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• Bagley Cartoon: Utah Goes Viral

  26-06-2020 23:53
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, June 28, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:The BaseCriminal AccompliceWho Was That Masked Man?From Estonia With LoveTransparently CrookedThe Sinking FeelingMonumentalSpreading the MAGA MessageTake the TestUtah TestConfederate PrideWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• COVID-19 helps kill Utahns on highways — from more speeding on less-crowded roads

  26-06-2020 23:31
  
  COVID-19 continues to help kill and hospitalize Utahns in an unexpected and collateral way: in car crashes.During a monthly update about highway fatalities, the Utah Transportation Commission was told Friday that traffic volume and crashes have been way down because of COVD-19 restrictions keeping more people home — but deaths and serious injuries are up anyway.“The roads are open, and people are traveling faster. So, when they are in crashes, those crashes tend to be more serious,&r
  
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• Holly Richardson: For crying out loud, wear the damn mask

  26-06-2020 22:36
  
  Oh, Utah. Land of the free-spirited, like the wild mustangs that still run across some of Utah’s desert plains. We pride ourselves on our individualism here. No one is the boss of us!Even at the expense of others' health.Wearing a mask for other people is just a bridge too far.I’ll admit, as a pro-life Republican, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher to suddenly hear other pro-life people yelling “My body, my choice!” Or comparing mask-wearing requests, or even mandates,
  
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• Rich Lowry: The coming 2020 train wreck

  26-06-2020 22:00
  
  President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden agree on one thing — the other side is trying to steal the election.Trump told a gathering of students in Phoenix that this “will be, in my opinion, the most corrupt election in the history of our country.”He amplified the point, a constant theme of his, in a tweet: "RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!"The president of t
  
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• Mike Lee leads Senate to empower Justice Department watchdog over Bill Barr’s objections

  26-06-2020 22:00
  
  Washington • The Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday advanced an effort to expand the power of the Justice Department’s independent watchdog to investigate allegations of ethical violations and professional misconduct by department lawyers, overriding the objections of Attorney General Bill Barr.The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 21-1 to approve the bipartisan measure, which unanimously passed the House last year. It would shift the responsibility for investigating lawyer misco
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah leaders dropped the ball on their coronavirus response. Here is how it happened.

  26-06-2020 21:54
  
  On Friday, Utah reported 676 new cases of the coronavirus, pushing the state total above 20,000 for the first time and meaning in less than a month we doubled the number of cases.How did Utah get where it is today? Let’s take a look …In his Utah Leads Together Plan, released March 24, Gov. Gary Herbert offered clear criteria that would drive his decision to move from an Urgent Phase into a Stabilization Phase and finally, a Recovery Phase.To move from Urgent to Stabilization, for ex
  
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• House of Representatives adopts bill to make D.C. 51st state; Senate GOP opposes

  26-06-2020 21:44
  
  Washington • The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city’s 700,000 residents are allowed full voting rights, no longer subject to “taxation without representation.‘'Lawmakers approved the bill, 232-180, largely along party lines, marking the first time a chamber of Congress has passed a D.C. statehood bill. Minnesota
  
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• Utah tech company is helping churches across the country resume services safely

  26-06-2020 21:30
  
  Thanks to a Utah company, religious congregations across the United States can learn how to best resume worship services during the coronavirus.SixFifty, a Midvale-based technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini, created the Return-to-Worship Readiness Assessment, a questionnaire to help faith leaders prepare their congregations to attend in-person services safely during the pandemic.The assessment asks users a variety of yes or no questions, such as if the religious organization exam
  
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• Utah reports new record of 676 coronavirus cases and two new deaths

  26-06-2020 21:21
  
  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 reported 676 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday — a new record high for the state — along with two new deaths.There have now been 20,050 total positives and 166 deaths. Dr. Angela Dunn, the state’s epidemiologi
  
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• Harmons to require all Utah customers to wear masks in stores

