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• UTA ridership still languishes as COVID-19 restrictions ease

  27-05-2020 23:58
  
  Utah Transit Authority ridership is still languishing as state COVID-19 threat levels have been lowered to yellow, or low risk, in most areas.Officials reported Wednesday just how far it is down by different types of transit to the UTA Advisory Committee of local government officials, including:• Ridership on FrontRunner commuter rail is down 83% from pre-COVID-19 levels on weekdays and 66% on Saturdays. It does not offer Sunday service. Its ridership on weekdays is about 3,100.• Light
  
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• First Kaysville, now Tooele County blocks concert aiming to protest virus restrictions

  27-05-2020 23:52
  
  Tooele County officials issued an order Wednesday to block a concert that planned to openly defy and protest state COVID-19 restrictions — which earlier had been chased out of Kaysville when its city council said it would turn sprinklers on it and cut its power.Eric Moutsos, organizer of the concert, did not immediately return phone calls about what his plans are now. He hoped the concert on Saturday with country start Collin Raye, who has 16 No. 1 country hits, would be among the first in
  
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• Poll: Only half of Americans would get a COVID-19 vaccine

  27-05-2020 23:50
  
  Only about half of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously to create one succeed, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.That’s surprisingly low considering the effort going into the global race for a vaccine against the coronavirus that has sparked a pandemic since first emerging from China late last year. But more people might eventually roll up their sleeves: The poll, released Wednesday, foun
  
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• Blue-collar coach Jerry Sloan ‘changed the attitude of basketball in Utah,’ even as he worried about being fired

  27-05-2020 23:47
  
  John Stockton makes a few remarks as he stands with Jazz owner Gail Miller and former head coach Jerry Sloan. Members of the 1997 Western Conference champion team are introduced at halftime in Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Jazz owner Gail Miller reflects on the career of the franchise’s Hall of Fame coach who died this past weekSALT LAKE CITY — Like so many others around the state and the nation, Utah Jazz o
  
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• Utah’s cannabis pharmacies debut drive-thru services

  27-05-2020 23:43
  
  Medical cannabis pharmacies in South Ogden and Salt Lake City began offering drive-thru services this week, as retailers seek to protect vulnerable customers from exposure to the coronavirus.The new option will offer a “safe alternative for high-risk patients to get the care they need as our country recovers from this pandemic,” Greta Brandt, president of True North Organics and Perfect Earth Modern Apothecary, said in a prepared statement.Patients using the drive-thru at South Ogden
  
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• NWSL makes it official: Utah Royals will host league tournament this summer at Zions Bank, Rio Tinto stadiums

  27-05-2020 23:26
  
  As most sports leagues in the United States continue to evaluate how their seasons will return as COVID-19 restrictions slowly lift, the National Women’s Soccer League on Wednesday officially announced a tournament that will begin in Utah next month, making it the first league in the country that will return to play.Utah Royals FC, part of the Real Salt Lake organization, will play host to the league’s other eight teams by holding games and practices at facilities and fields located
  
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• Michelle Quist: It is time to realize we have a problem in this country

  27-05-2020 23:00
  
  I can’t breathe.Because another black man has died.I wonder if I said another child has died, if that would grab your attention more. Would it make a difference in how much you cared, or how much you feel, if I said another child has died?It shouldn’t. Because another black man dying is reason enough to start realizing that we have a problem in this country. A big problem.George Floyd. His name is George Floyd. George Floyd was killed by police earlier this week in Minneapolis. &ldqu
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Confederacy of Dunces

  27-05-2020 22:33
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, May 28, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/26/bagley-cartoon-primary/" target=_blank><u>Primary Face Off</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/22/bagley-cartoon-one-greats/"><u>One of the Greats</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/21/bagley-
  
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• U.S. on cusp of marking at least 100K deaths from virus

  27-05-2020 22:30
  
  Washington • The United States was on the cusp of marking at least 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, a once-unthinkable toll that now appears to be just the beginning of untold misery in the months ahead as Las Vegas casinos and Walt Disney World make plans to reopen, crowds of unmasked Americans swarm beaches and public health officials predict a resurgence by fall.The stark reality comes as only half of Americans said they would be willing to get vaccinated if scientists are successful
  
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• 20 residents of Utah-run veterans home test positive for coronavirus

  27-05-2020 22:15
  
  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. Twenty residents and four employees of a nursing home for veterans in Salt Lake City have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs.As of Wednesday morning, there have been no
  
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• For first time in 124 years, Cheyenne Frontier Days canceled

