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• Coronavirus in Utah: The infection rate starts to decline, but cases are no longer going down

  23-08-2020 23:53
  
  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. The Utah Department of Health on Sunday reported a seven-day average of 349 positive COVID-19 cases per day. The new statistics culminated a week in Utah that saw fluctuating coronavirus case counts while debates about mask wearing cont
  
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• Trump to announce plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19

  23-08-2020 22:16
  
  Washington • After expressing frustration at the slow pace of approval for coronavirus treatments, President Donald Trump was set to announce on Sunday the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients.The announcement will come after days of White House officials suggesting there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease that has upended Trump's reelection chances.On the eve of the Re
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: 301 new cases, no new deaths as week ends with less than 400 cases per day

  23-08-2020 22:00
  
  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. The Utah Department of Health on Sunday reported a seven-day average of 349 positive COVID-19 cases per day. The new statistics culminated a week in Utah that saw fluctuating coronavirus case counts while debates about mask wearing cont
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: No new deaths, 301 new cases as week ends with less than 400 cases per day

  23-08-2020 21:39
  
  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. The Utah Department of Health reported no new deaths Sunday and a seven-day average of 349 positive COVID-19 cases per day. The new statistics culminated a week in Utah that saw fluctuating coronavirus case counts while debates about ma
  
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• Execution of Native American man stirs emotion within tribe

  23-08-2020 21:00
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Late on a fall evening in 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter stopped at a gas station on the Navajo Nation after searching for a traditional healer for leg ailments.There, in an area where hitchhiking is common, Slim agreed to give two males a ride. They got into her pewter-colored pickup truck and when she stopped later to let them out, they didn't budge.Instead, Lezmond Mitchell and Johnny Orsinger stabbed Slim 33 times and placed her lifeless body next to the 9-yea
  
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• Burgess Owens, Utah congressional candidate, to speak at the Republican convention

  23-08-2020 20:33
  
  Burgess Owens, the Republican candidate in Utah’s tight 4th Congressional District contest, will speak at the Republican National Convention this week.Owens, a frequent commentator on Fox News, will participate on Wednesday, according to a list of speakers released by President Donald Trump’s campaign. That’s the same day Vice President Mike Pence, second lady Karen Pence and President Donald Trump’s daughter, Lara, will speak.The convention begins Monday and that day wil
  
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• Ogden family remembers son killed by police in 2019

  23-08-2020 20:00
  
  Ogden • A year following the death of Jovany Mercado in a confrontation with police, the pain hasn’t eased or gone away.“He was an awesome kid. He was my friend. He was my first born,” said his dad, Juan Mercado. “I don’t have him anymore. It’s sad.”Jovany Mercado was shot and killed on Aug. 16, 2019, outside his parents’ home by four Ogden officers after disregarding their commands to drop a knife in his hand as he walked toward them. Police
  
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• Utah softball stars Hannah Flippen and Anissa Urtez join Athletes Unlimited in changing their sport and the way it’s watched

  23-08-2020 19:02
  
  Hannah Flippen doesn’t have much experience as a fantasy sports team owner. Still, if it falls on her to step up to the draft board and pick her teammates for a week during the new Athletes Unlimited softball season, she won’t be flying blind.“I know that I have three brothers at home that are going to be watching every single game and keeping their own stats and they’re probably going to text me every week, like, ‘You should draft this kid, this kid, this kid and y
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 14 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths

  23-08-2020 19:00
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 14 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four additional deaths.That brings the total number of people infected to 9,545 with the known death toll at 493 as of Saturday night as the reservation began another 32-hour lockdown that ends at 5 a.m. Monday.Navajo Department of Health officials said 91,856 people have been tested for the coronavirus and 7,060 have recovered.The Navajo Nation lifted its stay-at-home order on Aug. 16,
  
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• Burgess Owens to speak at the Republican National Convention

