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• In primary election, 4 Republicans win seats on Utah school board because no Democrats ran

  06-07-2020 23:54
  
  After the primary races last week for Utah’s state school board, four Republicans have already secured their seats — facing no contests in the general election this fall.It’s a surprising result that comes after the board switched to allow candidates to run under a political party this year and few Democrats ended up filing. Members of the GOP accounted for 21 of the 27 people on the ballots. And all four primary races — for districts 4, 10, 13 and 15 — had no gener
  
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• Spencer Cox’s lead shrinks slightly in new election results for Utah governor

  06-07-2020 23:10
  
  Lt. Gov Spencer Cox’s lead over former Gov. Jon Huntsman diminished slightly again Monday, according to new election results released Monday in the closely-watched Republican primary for Utah governor.The two candidates left in the race are now separated by 9,300 votes. On Friday, that gap was about 1,600 votes bigger at 10,900 votes. The Monday update added nearly 26,000 more ballots to the overall totals in the GOP primary.State lawmakers made changes to this year’s primary electio
  
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• Benjamin Sessions: Poverty, COVID-19 and Circles Salt Lake

  06-07-2020 23:00
  
  As humans, I believe we have a deep desire to contribute, support and improve our communities. During the normal course of life we see friends, neighbors and loved one’s experience hardships including illness, trauma and poverty.Then a microscopic virus enters our world, shakes the foundation and we see the distress these events cause on a daily basis. We see the pain and suffering and ask the question, How can I help? However, we can often become desensitized to this pain because we see i
  
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• Davis County election messaging generates confusion, complaints

  06-07-2020 22:43
  
  State leaders gave Utahns an extra day this year to postmark their ballot for the June primary, one of several election-related changes made in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.But that new deadline wasn’t communicated in Davis County, which instructed its voters to return their ballots four days sooner, by June 26 — a message that led to confusion among at least some residents of the state’s third-most populous county and prompted complaints from campaigns in close contests in w
  
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• RSL defender Nedum Onuoha to skip MLS tournament as team arrives in Orlando

  06-07-2020 22:16
  
  Real Salt Lake completed its first training session in Orlando on Monday in preparation for Major League Soccer’s return-to-play tournament.But the team is without one its best defenders and fan favorite in Nedum Onuoha, who opted out of the MLS is Back Tournament, multiple sources told The Salt Lake Tribune. Onuoha did not travel with the team when it left Saturday afternoon.Salt Lake’s first game of the tournament is scheduled for Sunday against the Colorado Rapids.RSL captain Kyle
  
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• Veteran helps save man from drowning in Sand Hollow Reservoir

  06-07-2020 21:58
  
  A retired veteran and former state trooper from Nevada helped prevent a man from drowning in a Utah reservoir, a park official said.The veteran pulled the man from the water at Sand Hollow Reservoir in Southwest Utah Saturday, KUTV-TV reported.Sand Hollow State Park manager Jonathan Hunt said a family was using a rope swing when a man, who was not identified, went into the water and did not resurface at the reservoir 17 miles east of St. George.The veteran, who also was not identified, got the m
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 38 more coronavirus cases plus 1 death Monday

  06-07-2020 21:56
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 38 additional cases of COVID-19 and one more known death.Tribal Department of Health officials said 7,840 people on the vast reservation that spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have tested positive with 378 known deaths as of Sunday night.Health officials also said reports from all 12 health care facilities on and near the Navajo Nation indicate 58,768 people have been tested and 5,581 have recovered from COVID-19.Th
  
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• Rep. Ben McAdams attacks President Donald Trump’s plan for new nuclear testing

  06-07-2020 21:45
  
  West Valley City •Rep. Ben McAdams stood beside a picture of the 104-kiloton “Sedan” nuclear weapons test that occurred exactly 58 years ago in Nevada, spreading radioactive debris downwind into Utah and much of the rest of the nation.“The radioactive fallout from that single test contaminated more U.S. residents than any other nuclear test,” McAdams said Monday. “Today, however, no one in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis or Weber counties … is eligible to receive
  
