• In the parched Southwest, a warm spring renews the threat of a ‘megadrought’

    In the parched Southwest, a warm spring renews the threat of a ‘megadrought’
    Loveland Pass, Colo. • Here at 12,000 feet on the Continental Divide, only vestiges of the winter snowpack remain, scattered white patches that have yet to melt and feed the upper Colorado River, 50 miles away.That’s normal for mid-June in the Rockies. What’s unusual this year is the speed at which the snow went. And with it went hopes for a drought-free year in the Southwest.“We had a really warm spring,” said Graham Sexstone, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological
  • Bagley Cartoon: Schooled by COVID

    Bagley Cartoon: Schooled by COVID
    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, July 9, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Monkey BusinessFreedumb FourthPlaying Dice With DeathPalling Around With PutinUtah Goes ViralThe BaseCriminal AccompliceWho Was That Masked Man?From Estonia With LoveTransparently CrookedWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  • Utah lab tied to MLB’s testing delays as summer training begins, but there are other issues, too

    Utah lab tied to MLB’s testing delays as summer training begins, but there are other issues, too
    A Utah labratory’s promise that it could quickly turn around COVID-19 test results was a key cog in Major League Baseball’s plan to take the field this season. As the gears started turning July 1, when players began reporting for “spring training,” it became apparent that particular component may be faulty.Numerous teams, including the 2019 World Series participants Houston Astros and Washington Nationals, had to push back the start of full-team workouts from Sunday until
  • ‘Mormon Land’: How the LDS faith reveres America as the ‘Hamilton’ movie debuts and a nation debates the founders’ virtues and vices

    ‘Mormon Land’: How the LDS faith reveres America as the ‘Hamilton’ movie debuts and a nation debates the founders’ virtues and vices
    As Americans tune into the movie version of the Broadway megahit “Hamilton” amid a national debate about the virtues and vices of the nation’s framers, the question arises: How do and should Latter-day Saints view them?Mormon scriptures prophecy that the Americas would sprout a place of “promise,” a “land of liberty.” Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are taught that God “raised up” these “choice spirits”
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  • What the first night in the NBA’s Orlando bubble looked like for the Utah Jazz

    What the first night in the NBA’s Orlando bubble looked like for the Utah Jazz
    Dennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019.| Deeret News The Jazz have officially arrived at the “bubble” in Orlando, where the 2019-20 NBA season will resume, one of several topics executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lindsey and general manager Justin Zanik discussed Wednesday.
    SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz have officially arrived at the Walt D
  • Utah Jazz haven’t had any positive COVID-19 results since mandatory testing began, Dennis Lindsey says

    Utah Jazz haven’t had any positive COVID-19 results since mandatory testing began, Dennis Lindsey says
    Dennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday’s loss to Houston in the playoffs. The Jazz have officially arrived at the “bubble” in Orlando, where the 2019-20 NBA season will resume, one of several topics executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lindsey and general manager Justin Zanik discussed Wednesday. SALT
  • Juab County fire damages building, forces evacuations

    Juab County fire damages building, forces evacuations
    A fire in Juab County has forced evacuations and is threatening structures.According to Utah Fire Info, the Mammoth Fire south of Eureka has damaged one structure and was estimated at 5 acres shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters were on the scene battling the blaze.The new start is called the #MammothFire. Fire resources are on scene and engaged. One structure has been damaged. The fire is estimated at 5 acres. #ffslkw— Utah Fire Info (@UtahWildfire) July 8, 2020There was no immedi
  • Park City’s Black Lives Matter mural vandalized

    Park City’s Black Lives Matter mural vandalized
    On the Fourth of July, a group of local artists paint four murals on the pavement of Park City’s historic Main Street. Four days later, the Black Lives Matter mural was defaced.Sometime Tuesday night, someone painted over the word “Black,” leaving just Lives Matter still visible. However, the “i” in Lives, which was made out of a Black Power fist, was also covered with gray paint. This was first reported by KUTV.VANDALISM: The #BlackLivesMatter mural in Park City, U
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  • Jordan Toone: Just being kind can make a difference

