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• First COVID-19 vaccine tested in U.S. poised for final phase

  14-07-2020 23:54
  
  The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin key final testing."No matter how you slice this, this is good news," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, told The Associated Press.The experimental vaccine, developed by Fauci's colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., will start its most important step
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: All in the Family

  14-07-2020 23:49
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Game Name ChangeHeard ImmunityHelp WantedSchooled by COVIDMonkey BusinessFreedumb FourthPlaying Dice With DeathPalling Around With PutinUtah Goes ViralThe BaseWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• ‘Same-Sex Attracted,‘ a documentary about LGBTQ students at BYU, is screening online in Utah film festival

  14-07-2020 23:39
  
  When Maddy Purves and Zoie Young started working on “Same-Sex Attracted,” one of two documentaries produced by Utahns and appearing in this year’s Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival, they didn’t even own a camera.Purves needed to produce a three-minute video as part of her application to Brigham Young University's Media Arts film program.“What if we just made a little three-minute video about what it’s like being gay at BYU?” Young proposed to Purves,
  
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• Junior college fall sports — including SLCC, Snow and USU-Eastern — moving to winter, spring in effort to elude COVID-19

  14-07-2020 23:31
  
  In a move to evade the worst of the coronavirus, the National Junior College Athletic Association has moved all fall contact sports into the winter and spring seasons.The decision, which came Monday, affects 524 schools, including Salt Lake City Community College, Snow College in Ephraim and Utah State University-Eastern in Price.Football and men’s and women’s soccer is now scheduled to begin competition March 25 and April 2, respectively, and last into June. Women’s volleyball
  
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• Trump administration allows foreign students to remain in U.S. for online classes

  14-07-2020 23:22
  
  Boston • Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic.The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. U.S. District Judge Allison Burro
  
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• Luke Duncan: Those objecting to Utah nickname don’t speak for Ute Tribe

  14-07-2020 22:00
  
  Last month, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a commentary titled, “Time for the U. to Give up its Native American Nickname.” The author, a University of Utah employee named Christopher Mead, argued that the University of Utah needs to stop using the name “Running Utes.”Our business committee, the elected governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe, was incensed and deeply troubled when we read the piece. Mead’s approach in raising this issue on behalf of our tribe, and the impl
  
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• Ten more Utahns dead from COVID-19

  14-07-2020 21:36
  
  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 10 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, the largest single-day rise in COVID-19 fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic.Six of the deaths were in San Juan County, where an outbreak at a long-term care facility has lef
  
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• Most Utah workers must stretch to afford a two-bedroom apartment

  14-07-2020 21:07
  
  More than 90% of Utah workers can’t afford to rent a modest two-bedroom apartment at regular market rates, a new report says.In a yearly analysis of the wide chasm between average wages and going rents in the country, the Beehive State now ranks near the middle of U.S. states for a lack of affordable places to live. The situation has been made more dire, advocates said, by the pandemic.The Out of Reach 2020 report, published Tuesday by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, pegs rent o
  
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• An unknown Utah company claiming hundreds of employees got up to $10 million in government loans

  14-07-2020 20:39
  
  Washington • Former Olympic speed skater Allison Baver launched an entertainment company in October and by April had received between $5 million and $10 million from a federal program aimed at keeping businesses, churches and nonprofits afloat during the pandemic.Baver’s company, Allison Baver Entertainment, claimed to have retained 430 employees by receiving the funds, far more than most Utah individual recipients of the Paycheck Protection Program, according to records by the Treasu
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill discusses protests and police reform

  14-07-2020 20:32
  
  For weeks, demonstrators have taken to Utah streets to protest police violence. On the latest episode of “Trib Talk,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill joined reporters Paighten Harkins and Jessica Miller to discuss reform efforts.You can rewatch the conversation on Facebook.What do you want to see on the next episode? Email your thoughts and questions to [email protected], or use #TribTalk on Twitter.“Trib Talk” is produced by Jeni Fitzgibbon and Sara Weber.
  
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• How many fans can Rice-Eccles Stadium host for Utah football? The answer isn’t so easy

  14-07-2020 20:30
  
  The possibility of a college football season happening at any point during the upcoming academic year, let alone in the fall, appears to be fading with each passing day.Still, even after the Pac-12 announced late Friday afternoon it would eliminate all non-conference competition for all fall sports, the proceedings have not reached Doomsday levels quite yet. With that, as it pertains to the University of Utah, there is at least one question being asked all the time, to which an answer has yet to
  
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• BYU’s football schedule is in tatters. How do the Cougars plan to replace five lost games?

