• Bagley Cartoon: Over the Rainbow

    Bagley Cartoon: Over the Rainbow
    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:A Mighty WindLoserPutting Pelosi Out ThereUtah FanBring on the ClownThe Deep HateGOP Rising StarTipping PointAn Emerging PatternLive from PyongyangWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  • ‘Mormon Land’: Affirmation leader discusses the challenges LGBTQ Latter-day Saints face around the world

    ‘Mormon Land’: Affirmation leader discusses the challenges LGBTQ Latter-day Saints face around the world
    Launched in the 1970s, Affirmation is one of the oldest support groups for LGBTQ members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.As the Utah-based faith has evolved in its understanding of and approach to its LGBTQ members, Affirmation has expanded as well — across the country and around the world.For the next four weekends, the organization will host a virtual international conference, complete with live and recorded workshops, speakers and discussions.On this week’s podc
  • Dennis Lindsey, Justin Zanik talk about the Utah Jazz’s next steps as they enter the offseason

    Dennis Lindsey, Justin Zanik talk about the Utah Jazz’s next steps as they enter the offseason
    It’s been more than a week since the Utah Jazz’s season came to a sudden, ignominious end, but the sting of a second consecutive first-round playoff exit hasn’t really subsided yet.“Nobody’s satisfied. We’re all reeling from defeat and disappointment,” Dennis Lindsey, the Jazz’s executive vice president of basketball operations, said in a season wrap-up videoconference with local and national media on Wednesday morning.That’ll happen when a s
  • Rich Lowry: Hollywood’s shameful Beijing kowtow

    Rich Lowry: Hollywood’s shameful Beijing kowtow
    Hollywood is accommodating a new era of McCarthyism, imposed this time by Red China.It involves everything that Hollywood tells us that it hates — censorship, pressure to conform and blacklists. Yet the studios have seamlessly absorbed China’s dictates into their operations.This most iconic American business is now, literally, an agent of Chinese influence.The latest outrage is Disney’s live-action remake of the animated movie from the 1990s, “Mulan,” based on Chine
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  • Adelaide Parker: 2020 strikes again: First day of school blown away

    Adelaide Parker: 2020 strikes again: First day of school blown away
    Tuesday was supposed to be the first day of school, until it wasn’t.Salt Lake City School District is the only Utah school system that is all online, and the only one that hasn’t started classes yet. But Tuesday, after almost four months of waiting, school was finally ready to begin.Or so I thought.I woke up bright and early, ready to start my day. After months of socially distanced boredom, I was ready for anything that would take my mind off of the pandemic: even homework. I got re
  • Utah’s new solicitor general facing potential court sanctions

    Utah’s new solicitor general facing potential court sanctions
    Utah’s incoming solicitor general, one of the state’s highest-ranking attorneys, is contending with possible court sanctions for allegedly making “patently false” statements during a federal lawsuit over tire safety standards.Earlier this month, a federal magistrate judge wrote in a scathing order that Melissa Holyoak, who was announced as solicitor general Tuesday, had created slowdowns in the case and wasted judicial resources that were already stretched thin by the pan
  • Ads both for and against Republican Burgess Owens hit Utah’s airwaves

    Ads both for and against Republican Burgess Owens hit Utah’s airwaves
    The air war in Utah’s 4th Congressional District is on. Two outside groups launched an ad blitz this week, with a third group set to hit the airwaves next week.The House Majority PAC, which is linked to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was first out of the gate with a brutal ad slamming Republican nominee Burgess Owens for declaring bankruptcy six times and having unpaid taxes.The spot is part of a $342,000 advertising buy from the super PAC for the month of September, according to figures prov
  • Trump again puts both Sen. Mike Lee and his brother, Thomas Lee, on short list for Supreme Court

    Trump again puts both Sen. Mike Lee and his brother, Thomas Lee, on short list for Supreme Court
    President Donald Trump retained both Sen. Mike Lee and his brother, Thomas Lee, a Utah Supreme Court justice, on his short list of possible U.S. Supreme Court nominees if he is reelected.Trump announced he is retaining people who were on earlier lists he had released, and he added 20 new names including Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas.The Lee brothers also were put on the last such list that Trump issued in 2018 when Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy retired. Trump eventually app
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  • Utah’s police academy plans to make cops more aware of bias in law enforcement

