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• Eli Beck: You shouldn’t have to get married to afford the rent

  22-07-2020 22:05
  
  More than once I’ve considered getting married in order to rent a house in Salt Lake City.Thankfully, I didn’t have to. I just broke the law instead.In Salt Lake City, it is illegal for more than three unrelated adults to live in any “individual dwelling unit.” That law, found in the Salt Lake City Code 21A.24.010, applies pretty much anywhere you would live in Salt Lake City that’s not a van down by the river, whether you rent or own.So when I moved to Salt Lake Ci
  
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• Salt Lake County says the face mask mandate is working

  22-07-2020 21:44
  
  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.Salt Lake County leaders are crediting their face mask mandate with helping tamp down the coronavirus in the county, in contrast with swelling case counts in other parts of the state.“We know that COVID-19 is a
  
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• Fatal car chase stems from a seatbelt violation, Ogden police say

  22-07-2020 21:01
  
  Ogden • Police say a 20-year-old man who died after trying to flee a traffic stop held onto an Ogden police officer’s arm and sped away.James Lee Franklin drove with the officer hanging from his car for nearly two blocks, Chief Randy Watt said Wednesday, before the officer fell. Franklin eventually crashed into another police car — an impact that killed him.Watt said the confrontation began after an officer pulled Franklin over near 26th Street and Monroe Boulevard because he wa
  
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• Houston Dash upends Portland Thorns 1-0 in Challenge Cup semifinal, earns berth in NWSL title game

  22-07-2020 20:51
  
  Sandy • It had been 360 minutes since a goal was scored in the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup. Three consecutive scoreless games went to penalties, and 69 minutes of play between the Houston Dash and Portland Thorns in the first semifinal game at Rio Tinto Stadium.But Dash striker Rachel Daly flipped all that on its head, with her head, giving Houston a 1-0 win over the Thorns that punched its ticket to the tournament final.The Dash play the winner of Wednesday’s e
  
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• Jana Riess: White evangelicals didn’t hold their noses to vote for Trump. His toxic masculinity is what they’ve been defending for decades.

  22-07-2020 20:49
  
  Shock. Betrayal. That’s the response that millions of Americans had after the 2016 presidential election when they learned that 80% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. How could believing Christians vote for him in the first place, and then continue to approve of a presidency that has been marked by scandal, authoritarianism and racism?Kristin Kobes Du Mez was shocked, too, but perhaps not as stunned as the rest of America. That’s because as a historian who teaches at Calvi
  
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• Pandemic has people looking to God? Survey shows Americans are reading the Bible less.

  22-07-2020 20:27
  
  People may be reading the news and “doomscrolling” through social media during the coronavirus pandemic.But what they don’t appear to be reading is the Bible.That’s according to the 10th annual State of the Bible survey released Wednesday by the American Bible Society.The number of American adults the American Bible Society considers “Scripture engaged” based on how frequently they read Scripture and its impact on their relationships and choices dropped signif
  
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• BYU basketball forward Wyatt Lowell to undergo surgery for torn labrum

  22-07-2020 20:21
  
  After sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, Wyatt Lowell was expected to make a splash in the 2020-21 season.The 6-foot-10 forward was not only going to add height and length, but also add stability to a squad that graduated seven seniors — including three starters and two key reserves. However, the Utah Valley transfer may have to wait even longer to make his debut as a Cougar.On Wednesday morning, Lowell posted on Instagram that he will be having surgery on a torn labrum &m
  
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• Faith was a lifelong constant for Rep. John Lewis

  22-07-2020 20:12
  
  Birmingham, Ala. • From his childhood, when he preached to chickens in the dirt-poor South, to his decades as a moral force in Congress, religious faith was a constant in the life of Rep. John Lewis.Lewis spent boyhood days as a make-believe minister, preaching to a congregation of clucking birds at his rural home in Alabama. As a teen, inspired by the oratory and leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., he went on to become a civil rights activist in his own right while attending a B
  
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• Salt Lake City police union wants changes to the way cops are investigated

  22-07-2020 20:04
  
  After failing to reach an agreement with the city over pay raises, take-home patrol cars and the ways officers are investigated, the Salt Lake City police union has declared an impasse.The move came in late May, just one day after the death of George Floyd ignited protests and calls for police reform across the country, including in Salt Lake City. Mayor Erin Mendenhall and the City Council decided to keep the current police union contract in place for another year and reopen negotiations next s
  
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• George Chapman: SLC threatens increasing density in single-family neighborhoods

