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• Kaysville City Council calls for resignation of Mayor Katie Witt

  04-06-2020 23:52
  
  The Kaysville City Council is calling for the resignation of Mayor Katie Witt, a 1st Congressional District candidate.It was expected to formally pass a resolution Thursday evening to censure her and seek her resignation for what it said were violations of city code and misuse of resources as she supported a concert that aimed to protest and openly violate state COVID-19 restrictions.The council blocked that proposed free concert in a city park by country star Collin Raye on May 30 by threatenin
  
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• Discuss protests and coronavirus with The Tribune and KCPW on ‘Behind the Headlines’

  04-06-2020 23:47
  
  The ongoing protests in Salt Lake City sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneaopolis. Black Utahns ask for policy changes locally to address systemic racism. And Utah’s ‘sharp spike’ in COVID-19 cases - with a related jump in hospitalizations.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Paighten Harkins and Bethany Rodgers, and news columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every Friday at 9 a.m., stream &ld
  
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• Man who drew bow and arrow on Salt Lake City protesters charged with three felonies

  04-06-2020 23:36
  
  Prosecutors on Thursday charged Brandon E. McCormick, who is seen on video driving his car to Saturday’s downtown protest and aiming a bow and arrow at demonstrators, with two felony weapons counts and one count of aggravated assault.All three counts are Utah’s lowest grade of felony and are each punishable by up to five years in prison. McCormick was also charged with a misdemeanor count of threatening or using a weapon in a fight. That count carries up to a year in jail.The Salt La
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Frat Boy Party

  04-06-2020 23:31
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, June 5, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:COVID Hide and SeekFree RiderBeat the PressNon-essential BillionairesFacebook LinksConfederacy of DuncesPrimary Face OffOne of the GreatsFree-dumbUtah Ballot BoxWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Parking garage ‘Romeo and Juliet’ adaptation postponed a week because of Salt Lake City protests

  04-06-2020 22:36
  
  It wouldn’t be “Romeo and Juliet” if something didn’t delay the star-cross’d lovers’ meeting — and, in the case of SONDERimmersive’s interpretive adaptation, “Through Yonder Window,” that something was a citywide curfew.The creative minds behind SONDERimmersive opted this week to delay for a week the debut of their interactive performance piece, scheduled to be staged in the north parking garage at The Gateway with the audience in their
  
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• MLS gives the go-ahead to RSL, other teams for full team training

  04-06-2020 22:08
  
  Real Salt Lake players will now get to practice as a team.Major League Soccer on Thursday lifted the restrictions on full team training, paving the way for players to work toward match fitness as the tournament in Orlando later this month looms. Teams may now begin submitting plans to the league for their returns.“Individual club plans must be reviewed and approved by the club’s medical staff and local infectious disease expert prior to submission to MLS for review,” the league
  
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• Greg Skordas: The message we got was a long time coming

  04-06-2020 22:00
  
  Like many Utahns, I sat in horror last Saturday afternoon and watched my city be destroyed, our public safety and state Capitol buildings defaced by vulgar and hateful messages and our police maligned. It was really upsetting; unnerving.At first, I blamed it on hooligans and “outsiders” bent on getting attention. I blamed it on a very few “crazies” letting off steam. Like most Utahns, I felt badly for the police officers who stood tall and strong in the face of people ins
  
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• Gordon Monson: The NBA has a plan to restart the season. Now the questions begin for the Utah Jazz and other teams.

