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• No charges in NASCAR noose incident involving Black driver

  23-06-2020 23:55
  
  The noose found hanging in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway had been there since at least last October, federal authorities said Tuesday in announcing there will be no charges filed in an incident that rocked NASCAR and its only fulltime Black driver. U.S. Attorney Jay Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. said its investigation determined "although the noose is now known to have been in garage number 4 in 2019, nobody could have known Mr. Wallace wo
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Who Was That Masked Man?

  23-06-2020 23:54
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:From Estonia With LoveTransparently CrookedThe Sinking FeelingMonumentalSpreading the MAGA MessageTake the TestUtah TestConfederate PrideThis LandWitness to Fascism’s RiseAntifaWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Paul Petersen changes plea in federal human trafficking case

  23-06-2020 23:46
  
  Little Rock, Ark. • A former Arizona official accused of running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands is changing his plea in Arkansas.A federal judge on Tuesday set a change-of-plea hearing for Paul Petersen, a Republican who served as Maricopa County’s assessor for six years until his resignation in January.Petersen last week pleaded guilty to human smuggling and fraud charges in Arizona and Utah.He is accused of illegally paying women
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: America is too broken to fight the coronavirus

  23-06-2020 23:00
  
  Graphs of the coronavirus curves in Britain, Canada, Germany and Italy look like mountains, with steep climbs up and then back down. The one for America shows a fast climb up to a plateau. For a while, the number of new cases in the U.S. was at least slowly declining. Now, according to The Times, it’s up a terrifying 22% over the last 14 days.As Politico reported Monday, Italy’s coronavirus catastrophe once looked to Americans like a worst-case scenario. Today, it said, “Americ
  
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• BYU will hold classes in person this fall — with all students required to wear masks

  23-06-2020 22:24
  
  Brigham Young University plans to welcome students back for in-person classes this fall — joining the other major colleges in the state in returning to campus despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The private university in Provo announced its plans Tuesday morning, saying that the return will be gradual, at least at first, for the upcoming semester starting in August. Class sizes will be kept small for those coming back. And many courses will be a combination of face-to-face and online
  
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• BYU’s Haven Empey wins Gatorade award for girls’ soccer for senior season at American Fork

  23-06-2020 22:16
  
  Haven Empey was en route to soccer practice at Brigham Young University when she got the call. It was the former American Fork High goalkeeper’s coach, Derek Dunn.“He just called me really excited and said, ‘Dude, congrats!” said Empey, who was in the passenger’s seat at the time while her sister drove.When Empey asked Dunn what the congratulations were for, Dunn broke it to her: She had just won the Gatorade Utah Girls Soccer Player of the Year award. She’s t
  
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• Five more Utahns die from COVID-19 as number of cases continues to rise

  23-06-2020 21:20
  
  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. Five more Utahns have died from the coronavirus and 34 have been hospitalized since Monday, as the number of cases continues to rise.Utah’s death toll from COVID-19 stood at 163 on Tuesday, the Utah Department of Health reported.
  
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• Paul Krugman: A plague of willful ignorance is killing us

  23-06-2020 21:04
  
  In the early 20th century, the American South was ravaged by pellagra, a nasty disease that produced the “four Ds” — dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and death. At first, pellagra’s nature was uncertain, but by 1915 Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a Hungarian immigrant employed by the federal government, had conclusively shown that it was caused by nutritional deficiencies associated with poverty, and especially with a corn-based diet.However, for decades many Southern citizens and
  
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• With Orlando’s withdrawal, Utah Royals get potentially easier path as NWSL updates Challenge Cup schedule

  23-06-2020 20:28
  
  With the Orlando Pride no longer participating in the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup due to a COVID-19 outbreak among the team, the tournament’s schedule had to be augmented. The new schedule, released Tuesday, might actually help the host team Utah Royals FC.The Royals will still begin the tournament on June 30, but it won’t be against the Washington Spirit, who Utah drew as the league revealed the first matchups for the preliminary rounds. Instead, the Royals wi
  
