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• Don’t plant seeds sent from China and other foreign countries, agriculture boss warns Utahns

  28-07-2020 23:56 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah’s agriculture chief Tuesday implored residents not to plant any unsolicited seeds mailed from foreign countries and to tell his department about any such packages.“We don’t introduce something that’s invasive to the state of Utah,” said Logan Wilde, the state’s commissioner of agriculture and food.At a news conference, Wilde urged Utahns receiving unexpected seeds in the mail to drop them off at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food offices at 350 N
  
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• Using the Utah desert, NASA plans to bring Mars rocks to Earth

  28-07-2020 23:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Send a robotic spacecraft to Mars, grab some rocks and dirt and bring those back to Earth.How hard could that be?It’s more like an interplanetary circus act than you might imagine, but NASA and the European Space Agency think that now is the time they can finally pull off this complex choreography, tossing the rocks from one spacecraft to another before the samples finally land on Earth in 2031.“The science community, of course, has lusted after doing this for quite some time,”
  
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• Westminster College will only play other teams in its conference this fall

  28-07-2020 22:45 via sltrib.com
  
  Westminster College and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference have joined the growing trend of opting to play only conference opponents in sports this fall.The RMAC President’s Council voted during its meeting Tuesday to go with a conference-only schedule for team sports. The decision will affect the Griffins’ women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer programs.Teams can begin practicing Aug. 24. Competition can begin Sept. 18. That day, women’s volleyba
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Low Barr

  28-07-2020 22:45 via sltrib.com
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Didn’t See That ComingStorm TrumpersWhat Women Don’t WantAntifa Super SoldierSocial Distance StudiesTaking a Knee to Voting RightsTrump’s Secret PoliceEyes on The BeehiveSecond WaveAll in the FamilyWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Paul Krugman: The cult of selfishness is killing us

  28-07-2020 22:00 via sltrib.com
  
  America’s response to the coronavirus has been a lose-lose proposition.The Trump administration and governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis insisted that there was no trade-off between economic growth and controlling the disease, and they were right — but not in the way they expected.Premature reopening led to a surge in infections: Adjusted for population, Americans are currently dying from COVID-19 at around 15 times the rate in the European Union or Canada. Yet the “rock
  
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• MLB temporarily suspends Marlins season through the weekend

  28-07-2020 21:48 via sltrib.com
  
  Miami • Major League Baseball temporarily suspended the Miami Marlins’ season through Sunday because of their worsening coronavirus outbreak, and the three remaining games in this week’s New York Yankees-Philadelphia Phillies series were postponed Tuesday.In a statement, MLB said it wanted to allow the Marlins time to focus on providing care for their players and plan for a resumption of play early next week.The Marlins remained stranded in Philadelphia, where they played last w
  
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• Utah COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to rise

  28-07-2020 21:47 via sltrib.com
  
  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. For the past week, Utah’s hospital beds have been occupied by more coronavirus patients than at any time since the beginning of the pandemic.There were 211 patients hospitalized concurrently as of Tuesday, for a 7-day average of 2
  
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• Report: undocumented Utahns have missed out on $154M in emergency aid

  28-07-2020 21:32 via sltrib.com
  
  To Alexandria Taylor, it feels like the coronavirus has been chipping away at her family’s stability for weeks.First, business dried up for her husband, who installs countertops and tile for a living. Without the income, her family slipped behind on their mortgage payments. Then, the illness itself swept through their Salt Lake City household, forcing her husband to stay home from work altogether so he could take care of his wife and three daughters.For a moment, it looked like there might
  
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• Eric Walden: Not-quite NBA bubble life teeming with busy airports, COVID tests, Florida man and other scary things