  23-08-2020 18:04
  
  Burgess Owens, the Republican candidate in Utah’s tight 4th Congressional District contest, will speak at the Republican National Convention this week.Owens, a frequent commentator on Fox News, will participate on Wednesday, according to a list of speakers released by President Donald Trump’s campaign. That’s the same day Vice President Mike Pence, second lady Karen Pence and President Donald Trump’s daughter, Lara, will speak. The convention begins Monday and that day wi
  
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• Letter: Stay up and watch the legislative circus

  23-08-2020 16:19
  
  I trust my elected leaders to do the right things in a manner that is above board and transparent. I have always been asleep during those waning hours of the legislative session, thinking that they will fulfill that expectation.It would seem that all the skullduggery that has gone on over the last several years happens as we all sleep in those waning hours of the legislative sessions. I guess it is time we all start paying a bit more attention to our silly lawmakers during the waning hours. That
  
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• Samantha Carlisle: Environmental racism endangers Utah children

  23-08-2020 16:18
  
  2020 has been a historical and challenging year, to say the least. As a young Utahn entering my second year of college in the midst of a pandemic and global and social upheaval, I find myself now more than ever looking critically at my nation, my state and myself.For this reason, writing solely about lead testing and lead poisoning prevention without addressing its role in disproportionate health outcomes and environmental classism and racism frankly seems shortsighted.While working at the non-p
  
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• David Parker: Awareness of our past helps us see modern problems

  23-08-2020 16:17
  
  I am excited about the current social climate as it relates to an overdue exploration of America’s racial past and its impact on life in 2020. Increased accurate awareness of the nation’s past can have such a positive impact on societal relationships.This fall, and for the past six years, I have taught an inclusive dialogue course at the University of Utah. The main focus of this course is to teach the skills and disposition to engage in dialogue in a civil manner with individuals an
  
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• Letter: Why can’t Avenues people water their trees?

  23-08-2020 16:16
  
  I moved to the "Lower Aves", (that's what they like to call it) last September. I had never lived in the Avenues before.I very quickly realized to be a true Avenues person you had to drive a Subaru and have a labradoodle. I also looked at the true Avenues people as what I would call, "city granola valley people."I had just come from a five-year stay in Sevier County, where you had to drive a Ford or maybe Chevy truck and, of course, have a cow dog. Where I learned very quickly I lived in Richfie
  
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• Letter: Put a limit on political contributions

  23-08-2020 16:16
  
  One of the greatest existential struggles in this country is trying to combat the climate emergency as fossil fuel companies dump millions into political races to try to prevent the end of fossil fuel use.The same situation happens at the local level, as councils and boards get influenced by local money/power brokers. So when you wonder why it seems like our local elected officials seem to be acting on behalf of someone other than their constituents, this is why.Check out whether there are limit
  
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• Letter: A Second Amendment quiz

  23-08-2020 16:15
  
  True or false?The right to keep and bear arms was ratified in 1791. In 1791 the fastest firing “arm” was a musket that could fire approximately three rounds per minute, if you were very, very, very fast, and not too accurate.Answer: True.Today’s AR-15 can fire between 400 and 600 rounds per minute, depending how it is modified. You can buy one online.Also true.On a balance scale you have the enjoyment some find in the astounding power of these weapons, on the other the human ca
  
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• Leonard Pitts: How many people would choose whiteness over democracy?

  23-08-2020 16:15
  
  "If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?"Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil Rights Movement, drops that question like a bomb on Page 352 of "Caste," the new book by Isabel Wilkerson, herself also a winner of Joseph Pulitzer's prestigious prize. There are many moments in "Caste" that bring you up short in the starkness of their truth. But none hits quite as hard as that one, nor cuts quite as close to the bone
  
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• Perla Cassayre Thulin: We suffer for the things we didn’t learn in high school

  23-08-2020 16:14
  
  “No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.”— Thomas Jefferson 1821As a physician and citizen, I have observed with amazement and horror the blatant disregard for science and medical principles in the politicized battle over masks, sheltering and social distancing. The cold facts of over 165,000 deaths and 30 million unemployed unambiguously stamp America’s response to COVID-19 a national failure and humanitarian catastrophe.Similarly, the murder of George
  
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• George Pyle: Criminal justice system isn’t making any friends for itself

