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• NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races and properties

  10-06-2020 23:57
  
  NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its races and properties on Wednesday, formally distancing itself from what for many is a symbol of slavery and racism that had been a familiar sight at stock car events for more than 70 years. The move comes amid social unrest around the globe following the death in police custody of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis. Protests have roiled the nation for days and Confederate monuments are being taken down across the South — the tradti
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Witness to Fascism’s Rise

  10-06-2020 23:37
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, June 11, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:AntifaAmerica the BeautifulDressed for UnrestThe Frat Boy PartyCOVID Hide and SeekFree RiderBeat the PressNon-essential BillionairesFacebook LinksConfederacy of DuncesWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Relatives: Bodies found are 2 Vallow kids missing since September

  10-06-2020 22:53
  
  Boise, Idaho • Relatives of two children missing since September said Wednesday that the bodies of two kids uncovered in rural Idaho are the young boy and his big sister, whose mother and her husband are behind bars in the case that has seized global attention.Authorities have not released the identities of the bodies discovered on the property of Chad Daybell, who married the children’s mother, Lori Vallow Daybell, a few weeks after the kids were last seen.But Joshua “JJ”
  
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• Salt Lake City police ban chokeholds and tear gas in reaction to protests

  10-06-2020 22:07
  
  After fielding questions from the City Council on crowd control during recent protests, the Salt Lake City Police Department has made good on a promise to revise its policies on chokeholds and tear gas.A copy of the new policies obtained Wednesday by The Salt Lake Tribune shows that officers are now specifically prohibited from chokeholds and firing tear gas into crowds. Those rules have already been pushed out to officers, according to Detective Michael Ruff.“We’ve never trained&rdq
  
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• Michelle Quist: Time to apologize for church’s racist history

  10-06-2020 22:00
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should apologize for its racist history.There, I said it. I’m not the first person to say it, and I won’t be the last.This past Monday marked the June 8 anniversary of the lifting of the “priesthood ban,”which banned black men from holding the priesthood for over 125 years. But it was more than just a priesthood ban. Women also couldn’t enter temples or receive the ordinances the church says are required for exaltation
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, June 10: Utah reports more than 300 new confirmed cases and one new death; Utah’s federal court closed because of the virus

  10-06-2020 21:17
  
  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 10. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]1:10 p.m.: Utah’s new daily confirmed cases top 300 Another 305 cases of COV
  
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• Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder on the Rudy Gobert-Donovan Mitchell relationship: ‘We’re in good shape’

  10-06-2020 21:10
  
  Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder made an appearance on ESPN’s “First Take” program Wednesday morning, ostensibly to talk about his inclusion on the coaches association’s social justice committee.First, though, the show’s panelists had a more pressing question: How is the relationship now between All-Stars Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell?After all, when Gobert became the first player in the NBA to test positive for COVID-19, and Mitchell became the second, ESPN’s A
  
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• Chad Daybell charged with hiding remains in connection to Lori Vallow and missing children

  10-06-2020 20:29
  
  Boise, Idaho • Prosecutors charged an Idaho man Wednesday with destroying or concealing two sets of human remains after police said they uncovered bodies at his home while searching for evidence in the case of his wife’s two missing children.The remains, found at Chad Daybell’s rural Idaho property Tuesday, have not yet been identified. But the finding marked a gruesome turn in an investigation that has drawn global attention for its ties to two other mysterious deaths and the c
  
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• Leonard Pitts: No one has made a stronger case against the police than the police

  10-06-2020 19:58
  
  For two weeks now, outrage has convulsed America: pundits, preachers, protesters, and at least one “severely conservative” GOP senator all raising their voices to condemn police brutality.Yet, here's the startling truth: No one has made a stronger case against the police than the police.There is not space enough to talk about it all — the disoriented man tasered for no apparent reason in Fairfax County, Virginia; the Kansas City cops who pepper-sprayed a crowd and threw a man t
  
