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• Busy 12600 South to close for 7 months at Bangerter Highway in Riverton

  21-01-2021 23:43
  
  Beginning as early as Friday, 12600 South in Riverton will close at Bangerter Highway for seven months to construct a new freeway-like interchange, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.“The closure allows us to build the interchange more quickly and safely, at a lower cost to taxpayers,” said Marwan Farah, UDOT Bangerter Interchanges project manager.“We know this closure will be impactful, so we’ve worked closely with the city and local businesses to minimiz
  
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• Utah woman charged in the death of her 4-month-old daughter

  21-01-2021 23:27
  
  A 24-year-old Salt Lake City woman has been charged with killing her 4-month old daughter last year — although the exact cause of the child’s death has not been determined.Tara Lynn Bowers was charged in 3rd District Court with child abuse homicide, a second-degree felony; and two counts of exposing a child to controlled substances, third-degree felonies. Joshua Leon Ekker, 43, who was sharing an apartment with Bowers, was charged with three counts of child endangerment, third-degree
  
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• Legislature, police reforms, schools and a new day for two Utah monuments on this week’s ‘Behind the Headlines’

  21-01-2021 23:00
  
  The 2021 Utah Legislature kicks off under unusual circumstances. Among the many items up for consideration are several police reforms and an effort to pressure schools to resume in-person classes. Plus, a new president means a significant change in public lands policy, and a likely reversal of strategy for two Utah national monuments. And Camp Last Hope, a new kind of encampment for those experiencing homelessness, sprouts up in Salt Lake City.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Bri
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee pushes against gas tax hike with transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg

  21-01-2021 22:45
  
  Utah Sen. Mike Lee on Thursday urged Pete Buttigieg, President Joe Biden’s nominee to become his new transportation secretary, not to raise federal gasoline taxes to bolster a federal Highway Trust Fund that is teetering on insolvency.Buttigieg said he would consider alternatives — but will consider a tax hike, too.That exchange came during the confirmation hearing for the former mayor of South Bend, Ind. — known as “Mayor Pete” — when he ran as a Democratic p
  
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• Commentary: Amanda Gorman, my grandma and the Black tears we cried

  21-01-2021 22:39
  
  “Saw … what I considered a scar And redefined it as a world.”— Alice WalkerI called my grandmother Wednesday. I could hear the news playing in the background. She was watching the inauguration — a few hours late, but she’d had an all-morning errand earlier.“Danté,” she said. “They need to show this moment to everyone.”Her voice was solemn, the way it always gets when she tells me things she wants me to remember. “Now, I do
  
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• Red All Over: The NCAA Transfer Portal is there to be used, and Kyle Whittingham has taken advantage

  21-01-2021 21:46
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.The NCAA Transfer Portal was instituted in Oct. 2018 as a tool used to streamline the transfer process for student-athletes.I won’t bore you with every last detail, but a student-athlete wishing to transfer can have his/her name and contact information added to the portal database by his/her current school’s compliance office, making it visible to all other schools wishing to make contact and recruit.Others h
  
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• Utah ties its one-day record of COVID-19 deaths with 30 on Thursday

  21-01-2021 21:37
  
  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 state reported 30 COVID-19 related deaths on Thursday, tying the one-day total record set on Dec. 17.Three of the deaths reported by the Utah Department of Health on Thursday, though, occurred before Dec. 31 and were just confirmed t
  
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• Snow is headed to Utah on Friday and Saturday

  21-01-2021 20:01
  
  Snow is coming to Utah on Friday and Saturday, with “significant accumulations” in the mountains — as much as 12-18 inches — and “potential accumulations” in the valleys, according to the National Weather Service.The forecast high in Salt Lake City is 42 on Thursday and again on Friday, but temperatures will drop as the storm moves in. There’s a 50% chance of snow, mainly after 11 a.m., with accumulations of less than an inch possible during the day on F
  
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• Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says second doses of COVID-19 vaccine will be released as first shots after waiting period