  28-07-2020 21:32 via sltrib.com
  
  Orlando, Fla. • As my wife pulled up to the curb at Terminal 2 at Salt Lake City International Airport on Monday morning to drop me off for my upcoming flight to Orlando, we were both struck by the fact that there were so few drop-offs taking place. None of the usual white-knuckled, in-and-out dance that typically occurs there was actually occurring.“Are there really still that few people flying now?” we wondered.It took all of an hour for me to be disabused of that notion.The t
  
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• A toast to Utah liquor dollars: They topped a half-billion for first the time

  28-07-2020 21:27 via sltrib.com
  
  For the first time Utah history, annual sales of wine, beer and spirits broke the half-billion mark.Alcohol sales in the state reached $500.32 million in fiscal 2019-20, which ended June 30, according to preliminary numbers presented Tuesday to the state liquor commission.If those numbers hold, it would represent an increase of 4.38%, or $21 million, above the previous year — when sales hit $479.32 million.Those dollars actually represent a slowdown in growth for the Utah Department of Alc
  
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• Utah teachers union demands that the governor abandon his plan to open schools

  28-07-2020 21:15 via sltrib.com
  
  The largest teachers union in the state is calling on Gov. Gary Herbert to keep Utah schools closed this fall — saying it’s too dangerous for educators and students to return while cases of the coronavirus remain high.The demand from the Utah Education Association comes as districts are required to present plans for how they will reopen by the end of the week. Districts are largely offering hybrid options, where some students would come to class while others would be educated remotel
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: COVID-19’s impact on Utah’s workplaces

  28-07-2020 20:01 via sltrib.com
  
  Unemployment levels in Utah and across the U.S. remain high by historical standards. Tomorrow at noon, reporter Tony Semerad will speak with Kevin Burt from Utah’s Department of Workforce Services about unemployment trends, the recent elimination of a $600-per-week benefits stipend for recipients, and ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Utah’s workplaces.You can watch the discussion live on our Facebook page.Send your questions to [email protected], or tweet them using #
  
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• Tanner Ainge, Utah County commissioner, to spend six weeks in military training in Georgia

  28-07-2020 19:55 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah County Commissioner Tanner Ainge will head to Georgia in August for six weeks of military training as part of his Utah National Guard service.Ainge, 36, received his orders Monday, and notified Utah County officials and the public Tuesday. His training will run at Fort Benning, Ga., from Aug. 9 to Sept. 18.In May, Ainge was sworn in as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, or JAG — who represent the Army and soldiers in military legal matters. He is a lawyer and has wo
  
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• Salt Lake City to start collecting parking fares again

  28-07-2020 19:55 via sltrib.com
  
  Free parking was nice while it lasted, but Salt Lake City will require motorist to start paying again in two weeks.The city had paused metered parking enforcement in March as part of its pandemic response. Officials now say businesses need parking fees and turnover to bring in more patrons.“We are glad we were able to suspend enforcement for the time we did, and understand it was helpful [when] many street-level businesses were closed,” Mayor Erin Mendenhall said in a news release. &
  
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• Salt Lake County wants to give $35 million to local businesses

  28-07-2020 19:20 via sltrib.com
  
  After doling out funds to nearly 150 business owners, Salt Lake County is expanding its Small Business Impact Grant program so more people can apply.The county’s first round of grants was only open to businesses that had not received funds from other programs, including the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Now any small Salt Lake County-based business impacted by the coronavirus pandemic can apply.“We want to make sure we’re understanding the ripple effect, and addressing t
  
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• William Barr condemns ‘rioters’ in much-anticipated House testimony

  28-07-2020 19:03 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • Attorney General William Barr defended the aggressive federal law enforcement response to civil unrest in America, saying on Tuesday “violent rioters and anarchists have hijacked legitimate protests” sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.Barr told members of the House Judiciary Committee at a much-anticipated election year hearing the violence taking place in Portland, Oregon, and other cities is disconnected from Floyd's killing,
  
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• Hawaii man pleads guilty to cyberstalking Utah family