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• Here are 21 black-owned restaurants, food trucks and bakeries to support in Utah

  10-06-2020 19:44
  
  While thousands are making a statement about injustice at marches, protests and vigils, many Utahns have found an additional way to fight racial inequity.They are spending their dining dollars at restaurants, food trucks and bakeries owned by people of color.“For a white person who is not comfortable going to a protest,” said Rita Magalde, owner of Sheer Ambrosia Bakery, “this is another way to support black Americans.”Magalde said the number of people following her home-
  
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• BYU men’s basketball team to play Arizona State in December at the Jerry Colangelo Classic

  10-06-2020 19:35
  
  BYU will join WCC stablemate Gonzaga, Texas Tech, San Francisco and hometown Arizona State and Grand Canyon for the third annual Jerry Colangelo Classic, to be played at Talking Stick Resort Arena on Dec. 19, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced Wednesday.The single-day event will feature Gonzaga vs. Texas Tech, Arizona State vs. BYU, San Francisco vs. Grand Canyon and Northern Arizona vs. San Diego.“This is going to be a great event for college basketball fans,” BYU coach
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: How historian Ardis Parshall’s labor of love is putting a human face on souls lost during a previous pandemic

  10-06-2020 19:34
  
  With the world in the grips of COVID-19, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, Mormon research historian Ardis Parshall has been posting photos and vignettes of Latter-day Saints who died during the Spanish flu of 1918-20, which claimed tens of millions across the globe.By doing so on her blog, keepapitchinin.org, she is putting a human face on what too often can appear in history books as cold statistics.On this week’s podcast, she touches on some of the souls who were lost du
  
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• Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder: ‘This is about combatting and confronting racism, even when it exists in yourself’

  10-06-2020 19:20
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder talks with the media after practice as the Utah Jazz prepare to play the Houston Rockets in game one of the NBA playoffs at the Toyota Center in Houston on Sunday, April 14, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder, like the rest of the coaches in the NBA, is gearing up for the season to resume in Orlando. But, even as the resumption of the season nears, there are things that are bigger than basketball.
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• Utah’s “I voted” stickers will feature women’s suffrage history

  10-06-2020 19:15
  
  Utah’s “I voted” stickers for the upcoming primary and general elections will feature women’s suffrage history.Earlier this year, Utahns celebrated the 150th anniversary of Utah women first getting the right to vote. On Feb. 14, 1870, Seraph Young cast her ballot in Salt Lake City, becoming not only the first woman to vote in the territory but also the first woman to vote under an equal suffrage law in the U.S. And August marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of
  
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• Morgan Scalley’s Utah football contract allows termination for cause; there’s no indication he has yet signed amended deal

  10-06-2020 19:07
  
  As Morgan Scalley’s suspension over a seven-year old text message that included a racial slur plays out, the significant investment the University of Utah made in its defensive coordinator six months ago could be in doubt.With a timetable for the conclusion of an outside firm’s investigation into the Scalley situation unknown, there is specific language in the existing two-year, $1.64 million deal that would appear to support termination with cause, if athletic director Mark Harlan a
  
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• Roger Federer out for remainder of 2020 after injury setback

  10-06-2020 18:54
  
  London • Roger Federer will miss whatever remains of the coronavirus-impacted 2020 tennis season because of a setback in his recovery from surgery on his right knee.The 20-time Grand Slam champion had arthroscopic surgery on his knee in February and said Wednesday in a statement on Twitter that he had a second procedure that will delay his return until 2021.The 38-year-old Federer had initially planned to be sidelined for at least four months, but because the tour was suspended amid the cor
  
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• The strange case of the Vallow kids who vanished in Idaho takes a grim turn

  10-06-2020 18:46
  
  Boise, Idaho • It was the extended family who grew suspicious first, and then at their urging, local police: Seven-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and his 17-year-old sister Tylee Ryan hadn’t been seen in far too long, and their mother wouldn’t give a straight answer about where they were.Soon strangers around the world were following the case, transfixed by the increasingly strange circumstances surrounding Lori Vallow Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell. The inve
  
