• Payson police looking for man who hit someone with a sledgehammer, then punched kids in a day care

    Payson police looking for man who hit someone with a sledgehammer, then punched kids in a day care
    Police in Payson are asking residents to shelter in place while they look for a man who attacked someone with a sledgehammer and then entered a day care center and started punching children.Payson police, in a statement, said that a woman reported that the man was attacking one of her neighbors with a sledgehammer, near the intersection of 600 East and 500 South, at about 10:30 a.m. Friday.The woman yelled at the man to stop, and the man “turned his attention to her,” the statement f
  • Senate confirms native Utahn as deputy U.S. trade represenative and ambassador

    Senate confirms native Utahn as deputy U.S. trade represenative and ambassador
    The U.S. Senate this week confirmed native Utahn Michael Nemelka as a new deputy U.S. trade representative, with the rank of ambassador.He will succeed C.J. Mahoney as deputy trade representative for investment, services, labor, environment, Africa, China and the Western Hemisphere.During his confirmation hearing last month, Nemelka promised to help ensure that China does not violate trade agreements. “We must ensure that China lives up to its commitments. And we have an agreement that is
  • BYU AD Tom Holmoe is giving players not just hope for a football season, but a way to navigate the pandemic

    BYU AD Tom Holmoe is giving players not just hope for a football season, but a way to navigate the pandemic
    It's been a rollercoaster week for BYU football.But while the Cougars have had to deal with cancellations and a single addition to their schedule while watching the school’s other sports programs lose out on fall seasons due to the West Coast Conference’s recent decision to postpone to spring, the Cougars are using their fall camp practices for more than just holding out hope for a chance to play.Being able to practice serves as a reprieve to a pandemic that encourages people to self
  • Former Utah Jazz forward Paul Millsap still producing, leading at a high level for Denver Nuggets

    Former Utah Jazz forward Paul Millsap still producing, leading at a high level for Denver Nuggets
    Denver Nuggets’ Paul Millsap reacts during the first quarter against the Toronto Raptors in a game Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Millsap will face his former team, the Utah Jazz, when the two teams meet up in the NBA playoffs on Monday. | Mike Ehrmann/Pool Photo via APSALT LAKE CITY — When this most strange NBA season concludes, Paul Millsap will have spent the same number of seasons away from the Utah Jazz (seven) as he did with them to start his professional car
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  • BYU AD Tom Holmoe is giving players not just hope for a season, but a way to navigate the pandemic

    BYU AD Tom Holmoe is giving players not just hope for a season, but a way to navigate the pandemic
    It's been a rollercoaster week for BYU football.But while the Cougars have had to deal with cancellations and a single addition to their schedule while watching the school’s other sports programs lose out on fall seasons due to the West Coast Conference’s recent decision to postpone to spring, the Cougars are using their fall camp practices for more than just holding out hope for a chance to play.Being able to practice serves as a reprieve to a pandemic that encourages people to self
  • Gordon Monson: Donovan Mitchell’s words already are echoing through the Jazz-Nuggets playoff series

    Gordon Monson: Donovan Mitchell’s words already are echoing through the Jazz-Nuggets playoff series
    Eyeballing the Jazz’s first-round playoff matchup with the Denver Nuggets, Donovan Mitchell considered it carefully, measuring the thing from tip to tail, and then used six words — seven if you pay no mind to the contraction — to put it in its proper place.“It’s not going to be easy.”As Grandpa used to say, nothing worthwhile ever is.Do not be deceived, though, this is the team the Jazz wanted to face. In truth, there were no good options in the West. The Clip
  • Our commitment is to continued excellence at The Tribune

    Our commitment is to continued excellence at The Tribune
    With The Salt Lake Tribune’s shift to nonprofit status last year, we have been honored to serve as the publication’s first board of directors. The eyes of the nation are upon The Tribune as we embark on this new financial and operational model for local journalism, and we believe The Tribune is uniquely qualified to succeed as we navigate this new path.Our commitment to The Tribune, its staff and readership is to continued excellent news coverage, analysis and opinion. The Tribune mu
  • Postal Service says delays could affect multiple states’ elections