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• Six more Utahns die from coronavirus; 517 more cases reported

  06-07-2020 21:40
  
  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. Six more Utahns have died from the coronavirus, making Monday one of the biggest single-day jump in fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic.And with 22 new hospitalizations reported, there have been 412 Utahns admitted to hospita
  
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• Rich Wandschneider: We either lie about them or omit them

  06-07-2020 21:00
  
  Finally, “Black Lives Matter” gains traction. Showing videos and telling stories that bring attention to the large numbers of deaths by police and the cases and deaths by COVID-19 among African-Americans has led to this long-delayed confrontation with our prejudiced society. What we see with our own eyes can no longer be ignored, which makes this seem a historic moment that could bring about real change.The press has gone some way towards reporting the heavy impact of the disease on
  
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• Nationals, Astros cancel workouts because of testing delays in Utah

  06-07-2020 20:42
  
  Washington • TBaseball's two World Series finalists canceled workouts Monday because of COVID-19 testing delays that one executive worried could endanger the baseball season.The defending champion Washington Nationals and reigning American League champion Houston Astros each called off training camp practices after not receiving test results from Friday. The cancellations come amid delays around Major League Baseball, with some players opting out, and in the aftermath of Nationals reliever
  
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• The Conversation: Islam’s anti-racist message from the seventh century still resonates today

  06-07-2020 20:39
  
  One day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his followers: He told them that all people are created equal.“All humans are descended from Adam and Eve,” said Muhammad in his last known public speech. “There is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, or of a non-Arab over an Arab, and no superiority of a white person over a black person or of a black person over a white person, except on the basis of personal piety and righteousness.”In this sermon, kn
  
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• The fullest look yet at the racial inequity of coronavirus

  06-07-2020 20:10
  
  Teresa and Marvin Bradley can’t say for sure how they got the coronavirus. Maybe Teresa Bradley, a Michigan nurse, brought it from her hospital. Maybe it came from a visiting relative. Maybe it was something else entirely.What is certain — according to new federal data that provides the most comprehensive look to date on nearly 1.5 million coronavirus patients in America — is that the Bradleys are not outliers.Racial disparities in who contracts the virus have played out in big
  
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• 2 lawmakers urge Utah to allow curbside, home delivery of beer during coronavirus

  06-07-2020 19:36
  
  Utah shoppers can have everything from milk and carrots to laundry soap and toilet paper delivered to their homes or available for curbside pickup at grocery stores.The only exception: beer.That rule, argue Sen. Derek Kitchen and Rep. Joel Briscoe, needs to change during the coronavirus.The two Salt Lake City Democrats sent a letter recently to Gov. Gary Herbert urging him to suspend the state law temporarily and “allow customers to purchase alcoholic beverages that are available at grocer
  
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• Utes have talented pass catchers led by Brant Kuithe and Britain Covey

  06-07-2020 18:20
  
  The bad news for the University of Utah is that once mandatory summer activities and training camp begin, coaches still need to figure out who the starting quarterback will be.The good news is, whether it’s South Carolina graduate transfer Jake Bentley or redshirt sophomore Cameron Rising, that signal caller is going to have more than a fair amount of pass-catching options. Entering the 2020 season, the Utes return seven players who caught at least 10 passes last season.Chief among them is
  
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• Robert Gehrke: If we want police held accountable for unjustified acts of violence, we should make these changes

  06-07-2020 18:09
  
  By now, the red paint spread across the road in front of District Attorney Sim Gill’s office, intended to represent the blood of victims of police shootings that protesters said is on Gill’s hands, is gone.As my colleagues Jessica Miller and Paighten Harkins wrote last week, since 2010, police in Utah have shot at people 185 times and in almost every case — 92% of them — the shooting was found to be legally justified.Six shootings were deemed unjustified, but prosecutors
  