  22-07-2020 20:04
  
  Salt Lake City is asking for feedback on suggestions for increasing density in the city to increase the supply of affordable housing. Many other cities have complained that part of the problem is caused by inflexible zoning rules that are protecting single-family home neighborhoods from increasing density.The city’s survey explanation suggests that they are considering increasing density in single family home neighborhoods. Salt Lake City should be protecting the single-family home neighbo
  
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• Another 566 cases of COVID-19 in Utah, and 10 new deaths

  22-07-2020 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. Another 566 Utahns have contracted COVID-19, and 10 more people have died from the disease, the Utah Department of Health reported Wednesday.The 10 people whose deaths were added to the state’s tally are:• A Salt Lake County
  
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• Fatal rabbit disease moves into Utah’s wild population

  22-07-2020 19:47
  
  A highly contagious and fatal disease — found last month in a domestic rabbit — now has been detected in Utah’s wild rabbit population.A case of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease — or RHDV2 — was confirmed on July 21 in Wayne County, after some dead wild cottontail rabbits were found in the Teasdale area and then sent to a lab for testing, officials with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said this week in a news release.While people, dogs and other animals are not su
  
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• UTA proposes fare changes, seeks public comment

  22-07-2020 19:06
  
  The Utah Transit Authority is seeking public comment on tweaks that it is proposing to it bus and train fare structure.It is proposing to keep its base fare of $2.50 per ride the same, but seeks several changes to discounts, passes and charges for premium and express services in what it calls a simplification of its fare structure. Changes would increase some prices and decrease others.For example, it is proposing that all premium services would cost $5 a ride. That would increase the cost of sk
  
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• UTA is restoring bus and train service to 91% of pre-pandemic levels

  22-07-2020 18:38
  
  The Utah Transit Authority is about to restore the lion’s share of its bus and train service after cutting much of it on April 9 in reaction to the state’s stay-at-home directives.Beginning Aug. 23 — which is one of three regular “change days” the agency has to tweak schedules every year — the transit agency will restore miles and hours of service back to 91% of their pre-COVID offerings.Some popular routes will even see the frequency increase, but others will
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Utah author Mette Ivie Harrison discusses leaving the church and the ‘five doctrines of ex-Mormonism'

  22-07-2020 18:23
  
  Utah author Mette Ivie Harrison has been writing about her transition away from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Besides opposing some of the faith’s policies, practices and doctrines, Harrison also has cited the restrictive views held by some members. In a recent column, however, she notes that she again finds herself bumping into rigid thinking — this time coming from former members.In this week’s show, Harrison discusses her spiritual journey and the “fi
  
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• Infections much higher than reported cases in parts of U.S., study shows

  22-07-2020 18:02
  
  The number of people infected with the coronavirus in different parts of the United States was anywhere from two to 13 times higher than the reported rates for those regions, according to data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The findings suggest that large numbers of people who did not have symptoms or did not seek medical care may have kept the virus circulating in their communities.The study indicates that even the hardest-hit area in the study — New Yo
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah teachers are being put in an impossible spot

  22-07-2020 17:59
  
  Jennifer Hinchman has spent 31 years in the classroom and planned to teach second grade at William Penn Elementary for three or four more years. But facing the coronavirus risk, her age and all the unanswered questions, she sat down last week with her husband and told him she didn’t think she would return.“It’s not worth it to go back at this point and die, quite frankly,” she told me Tuesday. “There’s all sorts of nonsense decision-making going on that doesn&
  
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• RSL loses first game of 2020 season, but still advances to next round of MLS is Back Tournament

  22-07-2020 17:10
  
  Real Salt Lake suffered its first loss of the MLS is Back Tournament, but that didn’t affect the club’s standing for the next round.RSL lost 2-0 to Sporting Kansas City on Tuesday, marking the first time in the tournament a team has scored on Salt Lake. It was also the first time RSL lost a game in the entire 2020 season going back to its first two games in February and March before the COVID-19 pandemic put the season on hold.But RSL will still get the opportunity to play more games
  
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• Monsoon moisture could help crews battle fires blazing across Utah

  22-07-2020 16:37
  
  After fighting nearly a dozen wildfires at the start of the week, fire crews will get some help from the weather, which previously hindered them with dry conditions and heavy winds.Monsoon moisture moved into southern Utah on Tuesday and started to make its way upward across most of the state Wednesday. While the front can still produce gusty winds, it also brings the possibility of showers and thunderstorms.Storms will be primarily high-based, resulting in gusty outflow winds, but isolated flas
  
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• Cannella’s Italian restaurant closes after a 42-year run in Salt Lake City

