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• The 2020 Tokyo Summer Games were supposed to start this weekend. Here’s what was lost, and what might be next.

  23-07-2020 23:29
  
  The building wraps were nothing but window dressing, really.Literally as tall as a skyscraper and as big as an office building, they could swathe downtown’s most monolithic edifices with the likenesses of some of the USA’s most recognizable winter athletes. Yet when it came to hosting the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, they were just nice, not necessary. So it wasn’t until carefully scrutinizing the budget five months before the opening ceremonies — barely enough time to get
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert accused of hosting unmasked guests at outdoor party

  23-07-2020 22:46
  
  Nicholas Rupp and his husband were partway through their ramble through the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City Wednesday evening when they realized they were passing a soiree on the lawn of the Utah governor’s mansion.Music floated in their direction from behind the fence, and Rupp noticed a harp sitting outside the stately residence. Illuminated by overhead string lights, caterers balanced trays of food and cleared away dirty dishes.The roughly 20 guests who were milling around the ma
  
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• D.C.’s NFL club will become Washington Football Team for 2020 season

  23-07-2020 22:25
  
  Washington D.C.‘s NFL team will go by the Washington Football Team for at least the 2020 season, giving the organization time to choose a new, full-time name.Gone is the Indian head logo and the name Native American advocates have called a dictionary-defined racial slur. Here to stay are the burgundy and gold colors that are synonymous with the franchise's storied history.Executive vice president and chief marketing officer Terry Bateman, hired Monday to oversee the name change and rebrand
  
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• Pioneer Day fireworks and events are still taking place around Utah

  23-07-2020 22:16
  
  While there won’t be the traditional Days of ’47 events in Salt Lake City, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some Utah cities and towns won’t let the holiday go by completely unobserved.Some communities will shoot off fireworks, viewable from a long way away from the launch point. And some municipalities will stage events outdoors, where the spread of the virus can be lessened (with masks and other protocols, of course).Here is a rundown of fireworks shows and other events around U
  
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• COVID-19 hospitalizations hit new record as Utah reports 7 new deaths and 521 new cases

  23-07-2020 22:04
  
  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. With seven Utah new coronavirus deaths reported Friday and the highest number of patients concurrently hospitalized since the beginning of the pandemic, the effects of the spread of the virus continue to be felt even as new cases remain
  
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• 14-year-old Utah boy arrested after he reportedly shot and killed his neighbor

  23-07-2020 22:01
  
  A 14-year-old Sandy boy has been booked into juvenile detention after he reportedly shot his 18-year-old neighbor to death.The alleged shooter and the victim, who were neighbors in a Sandy mobile home park, got into a “heated argument” about 6 p.m. Wednesday near 200 W. Eastgate Drive, according to Sgt. Clay Swenson of the Sandy Police Department.“We’re still looking into exactly what led up to the argument,” he said, “which escalated to the point where a gun
  
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• Gavin Noyes: Time for Utah’s state holiday to have different name

  23-07-2020 22:00
  
  In Utah, July 24 is a state holiday, officially named “Pioneer Day.” We hold parades, have big firework displays, rodeos and, most years, we barbecue with family and friends.July 24, 1847, however, also marks the day our state was colonized. Pioneer Day is the anniversary of when that Mormon exiles from east of the Mississippi invaded Native American homelands. To some, this public holiday commemorates the occupation of stolen lands, the diversion of waters, the extirpation of wildli
  
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• University of Utah’s theater students of color describe systemic racism and call for change

  23-07-2020 21:57
  
  Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) students have sent a clear message to the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre: “You have lost our trust.”In a letter to President Ruth Watkins, U. trustees and the department, the students said they feel “unsafe, exploited, belittled and unwelcome” in the U.’s classrooms and productions due to pressure to perform in stereotypical roles. They also list a curriculum that includes few plays that tell the storie
  
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• Delta Air Lines permanently bans scores of flyers for refusing to wear masks

  23-07-2020 21:49
  
  Delta Air Lines — which now provides about 70% of departures from Salt Lake City International Airport — is serious about requiring masks on its flights.“We’ve already banned 120 passengers from future travel with Delta for refusing to wear masks on board,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian wrote to company employees in an email on Thursday.He added that the airline just strengthened a policy requiring customers who believe that medical issues prevent them from wearing a mask to
  
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• Mike Tyson, 54, to return for exhibition match against Roy Jones Jr.