  26-06-2020 21:18
  
  Customers at all Harmons Grocery stores in Utah soon will be required to wear face masks while inside shopping, the company said Friday.The requirement begins Saturday for stores in Salt Lake County and July 5 in the rest of its Utah locations, Bob Harmon said in a news release.Signs reminding customers that masks are required will be posted at store entrances.On Thursday, Gov. Gary Herbert approved a mask mandate for Salt Lake and Summit counties that’s set to take effect Saturday in hope
  
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• Gordon Monson: Quin Snyder says the Jazz have the mindset to help change the world — and win games

  26-06-2020 20:50
  
  “Our guys are enthusiastic about who this team can be.”                                                                       — Quin SnyderAs a collection of players, the Utah Jazz were trying earlier this season — remember then? — to figure out their identity, to form into what they actua
  
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• Mark Chalmers: Recycling of uranium is a good thing

  26-06-2020 20:27
  
  According to Wikipedia,“Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects …. [i]t is an alternative to ‘conventional’ waste disposal that can save material and help lower greenhouse gas emissions.”Our company, Energy Fuels, has an established recycling program in Utah spanning the last three decades that produces a clean energy resource that helps in the fight against climate change and air pollution. You’d think environmen
  
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• Breakthrough drug for covid-19 may be risky for mild cases

  26-06-2020 20:23
  
  Scientists in Britain announced a major breakthrough in the battle against the coronavirus last week, reporting they had found the first drug to reduce deaths among critically ill COVID-19 patients.The results were first made public in a sparsely detailed news release. Now the full study, neither peer reviewed nor published yet, has been posted online, and it holds a surprise.The drug — a cheap, widely available steroid called dexamethasone — does seem to help patients in dire strait
  
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• Questions and answers about Salt Lake County’s new face mask requirement

  26-06-2020 20:21
  
  As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the state, the Governor’s Office said Thursday that it would allow Salt Lake and Summit counties to require people to wear face masks in a number of circumstances to help stem the spread of the virus.Letting residents and visitors to the county make the choice for themselves was not working, Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said earlier this week in advocating for the ability to implement the regulations.“I’m one who believes in our
  
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• Stan Christensen: Rowing upstream against COVID-19 in Utah

  26-06-2020 20:18
  
  Learning is like rowingUpstream, not to advance Is to drop back. — Chinese ProverbWe have all been learning how to live with and navigate the deluge of COVID-19. We have seen that we can “flatten the curve” and not overwhelm the health care system, but we haven’t been able to achieve this without tremendous economic sacrifice. The hardship this created, combined with a lack of clarity on health-related milestones and goals, has led to a complacency that is causing us to d
  
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• Perhaps only 1% of Utahns have COVID-19 antibodies, research shows

  26-06-2020 20:11
  
  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 is a long way from having coronavirus herd immunity, according to University of Utah researchers examining the pandemic’s impact on the state.Serology testing found that only 1.2% of 6,527 individuals tested in four Utah coun
  
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• Utah Jazz two-way player Jarrell Brantley earns G League honors

  26-06-2020 20:07
  
  The awards keep coming for the Salt Lake City Stars.On Friday, it was announced that Jarrell Brantley, a two-way forward for the Utah Jazz and the Stars, had been named to the All-G League First Team, as well as to the developmental league’s Rookie Team.Brantley appeared in 33 games for the Stars this season, averaging a team-high 18.8 points to go along with 7.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists, and 1.4 steals. He shot 51.2% from the field and 33.3% from 3-point range. He finished second in G League
  
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• A rural commissioner called Gov. Gary Herbert a Nazi for approving a face mask mandate in urban areas

  26-06-2020 20:07
  
  A Piute County commissioner compared Utah’s governor to Nazis, suggesting that Utahns will soon be required to offer a “Heil Herbert” salute.“Hang on friends, it won’t be long before you are required to do a Sieg Heil Salute to Herbert,” tweeted Darin Bushman in response to news that Gov. Gary Herbert approved a mask mandate in Salt Lake and Summit counties that’s set to take effect Saturday. “Welcome to Utah now extend your right arm straight at 4
  