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• College sports cuts in Utah begin: Southern Utah drops men’s, women’s tennis

  23-06-2020 20:26
  
  A byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic causing athletic departments to tighten their belts, Southern Utah announced Tuesday morning that it is discontinuing its men’s and women’s tennis programs, effective immediately. Minus men’s and women’s tennis, the Thunderbirds will now sponsor 15 sports between both genders, which will not affect SUU’s status as a full league member in the Big Sky Conference. The Big Sky was profoundly affected by the NCAA’s dec
  
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• Program has provided more than a million masks to Utahns. See where they are going.

  23-06-2020 20:18
  
  The state’s “A Mask for Every Utahn” initiative has delivered enough free face coverings to supply about a third of its population.Under the program, the government will provide masks to any group or person who completes a simple online order form.Ben Hart, deputy director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, said Utahns ordered more than 800,000 masks during the first week of the initiative in late April, which did cause a delay in delivery time.Since then,
  
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• Some athletic departments are disclosing positive COVID-19 tests. Utah, BYU and Utah State are not

  23-06-2020 19:51
  
  As of Tuesday morning, at least 40 Division I schools have had at least one student-athlete test positive for COVID-19.Among the 40, Kansas State and Houston have suspended voluntary workouts entirely due to positive testing. Brand names like LSU, Clemson and Texas have all been transparent enough to announce, or at least confirm double-digit positive tests within their respective athletic departments, if not their football programs.None of those 38 schools are named Utah, BYU or Utah State, bec
  
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• Salt Lake City, County mayors call for statewide mask requirement. Gov. Gary Herbert says he won’t close economy again.

  23-06-2020 19:28
  
  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 Gov. Gary Herbert says he has no plans to halt Utah’s economy again — despite a surge in coronavirus cases.Meanwhile, the mayors of the state’s most-populous city and county are calling on the state to require fac
  
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• A BYU-Idaho Facebook page compared the trials of Latter-day Saints to slavery

  23-06-2020 19:22
  
  Black students say they are angry and frustrated after a Facebook page from Brigham Young University’s campus in Idaho compared the historic persecution of Latter-day Saints to centuries of slavery in America — suggesting Black people, too, can “RISE ABOVE.”The lengthy post appeared on the official account for Performing and Visual Arts for the school, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, earlier this month. After several people pointed it ou
  
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• Utah DMV office in South Salt Lake, closed when employee caught COVID-19, will reopen Wednesday

  23-06-2020 19:20
  
  The Utah Division of Motor Vehicles will reopen its South Salt Lake office on Wednesday, just over a week after closing it because an employee tested positive for COVID-19.The DMV office at 2880 S. 380 West, in South Salt Lake, has been deep-cleaned and sterilized, division director Monte Roberts said in a statement issued Tuesday. No other employees at the office have tested positive, he added.To visit the office, customers must make an appointment by going online at dmv.utah.gov. Many actions
  
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• Taylorsville will form its own police department, leave Unified police

  23-06-2020 19:19
  
  Taylorsville “sincerely appreciates” the Unified Police Department and, according to Mayor Christie Overson, the city has “benefited” from its membership in the agency — but it’s going to form its own police department next year.“It is not a decision we made lightly,” Overson in a statement. “We have long been a champion of UPD and have greatly appreciated their service, particularly the enduring work of our precinct officers to keep our comm
  
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• South Salt Lake DMV to reopen after COVID-19 closure

  23-06-2020 19:17
  
  The Division of Motor Vehicles will reopen its South Salt Lake Office at 2880 S. 380 West on Wednesday.It has been closed for more than a week to reduce the possible spread of COVID-19 after an employee tested positive for the virus.“The office has been deep cleaned, sterilized and no other employees have received positive tests,” said Monte Roberts, the division director.He notes that all customers planning to enter the lobby are required to schedule an appointment. They may be sche
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Coronavirus hot spots and testing issues in Utah

