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• Sen. Mitt Romney criticizes President Trump for clearing ‘nonviolent’ protesters for a ‘photo op’

  03-06-2020 23:58
  
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney on Wednesday criticized the Trump administration for clearing a nonviolent protest across from the White House so President Donald Trump could have a photo op at a church that had been vandalized.The Utah Republican, who has been one of a few Republicans in Congress willing to speak out against Trump, suggested that the active duty military soldiers should not be used to quell protests and should be left to police and National Guard soldiers.Romney said the &ld
  
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• Black Utahns offer ideas for policy changes in emergency meeting with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert

  03-06-2020 23:46
  
  During a meeting of the state’s Multicultural and Martin Luther King Jr. commissions Wednesday, members of Utah’s black community spoke for more than two hours about the injustices they’ve faced because of the color of their skin and provided policymakers with specific ideas to address systemic racism in the state.The emergency gathering, called by Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, comes at a time of local and national unrest over the death of George Floyd, a black ma
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Society, church and individuals can and must do more to erase sin of racism, say black Latter-days Saints

  03-06-2020 23:31
  
  George Floyd’s death — as just the latest example of a black person dying at the hands of law enforcement — has shaken, angered, agitated and, some say, awakened the nation, setting off waves of sometimes-violent protests against racism and police brutality.Days later, Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a faith with its own racist history, took to social media, condemning prejudice, calling racists to repentance and decrying the law
  
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• How a contrarian scientist helped Trump’s EPA defy mainstream science

  03-06-2020 22:54
  
  In March 2017, a scientist named James Enstrom rattled many public health experts by publishing a study concluding that there was no link between fine soot air pollution and premature death.The finding was drastically at odds with the consensus of medical researchers and with the evidence from nearly three decades of previous research.But it was in line with arguments that Enstrom, a physicist-turned-epidemiologist, had been making for years. His dissent had played an essential role in his ascen
  
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• Police identify Utah man who killed his two young sons, then himself

  03-06-2020 22:48
  
  Police have identified the two young boys who authorities believe were shot to death by their father in their South Jordan home Tuesday.Seth Osborn, 8, and Ezra Osborn, 10, both died of gunshots wounds, according to South Jordan police. Their father, Brian Osborn, 41, is believed to have killed them; he was found dead in the home of an “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.”Police were called to 4329 W. Pentenwell Lane in the Daybreak development shortly after 4 p.m. The boys’
  
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• Finca restaurant returns, replacing Trestle Tavern in Salt Lake City’s 15th and 15th neighborhood

  03-06-2020 22:34
  
  While some Utah restaurant owners are trying to reinvent their businesses amid the coronavirus, Salt Lake City’s Scott Evans has decided to return to a tried-and-true concept — Finca.The beloved Spanish restaurant relaunched this week after a two-year hiatus. It’s located in the dining space — with a quaint patio — at 1513 S. 1500 East. It replaces Trestle Tavern.Michael Richey, who 11 years ago helped Evans launch Pago, is the new chef.“We get a chance to sta
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee holds up extension of paycheck program for small businesses

  03-06-2020 22:14
  
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is holding up quick passage of an extension to a program aimed at helping small businesses and nonprofits during the coronavirus outbreak, arguing the funding should be curtailed earlier.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had planned to take up the House-passed legislation this week that would give small businesses and nonprofits until the end of 2020 to spend money they got through the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, which was part of a package o
  
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• Jonny Vasic: Port Authority spends $850,000 for a fairy tale of a plan

  03-06-2020 22:03
  
  In the newly released strategic business plan by the Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA) the consultants who were paid $850,000 to write the plan use nice words like, “sustainable,” “smart technologies,” “clean technologies,” “renewable energy,” “enhance community livability,” but the plan is nearly void of any specifics.The report states “Property tax differential is levied on the difference between current land values and improvem
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, June 3: Utah reports second-biggest jump in cases and four new deaths; State epidemiologist sees a statewide trend

  03-06-2020 21:53
  
  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 Wednesday, June 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:40 p.m.: State epidemiologist says rise in cases is a statewide trend The state
  
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• Federal charge filed against man accused of burning police car during Salt Lake City protests

  03-06-2020 21:45
  
  Prosecutors filed an arson charge against a man suspected of torching a Salt Lake City police car during Saturday’s protests over the death of George Floyd.Jackson Stuart Tamowski Patton, 26, is charged with the lone count in federal court in Salt Lake City. The arson charge carries up to 20 years in prison and a minimum sentence of five years.Patton was arrested by police Tuesday during protests that night, according to a news release from the U.S. District Attorney’s Office. On Wed
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, June 3: Utah reports second-biggest jump in cases and four new deaths