  28-07-2020 18:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Salt Lake City • A Hawaii man accused of tormenting a Utah family for more than a year by using the internet to send more than 500 people to their house for unwanted services including food deliveries, repairs, tow trucks, locksmiths, plumbers and prostitutes pleaded guilty Monday to one count of cyberstalking.Loren Okamura, 44, entered the pleas during a video conference hearing based out of U.S. District Court in Utah that capped off a case that prosecutors called an “extreme”
  
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• District 6 candidates looking to bring fresh perspective to Salt Lake County

  28-07-2020 17:16 via sltrib.com
  
  Come January, residents of Salt Lake County’s District 6 will have a new Council member.Dea Theodore, a Republican, faces Terri Tapp Hrechkosy, a Democrat, in the Nov. 3 election after Theodore handily defeated three-term incumbent Council member Max Burdick in the June 30 GOP primary. Hrechkosy also won a runoff election, beating Aaron Dekeyzer.Both general election candidates said that as they canvassed during the primaries, residents said they had no idea who the incumbent was.“I
  
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• Utah’s linebackers will be mostly young, but Devin Lloyd will provide veteran leadership

  28-07-2020 16:49 via sltrib.com
  
  One of the University of Utah’s biggest positional questions entering 2019 was at linebacker. Fortunately, it was not as big a detriment as everyone feared.Francis Bernard started all 14 games at mac linebacker, registered 85 tackles and two interceptions and was named all-Pac-12 first team. Devin Lloyd was a full-time starter for the first time, earning all-Pac-12 honorable mention honors after 91 tackles and 6.5 sacks from his rover position.Entering 2020, new questions at linebacker hav
  
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• Robert Kirby: COVID-19 testing is going to the dogs

  28-07-2020 14:15 via sltrib.com
  
  In a discovery that could change the medical profession forever, dogs in Germany are being trained to detect COVID-19 in humans via smell alone.It’s true. Medical squints at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover report that eight detection dogs were able to identify with 94% accuracy how many of over 1,000 human saliva samples contained the virus.This isn’t all that surprising, given that dogs have already been trained to detect malaria, cancer, drugs, fear, explosives and s
  
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• Spencer Cox won’t say whether he supports a mask mandate

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox has taken to Twitter multiple times over the past few weeks to espouse the benefits of face masks, including research that shows they lower the severity of COVID-19 and reduce transmission rates.He’s implored his 43,000 Twitter followers to wear a face covering when out in public. And he’s noted that the data showing a reduction in cases in Salt Lake County since leaders issued a mask mandate there is “just too clear.” Despite his social media admonit
  
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• Letter: Trump undermines the rule of law

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  From the very beginning, President Donald Trump’s entire administration has been marked by a series of actions intended to undermine the rule of law. Now he has kicked it up a notch. Without requests from local or state authorities, he has deployed federal paramilitary forces to Portland, Ore., in camouflage without identification, who beat peaceful protesters and kidnap them into unmarked cars without ever declaring why they are being detained. This is Trump’s view of “law and
  
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• Letter: Protect Utah’s beauty

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I am writing not as a resident but as a frequent visitor to Utah’s spectacular redrock public lands. Since my first visit in 1990, I have made yearly trips to Utah, for the beauty, the peace, the unadulterated landscape. I treasure the petroglyphs, pictographs and remains of cliff dwellings as the historical record of this country before the white settlers moved in and claimed it as theirs. Visitors from around the globe flock to Utah’s redrock canyon country to enjoy unparalleled sc
  
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• Letter: Let’s work toward a more perfect union

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  In the 18th century, a group of remarkable people found themselves with the opportunity to form a new government. After years of study, debate and compromise, they created a government unique in the history of the world. Ideas like “all men are created equal,” “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,” and “We the People” were the result of their work.These were imperfect people writin
  
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• Letter: It’s not hard to quit using racial slurs

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Redskin is a racial slur. It’s demeaning and hurtful — even Merriam Webster defines it as offensive.I have worked with, served with and acquired lifelong friendships with a number of Native Americans of many different tribes from the Navaho, Hopi, Paiute, Nez Perce, Shoshone, Havasupai, Ute and Lakota to name a few. Never have they referred to themselves or have I referred to them by that word. It's just not done.Something too often left out or forgotten from this dialogue is the Uta
  
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• Letter: How will history remember this time?