  04-06-2020 21:50
  
  It’s not ideal, but at least it is a deal.It’s not completely fair, but it is not completely unfair.It’s not wholly sufficient, but it is efficient.And it’s pretty much official, approved now by team owners on Thursday. Players are expected to approve the plan on Friday.The NBA will finish its season in Orlando, with 22 teams playing eight games each before the playoffs begin. And once they do begin, they will look like most traditional postseasons of the past, with best-
  
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• Here’s how the Utah Arts Festival is moving its artists, performers and films online

  04-06-2020 21:32
  
  For an artist, there’s nothing quite like looking into the eyes of someone who admires your work.“We’re looking forward to seeing the customers that come up and say, ‘Oh, this is so beautiful,’ because they can only see this art at festivals,” said metal art sculptor Mike Beals, Best in Show award winner at the 2019 Utah Arts Festival. “Artists get really energized by the caring thoughts and kind words the patrons offer,” he said. “It’s
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, June 4: Another jump in new cases; Utah Senate president tests positive for COVID-19 antibodies

  04-06-2020 21:31
  
  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 Thursday, June 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:29 p.m.: SNAP recipients to get maximum benefits through JuneFood stamp recipien
  
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• KSL-TV sues for info on Utah County businesses alleged to be COVID-19 hot spots

  04-06-2020 21:29
  
  KSL-TV is suing Utah County in an effort to gain access to information the government has repeatedly declined to provide to the public about two businesses that reportedly created hot spots of the coronavirus and infected at least 68 people. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in 4th District Court, asks a judge to rule that the county’s refusal to release information identifying the businesses is unlawful, arguing that there is no legal merit for withholding it.“But even if there were some b
  
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• NBA teams approve plan to return; ‘formality’ of players’ approval to come Friday

  04-06-2020 21:18
  
  It’s almost official: The NBA is just about back.After play was indefinitely suspended the evening of March 11 after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, the league confirmed that the NBA’s Board of Governors on Thursday voted to approve commissioner Adam Silver’s plan to conclude the season.“The NBA is working to finalize a comprehensive season restart plan with the National Basketball Players Association,” the league said in a statement. &ldq
  
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• Report: NBA teams approve plan to return by 29-1 vote; ‘formality’ of players’ approval still to come

  04-06-2020 20:27
  
  It’s almost official: The NBA is just about back.After the league was indefinitely suspended the evening of March 11 after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, multiple reports announced that the NBA’s Board of Governors on Thursday voted to approve commissioner Adam Silver’s plan to conclude the season.“It’s a formality now” that players will also accept the plan, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said on SportsCenter.If so, there will be
  
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• Gondola or frequent buses are final options under study to improve Little Cottonwood Canyon traffic

  04-06-2020 20:24
  
  Future visitors to Little Cottonwood Canyon may not just enjoy ski lifts at Alta and Snowbird resorts — it’s possible they could travel up the canyon by public gondola to reduce traffic congestion.Building a gondola is one of three final solutions to canyon congestion — pared down from 105 original proposals — that officials said Thursday will receive more in-depth study during the next phase of an environmental impact statement, scheduled for completion late next year.Th
  
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• Crews battle four fires near Park Valley. Fire conditions to worsen before rain arrives this weekend

  04-06-2020 20:20
  
  Busy fire crews in northwest Utah extinguished one blaze late Wednesday and contained three others, which firefighters are “hopeful” will be out by the end of Thursday.The Matlin, Peplin and Hansel fires in the area south and west of Park Valley were all lightning caused. The Matlin Fire burned along the historic railroad, taking out two of the historic railroad trestle bridges. Several other recreational structures (three cabins, five trailers and a couple of outbuildings) were thre
  
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• Jefferson Burton violates Defense Department rules in Utah campaign ad

  04-06-2020 20:15
  
  Jefferson Burton — the former Utah National Guard commander who now leads the Utah Department of Health’s COVID-19 efforts — admits his legislative campaign ran afoul of Defense Department rules that ban featured photos of him in full uniform. He offers an unusual explanation.“The problem my campaign manager has is there’s not a picture of me not in uniform, and it’s kind of a challenge,” he said.The Salt Lake Tribune raised questions whether a mailer se
  
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• Here’s how a domestic violence call turned deadly, leaving one Ogden officer and a suspect dead

