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• Cache County principal battling COVID-19 as Utah school plans reopening

  15-07-2020 23:53
  
  Logan • An elementary school principal in Utah is recovering from COVID-19 as the school’s district is preparing to reopen for fall classes, officials said.Nibley Elementary Principal Kelly Rindlisbacher is doing well and that the district does not believe he was exposed at the school, Cache County School District spokesperson Tim Smith told The Herald Journal. The district did not release further information.Rindlisbacher did not respond to the Herald Journal's request for
  
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• Fire leads to evacuations near Utah County’s Pole Canyon

  15-07-2020 23:51
  
  A fire broke at around 2 p.m. in Pole Canyon in Utah County, near the town of Cedar Fort.Crews are using two heavy air tankers, a helicopter, smoke jumpers and four single engine airtankers to battle the blaze.Utah Valley dispatch confirmed officials have evacuated the White Hill area, but did not have additional information about the fire. Utah Fire Info currently reports the cause as “unknown.”NEW START
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• RSL coach Freddy Juarez got buy-in from his team leading up to MLS tournament, and it’s paying off

  15-07-2020 23:27
  
  Real Salt Lake drew a group for the MLS is Back Tournament featuring teams that had all won both of their regular season games before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered sports throughout the world. And seeing as how RSL hadn’t won a game yet, it was natural to think it could have a hard time winning a game in the opening round, much less getting out of the group.Instead, RSL flummoxed the Colorado Rapids to the tune of a 2-0 win Sunday. There was little sign of rust other than a couple player
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Historians discuss Eliza Snow, poet, preacher, women’s advocate, plural wife of prophets

  15-07-2020 23:00
  
  Eliza R. Snow ranks as the most influential Latter-day Saint woman of her time and after Emma Smith, wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, perhaps the best-known woman in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Snow was a poet and a preacher, a plural wife of prophets and a defender of polygamy, a leader of the Relief Society and a champion of women. Still, there is much Latter-day Saints don’t know about her.That may change now that the church has launched a new webs
  
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• ‘A big opportunity’: Tony Bradley shows aggressive side during Utah Jazz’s bubble practices

  15-07-2020 23:00
  
  Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley (13) soars in for a dunk as he gets past Houston Rockets center Isaiah Hartenstein (55) during an NBA game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. | Steve Griffin, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The NBA playoffs are set to begin in less than five weeks.
  When the Utah Jazz take the floor July 30 against New Orleans they’ll have a starting lineup that is well-versed in playoff basketball, but much of the team’s bench has very littl
  
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• Many Utah workers must stretch to afford a two-bedroom apartment

  15-07-2020 22:27
  
  Large numbers of Utah workers can’t afford to rent a modest two-bedroom apartment on one paycheck at going 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 Coalitio
  
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• Commentary: A new social contract: ‘Stay Safe to Stay Open’

  15-07-2020 22:00
  
  The recent spike in coronavirus infections across the sunbelt states and here in Utah is cause for concern. The emerging economic recovery catalyzed by unprecedented fiscal stimulus will have a shelf life and then the question becomes, “What’s next?”Our limited fiscal levers and increasing national debt threaten our economic recovery. Add the strains of inequality and racial division onto the pandemic and trust in institutions wanes even further.In finance you learn to tackle t
  
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• Another 413 cases of COVID-19 in Utah, and seven more deaths reported

  15-07-2020 21:33
  
  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. Another 413 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, and seven more deaths are being attributed to the disease in the state, the Utah Department of Health reported Wednesday.The rolling seven-day average for cases — the metric pu
  
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• COVID-19 among construction workers threatens on-time opening of new Salt Lake City International Airport

  15-07-2020 20:40
  
  Officials say one thing threatens to stall the on-time opening in two months of the first phase of the new $4.1 billion Salt Lake City International Airport: COVID-19.“The greatest risk factor to opening on Sept. 15 is the health of our [construction] trade workforce,” airport executive director Bill Wyatt warned the Airport Advisory Board on Wednesday.For example, just before the July 4 holiday weekend, seven construction workers had either tested positive for the virus or were in q
  
