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• Atlanta officer kills black man; police chief resigns

  13-06-2020 23:58
  
  Atlanta • Atlanta’s police chief resigned Saturday, less than 24 hours after a black man was killed by an Atlanta officer in a struggle following a field sobriety test.Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced during a news conference that she had accepted the resignation of Police Chief Erika Shields.Police were called to the restaurant on a complaint that a man was sleeping in a car blocking the drive-thru lane as customers waited in line, the GBI said. The agency identified the
  
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• Sam Merrill hit the biggest shot in Utah State basketball history. Here is the oral history of that moment.

  13-06-2020 23:46
  
  It was the shot heard ‘round Logan. Quite probably the greatest shot in Utah State basketball history. Easily the greatest shot in Sam Merrill’s career. And it won the Aggies a berth in the NCAA Tournament, although that never came to pass due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The date: March 7. The location: Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The Aggies are fighting tooth and nail against the San Diego State Aztecs, the No. 5 team in the country. The game is tied at 56. There’s abo
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah economy needs a transfusion, not a tourniquet

  13-06-2020 23:00
  
  Members of the Utah Legislature, along with city councils and county commissions all over the state, are facing a series of difficult decisions on how to handle both the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic slowdown that has followed it.Elected officials at all levels are faced with a situation where government is called to do more even as its primary sources of revenue — particularly the sales tax — shrink.What all should keep in mind in this unusual time is that what the state, its e
  
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• Atlanta police shoot, kill suspect after struggle

  13-06-2020 22:39
  
  Atlanta • A man reported to police for sleeping in a car blocking the drive-thru lane of a fast food restaurant was shot and killed in a late night struggle with Atlanta officers after he failed a field sobriety test and resisted arrest, Georgia authorities said Saturday.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it was asked by the Atlanta Police Department to investigate the shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, which happened at a Wendy’s restaurant late Friday.The shooting came a
  
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• 11 Salt Lake County rec centers are now open and more will be soon

  13-06-2020 22:21
  
  As Utah moves towards looser safety guidelines for the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 of Salt Lake County’s recreation centers have reopened after public health ordered closures — and five more are scheduled to open over the next month.In an effort to keep visitors and staff safe, each facility has new social distancing guidelines that include keeping a 6 foot distance from others and wearing face masks.“We have modified operations for everything from our rec centers to golf,” Cla
  
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• Top young players seek NBA insurance

  13-06-2020 22:10
  
  On the cusp of hundreds of millions of dollars in contract extensions, several of the NBA’s top young stars had a Friday call with National Basketball Players Association officials about the possibility of league-financed insurance policies to protect against career-threatening injuries in the bubble restart in Orlando, sources tell ESPN. Miami’s Bam Adebayo, Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, Utah’s Donovan Mitchell and Boston&rsqu
  
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• The 2017-18 Utah Jazz were not defined by Gordon Hayward’s defection, but by their collective grit and late-season magic

  13-06-2020 21:39
  
  Editor’s note: If not for the coronavirus outbreak, the NBA Finals would be wrapping up right about now. In the spirit of postseason fervor, The Salt Lake Tribune is doing a multi-part series on the most impactful playoff runs in Jazz history. Part 1 — 1983-84: The Jazz save professional basketball in Utah. Part 2 — 1987-88: Trading haymakers with the champs. Part 3 — 1991-92: A huge step forward, but still coming up short. Part 4 — 1996-97: Finally breaking through
  
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• Utah reports 404 new COVID-19 cases, but no new deaths

  13-06-2020 20:59
  
  Utah on Saturday reported 404 new cases of COVID-19, but no new deaths, as the current spike of the virus continues.The state overall has now recorded 13,981 cases of the novel coronavirus, and the new case total represents a 2.9% jump from Friday.Utah’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have also increased by 24 since yesterday. There are now 132 positive virus cases currently being hospitalized. The state announced 1,012 people have been hospitalized overall because of the coronavirus.With no ne
  
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• Gregory A. Clark: It is hard to unlearn racism. But we can do it.