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• Jana Riess: Trump’s popularity eroding in Utah, especially among women

  26-06-2020 19:43
  
  President Donald Trump’s re-election chances seem to be slipping away, and even some Latter-day Saints are deserting him.Nationwide, the spread between Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and Trump has widened. In March, Biden led by just 4 percentage points, and then by 5 or 6 in April and May. As of today, Biden is ahead in FiveThirtyEight’s average of political polls to the tune of 9.5 percentage points nationally.Biden’s lead now pertains in almost every swing state that coul
  
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• NBA, NBPA officially announce return-to-play plan

  26-06-2020 19:39
  
  A sign marking the entrance to ESPN’s Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World is seen Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Kissimmee, Fla. The NBA and its players association on Friday morning officially announced it will return to play on July 30 at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. | John Raoux, Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY — The NBA and its players association on Friday morning officially announced it will return to play on July 30 at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando.
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• As the coronavirus surges, younger people account for a ‘disturbing’ number of cases

  26-06-2020 19:00
  
  Chicago • Younger people are making up a growing percentage of new coronavirus cases in cities and states where the virus is now surging, a trend that has alarmed public health officials and prompted renewed pleas for masks and social distancing.In Arizona, where drive-up sites are overwhelmed by people seeking coronavirus tests, people ages 20-44 account for nearly half of all cases. In Florida, which breaks records for new cases nearly every day, the median age of residents testing positi
  
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• Conservation groups will sue Trump administration to designate bi-state grouse as endangered species

  26-06-2020 18:27
  
  Reno, Nev. • Conservationists are headed back to court to try to force the Trump administration to protect a rare game bird along the California-Nevada border as the government keeps changing its mind about whether to list the cousin of the greater sage grouse as threatened or endangered.Three groups have filed formal notice of their intent to sue after the Fish and Wildlife Service reversed course in March and abandoned its 2018 proposal to list the bi-state grouse under the Endangered Spe
  
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• ‘Quarancheating:’ How some Americans have balanced summer fun and the coronavirus

  26-06-2020 18:17
  
  The first weekend in June, Cyré Olivia Coleman, 29, a student in Randolph, Massachusetts, did something that even a month earlier would have felt like a far-fetched dream: took a family vacation.Since March, Coleman had not left her home, which she shares with her mother, brother, 4-month-old daughter and the father of her child.“We’ve gotten pretty creative, so we haven’t gone stir-crazy,” she said. “We put my daughter into a laundry basket and splash around
  
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• Brittney Nystrom: Now is the time for bold police reforms

  26-06-2020 18:00
  
  Almost every day since May 30, people in cities and towns across Utah have been in the streets. From Logan to Daybreak to St. George, they have marched, protested and sought justice for George Floyd and so many others whose names and stories symbolize searing injustice. They have called for reforms that protect people of color from police brutality and an end to systemic racism.The people have been persistent.The people have been specific.The people will not go away.Yet elected officials and law
  
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• Women’s soccer is back: Here’s what you need to know about the Challenge Cup held in Utah

  26-06-2020 17:53
  
  The National Women’s Soccer League resumes Saturday with the Challenge Cup, making it the first North American professional sports league to return to action — before baseball, basketball and other soccer leagues — after the COVID-19 pandemic halted sports all over the country.The tournament, held at two locations in suburban Salt Lake County, carries with it plenty of intrigue. From a team backing out just days before because of a coronavirus outbreak, to several U.S. Women&rs
  
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• 16 NBA players test positive for coronavirus, league and players association say

  26-06-2020 17:31
  
  In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks at a news conference before an NBA preseason basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the Toronto Raptors in Saitama, Japan. The league announced Friday that 16 players have tested positive for coronavirus. | Jae C. Hong, APSALT LAKE CITY — As NBA players returned this week to the markets in which they play in preparation for the 2019-2020 season restart in Orlando, they’ve undergone the first of what will
  
