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• Feds release environmental analysis on possible Powell pipeline routes. Critics point to flaws.

  08-06-2020 23:10
  
  Federal officials released a long-awaited environmental review Monday of Utah’s proposed Lake Powell pipeline, a controversial billion-dollar water project that would serve the mushrooming St. George area, opening a public comment period through Sept. 6.The Utah Division of Water Resources has spent 14 years and $35 million designing and studying the 140-mile-long pipeline that would move up to 86,000 acre-feet of water a year through a 69-inch-diameter pipe across northern Arizona and sou
  
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• Robert A. Goldberg: It is not an option to be a bystander in todays’ America

  08-06-2020 23:00
  
  A few years ago, the University of Utah Law Review published my article “The Bystander During the Holocaust.” This essay spoke of the millions of victims tortured, enslaved and murdered by the Nazi killing machine during World War II.Beyond the victims, perpetrators and the selfless who risked their lives to protest, my discussion focused on the bystanders. These were the men and women who stood by, in denial, deaf to the cries and blind to the fate of the persecuted. In their passiv
  
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• U.S. economic growth ended in February and began recession, experts say

  08-06-2020 22:05
  
  Washington • The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record.The economists said that employment, income and spending peaked in February and then fell sharply afterward as the viral outbreak shut down businesses across the country, marking the start of the downturn after nearly 11 full years of economic growth.A committee within the National Bureau of Economic Research, a tra
  
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• Governor candidate Jon Huntsman tests negative for COVID-19

  08-06-2020 21:39
  
  Governor candidate Jon Huntsman has tested negative for COVID-19, his campaign announced Monday, several days after the team revealed one of its staffers had the illness.The former Utah governor went into quarantine last week and canceled all his in-person appearances upon learning of the staffer’s positive test for coronavirus.“The health of each member of our team and the public is our primary concern,” Huntsman said in a prepared statement last week. “We will follow th
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up by 256 on Monday

  08-06-2020 21:27
  
  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. Another 256 Utahns have tested positive for the coronavirus, state health officials reported on Monday, and another three have died.In the past week, there has been a daily average of 303 new cases per day, and a 7-day positivity rate o
  
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• Man accused of coercing Utah girl to undress on camera by threatening her with computer virus

  08-06-2020 20:45
  
  A Rhode Island man is accused of coercing a 10-year-old West Valley City girl to perform sex acts on camera by threatening her with a computer virus — and he may have tried the same thing with more than a dozen other girls.The 18-year-old Providence man, using a female moniker, messaged the girl with a link to what he said was an online children’s gaming platform, federal prosecutors in Rhode Island wrote in a news statement.After that link and another one opened to blank websites, t
  
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• The Conversation: Trump’s use of religion follows playbook of other authoritarian-leaning leaders

  08-06-2020 20:42
  
  It was a striking moment: Donald Trump, Bible in hand, posing for photos in an apparent moment of political theater made possible by the dispersal of protesters through the use of tear gas.The president’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church, known as “the Church of the Presidents,” came immediately after giving a Rose Garden speech framing himself as “your president of law and order” and threatening to send federal troops to “restore security and safety
  
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• Feds release environmental analysis for on possible Powell pipeline routes. Critics point to flaws.

  08-06-2020 19:53
  
  Federal officials released a long-awaited environmental review Monday of Utah’s proposed Lake Powell pipeline, a controversial billion-dollar water project that would serve the mushrooming St. George area, opening a public comment period through Sept. 6.The Utah Division of Water Resources has spent 14 years and $35 million designing and studying the 140-mile-long pipeline that would move up to 86,000 acre-feet of water a year through a 69-inch-diameter pipe across northern Arizona and sou
  
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• Utah’s Attorney General calls for investigation into possible price-fixing by meatpackers

  08-06-2020 19:32
  
  Cattle prices are low and beef prices are high, and Utah’s attorney general is calling for state and federal investigations into “suspected national price-fixing” by the meatpacking industry.“Especially now, we need to encourage fair competition in the meatpacking industry and protect consumers,” Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said in a statement. “We intend to ask the DOJ to conduct a vigorous investigation into the meatpacking industry.”In a letter a
  
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• Utah hoops recruit Caleb Lohner reportedly wants to back out. Here’s why and what could happen next.