    Jordan Toone: Just being kind can make a difference
    “What did you do about it?”It’s a question I have thought a lot about over the past few years. It’s a question one of my grandchildren may ask me someday. It’s a question I’ll ask myself in the future.“When our country and the world was ravaged by division and unkindness, what did you do about it?”When considering this question, I admit that the majority of my thoughts inevitably turn to “why.” “Why are we so unkind to each other?
  • Utah sets a new one-day record for COVID-19 cases, and passes 200 in its death toll

    Utah sets a new one-day record for COVID-19 cases, and passes 200 in its death toll
    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 reached two unwanted milestones Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic, setting a new one-day record for new cases and crossing the 200 mark in the state’s death toll.The state recorded 722 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, the
  • Utah Royals stumble in Challenge Cup, fall 1-0 to OL Reign on stoppage-time goal

    Utah Royals stumble in Challenge Cup, fall 1-0 to OL Reign on stoppage-time goal
    Herriman • After two gutsy showings in the preliminary round of the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup, the Utah Royals FC finally had a game where they weren’t themselves. They didn’t win the shooting battle. They didn’t finish chances. Their decision making was suspect.And with just one game left in the tournament’s preliminary round before the knockout rounds, it might have been the best time for that kind of performance.“This was definitely
  • Salt Lake City seeks artists to help with new Black Lives Matter mural

    Salt Lake City seeks artists to help with new Black Lives Matter mural
    Mayor Erin Mendenhall wants to see the words “Black Lives Matter” off the east steps of Salt Lake City Hall, with letters designed by local artists.The city will accept design ideas, which artists can submit at www.slc.gov/slcmural, until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15. A committee will then choose eight entrants to fill in two letters each. The artists will receive a $300 stipend to cover their time and supplies.“We’re taking this symbolic step as a city to boldly acknowle
  • Feds charge two Utahns with fraud in seeking paycheck protection loan

    Feds charge two Utahns with fraud in seeking paycheck protection loan
    Washington • Federal prosecutors have charged two Utahns with fraud for applying for a program to aid businesses hit by pandemic-related losses because the owner of the trucking company was under federal indictment at the time.A federal complaint unsealed last week charges that Hubert Ivan Ugarte, 52, of Draper, with the help of Lisa Bradshaw Rowberry, 49, of Provo, submitted a loan application for $210,000 through the Paycheck Protection Program but had denied that Ugarte, the owner of the
  • Utah Royals drop first game of challenge cup in loss to OL Reign

    Utah Royals drop first game of challenge cup in loss to OL Reign
    Herriman • The Utah Royals FC failed to score for the first time in the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup. And for the first time, it ended up on the losing side.The Royals lost 1-0 the OL Reign on Wednesday at Zions Bank Stadium. It was Reign’s first goal in three games of the tournament.The goal came from Bethany Balcer in stoppage time on a header. She received a perfect floated cross from Yuka Momiki, who came off the bench in the 81st minute.Utah had showed how m
  • New list of unproduced plays tallies those disrupted by pandemic

    New list of unproduced plays tallies those disrupted by pandemic
    Trying to salvage a spring and summer of shelved and scrapped scripts, the Kilroys, a group of Los Angeles-based female-identified playwrights and producers, is spotlighting new plays and musicals by female, transgender and nonbinary writers that have had their runs disrupted by the pandemic.More than 140 planned productions by writers ranging from the Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok to the comedian Sarah Silverman appear on the group’s sixth annual list, released on Tuesday.The tally
  • Andrew Cotter: Ranked choice voting would fix our election system

    Andrew Cotter: Ranked choice voting would fix our election system
    Spencer Cox earned 36.4% of votes in Utah’s Republican primary last week, enough to win him the nomination and a very clear path to becoming governor.Although Democrat Chris Peterson awaits Cox in the general election, the race will most likely not be competitive. A Democrat hasn’t won the Utah governor’s race since 1980, and hasn’t received more than 30% of the vote since 2004. Utah’s status as a predominately red state means that the Republican party primary is th
  • What awaits the Utah Jazz when they resume their season in Orlando? Analyzing their 8 seeding games