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• A rural commissioner called Utah’s governor a Nazi for approving a face mask mandate in urban areas

  26-06-2020 16:31
  
  A Piute County commissioner compared Utah’s governor to Nazis, suggesting that Utahns will soon be required to offer a “Heil Herbert” salute.“Hang on friends, it won’t be long before you are required to do a Sieg Heil Salute to Herbert,” tweeted Darin Bushman in response to news that Gov. Gary Herbert approved a mask mandate in Salt Lake and Summit counties that’s set to take effect Saturday. “Welcome to Utah now extend your right arm straight at 4
  
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• Mark Chalmers: Recycling of uranium waste is a good thing

  26-06-2020 16:00
  
  According to Wikipedia,“Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects …. [i]t is an alternative to ‘conventional’ waste disposal that can save material and help lower greenhouse gas emissions.”Our company, Energy Fuels, has an established recycling program in Utah spanning the last three decades that produces a clean energy resource that helps in the fight against climate change and air pollution. You’d think environmen
  
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• Lobbyists and a Utah Senate leader create what critics call a ‘fake PAC’ to help friends

  26-06-2020 15:42
  
  Lobbyist Spencer Stokes and Utah Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert were miffed when the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Term Limits attacked two state Senate candidates they like, including the cousin of Hemmert’s wife.So, they helped form a new local political action committee, called Utah Term Limits, to send competing mailers. They created it one day after deadlines that would have required disclosing its donors and expenses before Tuesday’s primary election. So the source of the money
  
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• Chamber poll has Spencer Cox, Jon Huntsman virtually tied in race for Utah governor

  26-06-2020 15:30
  
  A new poll in the primary race for Utah governor has the two front-runners — Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and former Gov. Jon Huntsman — in a virtual dead heat just days before the election.With 30% support, Cox was 1 one percentage point ahead of Huntsman in the Salt Lake Chamber survey conducted June 17 to 24 and released Thursday. That gap is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 2.77 percentage points.The polling firm, Dan Jones & Associates, indicated the race is
  
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• Mary Kawakami was honored for being Utah’s oldest active voter four years ago. She’s still at it.

  26-06-2020 15:22
  
  In 2016, Gov. Gary Herbert visited American Fork resident Mary Kawakami to give her a proclamation stating that she was the oldest active voter in the state of Utah.He leaned over her chair to show the 104 year-old woman the certificate. “Look what I’ve got for you,” he said.“What is it?” Kawakami asked, looking up at him. “A million dollars?” Kawakami flashed a big smile and began laughing.“I read somewhere that the person who laughs the most live
  
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• Robert Kirby: Compared to measures taken in past pandemics, having to wear a mask is a breeze

  26-06-2020 15:12
  
  Given Utah’s history with illnesses, you’d think we would be used to drastic measures to prevent contaminating one another by now.Maybe we’ve become too lenient. Before COVID-19, it had been a long time since we resorted to uncomfortable methods to keep an outbreak from turning into an actual plague.And when I say “uncomfortable,” I don’t mean getting offended because someone lectured or banned you from a business for failing to wear a mask. I mean being arres
  
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• Dark money groups are trying to influence Utah’s race for governor

  26-06-2020 15:06
  
  A couple of dark money groups have emerged in the hotly contested race for Utah’s open governor’s seat — one of them attacking former Gov. Jon Huntsman and another defending him.The two political action committees have sent out mailers seeking to influence Utah voters ahead of the Tuesday primary. And both of them are funded exclusively by social welfare groups, which are allowed by law to keep their contributors secret.That creates a dead end for people trying to follow the mo
  
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• Marina Gomberg became a Republican because she’s that committed to justice