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  We are at a point in our history when we must confront who our “heroes” are. Statues have been toppled; streets, buildings, mascots and universities have been renamed. Even parts of our history have undergone rewrites because old narratives no longer appear accurate or merit our respect.This has been forcefully brought to our attention with the death of Rep. John Lewis and a review of his remarkable life. He was a gentle man and a true hero in the defense of human rights and justice
  
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• Here’s why Utahns do or don’t wear a mask during the pandemic and what physicians have to say about it

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Some Utahns see wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic as a social responsibility. “I wear a mask because it helps protect people around me,” said Kris Irvin, 33, of Bluffdale. “I think it’s a respect thing.”Others aren’t convinced that face masks protect them from contracting the coronavirus, or insist mask mandates violate their constitutional rights.“Masks CAN be effective, but the benefits are so minimal that they should not be required,”
  
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• Gary Paul Nabhan: The wall with Mexico will come tumbling down

  28-07-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Few walls last forever. Last winter, part of President Trump’s new border wall wavered toward collapse under the force of strong winds whipping through the twin cities of Calexico and Mexicali. An 80-foot segment lurched into Mexican territory, and it took cranes from the U.S. side to right the steel panels.Most of the families I know that live close to the border have arrived at the same conclusion: The monstrous wall so close to them has further militarized our international boundary wit
  
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• Between the lines, game is the same, but NBA players learning to fight against the quiet

  28-07-2020 06:00
  
  Referee Tony Brown blows his whistle, which is covered by a small cloth bag, during an NBA basketball game between the Toronto Raptors and the Portland Trail Blazers in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Sunday, July 26, 2020. | Tim Reynolds, Associated PressORLANDO, Fla. — Professional athletes are veterans in tuning out noise from a crowd. Over their careers, NBA players especially become adept at being able to focus on a game despite the roaring din that can take over an arena.
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• Navajo Nation reports 21 new virus cases and 2 more deaths

  28-07-2020 05:44 via sltrib.com
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Hundreds of people who had been on paid leave from their jobs with the Navajo Nation’s gambling enterprise won’t be paid after Monday.Brian Parrish, who heads the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise, said 900 employees began receiving letters and phone calls over the weekend about the layoffs.Another 125 employees will be paid for another week, he said. A skeleton crew will remain on the payroll to handle human resources work, security, management and finances,
  
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• Washington puts QB Alex Smith on physically unable to perform list

  28-07-2020 05:22 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington put quarterback Alex Smith on the physically unable to perform list Monday on the eve of the start of training camp.A physical showed Smith’s right leg has medically recovered 20 months after he broke the fibula and tibia in it during a game. But the 36-year-old veteran hasn’t been fully cleared for practices, contact or full football activity.Putting Smith on the PUP list allows the organization’s medical staff to monitor the former University of Utah quarterback&rs
  
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• Real Salt Lake out of MLS tournament after 5-2 loss to San Jose Earthquakes

  28-07-2020 04:48 via sltrib.com
  
  The San Jose Earthquakes advanced to the quarterfinals of the MLS is Back Tournament with a wild 5-2 win over Real Salt Lake on Monday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The Earthquakes play the winner of Tuesday’s game between Columbus Crew and Minnesota United.After two games of not being able to muster a single goal, RSL put two away. The first tied the game midway through the first half, and the second brought it within one just goal with plenty of time remaining.But Real also allowed the most
  
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• Death at Weber County jail called ‘suspicious’

