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• Video appears to show Utah officer firing beanbag gun at man face down on the ground

  02-06-2020 23:58
  
  Salt Lake City Police say they’re looking into a video shared widely on social media that appears to show an officer firing a beanbag gun at the back of a man who was face down on the ground with his hands up at a raucous demonstration against police brutality downtown on Saturday. The officer is not with the Salt Lake City Police Department, said Detective Greg Wilking, a spokesman with the agency. But Wilking said his office is working to determine which department employs the officer an
  
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• Salt Lake City residents voice frustrations after being slapped with weeklong curfew amid protests

  02-06-2020 23:40
  
  The mayor says it’s to protect public safety, but Salt Lake City residents say the current curfew feels more like punishment.Mayor Erin Mendenhall decided Monday to require people to stay home from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. each day until June 8. The move came after protests over racial injustice became violent and destructive in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday.But numerous city residents call the curfew a heavy-handed and hypocritical response compared to lax enforcement of coronavirus restric
  
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• Watch Live: 1st Congressional District Republicans debate

  02-06-2020 23:26
  
  Four Republicans vying for the party nomination to replace outgoing Rep. Rob Bishop meet Tuesday for a debate heading into the June 30 primary.Kaysville Mayor Katie Witt, Davis County Commissioner Bob Stevenson, former Utah Agriculture Commissioner Kerry Gibson and businessman Blake Moore will participate in the livestreamed event from the University of Utah.Democrats Darren Parry and Jamie Cheek debated Monday.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Free Rider

  02-06-2020 23:25
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Beat the PressNon-essential BillionairesFacebook LinksConfederacy of DuncesPrimary Face OffOne of the GreatsFree-dumbUtah Ballot BoxRed QueenConduct UnbecomingWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• GOP Utah attorney general debate turns into a slugfest

  02-06-2020 23:08
  
  Attorney General Sean Reyes and his Republican primary challenger David Leavitt came out slugging Tuesday in their only debate.Leavitt, the Utah County attorney, said Reyes kept a “for sale” sign on the Attorney General’s Office, does the bidding of big donors, failed to properly oversee controversial no-bid contracts and often ignores Utah issues to seek fame on international human trafficking raids.Reyes said that Leavitt is unqualified, that his justice reform proposals are
  
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• Utah has an impressive 94% renewal rate for football season tickets, despite uncertainty caused by pandemic

  02-06-2020 23:01
  
  If there was any doubt as to how big an appetite there will be for University of Utah football this fall in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, only one number is needed to answer that question.After extending the season-ticket renewal date by two weeks and offering relief options, including transferring payments to the 2021 season, the athletic department says it has a 94-percent renewal rate for football. The Utes have six home games in 2020 beginning with in-state rival BYU on, at least for no
  
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• Watch Live: 1st Congressional Disrict Republicans debate

  02-06-2020 22:52
  
  Four Republicans vying for the party nomination to replace outgoing Rep. Rob Bishop meet Tuesday for a debate heading into the June 30 primary.Kaysville Mayor Katie Witt, Davis County Commissioner Bob Stevenson, former Utah Agriculture Commissioner Kerry Gibson and businessman Blake Moore will participate in the livestreamed event from the University of Utah.Democrats Darren Parry and Jamie Cheek debated Monday.
  
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• Republicans fear Trump’s criticism of mail voting will hurt them

  02-06-2020 22:46
  
  President Trump has relentlessly attacked mail voting, calling it a free-for-all for cheating and a Democratic scheme to rig elections.None of the charges are true.But as eight states and the District of Columbia vote on Tuesday in the biggest Election Day since the coronavirus forced a pause in the primary calendar, it is clear that Mr. Trump’s message has sunk in deeply with Republicans, who have shunned mail ballots.Republican officials and strategists warned that if a wide partisan gap
  
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• LHM Group and American Red Cross hold blood drive at Vivint Smart Home Arena

  02-06-2020 22:24
  
  The Larry H. Miller Group and the American Red Cross are holding a weeklong blood drive at Vivint Smart Home Arena through Friday. | Steve Griffin, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — There’s activity inside Vivint Smart Home Arena once again, but it’s not basketball. The Larry H. Miller Group and the American Red Cross are holding a weeklong blood drive at the home of the Utah Jazz through Friday.
  In an effort to support Utah’s hospitals, the LHM Group opened up Vivint’s
  
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• Utah man jailed for allegedly threatening to kill police. He said he was on his way to Salt Lake protest.