  14-07-2020 20:13
  
  BYU’s 2020 football schedule was was absolutely loaded. The Cougars were set to face five Power Five opponents — four consecutive to start the season — including the second game of a home-and-home series against Michigan State in Provo.The Cougars also had a bowl-tie in for 2020 with ESPN.But that's all in question now as COVID-19 cases continue to rise throughout the nation.So far, the Cougars have already lost five of their 12 regular-season opponents. The Big Ten and Pac-12
  
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• Margaret S. Audell: If Gary Herbert were in command at Pearl Harbor

  14-07-2020 20:11
  
  Imagine the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 on the island of Oahu. Admiral Gary Herbert, the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, and Spencer Cox, his chief of staff, are playing golf on a beautiful Sunday morning. The foursome is rounded out by Lt. Gens. Brad Wilson and Stuart Adams.The bombings of Pearl Harbor begin, and Admiral Herbert and his colleagues are notified of the situation as they are about to tee off on the ninth hole. The admiral indicates that he is not really sure that there is an
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill discusses protests and police reform

  14-07-2020 20:09
  
  For weeks, demonstrators have taken to Utah streets to protest police violence. On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill will join reporters Paighten Harkins and Jessica Miller to discuss reform efforts.You can watch the conversation live on our Facebook page at noon on Tuesday, July 14.What do you want to see on the next episode? Email your thoughts and questions to [email protected], or use #TribTalk on Twitter.“Trib Talk” is pro
  
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• Centerville residents facing eviction in the middle of a pandemic, but not without a fight

  14-07-2020 19:46
  
  Centerville • When she opened the eviction letter in March — nine days after Utah’s governor first issued an emergency declaration over the coronavirus pandemic and five days after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the Wasatch Front — all Lindsay Duncan could do was cry.She cried for her two children, who had painted their bedrooms and made the mobile home park in Centerville their home. She cried for her neighbors, the roughly 44 families who would also be displaced by th
  
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• Wildfire in Washington County expands to nearly 4,000 acres; some evacuation orders lifted

  14-07-2020 19:05
  
  Parts of the Washington County community of Veyo remain under an evacuation order Tuesday morning, due to a wildfire that ignited near Veyo on Monday afternoon.The flames spread quickly through dry brush and grass, consumed two outbuildings and threatened 800 homes, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.The Veyo West Fire was one of many blazes that broke out Monday across the state. The National Weather Service posted red flag warnings for much the state Monday afternoon due to h
  
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• Salt Lake City Stars’ Martin Schiller, NBA G League Coach of the Year, leaving for top job in Lithuania

  14-07-2020 18:51
  
  Salt Lake City Stars coach Martin Schiller, right, chats with Taylor Braun during a game against the Northern Arizona Suns on March 9, 2018, at Bruin Arena in Taylorsville. | Paul AsaySALT LAKE CITY — One downside to team success is that it often leads to people who work in the organization getting promotions elsewhere.
  That happened to the Salt Lake City Stars Tuesday as head coach Martin Schiller, who on June 24 was named the 2020 NBA G League Coach of the Year, was named head coach of
  
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• How Quin Snyder’s G League, Russia coaching experiences help equip him for Orlando bubble

  14-07-2020 18:51
  
  Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder directs his team against the Denver Nuggets during the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, in Denver.| David Zalubowski, APSALT LAKE CITY — A coffee shop in Texas may prove to be a good indicator of how Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder will adjust to his surroundings as the NBA is isolated for the next few months at Disney World to finish out the 2019-20 season.
  As players have given a glimpse into “bubble life” over the pas
  
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• 2 teen brothers who killed a West Valley City cop in 2016 are arrested after one of them is shot

  14-07-2020 18:27
  
  Two brothers who pleaded guilty to running down and killing a West Valley City police officer in 2016 were stopped while speeding in a stolen car early Monday — and one of them had been shot several times. And the brother who had been wounded was wanted in connection with a separate shooting at a West Valley motel on Saturday.West Valley police were called to the Extended Stay motel at 2310 W. City Center Court at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday after a reported shooting at a party with about 40
  
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• Judge denies a Nevada motorcycle race through sage grouse-protected land

  14-07-2020 18:19
  
  Reno, Nev. • A federal judge has upheld the U.S. Forest Service’s authority to keep a 250-mile motorcycle race out of sage grouse habitat in Nevada’s high desert, rejecting a lawsuit by off-road vehicle enthusiasts who argued the agency illegally short-circuited the environmental review process.The lawsuit filed in December 2018 challenged Forest Service rules barring off-road travel within 4-mile buffers around bi-state grouse breeding grounds between March 1 and June 30 in the
  
