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• GOP Utah attorney general candidates accuse each other of trying to sell or buy the office

  24-06-2020 23:57
  
  David Leavitt, who is challenging incumbent Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes in Tuesday’s GOP primary, says new campaign financial disclosures again show that Reyes has a “for sale” sign on his office.“The reason why I say that the Attorney General’s Office is for sale because people give him huge quantities of money,” Leavitt said Wednesday. “He spends very little of it on actual campaign-related events. And at the end of the day, he’s spent it on
  
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• The 2020 NBA draft was supposed to be this week. Here’s a look at the Utah Jazz’s most impactful drafts of the last 20 years

  24-06-2020 23:45
  
  Deron Williams answers questions from the media at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on June 29, 2005, one day after the Utah Jazz traded up to take him with the No. 3 selection in the 2005 NBA draft. | Michael Brandy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The 2020 NBA draft was originally scheduled to be held Thursday night, but as with so many other things, it has been pushed back during the coronavirus pandemic as the May draft combine couldn’t be held, nor could individual team workouts
  
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• Looking back at the Utah Jazz’s most impactful drafts of the last 20 years

  24-06-2020 23:45
  
  Deron Williams answers questions from the media at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on June 29, 2005, one day after the Utah Jazz traded up to take him with the No. 3 selection in the 2005 NBA draft. | Michael Brandy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The 2020 NBA draft was originally scheduled to be held Thursday night, but as with so many other things, it has been pushed back during the coronavirus pandemic as the May draft combine couldn’t be held, nor could individual team workouts
  
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• Heading outdoors for a socially distant getaway? Try these apps

  24-06-2020 23:38
  
  Planning to escape to the great outdoors for a socially distant summer? There are a few apps you may want to download before you go. After all, the tools below won’t just help you travel from here to there, they’ll help you get off the beaten paths in national parks, learn about road and trail closures, discover nearby preserves and beaches, find scenic rest stops, satisfy cravings for takeaway food, and keep you up to date on the latest travel and health information.To be sure, ther
  
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• Navajo Nation President: New Mexico still failing students

  24-06-2020 23:36
  
  Santa Fe, N.M. • The leader of one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. called Wednesday for the governor of New Mexico to end efforts to fight a court ruling that orders improvements in education for members of his tribe and other vulnerable groups.The comments from Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez came ahead of a court hearing next week in which Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will ask a state judge to dismiss a consolidated lawsuit representing Native American and
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: BYU activists discuss why the Smoot Building needs a new name and how the school can help heal racial wounds

  24-06-2020 22:53
  
  Amid the nation’s reawakening on the issue of systemic racism, Brigham Young University’s president has conceded that “there is work to do” on the Provo campus.Many students and alumni agree, and some of them have called on officials to rebrand the administration building, given that it bears the name of Abraham O. Smoot, a former benefactor who owned slaves.On this week’s “Mormon Land” podcast, two of the activists behind this effort, Tristan Quist and
  
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• Tim Glenn: LDS Church could move the needle on masks

  24-06-2020 22:00
  
  With a sharp spike in new COVID-19 cases in Utah, a concerning increase in hospitalizations and a state government hesitant to make bold decisions to save the lives of Utah residents, it’s time we call on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to come out in support of mandatory masks.I’m (mostly) kidding of course. I realize the absurdity of that statement. But we live in absurd times. In the midst of a global health crisis that will help define a generation, our leadership
  
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• Paul Petersen pleads guilty to human smuggling charge in federal court

  24-06-2020 21:28
  
  Little Rock, Ark. • A former Arizona official pleaded guilty Wednesday to a human smuggling charge for what prosecutors called his role in running an illegal adoption scheme in three states involving women from the Marshall Islands.Paul Petersen pleaded guilty in federal court in Arkansas to conspiracy to commit human smuggling, the third guilty plea he’s entered for the scheme. Petersen, a Republican who served as Maricopa County, Arizona’s assessor for six years until his resi
  
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• Utah official apologizes for sending out gun-designed mask

  24-06-2020 20:19
  
  Salt Lake City • A state official has apologized after a family was sent masks featuring a gun, the American flag and the phrase “don’t tread on me” as part of a program offering free face coverings during the coronavirus pandemic.Ben Hart, the deputy director of the governor’s office of economic development, said it was a mistake and that the design was one of about 150 that were identified as potentially controversial, KUTV-TV reported."It was one of the masks that
  
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• Richard Davis: No more public money for closed primary elections

  24-06-2020 20:04
  
  Let’s hold an election all voters have to pay for, but then let’s not allow most voters to participate. Does this sound like a joke?It should, but it isn’t. It is the reality of the June 30 Utah primary election. While a majority of Utah voters cannot vote in this election because they are not Republicans, all taxpayers will pay for the election.It is time to end this situation. If the Republican Party is truly private, then it should run its own primary election and pay for it
  