  23-07-2020 21:39
  
  Carson, Calif. • Mike Tyson is coming back to boxing at age 54.The former heavyweight champion will meet four-division champion Roy Jones Jr. in an eight-round exhibition match on Sept. 12 at Dignity Health Sports Park.Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history when he won the title in 1986 at age 20 and for a time was the most feared fighter in boxing. But his career became littered with distractions and he hasn't boxed since 2005 after losing his second straight fight.He ha
  
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• Release the Kraken: Seattle unveils name for NHL franchise

  23-07-2020 21:35
  
  Seattle • The name Seattle Kraken seems to have had an air of inevitability around it even during the earliest days of the NHL expansion franchise. "The first time in our office, there's only 10 of us in our office, and we put up our NHL Seattle sign on the front door. And the very next morning there was a Post-it on the door that said, 'Release the Kraken,'" Heidi Dettmer, the franchise's vice president of marketing, told The Associated Press. "So it's definitely something that we've heard
  
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• Here’s where fireworks and events are still happening in Utah for Pioneer Day

  23-07-2020 20:46
  
  While there won’t be the traditional Days of ’47 events in Salt Lake City, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some Utah cities and towns won’t let the holiday go by completely unobserved.Some communities will shoot off fireworks, viewable from a long way away from the launch point. And some municipalities will stage events outdoors, where the spread of the virus can be lessened (with masks and other protocols, of course).Here is a rundown of fireworks shows and other events around U
  
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• Utah teachers rally for masks, stronger protections in schools

  23-07-2020 20:26
  
  Wendy Moss feels like she would be safer working in an ICU than returning to her elementary school classroom this fall.At least doctors, she said, are given adequate protective equipment, such as masks and suits, and see one patient at a time. She’ll be standing in front of 30 kids in a room where the windows don’t open and with only a foot of space between the desks, and no way of knowing if one of her students is sick from the coronavirus.“We are less than 30 days before scho
  
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• Lisa Ann Thomson: Salt Lake City School Board gets an F in pandemic planning

  23-07-2020 20:19
  
  I admit, it took me a day to get to it.As the parent of three children, dropping everything at four o’clock in the afternoon is challenging. But the Salt Lake School District Board meeting was archived after its Facebook Live stream, and I took the time to watch it when the kids were in bed. It was a critical meeting to discuss the upcoming school year and our district is the last to announce its plans.I was shocked. Not by the plans, but the utter lack of them.I saw a board completely unp
  
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• Weber State football voted No. 1 in both Big Sky Conference preseason polls for first time

  23-07-2020 20:11
  
  Both coaches and the media selected Weber State to win the Big Sky Conference in their preseason polls. It is the first time in program history that the Wildcats have been placed atop both polls, which were released Thursday.The Wildcats received 28 of the 44 first-place votes and 546 points in the media poll. In the coaches’ poll, they took seven of 13 first-place votes and 135 points.“Hopefully this gets us excited about what we’re working towards and we finish the end of the
  
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• Census gives Utahns last chance to respond before someone comes knocking

  23-07-2020 19:08
  
  Utahns are being given one last chance to answer the once-every-decade census online or by phone before government workers are sent out to make in-person visits.The U.S. Census Bureau is mailing a final postcard this week to homes that have yet to respond.“Interviewers will begin visiting homes that have not responded in August,” the postcards say. “Respond today, and we will not need to send an interviewer to your door to collect your answers.”It adds that because of the
  
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• Family sues Ogden police for killing man who carried a knife on his own property

  23-07-2020 18:46
  
  The family of a 26-year-old man who was shot and killed by Ogden police in 2019 are suing the city and police department, alleging officers illegally shot the man, who wasn’t threatening anyone, on his own property.Jovany Mercado was killed Aug. 26, 2019 after officers were called to 32nd St. and Gramercy Avenue on a report of a man with a knife who’d threatened people at a party.
  (Photo courtesy Ogden Police) Jovany Mercado-BedollaOfficers found Mercado that night behind a carport.
  