  04-06-2020 20:14
  
  Ogden Police Officer Nate Lyday didn’t have time to defend himself or pull out his own gun before a suspect shot and killed him last week, according to a summary released Wednesday by the Weber County Attorney’s Office.Lyday and another officer were at an Ogden home on the afternoon of May 28 after a woman called 911 and said that her husband had beat her and threatened to kill her, according to the report.Lyday was the first officer to arrive at the home, and he stood at the front p
  
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• Report: NBA’s Board of Governors approves 22-team format to resume 2019-20 season

  04-06-2020 19:58
  
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver announces the 2023 NBA All-Star game will be held at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The NBA is back. Or, at least it will be very soon.
  The Athletic’s Shams Charania and ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday morning that in a vote, the NBA’s Board of Governors approved the previously reported 22-team format to resume the 2019-20 season.
  The NBA's
  
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• ‘A necessary step’: NBA’s Board of Governors approves vote for return to play amid COVID-19 and racial violence and injustice concerns

  04-06-2020 19:58
  
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver announces the 2023 NBA All-Star game will be held at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The NBA is back. Or, at least it will be very soon.
  The NBA announced that in a Thursday morning vote the NBA’s Board of Governors approved the previously reported 22-team format to resume the 2019-20 season. ESPN and The Athletic were first to report the news.
  “The Board&rsquo
  
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• Jean Hill: Now is not the time to cut aid to the poor and struggling

  04-06-2020 19:55
  
  Right now in every county in this state at least one person, one family, is struggling to stay out of homelessness.More likely than not, that person and at least one if not several members of that family have jobs, though perhaps they are furloughed at the moment, and chances are the jobs pay less than the wage required to afford housing in their county. That person or family may be struggling to afford rent, rising food costs, transportation expenses, health needs, or all of the above.The perso
  
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• IndyCar ready to race after pandemic delayed start of season

  04-06-2020 19:38
  
  The stars of IndyCar were in Florida preparing to start their season when the coronavirus pandemic slammed the brakes on those plans 48 hours before the green flag. Almost three months later, the series is finally set to go racing. The 2020 season will open Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway in NBC's first primetime IndyCar race. The series follows NASCAR, which heads into this weekend having already completed nine events. Both have had to draw up safety plans. Both are racing without fans f
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, June 4: Utah Senate president tests positive for COVID-19 antibodies, vows to keep wearing a mask

  04-06-2020 19:34
  
  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 Thursday, June 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:30 a.m.: Utah Senate president tests positive for COVID-19 antibodiesUtah Senat
  
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• Navajo police warn against illegal marijuana, hemp farms

  04-06-2020 18:23
  
  Shiprock, N.M. • Authorities on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. are warning people against illegally growing marijuana and hemp.Navajo Nation police issued the warning Wednesday after confirming that officers were investigating complaints about marijuana or hemp being grown near the northwestern New Mexico community of Shiprock.Navajo Police Chief Phillip Francisco said his department has turned over its findings to tribal prosecutors for further review."The unregulated
  
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• Report highlights voting inequities in tribal communities

  04-06-2020 18:21
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Native American voting rights advocates are cautioning against states moving to mail-in ballots without opportunities for tribal members to vote safely in person.In a wide-ranging report released Thursday, the Native American Rights Fund outlined the challenges that could arise: online registration hampered by spotty or no internet service, ballots delivered to rarely-checked Post Office boxes and turnout curbed by a general reluctance to vote by mail."We're all for incre
  
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• LDS Church General Conference will be virtual only again in the fall

  04-06-2020 18:03
  
  In April, The Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints held its first-ever virtual General Conference, and the public was not invited. Now, church leaders say, they will do it again in the fall.For the only time in the 190-year history of the Utah-based faith, the two-day spring gathering was available only via television, radio or the internet due to the coronavirus pandemic.Speakers addressed a worldwide audience from a mostly empty auditorium in downtown Salt Lake City’s Church Of
  