  13-06-2020 20:00
  
  Like many faculty at the University of Utah and throughout the country, I spent much of Wednesday participating in #AcademicShutdown and #Strike4BlackLives activities to eliminate racism and anti-Blackness.Here’s why I did. Here’s why all of us should engage in similar activities. And here’s what the field of neuroscience — my own professional discipline — tells us about why and how we should.1. Black lives matter.Who could reasonably argue otherwise? That such a cl
  
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• Gordon Monson: NBA players deserve respect, whether they finish the season or not

  13-06-2020 19:12
  
  A hundred NBA players participated in a conference call on Friday night, discussing, among other things, concerns some of those players have about two ends — maybe three … can there be three ends? … of an issue regarding the league’s proposed restart in Orlando in the weeks ahead.Even though the tally from an earlier player-reps vote, at least tentatively, approved the plan, 28-0, there are others among the players — led by Kyrie Irving — who do not feel the
  
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• Jana Riess: Will blue shirts be a game changer for Latter-day Saint missionaries?

  13-06-2020 18:52
  
  In a world that has gradually degenerated into the murky arena of "business casual," you could always rely on Latter-day Saint missionaries to hold the line: white dress shirts, carefully knotted neckties, and, often, a full-on suit or sport coat.No matter the weather. No matter the culture or setting in which they served.As of Friday, there are some welcome chinks in that armor. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced "exceptions to the dress standards for young men servin
  
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• 11 Salt Lake County rec centers are now open and more will soon

  13-06-2020 17:57
  
  As Utah moves towards looser safety guidelines for the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 of Salt Lake County’s recreation centers have reopened after public health ordered closures — and five more are scheduled to open over the next month.In an effort to keep visitors and staff safe, each facility has new social distancing guidelines that include keeping a 6 foot distance from others and wearing face masks.“We have modified operations for everything from our rec centers to golf,” Cla
  
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• Biking soars in popularity in southern Utah during pandemic

  13-06-2020 17:35
  
  St. George, Utah • To those who know the city of St. George, its beautiful natural landscapes make it one of the best cities in the country for people who like to spend time outdoors.But with the introduction of the COVID-19 on American shores earlier this year, it became clear that being outside and around others would become increasingly rare.So the people of St. George started hitting the streets with their bikes instead.“Bikes are the new toilet paper and it’s super awesome,
  
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• These photos contrast how Utah’s black women feel viewed — and how they want the world to see them

  13-06-2020 17:05
  
  Stephanie Nguyễn Lake was feeling frustrated.People have been asking the Midvale 24-year-old for her thoughts about race, and why she sees things the way she does, since the May death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. The questions have continued as Utahns of all ethnicities have protested and rallied to demand justice and police reform.But every time Lake, who is Asian and African American, had those conversations, she felt uncomfortable — because she was told that h
  
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• Joel Briscoe: The young people are asking, ‘When will we be safe?'

  13-06-2020 17:00
  
  In 1984 I was arrested for protesting against apartheid in front of the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. It is against the law in D.C. to protest within 500 feet of an embassy.For over 30 years South African apartheid laws had divided South Africans by race into four strictly segregated groups: whites, coloureds (mixed-race), Indians and blacks. Black people could not marry other races, start businesses or work in white areas without a permit. They were segregated and unequal at hospita
  
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• Salt Lake City Methodist pastor takes on a demanding role in a faith on the brink of schism

  13-06-2020 16:57
  
  The Rev. Elizabeth McVicker’s call to be a pastor came like a whisper.After her family moved to Tulsa, Okla., from Burma in 1971, the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church became McVicker’s spiritual home. But she didn’t foresee pursuing the ministry until after she moved away.She majored in American studies at Yale University but graduated in 1990 with a yearning to learn why she believed in her faith. She went on to the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., until 19
  
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• Answering the big questions about coronavirus deaths in Utah and the nation

  13-06-2020 16:57
  
  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. We should definitely care about the number of people infected, the hospitalizations and those who have been sick for weeks, but tracking deaths is the starkest way to measure COVID-19′s toll on humanity.That hasn’t been as e
  
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• Many Salt Lake County recreation centers are now open and more will open in coming weeks

  13-06-2020 15:00
  
  As Utah moves towards looser safety guidelines for the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 of Salt Lake County’s recreation centers have reopened after public health ordered closures — and five more are scheduled to open over the next month.In an effort to keep visitors and staff safe, each facility has new social distancing guidelines that include keeping a 6 foot distance from others and wearing face masks.“We have modified operations for everything from our rec centers to golf,” Cla
  
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• Derrick Favors an option for Jazz?

  13-06-2020 14:31
  
  Tony Jones on Utah Jazz/Derrick Favors free agency: I will say that there’s some interest there, I would say, both ways.
  