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• Logan mayor proposes mask mandate amid coronavirus pandemic

  23-07-2020 18:32
  
  Logan • A mayor in northern Utah has asked for a citywide mask mandate to limit the spread of COVID-19, a request that has drawn mixed reactions from Cache County council members and city residents.“This is the critical period with students going back to school, and with university students coming back to town, you know, who are coming from out of state and other places, this is a way to help protect our community,” Logan Mayor Holly Daines said Tuesday.Daines also clarified tha
  
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• Utah’s weekly unemployment claims reach lowest level since mid-April

  23-07-2020 17:52
  
  New claims for unemployment in Utah have reached their lowest level since the pandemic rush of early April, though they remain high by historical standards.Nationally, new jobless claims rose for the first time in three weeks, with 1.42 million Americans reporting layoffs, furloughs or loss of pay for the week ending July 18, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was up from an 18-week low reached last week, at 1.3 million.That number has begun to move up again partly as a result of rising CO
  
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• Report: Pac-12 set to release 10-game conference-only football schedule next week

  23-07-2020 17:49
  
  While the rest of the Power Five tries to figure out what to do with college football, the Pac-12 is apparently ready to release its latest plan.According to a Thursday report from Jon Wilner of The Mercury News, the Pac-12 is moving forward with a 10-game conference-only schedule. When the league announced on July 10 that it was moving to a conference-only format, it said it would release a new slate no later than July 31.The plan, which still requires approval from the league’s president
  
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• Utah soldier killed in rollover accident in Syria

  23-07-2020 16:42
  
  A soldier from Utah has been killed in an accident in Syria. Sgt. Bryan Cooper Mount, 25, from St. George died in a “vehicle rollover accident while conducting reconnaissance operations” in eastern Syria, according to the Department of Defense.The accident is under investigation, but it was “not due to enemy contact.”Mount was in Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, one of several hundred U.S. troops who remain in Syria and Iraq battling the remnants of ISIS. Acco
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: ‘First Vision’ art, the Trump slump, and the latter-day love affair with middle initials

  23-07-2020 16:40
  
  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.Picturing the First Vision
  (Al Hartmann|Tribune file photo) Salt Lake City meetinghouse at 704 S. 500 East features this stained-glass window of Joseph Smith's "First Vision." (Al Hartmann/)Joseph Smith offered various
  
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• Congress passes Great American Outdoors Act to boost conservation, parks

  23-07-2020 15:59
  
  Washington • A bipartisan bill that would spend nearly $3 billion on conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands is on its way to the president’s desk after winning final legislative approval.Supporters say the measure, known as the Great American Outdoors Act, would be the most significant conservation legislation enacted in nearly half a century.The House approved the bill 310-107 Wednesday, weeks after it won overwhelming appro
  
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• Chicago Red Stars hold off Sky Blue, will face Houston Dash in Challenge Cup title game

  23-07-2020 15:21
  
  Sandy • Bianca St. Georges and Rachel Hill scored early and the Chicago Red Stars held off determined Sky Blue 3-2 on Wednesday night to earn a spot in the Challenge Cup final.The Red Stars, who played last year in the National Women's Soccer League championship game but fell to the North Carolina, will meet the Houston Dash on Sunday in the tournament's title game.The Dash, who had never made the playoffs in seven seasons in the league, defeated the Portland Thorns 1-0 in the earlier semif
  
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• Utah ‘platter maven’ makes edible art with meat, cheese and more

  23-07-2020 15:07
  
  Nicole Simper always hesitated to call herself a chef, but she could rightly be labeled a culinary artist.Yet platter maven is the title she’s chosen to embrace of late.Simper is educated in the arts and holds a degree in photography from the University of Utah but has called the kitchen her workspace since she was 16 years old. She’s served as a culinary assistant on a food-focused TV show, managed a bar and held just about every position in the restaurant industry.In February 2019,
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: How can I tell my neighbors to mask up?