    Utah’s police academy plans to make cops more aware of bias in law enforcement
    The director of Utah’s police academy on Wednesday unveiled plans to increase the amount of anti-bias training and hand-to-hand combat instruction cadets receive.Maj. Scott Stephenson told the Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training Council the plan includes 12 to 14 hours of new courses covering legitimacy in policing, bias-free policing, trauma-informed policing and serving communities of color. Stephenson said he’s also in discussions with the University of Utah to create a caps
  • Historic storm knocked down thousands of trees and 96,000 still don’t have power

    Historic storm knocked down thousands of trees and 96,000 still don’t have power
    Northern Utah has shifted into clean up mode after a historic wind storm killed one person, leveled thousands of trees, and cut the power to more than 170,000 homes and businesses.As of Wednesday afternoon, 96,000 homes and businesses are still without power, as Rocky Mountain Power crews jumped from outage to outage. The company has no estimate on when service will be restored to all its Utah customers — but it could be “days" for some. The outages left many schools from Ogden to th
  • The ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ has a premiere date. Watch the trailer here.

    The ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ has a premiere date. Watch the trailer here.
    Mark your calendars: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City will premiere on Wednesday, Nov. 11 on Bravo.The trailer, which PEOPLE debuted on Wednesday, confirms that the six newest housewives to join Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise are Lisa Barlow, Mary Cosby, Heather Gay, Meredith Marks, Whitney Rose and Jen Shah.You can watch the trailer here.
  • Another 314 COVID-19 cases in Utah; test numbers depressed by wind storms, health officials say

    Another 314 COVID-19 cases in Utah; test numbers depressed by wind storms, health officials say
    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 314 new coronavirus cases reported on Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses stayed above the governor’s target of fewer than 400 cases per day — despite fewer patients testing as a result of Tuesday’s winds
  • Historic storm knocked down thousands of trees and 101,000 still don’t have power

    Historic storm knocked down thousands of trees and 101,000 still don’t have power
    The worst of the winds is over in northern Utah, according to the National Weather Service, but efforts to clean up the damage and restore power are going to take time.About 101,000 homes and businesses are without power Wednesday morning, according to Rocky Mountain Power, with more than 3,000 separate outages. The company has no estimate on when service will be restored to all its Utah customers — but it could be “days" for some.A high wind warning issued for Salt Lake and Tooele c
  • Air Force awards nuclear missile contract with Utah production ties

    Air Force awards nuclear missile contract with Utah production ties
    Washington • The Air Force on Tuesday awarded a $13.3 billion contract for engineering and development work on a replacement for the Minuteman 3 missile, which has operated continuously for half a century as a key part of the nuclear force.Critics call the replacement project wasteful and dangerous.Democrat Joe Biden has not said whether he would, if elected in November, support the project, known officially as the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent. The project has bipartisan support in Cong
  • Leonard Pitts: What was in it for them?

    Leonard Pitts: What was in it for them?
    The American Cemetery at Normandy sits on a bluff overlooking the beach where, on June 6, 1944, American soldiers waded ashore to begin the invasion of France. The old battlefield is marked with shell craters and gun pits offering mute testimony to the fury of that day. In the cemetery itself stand endless rows of white crosses and the occasional Star of David — mute testimony to the sacrifice it required.If you’ve ever been there, ever knelt to read names on marble markers or stood
  • Destroying trust in elections also kills faith in criminal justice, warns Sim Gill and others

    Destroying trust in elections also kills faith in criminal justice, warns Sim Gill and others
    Politicians who try to create doubt about whether this year’s elections will be fair threaten to crush Americans' faith in the criminal justice system too, warns Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill and 78 other law enforcement leaders nationwide.“Public trust in democracy, the rule of law, and the integrity of our government is integral to public safety. When one system is attacked and fails, it compromises the ability of all systems to function, including our criminal justic
  • Utah’s winds are dying down, but 104,000 still don’t have power

