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• Looking back: A wild finish, a postgame hug and the dawn of a new era

  29-05-2020 23:49
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell hugs Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder after the Utah Jazz closed out the Oklahoma City Thunder in game 6 of the first- round NBA playoff series in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 27, 2018. The Jazz won 96-91 to close out the Thunder. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsEditor’s note: Fifth in an occasional series reminiscing about games not to be forgotten.
  SALT LAKE CITY — Quin Snyder generally holds himself to a high level of decorum in media settings, but
  
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• 'We’re going to compete our butts off’: High school baseball tournament kicks off with COVID-19 safety measures

  29-05-2020 23:43
  
  Salem • In some ways, the scene at the Salem Hills High baseball field Thursday afternoon felt like a normal day of the spring season.Players warmed up, played catch, fielded and hit. Spectators trickled in and took their posts on the grass surrounding the field. Coaches filled out lineup cards. Music blared before the first pitch.But in other ways, it was clear this wasn’t a normal day at the field. Signs explaining safety protocols were posted in various locations. Bleachers were wr
  
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• Police arrest man accused of fatally shooting West Valley City handyman

  29-05-2020 23:40
  
  Investigators have arrested the suspect in the fatal shooting of a handyman Thursday in West Valley City.The 30-year-old accused shooter was booked into jail on a warrant for parole violation as police continue investigating the killing.Neighbors found the dead handyman around 4 p.m. Thursday outside a home near 2900 S 3000 West, according to police. At first, investigators weren’t sure how the man died, but later discovered he’d been shot, police said.Officers later learned that the
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert confirms he asked Thomas Wright to drop out of Utah governor’s race

  29-05-2020 23:07
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert confirmed reports that he met recently over milkshakes with gubernatorial candidate Thomas Wright and encouraged him to step out of the race to support the outgoing governor’s chosen successor, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox. But asked whether he had attempted to induce Wright to drop out or if he had broken any state laws in the process, Herbert said the answer was “no and no.”“There’s no deal been made,” he added later.Four sources who were told
  
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• NBA reportedly targeting July 31 return to play, to vote on format next week

  29-05-2020 22:59
  
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver, shown here in 2017, held a call with the league’s Board of Governors on Friday, and according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Silver told the group that July 31 is a target date for play to resume.| Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsNBA commissioner Adam Silver held a call with the league’s Board of Governors on Friday, and according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Silver told the group that July 31 is a target date for play to resume.
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• NBA reportedly targeting July 31 return to play

  29-05-2020 22:59
  
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver, shown here in 2017, held a call with the league’s Board of Governors on Friday, and according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Silver told the group that July 31 is a target date for play to resume.| Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsNBA commissioner Adam Silver held a call with the league’s Board of Governors on Friday, and according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Silver told the group that July 31 is a target date for play to resume.
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• Report: NBA is targeting a July 31 return to action, but has not yet settled on a format

  29-05-2020 22:41
  
  It appears that the NBA now has a date in mind for a return to action from its coronavirus-necessitated shutdown. What it apparently doesn’t have yet is a concrete plan as to how exactly that will happen.The Athletic reported that commissioner Adam Silver told the league’s Board of Governors on Friday that he is targeting July 31 as the date when teams will begin play again.The NBA has been on hiatus since shutting down on the evening of March 11, when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert be
  
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• Jana Riess: Mormonism’s surprising gender fluidity

  29-05-2020 22:19
  
  Here’s a conundrum: Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consistently preach that women are naturally spiritual, gentle and nurturing . . . but if those qualities were truly inherent in all women, women would not need to be reminded again and again how to behave in the ways they are supposed to have been designed to automatically behave.Taylor Petrey’s new book, “Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism,” says this kind of parado
  
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• U.S. cuts World Health Organization ties over coronavirus response

  29-05-2020 22:09
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization, saying it had failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus because China has “total control” over the global organization.He said Chinese officials "ignored" their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the WHO to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered.He noted that the U.S. contributes about $450 million to the world bo
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Non-essential Billionaires

  29-05-2020 22:03
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, May 31, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Facebook LinksConfederacy of DuncesPrimary Face OffOne of the GreatsFree-dumbUtah Ballot BoxRed QueenConduct UnbecomingUSPS Courier CreedKing RatWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Scott Williams: Can America’s leaders follow America’s lead?