  27-05-2020 22:13
  
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • Cheyenne Frontier Days, billed as the world’s largest outdoor rodeo, has been canceled for the first time in its 124-year history due to the coronavirus, the city’s mayor said Wednesday.Cheyenne Mayor Marian Orr told The Associated Press event organizers decided the risk of spreading the virus was too great for the more than 140,000 people who typically visit the city for Frontier Days over the last two weeks in July.[Read more: Days of ‘47 Pioneer Day eve
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 27: Utah reports four new deaths; state will end child care program

  27-05-2020 22:08
  
  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 Wednesday, May 27. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1 p.m.: Utah reports four new deaths Four more Utahns have died from COVID-19, t
  
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• Utah Hispanics now account for more coronavirus cases than whites

  27-05-2020 22:05
  
  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.The number of positive COVID-19 cases in Utah’s Hispanic community surpassed those of any other race or ethnicity Wednesday, even the supermajority white population.Hispanics make up only 14.2% of Utah’s population, but they
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: BYU professors discuss their gender research and how to elevate women’s voices in the church and beyond

  27-05-2020 21:52
  
  Women are gaining a higher profile in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at both the local and general levels. But having women in the room — and usually vastly outnumbered by men when issues are discussed and decisions are made, often by the faith’s all-male priesthood — doesn’t necessarily mean these women are being heard, let alone heeded.New research from three Brigham Young University professors — Olga Stoddard, Jessica Preece and Chris Karpowitz &
  
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• William E. Cosgrove: Circling the wagons makes no sense in a global pandemic

  27-05-2020 21:04
  
  The House has passed its Phase 4 pandemic relief funding bill. The Senate will debate it next. My concern is not that the $3 trillion investment may not be enough to keep our health systems functioning and our economy afloat, but that this package ignores the rest of the world, despite the fact that we are in a global fight for survival.The entire world, all of its peoples, and every economy, is simultaneously now under threat. Yet, this bill only looks inward, focuses its attention solely upon
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 27: Utah Hispanics surpass whites in cases of the virus; State reports four new deaths

  27-05-2020 21:01
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Wednesday, May 27. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1 p.m.: Utah reports four new deaths Four more Utahns have died from COVID-19, t
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 27: Dinosaur National Monument to allow camping

  27-05-2020 20:35
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Wednesday, May 27. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---12:30 p.m.: Dinosaur National Monument to allow camping and river tripsDinosaur
  
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• #MeToo, phase 2: Documentary ‘On the Record’ explores heavy burden on women of color

  27-05-2020 20:23
  
  There’s an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of “On the Record,” a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when to dial down to a hushed quiet.In the early morning darkness of Dec. 13, 2017, former music executive Drew Dixon walks to a coffee shop and buys the New York Times. On the front page is the story in which she and two others accuse the powerful hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, her former boss, of rape. Dixon examin
  
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• Zions Bank to build new tech campus on former Sharon Steel mill site in Midvale

  27-05-2020 20:18
  
  Zions Bank said Wednesday it will build a high-tech campus and operations center on the former Sharon Steel superfund site in Midvale.To be completed in the summer of 2022, the 400,000 square foot campus will accommodate more than 2,000 of the regional bank’s employees from other sites and become Zions’ primary location supporting digital services for customers across 11 western states.While reclaiming portions of a once-contaminated former steel mill site, the project also will be d
  
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• Knicks make hiring of Walt Perrin, long-time Jazz executive, official

  27-05-2020 19:31
  
  Walt Perrin, shown here June 15, 2019, was announced as one of several front office hires by the New York Knicks on Wednesday. Perrin spent 19 years with the Utah Jazz organization. | Silas Walker, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The New York Knicks announced a range of front office hires on Wednesday, including assistant general manager (college scouting) Walt Perrin, who spent the last 19 seasons with the Utah Jazz.
  The new batch of Knicks brass also includes Brock Aller as vice president
  
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• NJCAA teams like Salt Lake Community College can do what NCAA teams can’t — recruit in-person

  27-05-2020 18:49
  
  The NJCAA is not on the same playing level as the NCAA, but the junior college athletics governing body had a similar set of problems once COVID-19 hit more than two months ago.After the NCAA canceled all remaining winter championships, including the NCAA Tournament, plus all spring sports, the NJCAA followed suit. Its crown-jewel event, the NJCAA Division I National Tournament in men’s basketball, a 24-team extravaganza contested over six days in Hutchinson, Kan., was canceled. Remaining
  
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• Utah man was lured to his death, according to police. 3 suspects have been arrested.