    Utah’s winds are dying down, but 104,000 still don’t have power
    The worst of the winds is over in northern Utah, according to the National Weather Service, but efforts to clean up the damage and restore power are going to take time.About 104,000 homes and businesses are without power Wednesday morning, according to Rocky Mountain Power, with more than 3,000 separate outages. The company has no estimate on when service will be restored to all its Utah customers — and it could be “days" for some.High profile restrictions have now been lifted in Dav
  • A fire in downtown Salt Lake City may be arson

    A fire in downtown Salt Lake City may be arson
    That black smoke emanating from downtown Salt Lake City is a fire at a dry cleaners, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department. Firefighters are trying to douse the flames at 200 West and 900 South on Wednesday. At least two engines were working on the fire.A fire department spokesperson said there are 45 people on the scene battling the fire. The one-story building was “supposedly vacant." The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.The fire may be arson, said a firefighter at the
  • Mitt Romney asks feds to battle ‘anti-vaxxer’ claims

    Mitt Romney asks feds to battle ‘anti-vaxxer’ claims
    Sen. Mitt Romney worries that bogus arguments from “anti-vaxxers,” who claim that all vaccines are dangerous and should be avoided, might undermine widespread use of COVID-19 vaccines when they become available to end the pandemic.So, in a Senate hearing Wednesday about when such vaccines may come, he asked the U.S. surgeon general and the director of the National Institutes of Health to do more to directly address anti-vaccine claims and help persuade Americans that they are safe an
  • Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Keeping Utah’s breweries afloat in a pandemic

    Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Keeping Utah’s breweries afloat in a pandemic
    Watch live here.Businesses are still adapting to “the new normal,” and breweries are no exception.On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” reporter Kathy Stephenson will speak with Jeremy Ragonese, the president of the Uinta Brewing Company, and Justin Belliveau the co-owner and founder of Grid City Beer Works, about how the pandemic and aluminum shortage is impacting their industry.Tune in here or on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Facebook page at noon on Sept. 9. Submit your
  • Mission Statement

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  • A fire in downtown Salt Lake City prompts large response

    A fire in downtown Salt Lake City prompts large response
    That black smoke emanating from downtown Salt Lake City is a fire at a dry cleaners, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department. Firefighters are trying to douse the flames at 200 West and 900 South on Wednesday. At least two engines were working on the fire.A fire department spokesperson said there are 45 people on the scene battling the fire. The one-story building was “supposedly vacant." The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
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  • Rapid testing coming to Pac-12, which has led to new optimism for earlier football start

    Rapid testing coming to Pac-12, which has led to new optimism for earlier football start
    Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott has been adamant since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic that any return-to-play decisions would be based on science and data.So, when the league announced on Aug. 11 that it was postponing not just football, but all sports until at least Jan. 1, that radical move came less than 24 hours after Scott was presented with a 12-page report from the Pac-12 Medical Advisory. The document advised against contact activity and competition until certain criteria were m
  • A dry cleaner in downtown Salt Lake City is on fire

    A dry cleaner in downtown Salt Lake City is on fire
    That black smoke emanating from downtown Salt Lake City is a fire at a dry cleaners, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department. Firefighters are trying to douse the flames at 200 West and 900 South on Wednesday. At least two engines were working on the fire.A fire department spokesperson said there are 45 people on the scene battling the fire. The one-story building was “supposedly vacant." The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
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  • GOP attacks Kamala Harris amid battle for Catholic voters' support

    GOP attacks Kamala Harris amid battle for Catholic voters' support
    Washington • Soon after Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris as his running mate, some conservatives began trying to portray her as anti-Catholic — a line of attack that President Donald Trump’s campaign continues to amplify as Democrats court Roman Catholic voters.The charge stems in part from questions Harris posed in 2018 to a federal judicial nominee about his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a lay Catholic fraternal organization. Harris asked the nominee if he agreed with t
  • Fire crew responds to big blaze at a dry cleaner in downtown Salt Lake City