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• Brian McInerney: It is folly to assume the past is future on the Colorado River

  04-06-2020 17:00
  
  If we are to plan for the future of Utah’s water supply, it is important to understand what that future is expected to bring. Relying on past hydrologic conditions and expecting that regime to be our future is folly.The hydrology of the Western U.S. is changing. We’re experiencing drier, hotter conditions and more stagnant weather patterns. These changes are upon us now, and are projected to become even greater in the not-too-distant future. As such, do we proceed with this in mind,
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A call to end racism, a vacuuming prophet, a scriptural gift

  04-06-2020 16:22
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.A new newsroomThe church is making it easier to keep up on official news, announcements and events by merging all of that content onto Newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.“In a world overflowing with information, it
  
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• Body of missing man is pulled from Lake Powell

  04-06-2020 16:08
  
  Three days after an Arizona man went missing while swimming in Lake Powell, his body was recovered in the Warm Creek area in Kane County.A National Park Service search crew located the body of Dustin Olague, 30, of Flagstaff, on Wednesday. According to witnesses, Olague — who was not wearing a life vest — jumped from a boat to go for a swim on Sunday afternoon. He was last seen approximately 100 meters from the boat when he went under the water and did not resurface.Conditions were s
  
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• 10-year-old Utah boy dies after he’s shot in the chest

  04-06-2020 15:59
  
  A 10-year-old Utah boy was killed by a gunshot in what police believe was a “tragic accident.”According to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to a home off S.R. 248 in the Kamas Valley at 5:47 p.m. on Wednesday, and arrived to find the boy had been shot in the chest. A medical helicopter was called in to transport him to a hospital, but the boy died before it arrived.Details of how the boy was shot — where the gun came from and who fired it — a
  
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• Utah unemployment claims decline further, but remain at Great Recession levels

  04-06-2020 15:31
  
  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. Unemployment claims in Utah have fallen for an eighth straight week but still remain high due to the pandemic.Nearly 4,996 sought jobless assistance for the week ending May 30, joining another nearly 1.87 million Americans who did the s
  
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• Protesters march in Salt Lake City again as police chief denounces death of George Floyd

  04-06-2020 15:13
  
  Diane Bahati didn’t organize the protest at City Hall on Wednesday evening. No one really knew who did, but the people came, and she took over.She led chants, telling the crowd of a few hundred people to say George Floyd’s name, and then she asked everyone to lie down. For eight minutes. Just like he did.It’s just 60 seconds, eight times over, but when you’re living it, it feels like a long time to be facedown on the ground. “I know you’re uncomfortable,&rdquo
  
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• Regulations finally coming for scenic air tours over Utah’s national parks but not all pilots like the idea

  04-06-2020 15:10
  
  Between the two of them, Paul Cox and son Alex have have been flying sightseers over national parks for decades, mostly at southern Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park, where their air tour company is based at the nearby airport.There is no better way to experience Bryce’s astonishing hoodoos, towers and arches eroding out of the Paunsaugunt Plateau’s east face, the pilots say. Their helicopter flies “low, slow and up close” along the canyon rim.“That’s wh
  
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• Mitch Landrieu: The price we have paid for not confronting racism

  04-06-2020 15:09
  
  I was struck by these words.“To pursue our present course will involve the continuing polarization of the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values.”I read on. The alternative “will require a commitment to national action — compassionate, massive and sustained, backed by the resources of the most powerful and the richest nation on this earth. From every American it will require new attitudes, new understanding, and, above all, new will
  
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• Leonard Pitts: We don’t have a few bad apples. We have a rotten tree.