  23-07-2020 15:05
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • I see so many of my elderly neighbors not wearing masks. What is the best way to ask that they wear one? Or is it better to just leave a few disposable masks at their doorstep?— Not Quite as ElderlyDear Not Quite • I’ve heard it said (a lot recently) that it used to be the parents who were the ones telling their kids to be careful. The roles have reversed, haven’t they? Now it’s the adult kids telling their elderly parents to be careful, becaus
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Catching up with the Jazz, and leaving on a jet plane (maybe)

  23-07-2020 15:00
  
  We’re 19 weeks removed now from that crazy night that changed the Utah Jazz, the NBA, and, honestly, pretty much the entire country in general.It almost seems a lifetime ago, doesn’t it?And yet here we are, 19 interminable weeks later, on the verge of Utah Jazz basketball again.A lot has happened in the lead-up to Thursday’s “intra-team scrimmage” between the Jazz and the Phoenix Suns, which will take place at 6 p.m. MT as the last of that day’s four scheduled
  
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• Robert Gehrke: A peek inside Utah’s response to the coronavirus (sort of)

  23-07-2020 15:00
  
  As new cases of the coronavirus spiked in recent weeks, Utah’s response to the pandemic has come under fire — from the push to reopen schools to Gov. Gary Herbert’s reluctance to require masks in hotspots.Recently, a ProPublica piece focused on the push by business leaders to ease economic restrictions, despite cautions from medical experts to go slow.So what’s it like to be in the place where these high-stakes decisions are being made? Well, it’s probably nothing l
  
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• Letter: The 30% puts the 70% at risk

  23-07-2020 14:00
  
  So, if most of us are clear on the science of COVID-19 (maybe 70% of us), the basics to “flatten the curve,” reduce hospitalizations and infection spread, are: Everyone wear a mask (no exceptions), social distance, groups less than 10 and hand washing.Gov. Gary Herbert and his political allies have chosen a different path. They have stepped into the camp of the 30%. The 30% puts all of us at risk.It is naive to actually think that merely asking people to do “responsible things&
  
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• Letter: Losing insurance puts families at risk

  23-07-2020 14:00
  
  According to a recent Families USA report, layoffs triggered by COVID-19 have created America’s greatest losses of health insurance coverage in its history — comprehensive health insurance has ended for 25,000 workers and their families in Utah.This number would have been even higher, but thankfully Utah (finally) fully expanded Medicaid just before the pandemic hit. After a successful ballot initiative and a year of legislative interference, Utah opened eligibility for those below 1
  
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• Letter: ‘Let them find something new’

  23-07-2020 14:00
  
  Ivanka Trump’s suggestion to “Find something new” reminds me very much of the quote attributed to Marie Antoinette saying, “Let them eat cake.”Although Marie actually never said that phrase, Ivanka Trump actually did say "Find something new" to us mere peasants.Paul Jerominski, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: ‘Flash mobs’ show no respect to others

  23-07-2020 14:00
  
  I read that “flash mobs” are gathering at stores in anti-mask protests.My problem with this is that I don’t go to stores and spit at other customers, or yell profanities at them, or try to grab an item they are particularly looking at, or bump them with my grocery cart or make insulting or inappropriate remarks to the clerks.Why? Simply because I respect them as fellow humans.However, I do wear a mask when I go to the stores. Why? Because I respect my fellow man and the desire
  
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• Letter: Enough of Stewart’s dishonesty