  21-01-2021 19:38
  
  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday announced the state won’t be letting booster shots of the coronavirus wait on shelves if the intended recipient doesn’t show up for a second dose.The best use of the 104,000 second doses in the state’s stockpile has been a matter of discussion between health experts and officials lately — with some state lawmakers arguing they should be repurposed as first doses to maximize the number of people with partial protection from the virus.But C
  
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• Utah gymnast Cristal Isa now dealing with the weight of expectations — but she says she’ll push through it

  21-01-2021 19:05
  
  Cristal Isa first earned a reputation as a bubbly gymnast who alwayshad a smile or light-hearted comment ready for her teammates.Then, last year, she earned a reputation as being one of Utah’s topcompetitors, earning second-team All-American honors on the balance beamand uneven bars along with five event titles.Being known as much, if not more, for her gymnastics success led tosome adjustments as Isa prepped for the 2021 season, she admitted.Isa had a strong debut in the Best of Utah meet,
  
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• Live: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox holds televised briefing ahead of his first State of the State speech

  21-01-2021 18:29
  
  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday will take questions about his eventful first weeks on the job, when he’s dealt with threats of armed protest at the state Capitol, rolled out a budget proposal and overseen a shift in the state’s vaccine rollout effort.The monthly news conference televised by PBS Utah beginning at 10: 30 a.m. is the first of Cox’s term and takes place just hours before his inaugural State of the State address to the Utah lawmakers and residents.Since he took of
  
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• LDS Church’s General Conference will be virtual for the third straight time

  21-01-2021 18:13
  
  For the third straight time, General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be all-virtual because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.On Thursday, the Utah-based faith announced, as expected, that April’s gathering will follow the pattern set in October, with church leaders speaking from a nearly empty Conference Center Theater in downtown Salt Lake City.Only the speakers for each session (and their spouses) will be present. In the fall, they were socially distan
  
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• Utah Gov. Spencer Cox to hold televised briefing ahead of his first State of the State speech

  21-01-2021 17:37
  
  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday will take questions about his eventful first weeks on the job, when he’s dealt with threats of armed protest at the state Capitol, rolled out a budget proposal and overseen a shift in the state’s vaccine rollout effort.The monthly news conference televised by PBS Utah beginning at 10: 30 a.m. is the first of Cox’s term and takes place just hours before his inaugural State of the State address to the Utah lawmakers and residents.Since he took of
  
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• Ross Douthat: The Biden opportunity

  21-01-2021 17:30
  
  Amid all the exhausted relief and Twitter euphoria, it’s worth being honest: The inauguration of Joe Biden to the presidency was a dark scene overall, with strong decline-of-the-republic vibes. A wind-swept, wintry, barricaded Capitol; a denuded Mall; a military occupation. The establishment in masks, with a few celebrities mixed in; almost everybody looking aged, gray, laid waste by time. The ex-president absent, unmentioned, but a shadow over the proceedings all the same.But for Biden, w
  
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• Chop Shop is Park City’s first modern-day butcher shop

  21-01-2021 17:24
  
  Park City has its first modern-day butcher shop with the recent opening of Chop Shop.Located at 1177 Center Drive — in the Newpark Town Center near Kimball Junction — it sells cuts of beef, pork, lamb and poultry raised on farms and ranches in nearby Kamas, Coalville and Midway.In addition to the fresh-meat counter, the 1,700-square-foot store offers Utah-made cheeses, cured meats and other grab-and-go items. Wood-fired pizzas and sandwiches also are available for limited dine-in sea
  
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• ‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ will return for a second season

  21-01-2021 16:18
  
  “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” are nearing the end of their first season — and they will return for a second.The show’s executive producer, Andy Cohen, confirmed the renewal on his Bravo show “Watch What Happens Live” on Wednesday night. His guest, podcaster Danny Pellegrino, said he was “really hoping” that “RHOSLC” would return, and Cohen replied, “Oh, they’re coming back for a Season 2.”Cohen previously had
  
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• Charles M. Blow: With Trump gone, there is relief, but lingering rage

  21-01-2021 16:13
  
  I watched as Donald Trump left the White House on Wednesday, tacky and lacking in grace and dignity — consistent with his life and presidency — and I watched as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of America.I had many feelings as I observed this pageant of customs. The first was the feeling of having — remarkably, improbably — survived a calamity, like stumbling out of a wrecked car and frantically checking my body for injuries, sure that the shock and adrena
  
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• Did the pandemic kill Salt Lake City’s gold-coated steak? What this restaurant is doing to survive.