  27-05-2020 18:22
  
  Three Utah men have been arrested in connection with the killing of a Sandy man.According to a probable cause statement, the killing took place on Thursday. Sandy Police said witnesses told them that one of the suspects — who are each 20 years old — “said that he wanted to kill the victim because he was running his mouth about” him. The three suspects — one from Cottonwood Heights, one from Sandy, and one from Draper — allegedly met and “planned the murd
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney says ‘enough already’ with Trump’s baseless claim about Joe Scarborough

  27-05-2020 18:12
  
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney on Wednesday said “enough already” with President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that former Rep. Joe Scarborough, who is now an MSNBC host, was involved in the death of a staffer 19 years ago.Romney didn’t mention Trump by name but said the attacks should end against Scarborough after a public plea by Timothy J. Klausutis, whose wife, Lori, fell and died while working in the then-congressman’s Florida office.I know Joe Scarborough
  
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• Task force on missing Native Americans resumes sessions

  27-05-2020 17:23
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A presidential task force charged with coming up with ways to address missing and slain Native Americans will resume tribal listening sessions Wednesday.The task force held a handful of sessions in person with tribes and tribal organizations before the coronavirus hit. It's now turning to teleconferences and webinars to update tribes on its work and get feedback.Four sessions are scheduled through June 3.The task force will develop protocols to apply to new and unsolved c
  
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• It’s going to get really hot in Utah — dangerously hot in St. George and Zion Canyon

  27-05-2020 16:24
  
  It’s going to be hot along the Wasatch Front over the next few days, and it’s going to be REALLY hot in southern Utah, according to the National Weather Service.An excessive heat warning has been issued for Thursday and Friday in the St. George area, where temperatures are expected to reach 104-107, and around Zion Canyon, with forecast highs of 100-103. The heat will “significantly increase the potential for heat related illnesses,” according to the NWS, “particula
  
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• Letter: No other nation would tolerate this

  27-05-2020 15:09
  
  A few questions show how the pandemic has shined a bright light on our unique American exceptionalism:Why does the U.S. have 28.7% of the world’s coronavirus deaths?How many Germans have lost their health insurance because of the pandemic?How many Canadians have lost their health insurance because of the pandemic?How many South Koreans have lost their health insurance because of the pandemic?How many Danes have lost their health insurance because of the pandemic?How many Japanese have lost
  
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• Rachel Bitecofer: Why a Biden victory hinges on picking the right running mate

  27-05-2020 15:08
  
  Do vice-presidential picks matter? Conventional wisdom argues they have limited electoral impact.But a vice-presidential pick does matter in a particular way to elections. It suggests the strategy and tactics a campaign will pursue. The pick might complement the ticket, like Al Gore did for Bill Clinton in 1992, or the pick might balance the ticket, like Mike Pence did for Donald Trump.So Joe Biden’s electoral fate may well hinge on this decision. In our polarized era, where turnout determ
  
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• Kara Swisher: Twitter must clear the stain of Trump

  27-05-2020 15:07
  
  “Please delete those tweets,” the widower begged in a letter last week to Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey. “My wife deserves better.”Yes, Twitter, Lori Klausutis certainly does deserve better, nearly two decades after she died in a tragic accident that has morphed into a macabre and continuing nightmare for her husband, Timothy Klausutis.The boogeyman plunging him and the family of his late wife into the very worst of memory holes is a conspiracy-theory-lovin
  
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• Utah’s COVID-19 death toll crosses the 100 mark

  27-05-2020 15:00
  
  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. Sixty-six days after the first coronavirus fatality in Utah, the state’s death toll from COVID-19 crossed over 100, the Utah Department of Health announced Tuesday.Three new fatalities were reported since Monday, UDOH said in its
  
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• Robert Gehrke: If Best Friends is Kane County’s worst enemy, its leaders need to get with the times

  27-05-2020 15:00
  
  Usually county leaders are happy to see the largest employer expanding, but Kane County commissioners are anything but friends with the Best Friends Animal Society.Over the years, Best Friends has blossomed into a 3,700-acre sanctuary for some 1,600 dogs and cats and horses and rabbits and birds and pigs and all sorts of critters. It attracts an estimated 37,000 visitors each year and provides full-time employment to 425 people.But commissioners are scrambling to halt Best Friends’ already
  
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• Neighbors Helping Neighbors helps Utahns volunteer to help those who need assistance during the pandemic