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• Diverse group of Utahns will play in the Utah Championship, without fans

  24-06-2020 18:04
  
  While playing two rounds of a Korn Ferry Tour event in Florida last week, former BYU golfer Patrick Fishburn barely noticed that spectators were missing. He will sense the fans’ absence far more in Farmington.The nature of professional golf in the COVID-19 world will “really sink in for me,” Fishburn said, when he tees off Thursday morning at Oakridge Country Club in the Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank.No spectators are being allowed into the venues of PGA Tour-sancti
  
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• Coronavirus rise sets off new limbo as U.S. reopening plans shift and slow

  24-06-2020 16:06
  
  Denver • Soaring cases of the coronavirus are forcing cities and states across the country to halt plans to restart their economies and even reimpose earlier limits on public life, increasing worries that premature reopenings could lead to a second round of closures.In Maine, officials called off plans to allow bars to resume serving drinks inside on July 1. The governor of Kansas said rising cases showed that the state was “not ready” to continue easing restrictions. And in par
  
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• Dr. Fauci: Next few weeks critical to tamping down virus spikes

  24-06-2020 15:52
  
  Washington • The next few weeks are critical to tamping down a disturbing coronavirus surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress on Tuesday — issuing a plea for people to avoid crowds and wear masks just hours before mask-shunning President Donald Trump was set to address a crowd of his young supporters in one hot spot.Fauci and other top health officials also said they have not been asked to slow down virus testing, in contrast to Trump’s claim last weekend that he had ordered fewe
  
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• Bolton assaults Trump from the right and takes fire from all directions

  24-06-2020 15:44
  
  He knew what he was getting into. He knew he would be showered with brickbats from the left for not speaking out sooner and denounced by the right for speaking out at all. He knew he would be thrashed by thunderous presidential tweets, and he knew he might even be dragged into court.And yet John Bolton could not help himself. For decades, he has been the enfant terrible of the political right, speaking out in blunt and uncompromising terms even at the risk of offending some in his own party. Tha
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utahns are headed toward a horrific coronavirus crisis that the governor could help prevent

  24-06-2020 15:00
  
  With her characteristic candor, Dr. Angela Dunn, laid out Utah’s current coronavirus crisis in a direct and straightforward manner for Gov. Gary Herbert.The rapid growth in cases Utah has seen — the fourth fastest rate in the nation as of Tuesday — will overwhelm our hospital system, she wrote in a memo obtained by my Tribune colleagues.If we don’t cut the daily number of new cases to 200 by July 1, the state should return to the “orange” risk level. (Given th
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Our leaders have surrendered to COVID. We can’t.

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  Any good carpenter will tell you: Measure twice. Cut once.But as both the United States and the state of Utah see terrifying increases in the number of COVID-19 infections, it is becoming clear that whatever careful measurements have been taken — and there haven’t been enough — are being mostly ignored in the politically driven push to cut back on the lockdowns and other restrictions that were supposed to break the back of this pandemic.It now appears clear that, if we are goin
  
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• Paul Gibbs: No faith that Utah government will protect us

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the few sources of comfort I had was my confidence that Utah would handle the situation better than the federal government would.I had confidence in the Utah Department of Health and other public health professionals. And even though I frequently disagree with the administration of Gov. Gary Herbert on matters of ideology and policy, I felt that the governor and his team would handle the crisis with far greater wisdom and compassion than would P
  
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• Letter: Why tax Social Security?

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  Why does Utah tax Social Security benefits, when 37 other states do not? These benefits basically come when people need them the most.David W. Haughey, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Trump’s same despicable scenario

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  On May 20, President Trump accused Nevada of sending out “illegal vote-by-mail ballots.” (It isn’t illegal).If they persist, he warned he could withhold critical funding to the state. On the same day, he likewise threatened Michigan with the same warning, alleging voter fraud. (It isn’t voter fraud).Sound familiar? Threatening to withhold military funding for Ukraine unless its president went on CNN and announced a bogus investigation of a likely presidential opponent, Jo
  
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• Letter: Republican leadership has failed Utah

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  I wish Jon Huntsman a speedy recovery from COVID-19. I hope he hasn’t infected others or caused any deaths from his reckless behavior. He went to Cache Valley, a county with a serious infection spike, and he did not wear a mask or practice social distancing and he shook hands at the crowded event. He did not practice good leadership and has disqualified himself from consideration to govern us during a pandemic.Cache County has no functioning government. The feckless county leaders are culp
  
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• Letter: Pipeline is another waste of Utahns’ money

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  To this observer, the Lake Powell Pipeline proposal looks like it is rapidly turning into the biggest collection of spoiled road apples in recent memory — a waste of public money right up there on the list of legislative greatest hits with, say, the Great Salt Lake pumps or sending a team of highway experts to Japan to study snow-removal techniques in preparation for the 2002 Olympics.What could make more sense to our free market/free enterprise-obsessed Utah legislators than a plan to sen
  
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• Letter: Is this the leadership we need?

