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• Mitt Romney and the club of GOP political heirs pushing back on Trump

  16-07-2020 23:58
  
  Washington • One of the presumed take-aways of President Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 was that he had struck a blow against political dynasties in America.He demolished the early Republican favorite, Jeb Bush, the son of the 41st president and brother of the 43rd, and then vanquished the wife of the two-term 42nd president.But even as Trump’s takeover of his party is largely complete, a trio of heirs to the old guard have been among the most prominent dissenting voices.A high-
  
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• RSL meets Minnesota United with chance to go 2-0 in second MLS tournament game

  16-07-2020 22:29
  
  Real Salt Lake is riding high after dominating its first game of the MLS is Back Tournament with a win over the Colorado. Now it has an opportunity to seal a place in the next round with a win Friday over Minnesota United.But RSL isn’t taking the Lions lightly after not only winning their tournament opener 2-1 over Sporting Kansas City, but being a strong team overall in recent memory.“It’s a good team,” RSL coach Freddy Juarez said. “The results from last year and
  
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• Utah’s 1st Congressional District nominees drained campaign accounts in primary races

  16-07-2020 22:24
  
  After hard-fought primary races, the winning Republican and Democratic nominees in Utah’s 1st Congressional District are launching their general election campaigns with almost nothing left in their bank accounts as they seek to replace retiring GOP Rep. Rob Bishop.Both camps expect that GOP nominee Blake Moore will be able to raise much more than Democrat Darren Parry in the heavily Republican district that has not elected a Democrat in 42 years, and Moore already starts out with an edge:
  
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• SLC police say two officers who shot and killed Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal were ‘in policy’

  16-07-2020 22:07
  
  The Salt Lake City Police Department announced Thursday that the two officers who fired 34 shots at Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal were “in policy” when they killed the 22-year-old man.The decision was the final administrative review of the use of deadly force by Officers Kevin Fortuna and Neil Iversen. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill last week announced the officers were legally “justified” in their actions and he would not file criminal charges, and a police civ
  
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• Black business owners had a harder time getting federal aid, says a study with Utah ties

  16-07-2020 22:05
  
  Black business owners are more likely to be hindered in seeking coronavirus financial aid than their white peers, a new study has found.The study looked at how more than a dozen Washington-area banks handled requests for loans under the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. It was conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a nonprofit in Washington, in partnership with researchers from universities in Utah and New Jersey.Between late April and late May, the res
  
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• Gail Collins: Who can make Trump miserable this fall?

  16-07-2020 22:04
  
  I hope by now you’ve managed to come to grips with the fact that we’re no longer going to have Jeff Sessions in our lives.“It’s been a real adventure for me,” Sessions said in his concession speech this week, after he lost the Republican Senate nomination to a former football coach whose biggest campaign moment probably came when his bus caught on fire.Not clear which adventure Sessions was referring to — scampering out of the Senate to become President Donald
  
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• Utah Royals confident that offense will come in Challenge Cup quarterfinals

  16-07-2020 22:00
  
  It’s go time.As the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup shifts to the knockout stage, all eight teams get a clean slate. But if they dirty those slates even a little, they’ll receive the same fate as a “Bachelor” contestant who wasn’t asked if they’d accept this rose.They’re going home.For the host team Utah Royals FC, losing their upcoming quarterfinal game against the Houston Dash wouldn’t be as dramatic. They have no bags packed n
  
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• Land trust is dropped from lawsuit over alleged sex abuse in polygamous sect meetinghouse

  16-07-2020 21:57
  
  A woman who alleges Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints President Warren Jeffs sexually abused her inside the polygamous sect’s old meetinghouse has agreed to drop her lawsuit against a land trust on the Utah-Arizona line.The plaintiff, identified in court records only as “R.H.,” and the land trust, called the United Effort Plan, filed a joint motion July 8 seeking the dismissal. R.H. also agreed to drop her case against Wendell Loy Nielsen, a former FLDS
  
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• Utah’s 1st Congressional District nominees drained bank accounts in primary races

  16-07-2020 21:20
  
  After hard-fought primary races, both the winning Republican and Democratic nominees in Utah’s 1st Congressional District are launching their general election campaigns with almost nothing left in their bank accounts as they seek to replace retiring GOP Rep. Rob Bishop.Both camps expect that GOP nominee Blake Moore will be able to raise much more than Democrat Darren Parry in the heavily Republican district that has not elected a Democrat in 42 years, and Moore already starts out with an e
  
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• West Coast Conference delays start of fall sports. BYU AD Tom Holmoe says Cougars will adjust accordingly.