  27-05-2020 15:00
  
  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. Jolene Clarke wasn’t sure how she was going to pick up her prescriptions during the coronavirus pandemic. Because of her respiratory disease, Clarke’s doctor recommended she hunker down at her Marmalade home until July.Then,
  
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• Alcohol sales boom in April, and Utah liquor stores will be open one hour earlier come June

  27-05-2020 15:00
  
  The coronavirus may have cut sales in restaurants, bars and other retail businesses in April — but it boosted one-month alcohol sales in Utah by almost 24%.Sales of wine, spirits and higher-alcohol beers totaled $43.26 million last month, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control reported Tuesday. That’s an increase of $8.35 million from April 2019, when purchases equaled $34.91 million.Year-to-date liquor sales — from July 2019 through April 2020 — are $424.2 mil
  
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• NWSL makes it official: Utah Royals will host league tournament next month at Zions Bank, Rio Tinto stadiums

  27-05-2020 14:43
  
  As most sports leagues in the United States continue to evaluate how their seasons will return as COVID-19 restrictions slowly lift, the National Women’s Soccer League on Wednesday officially announced a tournament that will begin in Utah next month, making it the first league in the country that will return to play.Utah Royals FC, part of the Real Salt Lake organization, will play host to the league’s other eight teams by holding games and practices at facilities and fields located
  
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• Utah’s national political convention delegates want their parties to party, but safely

  27-05-2020 14:17
  
  Washington • The plan, as it is every four years, would bring together tens of thousands of politically charged activists in a big convention hall to rally around their nominee for president of the United States.There’d be rah-rah speeches, a sea of flags, rivers of red, white and blue bunting and, of course, a downpour of balloons at the end.That was then. This is now.The Republican and Democratic national political conventions are set to begin in three months in Charlotte, N.C., and
  
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• Utah’s next governor must take action on the mental health crisis, candidates say

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  Utah’s mental health crisis demands a response from its next governor, that much the candidates agree on, but what is the role of the state government in reducing the stigma on asking for help, or pushing insurance companies to improve benefits, or increasing the number of counselors who work in rural areas?There remains some debate in those areas among the four Republicans and one Democrat seeking the state’s top elected office.But just getting to this starting point feels like a wi
  
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• Utah is off to a scary start for wildfire season due to a dry spring and careless campers

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  The fire season has barely begun, and Utah has already experienced 237 wildfires — most of them small, of course — blackening nearly 3,000 acres in what officials fear could be a harbinger of bigger, badder burns to come.The epidemic of fires is a testament to the hazardous conditions coming on the heels of a warm, dry spring, but, even more alarmingly, to the carelessness of people, according to State Forester Brian Cottam.“The increasing trend of human-caused fires in this st
  
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• Susan R. Madsen: When worry becomes a web of anxiety and depression

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I have thought more about issues of mental and emotional wellness over the past few weeks than I have at any point in my life. Understandably, in Utah and around the globe, mental health issues are on the rise.We are living in a pandemic with a novel virus for which there is no rulebook. This creates uncertainty. And so we worry. We worry that we might get sick. We worry because our employment is precarious or non-existent. We worry for our family, that
  
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• Letter: Utah is right to offer voting by mail

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  Utah’s policy of encouraging voting by mail is a recognition that voting is fundamental to the rule of law, even in — or especially in — times of crisis (“Heavily Republican Utah likes voting by mail, but national GOP declares war on it”, Tribune, May 18).In a nationally representative survey released earlier this month, the American Bar Association found strong public support for allowing voting before Election Day: 79% in March, 71% in April. The ABA believes that
  
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• Letter: The Bill Gates vaccination conspiracy

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  One of the more off-the-wall items making the rounds on the internet and social media these days is the Bill Gates vaccination conspiracy theory.The story has its roots in QAnon, InfoWars and other alt-reality sites. The people proliferating this via YouTube videos and memes readily believe that Gates is using his wealth, not as philanthropy to make the world a healthier place, but rather to nefariously control population growth or even individuals through a guise of vaccines that really contain
  
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• Letter: School was canceled for a reason

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  I am writing to convey the importance of teenagers practicing social distancing.I am 16 years old and since school has been dismissed I have been self-quarantined with my family. Through social media, I have been able to see a lot of kids I know not practicing social distancing. They are still hanging out in big groups of people in confined spaces, like in a car or at someone’s house.Even though kids of my age are less susceptible to this virus, it does not excuse this type of behavior. We
  
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• Letter: Parents, wear your helmets