  03-06-2020 21:26
  
  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 Wednesday, June 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:15 p.m.: Utah reports 295 newly confirmed cases and four new deathsFour more Ut
  
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• Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is lifting curfew

  03-06-2020 21:25
  
  Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall on Wednesday announced she is lifting the curfew that has restricted city residents since Saturday’s violent protests.“There are no restrictions tonight," Mendenhall said on “Trib Talk," during a conversation with Salt Lake Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce. “It’s normal city law.”The curfew had drawn criticisms from civil rights groups and residents questioning how the city could curtail the right of protesters to gath
  
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• Watch live: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall talks protests, curfews, law enforcement, COVID-19 and more on ‘Trib Talk’

  03-06-2020 21:03
  
  For several nights, demonstrators have taken to the streets of Salt Lake City, calling for an end to racism and police reform.On the latest edition of “Trib Talk,” Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce discuss the status of these recent protests, the 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, transparency and accountability in law enforcement and more. Watch it live on the Tribune’s Facebook page at 1 p.m.‘Trib Talk’ is produced by Jeni Fitzgi
  
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• Utah’s AMA Supercross riders Garrett Marchbanks and Pierce Brown enjoy homecoming even at event without fans

  03-06-2020 20:54
  
  In the halcyon days of their youth, Garrett Marchbanks and Pierce Brown would imagine what it would be like to race their motorcycles in Rice-Eccles Stadium.Marchbanks, from Coalville, and Brown, of Sandy, would join their dads, and the masses, at the AMA Supercross races whenever they roared into the University of Utah campus. For months afterward, the boys would gather at a dirt track and pretend they were there, riding in front of tens of thousands of fans, including all their friends and fam
  
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• UTA ridership and fare revenue dropped more than two-thirds at height of virus restrictions

  03-06-2020 20:36
  
  Data presented Wednesday to the Utah Transit Authority Board shows how deeply its ridership and revenue plunged in April, at the height of state stay-at-home directives for COVID-19.That includes:• Ridership was down 68.4%. for that month, with about 1.2 million rider trips instead of the normally projected 3.8 million.• That meant that ridership for the year (through April 30) was down by 23.2%, from a projected 14.8 million passenger trips to just 11.4 million.• Revenue from pas
  
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• Will Utah-Montana State football game get played Sept. 12? MSU AD Leon Costello weighs in

  03-06-2020 20:14
  
  Montana State University brought football players back to its Bozeman campus this week for voluntary workouts. The University of Utah will do the same beginning June 15 as the two sides progress towards having their non-conference football game played as scheduled, Sept. 12 at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Things might be moving in a positive direction, but there remains uncertainty in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no guarantee an entire 12-game season gets played. Multiple Pac-12 coaches, i
  
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• Reports: NBA teams expected to approve 22-team return plan on Thursday

  03-06-2020 20:05
  
  It appears the NBA is back.Multiple reports Wednesday morning indicated that on Thursday’s conference call with the league’s Board of Governors, commissioner Adam Silver will present a plan that consists of 22 teams returning (13 Western Conference, nine Eastern Conference) to play eight regular-season games apiece, a possible play-in tournament for the eighth seed in each conference, to be followed by a traditional 16-team, four-round playoff.A source told The Associated Press that
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, June 3: Logan posts lowest unemployment rate in federal list; another food pantry to reopen

  03-06-2020 19:10
  
  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 Wednesday, June 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:10 a.m.: Crossroad Urban Center to reopen food pantryThe Crossroads Urban Cent
  
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• Report: NBA to propose 22-team return to play, July 31 start date

  03-06-2020 18:31
  
  In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, NBA commissioner Adam Silver speaks at a news conference before an NBA preseason basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the Toronto Raptors in Saitama, Japan.| AP SALT LAKE CITY — The NBA will propose a 22-team format and resume play on July 31 in Orlando, according to multiple reports.
  The news, first reported by The Athletic’s Shams Charania on Wednesday, confirms what has trickled out over the last week regarding how the NBA will look wh
  
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• AP source: NBA presents players with plan for season restart

  03-06-2020 18:31
  
  A person with knowledge of the situation says the NBA has told the National Basketball Players Association that it will present a 22-team plan for restarting the season to the league’s board of governors on Thursday.All 22 of the teams coming to the ESPN Wide World Of Sports complex on the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida would play eight games to determine playoff seeding before the postseason begins, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity o
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, June 3: Logan posts lowest unemployment rate in federal list; curfew confusion adds to pain for restaurants, bars

  03-06-2020 18:27
  
  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, June 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---10:25 a.m.: Logan posts lowest jobless rate in federal tally; St. George, Salt La
  
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• Camping in the West? Like everything these days, it’s complicated.