  29-05-2020 22:01
  
  Over two months ago a silence fell upon the nation’s capital like a firm hand. Instantly the noise of the city, both physical and rhetorical, was suppressed and, for the first time in memory, Washington was alone with its thoughts.What have we learned since?At first, the voices to break the silence were those well beyond the Beltway, those of the American people. Bit by bit, across social media, the true character of the nation found its way to the surface like a western wellspring. As Ame
  
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• Utah reports largest one-day rise in COVID-19 cases, and one new fatality

  29-05-2020 21:54
  
  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 state of Utah had the largest one-day increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases on Friday — with a spike of 343 new cases, the Utah Department of Health reported.But the state’s epidemiologist, Dr. Angela Dunn, urged “c
  
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• Too hot? You can cool off in Salt Lake County convention centers.

  29-05-2020 21:47
  
  Salt Lake County is opening the Salt Palace Convention Center and the Mountain American Expo Center to residents and visitors who need to get out of the heat that is expected to hit the Wasatch Front over the next few days.The air-conditioned facilities will be open from noon to 7 p.m. Friday to Tuesday to “anyone seeking a break from the heat” so they can “cool off, hydrate and stay safe from heat-related illness,” according to a news release. Forecasts call for temperat
  
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• Help The Tribune tell the stories of Utahns who have died from COVID-19

  29-05-2020 21:34
  
  Most of the Utahns who have died from COVID-19 have done so in anonymity. Health departments do not release their names because of patient privacy laws. When families publish obituaries online or in newspapers, only a few mention COVID-19 as a cause of death.The Salt Lake Tribune knows only a fraction of the Utahns who have died from the coronavirus. The rest are known only by those close to them. With their help, The Tribune would like to tell their stories.[Read also: Utah’s COVID-19 dea
  
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• Police identify officer killed in shootout as a ‘son of Ogden’ who loved his job

  29-05-2020 20:43
  
  Ogden • He was a “son of Ogden.”Ogden police officer Nate Lyday was born at the hospital here. He grew up and went to school here, worked at a grocery store here and got his criminal justice degree at Weber State University.The 24-year-old was proud to be a police officer here, and was a second-generation law enforcement officer.Lyday died here Thursday afternoon, after police say he went to the home of a woman who called 911 in fear of her life and was met by bullets fired thro
  
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• Minneapolis cop is arrested after the death of George Floyd

  29-05-2020 20:17
  
  Minneapolis • The police officer seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe, was arrested Friday after three days of often-violent protests that resulted in fires and looting across parts of Minneapolis.Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said state investigators arrested Derek Chauvin, who was one of four officers fired this week, but he did not provide details. The state attorney who would
  
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• Letter: What about all those forts named for Confederate generals?

  29-05-2020 20:14
  
  I consider the swastika on the headstone at the Fort Douglas cemetery a historical artifact and, in that context, doesn’t represent a message of hatred and racism and shouldn’t be removed.I ask the members of Congress who are asking for the removal, especially the two representatives from Texas, how they can allow a major Army training base in their state (Fort Hood) to be named for a confederate general (John Bell Hood) who rebelled against the United States government and killed or
  
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• Letter: Show more respect in cemeteries

  29-05-2020 20:12
  
  I watched my dad die when I was 9 years old, so I’ve spent most of my life visiting him at the Bountiful Cemetery instead of at my parents’ house.Sometimes I go to talk to him, sometimes to think about what my life might have been like, but recently I went to clean his headstone. I couldn’t get in the right headspace to be with my dad because of the other visitors at the cemetery.I don’t think it’s respectful or appropriate for people to have a picnic on the graves
  
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• Letter: Never leave food on the ground

  29-05-2020 20:10
  
  I once took a food safety class. In that class the first and most important thing they taught you was to wash your hands.The second most important thing they taught was nothing goes on the floor. Ever. When a box, bag or carton hits the floor, anything on the ground is now on the bottom of that box, where it then catches a free ride onto your dinner table and kitchen countertops. If you won’t put your shoes on the table, why would you put food on the ground?When I receive a contactless del
  
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• Letter: Lobbyists have the real power

  29-05-2020 20:07
  
  Power is about control, or lack thereof. In the U.S. political system, the source of power is money.Therefore politicians in the pursuit of gaining, or maintaining, power are constantly pursuing money. Here come the lobbies who donate to their campaigns.The big money donors provide the means for politicians to maintain their illusion of power. Not surprisingly, they legislate in favor of their big money donors while paying lip service to the constituents who actually vote.The politicians are del
  
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• Letter: Are you willing to flip a coin?