  08-06-2020 19:21
  
  It came as a surprise late last week when Caleb Lohner reportedly requested a release from his National Letter of Intent from the University of Utah, but one could argue that it was pretty surprising he committed to Utah in the first place.If you step back, Lohner wanting out of Utah, apparently in an effort to instead attend BYU, comes off as less surprising given his family ties.Early Friday evening, after a day filled with mostly conjecture and not much else, the Deseret News reported Lohner
  
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• Review: Comedian Pete Davidson shows his heart in ‘The King of Staten Island’

  08-06-2020 18:00
  
  Anyone familiar with Pete Davidson, either as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” or his appearances in the gossip columns during his brief engagement to pop star Ariana Grande, has seen the hints of tragedy behind his stoner-guy comedy persona.That tragic shadow takes center stage in director Judd Apatow’s comedy-drama “The King of Staten Island,” a sometimes funny, often heartbreaking story that uses semi-autobiography to let Davidson exorcise his personal demo
  
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• Native Americans want to be included in race talks

  08-06-2020 17:52
  
  Great Falls, Mont. • As protesters demand justice for George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, many Native Americans in Montana are showing solidarity for black Americans.Floyd, 46, died after pleading for his life as a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck. The incident sparked outrage, and protesters flooded cities worldwide, including Great Falls, Helena, Bozeman, Missoula and Billings, calling for justice and an end to systemic racism.Resulting
  
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• Cache Valley providing aid to refugees, immigrants who contracted coronavirus at Hyrum plant

  08-06-2020 17:00
  
  Cache Valley churches and nonprofits spent the weekend distributing food and cleaning supplies to dozens of immigrants and refugees impacted by a coronavirus outbreak at a Hyrum meat-processing plant.Officials with the Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection, or CRIC, expect several hundred more JBS employees — many of whom have come from Latin America and the African countries of Somalia, Eritrea and Congo — to need help with food and critical health items.“Nine out of 10 house
  
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• President Trump mocks Utah Sen. Mitt Romney for marching with Black Lives Matter protesters

  08-06-2020 16:04
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Monday mocked Sen. Mitt Romney for marching with Black Lives Matter protesters here, falsely asserting that the Utah Republican’s poll numbers have sunk at home.“Tremendous sincerity, what a guy,” the president tweeted. “Hard to believe, with this kind of political talent, his numbers would “tank” so badly in Utah!”Tremendous sincerity, what a guy. Hard to believe, with this kind of political talent, his number
  
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• Infant in critical condition after being trapped in a car submerged in South Salt Lake golf course pond

  08-06-2020 15:28
  
  Police in South Salt Lake pulled an infant boy from a car that was submerged in a golf course pond late Sunday night.Just before midnight, police received reports of disruption at a golf course near 600 West and 3300 South, FOX 13 reported. They arrived to find a woman’s car upside down in a retention pond at the executive course at Golf in the Round. The woman told officers that a child was still inside a carseat.Police jumped into the water and pulled the boy out of the car. He was in cr
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Five black leaders in Utah say this is where our community should go from here

  08-06-2020 15:19
  
  Our nation has been through a lot these past few weeks. We have been forced to answer for our sad history of racism and our lingering reality of injustice.Where do we go from here? Honestly, I don’t have the answers to that. More importantly, it doesn’t matter what I think. Our job right now is to listen to those who live this reality day in and day out and to stand with them and demand that things change.So, I’m going to shut up and listen and let you consider the views of fiv
  
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• What can the Utah Jazz expect from Tony Bradley in the playoffs?