  03-06-2020 18:26
  
  In the West, cabin-feverish parents yearning to take their children into the woods, couples trying to escape quarantine pods, and all campers who miss their beloved outdoors will this summer find a complicated camping landscape, one of new and conflicting laws, closings and reopenings, and strict requirements on social-distancing and hand-washing.When the pandemic hit the United States in mid-March, Western states shut down in a staggered fashion, leading to the unprecedented closure of national
  
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• State Legislatures are slow to pass laws limiting use of force

  03-06-2020 18:20
  
  Columbus, Ohio • A wave of police killings of young black men in 2014 prompted 24 states to quickly pass some type of law enforcement reform, but many declined to address the most glaring issue: police use of force. Six years later, only about a third of states have passed laws on the question.The issue is at the heart of nationwide protests set off by the May 25 death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis pressed a knee into Floyd's neck for seve
  
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• MLS, RSL plan for return after players union ratifies collective bargaining agreement

  03-06-2020 17:51
  
  Major League Soccer is back. But it took a circuitous and at times tenuous road to get there, and it was for a time in danger of not happening at all.The league and the MLS Players Association on Wednesday ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that runs through the 2025 season, includes salary and bonus cuts for players, and a return-to-play scenario that would take all 26 teams to Orlando for a tournament.While there are several significant provisions in what both parties agreed to, on
  
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• MLS plans for return after players union ratifies collective bargaining agreement

  03-06-2020 17:23
  
  Major League Soccer is back. But it took a circuitous and at times tenuous road to get there, and it was for a time in danger of not happening at all.The league and the MLS Players Association on Wednesday ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that runs through the 2025 season, includes salary and bonus cuts for players, and a return-to-play scenario that would take all 26 teams to Orlando for a tournament.While there are several significant provisions in what both parties agreed to, on
  
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• Coronavirus messaging greatly impacts how people react, even splitting two Fox News audiences

  03-06-2020 17:00
  
  Messaging matters.I’ve been thinking about that with regards to the success Japan has had with the coronavirus. You see, Japan just ended its state of emergency. That’s despite being dealt a bad early hand: that country has the world’s most densely populated city in Tokyo and the world’s oldest population, (Japan’s elderly population is nearly double that in the U.S.). It is relatively close to the site of the first outbreak in Wuhan, and one of the first major outb
  
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• Weber State professor resigns after tweeting threats at those involved in police protests

  03-06-2020 16:42
  
  A Weber State University professor who made threatening comments on Twitter about those involved in the nationwide police protests said in an email Wednesday that he regrets the posts and will now resign.“I agree that my tweets were far beyond the realm of acceptable university policy as well as acceptable social norms,” wrote Scott Senjo in a message to The Salt Lake Tribune. “I made those tweets in the oftentimes vulgar, extreme back-and-forth that can occur on Twitter and th
  
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• President Trump calls U.S. attorney for Utah a ‘garbage disposal unit’ for closing Hillary Clinton probe

  03-06-2020 16:33
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning called U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber “a garbage disposal unit” for closing an investigation without charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Huber, who has served as Utah’s top federal prosecutor since 2015, had been tapped by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to launch an inquiry into the Clinton Foundation and its ties to the sale of a Canadian uranium company — with mining stakes in th
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, June 3: Curfew confusion adding to the pain for restaurants, bars

  03-06-2020 16:33
  
  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, June 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---8:30 a.m.: Salt Lake City restaurants and bars say curfew confusion is hurting bu
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall talks protests, curfews, law enforcement, COVID-19 and more

  03-06-2020 15:31
  
  For several nights, demonstrators have taken to the streets of Salt Lake City, calling for an end to racism and police reform.On the latest edition of “Trib Talk,” Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce discuss the status of these recent protests, the 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, transparency and accountability in law enforcement and more. Watch it live here or on the Tribune’s Facebook page at 1 p.m.‘Trib Talk’ is produced by Jen
  
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• Park City coaches rake in U.S. Ski & Snowboard awards