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• Waste-watching: Sewage can help track pandemic virus trends

  06-07-2020 17:50
  
  New York • One county in Utah beat back a spike of pandemic virus infections in the spring, and another saw its rate jump. Both trends showed up in their sewage.Yes, sewage. Across the U.S. and in Europe, researchers and health officials say they can track the course of a community outbreak of the new coronavirus by studying the waste flushed from its bathrooms. And that can provide a valuable addition to public health tools, they say.In Utah, wastewater from communities near a Cache County
  
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• Washington Nationals cancel workout because of COVID-19 testing delay in Utah

  06-07-2020 17:44
  
  Washington • The defending World Series champion Nationals canceled their workout Monday because of COVID-19 testing delays that general manager Mike Rizzo worried could endanger the baseball season.All players and staff were tested Friday, and Rizzo said the team still hasn't received those results. The cancellation came a day after All-Star reliever Sean Doolittle voiced concerns about the slow turnaround on coronavirus tests and the Nationals not receiving some kinds of personal protecti
  
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• Man accused of shooting at an ambulance, starting a grassfire and stealing an ATV while leading police multi-county chase

  06-07-2020 16:54
  
  A man is accused of shooting at an ambulance and leading police on a chase through several Utah counties, where he also allegedly stole and crashed a four-wheeler, started a grassfire and pointed his gun at several people who tried to stop him.The man, 32 — suspected of shooting at an ambulance on Interstate 15 in Utah County — was located by troopers in Wasatch County on Saturday, according to jail documents. The man drove away, leading police on a chase that troopers called off whe
  
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• Meet Burgess Owens, the Utah Republican who seeks to replace Rep. Ben McAdams

  06-07-2020 14:15
  
  Washington • Burgess Owens’ conversion to the Republican Party came after playing a decade of professional football, watching the rise of Ronald Reagan and yearning to start his own business.“I’ve always been a conservative, and that’s what I realized,” says Owens. “I grew up conservative, but I was voting as a Democrat because we would talk [about how] that was the party in our favor.”He left the NFL as a “cocky liberal,” but years late
  
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• Robert Gehrke: If we want police held accountable for unjustifiable acts of violence, we should make these changes

  06-07-2020 14:00
  
  By now, the city has painted over the red paint spread across the road in front of District Attorney Sim Gill’s office, intended to represent the blood of victims of police shootings that protesters said is on Gill’s hands.As my colleagues Jessica Miller and Paighten Harkins wrote last week, since 2010, police in Utah have shot at people 185 times and in almost every case — 92% of them — the shooting was found to be legally justified.Six shootings were deemed unjustified,
  
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• Robert A. Rees: What happens to a dream deferred?

  06-07-2020 14:00
  
  “I have a dream...”— Martin Luther KingGeorge Floyd’s 2nd grade teacher remembers him as “a happy boy” with big dreams inspired by black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. His teacher even framed a drawing 8-year-old George drew of Marshall with the caption, “When I grow up, I want to be a Supreme Court Judge.”Put that image with the image of a policeman’s knee on George Floyd’s neck.In his poem, “Harlem,” Langston Hug
  
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• Letter: The power of money and politics

  06-07-2020 14:00
  
  After reading Laura Dupuy’s letter on June 30 (“Fees on carbon fuels will keep the air in Utah clean”), I almost felt hope for the future of our planet. However, the continued emphasis on “growth” around us and throughout our world states otherwise.We can spout facts and figures on how taking specific actions against air pollution now will bring us back to crystal-clear breathable air later. Remember, though, that the power of politics and money run the world we liv
  
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• Letter: Religion and science agree: Wear a mask