  04-06-2020 15:09
  
  After George Floyd became the latest unarmed African American killed by police.After cars were overturned and cities were burned.After armies of angry people filled our streets with raw screams.After all that, a white man with an impressive title went on CNN to explain things. "I don't think there is systemic racism," opined National Security Adviser Robert C. O'Brien. "I think 99.9 percent of our law-enforcement officers are great Americans."So why do these great Americans seem to have such tro
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My friend left her family without a trace for months and is now back as if nothing happened

  04-06-2020 15:07
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • There is a family we have been friends with for years. We’ve watched their kids grow up and leave for college. We started to hang out with the newly minted empty-nesters most weekends. However, over the last couple of years one of the couple has displayed more and more reckless behavior, including abuse of prescribed medications and conducting at least one affair. Last June she upped and left without a word. No one even knew where she had gone. Her devastated husband
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah can be a leader in the future of voting and help its voters with disabilities and those overseas

  04-06-2020 15:00
  
  If Tina Terry wants to vote by mail she has to find a friend or family member to read her the ballot, mark the box for her and send it off.So much for a secret ballot.Terry is blind and, while she said she has liked voting by mail, “I hated that someone else had to do it for me.”And all of that assumes that the voters have someone to help them with their ballots.“It’s kind of an assumption that if you have a disability you’re going to have someone there with you to
  
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• Paul Van Dam: Massive Lake Powell Pipeline project affects all Utahns, not just Washington County

  04-06-2020 15:00
  
  People generally think of the Lake Powell Pipeline (LPP) as a southern Utah project, which it is. But we should not forget that the project, first conceived in 1995 and mandated by the 2006 Lake Powell Pipeline Development Act, would burden all Utahns.Utah would bond for 50 years or more and Washington County would repay, only slowly, tying up much needed state funds at a time when the our ability to balance the budget will be challenging.A handout at Gov. Gary Herbert’s Executive Water Fi
  
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• Letter: You need more than a big mouth to be a world leader

  04-06-2020 14:00
  
  Hopefully George Pyle was correct when he surmised that Donald Trump’s reaction to the public disgust at the killing of George Floyd will doom Trump’s reelection bid.Simply put, Trump has made a mess of the presidency and this should be the final straw. His "America First" attempts to personally dominate all other world leaders (except Vladimir Putin) have dramatically lost us goodwill among all other western powers.His tax cuts have caused the largest deficits outside the George Bus
  
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• Letter: Trump’s outrageous behavior was buried

  04-06-2020 14:00
  
  I am usually a fan of The Salt Lake Tribune's reporting, except for the over-zealous reporting on the LDS Church, but that's another matter.I was gravely disappointed that the front page headline for Tuesday's edition was not about the president's outrageous and immoral statements to use military force against our own citizens but, instead, a story about Salt Lake City's curfew captured the front page.Trump's statement reaches a level of presidential dysfunction unlike any president has made in
  
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• Letter: SLAC does right by its actors

  04-06-2020 14:00
  
  I am writing in response to a recent letter to the editor, authored by Brad Wallin, a longtime and valued subscriber at Salt Lake Acting Company.In the letter, published by The Salt Lake Tribune on May 29, Mr. Wallin raised his well-meaning concerns as to SLAC’s business practices, particularly around the treatment of our actors and the handling of funds donated to the theatre company.While I have already reached out to Mr. Wallin directly, I’d like to take this opportunity to provid
  
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• Letter: An attack on peaceful protesters

  04-06-2020 14:00
  
  Why did the president of the United States order tear gas and rubber bullets to be used on peaceful protesters? Or did he? Maybe he just said, "Clear the way for me," and the armed men and women took it upon themselves to use tear gas and rubber bullets, neither of which are gentle persuaders, without warning upon a peaceful group of protesters.However it happened, this attack on peaceful protesters should not go unnoticed. Congressmen should censure the president for his use of force. We should
  
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• Protesters gather in Salt Lake City again as police chief denounces death of George Floyd