  23-06-2020 18:34
  
  New cases of the coronavirus in Utah are rising again. Last Friday, state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn issued a memo to Utah health officials that said, “We are quickly getting to a point where the only viable option to manage spread and deaths will be a complete shutdown.”Join Tribune reporters Erin Alberty and Nate Carlisle and Navajo Times reporter Arlyssa Becenti for a 30-minute “Trib Talk” about coronavirus hot spots and testing issues in Utah today at noon on our
  
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• Utah gave group $400,000 to sue the feds on public lands issues. It never did. What happened?

  23-06-2020 18:23
  
  In 2016, the Utah Legislature opened up its wallet to a nonprofit called the Foundation for Integrated Resource Management, one of several groups that have received millions in taxpayers dollars in recent years to push greater local and state control over Utah’s large expanses of federal land and imperiled wildlife.But FIRM’s taxpayer-supported charge was specific: File lawsuits against the federal government on behalf of Utah counties. The goal was to reverse restrictive land-use po
  
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• Utah Royals get potentially easier path as NWSL updates Challenge Cup schedule

  23-06-2020 18:19
  
  With the Orlando Pride no longer participating in the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup due to a COVID-19 outbreak among the team, the tournament’s schedule had to be augmented. The new schedule, released Tuesday, might actually help the host team Utah Royals FC.The Royals will still begin the tournament on June 30, but it won’t be against the Washington Spirit, who Utah drew as the league revealed the first matchups for the preliminary rounds. Instead, the Royals wi
  
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• Why obsessive K-pop fans are turning toward political activism

  23-06-2020 18:00
  
  In certain corners of the internet, the organizing prowess of K-pop fans — the typically young and diverse international enthusiasts of Korean pop music who congregate daily on social media — has long been the stuff of legend: Through coordinated group action, so-called fan armies of acts like BTS and Blackpink make sure that their favorite idols are trending topics who lead the music charts and sell out stadiums from South Korea to the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles and Citi Field in New
  
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• Lori Daybell called her kids ‘zombies’ before their deaths, according to documents

  23-06-2020 16:35
  
  Boise, Idaho • The case of two kids who were missing for months before they were found dead in rural Idaho has taken another bizarre twist, with new court documents alleging that their mother believed they were zombies and that she was on a mission to rid the world of such creatures.Police discovered the remains of 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and her 7-year-old brother, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, on June 9 at property belonging to their mother’s new husband. The case gained attention
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 55 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

  23-06-2020 16:26
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Department of Health reported 55 new cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation on Monday, but no additional deaths.That pushes the total of positive COVID-19 cases to 7,045 with the death toll remaining at 335.Tribal officials also said preliminary reports from 11 health care facilities indicate about 3,716 people have recovered from COVID-19 with one hospital report still pending.The Navajo Nation has resumed weekend lockdowns with businesses closed as the n
  
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• Here’s why COVID-19 made it harder to find beef in Utah grocery stores

  23-06-2020 15:09
  
  Last month — in an effort to maintain supply — grocery stores in Utah put limits on the amount of beef customers could buy in one shopping trip.While some Utahns may have worried about the state’s beef supply, Brent Tanner, executive director for Utah Beef Council, told lawmakers Monday that there’s plenty of cattle available.“It’s not that we have a shortage of animals,” he told the Retirement and Independent Entities Interim Committee. “[The pand
  
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• Commentary: Supporting local food producers critical to Utah economy

  23-06-2020 15:00
  
  At Associated Food Stores, Harmons Grocery and Smith’s Food & Drug, our frontline workers have been hard at work ensuring safe, fresh foods are available to feed your families. As the torch of vibrant, wholesome foods is passed from the local farmers and ranchers whose livelihoods depend on your support to our stockers, baggers, cashiers and more, we take the responsibility of feeding your families and respecting the efforts of these hardworking folks with great care.In the months sinc
  
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• Robert Kirby: Utah’s state bird? Please, let’s stop being so gull-ible.

