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• Utah’s annual state fair might be another victim of COVID-19

  22-06-2020 23:52
  
  The state fair attended by hundreds of thousands of Utahns each summer may be canceled for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Larry Mullenax, executive director for Utah State Fair Corporation, said the nonprofit will decide the fair’s fate by the end of the week.“We’ve been closely monitoring the number of confirmed cases throughout the state and the trajectory of those cases,” he told lawmakers Monday in a Retirement and Independent Entities Interim Committee.If the s
  
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• Grand Canyon rangers rescue overheated hikers, river runner

  22-06-2020 23:52
  
  Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. • Grand Canyon National Park rangers had to rescue a river runner and several hikers who were overcome by the heat last weekend.On Saturday, Phantom Ranch rangers responded to a river runner experiencing heat illness and fatigue on a Colorado River trip.They said the river runner drank too much water, leading to hyponatremia.The park’s helicopter and an ambulance transported the patient to a Flagstaff hospital.On Sunday, Indian Garden rangers responde
  
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• Utah health official warns of ‘complete shutdown’ if coronavirus cases don’t drop soon

  22-06-2020 23:36
  
  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. Health officials are urging Gov. Gary Herbert to return coronavirus restrictions to the “orange” level statewide if Utah does not get down to an average 200 new cases per day by July 1.“We are quickly getting to a poin
  
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• Review: In ‘Irresistible,’ Jon Stewart lectures on political money, but misses his moment

  22-06-2020 23:00
  
  Jon Stewart could have not predicted that his new movie, “Irresistible,” would be released when we are months into a global pandemic and weeks into a nationwide protest movement.However — considering the political divisiveness of the last four years, if not longer — what made Stewart think a plague-on-both-your-houses political satire would play in 2020?Jon, buddy, read the room.What was Stewart, who wrote and directed this irritating comedy, thinking? That a movie about
  
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• As Utah reports 444 new COVID-19 cases, state epidemiologist urges a return to ‘orange’ if pace doesn’t slow by next week

  22-06-2020 22:53
  
  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. Health officials are urging Gov. Gary Herbert to return coronavirus restrictions to the “orange” level statewide if Utah does not get down to an average 200 new cases per day by July 1.“We are quickly getting to a poin
  
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• As Utah reports 444 new COVID-19 cases, state epidemiologist urges increased restrictions if pace doesn’t slow by July 1

  22-06-2020 21:35
  
  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 health officials are urging Gov. Gary Herbert to return coronavirus restrictions to the “orange” level statewide if the state does not get down to an average 200 new cases per day by July 1.“We are quickly getting
  
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• ‘Utah Booze News’ podcast: liquor store turnover and saving the bars at the airport

  22-06-2020 21:12
  
  Utah’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control says it has an 86% employee turnover rate and it has asked the Legislature to figure out a way to address the problem.On this episode of the “Utah Booze New” podcast, Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, talks about the special committee that will tackle the issues. Listen here.Also, The Salt Lake Tribune’s Kathy Stephenson and FOX 13′s Ben Winslow explain how the Legislature plans to save the bar scene at the Salt Lake
  
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• Who’s in the running to be Joe Biden’s vice president?

  22-06-2020 20:54
  
  Joe Biden is deep into his search for a running mate. The process began with a list of more than a dozen potential candidates, all of them women. His team has narrowed that list, conducting multiple interviews and collecting sensitive personal documents from a number of the most important contenders.Biden, 77, says he wants a running mate who is ready to assume the presidency, who shares his priorities and with whom he is “simpatico.” He is aiming to announce his choice by Aug. 1.The
  
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• Black Catholics: Words not enough as church decries racism

  22-06-2020 20:42
  
  New York • Black Roman Catholics are hearing their church’s leaders calling for racial justice once again after the killing of George Floyd, but this time they’re demanding not just words but action.As protests against racism and police brutality continue nationwide, there are rising calls for huge new investment in Catholic schools serving Black communities; a commitment to teach the complex history of Black Catholics; and a mobilization to combat racism with the same zeal the
  