  04-06-2020 06:55
  
  Diane Bahati didn’t organize the protest at City Hall on Wednesday evening. No one really knew who did, but the people came, and she took over.She led chants, telling the crowd of a few hundred people to say George Floyd’s name, and then she asked everyone to lie down. For eight minutes. Just like he did.It’s just 60 seconds, eight times over, but when you’re living it, it feels like a long time to be facedown on the ground. “I know you’re uncomfortable,&rdquo
  
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• Analysis: How will NBA’s plans to reboot the season impact the Utah Jazz and the league

  04-06-2020 06:01
  
  Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder talks with Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) as the Utah Jazz and the Portland Trail Blazers play at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Pending approval from the league’s board of governors, the NBA will officially move forward with a plan to resume NBA games beginning July 31.
  During a Thursday meeting, NBA commissioner Adam Silv
  
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• MLB rejects 114-game schedule, threatens plan of about 50

  04-06-2020 04:00
  
  New York • If Major League Baseball and its players take the field for a coronanvirus-delayed 2020 season, it will be after acrimonious negotiations that resemble their labor war of a generation ago.MLB rejected the players’ proposal for a 114-game regular season schedule with no additional salary cuts, and will turn its attention to a shortened slate of perhaps 50 games or fewer. Owners last week proposed an 82-game schedule starting in early July“We do not have any reason to
  
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• David R. Irvine: Today’s generals should learn the lessons of the past

  04-06-2020 04:00
  
  Washington Post writer Karen Tumulty unearthed an LBJ quote to capture the moment we’re living through: “President Lyndon B. Johnson said something profound and prescient in 1968, when cities across the country erupted in violence after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the preeminent leader of the civil rights movement. ‘What did you expect?’ Johnson told an aide. ‘I don’t know why we’re surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck
  
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• Senate extends program to help small businesses after Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee drops hold on bill

  04-06-2020 03:26
  
  Washington • The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to expand the time small businesses and nonprofits have to spend money under a program aimed at helping them stay afloat during the coronavirus outbreak.The passage came after Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, won assurances that the extension only applies to money received and not additional time to apply for a Paycheck Protection Program loan, which can be essentially forgiven by lenders if the employer keeps its staff on payroll during the cri
  
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• Michael Kennedy-Yoon: Above all, do no harm: What police can take from health care workers

  04-06-2020 03:00
  
  Our America faces a grim reality: a public health crisis, exacerbated by failures at the federal and state governmental level. I am not speaking about the coronavirus and the disruption to our financial markets caused by COVID-19, but instead about the public health crisis of police brutality against our black citizens, which wreaks havoc on our society and disrupts our economy, individual lives and the public health of the country as a wholeIt is useless right now to look for someone to blame.
  
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• Senate extends program to help small businesses after Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee won changes

  04-06-2020 02:53
  
  Washington • The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to expand the time small businesses and nonprofits have to spend money under a program aimed at helping them stay afloat during the coronavirus outbreak.The passage came after Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, won assurances that the extension only applies to money received and not additional time to apply for a Paycheck Protection Program loan, which can be essentially forgiven by lenders if the employer keeps its staff on payroll during the cri
  
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• Prosecutors charge 3 more officers in George Floyd’s death

  04-06-2020 02:32
  
  Minneapolis • Prosecutors charged three more police officers Wednesday in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge against the officer at the center of the case, delivering a victory to protesters who have filled the streets from coast to coast to fight police brutality and racial injustice.The most serious charge was filed against Derek Chauvin, who was caught on video pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck and now must defend himself against an accusation of second-degre
  
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• A gray wolf is in Utah for the first time in years. The state is setting traps.

  04-06-2020 02:18
  
  Earlier this week, a trapper working for the state of Utah went to investigate a calf that had been killed by a predator in Rich County. He brought coyote traps, expecting the typical culprit.But after analyzing scat, tracks and other evidence, the trapper determined the calf was killed not by a coyote, but a rare gray wolf — a species that has been sighted in Utah only a handful of times since it was extirpated from the state in the 1920s.Traps were set, but the wolf had not yet been kill
  
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