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• Skyline’s Thomas Boyden is Utah’s boys Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year

  15-07-2020 20:33
  
  Thomas Boyden of Skyline High ran the second-best 1,600-meter race of his life the day before springs sports were shut down in Utah due to the COVID-19 pandemic.It was March 13 and he had to drive all the way to St. George for an invitational at Snow Canyon High. It was one of the only places still taking distance runners for the event.Boyden ran the race and beat the state record with his time of 4 minutes, 5.16 seconds. At the time, it was his personal best.But a couple months later, just as r
  
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• Utah Democratic governor candidate Chris Peterson criticizes state’s response to the coronavirus

  15-07-2020 20:13
  
  The Democratic candidate for Utah governor is urging a major overhaul to the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, including immediate adoption of a statewide mandate to wear face coverings in public.Chris Peterson, who is challenging Republican Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox on the November ballot, called Utah’s efforts thus far in combating COVID-19 “a story of failed leadership.”“The worst part of the pandemic both in terms of public health and economic harm is sti
  
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• New site lists Utah’s Black-owned businesses

  15-07-2020 20:12
  
  The Utah Black Chamber announced Wednesday it has launched the state’s first website to connect customers with Black-owned businesses.The founder and head of the 200-member chamber said it partnered with Podium, the Lehi-based customer-management software firm, to build and publish Utah Black Pages, a digital business directory designed to boost their visibility and community support.The site, at Utahblackpages.com, lists a wide range of businesses as well as social, faith and political or
  
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• Danielle Endres: Nuclear testing as a form of colonization

  15-07-2020 20:02
  
  At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, scientists in the Manhattan Project detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in the desert homelands of the Mescalero Apache, a place now known as Alamogordo, New Mexico. As the detonation cloud mushroomed into the sky, the Trinity test ushered in a new era, the atomic age.Some researchers argue that the atomic age is the beginning of Anthropocene — the planetary era defined by the impact of humans on global ecological systems — because of the r
  
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• Joe Biden announces $2 trillion climate plan

  15-07-2020 19:43
  
  Joe Biden announced Tuesday a new plan to spend $2 trillion over four years to significantly escalate the use of clean energy in the transportation, electricity and building sectors, part of a suite of sweeping proposals designed to create economic opportunities and strengthen infrastructure while also tackling climate change.In a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden built on his plans, released last week, for reviving the economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, with a new focus on enhan
  
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• It’s not just football. Utah’s volleyball and soccer teams feeling effects of Pac-12’s conference-only move.

  15-07-2020 19:20
  
  When the Pac-12 announced late Friday afternoon that it was moving to a conference-only format for fall sports, the focus was on football, and with good reason.Football in the Pac-12, as well as the rest of the Power Five, is tied to tens of millions dollars in media rights, donations, licensing, and sponsorships among other factors. Revenue generated by major college football often helps athletic departments fund other so-called “non-revenue” sports.With football at the forefront of
  
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• Utah State scientists discovered how a velvet ant (which is a wasp) got its white fluff

  15-07-2020 18:50
  
  At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave Desert, fluffy white motes skitter like tumbleweeds across the sand. Some are fruit: harmless, fuzzy orbs dropped by the creosote bush. Others are white wasps — not that kind — of the species Dasymutilla gloriosa, which have painful stingers and luxuriously silky hair, or setae.The creosote fruit and the female D. gloriosa, also called the thistledown velvet ant — which is a wasp, not an ant — are near perfect doppelgängers
  
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• Democrat running for Utah governor criticizes state’s response to the coronavirus