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• Yes, campaign signs on highway overpasses violate Utah law

  22-06-2020 20:07
  
  As next week’s primary election approaches, most highway overpasses — and many roadway fences — are plastered with campaign signs.That’s against the law.Perhaps symbolic of how the law is ignored is that vandals spay-painted over state placards warning about that ban on a pedestrian bridge over Bangerter Highway at 4100 South. Somewhat comically, campaign signs hang all around the vandalized warning signs.
  (Lee Davidson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Vandals painted over a stat
  
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• More Utahns, others are renting RVs for their vacations amid the coronavirus

  22-06-2020 19:43
  
  As the temperature rises and coronavirus cases continue to increase, many Utahns are renting recreational vehicles for summer getaways. Salt Lake City RV bookings rose 86% as of late May compared to the previous year, according to RVshare, a peer-to-peer rental marketplace (sort of an Airbnb for RVs). Based on an RVshare survey, 77% of respondents are looking to make travel plans within the next three months. Almost half said they would like to go for at least a week, and about 93% are
  
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• Tennessean editor denounces ‘horrific’ Islam nuclear prophecy ad

  22-06-2020 19:09
  
  The editor of Nashville’s Tennessean has vowed to investigate how a full-page ad predicting a nuclear attack by Muslims purchased by a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist group ran in the paper.A version of the ad from Future for America, a “prophecy ministry” based in Arkansas, ran on Sunday. The ad featured a photo of Pope Francis and Donald Trump in front of an American flag and was filled with dire warnings and a few Bible verses. Its authors claim that Trump will be the last p
  
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• The Utes need to pick a quarterback. Here’s where the competition stands as athletes return to campus.

  22-06-2020 18:56
  
  The University of Utah football team conducted its third of 15 spring practices March 5. At that point, everyone went their separate ways for spring break and the COVID-19 pandemic saw to it that no one returned to campus. The quarterback competition, mainly between South Carolina graduate transfer Jake Bentley and Utes redshirt sophomore Cameron Rising, moved from the practice field to Zoom meetings.In the early days of spring ball, before full pads were allowed, which meant it was tough to get
  
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• Native American groups address mental and behavioral health as COVID-19 wears on

  22-06-2020 17:35
  
  Phoenix • With COVID-19 taking an especially heavy toll on Native Americans, tribal leaders and mental health experts have stepped up efforts to address the emotional suffering brought on by ongoing lockdowns and so much loss.“Please stay connected with relatives and neighbors by phone or video chat and remind them that they have support,” Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer said recently, imploring Navajos to take care of their mental well-being as well as their physical h
  
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• Native American tribes in a battle for their share of virus stimulus money

  22-06-2020 16:48
  
  Washington • Over the past three months, the Treasury Department has managed to send out billions of dollars in loans to small businesses, checks to families and aid to corporations.But distributing the $8 billion pot set aside for tribal governments, a relative pittance compared to the broader programs established in the $2.2 trillion stimulus law, has proved more difficult. As a result, tribes, already critically underfunded and among the nation's most vulnerable communities, have not rec
  
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• Utah’s Republican candidates for governor back inland port project, promise sustainable development

  22-06-2020 15:09
  
  Utah’s Republican hopefuls for governor are overwhelmingly supportive of the Utah inland port — a large and controversial distribution hub development that some Salt Lake County residents worry will be a polluting nightmare but that the candidates forecast will be an economic boon.Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says the project is “critical” to the Beehive State’s continued economic successes, “both along the Wasatch Front and in rural Utah.”Former Utah Gov. Jon H
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah officials should have done more to protect minorities from the coronavirus

  22-06-2020 14:10
  
  As rapidly as new cases of COVID-19 have spread around the state, few places have been harder hit than Salt Lake County’s west side.In the past two weeks, West Valley City, Kearns, Rose Park and Glendale have reported a combined 893 new cases.It so happens that those areas have some of the highest percentages of Latino residents in the state, a fact that is exacerbating a devastating truth — Hispanic and Latino Utahns, as well as Pacific Islanders, are bearing a shockingly disproport
  