  26-06-2020 15:04
  
  Friends, I want to address the elephant in the room today: me. Hi, I’m a new card-carrying Repblican. And I’m joined by more than 40,000 Utahns who recently switched their party affiliations to participate in this year’s Republican primary.Why, as a lady-loving, socialist-leaning, earth-loving, choice-proponent would I do that? I’ll tell you. There are three main reasons:1. Because we can. They just let you (much to Greg Hughes’s chagrin). You don’t have to ag
  
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• The University of Utah will drop ACT, SAT test requirement for two years

  26-06-2020 15:03
  
  Prospective University of Utah students don’t have to stress over their ACT or SAT scores anymore. The state’s flagship school won’t be requiring them for admission for at least the next two years — a reaction to the pandemic that’s now causing colleges across the nation to rethink their application processes.And it’s possible that these famed standardized tests might be phased out altogether.“We don’t want students to have to choose between taking
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Jimmy Kimmel apologizes for impersonating Utah Jazz star Karl Malone (two decades ago)

  26-06-2020 15:02
  
  Jimmy Kimmel has apologized for impersonating a former Utah Jazz star. Not so much for the attempt at comedy, but for the makeup.Two decades ago, Kimmel was made up to resemble Karl Malone on “The Man Show.” Malone is Black. Kimmel is white. So, yeah, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” put on blackface to impersonate him.“I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl’s
  
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• Replacing a by-mail ballot or switching affiliation on primary election day may be an adventure

  26-06-2020 15:00
  
  Did you lose your by-mail ballot and need a replacement? Are you an unaffiliated Utah voter who wants to register as a Republican to participate in the party-members-only primary Tuesday?Fixing such issues on election day used to be as easy as visiting a neighborhood in-person polling site. But none of those will be available Tuesday. Because of COVID-19, the state requires all voting to be by mail or by use of a special drive-up drop box.Counties will have a few drive-up service centers to fix
  
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• The Martin Sisters, a teenage duo who performs traditional Navajo music, on releasing their first album

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  Montezuma Creek • The Martin sisters stood in a thatched shade hut beside an abandoned corn field on the northern Navajo Nation awaiting a command from a film director. It was early March, and the sisters, a junior and senior in high school, were giddy to be at their first music video shoot. The topic of conversation: Hot Cheetos.More specifically, it was Hot Cheeto Babe, a character in their song “Piccadilly Billy,” which was released in February and, much to their surprise, wa
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Jimmy Kimmel apologizes for impersonating Utah Jazz star (two decades ago)

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  Jimmy Kimmel has apologized for impersonating a former Utah Jazz star. Not so much for the attempt at comedy, but for the makeup.Two decades ago, Kimmel was made up to resemble Karl Malone on “The Man Show.” Malone is Black. Kimmel is white. So, yeah, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” put on blackface to impersonate him.“I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl’s
  
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• Mourning a loss of diversity at Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  It marked the first time in three years that Zara Ahmed was not working as a food vendor at Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market.With the new COVID-19 restrictions — which eliminated prepared foods and arts and crafts vendors — the co-owner of the Raclette Machine food truck was now just a regular patron at the Saturday event.On opening day, Ahmed and partner Abby Pfunder expected to have some bittersweet feelings. But something else made Ahmed’s heart sink that day:
  
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• Letter: Wendel for House District 39

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  We’ve heard it time and time again: With respect to politicians, words are cheap, so follow their actions. Voters in House District 39 would benefit from this wisdom.The majority of voters in Rep. Jim Dunnigan’s district voted in favor of Medicaid expansion (Proposition 3), yet he moved to help draft the replacement bill (SB96), thereby nullifying the votes of his own constituents. Disregarding the GOP’s former platform of fiscal responsibility, Dunnigan’s plan covered fe
  
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• Letter: The U. should not tolerate racist language

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  Why is the University of Utah Athletic Department searching for a reason not to fire defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley for using a racial slur toward a recruit? Not a big deal, I guess.Wrong. It is a big deal. The university needs to let it be known that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated by anyone in its employ. I don’t care how good the man is as a defensive coach.Penn State learned that lesson the hard way. Remember? Hire an outside firm to find out if this is an isolated in
  