  15-07-2020 18:47
  
  The Democratic candidate for Utah governor is urging a major overhaul to the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, including immediate adoption of a statewide mandate to wear face coverings in public.Chris Peterson, who is challenging Republican Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox on the November ballot, called Utah’s efforts thus far in combating COVID-19 “a story of failed leadership.”“The worst part of the pandemic both in terms of public health and economic harm is sti
  
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• National Parks may become the latest battleground in reopening

  15-07-2020 18:24
  
  Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. • Glowing purple and scarlet in fading afternoon light, the geological marvel that is the Grand Canyon, the crown jewel of America’s national park system, draws more than 6 million global visitors in a normal year and fuels the economy of Arizona.But now, with Arizona leading the nation in coronavirus infections per capita, pressure is mounting to close Grand Canyon and other national parks in states across the South and the West that face spiking cas
  
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• Gordon Monson: If I survived the Missionary Training Center, NBA players can handle the Disney bubble

  15-07-2020 17:27
  
  With 22 teams, including the Jazz, now inside the NBA’s strange kind of bio-dome in Orlando, it’s become apparent that some players have reacted negatively to the initial days of bubble life.In the time of the coronavirus, they don’t like the anxiety, the isolation, the lack of … how to say this … physical socialization, the food, the accommodation, the confinement, the living, the existing.I feel them, man. And I’ve got some advice.What qualifies me to give
  
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• Justice Ginsburg treated in hospital for possible infection

  15-07-2020 15:46
  
  Washington • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was being treated for a possible infection and was expected to stay in the hospital for a few days following a medical procedure, the Supreme Court said in a statement Tuesday.The court said that the 87-year-old Ginsburg went to a hospital in Washington on Monday evening after experiencing fever and chills. She then underwent a procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last Au
  
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• Utah state employee directory back online after security update

  15-07-2020 15:28
  
  The online telephone directory that allows members of the public to contact Utah state employees was back up on utah.gov this week after officials took it down for a couple of weeks to beef up security.“Clearly more secure websites have been the direction that society has been moving,” State Auditor John Dougall said. “More and more folks are moving to encrypted websites to provide better security for their users.”Dougall remembers using the directory during his time as a
  
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• Gordon Monson: If I survived the MTC, NBA players can handle the Disney bubble

  15-07-2020 15:16
  
  With 22 teams, including the Jazz, now inside the NBA’s strange kind of bio-dome in Orlando, it’s become apparent that some players have reacted negatively to the initial days of bubble life.In the time of the coronavirus, they don’t like the anxiety, the isolation, the lack of … how to say this … physical socialization, the food, the accommodation, the confinement, the living, the existing.I feel them, man. And I’ve got some advice.What qualifies me to give
  
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• Want something to read during the pandemic? Salt Lake County libraries have you covered as e-checkouts soar.

  15-07-2020 15:00
  
  The Ruth Vine Tyler Library has been Rachael Coonradt’s oasis for 14 years, and it has become her refuge for the past four months — even though she hasn’t stepped inside the Midvale building.The 51-year-old Sandy resident has listened to tales about how bananas came to the United States, the 1971 inmate uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility, and Thurgood Marshall’s defense of four men falsely accused of rape. The stories came courtesy of Salt Lake County Library&rs
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’ Town Hall: Reopening schools in Utah

  15-07-2020 15:00
  
  Despite a dramatic surge in recorded coronavirus cases, most of Utah’s K-12 schools are still set to reopen this fall. While each district is required to follow strict requirements for social distancing and sanitation, there are still some uncertainties about what classes will look like.Join The Salt Lake Tribune at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15 for a virtual town hall about going back to school in a pandemic. Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce will host Utah Education Association Presid
  
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• Salt Lake City Council listens to comments on e-scooter enforcement

  15-07-2020 15:00
  
  E-scooters don’t appear to be whipping up the same fervor seen last summer – the issue being eclipsed by a pandemic and protests against police violence. But the Salt Lake City Council is moving forward with an ordinance regulating the devices.On Tuesday night, council members and Mayor Erin Mendenhall listened to a half-dozen comments about its proposed “dockless shared mobility” regulations. A few residents asked for visible enforcement of e-scooter rules to dissuade ri
  