    What awaits the Utah Jazz when they resume their season in Orlando? Analyzing their 8 seeding games
    New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram (14) and Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) in the second half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. The Jazz won 128-126. | Tyler Kaufman, AP SALT LAKE CITY — NBA games are less than a month away.
    Teams began arriving at Walt Disney World on Tuesday, putting the league’s bubble into official operation and kicking off an experiment like no other.
    Later this week, abbreviated training camps will begin and teams will
  • As coronavirus cases surge, Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don’t reopen

    As coronavirus cases surge, Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don’t reopen
    President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold federal funding if schools don’t reopen in the fall, and he lashed out at federal health officials over school reopening guidelines that he says are impractical and expensive.Taking to Twitter to voice his frustration, Trump argued that countries including Germany, Denmark and Norway have reopened schools “with no problems.” The Republican president also repeated his claim that Democrats want to keep schools c
  • If BYU’s running backs can stay healthy, assistant coach Harvey Unga thinks his group will have an impact

    If BYU’s running backs can stay healthy, assistant coach Harvey Unga thinks his group will have an impact
    While there aresome pieces of the running back group that cause déjà vu and serve as a reminder of BYUY’s 2019 football season, there’s one key difference: Harvey Unga.Unga, formerly a graduate assistant, took over the running backs coaching job after AJ Steward left the BYU staff for the same position at Arizona. And it has been anything but smooth sailing since.Although Unga had already taken over the position on an interim basis a month prior, the staffing change was
  • Jordan School District’s fall schedule to mix class, home learning

    Jordan School District’s fall schedule to mix class, home learning
    The Jordan School District approved a schedule for reopening that will include a four-day week of class time in response to the coronavirus pandemic.The board of the district voted to require students to be in classrooms Monday through Thursday and then follow a plan of at-home, alternative learning each Friday, KUTV-TV reported Monday.The schedule is only for the fall semester, with a reappraisal of the situation planned at a later date, officials said.Parents who are not comfortable sending th
  • California condors seen in Sequoia National Park after nearly 50 years

    California condors seen in Sequoia National Park after nearly 50 years
    Sequoia National Park, Calif. • Endangered California condors have been spotted in Sequoia National Park for the first time in nearly 50 years as the giant birds reclaim historic habitat lost when the species teetered on the brink of extinction.Condors were observed atop the towering granite dome of Moro Rock in late May, the National Park Service said Tuesday.Condors fitted with GPS transmitters were also tracked flying around Giant Forest, according to Dave Meyer, a California condor biol
  • ESPN provides a deep dive into the Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell relationship

    ESPN provides a deep dive into the Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell relationship
    Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) and guard Donovan Mitchell (45) sit together during a timeout in the game against the Golden State Warriors at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret NewsIn mid-March, the sports world stopped.
    The Jazz-OKC game was suspended right before tipoff. Later, it was revealed that Rudy Gobert had tested positive for COVID-19. Then, the NBA season was suspended indefinitely. Next, Donovan Mitchell tested positive for the cor
  • Supreme Court sides with Trump in birth control opt-out case

    Supreme Court sides with Trump in birth control opt-out case
    Washington • The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration in its effort to allow employers who cite religious or moral objections to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women as required by the Affordable Care Act.The high court on Wednesday said 7-2 the administration acted properly when it made the change, which lower courts had blocked.“We hold today that the Departments had the statutory authority to craft that exemption, as well as the contemporane
  • As coronavirus cases surge, Trump pushes local leaders to reopen schools in fall

    As coronavirus cases surge, Trump pushes local leaders to reopen schools in fall
    President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched an all-out effort pressing state and local officials to reopen schools this fall, arguing that some are keeping schools closed not because of the risks from the coronavirus pandemic but for political reasons.“They think it’s going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed,” Trump said at a White House discussion on school plans for the fall. “No way. We’re very much going to put pressure on governors
  • Two Utah lawmakers seek switch to ‘ranked-choice voting'