  29-05-2020 20:04
  
  If you’re looking for something new and fun to do, celebrate National Flip a Coin Day on June 1. Make all your decisions by tossing a coin. Heads means yes, tails no.It’s more entertaining if you have rigged coins available. Your child doesn’t want to clean their room? Use a coin that comes up heads one time in three if you’re in a sporting mood.We can even apply this to our changing climate. What’s the likelihood of terrible consequences if we keep burning fossil f
  
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• Letter: Captain should go down with her university

  29-05-2020 20:01
  
  Will the Lauren McCluskey tragedy ever end at the University of Utah? This beautiful, intelligent outstanding student-athlete was let down by all the people who were there to protect her and was killed outside her dorm by a former boyfriend as a result.At the top of the Ute totem pole is U. president Ruth Watkins, who refused to let the school take the blame because she said McCluskey’s killer Melvin S. Rowland was not a U. student. But McCluskey was, and it was the university’s job
  
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• Steve Cuno: What any fool knows isn’t alway true

  29-05-2020 20:00
  
  Think carefully before buying that red car. Any fool knows that red cars attract the attention of police faster than legislators attract the attention of well-heeled special interest groups. That’s why red car drivers receive an undue share of speeding tickets.Except, no, they don’t. Dig through police records, and you’ll find that red car drivers receive the same share of tickets as anyone else. No disrespect to fools, but it’s enough to make you wonder what else they kn
  
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• Crowds cause Arches National Park to shut gates just three hours after opening

  29-05-2020 19:56
  
  Arches National Park reopened at 6 a.m. Friday to a steady stream of early morning traffic. A little over three hours later, the National Park Service announced via Twitter that the park was at capacity.“The park is currently full, and we are temporarily delaying additional [entries],” the park account wrote. “Vehicles trying to enter the park will have to come back at another time. Consider returning 3 hours from now or visiting other nearby attractions.”The park is curr
  
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• For abortion foes, Trump’s allyship blunts ‘Roe’ revelation

  29-05-2020 19:43
  
  New York • Norma McCorvey’s admission that her conversion from the face of abortion rights — as the “Jane Roe” of the historic 1973 Supreme Court case — to an opponent of the practice came with payments from anti-abortion activists might seem to be a blow to their movement.But the headline-making revelations McCorvey offered in the recently premiered documentary “AKA Jane Roe” stand little chance of denting anti-abortion activists’ momentum in
  
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• New religious freedom adviser sparks furor over past anti-Islam comments

  29-05-2020 19:28
  
  New York • Some Muslim American groups are calling for the dismissal of a newly appointed religious freedom adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development, citing past online posts that disparage Islam on his social media.The Anti-Defamation League also has decried the appointment of Mark Kevin Lloyd. He started with the agency this week, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the hiring of the Virginia field director for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campai
  
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• Ogden police identify officer killed on Thursday

  29-05-2020 19:07
  
  Police have identified the Ogden Police officer killed Thursday as Nate Lyday, 24, who had been on the force for 15 months.He was a “son of Ogden,” said Police Chief Randy Watt. Lyday grew up there, and went to college at Weber State.Officials earlier identified the suspect in the shooting, who also died, as John Benedict Coleman, 53. They have not released any information about how Coleman died.Police were called to a house on Jackson Avenue on Thursday afternoon to investigate a re
  
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• Police identify suspect who died after he reportedly shot and killed one officer and wounded another

  29-05-2020 18:32
  
  The suspect who died Friday after he reportedly shot and killed an Ogden Police officer has been identified as John Benedict Coleman, 53.Police have not released the name of the officer who died, or a second officer from Adult Probation and Parole who was wounded. And they have not released any information about how Coleman died.Police were called to a house on Jackson Avenue on Thursday afternoon to investigate a report of domestic violence. Coleman was on the porch but he wouldn’t cooper
  
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• Alli Harbertson: This is a chance for all of us to ‘glow up’ together

  29-05-2020 18:00
  
  My 12-year-old son taught me a new word. He was explaining the phenomenon that happens in adolescence where a kid suddenly sprouts up when no one is watching.They grow tall and muscled. They take on a new, attractive maturity and confidence that can’t help but be noticed and remarked upon by peers, bringing increased popularity and assurance.The term he used for this transformation was “glow up.”It has become my favorite magical thinking word for a very real process of growth a
  
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• Southwest Utah has highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases

  29-05-2020 17:42
  
  St. George • Health officials have counted 25 new COVID-19 cases in southwestern Utah on Wednesday, the highest single-day increase in the region since daily counts started in March.The Southwestern Utah Public Health Department released a report that said the region has been averaging about 11 new daily cases this month, The Spectrum reported Thursday.For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, es
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Steve Carell leads ‘Space Force,’ and it’s outrageous and funny