    Fire crew responds to big blaze at a dry cleaner in downtown Salt Lake City
    That black smoke emanating from downtown Salt Lake City is a fire at a dry cleaners, according to the fire department. The Salt Lake City Fire Department is fighting the flames at 200 West and 900 South on Wednesday. At least two engines were working on putting out the fire.The Salt Lake Tribune will update this article.
  • Jon Huntsman rejoins Chevron’s board of directors

    Jon Huntsman rejoins Chevron’s board of directors
    Former Gov. Jon Huntsman is heading back to the corporate board room.Huntsman was reelected to Chevron Corporation’s board of directors Tuesday. He previously resigned from the position to serve as President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Russia.“I’m very pleased to welcome Jon back to Chevron’s board,” said Chevron CEO Michael Wirth in a news release. “Jon’s international experience, knowledge of our business, and leadership strengthen’s the c
  • Royals FC forward Christen Press headed to Manchester United, but Utah keeps her NWSL rights

    Royals FC forward Christen Press headed to Manchester United, but Utah keeps her NWSL rights
    The Utah Royals FC have lost another U.S. Women’s National Team Star.ForwardChristen Press signed a contract with Manchester United, the clubannounced Wednesday. The club retains Press’s rights in the NationalWomen’s Soccer League.The Royals this offseason also traded defender Becky Sauerbrunn to the Portland Thorns for Elizabeth Ball and allocation money. A trade involving defender Kelley O’Hara, reported by The Athletic, appeared to be in the works recently but has not
  • Parking and TRAX changes at Salt Lake International Airport

    Parking and TRAX changes at Salt Lake International Airport
    As the first phase of the new $4.1 billion Salt Lake City International Airport prepares to open on Tuesday, passengers will start to see changes now on where they can make TRAX connections and where they should park if they want to find their cars when they return from trips.The Utah Transit Authority says it will cease direct TRAX Green Line service to the airport beginning Friday through Monday as a new temporary station is prepared there. People seeking to take TRAX to the airport will need
  • Forrest Fenn, art dealer whose treasure sent hunters scouring the U.S. West, dies

    Forrest Fenn, art dealer whose treasure sent hunters scouring the U.S. West, dies
    Santa Fe, N.M. • Antiquities dealer and author Forrest Fenn, who gained fame after hiding a treasure chest filled with gold, jewels and other valuables that drove hundreds of thousands of people to search remote corners of the U.S. West for the riches — sometimes with tragic consequences — has died. He was 90.Police confirmed Fenn died Monday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Police spokesman Greg Gurule said Tuesday that officers were alerted that afternoon
  • Bagley Cartoon: A Mighty Wind

    Bagley Cartoon: A Mighty Wind
    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:LoserPutting Pelosi Out ThereUtah FanBring on the ClownThe Deep HateGOP Rising StarTipping PointAn Emerging PatternLive from PyongyangExplaining QAnonWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  • Surrounding states bash Utah’s Lake Powell pipeline project

    Surrounding states bash Utah’s Lake Powell pipeline project
    All of Utah’s partner states sharing the Colorado River’s water are urging the federal government to halt the Lake Powell pipeline, opening a schism in the interstate compact that has divvied up the mighty river’s flow for the past century.In a joint letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Tuesday, those states asked thesecretary to block the Bureau of Reclamation from completing its ongoing environmental impact statement (EIS) “until such time the seven Basin Sta
  • Federal report warns of financial havoc from climate change

    Federal report warns of financial havoc from climate change
    Washington • A report commissioned by federal regulators overseeing the nation’s commodities markets has concluded that climate change threatens U.S. financial markets, as the costs of wildfires, storms, droughts and floods spread through insurance and mortgage markets, pension funds and other financial institutions.“A world wracked by frequent and devastating shocks from climate change cannot sustain the fundamental conditions supporting our financial system,” concluded t
  • Utah’s winds are dying down, but 110,000 still don’t have power

