through a window.“Honestly,” Endicott
  
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• Sabrina Strings: It’s not obesity killing black people. It’s slavery.

  26-05-2020 14:34
  
  About five years ago, I was invited to sit in on a meeting about health in the African-American community. Several important figures in the fields of public health and economics were present. A freshly minted Ph.D., I felt strangely like an interloper. I was also the only black person in the room.One of the facilitators introduced me to the other participants and said something to the effect of “Sabrina, what do you think? Why are black people sick?”It was a question asked in earnest
  
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• Paul Krugman: In praise of fallible leaders

  26-05-2020 14:34
  
  Last week Joe Biden made an off-the-cuff joke that could be interpreted as taking African-American votes for granted. It wasn’t a big deal — Biden, who loyally served Barack Obama, has long had a strong affinity with black voters, and he has made a point of issuing policy proposals aimed at narrowing racial health and wealth gaps. Still, Biden apologized.And in so doing he made a powerful case for choosing him over Donald Trump in November. You see, Biden, unlike Trump, is capable of
  
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• Utah Farm Bureau helps deliver 500 live sheep, 16,000 pounds of lamb to the Navajo Nation

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  Even as miles-long food bank lines have become emblematic of the coronavirus pandemic, many Utah farmers and ranchers have found themselves with plenty of food but nowhere to sell it.“Farmers and ranchers have been in just a crazy moment through all of this,” said Ron Gibson, president of the Utah Farm Bureau. “It’s been devastating to some of our industries, and one of the industries that’s been hurt the most is the sheep industry.”A sheep rancher in Sanpete
  
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• Letter: Voices of young writers

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  A bright spot I’ve noticed during the pandemic, are the many young contributors to The Public Forum and commentary pages. (Veronique Mintz, Isabella Rushforth, Mae Ling Lewis and Taylor V. Shelton, to name a few.)We would do well to heed their insight and examine life from their field of vision. Think outside the box. Offer solutions to problems and look ahead with optimism.If these young writers are any indication of the future, we are in good hands.Sandi Thor, West JordanSubmit a letter
  
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• Letter: Monson’s journalism defends Utah’s pizza honor

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  Kudos to Gordon Monson, who, in one fell swoop (“Utah pizza guy says there was no way Michael Jordan’s pie was poisoned,” Tribune, May 21) has become the Captain Moroni of the Utah pizza industry.(Betcha you didn’t think you’d see that reference in The Tribune. Am I right?)With the honor of all 801 and 435 pizzas at stake, Monson went out and did that thing you rarely see in today’s media (What’s it called again? Oh, yeah. Journalism.) and dispelled what
  
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• Letter: Keep it up, Bagley

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  I recently the letter to the editor from Chase Kimball, decrying Pat Bagley for spewing hate in his editorial cartoons. I have been a subscriber for many years, as well, and thank God we have Pat Bagley.For years, Bagley has given me a laugh and a light-hearted look at some of the most ridiculous political and social situations. Like many people, I am appalled at the nonsense coming from Washington, D.C., and sometimes from our own state capital. It is often stressful to hear information that ap
  
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• Letter: Is 36,000 deaths enough?

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  Columbia University disease modelers believe that if the United States had imposed social-distancing measures one week earlier in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died. If they had imposed social-distancing two weeks earlier, they believe about 83% of the nation’s deaths would have been avoided.When Donald Trump was running for president, he said, "I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a single vote."So I'd like to ask all you MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters who hav
  
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• Letter: Herbert hypocritical on local health departments

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  When the mayor of Kaysville recently granted a permit for a massive outdoor concert, openly defying state guidelines for reopening the economy and potentially endangering public health, I wrote Gov. Gary Herbert asking him how this could conceivably be permissible.I promptly received a polite response from Kelli Lucero, his director of constituent services. She wrote, among other things, “Enforcement of state health orders is carried out by local health departments.”Why state health
  
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• Jennifer Senior: We’re not really parenting. We’re managing parenthood in a pandemic.

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  Summer is upon us, and many summer camps across the Northeast — and other parts of the country — have been canceled. We all know what this means: three more months of family togetherness! 270 more meals! 540 if you have teenagers! All without the nominal structure of online school! Who’s excited?I know. It’s a formula for enough tantrums to split the atom.Because I’m a mother, and because I once wrote a book about modern parenthood, I’ve spent a lot of time th
  
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• Commentary: How should Utah spend its remaining CARES Act money?