  28-07-2020 04:29 via sltrib.com
  
  A man died at the Weber County jail on Saturday, and an investigation is underway to determine why.“The death is being investigated as suspicious,” read a news release issued by the jail.The inmate’s name has not been disclosed. The news release said he was being housed for the U.S. Marshals Service, and his next of kin is being notified.The death comes as the Weber County jail has been grappling with coronavirus outbreaks. At least 114 inmates have tested positive.This inmate
  
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• How the Utah Jazz plan on compensating for Bojan Bogdanovic’s 3-point shooting in Orlando

  28-07-2020 04:17
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell, center left, shoots over Boston Celtics’ Kemba Walker (8) during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 6, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — Each season since Quin Snyder became head coach of the Utah Jazz in 2014, the team has increased the percentage of its total shots it has taken from behind the 3-point line, following the general trend in the NBA, according to the subscription-based website C
  
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• White House, Democrats talking, but at odds on virus aid

  28-07-2020 03:45 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • Unemployment assistance, eviction protections and other relief for millions of Americans are at stake as White House officials launched negotiations late Monday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer on a new coronavirus aid package that’s teetering in Congress ahead of looming deadlines.While Senate Republicans struggled to roll out their own $1 trillion proposal, Pelosi implored the White House and GOP lawmakers to stop the infighting
  
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• Ross Douthat: The ghost of Margaret Sanger

  28-07-2020 03:30 via sltrib.com
  
  This week, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced that it would remove Margaret Sanger’s name from its Manhattan Health Center. The grounds were Sanger’s eugenic ideas and alliances, which for years have been highlighted by anti-abortion advocates and minimized by her admirers. Under the pressures of the current moment, apparently, that minimization isn’t sustainable anymore.This is an interesting shift from just a year ago, when Clarence Thomas faced a wave of media
  
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• Hundreds of Salt Lake County families get potatoes, sweet corn and more, thanks to Farm Bureau project

  28-07-2020 03:24 via sltrib.com
  
  Hundreds of Salt Lake County residents — many of whom lost jobs due to the coronavirus — received a donation Monday of farm-fresh Utah food.The donations — part of the Farmers Feeding Utah project — were distributed to about 600 preselected families at the Utah State Fairpark and included potatoes, sweet corn, garlic and dried cherries as well as cheese, beef, eggs and milk.Food donations also were made to various pantries in Salt Lake County, including Crossroads Urban C
  
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• Utah Jazz’s offense gets rolling in 112-107 scrimmage-finale victory over Nets

  28-07-2020 03:21 via sltrib.com
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • The Utah Jazz came into their trio of inter-squad scrimmages in Florida facing myriad questions about how the team could possibly replace the offensive production of the injured Bojan Bogdanovic.Those scrimmages are now over, and so too might be those questions.A few minutes into the third period of Monday’s 112-107 victory over the Brooklyn Nets, coach Quin Snyder pulled Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley, and Joe Ingles for good, having apparently se
  
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• Experimental COVID-19 vaccine is put to its biggest test

  28-07-2020 03:19 via sltrib.com
  
  The biggest test yet of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine got underway Monday with the first of some 30,000 Americans rolling up their sleeves to receive shots created by the U.S. government as part of the all-out global race to stop the pandemic.The glimmer of hope came even as Google, in one of the gloomiest assessments of the coronavirus’s staying power from a major employer, decreed that most of its 200,000 employees and contractors should work from home through next June — a deci
  
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• Man used peroxide to make bombs in South Jordan, police say

  28-07-2020 02:32 via sltrib.com
  
  Police on Monday elaborated on what ignited a standoff Friday with a man suspected of making bombs that forced the evacuation of a South Jordan neighborhood.No one was hurt in either the shooting that preceded the standoff or when law enforcement detonated the homemade bombs near 3400 West and 10400 South. The 42-year-old man remained in the Salt Lake County jail Monday on suspicion of a variety of assault and weapons charges. He does not have a bail, and formal charges have not been filed.Polic
  