    Utah’s winds are dying down, but 110,000 still don’t have power
    The worst of the winds is over in northern Utah, according to the National Weather Service, but efforts to clean up the damage and restore power are going to take time.More than 110,000 customers remained without power Tuesday morning, according to Rocky Mountain Power, with more than 3,000 separate outages. The company has no estimate on when service will be restored to all its Utah customers — and it could be “days" for some.High profile restrictions have now been lifted in Davis C
  • GOP proposes ‘targeted’ coronavirus aid, but Democrats say it’s not enough

    GOP proposes ‘targeted’ coronavirus aid, but Democrats say it’s not enough
    Washington • The Senate prepared to vote this week on a trimmed-down Republican coronavirus relief package, though it only has a slim chance of passage in the face of Democrats' insistence for more sweeping aid.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the approximately $500 billion measure on Tuesday as senators returned to Washington for an abbreviated pre-election session, but hopes were dimming for another coronavirus relief bill — or much else.Republicans struggling to reta
  • ‘Trib Talk’: Keeping Utah’s breweries afloat in a pandemic

    ‘Trib Talk’: Keeping Utah’s breweries afloat in a pandemic
    Businesses are still adapting to “the new normal,” and breweries are no exception.On the next episode of “Trib Talk,” reporter Kathy Stephenson will speak with Jeremy Ragonese, the president of the Uinta Brewing Company, and Justin Belliveau the co-owner and founder of Grid City Beer Works, about how the pandemic and aluminum shortage is impacting their industry.Tune in here or on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Facebook page at noon on Sept. 9. Submit your questions by usi
  • Letter: I need to do my part

    Letter: I need to do my part
    I have a Black Lives Matter sticker, and I’ve been nervous about putting it on my car because I don’t want some stupid person to vandalize it or something. Isn’t it terrible that I have to worry about that?But isn’t it a hundred times more terrible that Black people have to worry about their lives every single day? There are many people of color who feel unwelcome in our neighborhoods, cities and country.After recent events in Wisconsin, and Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy
  • Letter: Pandemic is not under control

    Letter: Pandemic is not under control
    The news media, including The Tribune, keeps touting a decrease in cases of COVID-19 (“Utah reports five new school outbreaks of coronavirus on Tuesday, but overall cases are down,” Sept. 1), even as there continue to be hundreds of new cases daily. The increase in case numbers may be down, but that’s probably because fewer tests are being performed.Our rate of positive cases is still at between 8% and 10%. This is the best indicator of whether the pandemic is being controlled.
  • Robert Gehrke: We need our county clerks to help Utahns vote, not stand in their way

    Robert Gehrke: We need our county clerks to help Utahns vote, not stand in their way
    It’s not supposed to be hard to exercise our fundamental American rights.Imagine if you had to drive hours, fill out a government form and provide various types of identification in order to get permission to go to church or to hold a protest or to legally buy a gun — then were denied the ability to do so.That’s just not how we do things. Except, apparently, if you live in Garfield County and you want to vote.My colleague Zak Podmore wrote over the weekend about a slew of compl
  • Hideout Council declines to vote on reviving annexation

    Hideout Council declines to vote on reviving annexation
    When the Utah Legislature repealed a controversial provision allowing Hideout to snatch up Summit County land without county approval, it did not become effective immediately. Town Council members wondered whether the loophole was intentional — an olive branch from lawmakers allowing the town to continue its expansion effort as long as it moved fast.Tuesday night, that illusion fizzled.The council had scheduled a special public meeting to consider a vote on whether to revive an annexation
  • Meet the man who’s taking the helm at Utah’s health agency during COVID-19

    Meet the man who’s taking the helm at Utah’s health agency during COVID-19
    When Richard Saunders says he has private sector experience, he means he’s done everything from co-founding a multimillion-dollar construction company to peddling one of his products on the QVC shopping network.But Saunders’ career as a businessman and consultant took a sharp turn in 2015, when he signed on to do some temporary consulting work within the Utah Department of Health and ended up sticking around. And now, five years later, he’s taking over as head of the state&rsqu
  • Letter: Trump smears American soldiers