  23-07-2020 14:00
  
  We require a base level of honesty and integrity from our elected officials. Of course, that is a laughable aspiration when it is Rep. Chris Stewart that represents you. While seemingly harsh, it is undeniably true.Rep. Stewart’s dishonesty, however, recently reached new lows. He previously revealed in a press release on his House webpage that he voted more than “40 times to repeal, defund or dismantle” Obamacare.Consider that. He shared his pride in voting to eliminate mental
  
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• Here’s how Utah lawmakers cut state spending to cope with COVID-19

  23-07-2020 14:00
  
  A month after Utah reduced its education and general fund spending by more than $1 billion, advocates are still taking stock of the sweeping government cuts and wondering if more are in store.The reductions could’ve been much worse, they largely agree. Despite economic turmoil from the coronavirus, state revenues don’t appear to be tanking as badly as some had feared. Lawmakers also decided to draw deeply from reserve funds to help plug budget holes and protect state aid to critical
  
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• Woman shot and killed in Sandy after fight, police say

  23-07-2020 06:29
  
  A woman was shot and killed in Sandy on Wednesday night.Police responded to a call about 8 p.m. near 200 West and 8800 South and found a woman there with multiple gunshot wounds. She was transported to the hospital where she later died, according to the Sandy Police Twitter page.Officers have not released her name or age.Two men were detained at the scene and questioned as police searched for a third suspect — warning people to stay away from the area. Later, they arrested a juvenile boy.P
  
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• Betts gets $365M, 12-year deal with Dodgers through 2032

  23-07-2020 05:22
  
  Los Angeles • Even before Mookie Betts played his first game in Dodger Blue, the superstar outfielder decided his future is in Los Angeles.Betts and the Dodgers have struck baseball’s first big-money deal since the coronavirus pandemic decimated the sport’s economics, with Betts agreeing Wednesday to a $365 million, 12-year contract through 2032 on the eve of opening day.The massive agreement removes the top offensive player from next offseason’s free-agent class and puts
  
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• Utah Jazz looking to work out kinks, get feel for game in scrimmage vs. Suns

  23-07-2020 05:21
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, right, talks with coach Quin Snyder during game against Chicago Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. The Jazz will scrimmage the Suns Thursday as the NBA restart enters its next stage. | Nam Y. Huh, Associated Press The Jazz will get their first taste of what basketball is really like inside the bubble when they scrimmage on ThursdaySALT LAKE CITY — On Wednesday there was live, competitive NBA basketball being played for the first time since the league shut down on Ma
  
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• Utah Jazz eager ‘to hoop’ and work out kinks during scrimmage vs. Phoenix Suns

  23-07-2020 05:21
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, right, talks with coach Quin Snyder during game against Chicago Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. The Jazz will scrimmage the Suns Thursday as the NBA restart enters its next stage. | Nam Y. Huh, Associated Press The Jazz will get their first taste of what basketball is really like inside the bubble when they scrimmage on Thursday.SALT LAKE CITY — On Wednesday there was live, competitive NBA basketball being played for the first time since the league shut down on M
  
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• Angels’ Trout confirms he’ll play this year with baby on way

  23-07-2020 05:16
  
  Anaheim, Calif. • Mike Trout has decided to play for the Los Angeles Angels in the shortened baseball season, although his year will be paused in a few weeks by the birth of his first child.The three-time AL MVP confirmed his decision Wednesday before the Angels’ final exhibition game against the San Diego Padres at Angel Stadium.Trout expressed uncertainty earlier this month about the safety of this unique major league season, saying he wouldn’t risk his growing family’s
  
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• Analysis: Behind health, stability a key to NFL success

  23-07-2020 05:15
  
  Chiefs, 49ers, Saints, Ravens. All powerhouses last season. All in excellent position to be so again if the NFL actually gets to play during the coronavirus pandemic.Anyone who believes continuity isn’t an essential part of pro football success will need to re-examine that philosophy.As NFL teams finally get together after an offseason of virtual, well, everything, the rosters featuring stability, and coaching staffs remaining intact, will provide a huge advantage.No one is crowning any of
  