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• Letter: Saved by white privilege

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  I was 26 years old in June 1975 when my U-Haul truck broke down, totally blocking the driveway of a Shoney’s Restaurant in Memphis, Tenn. A mechanic made emergency repairs and after a few hours I was able to move the truck from the driveway and get back on the road. Police were never called.On June 12, according to Atlanta police, Rayshard Brooks, age 27, was sleeping in a parked vehicle in a Wendy’s restaurant’s drive-thru lane, forcing cars to drive around. Police were summon
  
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• Letter: People of color bear the burden of climate change

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  As stated by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson in the Washington Post: “Our racial inequality crisis is intertwined with our climate crisis. If we don’t work on both, we will succeed at neither.”The Yale Program on Climate Change Communications released new data on May 19, showing that Americans are still concerned about climate change, even during the pandemic. Seventy-three percent of people polled understand that climate change is happening, which is as high as it’s ever been.At
  
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• Letter: Don’t leave masks up to ‘personal responsibility’

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  Growing up in the 1970s, I often rode in the far back of my family’s station wagon, waving at the cars behind us. No one thought about seat belts back then.Today it’s “Click it or Ticket,” but I don’t consider wearing a seat belt an imposition. It is worth it to me to improve my chances at survival should I be in a car crash.Every night on the news I hear that even though COVID-19 infections are on the rise in Utah, we really need to get things back to normal to sav
  
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• George Chapman: Salt Lake City successfully fights police brutality

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  The murder of a Minneapolis man by police and this country’s systemic racism, which still exists, should be peacefully protested. But claiming that Salt Lake City’s elected leaders are to blame ignores their past efforts.City elected leaders have consistently prioritized ensuring that our city is a welcoming, respectful, fair and safe city for everyone. The City Council has always asked the police, “What do you need to decrease the potential for using physical force against ind
  
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• Gail Collins: Trump speaks! And speaks. And speaks ...

  26-06-2020 14:00
  
  Donald Trump thinks we’re out to get him.“You could say 10 speeches. One little word, they’ll say: ‘He’s lost it,’ " the president complained during a speech in Phoenix this week.That would presumably be an inaccurate little word. Or something very weird, like his claim at a famously underattended event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that he’d ordered a slowdown in coronavirus testing to make it seem as if the infection rate was smaller.Desperate presidential spinn
  
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• House passes sweeping police overhaul after Floyd’s death

  26-06-2020 07:21
  
  Washington • The House has approved a far-reaching police overhaul from Democrats in a vote heavy with emotion and symbolism as a divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gathered with members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the Capitol steps, challenging opponents not to allow the deaths to have been in vain or the outpouring of public support for changes to go unmatched. But the collap
  
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• More than 200 protesters march peacefully in downtown Salt Lake City

  26-06-2020 06:47
  
  In what has become a nightly occurrence of late, hundreds of protesters marched in downtown Salt Lake City Thursday evening as part of a “Justice For Bernardo” rally.The group marched down Main Street — in support of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, who was shot and killed by police on May 23 — to about 100 South, then they marched up 100 South to 700 East, and stayed on 700 East then turned west on 600 South, eventually moving back to 500 South to get back to the Utah attorne
  
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• Rally opposing coronavirus restrictions draws 100 to Utah Capitol

  26-06-2020 06:41
  
  A rally against COVID-19 restrictions drew approximately 100 people to the steps of the Utah Capitol on Thursday evening.“We are probably in a lot more risk of dying in a car accident and driving here instead of getting COVID-19 here and dying,” event organizer Robyn Openshaw told FOX 13.Protestors took issue with Utah Governor Gary Herbert’s approval of requests from Salt Lake and Summit counties to make face coverings mandatory in public.Several speakers argued that it’
  
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