  02-06-2020 22:12
  
  A 27-year-old Utah man who allegedly threatened to shoot and kill police officers was arrested by West Valley City Police on Monday.According to a news release from West Valley police, the suspect made “multiple threats of violence against ... Salt Lake City Police and West Valley City Police ... over social media.” Police said the suspect threatened to use guns and “encouraged others to take up arms against police” — even “reportedly” listing “the
  
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• Spike Lee gives shoutout to Salt Lake City, finding hope in diversity of protesters nationwide

  02-06-2020 22:12
  
  The protesters in Salt Lake City marching against police violence in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd have given New York filmmaker Spike Lee a ray of hope.“My young white sisters and brothers are out there in the streets. How many black folks are in Salt Lake City, Utah?,” Lee said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press.“And let’s take into account that the NBA is not playing. The Utah Jazz are not playing!,” laughed Lee, famously a New York Kni
  
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• Joe Biden blasts Trump’s ‘narcissism’ in new phase of 2020 campaign

  02-06-2020 22:03
  
  Philadelphia • Joe Biden mounted one of his most aggressive attacks against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, deriding the commander in chief's disregard of core constitutional values and blistering him for being “more interested in power than in principle.”“He thinks division helps him,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said in a speech at Philadelphia’s City Hall. “This narcissism has become more important than the nation’s well-be
  
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• Yellowstone Park entrances in Montana opened to visitors

  02-06-2020 22:02
  
  Bozeman, Mont. • Three Yellowstone National Park entrances have opened in Montana after they were closed two months ago to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.Two entrances in Wyoming opened in the middle of May, and the three in Montana opened Monday, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. Now all five park entrances are open.Park officials say vehicles with license plates from about three dozen states drove through the gates but not all parts of the park were crowded with people."I'm sur
  
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• Darlene McDonald: How many times must Emmett Till die before we turn the mirror on ourselves?

  02-06-2020 21:44
  
  On Sept. 6, 1955, Mamie Till, the mother of Emmett Till, held an open-casket funeral so that the world could see the violence that murderous racists had inflicted on her son’s body. That was 65 years ago.On Aug. 16, 2017, the League of Native American Voters organized a solidarity rally against racism after the president of the United States, Donald Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides,” after the Neo-Nazi’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virgi
  
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• Ross Douthat: The grinning skull beneath the liberal city’s skin

  02-06-2020 21:37
  
  The polarization of American life, the withdrawal of liberal and conservative Americans from one another, has generated a poisonous distillation on both sides. In separating into geographic-distinct enclaves, into heartland and metropole, our factions have become steadily worse versions of themselves — deprived of the leaven of perspective, hardening into self-caricature, losing the democratic capacities that a more diverse and fluid political atmosphere can teach.The poisoning on the righ
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, June 2: Utah case count surpasses 10,000; Deseret Industries reopening stores

  02-06-2020 21:10
  
  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, June 2. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:05 p.m.: Utah logs 203 new cases of COVID-19, crossing the 10,000 markMore than
  
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• Amid riots and a pandemic, church attendance resumes in ‘a very broken world’

  02-06-2020 20:37
  
  Sacramento, Calif. • With their most vulnerable members at home, their community in the streets, and their nation wracked by a pandemic, riots and political polarization, Pastor Samuel Rodriguez’s congregation went to church in Sacramento on Sunday, at times violating state health rules in the interest of unity.“Outside the confines of these walls we hear the sound of a very broken world,” preached Rodriguez, an evangelical minister. “Outside these corridors of worsh
  
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• Commentary: Putting an asterisk next to the 2020 NBA champion is unavoidable, but is that a bad thing?

  02-06-2020 20:06
  
  No matter who wins the 2020 NBA championship, it will come with an asterisk with all the league has endured this season. | Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP file photoSALT LAKE CITY — This NBA season will always have an asterisk next to it. Period.
  It doesn’t matter if I think this year’s NBA champion is legitimate no matter how they get to their trophy, and it doesn’t matter if you agree with that. There are enough people who believe this season has been disrupted so much that th
  
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• Utah has an impressive 94-percent renewal rate for football season tickets, despite uncertainty caused by pandemic

  02-06-2020 19:57
  
  If there was any doubt as to how big an appetite there will be for University of Utah football this fall in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, only one number is needed to answer that question.After extending the season-ticket renewal date by two weeks and offering relief options, including transferring payments to the 2021 season, the athletic department says it has a 94-percent renewal rate for football. The Utes have six home games in 2020 beginning with in-state rival BYU on, at least for no
  
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• Hundreds of Utah National Guard soldiers deployed in Washington, D.C., to quell protests