  08-06-2020 15:13
  
  The 2019-2020 NBA season has revealed that the Jazz have a problem at the backup center position. Come playoff time, Tony Bradley will need to step up. This year is Tony Bradley’s third in the NBA — it’s also his third with the Utah Jazz. Coming into this season, the 28th overall pick in the […]
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• With sales taxes down sharply due to COVID-19, Utah cities face painful budget choices

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Cities throughout Utah face hiring and wage freezes, postponed improvement projects and, in some cases, layoffs as they rush to trim their budgets in light of tax losses from the coronavirus pandemic.Just how deeply those cuts will go v
  
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• Utah has little civilian oversight of police, and departments don’t say much about officer misconduct

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  In the time between when he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado and when director Spike Lee made the film “BlacKkKlansman” about him, Ron Stallworth spent 20 years working in Utah law enforcement.In a recent phone interview, Stallworth recalled a conversation he overheard while he was employed at the Utah Department of Public Safety. On the gun range, a sergeant and trooper talked about how they wished they could gauge their marksmanship in a real shootout.“I stood there a
  
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• Spike in Utah evictions is coming, housing advocates say. Others aren’t so sure.

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  Housing advocates warn that a crisis looms for Utah’s renters.They fear an impending surge in evictions as legal protections tied to the pandemic expire and government relief checks begin to run out in July.Others contend that billions in federal assistance and a pending economic recovery could ease the state through the summer months without a major rise in homelessness.The uncertainties have some officials urgently seeking new ways to help the state’s lower-wage earners thrown from
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Here is where five black leaders say our community should go from here

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  Our nation has been through a lot these past few weeks. We have been forced to answer for our sad history of racism and our lingering reality of injustice.Where do we go from here? Honestly, I don’t have the answers to that. More importantly, it doesn’t matter what I think. Our job right now is to listen to those who live this reality day in and day out and to stand with them and demand that things change.So, I’m going to shut up and listen and let you consider the views of fiv
  
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• Letter: Tribune provides valuable coverage of the LDS Church

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  I approve wholeheartedly Scott Kenny’s critique of Shauna Clark’s objection to The Salt Lake Tribune’s coverage of LDS Church behavior.A cousin recently reminded me that he avoids The Tribune because it says negative things about the church. As an active Mormon myself, I value the quality, responsible coverage of my church and find it balanced and fair.From the great contributions of Peggy Fletcher Stack to Tuesday’s timely, eloquent piece by young Jodie Parkinson, I am g
  
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• Letter: The Book of Mormon should repent

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I enthusiastically applaud President Russell M. Nelson’s recent admonition to “abandon attitudes of prejudice.” Few Mormon prophets have taken such a bold stand against racism in a moment of such political urgency.As recent events have dramatically shown us, however, it is all too easy to ask others to abandon their prejudices without seriously considering, reconsidering and abandoning our own.After what can only b
  
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• Letter: Is our governor a doctor?

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  I am interested in where our current governor got his medical license. In the past at least two communities, the town of Bluff and Grand County, asked to keep restrictions in place to restrict activities of individuals who want to visit our communities. I am afraid that decisions are being made politically rather than based on medical evidence.Bluff, a small community that is a tourist location next to the Navajo Nation, has a majority of residents in the high-risk category because of their age.
  
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• Letter: Get rid of the Trump drones

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  Greg Hughes boasts he is “an original supporter of Donald Trump for president in 2016 before it was popular.”Greg and other Republican candidates for governor remind me of drone bees. Drones do not gather nectar or pollen. They have only one purpose: mating with the queen bee.Drones are not popular with the worker bees who do useful things: make combs; tend larvae and young drones; clean the hive; gather nectar, pollen and propolis; evaporate nectar; cap cells; defend the hive; lay d
  
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• Letter: Fund education, not green lawns

  08-06-2020 14:00
  
  Utah ranks 51st among all states and the District of Columbia in per-pupil spending on education. In stark contrast, a new study funded by the Utah Department of Water Resources ranks Utah No. 1 in per-capita use of public water supply, excluding agriculture.Some of that water is unmetered, but last year the Legislature voted down a bill to gradually phase in metering.Nevertheless, Utah plans billions of dollars of investment in new water projects. The Lake Powell pipeline would deliver water fr
  
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• Ace on a par-4 propels Ute golfer Blake Tomlinson to victory in the SLC Amateur