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  I was shocked that The Salt Lake Tribune would print a picture — on the front page no less — of a father and daughter riding bikes in Liberty Park. The father was not wearing a helmet.I realize that the argument could be made that there is limited traffic in the park. However, there are still automobiles in the park. They were both wearing their masks, which is commendable. Are they needed outside? Is a mask more important than a helmet?I live across the street from Sugar House Park
  
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• Letter: Immigrants can help us with our needs

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  What if the person who can come up with the vaccination for COVID-19 is sitting in an ICE detention center?We will rarely know the potential of so many people in this world because the disparity between the privileged and underprivileged is so wide. We don’t get to choose where we are born or who we are born to, but we all should strive to give every human being a chance to prosper.The immigration “problem” could be solved with just a little legislation. If you hire them, you s
  
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• Leonard Pitts: With the death toll mounting, Trump keeps tweeting

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  Always before, there have been words. Always before, someone crafted them with writerly skill and gave them to the president to give to us. Always, before.When seven people died aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, President Ronald Reagan spoke of how, just that morning, they "waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God."'When 168 people died in the Oklahoma City bombing, President Bill Clinton told the survivors, "You have lost too much, but you have not lost
  
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• Co-owner of a California casino with Utah polygamous sect ties dies from COVID-19

  27-05-2020 14:00
  
  Joseph Ortell Kingston, whose ownership stake in a California casino was a point of contention with regulators there, died early Sunday at Murray’s Intermountain Medical Center from COVID-19, according to members of his family.He was 68.The family members asked not to be identified so as not to upset other relatives. The Utah Department of Health said Tuesday one of three new coronavirus deaths was a Salt Lake County man between ages 60 and 85 who was hospitalized at the time of death.King
  
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• Unsanctioned high school sports tournaments ahead — but school district rejects Jordan Cup

  27-05-2020 09:58
  
  The Utah High School Activities Association may have pulled the plug on the spring sports season earlier this month, but that is not stopping schools from searching for ways to find games for their athletes.Three separate competitions were put together in recent weeks to give athletes an opportunity to salvage some of what they lost, especially the seniors hit hardest by the season’s cancellation. All of them would end sometime in June.However, the Jordan School District’s board of e
  
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• Some high schools are planning unsanctioned sports tournaments — but not in the Jordan district

  27-05-2020 07:05
  
  The Utah High School Activities Association may have pulled the plug on the spring sports season earlier this month, but that is not stopping schools from searching for ways to find games for their athletes.Three separate competitions were put together in recent weeks to give athletes an opportunity to salvage some of what they lost, especially the seniors hit hardest by the season’s cancellation. All of them would end sometime in June.However, the Jordan School District’s board of e
  
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• Some high schools are planning unsanctioned sports tournaments — but the Jordan district rejects them

  27-05-2020 06:40
  
  The Utah High School Activities Association may have pulled the plug on the spring sports season earlier this month, but that is not stopping schools from searching for ways to find games for their athletes.Three separate competitions were put together in recent weeks to give athletes an opportunity to salvage some of what they lost, especially the seniors hit hardest by the season’s cancellation. All of them would end sometime in June.However, the Jordan School District’s board of e
  
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• Swift firings for Minneapolis officers in death of black man

  27-05-2020 06:05
  
  Minneapolis • To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a shirtless black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was horrifying.Four officers were fired a day after George Floyd's death, a stunning and swift move by the Minneapolis chief with the mayor's full backing. But despite their dismissal, whether the incident will be considered criminal, or even excessive force, is a more complicated question
  
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• Letter carrier pinned between two cars in Lehi; driver cited for DUI

  27-05-2020 05:43
  
  Police in Lehi say a driver — suspected of being intoxicated — hit a mail carrier Tuesday, smashing his legs.The letter carrier was seriously injured and underwent surgery Tuesday night, said Lehi police Sgt. Robert Marshall. The driver was cited for driving under the influence and released, Marshall said.The incident happened about 2:30 p.m. at the corner of 2300 West and 70 North. The letter carrier was delivering mail to boxes. He was at the rear of his van.The driver in a four-do
  
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• George Pyle: It shouldn’t be this hard to convince people to stay alive

  27-05-2020 04:00
  
  It has become all too common in recent years for a few people who want to put themselves above the law to pack arms into a public place and double-dog dare public officials to shoot them. Which, they have reason to believe, won’t happen.Since the days of John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde, law enforcement willingness to settle things with a blaze of gunfire has fallen into general disfavor. Which was unanimously thought to be a good thing until we started to see AR-15 toting thugs disrupt
  
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