  03-06-2020 15:06
  
  Park City raked in the most Coach of the Year honors of any city when US Ski & Snowboard announced its awards Friday.Forest Carey (Alpine International), Ryan Wyble (Freeski International), Bryon Wilson (Freestyle Domestic) and Nick Poplowski (Snowboard Domestic) were all deemed at the top of their game.Vladimir Lebedev, who is living in Park City but hails from Russia, took the Freestyle International honor in his first year on the job, and for good reason. Four of Lebedev’s athletes
  
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• Letter: Where police knelt with protesters, there was no violence

  03-06-2020 15:06
  
  There were several cities across America where police actually knelt with protesters and prayed with them. There was no violence or looting there.Let this be our national pattern before violent thugs can come in. Let this be our nation’s response to the protests that legitimately call our attention to racism and societal injustice. We don’t need Trump’s army. We need listening, sincerity and understanding.L. Cameron Mosher, HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The definition of terrorism

  03-06-2020 15:04
  
  Donald Trump said he wants to declare Antifa a domestic terrorist group. One definition of domestic terrorism is the “calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or ideological or religious in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.”Is it not conceivable that Trump, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh could meet criteria for this definition?Roger Christensen, Salt Lake CitySubmit a l
  
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• Elizabeth Bruenig: The last temptation of Trump

  03-06-2020 15:03
  
  Late Monday afternoon, President Trump emerged from the White House and strode in the cool spring daylight to St. John’s Church in Lafayette Square. It was supposed to be an act of defiance: Mr. Trump has bristled at the observation that during the protests roiling the capital he has burrowed into a fortified bunker rather than addressing the nation.Like most performances arranged by Mr. Trump and associates, it made only a disjointed sort of sense. Yes, the president’s decision to m
  
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• Utah’s all-male slate of candidates for governor support state wage gap survey

  03-06-2020 15:02
  
  There’s likely a “major wage gap” between women and the men they work alongside at all levels of state government in the Beehive State, says Utah Valley University professor Susan Madsen, director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project.“We just don’t know how that looks exactly,” she said.That’s because efforts in the state Legislature to study the issue have fallen flat — most recently in 2018, when lawmakers shut down Democratic state Sen. Lu
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Coming to terms with Utah’s racial divide will take leaders brave enough to follow

  03-06-2020 15:00
  
  It is a horrific act of sadistic callousness. It is also the latest in a disgracefully long list of black people, predominantly men, dying at the hands of police, those who are supposed to protect and serve.The incomprehensible killing of George Floyd prompted protests across the country — as it and other similar deaths, like the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, should.Some of those protests turned violent, as was the case Saturday in Salt Lake City, when protesters smashed win
  
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• Real Salt Lake, Utah Royals starts bringing back furloughed staffers as preparation for NWSL tournament begins

  03-06-2020 14:57
  
  The return of the National Women’s Soccer League also marked another return. But that one is more behind the scenes.With the NWSL Challenge Cup starting in Utah at the end of this month, games will be played at Zions Bank Stadium and Rio Tinto Stadium. Not only that, but housing accommodations, meals and more will need to be provided to all nine teams that will participate in the monthlong tournament.And because the Real Salt Lake organization, which includes the Utah Royals FC, is ostensi
  
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• Letter: What do you mean, ‘allegedly’?

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  The caption for your photo of Brandon McCormick, the man who threatened protesters with a bow and arrow and was beaten up for it, reads: “Brandon McCormick was beaten up by protesters after allegedly brandishing a bow and arrow at a protest Saturday.”Both events were captured on video and confirmed by multiple witnesses, so how come one of them is stated as fact while the other only happened "allegedly"?I suspect the answer is that you're worried the semi-literate racist — obje
  
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• Letter: The military should not be used this way

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  I am a veteran of The United States Navy and am 62 years old. I have witnessed many things in my life, but what I witnessed on television Monday night is beyond maddening.That the president of the United States would order U.S. troops to fire rubber bullets and teargas at unarmed peaceful protesters just so he can have a photo-op at the St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House.It is beyond the pale and the president should be ashamed, though I know he isn’t. America’s m
  
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• Letter: Remove the reasons for violence

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  Our African-American co-citizens try and cry and protest and contest the never-ending onslaught of systemic white power over them, but to no avail.So, what should they do when the response so far has been so tepid? Just sit back and take it? You would never suggest to your friends or family that they should just accept abusive behavior toward them. Of course you wouldn't. You would tell them to stand up, be strong and fight back.So now, when they do just that, they are suddenly terrorists? This
  
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• Letter: Is that what ‘tremendous’ means?