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• USC welcomes back Reggie Bush after 10-year NCAA ban

  10-06-2020 18:45
  
  Southern California is welcoming Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush back to his football alma mater after a 10-year NCAA-mandated disassociation.The former star running back had been prohibited from interacting in an official capacity with the school he played for from 2003-05 since NCAA sanctions handed down in 2010. Bush and USC were penalized for him and his family receiving impermissible benefits while he was still in school.USC President Carol Folt wrote in a letter to Bush on Wednesday that
  
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• Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua agree to two-fight deal

  10-06-2020 18:41
  
  An all-British world heavyweight title showdown between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury in 2021 is a step closer.Fury said Wednesday that an agreement has been reached with Joshua's camp on a two-fight deal between the current holders of the heavyweight belts."The biggest fight in British boxing history has just been agreed," Fury said in a video message posted on Twitter. "Two-fight deal."Joshua's promoter, Eddie Hearn, earlier Wednesday told British broadcaster Sky Sports that the camps had agre
  
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• Senate moves toward preserving public lands, and political careers

  10-06-2020 18:17
  
  Washington • Gathered with a few Senate colleagues and President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House back in February, Sen. Cory Gardner gazed up at a portrait of the room’s eponymous president in his Rough Rider regalia and saw an opening to change Trump’s mind.Hoping to capitalize on the president’s yearning for flashy achievements, Gardner, a Colorado Republican, told Trump that passage of a public lands bill that his administration and many members of
  
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• The real story about asymptomatic people and whether they spread the coronavirus

  10-06-2020 17:40
  
  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. You may have seen recent headlines declaring that asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus is “very rare,” according to the World Health Organization.If that statement was true, this would be a massive sea change in how we dea
  
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• Morgan Scalley’s Utah football contract allows termination for cause; there’s no sign he has yet signed last year’s extension

  10-06-2020 17:32
  
  As Morgan Scalley’s suspension over a seven-year old text message that included a racial slur plays out, the significant investment the University of Utah made in its defensive coordinator six months ago could be in doubt.With a timetable for the conclusion of an outside firm’s investigation into the Scalley situation unknown, there is specific language in the existing two-year, $1.64 million deal that would appear to support termination with cause, if athletic director Mark Harlan a
  
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• Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman tests positive for COVID-19 after false negative

  10-06-2020 17:15
  
  After receiving a false negative test result for COVID-19 earlier this week, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said he received a positive diagnosis on Wednesday.“After a second try, test results came back positive for Covid-19,” he wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning. “Have been experiencing classic symptoms ... like so many others, my goal is to keep my family safe. Though isolated temporarily, we’ve never been more energized in this important race for Governor. The work goe
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, June 10: Utah’s federal court closed because of the virus

  10-06-2020 16:53
  
  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 10. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---8:50 a.m.: Utah’s federal court temporarily closedUtah's federal courthou
  
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• Spencer Cox, Jon Huntsman locked in tight battle as Utah’s Republican primary election nears, new Tribune poll finds

  10-06-2020 16:50
  
  The two GOP front-runners in the hotly contested primary race for Utah governor appear to be neck-and-neck, a new poll shows, with Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox enjoying a slight advantage as ballots begin to show up in voters’ mailboxes.Capturing roughly 32% support, Cox was the favorite among a pool of 500 Utah voters who planned to cast ballots in the four-way Republican primary, according to the poll from Suffolk University and The Salt Lake Tribune. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman came in second, wit
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’ Town Hall: A conversation about racism in Utah

  10-06-2020 16:48
  
  The death of George Floyd as well as many other cases of police violence have brought thousands of Utahns out into the street to protest day after day and night after night. Stories of racism and discrimination by law enforcement and in schools, churches, neighborhoods and the workplace are common in Utah, and a growing number of Utahns are demanding change.Join The Tribune for a candid discussion about racism in Utah — from personal experiences to structural and systemic problems. James J
  
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• 2 Idaho kids vanish, case transfixes the world. Now, a grim turn.