    Two Utah lawmakers seek switch to ‘ranked-choice voting'
    Burgess Owens won Utah’s 4th Congressional District GOP primary with just 44% of the vote. Spencer Cox won with an even lower percentage in the GOP governor’s primary — 36%. And Blake Moore won with just 31% in the 1st Congressional District.Of course, that means a majority of Republicans participating in the June 30 primary voted for someone else in each of those four-candidate contests. In Moore’s case, 69% of voting Republicans favored a losing candidate.State Rep. Mik
  • Robert Gehrke: Utah Republicans gave Ben McAdams a gift by nominating Burgess Owens

    Robert Gehrke: Utah Republicans gave Ben McAdams a gift by nominating Burgess Owens
    If you run down the list of last week’s primary election results, there’s one candidate who doesn’t show up anywhere on the returns. Despite getting zero votes, he had a very good night.Rep. Ben McAdams’s 4th District seat had been targeted by election handicappers as among the most vulnerable House seats in the country. But he caught a break as Burgess Owens, a former professional football player and now a motivational speaker won the Republican nomination.Of the four GO
  • Fire swept over Utah rock art but this preserve avoided any catastrophic damage

    Fire swept over Utah rock art but this preserve avoided any catastrophic damage
    Saratoga Springs • Several years ago, the descendants of farmer Adelbert Doyle Smith donated 197 acres to a nonprofit to create a preserve, protecting hundreds of ancient petroglyphs Native Americans chiseled into rock outcrops overlooking the west shore of Utah Lake.Until a week ago, the Smith Family Archaeological Preserve was available for tours and was being surveyed for a potential listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Now its future is uncertain after a motorist alleged
  • Utah health department says family visits at some assisted-living centers are OK

    Utah health department says family visits at some assisted-living centers are OK
    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. The Utah Department of Health has issued new guidelines for assisted-living centers, including those caring for dementia patients, that allow family visits.The guidelines say these interactions should happen outside, if possible, but co
  • Here is a look at the Utahns most economically hurt by the coronavirus, and those who did quite well

    Here is a look at the Utahns most economically hurt by the coronavirus, and those who did quite well
    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. The coronavirus has impacted every Utahn, but who has been hit the hardest?From a health point of view, the answer is clear and consistent: the elderly and those with preexisting conditions are most likely to be killed, while the middle
  • Salt Lake County employees redeploy to help fight pandemic

    Salt Lake County employees redeploy to help fight pandemic
    In normal times, Efren Corado Garcia connects vulnerable populations to the joys of art and theater in his job as Salt Lake County’s Arts for All coordinator. Once the pandemic struck and forced the county’s many public venues to close, his role shifted.But he’s still providing care to those in need.“I was given the option of either going on unemployment or to be redeployed with the health department,” Corado Garcia said. “I was in a position where I was home
  • Kent James, Utah native who became a defiantly gay punk-rock star, dies at 56

    Kent James, Utah native who became a defiantly gay punk-rock star, dies at 56
    Kent James, a Utah native who went from serving a Latter-day Saint mission in Argentina to performing country music in Nashville to becoming a mohawk-wearing gay punk rock star in Los Angeles, has died. He was 56.James died Friday in Palm Springs, Calif., according to the Bay Area Reporter, an LGBTQ newspaper in the San Francisco area, and a paid obituary published Tuesday in the Herald Journal in Logan. Neither paper disclosed a cause of death.James’ musical career hit its apex in the ear
  • Letter: Twit in Chief the most incompetent president ever

    Letter: Twit in Chief the most incompetent president ever
    We now face a pandemic, which the Twit in Chief has decided to ignore, in hopes that will disappear.Then comes a story from the headlines of The New York Times about Russia paying the Taliban to kill American soldiers and their allies.That did not surprise me, Russia and Vlad the Impaler paying to kill Americans. No, it's the fact the White House has known for over a year, and the Twit in Chief has simply turned a blind eye, stating he was never informed.Either he is the most incompetent preside
  • Letter: Time for the U. to catch up