  26-05-2020 14:00
  
  What would we have done to prepare for COVID-19 six months ago if we had a crystal ball? We now have the benefit of hindsight to plan for a possible new surge of infections this fall. The state still has hundreds of millions of dollars in CARES Act funding to be appropriated.How should we spend it?Over the past several weeks, state leaders have had to make difficult spending decisions with limited time and information. We must proceed with transparency, efficiency and forward-looking strategies
  
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• Storm exposes shipwreck in the Great Salt Lake

  26-05-2020 05:21
  
  A recent storm has exposed a shipwreck in the Great Salt Lake that could be more than 100 years old.Utah State Parks on Monday posted a photo of the wreck — a tangle of brown beams protruding from the water — on its Facebook page. Dave Shearer, park manager at Great Salt Lake State Park, said a recent storm blowing waves to the south eroded a beach and exposed the wreckage.Shearer said it’s a steel hold boat with wooden planking. That dates the boat to the start of the 20th cen
  
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• How will we remember the pandemic? Museums are already beginning to decide.

  26-05-2020 03:57
  
  Los Angeles • Six-year-old Franklin Wong captured the simple frustration of being a student in the Los Angeles Unified School District in mid-March, after his classes were canceled. He wrote in big blocky letters: “I did not go anywhere,” and added an unhappy face in green and red crayon for his remote-learning assignment.This may be the first time a first grader's homework is headed to a permanent museum collection instead of a parent’s refrigerator door, a novelty that u
  
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• Pandemic brings smaller, subdued Memorial Day observances

  26-05-2020 03:40
  
  Billings, Mont. • Americans settled for small processions and online tributes instead of parades Monday as they observed Memorial Day in the shadow of the pandemic, which forced communities to honor the nation’s military dead with modest, more subdued ceremonies that also remembered those lost to the coronavirus.On the weekend that marked the unofficial start of summer, authorities warned people heading to beaches, parks or backyard barbecues to heed social-distancing rules to avoid a
  
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• Trump honors war dead in Memorial Day events colored by pandemic’s threat

  26-05-2020 03:34
  
  Baltimore • President Donald Trump honored America’s war dead Monday in back-to-back Memorial Day appearances colored by an epic struggle off the battlefield, against the coronavirus.Eager to demonstrate national revival from the pandemic, Trump doubled up on his public schedule, while threatening to pull the Republican National Convention out of Charlotte in August unless North Carolina's Democratic governor gives a quick green light to the party's plans to assemble en masse.The U.S.
  
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• Stormy weather might put a damper on SpaceX’s 1st astronaut launch

  26-05-2020 03:27
  
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • Stormy weather is threatening to delay SpaceX’s first astronaut launch.A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Dragon capsule with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station. It will be the first time astronauts launch from Florida in nine years and a first for a private company.The manager of NASA's commercial crew program, Kathy Lueders, said everything was progress
  
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• Jeremy Johnson, convicted businessman tied to Utah political scandal, is released from prison

  26-05-2020 02:15
  
  Jeremy Johnson, the St. George businessman convicted of making false statements to banks, has been released from prison 23 months early, according to his Facebook posts.Johnson posted a photo Friday night showing him standing beside his wife and two children in front of a small airplane.“The rumors are true!” Johnson wrote. “So so so happy to be home.”Someone replied to the post saying they thought he had two more years in prison.“I did but they let me out early due
  
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• Commentary: Utah should stay on its path to help the disabled

  26-05-2020 02:00
  
  As legislative budget committees meet this week to consider how to respond to a projected $1.2 billion shortfall in revenue due to COVID-19, we urge them to remember the state will probably get about that much in aid from the federal government. Therefore, we strongly encourage them not to give up too quickly on the progress they’re likely to see as a result of some of their actions during the most recent general session.Legislators re-envisioned the community mental health system to ensur
  
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• The Celtics had the largest representation on ESPN's Top 74 list

  26-05-2020 00:04
  
  Like any and all lists ranking players, ESPN’s Top 74 released earlier this month drew a lot of criticism. Though we can argue all day long about the order, there’s no question that the players who made the list belong among the best of all-time.
  With those names in hand, we decided to look up how many played for each franchise and for how long.
  Unsurprisingly, the storied Boston Celtics finished on top in both categories – even though they have only one player in the Top 6 com
  
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• Three people, including assailant, injured in South Jordan stabbing case

  26-05-2020 00:00
  
  A stabbing late Sunday sent three people, including the assailant, to hospitals.South Jordan police, in a news release, said they received a call from the University of Utah Health Center in that city alerting them that two men, ages 41 and 23, were brought in with stab wounds. A helicopter flew the older man to University Hospital in Salt Lake City with life-threatening injuries.The news release said he is expected to survive. So is the younger man.According to police, the assailant was also st
  
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• George Chapman: Decision to ‘close’ streets creates anger and may hurt businesses

  26-05-2020 00:00
  
  On May 14, signs went up on Stratford Avenue (from 1300 East to 2000 East) that said: "Stay Safe, Stay Active, Street is open to walking and bicycling."The local Sugar House Community Council was told about it the night before. Residents of the neighborhood were informed when they saw the signs.The city’s plan to encourage bicycling and walking in the streets, until now, had been popular with other communities. But the Stratford Avenue conversion has resulted in many complaints to the Comm
  
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