  10-06-2020 16:24
  
  Boise, Idaho • It was the extended family who grew suspicious first, and then at their urging, local police: Seven-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and his 17-year-old sister Tylee Ryan hadn’t been seen in far too long, and their mother wouldn’t give a straight answer about where they were.Soon strangers around the world were following the case, transfixed by the increasingly strange circumstances surrounding Lori Vallow Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell. The inve
  
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• Houston bids goodbye to George Floyd, whose killing galvanized a movement

  10-06-2020 16:13
  
  Houston • George Floyd died at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis. A thousand miles to the south, in the Texas city where he was raised, two rows of police officers saluted as his coffin went past.Hours before Floyd’s funeral began at a southwest Houston church, uniformed officers stood between the hearse and the front doors. As relatives and friends pushed the gold coffin with blue trimming into the church, the officers raised their hands in a show of respect.Floyd’s f
  
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• MLS, RSL unveil details for return to play in Orlando — including resumption of regular season after tournament

  10-06-2020 15:52
  
  Real Salt Lake will get to resume their season next month.Major League Soccer announced details of the MLS Is Back Tournament on Wednesday morning. It starts July 8 and, features 54 total matches and has some real implications for the winner.The victor of the tournament receives an automatic bid into the 20201 CONCACAF Champions League and a $1.1 million prize.Teams will start arriving to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando on June 24 for preseason training. After the three-game gro
  
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• Utah operator fined for mining unleased federal coal

  10-06-2020 15:08
  
  An upstart Utah coal operator has run afoul of the Bureau of Land Management for extracting federal coal in Emery County without authorization, according to a new report posted by the government’s watchdog agency.Bronco Utah Operations, which resurrected the old Emery Deep mine in 2016, was recently given permission to tunnel through federal coal so it could access state-owned coal without having to develop a new mine portal.But as Bronco’s crew bore the tunnel, it removed coal outsi
  
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• What LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland is learning about himself during the pandemic

  10-06-2020 15:00
  
  Jeffrey R. Holland hasn’t been this alone for more than 40 years, back before the 79-year-old Latter-day Saint apostle was the president of Brigham Young University.No in-person meetings. No jetting across the globe. No public speaking. No church services.COVID-19 has forced this self-isolation and social distancing on millions of people worldwide, but few are as gregarious — by position and personality — as the 12 apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.&ld
  
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• Two women charged with throwing rocks at Matheson Courthouse during Salt Lake City protest

  10-06-2020 15:00
  
  Prosecutors charged two women Tuesday in connection with property damage at the Matheson Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City during a protest decrying racism and police brutality late last month.Emilie Marie Smith, 22, of Sandy, and Lauren Elizabeth Hambrick, 24, of Salt Lake City, each face one charge of criminal mischief, a third-degree felony, for allegedly throwing rocks at a panel of glass at the courthouse around midnight May 30. They ran from the scene but were later apprehended and ide
  
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• Heat, rain, long lines: Georgia election plagued by problems

  10-06-2020 15:00
  
  Atlanta • Voters endured heat, pouring rain and waits as long as five hours on Tuesday to cast ballots in Georgia, demonstrating a fierce desire to participate in the democratic process while raising questions about the emerging battleground state’s ability to manage elections in November when the White House is at stake."It's really disheartening to see a line like this in an area with predominantly black residents," said Benaiah Shaw, a 25-year-old African American, as he cast a bal
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Public health failures are the fault of public officials

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  Public health is the responsibility of the public sector.When an epidemic spreads through the community and ripples across the economy, it is not the duty of individual patients or doctors or hospitals or laboratories to get a handle on the situation and slow the progress of the disease. It is the duty of the government, at the highest levels, to act.The official Utah response to the COVID-19 pandemic has fallen far short of what it should be.Far too much of the approach taken by Gov. Gary Herbe
  