  23-08-2020 16:14
  
  “There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” — Commander William Adama, “Battlestar Galactica”There’s a reason so many Americans are protesting against the police and the whole of the criminal justice system. A great many of us have reason to think police and prosecutors are no
  
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• Tribune Editorial: COVID will be taking us to school

  23-08-2020 16:13
  
  It’s that dream many of us have had. You are in school — maybe college, maybe high school. It is near the end of the semester. Suddenly, you realize there is one class you signed up for that you never attended, never did the reading, never did any of the assignments. It’s too late to drop the class. The final is tomorrow.The story doesn’t really come to any kind of resolution. You just wake up with a feeling of existential dread until you realize it was all just a dream.
  
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• Three Points: RSL’s sizzling second half, Damir Kreilach’s goal and winning restart games

  23-08-2020 16:13
  
  Here are three observations from Real Salt Lake’s 4-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids from beat writer Alex Vejar.1. Sizzling second halfDefender Nedum Onuoha said it succinctly at halftime.“I don’t think we’ve played that well,” he said in reference to RSL’s performance in the first 45 minutes.RSL was down 1-0 after giving up an own goal from defender Aaron Herrera, and it wasn’t getting anything it wanted on offense. But coach Freddy Juarez made one a
  
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• Brodi Ashton: My son on the spectrum approached a group of popular girls as I watched

  23-08-2020 16:08
  
  What a week. School is starting for my boys. The Democratic National Convention is pumping up Joe Biden’s presidential run. And my tomatoes have some sort of rot thing going on.I’m not sure who will win in November (although my friends in the know have their money on Sen. Coronavirus) and I don’t know if my zombie tomatoes will recover, but I now have an idea of what high school will look like for its newest member, my freshman kid, who happens to be autistic, as many of you kn
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Don’t confuse TV versions of Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump with reality

  23-08-2020 16:07
  
  Recently, a relative of mine posted online that she’s “done with everyone talking s--- about Ellen DeGeneres.”She wrote that the TV talk show host had “pulled me out of depression throughout the years by making me laugh,” and that she finds the allegations against DeGeneres “all extremely hard to believe” because “she has brought so much happiness to the world.”I tried — with extremely limited success — to let her down easily. To
  
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• Chuck-A-Rama — fueled by faithful customers — reopens its Utah buffets

  23-08-2020 16:07
  
  In the early days of the pandemic, there were some people who vowed never to return to a buffet or salad bar and predicted the demise of all self-serve dining.Rene Schuurman just tuned out the naysayers.“I never worried,” said the president of Mountain West Brands, which owns Chuck-A-Rama Buffet restaurants. “Our roots are so deep in this community and our customers are loyal.”While often the butt of jokes, Chuck-A-Rama is a favorite among Utah’s large families and
  
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• The staggering stats on how the coronavirus has impacted the mental health of Americans

  23-08-2020 16:06
  
  The coronavirus pandemic is hard for everyone, to be sure.But for a significant percentage of Americans, it also creates mental health concerns, from anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide. We should count these as consequences of the pandemic, and try to understand and address them.To get an idea of how widespread these issues are, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, and Melbourne, Australia partnered with Utah com
  
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• Utah looks to expand mountain goat range, but at what cost to alpine landscapes?

  23-08-2020 15:00
  
  Mountain goats are among the most majestic wild ungulates roaming the West, but Utah wildlife officials’ latest effort to expand the nonnative species’ range is drawing fire from environmental groups.This October, the state Division of Wildlife Resources plans to release goats into the Bear River Mountains in the hopes of establishing a herd in Utah’s northernmost range.In response, environmental groups are urging the U.S. Forest Service to block the translocation, arguing that
  
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• Utah has had a list of nursing homes with problems, and advocates wonder why it hasn’t been shared

  23-08-2020 15:00
  
  A 2017 inspection of Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing found staffers weren’t notifying doctors quickly enough when residents’ blood sugar dropped too low, pharmacists weren’t reviewing medication regimens as often as they should, and residents were drinking from one another’s glasses during meals — creating a risk of spreading infections.Subsequent inspections turned up other deficiencies at Pine Creek, according to records, and so the Utah Department of Health
  