  16-07-2020 21:19
  
  The West Coast Conference Presidents' Council announced on Thursday the delay of fall competition in all conference sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No WCC programs will participate in any competition prior to Sept. 24, 2020.The decision includes the traditional fall seasons in men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball. Baseball, beach volleyball, men's and women's golf, women's rowing, softball and men's and women's tennis – all of which are trad
  
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• UTA foresees a 15% permanent ridership drop as its ‘new normal’ after COVID-19

  16-07-2020 21:16
  
  After the COVID-19 pandemic ends and a “new normal” emerges, the Utah Transit Authority said Thursday that ridership and revenue from fares will be significantly smaller — down maybe 15% — and it may take the agency several years to work back even to that lower plateau.UTA Chief Financial Officer Bob Biles said ridership currently is about 70% below normal.He outlined projections to the State Bonding Commission on Thursday that show revenue from passenger fares is expecte
  
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• Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang is ‘back to 100’ after rolling his ankle

  16-07-2020 21:00
  
  The Utah Jazz’s roster got a boost Thursday morning when a certain sharpshooting forward became a full participant in the team’s morning practice.No, people — Bojan Bogdanovic is still not coming back.We’re talking about Georges Niang, who had yet to go through a full practice since the Jazz arrived at the Disney World campus, due to left ankle soreness.After the team got through with its latest session, the Iowa State product explained to media in a Zoom call that it was
  
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• West Coast Conference delays start of fall sports

  16-07-2020 20:59
  
  The West Coast Conference Presidents' Council announced on Thursday the delay of fall competition in all conference sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No WCC programs will participate in any competition prior to Sept. 24, 2020.The decision includes the traditional fall seasons in men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball. Baseball, beach volleyball, men's and women's golf, women's rowing, softball and men's and women's tennis – all of which are trad
  
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• Walmart, Target among a growing list of businesses requiring customers to wear masks

  16-07-2020 20:55
  
  New York • Two major retailers on Thursday joined the growing list of national chains that will require customers to wear face masks regardless of where cities or states stand on the issue.Target's mandatory face mask policy will go into effect Aug. 1, and all CVS stores will begin requiring them on Monday.More than 80% of Target’s 1,800 stores already require customers to wear masks due to local and state regulations. Target will hand out masks at entrances to those who need them.The
  
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• Top Utah hoops target Payton Sandfort, like many 2021 recruits, stuck in a recruiting holding pattern

  16-07-2020 20:40
  
  Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, there is AAU basketball being contested in various states across the country.The Midwest is in business as far as AAU goes, so on July 24, Des Moines, Iowa-based Kingdom Hoops will head to Kansas City’s Hy-Vee Arena to take part in the Hardwood Classic.Unaffiliated and independent from the Nike, Adidas and Under Armour circuits, Kingdom Hoops features Payton Sandfort, a three-star uncommitted wing out of Waukee High School. Sandfort, ranked 136th in the lates
  
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• Gordon Monson: Will sports in Utah ever return? Maybe not, if the idiocy on display in Utah County persists.

  16-07-2020 20:18
  
  The world is laughing at Utah right now.LOLing.Notbecause anything funny is happening here. No, quite the opposite. It’son account of the fact that too many idiots live here, idiots too stubborn to follow simple guidelines by some of the country’s and world’s smartest people, experts and epidemiologists who may not beperfect, but who have spent their professional careers studyinginfectious diseases and are asking for the public’s help to tamp down an unrelenting virus.Wea
  
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• Utah governor announces change to allow Salt Lake City schools to offer in-person classes

  16-07-2020 20:14
  
  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. Gov. Gary Herbert has ordered K-12 schools in the state to reopen this fall — and on Thursday, he announced a change to the state’s risk guidelines that will allow Salt Lake City schools to join them.Salt Lake City remains a
  
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• Finally healthy, Utah Jazz’s Georges Niang not putting extra pressure on himself with Bojan Bogdanovic out

  16-07-2020 20:12
  
  Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang talks to the media at Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Utah’s season ended with Wednesday’s loss to Houston in the NBA playoffs. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — When news of Bojan Bogdanovic’s season-ending wrist surgery came out in May, a short list of Utah Jazz players who would be able to fill in for the Croatian sharpshooter emerged, with Georges Niang at the top of the list.
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• Finally able to fully practice in bubble, Utah Jazz’s Georges Niang not putting extra pressure on himself with Bojan Bogdanovic out