  02-06-2020 19:51
  
  Washington • Some 200 Utah National Guard soldiers are now deployed in the nation’s capital to help curtail the sometimes violent protests that have broken out near the White House and U.S. Capitol over the death of a black man in Minnesota at the hands of a white police officer.The Utah troops were sent to Washington on Monday, joining some 1,300 soldiers from the District of Columbia's National Guard and others from New Jersey. More soldiers from Indiana, South Carolina and Tennesse
  
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• Watch live: Republican candidates for Utah attorney general debate

  02-06-2020 19:46
  
  Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and Utah County Attorney David Leavitt will face off Tuesday in a debate from the University of Utah.Reyes is running to keep the office for a second full term while Leavitt, elected to his county post just two years ago, is running for his first statewide office.The two will appear on the June 30 Republican primary ballot and the winner will go on to face Democrat Greg Skordas in November.
  
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• Wes Unseld, NBA Rookie of Year and MVP in 1969, dies at 74

  02-06-2020 19:38
  
  Washington • Wes Unseld, the workmanlike Hall of Fame center who led Washington to its only NBA championship and was chosen one of the 50 greatest players in league history, died Tuesday after a series of health issues, most recently pneumonia. He was 74.Unseld's family announced his death via a statement released by the Washington Wizards, the franchise he was with throughout his entire 13-season playing career and also worked for as a coach and general manager."Those of us who were fortun
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, June 2: Deseret Industries reopening stores; University of Utah to see if a saliva test can detect the virus

  02-06-2020 19:26
  
  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, June 2. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:30 a.m.: Deseret Industries reopening stores and will allow donations by appoin
  
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• Utah has an impressive 94-percent renewal rate for football season tickets, but how may actually signed on for 2020?

  02-06-2020 19:00
  
  If there was any doubt as to how big an appetite there will be for University of Utah football this fall in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, only one number is needed to answer that question.After extending the season-ticket renewal date by two weeks and offering relief options, including transferring payments to the 2021 season, the athletic department says it has a 94-percent renewal rate for football. The Utes have six home games in 2020 beginning with in-state rival BYU on, at least for no
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, June 2: University of Utah to see if a saliva test can detect the virus

  02-06-2020 18:53
  
  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, June 2. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---10:50 a.m.: Saliva tests now availableUniversity of Utah Health will now offer sal
  
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• Spike Lee gives shout-out to Salt Lake City, finding hope in diversity of protesters nationwide

  02-06-2020 18:37
  
  The protesters in Salt Lake City marching against police violence in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd have given New York filmmaker Spike Lee a ray of hope.“My young white sisters and brothers are out there in the streets. How many black folks are in Salt Lake City, Utah?,” Lee said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press.“And let’s take into account that the NBA is not playing. The Utah Jazz are not playing!,” laughed Lee, famously a New York Kni
  
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• Businesses grateful for coronavirus aid, but worried about what comes next

  02-06-2020 18:30
  
  The Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government’s ambitious effort to keep workers at small businesses off the unemployment rolls through the worst of the pandemic, has provided a financial safety net to more than 4 million companies.For many, the money was a lifeline. It let a trucking company keep paying drivers who would otherwise have been laid off and gave a group of therapists time to adjust to telemedicine and connect with new clients.But the pandemic’s devastation con
  
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• Joe Biden castigates Trump, saying he is ‘consumed’ by ego, not leading during crisis

  02-06-2020 18:28
  
  Philadelphia • Joe Biden on Tuesday blistered President Donald Trump a day after police drove back peaceful protesters near the White House so Trump could pose with a Bible before a damaged church. Biden said Trump’s “narcissism has become more important than the nation that he leads.”The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee delivered a speech at Philadelphia's City Hall, addressing the civil unrest across America following the death of George Floyd. Biden said "the
  
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• Former Utah quarterback Lee Grosscup, credited as the originator of the famed 'shovel pass,’ dies at age 83

  02-06-2020 17:56
  
  Once credited for developing the shovel pass, former University of Utah quarterback Lee Grosscup died on Monday evening at the age of 83. The cause of death was not immediately known. Grosscup, a Santa Monica, Calif. native, began his college career at the University of Washington in 1955. After transferring to Santa Monica College in 1956, Grosscup played the 1957 and 1958 seasons at Utah.In 1957, Grossman finished 10th in Heisman Trophy voting after completing 69% of his passes for 1,398 yards
  
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• Utah man’s body and missing car are pulled from a reservoir. Alcohol is ‘believed to be a factor,' police say.