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• Fatal car chase stems from a seat belt violation, Ogden police say

  23-07-2020 05:11
  
  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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• Utah Jazz’s scrimmage goals: Keep spreading the message, and ‘go out there and just hoop’

  23-07-2020 04:31
  
  A few days after it was decided that the NBA would resume its season in the bubble campus in Orlando, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell expressed his preference for staying “on the front lines” to continue to push for change in the realms of social and racial justice: “I think that’s just something that really needs attention, as opposed to people talking about who scored 30 or 40 or who won this game. It should be about Breonna Taylor.”Almost exactly 24 hours before
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Trump’s wag-the-dog war

  23-07-2020 04:00
  
  Some presidents, when they get into trouble before an election, try to “wag the dog” by starting a war abroad. Donald Trump seems ready to wag the dog by starting a war at home. Be afraid — he just might get his wish.How did we get here? Well, when historians summarize the Trump team’s approach to dealing with the coronavirus, it will take only a few paragraphs:“They talked as if they were locking down like China. They acted as if they were going for herd immunity l
  
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• More than 20 armed men show up at Utah capitol during small demonstration against police violence

  23-07-2020 03:13
  
  (Rick Egan|The Salt Lake Tribune) John Sullivan, who formed the group Insurgence USA, stages a Solo Armed Stance to protest the federal detaining of protesters in Portland, at the State Capitol grounds. Sullivan showed up at 8 a.m. for his solo protest, by 10, more than 20 armed counterprotesters showed up on the grounds of the Capitol, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Rick Egan/)At 8 a.m., John Sullivan took his place in front of the Capitol. He was covered in black clothing and gear from head-to
  
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• Maryann Martindale: Don’t say you support health care workers if you refuse to wear a mask

  23-07-2020 02:00
  
  It sounds like a broken record — wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands, stay home if you’re sick. But despite the repetition and the pleas from medical professionals, many still refuse. It raises the question of why?Why, when people who are trained professionals, working in the very field it is to understand the best way to safeguard our health, do we choose to disregard their recommendations?My daughter was at the grocery store recently. The store has a mandated mask policy
  
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• Utah’s lawmakers are split on removing Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol

  23-07-2020 01:51
  
  A group of Republicans, including Utah’s Rep. Chris Stewart, voted with Democrats to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol — the latest reaction to a broad anti-racist movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.The measure passed the House 305-113 on Wednesday, with 72 Republicans voting with Democrats in support. In a tweet explaining his vote, Stewart wrote: “The U.S. Capitol should be reserved for pieces of art that inspire and unite us as a nation.&rd
  
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• Ten new deaths and another 566 cases reported in Utah, as COVID-19 continues to hit the Pacific Islander community

  23-07-2020 01:14
  
  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. Another 566 Utahns have contracted COVID-19 and 10 more people have died from the disease, including a member of the state’s hard-hit native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community, the Utah Department of Health reported Wednesday
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Antifa Super Soldier

  23-07-2020 01:05
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, July 23, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Social Distance StudiesTaking a Knee to Voting RightsTrump’s Secret PoliceEyes on The BeehiveSecond WaveAll in the FamilyGame Name ChangeHeard ImmunityHelp WantedSchooled by COVIDWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• The Navajo Nation closes government offices for another month

  23-07-2020 00:51
  
  Farmington, N.M. • Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez will sign a new executive order to keep a portion of the tribal government closed through Aug. 16 due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Wednesday.Divisions, departments and offices under the executive branch were to reopen July 27 under the order Nez signed late last month.Tribal officials told the Farmington Daily Times that Nez’s decision was based on recommendations and data from health-care experts.Steps for reopeni
  
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• Houston Dash upend Portland Thorns 1-0 in Challenge Cup semifinal, earn berth in NWSL title game

  23-07-2020 00:50
  
  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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