    Postal Service says delays could affect multiple states’ elections
    The Postal Service has warned states that it may not be able to meet their deadlines for delivering last-minute mail-in ballots, another development in a growing controversy over the new postmaster general’s handling of vote-by-mail operations as President Donald Trump continues to rail against the practice.In letters sent in July to states across the country — including electoral battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan — Thomas J. Marshall, general counsel for th
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  • Laurie Stringham: Beware of county mayors bearing deputies

    Laurie Stringham: Beware of county mayors bearing deputies
    It was just over 20 years ago that I was actively involved in the push for Salt Lake County to switch from county commissioners to a mayor and County Council. Therefore I have watched with interest as Utah County proposes to voters the choice of moving from a three-person County Commission to a mayor and a five-person County Council.Although today I would vote the same as I did 20 years ago, I would only do so if tighter parameters were put into place. At the time, hope was running high and I be
  • Mitt Romney says world must awake to growing threats from China

    Mitt Romney says world must awake to growing threats from China
    Sen. Mitt Romney said Friday that the world is snoozing while China grows as a threat to civil rights, free economies and democracy — and that the Trump administration is failing to build a global coalition to compete against it.The Chinese “made it very clear that their objective is to become the world’s dominant player, to replace the U.S. as the leading nation on the planet, to replace the U.S. economically, militarily and geopolitically,” Romney said in a webcast to t
  • Payson police looking for man who hit someone with a sledgehammer, then punched kids in a daycare

    Payson police looking for man who hit someone with a sledgehammer, then punched kids in a daycare
    Police in Payson are asking residents to shelter in place, while they look for a man who attacked someone with a sledgehammer and then entered a daycare center and started punching children.Payson police, in a statement, said that a woman reported that the man was attacking one of her neighbors with a sledgehammer, near the intersection of 600 East and 500 South, at about 10:30 a.m. Friday.The woman yelled at the man to stop, and the man “turned his attention to her,” the statement f
  • Delayed lab report leads to ‘artifically high’ report of 552 new COVID-19 cases in Utah

    Delayed lab report leads to ‘artifically high’ report of 552 new COVID-19 cases in Utah
    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. A reporting delay led to an elevated number of new coronavirus cases in Utah on Friday, with 552 new diagnoses added to the state’s total, along with seven new deaths.“Of these 552 cases, 144 of them are from a delay in repo
  • Utah Museum of Fine Arts sets a reopening date of Aug. 26

    Utah Museum of Fine Arts sets a reopening date of Aug. 26
    The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is getting ready to reopen, five months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to close its doors.The museum, on the University of Utah campus, has set its reopening for Wednesday, Aug. 26, museum officials said.Operating hours will be curtailed to Wednesdays through Fridays, from noon to 5 p.m. Seniors and visitors at high risk for being ill from COVID-19 will be able to attend those days, from 11 a.m. to noon.UMFA members, docents and volunteers, and essential healt
  • Hideout City Council repeals controversial annexation resolution

    Hideout City Council repeals controversial annexation resolution
    In a 4-1 vote, the Hideout Town Council repealed a contentious amendment Friday related to the town’s efforts to annex a large swath of land near Park City.At issue was Resolution 2020-05, a pre-annexation agreement with developers Nate Brockbank and Josh Romney, son of U.S. Senator Mitt Romney. The Council approved the resolution without discussion on July 9. It also listed the action item on its agenda only 24 hours before the meeting and did not include a copy of the resolution in a pub
  • With football and fall sports canceled, Utah and the Pac-12 must now deal with the damage

    With football and fall sports canceled, Utah and the Pac-12 must now deal with the damage
    On July 31, the Pac-12 released an aggressive, albeit optimistic 10-game conference-only football schedule, which was to begin Sept. 26.That moment two weeks ago may have felt like a new beginning in the face of COVID-19, but in hindsight, the pandemic was already seeing to it that there would be no football on the West Coast this fall.Roughly two weeks ago, a board of Pac-12 medical advisors, which includes the University of Utah’s team physician, Dr. David Petron, began voicing greater c
  • Veronika Tait: Right-wing media gives BLM movement a bad rap

    Veronika Tait: Right-wing media gives BLM movement a bad rap
    Right-wing media portrays Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests as a radical terrorist group. While admittedly some members have engaged in violence, rioting and looting, the conservative media often downplays or completely ignores three key things.First, white supremacists and extreme right-wing groups such as the Boogaloo boys have played a major role in counter-protesting. Some have instigated the rioting during what were previously peaceful protests in order to discredit the BLM movement. One Bo
  • Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley: Trump sometimes stumbles on the truth

    Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley: Trump sometimes stumbles on the truth
    “China could have stopped it.” — President Donald J. TrumpIt’s easy to dismiss the false things Donald Trump says as just more non-sequiturs, “alternate facts,” delusions, fantasies or intentional falsehoods.He does, after all, add daily to the count of fictions being tabulated by The Washington Post. He has told 20,000-plus lies since the beginning of his catastrophic presidency — an average of 15 lies a day. But let’s be fair: The Post doesn&rsqu
  • With football and other fall sports canceled, Utah and fellow Pac-12 schools now face the task of dealing with the damage

    With football and other fall sports canceled, Utah and fellow Pac-12 schools now face the task of dealing with the damage
    On July 31, the Pac-12 released an aggressive, albeit optimistic 10-game conference-only football schedule, which was to begin Sept. 26.That moment two weeks ago may have felt like a new beginning in the face of COVID-19, but in hindsight, the pandemic was already seeing to it that there would be no football on the West Coast this fall.Roughly two weeks ago, a board of Pac-12 medical advisors, which includes the University of Utah’s team physician, Dr. David Petron, began voicing greater c
  • Costs soar 81% for new UTA bus facility — from $52.5 million to $95 million

    Costs soar 81% for new UTA bus facility — from $52.5 million to $95 million
    Five years ago, the Utah Transit Authority announced plans for a new “state-of-the-art maintenance and fueling facility for its growing fleet of clean air vehicles” that it projected would be completed by 2019 and cost $52.5 million.Now, partway through the project in downtown Salt Lake City, costs have grown to an estimated $95 million, up 81%.And completion now is not expected until early 2023.“Costs were pretty conceptual” when those first estimates were made, UTA spok
  • LDS Church phasing out Ensign, its 50-year-old magazine, for new global publications

    LDS Church phasing out Ensign, its 50-year-old magazine, for new global publications
    After almost 50 years as a staple in Latter-day Saint households, Ensign magazine is being replaced.The governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that it is ending its four current magazines, including Ensign and New Era, replacing them with three global publications, starting in January.Ensign, an English-language publication that features articles for adult readers, will be phased out in favor of a new magazine, called the Liahona. That titl
  • Chicago Bulls fire ex-Utah coach Jim Boylen after missing playoffs again

    Chicago Bulls fire ex-Utah coach Jim Boylen after missing playoffs again
    Chicago • The Chicago Bulls fired coach Jim Boylen on Friday, the new front office beginning its remake of a team that missed the playoffs again.The Bulls were 22-43 and were one of the eight teams that didn't qualify for the NBA's restart at Walt Disney World. That meant they wouldn't make the postseason for the fourth time in five years.Chicago then hired Arturas Karnisovas as executive vice president of basketball operations, and on Friday he decided he wanted a new coach."This was a ver
  • Salt Lake City enforcing metered parking once more

    Salt Lake City enforcing metered parking once more
    After a five-month break, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Salt Lake City started reinforcing metered parking areas in the city on Wednesday.Salt Lake City Public Services suggests downloading the free ParkSLC app “to avoid interacting with the pay station kiosks,” the department said in a tweet.The city paused metered parking enforcement back in March as part of its COVID-19 pandemic response and started phasing back by allowing a two-week warning period starting in late July. As of Au
  • Pepper Glass: Ogden suffers from an undeserved reputation

    Pepper Glass: Ogden suffers from an undeserved reputation
    The death of George Floyd, and ensuing protests across the country, have once again highlighted vast social divisions. We have literally built these fractures into our world. In most every U.S. city, you will find poorer and minority communities living on the “bad” side of town.We think of the reputations of places as obvious. As a result of crime, gangs, violence, graffiti and dilapidated buildings, we label communities as “ghettos,” “bad neighborhoods,” &ldq
  • Marina Gomberg fights panic… and wins

    Marina Gomberg fights panic… and wins
    OK, it’s day infinity of this pandemic and my queen Michelle Obama and I are really starting to feel it. She’s got some “low-grade depression” and I’ve got some of that, too.But can I tell you what’s really getting me lately? The anxiety. Not just heavy worries about the world — those are pretty rational and expected right now. I am talking unhinged, feral, sit-right-down anxiety.And it’s outrageous because this pandemic-election-racial movement is
  • U.S. West faces reckoning over water but avoids cuts for now