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• Salt Lake City Stars coach Martin Schiller leaving for job in Lithuania

  14-07-2020 17:45
  
  Martin Schiller, the reigning G League Coach of the Year for the work he did with the Salt Lake City Stars (the developmental affiliate of the Utah Jazz) is leaving the organization to take the head coaching job with Lithuanian powerhouse Zalgiris Kaunas.Zalgiris announced the hiring overnight, and the Stars confirmed the move Tuesday morning to The Salt Lake Tribune.Schiller, a 38-year-old Austrian native, has spent the past three seasons as the Stars coach, helping to build the team up after t
  
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• U.S. government carries out first federal execution in 17 years

  14-07-2020 15:44
  
  Washington • Hours after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute legal-challenge on a 5-4 vote, the Justice Department put a 47-year-old man to death for his role in the 1996 murder of a family of three, the first federal execution in more than 17 years.The death row prisoner, Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, a former white supremacist who has denounced his ties to that movement, was executed by lethal injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, the Bureau of Prisons said. He is th
  
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• U.S. budget deficit hits all-time high of $864 billion in June

  14-07-2020 15:42
  
  Washington • The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues.The Treasury Department reported Monday that the deficit hit $864 billion last month, an amount of red ink that surpasses most annual deficits in the nation's history and is above the previous monthly deficit record of $738 billion in April. That amount was also tied to the t
  
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• Utah’s housing shortage is getting worse because of the coronavirus pandemic

  14-07-2020 15:22
  
  The coronavirus and its broad impacts on society appear to be worsening Utah’s ongoing shortage of homes, economists and market analysts say — and in turn, that housing gap could be worsening the pandemic.Home sales dipped in April and May due in part to wariness on behalf of buyers and sellers. Sales then came roaring back in June in a dramatic uptick that has left supplies of available homes on the Wasatch Front “really dangerously low,” one leading residential broker s
  
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• Now an arts and tourism haven, Helper is struggling from the pandemic

  14-07-2020 15:06
  
  Helper • When coal mining went bust, Helper made a bet on arts and tourism. Now the pandemic has made those industries fizzle, too, with beloved cultural events canceled and travelers keeping their distance.But whether the coronavirus has brought the town to its knees again depends on who’s being asked.Cindy Lund has worked with the county to develop a new motto — “Carbon under pressure makes diamonds.” They’re encouraging visitors to treasure hunt at Helper bu
  
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• Salt Lake City schools won’t hold in-person classes if city remains at orange risk level

  14-07-2020 14:15
  
  Salt Lake City School District may be the only one not welcoming students back to the classroom when K-12 schools reopen across Utah — as directed by the governor — beginning next month.That’s because the district, unlike any other in the state, falls in what is still an “orange,” or moderate, risk zone for the coronavirus. And under the status, schools are required to continue with online learning.“We definitely need to take that possibility into account,&rdq
  
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• Robert Kirby: What else might need new names — from streets to military bases?

  14-07-2020 14:00
  
  I used to be a Riffian. They’re a Berber-speaking people inhabiting parts of northern Morocco known as the Riff. As you may suspect, the Riff is not a garden spot.A fierce tribe of desert nomads, Riffians are best known for being tough and kicking the hell out of the French and Spanish in a struggle against colonialism in the 1920s. In short, they are a mighty force.Where do I come in? Well, I was technically a Riffian from 1967 to 1968, when I attended Barstow High School in California. T
  
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• Letter: Trump is wrong about America

  14-07-2020 14:00
  
  President Trump’s remarks over the Fourth of July weekend were dark and divisive. He wants us to believe that anyone who doesn’t agree with his worldview hates our country. Nothing could be further from the truth.I choose to support racial justice and equality because I love our country. I choose to fight for environmental protections because I love our country. I choose to stand for Dreamers, Native Americans, the poor and marginalized because I love our country. I choose to speak o
  
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• Letter: Rule with ‘benevolence and rightness’

  14-07-2020 14:00
  
  Mencius, a Chinese philosopher who lived three centuries before Christ, provided priceless advice for kings who misused their power because they failed to know a better way to rule.Mencius said, “All that matters is that there should be benevolence and rightness. What is the use of mentioning the word profit?”Mencius' advice to monarchs was cogent, but even more relevant today for democracy.Benevolence suggests the well-being of all citizens should be the primary goal of government.
  