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  Gubernatorial candidate Spencer Cox leads Utah’s coronavirus task force. According to one of its members, the task force has not met in two weeks.Over that same time period, COVID-19 cases in Utah have skyrocketed. Hospitals will reportedly reach capacity in four to six weeks. There’s no evidence the state has met its own criteria for loosening restrictions. On June 30, Utahns choose the Republican candidate for governor.Is this the kind of leadership Utah needs?Joanne Slotnik, Salt
  
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• Letter: Haters unfair to Donovan Mitchell

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  I am so ashamed of Jazz fans who responded to Donovan Mitchell's social media post about being "free-ish since 1865" by suggesting, no, proclaiming, that he was just as free as they were, especially since he was rich and an NBA star.For those haters: Let's suppose that Mitchell is driving his late model car somewhere in the deep South, and say, he's speeding, or not using his turn signal, or his tail light is out. He gets pulled over by some racist police officer who now starts to wonder how thi
  
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• Letter: Demilitarize local law enforcement

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  We know we can’t eliminate police departments altogether, but we do need to demilitarize local law enforcement.After 9/11, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent billions of dollars in combat-grade armaments, body armor, sometimes tanks and vast amounts of cash to departments all over the country, and the whole mindset of policing began to change. Police officers were trained like the military personnel being shipped to war zones.Instead of weapons of destruction, we should be spend
  
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• Letter: Citizens carry guns. Police should, too

  24-06-2020 14:00
  
  With Utah's gun laws that allows citizens to carry and conceal weapons, it just doesn't make sense to disarm the police as has been suggested.Joyce Cherry, MidwaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Tensions escalate after police officers arrive on scene of ‘Justice for Bernardo’ protest in Salt Lake City

  24-06-2020 06:12
  
  A group of several dozen protesters stood shoulder-to-shoulder in Washington Square Park on Tuesday evening, the tips of their shoes toeing the line between the sidewalk and the street. About a foot away, Salt Lake City police officers were in formation, dressed in helmets and face shields and armed with batons, bean bag guns and service firearms.Officers told protesters if they got into the road or blocked streets, they’d arrest them.The two factions faced off for a few tense minutes, wit
  
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• Baseball’s back: MLB set to open July 23 or 24, with 60-game schedule

  24-06-2020 06:07
  
  New York • Major League Baseball issued a 60-game schedule Tuesday night that will start July 23 or 24 in empty ballparks as the sport tries to push ahead amid the coronavirus following months of acrimony.A dramatically altered season with games full of new rules was the final result of failed financial negotiations. But for fans eager to see any baseball this year, at least now they can look forward to opening day.The announcement by MLB came while more players continue to test positive fo
  
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• 2 California national parks removing Robert E. Lee mentions

  24-06-2020 05:32
  
  Los Angeles • Two national parks in California are removing all mention of Robert E. Lee from informational material even though several majestic sequoias are named for the Confederate general.Sequoia and Kings Canyon parks are removing references to Lee from exhibits, printed and online material as protests against racism and police brutality have led, in some places, to the removal or pulling down of monuments to historical figures linked to slavery or colonialism. Protest have been spurr
  
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• Police officers arrive on scene of ‘Justice for Bernardo’ protest in Salt Lake City

  24-06-2020 04:03
  
  On the seventh night of protests by the group, “Justice for Bernardo,” tensions between protesters and the police escalated.
  Police right up on protesters tonight. I just got here. But here's the scene pic.twitter.com/vLKRmBbF7U— Paighten🆒Harkins (@PaightenHarkins) June 24, 2020Between 70 and 80 marchers arrived at the office of district attorney Sim Gill on 500 S. in downtown Salt Lake City, and as they prepared to walk a few blocks, they were met with a vanload of pol
  
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• Rich Lowry: They’re coming for Thomas Jefferson.

  24-06-2020 04:00
  
  This was always obvious, but now it’s even more plain. Protesters in Portland, Oregon, used axes and ropes to topple a statue of President Thomas Jefferson. The New York City Council is agitating to remove a statue of the author of the Declaration of Independence from its chambers.At this rate, the Sage of Monticello will be lucky if the Jefferson Memorial isn't bulldozed and if he isn't effaced from the nickel.Jefferson is, to use the argot of the day, the most "problematic" of the Founde
  
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• Utah Jazz test players for coronavirus as NBA braces for results

  24-06-2020 02:49
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) celebrates the victory with Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) after the game with the Dallas Mavericks at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. The Jazz won 112-107. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz players underwent coronavirus testing on Tuesday, according to a team source.
  The Jazz, as well as the rest of the league started mandatory testing as a part of the NBA’s plan to restart the seaso
  