  16-07-2020 20:12
  
  Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang talks to the media at Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Utah’s season ended with Wednesday’s loss to Houston in the NBA playoffs. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — When news of Bojan Bogdanovic’s season-ending wrist surgery came out in May, a short list of Utah Jazz players who would be able to fill in for the Croatian sharpshooter emerged, with Georges Niang at the top of the list.
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• Clifton Jolley: Not everyone has the chance to ‘Find something new'

  16-07-2020 20:00
  
  Ivanka Trump’s solution to those put out of work by COVID-19 is simply to “Find Something New.”But I am like most Americans: I’ve been trying new things all my life and discovered that, by and large, they give me indigestion.Ivanka Trump has been protected from such realizations by the “tasters” most medieval royal families employed to protect them from the poison us peasants would happily have put in their soup.When F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked that “th
  
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• Utah reports 954 new positive tests for COVID-19, but not all are new cases

  16-07-2020 19:56
  
  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 954 new positive tests for COVID-19 Thursday, but not all of them are new cases, health officials cautioned.“I need to provide a lot of context to these numbers,” state epidemiologist Angela Dunn said at a Thur
  
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• Zion Williamson leaves Pelicans for ‘family medical matter,’ status for July 30 opener vs. Utah Jazz up in air

  16-07-2020 19:49
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • The New Orleans Pelicans say top overall draft choice Zion Williamson left the club on Thursday to attend to an urgent family medical matter. The Pelicans say Williamson intends to rejoin the team in the Orlando area for the resumption of the season, but they did not specify when he would be able to return or whether he’ll miss any games, including the July 30 opener against the Utah Jazz.Williamson will have to quarantine again when he returns to Central Flor
  
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• Authorities recover body of Utah man who drowned saving a child

  16-07-2020 19:21
  
  Emergency responders recovered the body of a 34-year-old Uintah county man who drowned while saving a child at Red Fleet State Park near Vernal on Wednesday.Dustin Peterson of Uintah County was boating with family and friends in a Red Fleet Reservoir just before 3 p.m. on ]when a child in the group began to struggle in the water. Peterson jumped in and helped those who remained on the boat to pull the child back aboard, but was unable remain afloat himself. Neither Peterson nor the child was was
  
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• Construction will complicate weekend travel on I-15, U.S. 89

  16-07-2020 19:20
  
  Lane closures will complicate travel this weekend on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake and Juab counties, and on U.S. 89 in Davis County.The Utah Department of Transportation advises drivers to plan ahead for the following restrictions:• I-15 in Salt Lake City: Southbound I-15 will be reduced to one lane near 500 South from Sunday at 9 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m. The on-ramp from 500 South to southbound I-15 will also be closed during that time.The closure will allow crews to complete pavement rep
  
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• Black business owners had a harder time getting federal aid, a study finds

  16-07-2020 19:04
  
  Black business owners are more likely to be hindered in seeking coronavirus financial aid than their white peers, a new study has found.The study looked at how more than a dozen Washington-area banks handled requests for loans under the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. It was conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a nonprofit in Washington, in partnership with researchers from universities in Utah and New Jersey.Between late April and late May, the res
  
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• Experts say Twitter breach troubling, undermines trust

  16-07-2020 18:56
  
  Hong Kong • A breach in Twitter’s security that allowed hackers to break into the accounts of leaders and technology moguls is one of the worst attacks in recent years and may shake trust in a platform politicians and CEOs use to communicate with the public, experts said Thursday.The ruse discovered Wednesday included bogus tweets from Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CE
  
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• Bishops should report clergy sex abuse to police, Vatican says

  16-07-2020 18:56
  
  Vatican City • The Vatican told bishops around the world Thursday they should report cases of clergy sex crimes to police even when not legally bound to do so, in its latest effort to compel church leaders to protect minors from predator priests.The Vatican issued a long-awaited manual for bishops and religious superiors on conducting in-house investigations into allegations of priests who rape and molest minors and vulnerable adults. While the Vatican has had detailed canonical norms in pl
  
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• Utah Jazz: Upgrade your viewing experience with a new TV and more

  16-07-2020 18:32
  
  The NBA is nearly back. You’ve been separated from your Utah Jazz for far too long. So don’t just watch. Watch like a champ with these items. It’s been months since you’ve been able to watch the Utah Jazz play some basketball. Don’t just settle back into lackluster routine. Watch the Utah Jazz’s return like […]
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• Red flag warning raises fears of more fires in Utah

  16-07-2020 17:17
  
  As firefighters battle wildfires across the state, the National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for the mountains in central and southern Utah.The NWS warns there could be isolated to scattered thunderstorms that will produce little rainfall but could bring lightning strikes and gusty winds to areas that are already dry. The red flag warning runs through 9 p.m. Thursday, and there’s a possibility of isolated thunderstorms and gusty winds through the end of the week — mo
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Reconciling on race, the masked apostle, an outlaw ‘member’