  08-06-2020 05:57
  
  Choosing his words carefully, and knowing how the tournament ended, University of Utah golfer Blake Tomlinson remembered being “a bit unhappy” as he stood on Bonneville Golf Course’s No. 8 tee in the rain Sunday afternoon.One swing later, his mood brightened considerably. That’s what a hole-in-one on a par-4 will do for you.One of the most remarkable shots in the long history of the Richard C. Kramer Salt Lake City Amateur launched Tomlinson’s comeback. After starti
  
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• Police show less force as peaceful protests push reform

  08-06-2020 05:47
  
  Police around the U.S. took a less aggressive stance and even sometimes joined protesters demanding a reckoning with institutional racism, as leaders in the city at the center of the latest call for police reforms pushed Sunday to dismantle its department.Two weeks after George Floyd, a black unemployed bouncer, died in Minneapolis after a white officer pressed a knee on his neck for several minutes, a majority of the City Council vowed to dismantle the 800-member agency.“It is clear that
  
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• Ace on a par-4 propels Ute golfer Blake Tomlinson to a win in the SLC Amateur

  08-06-2020 05:27
  
  Choosing his words carefully, and knowing how the tournament ended, University of Utah golfer Blake Tomlinson remembered being “a bit unhappy” as he stood on Bonneville Golf Course’s No. 8 tee in the rain Sunday afternoon.One swing later, his mood brightened considerably. That’s what a hole-in-one on a par-4 will do for you.One of the most remarkable shots in the long history of the Richard C. Kramer Salt Lake City Amateur launched Tomlinson’s comeback. After starti
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 110 new coronavirus cases and 5 deaths

  08-06-2020 03:26
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Department of Health has reported 110 new cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation and five more known deaths.That pushes the numbers to 5,918 positive COVID-19 cases and 274 known deaths as of Saturday night.Tribal officials also said preliminary reports from 11 health care facilities indicate about 2,686 people have recovered from COVID-19 with more reports still pending.The vast Navajo Nation reservation stretches into northeastern Arizona, northwestern N
  
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• Minneapolis council majority backs disbanding police force

  08-06-2020 03:12
  
  Minneapolis • A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council said Sunday they support disbanding the city’s police department, an aggressive stance that comes just as the state has launched a civil rights investigation after George Floyd’s death.Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared with activists at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon and vowed to end policing as the city currently knows it. Council member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council woul
  
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• Mitt Romney marches in Black Lives Matter protest in Washington

  08-06-2020 01:47
  
  In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, Washington, D.C., has been a ground zero for rallies and protests against police brutality.On Sunday, those rallies in the nation’s capital included Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.In a tweet from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, Romney is shown marching to the White House with what she estimated to be about 1,000 Christians. At the end of a 12-second video as part of the tweet, Romney says he is marching
  
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• New York Times editorial page editor resigns amid fury over opinion piece

  08-06-2020 01:40
  
  New York • The New York Times’ editorial page editor resigned Sunday after the newspaper disowned an opinion piece by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton that advocated using federal troops to quell unrest, and it was later revealed he hadn’t read the piece prior to publication.James Bennet resigned and his deputy, James Dao, is being reassigned at the newspaper, the Times said Sunday.The fallout was swift after the Arkansas Republican’s piece was posted online late Wednesday. It caused
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: This week saw a huge spike in cases and an outbreak at a meatpacking plant

  08-06-2020 00:36
  
  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 the Utah Department of Health announced 268 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, it ended a week in which cases in the state were up. Way up, in fact.From June 1 to June 7, there were 2,269 new cases reported statewide. That number marks a n
  
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• Mitt Romney marches in Black Lives Matters protest in Washington

  08-06-2020 00:24
  
  In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, Washington, D.C., has been a ground zero for rallies and protests against police brutality.On Sunday, those rallies in the nation’s capital included Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.In a tweet from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, Romney is shown marching to the White House with what she estimated to be about 1,000 Christians. At the end of a 12-second video as part of the tweet, Romney says he is marching
  
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• Treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains finally found

  08-06-2020 00:23
  
  Santa Fe, N.M. • A bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found, according to a famed art and antiquities collector who created the treasure hunt.Forrest Fenn, 89, told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Sunday that a man who did not want his name released — but was from “back East” — located the chest a few days ago and the discovery was confirmed by a
  
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