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• Utah-based The National Parks talk about their new album and performing in backyards

  13-06-2020 14:00
  
  For years, the Utah-based band The National Parks has played the game — one in which they try to anticipate what record labels or radio programmers want out of an indie-folk band.“We were chasing a pop sound with our last album, trying to be more accessible, radio-friendly, trying to live up to a certain sound or certain image to get attention,” said Brady Parks, the band’s guitarist, lead vocalist and chief songwriter.With the band’s new album, “Wildflower,&r
  
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• Letter: Where were the people in charge of the Minneapolis police?

  13-06-2020 14:00
  
  The tragic slaying of George Floyd occurred on May 25, 2020, but the circumstances leading to this brutal incident may really have begun in 2001, reportedly the year the accused police officer submitted his application to the Minneapolis Police Department.Was his candidacy ever vetted and his opinion of sensitive subjects pursued? Who administered a necessary and qualified psychological review? What was the extent and nature of his training? Was there an expected need for continual review of his
  
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• Letter: We need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’

  13-06-2020 14:00
  
  I knocked on doors for Erin Medenhall, and today I question how I spent my time.I was a newcomer in the Salt Lake City political sphere in this past mayoral election. I found my experience to be joyful and inspiring. I enjoyed volunteering on weekends and during lunch breaks, walking through many of the eclectic neighborhoods that handed Mendenhall the election. Armed with flyers, a clipboard and a pen, inspired by an authentic leader, the experience resembled that of an after-school special on
  
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• Letter: Masks are a necessary inconvenience

  13-06-2020 14:00
  
  I hate wearing a mask. It sometimes makes me feel like I’m suffocating, so why do I wear a mask when I go out to public places? Solidarity. I look at the dedicated workers when I go to a restaurant, grocery shopping, home repair shopping or clothes shopping, and I am awed by their dedication. They wear a mask eight or more hours a day to ensure the public feels safe and protected.I wear a mask even though it might not help keep me from getting sick, even though I don’t feel sick and
  
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• Letter: Kudos to the protesting Utahns

  13-06-2020 14:00
  
  I spent Thursday night, June 4, at a motel in St. George on my way to visit a relative in Salt Lake City. Walking to dinner that evening I heard a commotion a block away and strolled down to check it out. A protest! In St. George! Kudos to Utahns everywhere for donning the mantle of free speech and protesting the treatment of black people and minorities. Your heart and courage is uplifting to all Americans.Michael Morin, Los Osos, Calif.Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: A morally corrupt response

  13-06-2020 14:00
  
  In a time of a looming crisis an effective leader (president), calls in his department heads (cabinet members), and asks them all for a best case/worst case scenario as it pertains to their departments’ area and the potential threat or risk.A normal request would be something like, ‘Please be ready with a quick 35,000-foot assessment of the threat and/or risk within 72 hours. Please include suggested actions.”He would then take their advice on what steps should be taken to miti
  
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• Ethan Walker: See things through the eyes of a young black man

  13-06-2020 14:00
  
  Some people wince at “black lives matter.” They honestly and earnestly say, “It’s not only black lives, all lives matter.” I address these people directly.I believe you value every person’s life; I also believe there are fundamental things about the black experience you may not understand. I reach out to you in good faith, seeking to examine police violence with you, through the eyes of a young black man.I often call my fiancé late in the evening, just
  
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• State extends TestUtah contract despite lab violations in federal audit

  13-06-2020 06:49
  
  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. The lab that is processing TestUtah’s coronavirus tests kept specimens at the wrong temperature, analyzed leaky samples against its own policy, and didn’t verify the accuracy of a machine it was using, according to federal i
  
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• Trump reschedules campaign rally after Juneteenth uproar

  13-06-2020 06:26
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Friday that he is rescheduling his first campaign rally in months to a day later so it won’t conflict with the Juneteenth observance of the end of slavery in the United States.Trump had scheduled the rally — his first since early March — for June 19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Black leaders said it was offensive for Trump to pick that day and that place, a city that in 1921 was the site of a fiery and orchestrated white-on-black attack.Trum
  
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• State pulls gray wolf traps in Rich County

  13-06-2020 05:32
  
  Utah officials are pulling the traps they set out earlier this month in Rich County that were meant to catch a rare gray wolf that had killed a calf there, according to FOX13.The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food abandoned trying to capture and kill the endangered animal after not finding any more signs it was there, FOX13 reports.The gray wolf is protected under the Endangered Species Act in much of Utah, but there is an exception in the northwestern part of the state north of Interstate
  
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• Rich Lowry: Trump tweets his own presidency into the ground