  16-07-2020 17:13
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.A path forward on race
  (Tribune file photo) Early Latter-day Saint black convert Elijah Able, sometimes spelled Abel, was ordained to the priesthood.A Mormon historian argues that the LDS Church could and should be a le
  
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• In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes

  16-07-2020 17:11
  
  Provo • As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it. “It’s garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up. “It doesn’t work anyway. Not for me and not for my kids.”A dad who spoke after her said he, too, doesn’t think the masks are effective, and said he’s pulling his kids out of school this fall if the state doesn’t lift its mandate requiring all K-12 students to wear a face covering.
  
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• Body recovered in Red Fleet State Park area swimmer went missing in

  16-07-2020 16:33
  
  Emergency responders recovered the body of a 33-year-old man from the lake at Red Fleet State Park near Vernal on Wednesday — several hours after the man disappeared there, FOX 13 reported.Eugene Swalberg with Utah State Parks confirmed to FOX 13 that a body was recovered about 10 p.m., but the victim’s name hasn’t been released.The man was on a boat with a group on Wednesday afternoon when he went underwater and never resurfaced.Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune and F
  
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• Walmart latest retailer to require customers to wear masks

  16-07-2020 15:46
  
  New York • Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam’s Club stores, making it the largest retailer to introduce such a policy that has otherwise proven difficult to enforce without state and federal requirements.The company said Wednesday that the policy will go into effect on Monday to allow time to inform customers. Currently, about 65% of its more than 5,000 stores and clubs are located in areas where there is already some form of governme
  
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• Tribal nations appeal ruling over federal virus relief funds

  16-07-2020 15:13
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Tribal nations are challenging a court decision that allows Alaska Native corporations to receive a share of $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding set aside for tribes.The tribal nations filed a notice of appeal Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., meeting the deadline set by a lower court judge. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta had said the U.S. Treasury Department could release funding to the corporations if the tribes didn't move for
  
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• Utah Jehovah’s Witnesses join fellow believers around the world in historic global convention

  16-07-2020 15:00
  
  Jehovah’s Witnesses across the world are dressing up to go to their living room.During the weekends between July 11 and Aug. 30, millions of Witnesses — including thousands in Utah — are looking their best at home to worship God during the denomination’s first virtual global convention.Typically, adherents would flood restaurants and hotels between May and September to attend regional conventions. But they’ve all been canceled due to the coronavirus, including ones
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Dreamers could gain certainty in 2021, but only if you vote

  16-07-2020 15:00
  
  Uncertainty is the norm for students wondering whether they will be returning to classes in the fall, but for a particular group of students, the picture remains even less clear.Thousands of Utah Dreamers — young people brought here as children by their parents — were in limbo, awaiting a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on whether President Donald Trump can terminate the temporary protection from deportation they received during the Obama administration.“Prior to the decision,
  
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• Hot-spot-seeking cameras may help Utah detect wildfires soon after they start

  16-07-2020 15:00
  
  Layton • Imagine a network of thermal-imaging cameras scanning the fire-prone Wasatch foothills 24 hours a day during fire season, looking for telltale heat patterns that signify the start of a wildfire.Such a system is now being beta-tested in three Utah cities, thanks to a program developed by UTOPIA Fiber, Utah’s community-owned fiber-optic network, and unveiled Wednesday at Layton’s Valley View Golf Course, where the high-tech cameras have been affixed to a tower over the cl
  
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• To safely reopen schools, Utah needs to get comfortable with masks, panel says

  16-07-2020 14:52
  
  To get kids and teachers back in classrooms again this fall, school districts will need to take drastic measures to protect everyone’s safety. And a panel of experts all agree, the best way for all Utahns to help is by wearing face masks.“This is like a wildfire going on. If everybody had a mask on … life can go on,” said Dr. Kashif Memon, an infectious disease specialist at Jordan Valley Medical Center and Steward Health Care Group. “It’s a simple trade off.
  