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• Robert Gehrke: How a town, a Romney and the Utah Legislature laid the groundwork for a land grab

  15-07-2020 15:00
  
  A large swath of open fields just outside of Park City has become the focal point of one of the most brazen land grabs you’re likely to ever see.It’s a story that has it all: A senator’s son, slick lobbying, subtle tweaks to state law, a rushed and opaque public process, and the potential for sprawling development.The town of Hideout, population 975, voted last week to proceed with plans to annex a portion of the 940-acre Richardson Flat, which has drawn interest from developer
  
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• Iowa auditor questions legality of Test Iowa reporting chain that sends results to Utah

  15-07-2020 15:00
  
  Iowa's auditor said Tuesday that a coronavirus testing program brought to the state under a $28 million no-bid contract by Gov. Kim Reynolds on recommendation from actor Ashton Kutcher is violating state law in the indirect way it handles test results data.Auditor Rob Sand said his office reviewed the process and found that Test Iowa results first go to two Utah companies contracted to provide testing before heading to the state's chief information officer and then to the Iowa Department of Pub
  
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• Construction starts on a new Salt Lake City office tower at 650 Main

  15-07-2020 15:00
  
  Developers broke ground Tuesday on a 10-story office and retail project in downtown Salt Lake City, called 650 Main.The glass-clad tower at the southwest corner of Main Street and 600 South will add 332,100 square feet of high-end offices — with large floor plans, 10-foot-high ceilings and copious views — to Utah’s downtown business core, with its first phases set to be completed in early 2022.The project’s backers have a second round of construction in mind, with an offi
  
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• New online collection will help LDS readers discover the Eliza R. Snow they never knew

  15-07-2020 14:00
  
  After Emma Smith, the beloved wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Eliza R. Snow may be the best-known woman in Latter-day Saint history.Snow was a dominating presence in 19th-century Mormonism. She was at the founding meeting of the faith’s female Relief Society and later became its president. She championed women’s suffrage and heralded women’s voices. And she penned the words to one of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ most famous hymns, “O My Fath
  
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• Letter: Smoking is hard with a mask

  15-07-2020 14:00
  
  Given the current climate regarding personal freedoms and mandates to wear a mask, I feel like buying a pack of cigarettes — even though I quit over a year ago — lighting up and going for a stroll through any business that does not follow the mandate to wear a mask while indoors in public and/or when unable to social distance.Of course I wouldn't actually be smoking. That's a little difficult while wearing a mask.Dennis E. Polster, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Sauteed breast of crow for Hughes

  15-07-2020 14:00
  
  Well, Mr. Hughes, I did exactly what you suspected of us “wine and cheese elitist types” (WACET), to whom you referred in your TV ad: I joined the GOP only to oppose your candidacy for governor.Now that you have been defeated, I'd like to invite you to the next Millcreek WACET wine-tasting gathering. We will sample a Berncastel-Kues, Mosel Kabinett Riesling ("Esser der Krahe"), a Spanish Rioja ("Cuervo Comedor"), an Haut-Medoc left bank Bordeaux ("Corbeau Mangeur") and, finally, a ra
  
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• Letter: People don’t visit Utah to see oil rigs

  15-07-2020 14:00
  
  Open letter to Gov. Herbert:As I have chosen to spend my life in Utah to enjoy the unparalleled opportunities for outdoor recreation (hiking, skiing, rafting, kayaking, mountain biking) on public lands — many of them in Arches and Canyonlands national parks and others in the Moab area, in particular — I urge you to call for the cancellation of the upcoming September oil and gas lease sale in Utah.The largest contributor to Utah’s economy is tourism. Millions visit Utah to view
  
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• Letter: National parks are not campaign backdrops