  13-06-2020 05:00
  
  President Donald Trump is in the midst of a polling swoon largely of his own making.It’s true that events have taken a hand — a pandemic with a death toll of more than 100,000, a sharp recession, double-digit unemployment and civil unrest would be the horsemen of the apocalypse for any incumbent president.Experiencing all of these in one term would make for treacherous political weather; experiencing them in the space of about three months is a perfect storm.And yet the president has
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus death toll hits 139, includes a Utah Valley University student and a 34-year-old mom

  13-06-2020 04:53
  
  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. Utah’s death toll tied to the coronavirus reached 139 on Friday, and at least two recent victims were young people.Utah Valley University student Trevor Syphus Lee, 27, died Tuesday. Lynzi Marice Isbell, who died June 7, was only
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell reportedly among the NBA players raising concerns about resuming season

  13-06-2020 04:10
  
  As details continue to trickle out about the impending resumption of the NBA season, there now seems to be growing unease among some of the league’s players about the prospect of coming back.Including from Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell.Shams Charania of The Athletic reported Friday night that Nets guard Kyrie Irving hosted a conference call of more than 80 players to address burgeoning concerns about the league’s return plan, and that Mitchell was among those who “s
  
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• State extends TestUtah contract despite 22 lab violations in federal audit

  13-06-2020 04:06
  
  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. The lab that is processing TestUtah’s coronavirus tests kept specimens at the wrong temperature, analyzed leaky samples against its own policy, and didn’t verify the accuracy of a machine it was using, according to federal i
  
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• Paul Krugman: Reactionaries are having a bad month

  13-06-2020 04:00
  
  What is Braxton Bragg to Donald Trump, or Trump to Braxton Bragg?It was always strange (and outrageous) to have U.S. military bases named for traitors — for Confederate generals who rebelled against the Union to defend slavery. And military leaders seem willing to change those bases’ names. But Trump says no.Why would he take that position at a time when white Americans finally seem to be acknowledging the injustice African Americans routinely face, leading to surging public support
  
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• A person got the coronavirus at Utah’s police protests, health officials say

  13-06-2020 03:30
  
  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.Contact tracers have found one person they believe became infected with COVID-19 while attending a recent protest in Salt Lake County.It’s the first case linked to the anti-police brutality demonstrations that have been ongoing in
  
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• State extends TestUtah contract despite 20 lab violations in federal audit

  13-06-2020 03:27
  
  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. The lab that is processing TestUtah’s coronavirus tests kept specimens at the wrong temperature, analyzed leaky samples against its own policy, and didn’t verify the accuracy of a machine it was using, according to federal i
  
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• BYU getting graduate transfer Averette from UVU

  13-06-2020 03:05
  
  BYU basketball is adding yet another transfer to its 2020-21 roster. On Friday, coach Mark Pope announced the transfer of guard Brandon Averette from Utah Valley to the Cougar program.Averette plans to graduate from Utah Valley this summer and will be immediately available to play next season.“Brandon Averett is one of the most explosive, cat-quick, clever playmakers in college basketball,” Pope said. “We feel so blessed to have him join our locker room. He is universally belov
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus death toll hits 139, includes Utah Valley University student

  13-06-2020 03:04
  
  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. On a day when one southern Utah county moved into the “new normal” safety designation, the state’s health department reported another 325 people contracting COVID-19 — and eight more Utahns lost their lives to th
  
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• U.S. judge says he’ll rule quickly on funding for tribes

  13-06-2020 03:01
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A federal judge in the nation’s capital said Friday he will work quickly to deliver a ruling in a case centered on who is eligible for coronavirus relief funding set aside for tribes.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta heard more than three hours of arguments in the case he characterized as challenging. He is deciding whether Alaska Native corporations, which are unique to the state, can receive a share of $8 billion in funding that Congress approved in March.Numerous Na
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s grotesque trip to Tulsa

  13-06-2020 03:00
  
  Most people — or, at any rate, most readers of The New York Times — remember Donald Trump’s response to the white nationalist riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a particularly low point in a presidency full of them. After a rambling, aggrieved news conference in which he defended some of those marching with neo-Nazis as “very fine people,” Trump’s already dismal approval rating hovered below 38%. Staffers voiced shame and disgust to journalists (anonymously
  
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• Some states hit pause, others press on amid spike in virus

  13-06-2020 02:24
  
  Austin, Texas • Utah and Oregon put any further reopening of their economies on hold amid a spike in coronavirus cases, but there was no turning back Friday in such states as Texas, Arkansas and Arizona despite flashing warning signs there, too.One by one, states are weighing the health risks from the virus against the economic damage from the stay-at-home orders that have thrown millions out of work over the past three months.And many governors are coming down on the side of jobs, even tho
  