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• Missing mother and daughter found safe

  24-06-2020 02:38
  
  A missing mother and daughter have been found safe, according to Fox 13.Salt Lake City police had been searching for 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 afterno
  
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• Late comer to Utah race for House seat leads fundraising

  24-06-2020 02:30
  
  Ogden, Utah • A Utah candidate who was a late entry to the race for a U.S. House of Representatives seat has passed his competitors in campaign fundraising.Blake Moore had generated $357,639 in fundraising for his campaign bid as of June 10, The Standard-Examiner reported Monday.Moore, who did not formally announce his campaign until Feb. 12, is one of four Republican hopefuls for the 1st District U.S. House seat.U.S. Federal Election Commission fundraising reports through June 10
  
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• Coronavirus continues to creep into Utah’s prisons and jails. Here is what they are doing about it.

  24-06-2020 01:57
  
  As COVID-19 cases spike throughout the state, the virus is making its way into Utah’s prison and jails, infecting three inmates at Utah State Prison, one at Weber County Jail, 23 at Salt Lake County Jail and 11 at Bonneville Community Correctional Center, a half way house in Salt Lake City.At the Utah State Prison in Draper, two inmates with coronavirus have recovered so far and one is in self-isolation. Kaitlin Felsted, spokeswoman for the Utah Department of Corrections, said all three in
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: The boy who cried fake news

  24-06-2020 01:40
  
  If there’s anything we’ve learned in the five years since Donald Trump came down that escalator, it’s that he cannot thrive without a constant stream of attention, adulation and affirmation. It’s why he’s obsessed with cable news and Fox in particular; why his Cabinet meetings begin with almost worshipful praise from each of his appointees; and why he’s constantly touting his sky-high support from other Republicans.It’s also why, on Saturday, he held an
  
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• Salt Lake County Health cancels free coronavirus testing due to shortages

  24-06-2020 01:30
  
  The Salt Lake County Health Department announced Tuesday that it was canceling numerous targeted testing events this week, citing a supply shortage.The free, drive-thru testing operations were scheduled in Rose Park, Glendale and West Valley. The health department will spend the rest of the week restocking materials and developing efficiencies in the testing program to reduce wait times, according to a series of tweets. The program will resume targeted testing in those neighborhoods after Indepe
  
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• More people charged in the flipping and burning of Salt Lake City police car during protest

  24-06-2020 01:20
  
  Prosecutors on Tuesday charged two more people — which brings the total to 10 — for their involvement in allegedly flipping and burning a Salt Lake City police car during a protest against police brutalityMay 30 that turned violent.M.J. Powell, 21, of Draper, and Bobby Messina, 24, of Salt Lake City, were charged with criminal mischief, a first-degree felony, and rioting, a third-degree felony.Those were the same charges against Monico Isidro Romero, 31, of Salt Lake City.Others who
  
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• Amid pandemic, former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt warns Congress to prepare for the next outbreak

  24-06-2020 01:04
  
  Washington • Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who previously served as America’s top health policy official, told Congress that even while the United States deals with the coronavirus pandemic it should also prepare for the next outbreak and learn from missteps that plagued the country’s initial response.Especially if that next pandemic is a resurgence of the coronavirus this fall.“While we focus on the pandemic in front of us, we can’t miss this opportunity to reflect
  
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• Ross Douthat: The second defeat of Bernie Sanders

  24-06-2020 01:00
  
  Three months ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders lost his chance at the Democratic nomination for president, after a brief moment in which his socialist revolution seemed poised to raze the bastions of neoliberal power. But the developments of the last month, the George Floyd protests and their cultural repercussions, may prove the more significant defeat for the Sanders cause. In the winter he merely lost a presidential nomination; in the summer he may be losing the battle for the future of the left.Throu
  
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• Herbert bucks Salt Lake City, County mayors, won’t require Utahns to wear masks

  24-06-2020 00:42
  
  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. Gov. Gary Herbert has no plans to throttle down Utah’s economy, despite an alarming surge in coronavirus cases, and is bucking the state’s two most prominent mayors by refusing to require that masks be worn in public.Herbert
  
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• Utah ranks as most resilient state for ability to endure disasters like a pandemic or earthquakes

  24-06-2020 00:36
  
  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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• Utah VP debate going forward even as University of Michigan pulls out of presidential forum

  24-06-2020 00:10
  
  Washington • The Utah Debate Commission is still planning to host the vice presidential debate in October at the University of Utah — though with a socially distanced audience and perhaps other health care measures, the commission’s co-chairman Wayne Niederhauser said Tuesday.Niederhauser, a former state Senate president, said there hasn't been any change to the debate plans other than discussion of some new health care procedures even after another university dropped out of hos
  
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