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• Letter: We act like rebellious children

  16-07-2020 14:01
  
  Dear Gov. Herbert:I’m amazed at the “no-maskers” who proclaim their “constitutional right” to not wear masks and basically to do anything they please in crowds and public places.They apparently haven't actually read the Constitution of the United States, which begins, "We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union, ... promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish t
  
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• Letter: Don’t be distracted from the real threats

  16-07-2020 14:01
  
  Donald Trump’s Fourth of July message has been praised by many. Others, including myself, found his rhetoric divisive and off the mark.Trump has a history of dividing the nation into us vs. them, whether it be against immigrants, liberals, Democrats or activists for racial equality. This incites unnecessary fear and distracts from the real enemies we face as a nation.Police officers and members of Black Lives Matter are not our enemies. Racism and police brutality are our enemies. After ra
  
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• Letter: New nuclear testing would be a mistake

  16-07-2020 14:00
  
  Has anyone watched “Dr. Strangelove” lately?That dark comedy movie ought to be required homework for anyone in Congress and anyone with the opportunity to push “the button” to explode nuclear bombs.I read with dismay the president’s plan to resume N-bomb testing in Nevada. I hope this is just a ploy to give us a bigger bargaining chip in some sort of world disarmament agreement, but who knows?We seem to be traveling down the road that could lead to our own destructi
  
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• Letter: Is this what passes for leadership?

  16-07-2020 14:00
  
  Sen. Stuart Adams and Rep. Brad Wilson, our Solons, the wise leaders of the Utah Legislature, think that merely encouraging citizens to wear masks in public rather than requiring them Is sufficient.Why can’t they get it through their thick heads that, during a deadly pandemic, protecting the health, safety and welfare of the general public is far more important than the so-called “rights” of some self-centered inconsiderate jerk to infringe on the rights of everyone else by goi
  
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• Letter: Has America ever surrendered so quickly?

  16-07-2020 14:00
  
  On July 6, Canada registered just under 400 new coronavirus cases, Australia registered 137, South Korea registered 44 and Japan registered zero. The entire African and European continents registered under 20,000.In fact, most places in Asia and Europe are reopening after closing down in the spring and summer to gain the upper hand on the virus. Life with schools, jobs and sports is coming back.Meanwhile, the United States registered nearly 51,000 new cases. We are consistently adding 50,000 new
  
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• Letter: Don’t stop with Confederate monuments

  16-07-2020 14:00
  
  The removal of Confederate monuments, which are offensive to many, should continue. But not just Confederate monuments. All offensive monuments.Monuments to Christopher Columbus and the pilgrims should continue to be removed. It was the pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock and settled North America, leading to the eventual taking of the Indigenous peoples' land and the bringing of slaves to America.The Washington and Jefferson monuments in Washington, D.C., should be renamed. As slave owners the
  
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• Cole Cooper: Police use excessive force and get away with it

  16-07-2020 14:00
  
  On June 9, Salt Lake City saw the furthering of grave injustices in Utah. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill declared that the two cops who killed Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal acted within the law and would not be reprimanded.This announcement comes after months of peaceful protesting and pursuit of legal justice from the “Justice for Bernardo Now” movement, led by local activists with support from Bernardo’s family and friends.The decision clearing officers Neil Iversen
  
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• In packed meeting, Utah County residents protest requiring students to wear masks. Meanwhile, Salt Lake City parents rally for in-person return to school.

  16-07-2020 05:48
  
  Provo • As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it. “It’s garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up. “It doesn’t work anyway. Not for me and not for my kids.”A dad who spoke after her said he, too, doesn’t think the masks are effective, and said he’s pulling his kids out of school this fall if the state doesn’t lift its mandate requiring all K-12 students to wear a face covering.
  
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• Elliott joins his father as winner of NASCAR’s All-Star race

  16-07-2020 05:15
  
  Bristol, Tenn. • Cue the siren at the Dawsonville Pool Room — another Elliott is an All-Star winner.Chase Elliott joined his father, Hall of Famer “Awesome” Bill Elliott, as winner of NASCAR’s annual All-Star race, earning the $1 million prize Wednesday in front of limited spectators at Bristol Motor Speedway.“Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it,” Elliott said.Back in their Georgia hometown, the pool room marks every win by the father or son by blaring
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Historians discuss poet Eliza Snow, the plural wife of prophets who fought for polygamy, women

  16-07-2020 04:25
  
  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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• Leonard Pitts: Nobody roots for Goliath. Or Karen.

  16-07-2020 04:00
  
  Dear Karen:I wanted you to know that I got your email. Yours, your husband's, your brother's and your best friend's. All were vexed at my recent evocation of the meme that uses your name as shorthand for a certain type of white woman: rude, entitled and presuming to police African-American lives."I am OFFENDED," wrote Jim, whose Karen is the wife of his priest. "It is reprehensible," wrote Robert, whose Karen is his daughter.And an actual Karen asked, "How would you read it if 'Leonard' was used
  
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• Watch our ‘Trib Talk’ Town Hall live: Reopening schools in Utah

  16-07-2020 03:03
  
  Watch live here.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 As
  
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