  29-05-2020 17:29
  
  When I first heard that Netflix was planning a series titled “Space Force,” I thought it was one of the dumbest ideas I’d ever heard. I was wrong.The 10-episode comedy that reunites “The Office” star Steve Carell with that now-classic sitcom’s executive producer, Greg Daniels, isn’t perfect. But it is frequently hilarious. It’s broad, outlandish, over-the-top and dopey — and there are a lot of laughs in the episodes that start streaming on Ma
  
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• Trump calls Minneapolis protesters ‘thugs,’ vows action

  29-05-2020 17:18
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to take action to bring the city of Minneapolis “under control,” calling violent protesters outraged by the death of a black man in police custody “thugs” and saying that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”Trump’s tweet — which was flagged by Twitter as violating rules about “glorifying violence” — came after protesters torched a Minneapolis police station,
  
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• Protesters torch Minneapolis police station in violent night

  29-05-2020 17:08
  
  Minneapolis • Thick smoke hovered over Minneapolis on Friday, hours after cheering protesters torched a police station that officers abandoned as a third night of violent protests flared over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck.Police evacuated the 3rd Precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, late Thursday to protect employees, a spokesman said. Livestream video showed protesters entering the building,
  
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• Utah AD Mark Harlan on voluntary workouts, college football starting on time, potential crowd models and more

  29-05-2020 17:00
  
  From getting student-athletes back on campus for voluntary workouts, to whether or not college football will happen this fall, to whether or not the season will start on time, University of Utah athletic director Mark Harlan has a lot on his plate.Along with deputy athletic director Kyle Brennan, director of athletic training Trevor Jameson, and head team physician Dr. David Petron, Harlan unveiled Utah’s phased reopening for athletic facilities for student-athletes.Afterwards, Harlan cond
  
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• Carl Fisher: Be meticulous when it comes to planning the Wasatch.

  29-05-2020 16:00
  
  The importance of the Wasatch Mountains to our communities has been magnified during this global pandemic. Not by what is said, but through our actions, like that trusty friend you go see when you are struggling with some weighty decisions.Despite sudden shuttering of resorts, our canyons have been crawling with people. With so many uncertain variables in our lives, we find solace, hardiness, among other things, in the mountains. Naturally, mountains change, but the rate in which we are influenc
  
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• Minneapolis police station torched amid George Floyd protest

  29-05-2020 15:36
  
  Minneapolis • Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station that the department abandoned as three days of violent protests spread to nearby St. Paul and angry demonstrations flared across the U.S over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck.A police spokesman confirmed late Thursday that staff had evacuated the 3rd Precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, “in the interest of the safety
  
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• Rich Lowry: The return of the tea party

  29-05-2020 15:11
  
  It’s 2009 again, or feels like it.That was when spontaneous, grassroots protests against overweening government sprang up and were widely derided in the media as dangerous and wrong-headed.The protesters then were inveighing against Obamacare; the protestors now are striking out against the coronavirus lockdowns.The anti-lockdown agitation shows that, despite the revolution in Republican politics wrought by President Donald Trump, opposition to government impositions is deeply embedded in
  
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• Paul Krugman: Coronavirus and the economics of not dying

  29-05-2020 15:11
  
  America is now engaged in a vast, dangerous experiment. Although social distancing has limited the spread of the coronavirus, it is far from contained. Yet despite warnings from epidemiologists, much of the country is moving to open up for business as usual.You might think that such a momentous move would come with elaborate justifications — that politicians pushing an end to social distancing, from Donald Trump on down, would at least try to explain why we should take this risk. But those
  
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• David Brooks: If we had a real leader in the White House

  29-05-2020 15:10
  
  This week I had a conversation that left a mark. It was with Mary Louise Kelly and E.J. Dionne on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and it was about how past presidents had handled moments of national mourning — Lincoln after Gettysburg, Reagan after the Challenger explosion and Obama after the Sandy Hook school shootings.
  (Dennis Cook | AP file photo)This Jan. 28, 1986 photo shows President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office of the White House after a televised address to the
  
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• Marina Gomberg thinks if Utah can protect LGBTQ residents, so can (and should) the nation

  29-05-2020 15:08
  
  Utah is a curious place because its capital is home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to the nation’s 7th highest population of LGBTQ residents per capita. *boioioioing*As a native queen bee myself, I have long pictured these two communities as a Venn diagram with two partially-overlapping circles. In the middle lives Latter-day Saints who are either LGBTQ or allies, LGBTQ allies of Latter-day Saints and probably all the hardcore crafters.And there
  
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• Some Utah parents and students are upset that schools will reopen this fall

  29-05-2020 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.Cynthia Hepworth is torn over whether to send her four boys back to the classroom when schools reopen this fall.On the one hand, two of her sons have excelled since classes were moved online in March because of the pandemic. On the other
  