    Letter: Time for the U. to catch up
    Why is there no talk of changing the University of Utah’s mascot?Racism is being addressed all over the United States. Many places are proactively changing slogans and marketing images. Universities are removing racist statues and renaming buildings — but the U. is clinging to its shameful Ute image?This embarrassment should have been eliminated many years ago.Catch up, U. of U.Xander Gordon, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  • Letter: So much for Utahns taking care of each other

    Letter: So much for Utahns taking care of each other
    Unmasked Utahns are unmasking the myth that we, in this state, take care of each other.Wearing a mask to keep others safe is the very simplest act of kindness and we can't seem to muster even that.Utahns' "freedom" to spread infection and kill their neighbors, friends and family is trumping those others' right to life. And these freedom lovers are likely the same folk who rail against abortion.Keeping distance and wearing masks means folks like Mary Brassard’s family and hundreds of thousa
  • Letter: Proud to celebrate our country

    Letter: Proud to celebrate our country
    In June, someone wrote to The Salt Lake Tribune that just being “born” was not a reason to be proud. That required personal accomplishments.July 4 is the birthday of our country and I am proud to celebrate it every year. Hopefully all of us have been personally responsible and accountable for our actions and accomplishments so that our country will be proud of us.James R. Fowler, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  • Letter: Masks do not a police state make

    Letter: Masks do not a police state make
    In an article by Fox 13 News, Rep. Adam Robertson, R-Provo states, “I very much appreciate that he’s [Gov. Gary Herbert] not trying to mandate on his own. That would not go over well with myself or my colleagues. ... When we get a government mandate, we have something edging dangerously towards a police state.”How Robertson leaps from a mask-mandate to a police state when he helped overturn the voice of the people regarding our Prop 3 Medicaid expansion is difficult to imagine.
  • Letter: Idiots and fireworks

    Letter: Idiots and fireworks
    Air quality was a fantastically positive and critically needed attribute of our environment in pandemic Wasatch Front this spring and summer.That is, until June 27, on which night this quality of life was terminated by the libertarian impulses of a few idiots who lit fireworks adjacent to thousands of acres of suburban brush land.If curbing this stupidity by rule of law is considered socialism, then yep, I guess I’m a socialist.Bill Johnson, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  • More than 200 peaceful protesters gather in downtown Salt Lake City

    More than 200 peaceful protesters gather in downtown Salt Lake City
    Nearly 200 demonstrators gathered Tuesday in downtown Salt Lake City as several weeks of protests over police violence continued in Utah’s capital city.Nearly 70 people came together and displayed signs reading “Justice for Bernardo” beginning at around 5 p.m. near the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office, at 35 E. 500 South, in support of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, shot and killed by officers in May.The crowd, most of them wearing masks, had grown to more than 20
  • Utah governor is considering a new statewide face mask rule

    Utah governor is considering a new statewide face mask rule
    Utah Gov. Gary Herbert could issue a new statewide edict on face coverings to fight COVID-19 as early as Wednesday after meeting on the issue with top legislative leaders.Utah Senate President Stuart Adams confirmed having a virtual meeting on face masks with Herbert and House Speaker Brad Wilson, but would only say of the Tuesday discussion that he expected the governor “will make a decision and I’m sure he will announce it shortly.”“We are all aligned. We hear the calls
  • Rich Lowry: A triumph at Mount Rushmore

    Rich Lowry: A triumph at Mount Rushmore
    If nothing else, President Donald Trump’s July Fourth speech at Mount Rushmore clarified the battle lines of our culture war.The New York Times called the speech “dark and divisive,” while an Associated Press headline declared, “Trump pushes racial division.” A Washington Post story said the speech “crystallized” the president’s “unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination.”Democratic Sen. Tammy Du
  • Former BYU quarterback Sarkisian undergoes heart procedure