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• Robert Kirby: Mad Mormon magazines — like Prayboy or God & Ammo

  23-08-2020 15:00
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced major changes to its magazines for adults, teens and children.Two longtime publications, the English-language Ensign and New Era, will disappear, and members (or anyone, really) will be able replace their current subscriptions, or sign up anew for the following:Liahona • A global magazine featuring adult-level articles about the gospel. It will replace the Ensign, which non-Mormons frequently confused as a magazine intended
  
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• Environmental groups want to block honeybees from Utah’s national forests

  23-08-2020 15:00
  
  Logan Canyon • In an alpine meadow near the top of Logan Canyon, Darren Cox pries the lid off one of 96 gray boxes housing his industrious insects, whose labors help ensure California’s almond harvest and produce some of the sweetest deliciousness that has ever touched a tongue.The fourth-generation Utah beekeeper pulls frames from the exposed hive, looking for signs of fungal infections and listening for sounds that could indicate the hive’s queen has gone AWOL. With bees swarm
  
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• Wary of COVID-19, Utah teachers measure the space between desks. In one class, there’s only 20 inches.

  23-08-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: Through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting in depth on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education.It’s become a kind of math problem for educators.A Utah teacher has an average of 25 kids in elementary school or 29 for junior high and high school. Her classroom is 900 square feet. Can she fit all of the students in at 6 feet apart, to be socially distant during the pandemic?The answer, according to many who’ve tri
  
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• Maikel Chang, RSL dominate second half in 4-1 win over Colorado

  23-08-2020 06:05
  
  Maikel Chang had played only 37 minutes in a Real Salt Lake uniform for the entirety of the 2020 season. It was two games in Florida for the MLS is Back Tournament, and he recorded one shot, no goals and no assists.But coach Freddy Juarez called Chang’s number at halftime to replace midfielder Everton Luiz in what appeared to be an offensive substitution. The next 45 minutes functioned as the 29-year-old Cuban’s coming out party.“Honestly, he was our game changer,” midfie
  
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• Protesters demand charges to be dropped — and want Sim Gill to resign

  23-08-2020 05:28
  
  Crowds of shoppers stopped, lowering their bags and raising their phones to record as a group of several hundred marched by Saturday evening. Their chants reverberated off the storefronts along Main Street.“Drop the charges!” the protesters screamed, some of them holding signs that said “People before paint” and “No good cops. No bad protesters.”It’s been over a month since the Justice for Bernardo group has held a large demonstration like this, and when
  
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• RSL dominates second half in 4-1 in over Colorado

  23-08-2020 05:09
  
  Starts to the 2020 season for Real Salt Lake have gone quite well.RSL earned a tough draw on the road against Orlando to start the season. It beat the Colorado Rapids in the first game of the MLS is Back Tournament. And on Saturday, Real Salt Lake took care of the Rapids again with a 4-1 victory at a fanless Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce, Colo.In a strange season that’s sputtered due to the COVID-19 pandemic, RSL has played some of its best soccer in the opening games of whe
  
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• At least 3 students at the University of Utah dorms test positive for COVID-19, as well as 1 at Westminster College

  23-08-2020 03:26
  
  The University of Utah has confirmed that “a handful” of the students who moved into the dorms this week have tested positive for the coronavirus.School spokesman Chris Nelson declined to say exactly how many students have been quarantined. But the U. plans to release a final count, he added, when move-in has wrapped up on Monday — the same day that classes begin.“We have had a handful of positive cases,” he said Friday. “And we are checking for who else may h
  
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• Will the Utah Jazz have the right mentality in Game 4 to blow series open against Denver Nuggets?

  23-08-2020 02:00
  
  Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson, right, and Denver Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr. (1) reach for the ball as Nuggets’ Mason Plumlee (7) and Jazz’s Tony Bradley (13) look on during the first half of an NBA basketball first round playoff game Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Ashley Landis, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Throughout the last week as the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets have begun their first-round NBA playoff series, Utah head coach Quin Snyde
  
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