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  I read The Salt Lake Tribune each morning and I wish our leaders did, too.Tuesday I saw Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox saying “By and large we have had a tremendous response to this coronavirus crisis.”On the same front page, “Rate of positive coronavirus tests increase in Utah.”Am I misinterpreting what “tremendous” means?William Littig, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: George Floyd was not insignificant

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  Watching the death of George Floyd is beyond difficult.You watch a man, helplessly handcuffed, plead for his life as that life is senselessly ended at the hands of American law enforcement officers. Those who were there knew it was wrong. Maybe some of the other officers had some idea this was not right. But they did not protect Floyd and he died anyway.I don’t think his killer probably intended to cause his death, but his apparent intent was equally pernicious.Floyd was face down and hand
  
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• Letter: Don’t brush aside the people’s concerns

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  When the citizens of Salt Lake City took to the streets to mourn the deaths of George Floyd, Bernardo Palacios Carbajal and countless others, they were met with police in riot gear and a curfew.As protests against police brutality and systemic racism continue across the country, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has issued another weeklong nightly curfew. Utah’s city and state leaders have been swift to dispatch police and the National Guard and impose curfews, but not to hear the conce
  
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• How we talk about the coronavirus: finding the balance between appropriate fear and fatalism

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  Messaging matters.I’ve been thinking about that with regards to the success Japan has had with the coronavirus. You see, Japan just ended its state of emergency. That’s despite being dealt a bad early hand: that country has the world’s most densely populated city in Tokyo and the world’s oldest population, (Japan’s elderly population is nearly double that in the U.S.). It is relatively close to the site of the first outbreak in Wuhan, and one of the first major outb
  
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• Here are 6 ways Utah high schools are still holding graduations and celebrating seniors

  03-06-2020 14:00
  
  Pomp and circumstance but with face masks and social distancing.That was the idea for high school graduations across the state this spring.Even with large events postponed and schools closed due to the coronavirus, many districts still wanted to give seniors a special sendoff. And the students wanted them, too, with many signing online petitions and pleading for some kind of in-person celebration after years of working toward a diploma.So while observing Utah’s safety guidelines, they came
  
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• Biden moves closer to formally winning Democratic nomination

  03-06-2020 06:23
  
  Joe Biden is on the cusp of formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination after winning hundreds more delegates in primary contests Tuesday that tested the nation's ability to run elections while balancing a pandemic and sweeping social unrest.Biden could lock down the nomination within the next week as West Virginia and Georgia hold primaries.On Tuesday, voters across America were forced to navigate curfews, health concerns and National Guard troops — waiting in line hours aft
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, June 2: Panel recommends Utah transition to 'green’, or normal, risk level this weekend

  03-06-2020 05:49
  
  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.]---6:15 p.m.: Panel recommends Utah transition to normal risk level The state’s
  
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• Protesters march again through Salt Lake City, as mayor and police chief meet with community leaders

  03-06-2020 05:47
  
  Victoria Crosby stood with a megaphone in hand in front of hundreds of kneeling protesters. She urged them away from violence.She also wanted to achieve one small thing: She wanted law enforcement to take a knee with her, a small sign to show they heard her — and the crowd’s — pleas for equitable policing, for less brutality. But she didn’t have much hope of success with members of the National Guard. She’d been told they were ordered not to kneel."But that does not
  
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• Protesters march again through downtown Salt Lake City, as mayor and police chief meet with community leaders

  03-06-2020 04:14
  
  Downtown Salt Lake City saw another wave of protests Tuesday evening, as demonstrators gathered near City Hall carrying signs and marching for justice.The group of several hundred peaceful protesters began walking around Washington Square early Tuesday evening, largely remaining silent, but occasionally chanting and cheering when drivers honked at the procession.Protesters marched back and forth between the park’s corners, pausing to chant “kneel with us" when they reached law enforc
  
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• Veterans Affairs to remove Nazi headstones in Texas, Utah

  03-06-2020 03:32
  
  San Antonio • The process to remove grave headstones of German prisoners of war that display swastikas and markings related to the Nazi regime at cemeteries in Texas and Utah will begin later this month, Veterans Affairs announced.The VA said Monday in a statement that it has decided to replace the headstones on gravesites of three German POWs. Two are located at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, and one is at Fort Douglas Post Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.&ldquo
  
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