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• No-frills farmers market opens Saturday in Salt Lake City

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  Goodbye, frills. Hello, basics.That’s what shoppers should expect Saturday, when Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market opens for the 2020 season.The extraneous stuff is gone. Thank you, coronavirus.But the fundamentals will be there, assured Alison Einerson, executive director of Urban Food Connections of Utah, which operates the premier event at Pioneer Park each summer.Eliminated this year are the food trucks and trailers that sell prepared foods, a move to prevent lingering and
  
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• Letter: Vote out the Trump Mob

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  Seldom is it as obvious as now that President Donald Trump and his key aide Attorney General William Barr are telling us clearly what they advocate doing whenever they complain about those whom they identify as most evil, most opposed, or most worthy of Trump’s anger.If he howls about protesters and opposition of nearly any color, then we should understand that he is informing us of what he would do if he were in their shoes.Since what he desires most is destruction of stable American valu
  
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• Letter: Protesters must be tested for COVID-19

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  For the last week, and for the foreseeable future, compassionate individuals have taken up their moral duty to stand up and stand out against police brutality and systemic racism. In doing so they are also taking on the moral duty to keep their peers safe — especially the very black lives we’re marching to save, which are at least twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than whites. Therefore:Those protesters who have the means need to undergo regular COVID-19 testing to ensure they are
  
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• Letter: Our enemies were people who answered their nation’s call

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  My father, SFC William C. North, a Silver Star, two-time Purple Heart veteran of the North African and Italian campaigns of World War II, and my mother, Pearl O. Holaway North, are buried at the Fort Douglas cemetery.With that as background, I must object to the removal of the gravestone or even the iron cross/swastika emblems from a prisoner's grave. He served his nation's call as he believed he must, just like our honored dead did. His fellow prisoners paid for the gravestone at substantial pe
  
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• Letter: Maybe we need guns after all

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  I could see guns used for hunting and for self-defense, with the caveat that military weapons were unnecessary. I could see guns used for target shooting, with the caveat that military weapons should only be owned by and used at commercial shooting ranges.But I never could see guns used for a well-regulated militia, and I never could see guns used for protection against tyranny. I always found those far-fetched ideas.Well, maybe I was wrong.Considering that President Donald Trump dispatched the
  
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• Letter: Behavior unacceptable from any leader

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  Over the last few years, I have become more and more alarmed at the rhetoric and behavior of President Trump. I expected him to be honest and moral while performing his duties as president and revered around the world as the most important person to lead us all to a better future. My hopes have been submerged under a swamp of distrust and dysfunction.I am Catholic and lean on the leader of my faith, Pope Francis, for guidance on being responsible for helping to facilitate that better future. If
  
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• For Utah refugee families, the pandemic is a new obstacle to learning English as a second language

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  Tina Kanyeba and Willy Chibangu, who came to Utah nearly four years ago as refugees from Congo, are struggling to help their eight children finish classes from home during the coronavirus pandemic.“It’s difficult,” Kanyeba said in an interview, “because English is not my best language.”She said it was much easier when her kids went to school and received more help from teachers. The family is part of the 4.7% of Utah’s population — 135,808 people —
  
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• Cox, Huntsman locked in tight battle as Utah’s Republican primary election nears, new Tribune poll finds

  10-06-2020 14:00
  
  The two GOP front-runners in the hotly contested primary race for Utah governor appear to be neck-and-neck, a new poll shows, with Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox enjoying a slight advantage as ballots begin to show up in voters’ mailboxes.Capturing roughly 32% support, Cox was the favorite among a pool of 500 Utah voters who planned to cast ballots in the four-way Republican primary, according to the poll from Suffolk University and The Salt Lake Tribune. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman came in second, wit
  
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• LPGA loses a major as Evian Championship in France canceled