    U.S. West faces reckoning over water but avoids cuts for now
    Carson City, Nev. • The white rings that wrap around two massive lakes in the U.S. West are a stark reminder of how water levels are dropping and a warning that the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River face a much drier future.Amid prolonged drought and climate change in a region that's only getting thirstier, when that reckoning will arrive — and how much time remains to prepare for it — is still a guess.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is expected to release projecti
  • Navajo president: Schools should use online learning in fall

    Navajo president: Schools should use online learning in fall
    Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is urging all schools on the tribe’s reservation to use online learning during the fall semester to help reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus.Nez's statement released Thursday night mentioned all public and private schools, including charter schools, schools operated by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and those controlled by the tribe.“The number one priority is the safety and health of all students, teachers
  • Bulls fire ex-Utah coach Jim Boylen after missing playoffs again

    Bulls fire ex-Utah coach Jim Boylen after missing playoffs again
    Chicago • The Chicago Bulls fired coach Jim Boylen on Friday, the new front office beginning its remake of a team that missed the playoffs again. The Bulls were 22-43 and were one of the eight teams that didn't qualify for the NBA's restart at Walt Disney World. That meant they wouldn't make the postseason for the fourth time in five years.Chicago then hired Arturas Karnisovas as executive vice president of basketball operations, and on Friday he decided he wanted a new coach."This was a ve
  • 3 new places to eat in Salt Lake County

    3 new places to eat in Salt Lake County
    The coronavirus has been tough on Utah’s restaurant industry, but it hasn’t prevented some business owners from launching new places to eat.There’s a new Southern-inspired restaurant that opened this week in Salt Lake City and a neighborhood hangout with sandwiches and small bites in the Liberty Wells neighborhood.We also found a family-run tamale shop in a strip mall that’s not only surviving, but thriving.They’re all following social distancing — and other h
  • Utah State coach Gary Andersen laments the lost football season, but plans to keep the Aggies busy

    Utah State coach Gary Andersen laments the lost football season, but plans to keep the Aggies busy
    Gary Andersen had to break the news to his players over Zoom. The Mountain West Conference had just axed all fall sports, including football, ending the 2020 Utah State season before it had a chance to hold workouts scheduled to resume Aug. 24. Days prior, the MW announced a pandemic-shortened season.But that was before some of the biggest conferences in the country decided fall sports was too risky. As of Thursday, the Pac 12, Big 10,Ivy League and many others won’t play fall seasons
  • Robert Kirby: Coming to America gets expensive

    Robert Kirby: Coming to America gets expensive
    Confession time. In October 1975, my wife sought asylum in the United States. She was desperate to live in a land free from the terrors of wolves, arctic temperatures and a state police known as the Mounties.So eager was my wife to flee her former life in Canada and come to America that she was willing to marry far below her station.We weren’t entirely sure about how an international marriage would work, so after our wedding reception in Calgary, Alberta, I drove down through Idaho alone.
  • Salt Lake City’s new Methodist pastor is meeting her congregants where they live — literally

    Salt Lake City’s new Methodist pastor is meeting her congregants where they live — literally
    For two months, the new pastor of two Salt Lake City Methodist churches has been driving to the homes of her congregants to introduce herself and to take selfies.The Rev. AJ Bush pulls up to a house, rings the doorbell and proceeds to have a friendly, albeit socially distanced, conversation with members of at least 60 households now under her charge. And, of course, she documents the event for social media.That’s because Bush arrived in Utah during the coronavirus pandemic and the churches
  • Utah senator wants to change the gang enhancement law used against protesters

    Utah senator wants to change the gang enhancement law used against protesters
    A Utah senator says he’ll work to change the state’s gang enhancement laws after Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill used it to heighten the potential penalty for a group of protesters who allegedly damaged the district attorney’s building in July.Gill’s office received international attention after charging eight protesters with felonies for allegedly painting the street and facade of his office building red and breaking some windows during a July 9 protest. Seve
  • Melissa Fields: Save open space at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon

    Melissa Fields: Save open space at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon
    Since the COVID-19 pandemic made its rude arrival at Utah’s doorstep back in March, the days that I have not walked along a trail or in a park near my home in Cottonwood Heights could be counted on one hand.Not only has getting out of my house and into nature provided me with a vital respite from the daily news cycle, but it’s also given me a relatively safe way to be with people I love outside of my immediate family. And, judging by how many I’ve seen along the trail or sittin
  • Letter: What happened to the Sim Gill we knew?