  06-07-2020 14:00
  
  More than two decades ago, I studied theology and trained for the ministry at a Methodist seminary. One of the burning questions of the day was, can religion and science be reconciled? There was much debate over whether the two world views were contradictory or complementary.I came to the understanding that religion and science can indeed be cooperative, complementary resources, often working well together in our search for life's truths and meanings, and as supports to rely on when faced with d
  
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• Letter: Our Capitol should use less water

  06-07-2020 14:00
  
  On a recent evening, I was walking around the east and south side of the Utah State Capitol building. The south east lawn was being watered by the Capitol grounds automated system, the sprinklers were putting out water in abundance — in the heat of the day. But worse was the vast amount of water flowing down the stairs, down the sidewalk, down the gutters. The sidewalk was awash with wasted sprinkler water.Why not train the ground crew to tune the sprinkler system and then run it early in
  
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• Letter: Let citizens police illegal campaign signs

  06-07-2020 14:00
  
  A June 22 Tribune article noted that it violates the law to place campaign signs on pedestrian bridges, overpasses and other public rights of way. However, a UDOT spokesman said that removing these numerous illegal signs isn’t “the best use of our time.” Consequently, the law isn’t enforced, and nearly all campaign signs remain until after the election.Shall we law-abiding Utahns give up on enforcing our laws? Never! Here’s the perfect solution: Simply revise the la
  
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• Letter: Canyons School District should require masks

  06-07-2020 14:00
  
  Canyons School District announced it will not mandate the use of masks this school year.Social distancing, cleaning and hand washing are all necessary, but the single best way to prevent COVID-19 infections and to protect my child, other students and employees is to require the use of masks — as recently mandated by Salt Lake County.The reason we should stay 6 feet apart is not because physical distance somehow magically kills the virus, but because it reduces the risk of inhaling the viru
  
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• Baltimore protesters topple Columbus statue

  06-07-2020 05:24
  
  Baltimore • Baltimore protesters pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city’s Inner Harbor on Saturday night.Demonstrators used ropes to topple the monument near the Little Italy neighborhood, news outlets reported.Protesters mobilized by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police have called for the removal of statues of Columbus, Confederate figures and others. They say the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native
  
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• Developers cancel long-delayed, $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline

  06-07-2020 05:16
  
  Richmond, Va. • The developers of the long-delayed, $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced the cancellation of the multi-state natural gas project Sunday, citing uncertainties about costs, permitting and litigation.Despite a victory last month at the United States Supreme Court over a critical permit, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy said in a news release that “recent developments have created an unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays” for the 600-mile pr
  
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• Coronavirus testing a stress threat for athletic budgets

  06-07-2020 04:54
  
  Coastal Carolina already had one of the smaller athletic budgets in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and that was before a 15% spending cut was ordered because of projected declines in state funding and student fees stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.Facing the prospect of having to pay for testing of returning athletes and staff for the virus this summer, athletic director Matt Hogue went to work finding a way to defray costs. His 19-sport program includes about 450 athletes, and with individ
  
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• Harvick takes advantage of Hamlin’s crash to win Brickyard 400

  06-07-2020 04:34
  
  Indianapolis • Kevin Harvick turned up the heat on Denny Hamlin late in the Brickyard 400.And on a cooling track, Hamlin’s worn tires simply gave out.With the sun setting Sunday over Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Hamlin seven laps from victory, he went careening into the first turn wall, and Harvick beat Matt Kenseth off the final restart to pull away.“We knew he was really close on tires so (crew chief) Rodney (Childers) said on the radio to keep the pressure on him,”
  
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• Bryson DeChambeau wins Rocket Mortgage Classic by 3 shots

  06-07-2020 03:23
  
  Detroit • Bryson DeChambeau pounded protein shakes and lifted iron to transform his body, adding 40 pounds of mass, and changed his game to put a premium on power.The plan is working.With jaw-dropping drives and some clutch putts, DeChambeau won the Rocket Mortgage Classic by three strokes Sunday for his first victory of the season and sixth overall. He became the first PGA Tour player since 2004 to lead a tournament in driving distance, along with shots gained off the tee and putting.&ldq
  