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• Letter: Maybe Trump has a reason to fear teachers

  14-07-2020 14:00
  
  On the Fourth of July this year, Donald Trump inexplicably railed against education and educators in his feeble attempt to scare people into voting for him a second time. He said children are being taught in schools to “hate their country,” among other lies.It really got me thinking about the things I actually do teach my students every year.I teach my students that our country is a better place because of the diverse people who live here.I teach my students that people and the plane
  
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• Letter: Is paying taxes now voluntary?

  14-07-2020 14:00
  
  How, I wonder, would Gov. Gary Herbert, Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Brad Wilson react to the application of their “encourage people to do the right thing” (rather than mandate) policy to paying our various state and local taxes?Certainly wearing a mask is less onerous. Why not make face coverings just as mandatory?One person’s liberty should not trump another’s life.Susan Furca, HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Freedom to spread disease

  14-07-2020 14:00
  
  While many people see the mandate of wearing face masks as an infringement on their personal freedom, where does it give them the right to infringe on the rest of us who would prefer to remain healthy?Are they telling us to stay indoors while they enjoy their personal freedom to spread this devastating disease?If they think their political affiliation is being challenged by wearing a mask, just look at the man who began it all. The bleach-drinking, hydroxychloroquine-popping POTUS, who still say
  
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• Charles Bonkowsky: The needless harm of the new international student policy

  14-07-2020 14:00
  
  On July 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that international students will not be allowed to remain in the U.S. if their college is fully online, that they would be forced to transfer to a school offering in-person classes, despite the fact that it’s bare weeks before the semester is set to begin, or leave the country.These new policies are incredibly harmful and self-defeating, with the potential to cripple a huge facet of the U.S. economy or seed hundreds of lethal coronav
  
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• FEMA announces release of federal aid to fight fire threatening 800 homes in Washington County

  14-07-2020 07:03
  
  Two rural Washington County communities were under evacuation orders Monday night after a wildfire ignited near Veyo that afternoon. The flames spread quickly through dry brush and grass, consumed two outbuildings and threatened 800 homes, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA.The Veyo West Fire was one of many fires that broke out Monday across the state. The National Weather Service posted red flag warnings for much the state Monday afternoon due to hot, dry, gusty cond
  
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• Mike Conley to wear ‘I Am A Man’ on back of Utah Jazz jersey in NBA’s restart

  14-07-2020 05:48
  
  Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder talks with Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) as the Utah Jazz and the Portland Trail Blazers play at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Though Mike Conley is a member of the Utah Jazz, his experiences in Memphis with the Grizzlies still shape his decisions.When the NBA restarts on July 30, as a part of the NBA’s initiative to rai
  
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• Frank Bruni: The Republicans who want to destroy Trump

  14-07-2020 05:00
  
  Should you have any doubt about how passionately George Conway and the other Never Trumpers at the Lincoln Project want to defeat the president, check out their ads.There are dozens, and the best are minute-long masterpieces of derision, miniature operas of contempt, designed to get into President Donald Trump’s head and deep under his skin. That’s exactly where they’ve burrowed.After the release of “Mourning in America,” which turned Ronald Reagan’s famous &l
  
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• Brush fire threatens Veyo, closes roads in Washington County

  14-07-2020 04:57
  
  Two rural Washington County communities were under evacuation orders Monday night after a wildfire ignited near Veyo that afternoon. The flames spread quickly through dry brush and grass, consumed two outbuildings and threatened homes, according to the Bureau of Land Management.It was one of many fires that broke out Monday across the state.By 6:30 p.m., the Veyo West Fire had grown to 50 acres and forced the evacuation of Brookside and the west side of Veyo and the closure of State Road 18, alo
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Mike Conley is ready to deliver a Memphis throwback — maybe two

  14-07-2020 04:34
  
  As various Utah Jazz players have been asked in their media sessions about how the team can best adapt to the absence of Bojan Bogdanovic, almost every one of them has invoked the name of Mike Conley.“Since he’s come back, there’s more of a comfort level. And that’s allowed him to be more instinctive — that’s what we want from him,” coach Quin Snyder said. “He can’t take a bad shot, as far as I’m concerned, and I want him to play like t
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 56 more COVID-19 cases but no additional deaths

  14-07-2020 04:21
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation is reporting 56 additional COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths related to the virus on the tribe’s sprawling reservation, officials said Monday.There have been more than 8,200 cases and 401 deaths reported on the reservation since the pandemic began.Tribal officials say nearly 65,000 people on the reservation have been tested for the coronavirus and more than 5,800 people had COVID-19 but recovered.The number of infections is thought to be fa
  