    Letter: What happened to the Sim Gill we knew?
    To Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill,We have met, though I don’t know you well personally. I do consider you a friend because we share political instincts.I have admired your approach to the criminal justice system and your pursuit of reform of the punitive, racist and ultimately unfair laws of incarceration. But, Sim, this time you are wrong.Apparently, your public sense of fairness doesn’t jive with your personal reality. Just because your cheek gets bruised by citizens g
  • David Burns: Is this the Fourth Founding?

    David Burns: Is this the Fourth Founding?
    In a recent eulogy, President Obama saluted Rep. John Lewis as a “founding father” of a “fuller, better” America. That was fair, because the United States is still an unfinished project.Alone among nations, America was conceived as an idea, based on political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. In school, we were taught that the expression of these principles in Revolutionary War Era documents created the founding. But like a ship, the American pro
  • Ben McAdams and Burgess Owens sound off on federal response to the pandemic

    Ben McAdams and Burgess Owens sound off on federal response to the pandemic
    The public health and economic crisis will likely be the top issues as voters fill out their ballots this fall, including in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, where first-term Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams faces a challenge from Republican Burgess Owens.Pandemic relief will likely remain a top point of contention when the victor heads to Washington, D.C., in January.Congress will need to contemplate the distribution of a vaccine to millions of Americans after warnings from the Centers for D
  • Letter: Vandalism is not free speech

    Letter: Vandalism is not free speech
    If I am to understand Sam Johnston, a Salt Lake attorney whose letter appeared in a recent Public Forum, the protesters who defaced the recently constructed Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office should be forgiven for their vandalism because after all it was a simple act of freedom of speech.Following that logic, then surely those who paint redrock green or blue in Utah’s scenic southwestern parks should be forgiven because their self expression is what it is, and at least they
  • Davis defeats Herriman as prep football season kicks off amid coronavirus concerns

    Davis defeats Herriman as prep football season kicks off amid coronavirus concerns
    Announcer Jess Gomez screamed a gravelly question to the fans waiting for football to start at Herriman High.“Are you ready for football?!”The fans cheered in agreement at a volume commensurate with any other well-attended high school football game in Utah, particularly one that opens a season.The decibel level of Gomez’s call and the fans’ answer made it easy to assume their exclaims went unobstructed. But everyone involved in the exchange was wearing face masks, which w
  • Letter: Churches should provide space for schools

    Letter: Churches should provide space for schools
    Come on, churches. All you really have to do is say: “We’re in!”Embrace Julie Day’s suggestion to open up the churches to get the schools the social distancing space they need.We all know that Utah is at the top of the national list for school overcrowding. You would be stepping up and addressing our number one problem.It would give us all a fresh start. It would unleash all kinds of energy where the whole community would be pulling in the same direction. And, I dare say,
  • UAE and Israel to establish full diplomatic ties after reaching historic deal

    UAE and Israel to establish full diplomatic ties after reaching historic deal
    Jerusalem • Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced Thursday they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestinians.The historic deal delivered a key foreign policy victory to President Donald Trump as he seeks re-election and reflected a changing Middle East in which shared concerns about archenemy Iran have largely overtaken traditional Arab support for the
  • The Nuggets swept the season series, but Denver’s defense is a weakness the Jazz can exploit

    The Nuggets swept the season series, but Denver’s defense is a weakness the Jazz can exploit
    Utah Jazz’ Rudy Gobert (27) dunks during the third quarter against the Denver Nuggets in an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox, Pool Photo via AP The Jazz and Nuggets will begin a best-of-seven series to open the first round of the 2020 NBA playoffs and if the most recent contest between these teams was any indication of what’s to come, there’s a serious battle on the horizon.SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz’s most ri
  • Michelle Goldberg: After Trump, America needs accountability for his corruption