  15-07-2020 14:00
  
  As a retired career National Park Service employee who served our nation as superintendent of six different park units (including Bryce Canyon National Park), I am appalled and disheartened to watch Donald Trump hold campaign rallies on protected public lands.National parks are set aside into perpetuity for all U.S. citizens; therefore, no president should use the backdrop of any unit of the National Park System for partisan purposes as he did at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on July 3. In so
  
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• Letter: Masks and distancing are patriotic

  15-07-2020 14:00
  
  As the coronavirus epidemic rages on, I am moved by frequent, sometimes eloquent, statements to the effect that, “By working together, we can weather the storm and overcome this nemesis.”They are calls for collective resolve, collective engagement and, yes, collective sacrifice to turn the tide and win the battle in order to return our country to normalcy.What I have not seen in these inspiring comments is the word “patriotism.” In this case the most basic of the actions
  
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• Mueller has 2 goals and Orlando City downs NYCFC 3-1

  15-07-2020 07:03
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Chris Mueller scored twice in the opening 10 minutes and Orlando City won its second game of the MLS is Back Tournament, beating New York City FC 3-1 Tuesday night.Mueller got his first in the fourth minute, scoring on a free kick from Joao Moutinho that never hit the ground. He added a second goal in the 10th minute to give Orlando a 2-0 lead. Mueller has three goals in the tournament.NYCFC got a goal from Jesus Medina in the first half but couldn’t overcome
  
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• Paul Krugman: America drank away its children’s future

  15-07-2020 06:00
  
  A brief history of the past four months in America:Experts: Don’t rush to reopen, this isn’t over.Donald Trump: LIBERATE!COVID-19: Wheee!Trump officials: Here’s our opposition research on Anthony Fauci.And we are now faced with an agonizing choice: Do we reopen schools, creating risks of a further viral explosion, or do we keep children home, with severe negative effects on their learning?None of this had to happen. Other countries stuck with their lockdowns long enough to redu
  
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• Winds kick up fires around Utah; again illegal fireworks are a culprit

  15-07-2020 05:49
  
  Authorities on Tuesday were looking for a group of teens believed to have ignited the rapidly expanding Turkey Farm Road Fire, one of several burning around the Utah, while illegally shooting fireworks Monday night in Washington County.“It is putting a lot of first responders at risk which is unfortunate and unnecessary,” said Kait Webb of the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.Pushed by strong winds this fire, west of Washington City, blew up from 3,000 to 11,700 acres
  
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• Citizen panel exonerates cops in Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal killing

  15-07-2020 05:33
  
  A citizens panel has exonerated the two Salt Lake City police officers who killed Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, concluding that under the circumstances it was reasonable, as construed under Utah law, for both men to each fire 17 rounds at the fleeing robbery suspect.The ruling, coming seven weeks after the May 23 shooting, sharply diverges from the case put forward by the 22-year-old victim’s family, whose lawyers have argued that it was excessive for the officers to open fire and keep shoot
  
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• Commentary: Tiger Woods’ return doesn’t mean a return to normal

  15-07-2020 05:09
  
  Dublin, Ohio • The PGA Tour has been back for five weeks and already has delivered a tournament scoring record one week, a former No. 1 winning another week, two sudden-death playoffs and a player who grew by two shirt sizes to try to change the game.And it still felt as though something was missing.Or someone.That changed a few minutes past 7 a.m. Tuesday when Tiger Woods pulled his courtesy car into the parking lot at Muirfield Village, changed his shoes and began preparations for his fir
  
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• Kathleen Sebelius: Attention, women. Trump is coming for your health care.