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• Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder emphasizes need to ‘be nimble’ in Orlando

  06-07-2020 03:05
  
  Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder joins the leaguewide celebration of Black History Month by wearing the Nike Black History Month t-shirt ahead of the Atlanta Hawks game on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. As the Jazz prepare to head to Orlando for the restart of the NBA, Snyder believes he best thing to do is over plan. | Eric Woodyard, Deseret News In Snyder’s estimation, the best thing to do is over plan, which seems very on brand for the coach who has become known for his methodical tactics SALT LAKE
  
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• Utah Jazz are excited to enter the bubble and restart the NBA season

  06-07-2020 03:03
  
  Quin Snyder conceded in a Sunday afternoon videoconference with reporters that the coming NBA season restart in Orlando is so thoroughly unprecedented that one of the biggest challenges will simply be not letting the accumulation of unknowns snowball into chaos.Of course, the Utah Jazz coach added, the flip side to that is going in eyes wide open to the fact that there will be surprises that pop up, variables that will emerge that he cannot anticipate let alone control.“The word that comes
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson tells critics of player advocacy to ‘shut up’

  06-07-2020 02:56
  
  In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, protests broke out across the country, with participants advocating for racial equality and police reform.Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson was among them, as he gathered with family members, friends, even some old teammates to join a march in Los Angeles for what he called “a big moment in time.”The thing is, that moment isn’t over, as far as he’s concerned. Even thoug
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 71 more COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths

  06-07-2020 02:33
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 71 additional cases of COVID-19 and two more known deaths.A total of 7,804 people on the vast reservation that spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have tested positive with 337 known deaths as of Saturday night.Tribal Department of Health officials said reports from all 12 health care facilities on and near the Navajo Nation indicate that 58,440 people have been tested and 5,543 have recovered from COVID-19 .The numbe
  
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• Air Force pilot killed during training laid to rest in Utah

  06-07-2020 02:30
  
  Brigham City • A Utah community buried a U.S. military pilot who died when his jet crashed off the coast of England last month.Air Force 1st Lt. Kenneth Allen was laid to rest Saturday following a public ceremony attended by hundreds of people at a high school in Brigham City, KSTU-TV reported Saturday.Family members offered remembrances of the 27-year-old pilot who died in a June 15 training accident.The F-15C Eagle fighter aircraft flown by Allen crashed in the North Sea. The cause of the
  
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• Protester killed on Seattle freeway was dedicated to cause

  06-07-2020 02:14
  
  Seattle • A person killed Saturday when a man who drove his car onto a closed Seattle freeway and into a crowd protesting police brutality was remembered Sunday as someone who was dedicated to the cause.The other person hit in the incident, meanwhile, remained in serious condition Sunday at a Seattle hospital.The deceased, Summer Taylor, 24, spent the last six weeks “tirelessly standing up for others while working full time and supporting everyone around them,” wrote Urban Anima
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson on critics of player advocacy: ‘Maybe they should shut up and go look at themselves in the mirror’

  06-07-2020 01:18
  
  In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, protests broke out across the country, with participants advocating for racial equality and police reform.Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson was among them, as he gathered with family members, friends, even some old teammates to join a march in Los Angeles for what he called “a big moment in time.”The thing is, that moment isn’t over, as far as he’s concerned. Even thoug
  
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• Tim Wu: American companies are sick. Here’s how to cure them.

  06-07-2020 00:00
  
  Many companies in the United States are currently in a particular kind of distress. They have solid business models for normal times, yet as the pandemic lingers they are slowly dying, victims of weak demand or supply problems. These businesses are not broken or fundamentally flawed; their health is jeopardized only by exceptional circumstances. They are not doomed; they’re just sick.Many of these companies are on the lookout for survival strategies that would avoid a ruinous liquidation o
  
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