  10-06-2020 05:59
  
  The LPGA Tour lost its first major because of the COVID-19 pandemic when it announced Tuesday the Evian Championship in France has been canceled this year.The LPGA Tour cited ongoing travel and border restrictions, along with government quarantine requirements for not holding the tournament on Aug. 6-9. It will return to the schedule next year in Evian-les-Bains.The LPGA Tour is set to resume in Ohio with the Marathon Classic on July 23-26. For now, it has majors scheduled in August, September,
  
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• Salt Lake City Council reviews police budget as residents, protesters call for defunding the department

  10-06-2020 05:46
  
  Dozens and dozens of Salt Lake City residents attended a virtual City Council meeting again Tuesday to discuss the city budget and police policy.At the same time, more than 800 protesters took to downtown streets — marching from the state Capitol to the federal building to the Gallivan Center — to decry racism and call for systemic change.Like last week, Tuesday night’s City Council public comment period lasted for hours. Most speakers again asked the council to defund the Salt
  
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• Paul Krugman: Will the jobs report destroy jobs?

  10-06-2020 04:00
  
  On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report on the employment situation in May. The report was much better than most economists expected, showing a large gain in jobs and a fall in the unemployment rate.The thing is, a good jobs report may be bad for future policy. Why? Because the U.S. economy is still very much on life support. And a bit of good news is all too likely to encourage the usual suspects to end that life support too soon, with dire effects just a few months from no
  
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• Sources: Utah Royals forward Christen Press will not participate in NWSL Challenge Cup; Kelley O’Hara returns

  10-06-2020 03:26
  
  The Utah Royals are less than a month away from hosting the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup. Just a few days ago, they started training as a full team in preparation for it.But one key player will be absent from the tournament.Christen Press, forward for the Royals and the U.S. Women’s National Team, won’t return to Utah to play in the Challenge Cup, per two people with knowledge of the situation. Coach Craig Harrington said recently that the club was in discussion
  
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• William E. Hewitt: Failure in White House to blame for many COVID deaths

  10-06-2020 01:56
  
  Throughout the many disasters that have befallen the Trump administration, one theme has remained a constant: malevolence tempered by incompetence.The successful negotiation of everyday life would seem to require that people to possess insight about deficiencies in their intellectual and social skills, and act accordingly. The current administration, fueled by an excessive opinion of its expertise, has become blind and blissfully unaware of its own incompetence.The sad truth is that the current
  
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• University of Utah plans major revamp of research park on Foothill Drive, adding lots of housing

  10-06-2020 01:48
  
  The University of Utah is planning a major transformation of its research park along Foothill Drive, aimed at making it a more walkable and residentially focused area with better access the school’s main campus.The Salt Lake City school’s latest vision, in the works since early 2019, includes new offices and laboratories spread across the Wasatch foothills site, with lots of new housing, a hotel and retail spaces, community gathering spots — and expanded transit and parking opt
  
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• Attorneys for the Salt Lake City cops who shot a man running away want city officials to stop talking about it

  10-06-2020 01:46
  
  Lawyers for the Salt Lake City police officers who shot and killed a 22-year-old man two weeks ago sent a letter to city officials Tuesday asking them to stop making public statements to “score political points” without knowing everything that happened that night.Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was killed in the early morning of May 23. Police, responding to a call of a gun threat at a motel, chased the Salt Lake City man for several blocks. They fired more than 20 rounds at Palacios-Carb
  
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• ‘Dense, walkable, amenity-rich’: University of Utah is pursuing a major overhaul of its research park on Foothill Drive, with lots of housing

  10-06-2020 01:30
  
  The University of Utah is planning a major transformation of its research park along Foothill Drive, aimed at making it a more walkable and residentially focused area with better access the school’s main campus.The Salt Lake City school’s latest vision, in the works since early 2019, includes new offices and laboratories spread across the Wasatch foothills site, with lots of new housing, a hotel and retail spaces, community gathering spots — and expanded transit and parking opt
  
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