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  For Father’s Day, my family went boating at Willard Bay. Perfect weather, great water, and a loose gathering of blood relations that can still mostly tolerate one another. It didn’t go off without problems, though.It was supremely relaxing. Designated as the camp monitor, I spent my day watching a collection of empty chairs and a weathered picnic table loaded with food and wet towels.While the rest of the family went out on the boat, I read, dozed and threw rocks at some of the most
  
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• Mary Sheridan Janda: We cannot walk in the same shoes as the oppressed

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  How do I, as a white woman, respond to the deaths of George Floyd and all the other young people of color who have been killed by law enforcement?I cannot walk in their same shoes, no matter how much I am angered, discouraged and outraged with these acts of violence. Why? For the obvious reason: I am the recipient of white privilege — something that was given to me at birth, something that I did not earn, something that I did not apply for, something that I did not knowingly understand unt
  
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• Letter: Why does Sen. Mike Lee support Trump?

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  Sen. Lee:As one who claims to staunchly defend the Constitution and the rule of law, why do you maintain allegiance to Donald Trump when it’s clear he violates the Constitution and our laws with impunity, and thwarts accountability?Trump violates human and civil rights, defies congressional authority, assaults freedom of the press, undermines voting rights, uses the military to attack peaceful protesters, ignores the emoluments clause and more.Trump makes a mockery of our justice system. D
  
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• Letter: We must end our national addiction to oil

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  On May 29, in the Russian Arctic there was a 21,000-ton oil spill. If we want to ensure that environmental disasters like this and like the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska do not happen again, we need to stop drilling for oil in the Arctic.However, President Trump wants the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to be open to oil drilling. He also wants to open our east and west coasts to offshore oil drilling, which could lead to another disaster like the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of M
  
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• Letter: We are living through this in real time

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  I write this on June 17. Today the deaths from the coronavirus in the United States reached 117,000. Do you see the connection? Let me help you.Today, June 17, 17 days into this month, there have been 1,000 deaths per day thus far in June. It seems reasonable to expect a total of 30,000 new deaths by the month’s end.So, my fellow Utahns, when Dr. Anthony Fauci said the nation could see close to 200,000 deaths by September, you might have guffawed, “No way. This is so overblown.&rdquo
  
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• Letter: Prisons are inhumane and racist

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  The white public has been forced to face, yet again, the realities of our racist and brutal policing systems. The people demand justice. The people want abusive police charged and sent to prison. But what are prisons if not another extension of our abusive justice system?Black, brown and indigenous communities whose families and friends have been disproportionately targeted by the police and sentenced to prison know that prison is a continuation of brutality. Given the inhumane living conditions
  
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• Letter: Baffled by the support for climate change-denying Greg Hughes

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  As a student coming of age in a time where the overwhelming consensus of scientists is that climate change is real, man-made and a reason for immense concern, I am baffled that a gubernatorial candidate, Greg Hughes, who doesn’t believe in human-caused climate change is polling at 14%.Judging by the comments of any Tribune article discussing the governor’s race, a lot of you are baffled and frightened as well. The comments of the article discussing Jim Dabakis’ high-profile swi
  
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• Debris from demolished nuke plants is coming to Utah, where EnergySolutions is proposing a new landfill

  23-06-2020 14:00
  
  Across the country, aging nuclear power plants are getting retired and coming down, generating a new and potentially vast waste stream that could head to Utah.Some remains of California’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, including its 770-ton pressure vessel, already are on train cars crossing Nevada to the nation’s largest repository for low-level, or Class A, waste in Utah’s remote West Desert.Now the Clive facility’s operator, EnergySolutions, is looking to opera
  
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• Man killed in West Valley City shooting