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• Letter: Utah owes Brigham Young a debt of gratitude

  22-06-2020 14:00
  
  Do we not owe the future generations who are unborn the same rights as those who have passed on? We owe them history that is in accord with the facts, not emotionally biased according to the ever-changing laws of political correctness.Every Mormon and Utahn owes a debt of gratitude to President Brigham Young. This man more than any was responsible for building the LDS Church and Salt Lake City in the powerful position it enjoys today. President Young made statements that Gen. Robert E. Lee, who
  
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• Letter: Name Army posts for Medal of Honor recipients

  22-06-2020 14:00
  
  I was a soldier for 23 years.I support and encourage the renaming of Army posts currently named for Confederate generals. (The Army has “posts.” The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have “bases.”)I served at Fort Bragg. I served at Fort Benning. I served at Fort Gordon.All named for (not always competent) Confederate generals.We don't honor enemy combatants. We don't train at Fort Himmler or Camp bin Laden (nor does Germany or Saudi Arabia). We're not rewriting or erasing
  
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• Letter: It matters what we say about COVID-19

  22-06-2020 14:00
  
  I am an avid hiker, backpacker, rock climber, and skier. But if I were to die from COVID-19, I would be described as “a woman between 70-85 with underlying conditions.”Words matter. And because they do, I would like to point out two COVID-related phrases our state employs that are simply wrong.When we talk about moving from orange to yellow to green, we talk about “risk.” Green is pre-pandemic risk; yellow is “low” risk. Yet these levels have nothing to do wit
  
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• Letter: Huntsman was the adult in the room

  22-06-2020 14:00
  
  I listened to the gubernatorial debate Tuesday night with a somewhat open mind. As a Democrat, I cannot vote in the primary but the odds are, one of these men will be Utah’s next governor.My take was this. Greg Hughes sounded like a used car salesman, hardly taking a breath. His calls for opening up the economy at the expense of the health of the people was mind-boggling. He even attended the concert in Cedar City last weekend. He would be the first to call in the National Guard at the fir
  
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• Letter: Are our priorities backward?

  22-06-2020 14:00
  
  From the Thursday, June 18, Tribune:Page 1: “Guv ready to rev up recovery’s engine.”Pate 8: “Risk of COVID-19 exposure ‘higher than ever,’ as Utah reports 407 new cases and four deaths.”Question: Do we possibly have our priorities backward? Asking for a friend who is a very high-risk person.Alan Linett, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Failed tax reform push takes center stage in several state legislative races

  22-06-2020 14:00
  
  As a referendum to repeal a sweeping tax reform bill gained steam late last year, Rich Cunningham says he sat in every Harmons grocery store in the Senate district where he lives, talking to his neighbors about their frustration with the recently enacted changes and asking for their signatures to help reverse it.The Utah Legislature would later vote to overturn that tax reform, which included cuts to income taxes and hikes to the sales taxes on food, services, gasoline and other transactions &md
  
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• Advocates, churches feeding families after COVID-19 outbreak at Utah meatpacking plant

  22-06-2020 14:00
  
  Logan • Sue Sanborn placed boxes of groceries on the front porch, knocked on the door and ran.Sanborn was among the volunteers who delivered groceries and toiletries Thursday to households affected by the coronavirus outbreak at the JBS Beef Plant in nearby Hyrum. She didn’t know if someone in the house on the southwest side of Logan had contracted COVID-19. So Sanborn retreated to the driveway before turning to ensure someone walked outside to find the milk, diapers, cleansers and ot
  
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• Eli Tomac captures his first 450 Supercross championship as series wraps up in Salt Lake City