  22-07-2020 15:00
  
  Another Salt Lake City restaurant is saying arrivederci.This time it is the iconic Cannella’s Restaurant and Lounge, which is closing after 42 years in business.“It had a really good run,” owner Joe Cannella said Tuesday, “but it’s become harder and harder to make it work.”Cannella said 2020 started off rocky for the Italian eatery, with the January homeless camp — and protests — at nearby City Hall. Then came the coronavirus shutdown, an earthquak
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Teachers are being tested with the re-opening of schools and unanswered questions

  22-07-2020 14:30
  
  Jennifer Hinchman has spent 31 years in the classroom and planned to teach second grade at William Penn Elementary for three or four more years. But facing the coronavirus risk, her age and all the unanswered questions, she sat down last week with her husband and told him she didn’t think she would return.“It’s not worth it to go back at this point and die, quite frankly,” she told me Tuesday. “There’s all sorts of nonsense decision-making going on that doesn&
  
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• Study: Posting road death totals on digital highway signs may be deadly

  22-07-2020 14:15
  
  Utah often posts messages on its electronic highway signs that say how many people have died on the state’s roads so far this year or season. They’re intended to improve safety, but a new study says the practice actually increases accidents.That’s because the message is so stark that it distracts some drivers and increases crashes nearby, according to a study by Jonathan D. Hall, of the University of Toronto, and Joshua Madsen, of the University of Minnesota.“We hypothesi
  
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• Good coronavirus news: A vitamin that may help, improved treatments and a relief for smokers

  22-07-2020 14:15
  
  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. We’ve explored the progress made toward a vaccine and dived into the evolving and largely positive immunity picture, but there’s even more good news out there in our fight against the coronavirus. Here is a grab bag of resea
  
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• Supreme Court decision reignites the fight over Utah’s 18-week abortion law

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  So far, Utah has spent more than $86,000 defending the state’s 18-week abortion ban in court, as advocacy groups argue it is unconstitutional.State officials are likely to start racking up new costs as the case emerges from a period of dormancy and continues to inch through the federal court system. And the plaintiffs contend that — particularly with the pandemic pinching government budgets — the state shouldn’t be devoting taxpayer money to block abortion access.“A
  
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• Salt Lake City at impasse with police union

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  After failing to reach an agreement with the city over pay raises, take-home patrol cars and the ways officers are investigated, the Salt Lake City police union has declared an impasse.The move came in late May, just one day after the death of George Floyd ignited protests and calls for police reform across the country, including in Salt Lake City. Mayor Erin Mendenhall and the City Council decided to keep the current police union contract in place for another year and reopen negotiations next s
  
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• Letter: The real name of the state is ‘Nuuchu’

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  To advance further toward the goal of eliminating racism, national movements have led to the removal of vestigial symbols that tell a false historical narrative of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era. What do you do when your state’s name is racist?The words "Utah" and "Ute" are mispronounced versions of an earlier Arizonian Jemez Native American term for the Ute nation, meaning "people who live in stick houses." The Jemez, like the other Arizonan Pueblo tribes, lived in mul
  
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• Letter: Thanks to the summer’s protesters

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  I want to thank the protesters for the powerful education provided this summer. Excluding a few individuals bent on rioting, the protests taking place on the streets of our towns and cities have been non-violent, bold, passionate and courageous.Protesters have taken huge personal risks when communicating and critiquing the racial, social, economic and environmental inequities present in our communities. They have demanded, and rightfully so, changes to the status quo in policing.Admittedly, I ha
  
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• Letter: Stop making sense

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  That headline is, of course, from the Talking Heads. Which leads me to this.The PAC 12 conference decides to only play their football games within the conference. So that means that Utah will not be hosting Brigham Young University. A short bus drive away. But will still be flying to California.Brilliant decision. Makes total sense to me during COVID-19.This from the Talking Heads as well when it comes to those in charge: "Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was"Jeff Bradley, SandySubmit a lett
  
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• Letter: Pro-mask = pro-life

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  Pro-mask = pro-safety = pro-respect = pro-business = pro-economy = pro-America = pro-life.Eric Anderson, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Happy birthday to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  Congratulations to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square for 90 years of broadcast excellence. My first encounter with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was 1975 in Show Low, Ariz. Fresh out of seminary, I was the new pastor of the new Church of the Nazarene with a congregation of 12. The Latter-day Saints befriended me and became my dear friends. Our common denominator was music. We Christmas caroled together. We did musicals together. When I moved to my next pastoral assignment,
  
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• Dale R. Wagner: Follow the science. Back to the classroom.