    Letter: Trump smears American soldiers
    Donald Trump denies having referred to the almost 2,000 Marines killed in the World War I battle of Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed. Even the enemy, Germany, respected those Marines, naming them “Teufelshunde” (“devil dogs”). Their sacrifice turned the tide in favor of the Allied forces.Trump’s history of similar conducts supports his smears of the dead soldiers to be fact. His denial is worth about as much as his more than 20,000 lies, all
  • Letter: Shooting of child with autism is heartbreaking

    Letter: Shooting of child with autism is heartbreaking
    The recent shooting by Salt Lake City police officers of an autistic child breaks my heart. These cops clearly demonstrated the hair-trigger incompetence commonplace among today’s mostly right-wing law enforcement officers. Discipline of the officers who shot this child must be quick and severe.I disagree with those who accuse Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley of depicting cops as KKK terrorists. He was, simply and accurately, saying there is growing evidence that law enforcement off
  • Letter: Reyes is wrong to praise Trump

    Letter: Reyes is wrong to praise Trump
    In the highly unlikely event that our esteemed Attorney General Sean Reyes has not seen the pictures and videos of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein in parties with young women, I’ll be glad to provide him with copies of them.Trump, who Reyes recently called, “a warrior against human trafficking,” once said of Epstein: “He is a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Never mind
  • Letter: Reasons to vote for Trump

    Letter: Reasons to vote for Trump
    If you believe in dropping out of the Paris climate accords is a good thing, vote for Donald Trump. If you want future generations to live on an uninhabitable planet with rising seas, ferocious hurricanes and polluted atmosphere, vote for Trump.If you want the nuclear arms race to continue threatening the destruction of mankind, vote for Trump. If you believe in betraying our allies, vote for Trump. If you want our Constitution dismantled and our democracy destroyed, vote for Trump. If you love
  • Letter: Glad I watched the convention

    Letter: Glad I watched the convention
    I’m so thankful I tuned into the Republican National Convention, as I was enlightened and learned that thanks to the bold leadership of President Trump, the virus is under control; Trump is an empathetic family man who cares deeply about women, Black and brown people and immigrants; our economy is fantastic; the United States is respected and revered around the world; and if we elect Democrats, looters and anarchists will be coming to my street to terrorize my family and steal everything I
  • DOJ asks to defend Trump in rape accuser’s defamation suit

    DOJ asks to defend Trump in rape accuser’s defamation suit
    New York • The Justice Department is asking to take over President Donald Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape, and federal lawyers asked a court Tuesday to allow a move that could put the American people on the hook for any money she might be awarded.After New York state courts turned down Trump’s request to delay E. Jean Carroll’s suit, Justice Department lawyers filed court papers aiming to shift the case into federal court and t
  • Hurricane-force winds kill one, topple hundreds of trees and knock out power for 170,000 residents

    Hurricane-force winds kill one, topple hundreds of trees and knock out power for 170,000 residents
    Hurricane-force winds wreaked havoc across northern Utah on Tuesday, killing one resident, toppling hundreds of huge trees, closing schools, and knocking out the power for more than 170,000 homes and businesses.Gusts reaching at least 99 mph were recorded with the worst winds concentrated north of Salt Lake County, according to the National Weather Service. Area hospitals reported at least one death attributed to the storm — and it isn’t over yet, with heavy winds expected to last th
  • Frank Bruni: The coronavirus may change college admissions forever

    Frank Bruni: The coronavirus may change college admissions forever
    In the context of a pandemic that has killed about 190,000 Americans and economically devastated many millions more, getting into the college of your dreams is a boutique concern. But for many teenagers who have organized their school years around that goal, it’s everything.And it’s going to be different this admission season. It may well be different forevermore.That was what I concluded after a recent series of conversations with Jeffrey Selingo, whose widely anticipated new book,
  • Navajo Nation reports no new coronavirus cases, but 4 deaths

    Navajo Nation reports no new coronavirus cases, but 4 deaths
    Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials on Tuesday reported no new confirmed cases of coronavirus but four additional deaths.The latest numbers increases the total number of people infected to 9,903 with 527 known death.Tribal health officials said the case total includes two previously unreported positive cases from July.They said 97,644 people have been tested for COVID-19 and 7,157 have recovered.Officials reported one new coronavirus case Monday and no additional deaths.Much

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