  02-06-2020 16:20
  
  A Utah man is dead and his friend’s car was recovered from a reservoir after a night of heavy drinking.According to the Iron County Sheriff’s Office, the body of Andrew Michael Rowe, 53, of Hurricane, was pulled from the Newcastle Reservoir on Saturday morning. Rowe’s friend — a 63-year-old Hurricane man — told police the two had gone to the area to fish and set up camp next to the reservoir on Friday night when they “started drinking and became very intoxicat
  
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• Utah man calls police to say he killed someone. He’s in jail.

  02-06-2020 16:07
  
  A man called the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Office to turn himself in for a homicide, officers there said.According to the sheriff’s office Facebook page, dispatchers received a call Monday at 5:22 p.m. from a 32-year-old man who said he had killed someone. The call led deputies to a residence on Cobble Ridge Road in the Hideaway Valley subdivision in Fairview.There they found the body of Joseph Vallejo, 73, officers said.The man who called in was arrested and booked into the Sanpete C
  
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• MLB owners, players revert to salary squabbles of old

  02-06-2020 15:53
  
  New York • Baseball owners and players have reverted to form — the type displayed over the past half-century during eight work stoppages filled with salary squabbles.Players proposed to resume the sport in the coronavirus pandemic with a 114-game regular season and full prorated salaries, leaving each player with approximately 70% of what he had been slated to earn.That proposal was made Sunday, five days after Major League Baseball's plan for an 82-game season with additional pay cut
  
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• Jennifer Senior: What Trump and toxic cops have in common

  02-06-2020 15:09
  
  In his first Inaugural Address, and hopefully his last, Donald Trump talked about American carnage. He got it last week. What we couldn’t have known in January 2017 is that he wasn’t here to save us from this carnage, but to perpetuate it; that incitement wasn’t just a feature of his campaign, but of his governance. When historians look back at the Trump era, they may very well say his presidency was encapsulated by this moment, when a sadistic cop knelt on the neck of an Afric
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump takes us to the brink

  02-06-2020 15:08
  
  Last fall Bob Kroll, the head of the Minneapolis police union, appeared at a Trump rally, where he thanked the president for ending Barack Obama’s “oppression of police” and letting cops “put the handcuffs on criminals instead of us.”The events of the past week, in which the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody led to demonstrations against police brutality, and these demonstrations were met by more police brutality — including unprecedented vio
  
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• Gary Leimback: Take the reason for the protests seriously

  02-06-2020 15:08
  
  On Saturday, Americans demonstrated their priorities.An amazing launch of the first manned rocket in years from Cape Canaveral comes in fourth place in terms of importance to Americans. The economic disaster created by the coronavirus competes with the virus itself for second place as Americans struggle with the conflict: Is our economy more important than our health? Intelligence tells us that our health is more important. But many people having been cooped up in quarantine for the last four to
  
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• COVID-19 tore through this Utah family. Experimental treatments saved one, but not all, of them.

  02-06-2020 15:08
  
  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.When they entered Alta View Hospital with coronavirus symptoms, Carol and John Moody received much the same treatment.Hospital staffers pumped extra oxygen into them. The Moodys were placed on their stomachs to boost their oxygen intake.
  
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• Letter: Trump shouts ‘Fire!’ in a theater

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”So said Donald Trump in a tweet about the Minneapolis street protests of police violence.How is this any different from shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater?The Supreme Court ruled long ago that our First Amendment right to freedom of speech is not unlimited. And a president's oath of office requires him to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."Why should Trump be treated any differently from the rest of
  
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• Letter: There can’t be economic recovery while the pandemic continues

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  As the Utah Legislature revisits our state budget during an interim session in June and the U.S. Senate considers action on another stimulus bill, I would ask our Utah legislators and our U.S. congressional delegation to reflect on two basic questions.First, what are our values as a society? Second, what programs and spending will allow us to rebound the most quickly, once the pandemic is over?Please also note that control of the epidemic and economic health are two sides of one coin. Economic r
  
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• Letter: The Lake Powell Pipeline will be a crippling investment

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  The Lake Powell Pipeline is going to be a crippling investment for our state.The $2.2 billion project is not only going to be financially taxing for Washington County residents, but for all Utahns. We are already paying for this unnecessary project through our sales tax. One-sixteenth of every cent goes into a fund specifically for water development. If you live in Utah or have ever visited Utah, you have already contributed to this project, whether you like it or not.The only repayment model th
  
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• Letter: Romney has too much integrity for the GOP