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  Authorities often say, “We are following the science,” when making policy decisions about COVID-19. However, this comment is rarely followed-up with specifics from any actual peer-reviewed science. This is certainly true about the debate regarding sending children back to school in the fall.Some school administrators and politicians have argued that it would be unsafe to open school to in-person instruction in the fall, and that we have to “follow the science” for when it
  
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• ACLU says Utah police have used unnecessary force against protesters

  22-07-2020 14:00
  
  Sam Tse is identifiable by the small gray dot that is her baseball cap, as footage shot from KSL-Ch. 5′s helicopter shows her between a line of protesters and Salt Lake City officers in riot gear.This July 9 confrontation lasts about 20 seconds as officers pull Tse from the arms of other demonstrators and toward police, who appear to hit her with riot shields. Then she is freed and disappears into the group of demonstrators.“I actually didn’t realize how bad it was until I watc
  
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• Trump’s show of federal force sparking alarm in cities

  22-07-2020 07:03
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump is using the Department of Homeland Security in unprecedented ways as he tries to bolster his law and order credentials by making a heavy-handed show of force in cities around the nation in the lead-up to the November elections.His plan to deploy federal agents to Chicago and perhaps other Democratic-run cities where violence is spiking represents Trump's latest effort to use an agency that was created after the Sept. 11 attacks to thwart terrorists to in
  
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• Utah justice court judge known for advocating for Asian Americans has died

  22-07-2020 06:47
  
  A Taylorsville justice court judge known for his advocacy for Asian Americans and criticisms of President Donald Trump died suddenly Tuesday.Michael Kwan, 58, had been on the bench for more than two decades.Emily Bingham, a family spokeswoman, said Kwan’s death was unexpected — his family found him unresponsive Tuesday morning. She said he hadn’t been ill, and an autopsy will be done to determine how he died.Kwan leaves behind his wife, two children and a “granddog”
  
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• Salt Lake City schools won’t start until after Labor Day — and they could be entirely online

  22-07-2020 06:32
  
  During a chaotic Salt Lake City school board meeting Tuesday night — filled with bickering and backlash and one member accusing teachers who want to continue with online instruction of being “lazy” — members were able to agree on only one thing: delaying the start of the year so that the first day of classes would be pushed to Sept. 8.Any other decisions, like whether those classes will be in person or not, were put off until next month.“I think this has been a diff
  
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• Salt Lake City School District postpones classes until after Labor Day — but makes no decision on whether they’ll be online

  22-07-2020 04:37
  
  During a chaotic Salt Lake City school board meeting Tuesday night — filled with bickering and backlash and one member accusing teachers who want to continue with online instruction of being “lazy” — members were able to agree on only one thing: delaying the start of the year so that the first day of classes would be pushed to Sept. 8.Any other decisions, like whether those classes will be in person or not, were put off until next month.“I think this has been a diff
  
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• One man dead and three officers injured in a traffic stop that turned into a police chase

  22-07-2020 03:37
  
  A man is dead and three Ogden police officers were injured after the man tried to flee during a traffic stop.Ogden police officials said Tuesday that officers encountered the man "due to a traffic violation" near 26th Street and Monroe Boulevard."When officers asked the male to step out of the vehicle, he refused," Lt. Will Farr wrote in a news release, "and sped away from the scene, dragging one officer from the area in the process."Police gave chase, and the man "began to drive erratically," F
  
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• Salt Lake City School District postpones when classes will start until after Labor Day — but makes no decision on whether they’ll be online

  22-07-2020 03:34
  
  During a chaotic Salt Lake City school board meeting Tuesday night — filled with bickering and backlash and one member accusing teachers who want to continue with online instruction of being “lazy” — members were able to agree on only one thing: delaying the start of the year so that the first day of classes would be pushed to Sept. 8.Any other decisions, like whether those classes will be in person or not, were put off until next month.“I think this has been a diff
  
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• Giants rookie Davis appreciates support in taking a knee

  22-07-2020 03:29
  
  San Francisco • Jaylin Davis called home and spoke with his family then his decision immediately became clear: he would kneel for the national anthem.If there even was an anthem. The Giants were playing an exhibition game at Oakland on Monday night with no fans after a months-long delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.It turned out Davis had all kinds of support on every side of him, including from first-year San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler, who also took a knee before the Giants&rsquo
  
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• Utah-based Merit Medical to pay $18 million settlement in lawsuit claiming doctor kickbacks

  22-07-2020 02:42
  
  South Jordan-based Merit Medical Systems has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging the company paid illegal kickbacks to doctors and other medical providers to entice them to use the company’s devices.Merit founder, chairman and CEO Fred Lampropoulos confirmed Tuesday an agreement had been reached with the U.S. Department of Justice in the whistleblower case and that details would be released in the coming weeks. The CEO declined further comment, except to reiterate a sho
  