    Michelle Goldberg: After Trump, America needs accountability for his corruption
    Last week, NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Joe Biden whether, if elected, he could envision Donald Trump being prosecuted. Biden replied that the prosecution of a former president would be a “very, very unusual thing” and probably “not very good for democracy.” The former vice president said he would not stand in the way if the Justice Department wanted to bring a case, but when Garcia-Navarro pressed him, he suggested she was trying to bait him into a version of Tr
  • The Triple Team: After Jazz regular season ends, reviewing our preseason questions

    The Triple Team: After Jazz regular season ends, reviewing our preseason questions
    Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 118-112 win over the San Antonio Spurs from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Maybe some of these guys will be useful in the playoffs?It was a final game that didn’t matter for either team. The Spurs were already eliminated from the playoffs for the first time since 1997 earlier in the day, and the Jazz locked in the sixth seed based on the games that occurred Wednesday night. The only long-term impact this game had was perhaps in dra
  • Meaningless win over Spurs over, Utah Jazz now turn their focus to facing the Nuggets on Monday

    Meaningless win over Spurs over, Utah Jazz now turn their focus to facing the Nuggets on Monday
    Quin Snyder and the Utah Jazz had no aversion to tanking games for playoff seeding. That mission accomplished, why would they then be averse to tanking a game to jump a few extra spots in the NBA draft?They didn’t in the end, but they easily could have. While it might be slightly hyperbolic to say that was literally all there was on the line in their seeding game finale Thursday against the San Antonio Spurs, in all honesty, it wasn’t that far off.With the sixth seed and a first-roun
  • Dio Tararrel: Biking in the age of coronavirus is the least we can do

    Dio Tararrel: Biking in the age of coronavirus is the least we can do
    Someday, when my daughter asks what life was like during the coronavirus, I have three things in mind for what I’m going to tell her.The first is a video I saw from Italy, of a hand turning the pages of the newspaper obituaries. In February, the section was a page and a half. By March, it was 10 pages.The second is how (somehow) wearing a mask became political. It was bizarre, but there was one benefit: it made it clear – as clear as the mask on your face – who among us was wil
  • Fourth person faces federal arson charges for lighting police car on fire during SLC protest

    Fourth person faces federal arson charges for lighting police car on fire during SLC protest
    A fourth person has been charged by federal authorities in the burning of a Salt Lake City police car in May during a protest against police violence.Lateesha Richards, 24, of Salt Lake City faces one count of arson for allegedly throwing an article of clothing into the police car to serve as tinder, according to an unsealed U.S. District Court complaint.Richards, also known as Lateesha Kahryn Ritchards, appeared in court with her attorney via Zoom on Tuesday, according to the U.S. attorney&rsqu
  • Letter: How to hold leaders accountable

    Letter: How to hold leaders accountable
    What does it mean to hold elected officials “accountable”? Katie Krongard (“We don’t pay attention to our school board, and this is what we get,” Aug. 1) seems to think it means raising her voice “often” and “loud(ly)” to remind elected officials that “they represent us.” Really? Does any elected official need frequent, amplified reminders by whom they were voted into office? As a former city council member, I found when constitue
  • Here’s the schedule for the Utah Jazz-Denver Nuggets playoff series

    Here’s the schedule for the Utah Jazz-Denver Nuggets playoff series
    Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson (00) tries to shoot at the end of the third quarter as Denver Nuggets’ Mason Plumlee (7) and PJ Dozier (35) look on during an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| AP SALT LAKE CITY — Not all of the NBA playoff bracket has been finalized yet, but on Thursday evening the league announced the schedule for the first-round series between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets, a matchup that was finalized on Wednesday.
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  • James Czerniawski and Nick Grose: Utah should embrace the innovation that springs from economic disruption

    James Czerniawski and Nick Grose: Utah should embrace the innovation that springs from economic disruption
    Utah is a state that typically prides itself on being a safe harbor for businesses and supportive of innovative and forward thinking business models. However, the state may not be living up to this claim, as many entrepreneurs have experienced run-ins within regulators while trying to do something unique and different.Fear of the new is an age-old problem. Even in the technology age with its rapid innovations, constant fears of worst-case scenarios arise — but typically end up being unfoun
  • Bagley Cartoon: Fire Flighter

    Bagley Cartoon: Fire Flighter
    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:VeepQuality vs. QanonBlowing Up the MessengerGoes to ElevenDr. Donald’s DevoteesCottonwood Heights LowsBusiness DocsJohn LewisMaking Moscow Great AgainLow BarrWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.

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