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  I have to agree with Gene Sturzenegger’s comment about Sen. Mitt Romney changing parties.Mr. Romney should join the Democrats, as he has too much integrity and honor to be a Republican in this political climate.Annette Reith, Cottonwood HeightsSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Not fake news

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  The U.S. has 4% of the world’s population.The U.S. has 30% of the world’s deaths due to COVID-19.Fake news? I think not.Louis Borgenicht, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Applying different standards of justice

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  If a black man knelt on a white man’s throat for many minutes until he died, and his three buddies did nothing to stop him, all four would be arrested and charged with murder.We cannot have different standards of justice if we claim to be a nation of laws.Alan K. Jones, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Gwendolyn Taylor Soper: Survivors of war found inner peace again

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  There’s a life changing fact I learned in therapy years ago: Two seemingly opposite things can be true at the same time. Understanding this reduces anxiety.Case in point? It’s true that we’re angry at Officer Derek Chauvin — a name that sounds like a Victor Hugo novel character, but in fact he’s the apparent villain from our current real-life nightmare — and it’s true that we desperately hope for a better tomorrow. Those two truths are called a dialectic
  
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• George Pyle: The four cops who lost the election

  02-06-2020 14:00
  
  In 2004, Seymour Hersh did what Seymour Hersh does. He published an article revealing horrible misbehavior on the part of American soldiers, in this case the disgusting torture of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.Serious-minded observers in and out of government instantly knew that the moral case for the U.S. invasion of that nation had been horribly, perhaps irrevocably, damaged.The military police officers who took photos of themselves torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners had so d
  
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• Peaceful protesters march through Salt Lake City streets after mayor announces new one-week curfew

  02-06-2020 06:22
  
  Demonstrators decrying systemic racism filled the square in front of Salt Lake City’s police headquarters with passionate and largely peaceful demands for change Monday — as nearby law enforcement barricades and armored vehicles served as vivid reminders of last weekend’s violence.The protesters who gathered by the hundreds held up their arms outside the public safety center, chanting, “Hands up. Don’t shoot.” They reasoned with officers decked in riot gear an
  
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• New front opens in the fight over the Lake Powell pipeline

  02-06-2020 05:44
  
  The water rights behind the proposed Lake Powell pipeline are not actually coming from the project’s namesake lake, but rather from the major reservoir upstream on the Green River.Now, Utah water officials’ new request to overhaul those rights has handed opponents a fresh opportunity to thwart the proposed pipeline just as federal officials are about to release a long-awaited environmental review of the $1.2 billion project, which would funnel 82,000 acre-feet of water from Lake Powe
  
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• Utah’s Republican hopefuls for governor gang up on Spencer Cox and the Herbert administration

  02-06-2020 05:40
  
  Three of the four Republican candidates for Utah governor criticized the state’s response to the coronavirus as overbroad on Monday and accused Gov. Gary Herbert of “politicizing” the public health crisis by appointing his chosen successor to head up the response.The jabs thrown during an hourlong debate put Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who leads the state’s coronavirus task force and who a recent poll indicated is the current front-runner, on the defensive for much of the night
  
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• Mountain West to eliminate some postseason tournaments, make other budget cuts

  02-06-2020 04:57
  
  The Mountain West is eliminating postseason tournaments in baseball, men’s and women’s tennis and women’s soccer and shortening other postseason events.At the end of the conference’s virtual spring meetings, the Mountain West announced Monday several cost-cutting measures, including an 18% reduction in operating budget.The conference will reduce baseball and softball series from three days to two, playing a doubleheader on one day. In men’s basketball, the 12-team M
  
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• Christopher Mead: Governor and mayor go too far to stifle free speech

  02-06-2020 04:00
  
  Over the weekend, the national protests against police brutality have reached Salt Lake City. Saturday, an overwhelmingly peaceful demonstration attended by thousands turned violent, seemingly through the actions of a relatively small group of protestors. A police car was burned and messages painted on buildings throughout downtown.While figures as esteemed as Martin Luther King have recognized that “a riot is the language of the unheard,” I will not be addressing the legitimacy of t
  
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• Peaceful protesters march to police headquarters as officers take a knee; SLC mayor announces new one-week curfew

  02-06-2020 03:48
  
  Monday saw the end of a curfew in Salt Lake City, and the start of another one — that’s now the schedule to last for a week.Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall on Monday ordered the new curfew, running from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. each day — just an hour before hundreds of protesters gathered at City Hall. The protest so far has been peaceful, and at one moment, some officers even took a knee with protesters.In a statement, Mendenhall said the decision to extend the curfew to June 8
  
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