  23-06-2020 06:35
  
  A man was shot and killed in West Valley City on Monday evening, police say, and it’s possible he and the shooter knew each other.According to tweets by the West Valley City Police Department, the shooting happened around 7 p.m. at 1400 West and 3500 South. SHOOTING: at about 7:10pmwe were dispatched to a call of a man shot near 1400 W 3500 S. The 36 year old man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. He has since died from his injuries. The suspect fled on foot and has not yet b
  
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• Another night of protesting in Salt Lake City — this time blocking traffic

  23-06-2020 05:19
  
  Several dozen protesters took to the streets again Monday night, holding signs and chanting, “What do we want? Justice.”The protesters began around 6 p.m at the office of Sim Gill, the Salt Lake County district attorney, on 500 South in downtown Salt Lake City, where they pasted signs on his windows. Then they went into the street to stop traffic. They then marched down to State Street and 400 South, where they stopped traffic again, causing lines of cars to be backed up for a whole
  
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• Commentary: Progress in Utah shows we can find common ground on gay rights and religious liberty

  23-06-2020 05:00
  
  Last week’s Supreme Court ruling extending employment-discrimination protections to LGBT Americans — in a 6-to-3 decision, with a conservative justice writing the majority opinion and another conservative, the chief justice, joining it — was a milestone. Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia overjoyed many progressives and LGBT advocates, who will redouble their push for the Equality Act, a bill that passed the house in May 2019 that would ban anti-LGBT discrimination more broadly
  
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• Blaze burns building under construction at SLCC Taylorsville campus

  23-06-2020 04:32
  
  A fire started on the roof of the Applied Technology Building on the Taylorsville campus of Salt Lake Community College on Monday evening shortly after 5 p.m., spewing out giant clouds of smoke.Firefighters from the United Fire Authority were on the scene within minutes, said Unified’s public information officer Kevin Love, but due to gusty winds and the fact that the building was being renovated, the fire quickly breached every level.
  (Photo courtesy of FOX 13 photojournalist Arron Healy)
  
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• Utah Jazz players reassemble in market in order to prepare for NBA season restart

  23-06-2020 04:06
  
  Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder talks with Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) as the Utah Jazz and the Portland Trail Blazers play at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Monday marked a big day as Utah Jazz and NBA as teams reassembled in their home markets preparation to resume the 2019-20 season in Orlando.
  According to the return-to-play manual that was distributed
  
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• Seattle will move to dismantle protests zone, mayor says

  23-06-2020 03:45
  
  Seattle • Faced with growing pressure to crack down on an “occupied” protest zone following two weekend shootings, Seattle’s mayor said Monday that officials will move to wind down the blocks-long span of city streets taken over two weeks ago that President Donald Trump asserted is run by “anarchists.”Mayor Jenny Durkan said at a news conference that the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of peaceful protesters seeking to address racial i
  
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• Utah Inland Port Authority approves strategic business plan over objections from the public

  23-06-2020 03:42
  
  The Utah Inland Port Authority Board voted unanimously Monday to adopt a strategic business plan that outlines a vision for how the massive Salt Lake City import and export hub will develop over the next five years.The approval came with little debate among the 11-member board and over the objection of port opponents, who again came out in droves to the virtual public meeting to express their concerns about the plan and what they see as its lack of specificity to actually achieve promises that t
  
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• Surging U.S. coronavirus cases raise fear that progress is slipping

  23-06-2020 03:09
  
  St. Petersburg, Fla. • Alarming surges in coronavirus cases across the U.S. South and West raised fears Monday that the outbreak is spiraling out of control and that hard-won progress against the scourge is slipping away because of resistance among many Americans to wearing masks and keeping their distance from others.Confirming predictions that the easing of state lockdowns over the past month and a half would lead to a comeback by the virus, cases surpassed 100,000 in Florida, hospitaliza
  
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• Hayley Titus Winslow: Recognize and use white privilege for good