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• Utah’s ‘low-risk’ counties see coronavirus rise, as four more deaths reported Tuesday

  22-07-2020 02:05
  
  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. As Utah doctors have called for a statewide mask mandate, Gov. Gary Herbert has pointed to the state’s 10 “green” rural counties to justify a patchwork of local rules. Those 10 rural counties shouldn’t be burdene
  
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• State lawmaker says her family has contracted COVID-19

  22-07-2020 01:41
  
  State Rep. Candice Pierucci said she and two others in her household are suffering from the coronavirus, with symptoms ranging from fever to cough.“For lack of a better way to say this: This virus sucks,” the Republican lawmaker tweeted Tuesday. “Grateful though that the symptoms have been relatively mild all things considered.”Pierucci wrote in a text message that she, her husband and 16-month-old son are all dealing with the illness and are recovering at their Riverton
  
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• Utah-based Merit Medical to pay $18 million settlement in lawsuit over doctor kickbacks

  22-07-2020 01:28
  
  South Jordan-based Merit Medical Systems has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging the company paid illegal kickbacks to doctors and other medical providers to entice them to use the company’s devices.Merit founder, chairman and CEO Fred Lampropoulos confirmed Tuesday an agreement had been reached with the U.S. Department of Justice in the whistleblower case and that details would be released in the coming weeks. The CEO declined further comment, except to reiterate a sho
  
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• Congress is debating another $1 trillion round of relief

  22-07-2020 01:21
  
  Washington • There’s widespread, bipartisan support in Congress for another round of money to help individual Americans, businesses, schools and others hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.What that help may look like, though, is still unclear.Congress has already pushed through four rounds of legislation aimed at combatting the virus, aiding hospitals, saving businesses and propping up the unemployed, though more money may be needed as the outbreak continues to kill hundreds —
  
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• All-by-mail COVID-19 primary election, high-profile governor’s race spurs high voter turnout

  22-07-2020 01:04
  
  Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, statewide election results show by-mail voting and a competitive governor’s race helped spur Utah’s best primary election voter turnout in years.The state saw around 558,000 votes cast in last month’s primary, a raw number that could grow slightly as final canvass results continue to come in late Tuesday, according to State Elections Director Justin Lee. Overall, that’s a 37% turnout rate — much higher than the 29% of voters
  
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• Utah justice court judge known for advocating for Asian American has died

  22-07-2020 00:39
  
  A Taylorsville justice court judge known for his advocacy for Asian Americans and criticisms of President Donald Trump died suddenly Tuesday.Michael Kwan, 58, had been on the bench for more than two decades.Emily Bingham, a family spokeswoman, said Kwan’s death was unexpected — his family found him unresponsive Tuesday morning. She said he hadn’t been ill, and an autopsy will be done to determine how he died.Kwan leaves behind his wife, two children and a “granddog”
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Social Distance Studies

  22-07-2020 00:32
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Taking a Knee to Voting RightsTrump’s Secret PoliceEyes on The BeehiveSecond WaveAll in the FamilyGame Name ChangeHeard ImmunityHelp WantedSchooled by COVIDMonkey BusinessWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• George Pyle: Fascism in the streets of Portland

  22-07-2020 00:06
  
  If battle-armored troops from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security set one foot inside Salt Lake City on the pretext of putting down a domestic insurrection, and Utah’s governor, legislators, senators and congressmen do anything other than raise holy hell about it, on their way to drafting articles of impeachment, then we will have learned a couple of very important things.One, that I have been right all along in labeling the current president of the United States and his various toadi
  
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• RSL looks to keep foot on gas in final group stage game of MLS is Back tourney

  22-07-2020 00:01
  
  Real Salt Lake has not lost a game in the entirety of the 2020 season. It recorded two draws before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the Major League Soccer season, and has come out with a win and a draw in the first two games of the MLS is Back Tournament in Orlando, Fla.RSL will have the opportunity to stay undefeated when it plays its rival, Sporting Kansas City, on Wednesday in the final game of the tournament’s group stage. So far, Salt Lake has earned four points — it’s tied
  
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• Rich Lowry: The disgrace of Portland

  22-07-2020 00:00
  
  If only mobs were allowed to destroy federal property without consequence.Then, there wouldn’t have to be any dispute over federal agents defending a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon; it could simply be overrun and burned to the ground with no unwelcome resistance.As it is, Portland's Mayor Ted Wheeler, who presides over a city that has become a watchword over the years for left-wing thuggery unchecked by municipal authorities, has roused himself to state of high dudgeon — over
  
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