  22-06-2020 06:41
  
  Eli Tomac captured his first 450SX championship on Sunday as the AMA Supercross series wrapped up a three-week run at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Tomac, of Cortez, Colo., rode his Kawasaki to a fifth-place finish as Husqvarna rider Zach Osborne notched his first 450 race victory. Jason Anderson and Dean Wilson finished second and third, respectively, to complete a Husqvarna sweep of the podium.Tomac won seven races this season and finished the series 25 points ahead of KTM rider Cooper Webb, the 2019 ch
  
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• Noose found in stall of Bubba Wallace at Alabama NASCAR race

  22-06-2020 06:04
  
  Talladega, Ala. • A noose was found in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace at the NASCAR race in Alabama on Sunday, less than two weeks after he successfully pushed the auto racing series to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and facilities.NASCAR announced the discovery late Sunday and said it had launched an immediate investigation. It said it will do everything possible to find who was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.”“We are angry and outr
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell in ESPYs video: ‘We call on our white counterparts to use their voices and talk about real change’

  22-06-2020 06:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) at Zions Bank Basketball Campus in Salt Lake City on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. | Ivy Ceballo, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell had a big platform on Sunday to continue his push for conversations about racial equality.
  In a video that aired during the ESPYs on ESPN, Mitchell was among a large group of notable figures from both the sports and entertainment worlds — black and white — who called for racial justice.
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• Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell in ESPYs video: ‘Now, we call on our white counterparts to use their voices and talk about real change’

  22-06-2020 06:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) at Zions Bank Basketball Campus in Salt Lake City on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. | Ivy Ceballo, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell had a big platform on Sunday to continue his push for conversations about racial equality.
  In a video that aired during the ESPYs on ESPN, Mitchell was among a large group of notable figures from both the sports and entertainment worlds — black and white — who called for racial justice.
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• Protesters cover Salt Lake County district attorney’s office with signs demanding ‘Justice for Bernardo’

  22-06-2020 03:35
  
  A group of about 20 people showed up at the Salt Lake County district attorney’s office on Sunday evening, making good yet again on their promise to come out every day until officials release the police report on Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal’s death.Palacios-Carbajal, 22, was shot and killed by police on May 23. Officers fired more than 20 shots at him as he ran away.Using a ladder to reach higher spots, the group of demonstrators covered the glass walls of the DA’s office with s
  
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• No arrests in shooting in Seattle protest zone that killed 1 person

  22-06-2020 03:14
  
  Seattle • Police on Sunday pursued their investigation into a weekend shooting in a park in the city’s protest zone that killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person. No arrests had been made.An “active and ongoing” investigation was underway into the shooting, which occurred about 2:30 a.m. Saturday in an area near downtown known as CHOP, for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone, Detective Mark Jamieson said. The suspect or suspects fled the
  
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• Trump rally highlights vulnerabilities heading into election

  22-06-2020 01:59
  
  New York • President Donald Trump’s return to the campaign trail was designed to show strength and enthusiasm heading into the critical final months before an election that will decide whether he remains in the White House.Instead, his weekend rally in Oklahoma highlighted growing vulnerabilities and crystallized a divisive reelection message that largely ignores broad swaths of voters — independents, suburban women and people of color — who could play a crucial role in ch
  
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• George Floyd mural in Salt Lake City vandalized a second time

  22-06-2020 01:29
  
  A mural depicting a portrait of George Floyd was defaced early Sunday with tar.This is the second time it has happened, one of its artists said, and Salt Lake City police are investigating, police spokesman Greg Wilking said.The mural — which features Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police; Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, who was fatally shot by Salt Lake City police on May 23; and four other people killed by police in Utah — was painted on a building at 300 West and 800 South in Sa
  
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• George Floyd mural in Salt Lake City vandalized

  22-06-2020 00:20
  
  A mural depicting a portrait of George Floyd was defaced overnight Sunday with a tar-like substance.This is the second time it’s happened, the artists say.The mural — which features both Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police, and Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, who was fatally shot by Salt Lake City police on May 23 — was painted on a building at 300 West and 800 South in Salt Lake City.Black goo was splattered on the painting, concealing one of Floyd’s eyes and drippin
  
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