  15-07-2020 05:00
  
  In the middle of America’s most catastrophic public health crisis, the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn the entire Affordable Care Act. This is dangerous for many reasons — but for women, it’s devastating. They would be stripped of the protections they have had in the decade since passage of the law, known as Obamacare.Before the law, insurance companies routinely discriminated against women. Those who didn’t work for employers with affordable
  
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• Salt Lake City Stars’ Martin Schiller hired as coach of EuroLeague power in Lithuania

  15-07-2020 04:56
  
  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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• After six straight days of practice, Utah Jazz intend to take a break Wednesday

  15-07-2020 04:35
  
  As Mike Conley and some of his Utah Jazz teammates were traipsing about the Disney campus bubble on Tuesday, bumping into cohorts from around the league and stopping to have the occasional conversation, a previously unforeseen realization slowly dawned on them.“Honestly, we didn’t realize it until today. Just walking around, you see other teams, other players and they’re talking about [how] they’re on off-day, and we’re like, ‘Shoot, we haven’t had one y
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: In some countries, life is back to normal. Not here.

  15-07-2020 04:00
  
  If you’re lucky enough to live in New Zealand, the coronavirus nightmare has been mostly over since June. After more than two weeks with no new cases, the government lifted almost all restrictions that month. The borders are still shut, but inside the country, normal life returned.It’s coming back elsewhere too. Taiwan, where most days this month no new cases have been reported, just held the Taipei Film Festival, and a recent baseball game drew 10,000 spectators. Italy was once the
  
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• Kiera Beddes: Three reasons why as a teacher, I am scared for school to start again, and why you should be, too

  15-07-2020 02:00
  
  During this past week, many school districts have presented initial plans for returning to schools in the fall. With little variation, most school boards’ plan is business as usual. As a result, many teachers, including myself, are legitimately terrified to return to our classrooms. I am scared for three reasons:• There is little planning for social distancing in schools.According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Utah has some of the most crowded classrooms in the nati
  
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• ‘Utah Booze News’ podcast: Petition to change liquor laws

  15-07-2020 01:47
  
  Utah bar and restaurant owners say state liquor laws are hurting their ability to make a profit, and the issues have become more pronounced during the pandemicLast week, they launched the#SaveUtahBars petition at change.org urging Gov. Gary Herbert and the Legislature to make six changes.On the latest episode of “Utah Booze News: An Alcohol Policy Podcast,” Katy Willis and Michael Eccleston, co-owners of Salt Lake City’s Quarter Arcade Bar, talk about the Twitter post that help
  
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• Wildfire in Washington County expands to nearly 3,000 acres; some evacuation orders lifted

  15-07-2020 01:37
  
  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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• The man charged with aiming a bow and arrow at Salt Lake City protesters ordered to stay in jail

  15-07-2020 01:37
  
  He had been on a drive through Salt Lake City with his daughter on May 30 when he started to see the protesters gathering in the streets.Then he heard someone yell, “All Lives Matter!”That’s when Reggie Wilson spotted a man waving a knife at the crowd, which was part of hundreds of protesters who had gathered near City Hall and the downtown library that day to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and against racism and police violence.“I told him he needed to
  
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• There’s some good news about potential coronavirus vaccines and when they might be available

  15-07-2020 01:28
  
  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. Despite my best intentions to not fear-monger, I have to admit: my last piece on the long-term consequences of catching COVID-19 was, well, frightening.So in an effort to balance that out, I think it’s time to focus on some good n
  
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• With surge in San Juan County, 10 more Utahns dead from COVID-19

  15-07-2020 01:23
  
  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 Democrats pleaded with Gov. Gary Herbert to issue a mask order for all long-term care facilities as the state reported 10 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday — the largest single-day rise in COVID-19 fatalities since the beginn
  
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• Family’s home goes up in flames in wildfire near St. George

  15-07-2020 01:18
  
  Anthony Barlow had heard from neighbors that his family’s house in Veyo, a small community in Washington County, had burned down overnight.On Tuesday, the Barlow family — who had been in St. George, about 20 miles south, when they learned about the fire, and spent the night in a motel — saw how little was left.“You can’t let something like this go unless you see it, and realize that it’s actually gone,” Barlow said over the phone. “To see the devas
  
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