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• Rockets’ Westbrook has virus, as NBA bubble faces first test

  14-07-2020 04:17
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Houston’s Russell Westbrook hasn’t made it to the NBA restart yet.The coronavirus did — but health protocols seemed to work as the league and its players hoped they would.On a day of troubling news for the league — Westbrook revealing that he has tested positive for the virus and two other players facing 10-day quarantines for leaving the league campus perimeter at Walt Disney World — it was also announced that two players tested positi
  
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• U.S. debates reopening schools; WHO warns ‘no return to normal’

  14-07-2020 03:32
  
  Miami • The resurgence of the coronavirus in the United States ignited fierce debate Monday about whether to reopen schools, as global health officials warned that the pandemic will intensify unless more countries adopt comprehensive plans to combat it.“If the basics aren’t followed, there is only one way this pandemic is going to go,”said the director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “It’s going to get worse and worse and worse.&rd
  
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• Public invited to comment on e-scooter ordinance

  14-07-2020 03:30
  
  The Salt Lake City Council will listen to public comment on a proposed ordinance curbing use of electronic scooters. The comment period is scheduled toward the beginning of its regular formal meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.The scooters, or “dockless shared mobility devices,” have spurred public debate since they hit city streets and sidewalks in July 2018. Under the ordinance, scooters wouldn’t be allowed to be left in vehicle parking spots, within 15 feet of buildi
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: I’ve seen a future without cars and it’s amazing

  14-07-2020 03:00
  
  As coronavirus lockdowns crept across the globe this winter and spring, an unusual sound fell over the world’s metropolises: the hush of streets that were suddenly, blessedly free of cars. City dwellers reported hearing bird song, wind and the rustling of leaves. (Along with, in New York City, the intermittent screams of sirens).You could smell the absence of cars, too. From New York to Los Angeles to New Delhi, air pollution plummeted, and the soupy, exhaust-choked haze over the world&rsq
  
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• Utah State’s Savon Scarver leads nine Aggies who receive preseason all-Mountain West honors

  14-07-2020 02:39
  
  Senior kick returner Savon Scarver and eight other Utah State football players will collect at least some recognition this season, even if they never take the field.Scarver was named a first-team preseason all-Mountain West Conference selection Monday by Phil Steele Magazine. Scarver was just the third USU player to be named a consensus All-American when he claimed that honor in 2018. In 2019, he led the MWC and was second nationally in kickoff returns for touchdown with two. He was also first i
  
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• Addison Trupp: In a time of chaos, we need a real leader

  14-07-2020 01:00
  
  As we look at the unrest across the country occurring right now, we could look solely at the one instance that caused this uproar and unrest, but that would be completely unjust to every single citizen, and most importantly every person of color, in the United States.We all know, whether we want to admit it or not, that this is not an anomaly and not an isolated incident. It would be unreasonable and incredibly offensive to dismiss this movement and not acknowledge how many other offenses have o
  
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• Former champion Tess Blair starts fast in the Women’s State Amateur

  14-07-2020 00:48
  
  Midway • Tess Blair missed the Women’s State Amateur last July after winning the 2018 tournament. So this week’s event could be considered a title defense for her, and she’s off to a great start.A Bingham High School graduate who plays golf for Sacramento State, Blair posted a 5-under-par 67 in Monday’s first round of stroke-play qualifying on Soldier Hollow’s Gold Course. She’ll go into Tuesday’s second round with a five-stroke lead over 16-year-ol
  
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• Half-century after battle in Vietnam, Utahn finally gains Purple Heart recognition

  14-07-2020 00:31
  
  When a soldier receives a Purple Heart, there’s an important item that goes with the medal — a certificate.Without it, a Purple Heart recipient — like Utahn Douglas W. Evans — can’t show the citation is authentic.“I always had the Purple Heart,” Evans said Monday, “but I had no orders to prove it was legal.”It took Evans almost 54 years, but he received his documentation and a new Purple Heart in a ceremony Monday at the West Jordan office of
  
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• Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill suggests 22 ways to change Utah’s use-of-force laws

  14-07-2020 00:14
  
  Saying current laws in Utah are “more generous to law enforcement officers than to other members of our community,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill on Monday released a list of 22 reforms his office wants to see implemented when it comes to when police are justified in using deadly force.His recommendations come just days after he ruled that two Salt Lake City police officers were legally justified in shooting at Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal 34 times as the 22-year-old man
  
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