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• 3 keys in the Utah Jazz’s 112-107 scrimmage win over the Brooklyn Nets

  28-07-2020 02:09
  
  In this file photo, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and guard Mike Conley (10) help the referees with the correct call as Utah and the Sacramento Kings play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. They both played well in Utah’s exhibition win over Brooklyn in Orlando, Florida, on Monday night. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Starters Rudy Gobert and Mike Conley helped the Utah Jazz build a big lead ear
  
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• Andy Larsen: My NBA Awards ballot, Part 2: All-NBA, All-Defense, All-Rookie

  28-07-2020 01:47 via sltrib.com
  
  After Monday’s look at the individual portion of the NBA’s award ballot, let’s examine the three different teams on the NBA’s ballot: All-NBA, All-Defense, and All-Rookie.All-NBA1st teamG: LeBron James, Los Angeles LakersG: James Harden, Houston RocketsF: Kawhi Leonard, Los Angeles ClippersF: Giannis Antetokoounmpo, Milwaukee BucksC: Anthony Davis, Los Angeles LakersThanks to LeBron James being eligible as a guard thanks to playing most of his minutes at point guard this
  
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• Kurt Hamman: Questions to be asked about nuclear power proposal

  28-07-2020 01:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Over 20 municipalities, primarily located in Utah, have signed a contract with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) to purchase entitlement shares for a first-of-a-kind nuclear power plant based on NuScale’s unproven small modular reactor (SMR) design.Ignoring the history of commercial nuclear plant construction, advocates have promoted the SMR project as a cost-effective energy resource without fully addressing the economic, contractual and litigation risks with stakeholders.Be
  
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• Self-serve buffets can start up again in Utah — with restrictions

  28-07-2020 01:20 via sltrib.com
  
  Self-serve buffets can operate again in Utah — with certain restrictions — under new guidelines announced Monday by Gov. Gary Herbert.“Patrons may self-serve from food bars,” according to the new 4.9 version of Utah’s phased guidelines, “if hand sanitizer is used by each patron each time they enter a different food bar line.”In these self-serve areas, restaurants also must replace the serving utensils every 30 minutes. Patrons also must wear face coverin
  
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• Runnin’ Utes get commitment from Dutch forward, but he’s not eligible until 2021-22

  28-07-2020 01:14 via sltrib.com
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team has completed its roster for next season by going abroad.The Utes late Monday afternoon announced the signing of Norbert Thelissen, a 6-foot-7 Dutch forward who has played professionally in the Netherlands with Den Bosch since the 2017-18 season when he was just 17.Due to NCAA rules, Thelissen will not be eligible until the 2021-22 season, but Utes coach Larry Krystkowiak told The Salt Lake Tribune in a text message that Thelissen will be on sch
  
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• Utah advocate instrumental in clearing rape kit backlog, supporting survivors dies at 42

  28-07-2020 01:05 via sltrib.com
  
  Five years ago, Utah was just beginning to come to grips with the more than 2,000 sexual assault kits that sat untested in the state. Now, Utah is on track to finally eliminate that backlog by September.“This wouldn’t have been possible without Krystal Hazlett,” according to Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, who has sponsored legislation to address testing.Described as “a force to be reckoned with” in her advocacy to support victims of sexual assault, Hazlett wa
  
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• Besides fighting COVID-19, Mitt Romney wants aid package to reform Social Security and Medicare

  28-07-2020 00:29 via sltrib.com
  
  As Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled their proposal for a next round of COVID-19 relief, they included one from Utah Sen. Mitt Romney that he says is aimed at saving soon-to-be-depleted trust funds for Social Security and Medicare.Romney calls his plan the Time to Rescue United States’ Trusts (TRUST) Act, which calls for creation of congressional committees specifically assigned to develop legislation to restore and strengthen endangered federal trust funds.“Among its many devast
  
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