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• With the search for 2 Idaho kids at an end, a community mourns

  13-06-2020 02:21
  
  Boise, Idaho • Within a few hours, a garden of mementos grew outside the rural crime scene. Pinwheels, flowers and stuffed animals dotted a fence near where police found remains believed to belong to two children in a bizarre case that has captured attention around the world.For police, the grisly discovery this week marked a significant break in a monthslong investigation into what happened to Joshua “JJ” Vallow, who was 7 when he vanished in September along with his 17-year-ol
  
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• George Pyle: Now it’s the police who are the Enemy of the People

  13-06-2020 02:00
  
  “I’ve suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn.”— Marshall CrenshawSo, after four years of the news media being vilified by the president as the Enemy of the People, that anger has backfired on him, in a way that has also entrapped the police.As one profession passes the baton of this dubious achievement to another, some observations and advice.Journalism and law enforcement have more than a few things in common.Although the nature of police work places its practitio
  
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• Trump administration revokes transgender health protection

  13-06-2020 01:19
  
  Washington • In a move applauded by President Donald Trump’s conservative religious base, his administration on Friday finalized a rule that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.The Department of Health and Human Services said it will enforce sex discrimination protections “according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex' as male or female and as determined by biology.” This rewrites an Obama-era regulation
  
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• Supreme Court rules it can’t retroactively apply law that extends statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases

  13-06-2020 01:01
  
  The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a plaintiff’s claims in a high-profile child sex abuse lawsuit against a former federal judge aren’t valid because the claims fall outside of the statute of limitations, despite a 2016 law change meant to give alleged victims of child sex crimes more time to bring up accusations.The ruling, issued Thursday and written by Associate Chief Justice Thomas R. Lee, says that while the “problems presented in a case like this one are heart-wrenchin
  
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• Companies push for coronavirus legal protection, prompting worker concern

  13-06-2020 00:59
  
  Washington • When Jonathan Corpina, a senior managing partner at Meridian Equity Partners, returned to work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in late May, he was met with temperature screenings, hand sanitizer stations, plexiglass barriers — and a liability waiver.The stock exchange required Corpina and others who work there to acknowledge that returning to work could expose them to the coronavirus and to promise not to sue if they were infected. Corpina said that he felt co
  
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• As University of Utah facilities reopen to athletes, optimism abounds, at least from the hoops team

  13-06-2020 00:24
  
  To be clear, the University of Utah will welcome back student-athletes starting on Monday with in-state kids, but will do so voluntarily.No one is being forced to come back to the Salt Lake City campus, no scholarships are going to be stripped if student-athletes opt against participating. After all, face-to-face contact in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic has been frowned upon, and cases in the state of Utah are on the rise.Still, optimism is abundant, at least from the men’s basketbal
  
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• Utah business owners plan lawsuit against Gov. Gary Herbert, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox over COVID-19 orders

  13-06-2020 00:06
  
  Washington • Several Utah business owners say they plan to sue Gov. Gary Herbert, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and other officials over their decisions to shutter businesses amid the coronavirus outbreak, a move the plaintiffs and their attorneys say left small shops “devastated” and violated their constitutional rights.The yet-to-be-filed lawsuit will allege that the orders by state and county leaders were "bad decisions based on bad data,” according to a news release about the l
  
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• Utah’s Megaplex Theatres plan to reopen 12 multiplexes starting Thursday

  13-06-2020 00:05
  
  The Utah-based Megaplex Theatres chain will reopen many of its movie houses next week, for the first time since March, when theaters everywhere closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.The chain, owned by the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies, will open 12 of its 15 Utah locations starting Thursday night, June 18, the company announced in a tweet Thursday.“We’ve been watching both the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and state government guidelines,” said Blake A
  
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• Holly Richardson: Don’t think your personality is permanent

  13-06-2020 00:00
  
  I am an ENFP (Myers-Briggs), a Red (Color Code), a type 8 Challenger, type 2 Helper and a type 7 Enthusiast (Enneagram).I’m a NAKB - Nurturing/Action/Knowledge/Builder (BankCode, a system developed by my sister, Cheri Tree), Dominant/Supportive (DISC assessment) and my top five strengths are Strategic, Input, Belief, Responsibility and Ideation (Strengths Finder).Perhaps most importantly, the Disney princess I am most alike is Mulan, strong-willed, assertive and able to fight my own battle
  
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