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• Robert Kirby: The risk in finding your one and only

  29-05-2020 15:00
  
  I come from an age when romance blossomed through personal interaction. Eye contact, shy smiles, deliberately planned encounters and outright infatuation were how relationships developed.Face-to-face evaluation was a great culling mechanism for love. Like car shopping, it gave a person the opportunity to gradually test whether things would work. And these were elements that required actual proximity.Did the person have horrible breath? Was she shallow and vapid? Was he a bully? And/or did the ot
  
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• Thomas Urquhart: Pipeline lacks three elements to be allowed to proceed

  29-05-2020 14:00
  
  In its final stages of permitting, the Lake Powell Pipeline lacks three key elements to make the project more sustainable and equitable. The project should not proceed until these three basic elements are satisfied.First, the Utah Board of Water Resources (UBWR) should demand hydroelectric energy storage.The cost of solar panels has plummeted in recent years making the new barrier to adoption an ability to use the energy when it is needed most, not just when it is sunny. This can be done by pass
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Carell leads ‘Space Force,’ and it’s outrageous and funny

  29-05-2020 14:00
  
  When I first heard that Netflix was planning a series titled “Space Force,” I thought it was one of the dumbest ideas I’d ever heard. I was wrong.The 10-episode comedy that reunites “The Office” star Steve Carell with that now-classic sitcom’s executive producer, Greg Daniels, isn’t perfect. But it is frequently hilarious. It’s broad, outlandish, over-the-top and dopey — and there are a lot of laughs in the episodes that start streaming on Fr
  
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• COVID-19 rules prompt Utah theater group to perform Shakespeare in the parking garage

  29-05-2020 14:00
  
  In “Romeo and Juliet,” Mercutio dies bleeding with a curse on his lips, aimed at the rival Montagues and Capulets: “A plague o’ both your houses.”While William Shakespeare knew about plagues, the creative forces behind an interactive adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” are figuring out how to tell the story of star-cross’d lovers during the coronavirus pandemic.The production by the theater company SONDERimmersive, “Through Yonder Window,”
  
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• Charles M. Blow: How white women use themselves as instruments of terror

  29-05-2020 14:00
  
  At a time of so much death and suffering in this country and around the world from the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be easy, I suppose, to take any incidents that don’t result in death as minor occurrences.But they aren’t. The continued public assault on black people, particularly black men, by the white public and by the police predates the pandemic and will outlast it. This racial street theater against black people is an endemic, primal feature of the Republic.Specifically, I am enra
  
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• Protesters set Minneapolis police station afire in reaction to black man’s death

  29-05-2020 07:05
  
  Minneapolis • Cheering protesters broke into a Minneapolis police precinct station on Thursday after the department abandoned it, setting it ablaze and setting off fireworks as three days of violent protests spread to nearby St. Paul and angry demonstrations flared across the U.S over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man.A police spokesman confirmed late Thursday that staff had evacuated the 3rd precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, “in the interest of the
  
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• Chase Elliott ends week of misery with overdue Cup victory

  29-05-2020 06:48
  
  Concord, N.C. • Chase Elliott’s streak of bitter defeats in NASCAR’s frantic first push of rescheduled races finally ended with his first Cup victory of the season.Elliott won Thursday night in the rain-delayed event at Charlotte Motor Speedway to close a brutal 12 days for NASCAR. The event, postponed Wednesday night, was the fourth Cup race since the series resumed racing May 17.Elliott had two frustrating losses in that span, including defeat Sunday night in the Coca-Cola 600
  
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• When John Stockton sent the Utah Jazz to the NBA Finals

  29-05-2020 06:00
  
  An oral history of what happened in Houston in 1997 Editor’s note: The following was first published on May 28, 2017.
  "I think that was one of the highlights of Utah’s history."
  That statement from Jazz owner Gail Miller might sound dramatic, but if you ask local sports fans, the buzzer-beating, game-winning jumper John Stockton made at The Summit in Houston on May 29, 1997, certainly ranks up there among highlights in Utah's history with Brigham Young declaring “This is the r
  
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• Gov. Herbert denies Grand County’s request to keep hotel restrictions as Arches and Canyonlands reopen

  29-05-2020 04:55
  
  With Arches and Canyonlands national parks set to begin a phased reopening this weekend, the Grand County Council held a special meeting Thursday where it voted to request certain coronavirus-related lodging restrictions be kept in place.That request was denied hours later by the Utah Department of Health and the office of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, according to county officials.Earlier in May, Grand County had been granted an exemption by the governor to remain at the state’s “orange,&
  
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