    Former BYU quarterback Sarkisian undergoes heart procedure
    Tuscaloosa, Ala. • Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian has undergone a procedure to correct a congenital cardiovascular anomaly.The university said in a statement Tuesday that the anomaly was uncovered in an annual executive physical last week. Sarkisian had what the school described as a successful procedure Thursday, July 2 in Birmingham.The former BYU quarterback and USC and Washington head coach is recuperating at home in Tuscaloosa and is expected to make a full recovery.Sark
  • More positive tests, canceled workouts add to MLB unease

    More positive tests, canceled workouts add to MLB unease
    As baseball nears the two-week countdown to the start of its delayed season, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep more players, including Boston Red Sox projected opening day starter Eduardo Rodriguez, off the field.On Tuesday, one day after Major League Baseball released its 60-game schedule, there was continued evidence of the difficulties caused by the pandemic.The San Francisco Giants suspended workouts at Oracle Park as they awaited the results of weekend tests for the coronavirus. The C
  • Mitch McConnell eyes virus aid as evictions, benefits cuts loom

    Mitch McConnell eyes virus aid as evictions, benefits cuts loom
    Washington • An eviction moratorium is lifting. Extra unemployment benefits are ending. Parents are being called to work, but schools are struggling to reopen for fall as the COVID-19 crisis shows no signs of easing.With Congress bracing for the next coronavirus aid package, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is outlining Republican priorities as earlier programs designed to ease Americans through the pandemic and economic fallout begin to expire. He is eyeing $1 tri
  • Jamelle Bouie: Maybe this isn’t such a good time to prosecute a new culture war

    Jamelle Bouie: Maybe this isn’t such a good time to prosecute a new culture war
    Donald Trump made his name in Republican Party politics as a “birther,” a true believer in — and an evangelist for — the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was a foreign-born, illegitimate president. Having stoked a wave of white grievance and resentment, Trump rode it, first to influence — let’s not forget that Mitt Romney came to receive Trump’s endorsement in person during the 2012 presidential race — and then to the summit of power as p
  • Utah State football suspends player for racist social media exchange

    Utah State football suspends player for racist social media exchange
    Utah State offensive lineman Ty Shaw has been suspended while the university investigates racist remarks he made on social media.USU suspended Shaw, a senior out of Herriman High in South Jordan, in response to an online exchange he had with former Herriman and Snow College player Dylan Bennet.“This will not be tolerated and we have suspended the player immediately,” according to a joint statement released Sunday by athletic director John Hartwell and head coach Gary Andersen, &ldquo
  • Judge halts coronavirus relief funding for Alaska Native companies

    Judge halts coronavirus relief funding for Alaska Native companies
    Flagstaff, Ariz. • A federal judge has put the brakes on federal coronavirus relief funding for Alaska Native corporations while tribal nations appeal a ruling that deemed the corporations eligible.The decision Tuesday stems from lawsuits that several tribes filed against the Treasury Department seeking to keep the corporations from getting a share of $8 billion that was set aside for tribes in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washingto
  • Though facing a steep learning curve, Utah Royals FC has quickly developed team chemistry

    Though facing a steep learning curve, Utah Royals FC has quickly developed team chemistry
    A maximum of seven games in any iteration of a season — whether it’s a summer tournament or a full slate of games — would generally be considered too small a sample size for any team to comprehensively evaluate itself.And for the Utah Royals FC, throwing in a new coach, new formation and a slew of new players would presumably make it all the more challenging to figure out exactly what the team is and can be going forward.But Royals defender Gunnhildur Jonsdottir said all it too
  • Ryan Boudwin: Term limits deception shows how our politics needs reform

    Ryan Boudwin: Term limits deception shows how our politics needs reform
    As reported by The Salt Lake Tribune, our Utah Senate majority whip, Dan Hemmert, recently decided to mislead voters on behalf of two state Senate candidates, including his wife’s cousin, Johnny Ferry, and Sen. Lincoln Fillmore. I live in Senator Fillmore’s district, in South Jordan.While Hemmert’s conduct may not have been directly illegal, it was absolutely unethical.US Term Limits, founded in 1992, is a single issue political action committee focused on enacting term limits

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