  23-06-2020 03:00
  
  Even though I grew up right in the middle of an extremely diverse world in California, I can pinpoint times in my life that define my inherited white privilege.• Although my schools in California were very diverse, once you crossed over the bridge into the suburbs, the vast majority of people were white. I can remember where non-white people lived. Thank heavens it’s not because of fear or suspicion but rather due to our friendships. White privilege.• My white race was the minori
  
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• Child sex abuse survivors want the Utah Constitution changed so they can sue their abusers

  23-06-2020 01:28
  
  While her mother was in the hospital, this Utah woman’s uncle sexually abused her and her sister. The abuse went on for two years.This was in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until much later in her life that she was given a chance to seek justice in civil court. In 2016, Utah lawmakers passed a bill that gave abuse victims a chance to sue their perpetrators, removing far more limited timelines.She filed that lawsuit in 2018, but a Utah Supreme Court ruling last week dealt the 55-year-old Le
  
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• No leads yet on missing mother and daughter, police say

  23-06-2020 01:26
  
  Salt Lake City police have no leads in the disappearance of Eugenia Martinez-Juarez, 17, and her 3-year-old daughter, Sandra Juarez-Martinez.They were last seen in the area of 200 S. Pueblo St. — in the Poplar Grove neighborhood on the city’s west side — on Thursday at approximately 2 p.m., according to police.Martinez-Juarez’s relatives told FOX 13 that she and her daughter left her parents’ home that afternoon, “telling them she was going to look for a job.&
  
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• Utah health officials warn of ‘complete shutdown’ if coronavirus cases don’t drop soon

  23-06-2020 01:24
  
  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 of 200 new cases per day by July 1.During the past week, the state
  
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• Orlando Pride withdraw from NWSL tourney in Utah after COVID-19 positives

  23-06-2020 01:20
  
  The Orlando Pride have withdrawn from the upcoming National Women’s Soccer League tournament after six players and four staff members tested positive for COVID-19.The NWSL is the first professional team sport scheduled to return amid the coronavirus pandemic. The monthlong Challenge Cup tournament is set to start Saturday in Herriman.Another round of testing will take place to confirm the results, the league said in announcing the positive tests Monday. Because of the number of positive re
  
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• Jeanette Rusk Sefcik: We are becoming a ‘super-duper’ America. And that’s not a good thing.

  23-06-2020 01:00
  
  He says “Make America Great Again.” To use an old-fashioned term, make it “super-duper.”However, our president represents another kind of super “duper,” a “deceiver.” In fact, he is the “superest” (in his type of lingo) duper of all. He is our duper-in-chief.I want to highlight what I think is the biggest threat to our democracy, and the president’s role in it. Our biggest stumbling block to greatness is not partisanship or moral
  
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• Gordon Monson: Donovan Mitchell is speaking up and Utah needs to listen

  23-06-2020 00:31
  
  Message to Donovan Mitchell:Keep enlightening our community, man. Speak your mind, get the message out about the progress that still needs to be made regarding racial justice and the lack thereof in this community, in this country, in this world.That deficit vexes us, still.Do it on social media, do it with spoken words, do it person-to-person, do it in essay form, do it with the example you set with your actions.We need it. All of us.Do it for Utah.And if you get blowback, bring it even more.It
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: From Estonia With Love

  23-06-2020 00:23
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Transparently CrookedThe Sinking FeelingMonumentalSpreading the MAGA MessageTake the TestUtah TestConfederate PrideThis LandWitness to Fascism’s RiseAntifaAmerica the BeautifulWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utah ranks as most resilient state for ability to endure disasters like pandemic or earthquakes

  23-06-2020 00:05
  
  Utahns’ health, family finances and household structure may make Utah the best able of any state to absorb, endure and recover from disasters such as a pandemic, earthquakes or floods.That’s according to new experimental data released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau, in what it calls new “community resilience estimates.”It looked at how different states, counties and communities stack up on 11 different risk factors by using data from the 2018 American Community Survey,
  
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