  21-01-2021 15:52
  
  Within two months of opening, La Trattoria di Francesco had diners buzzing, renowned for its elevated Italian cuisine, including two $260 gold leaf-encrusted Piedmontese steaks with truffles — the most expensive and extravagant in Utah.Giuseppe Mirenda, whose family owns La Trattoria and the Sicilia Mia Restaurant Group, remembers the beginning of March 2020 vividly. La Trattoria had just had its best week since opening in January in Salt Lake City’s 15th and 15th neighborhood.&ldquo
  
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• Utahns will have a new license plate option in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

  21-01-2021 15:13
  
  Starting this summer, Utahns will be able to pick a new license plate honoring Martin Luther King Jr.Sen. Luz Escamilla (D-Salt Lake City), who co-sponsored a bill for the plate in the state’s 2020 legislative session, said it is the perfect time for the plate to be released because King’s message of equality and justice is needed in the United States.“We lack tolerance,” she said. “His message needs ... to come back.”The new plate, which features different ha
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Ruth Watkins will be missed by the University, and the state, of Utah

  21-01-2021 15:12
  
  The University of Utah was already the leading educational, cultural, scientific, medical and economic institution in the state when Ruth Watkins became its president three years ago. It is a measure of her abilities and success that now, as Watkins announces that she is moving on to the next step in her career, the state’s flagship institution of higher learning is, in so many ways, better still.This matters, and not just to the university’s students, faculty and staff. It matters t
  
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• Special report: Lawmaker’s firm squeezes thousands from renters months after evictions

  21-01-2021 15:11
  
  This story is part of a continuing series on Utah evictions and the state’s leading landlord law firm. It is supported by a grant from The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Read part one here. Nichole Anderson, an Ogden librarian, was navigating a divorce and raising two small children in the summer of 2019.When she left her husband and moved out, she didn’t realiz
  
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• Letter: Recognizing personal vulnerability and fallibility puts us on right path

  21-01-2021 15:11
  
  The American philosopher Bernard Gert reminds us of two simple facts of human life. They are (1) our vulnerability (We can be hurt.) and (2) our fallibility (We can be wrong.). In time, of course, most of us become well aware of our innate human weaknesses. As a result, we temper our rashness with caution and our certainty with humility. Unlike teenagers that sense no danger and are certain they are smarter than their parents, adults are generally more deliberate in both action and thought. In s
  
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• Did the pandemic kill SLC’s gold-coated steak? What this restaurant is doing to survive.

  21-01-2021 15:00
  
  Within two months of opening, La Trattoria di Francesco had diners buzzing, renowned for its elevated Italian cuisine, including two $260 gold leaf-encrusted Piedmontese steaks with truffles — the most expensive and extravagant in Utah.Giuseppe Mirenda, whose family owns La Trattoria and the Sicilia Mia Restaurant Group, remembers the beginning of March 2020 vividly. La Trattoria had just had its best week since opening in January in Salt Lake City’s 15th and 15th neighborhood.&ldquo
  
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• Utah’s first cannabis home deliveries roll up to patient homes

  21-01-2021 14:00
  
  Utah’s first medical cannabis couriers have started hand-delivering orders to the homes of patients, a promising development for people who face daunting drives to the nearest marijuana pharmacy.The service is starting small at first. WholesomeCo, the company that is trailblazing cannabis home delivery in Utah, has hired 10 couriers that can cover Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele, Weber, Cache, Summit and Wasatch counties.But Chris Jeffery, WholesomeCo’s chief executive officer, says his goal
  
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• Letter: Where’s the date on the Weekly Tribune?

  21-01-2021 14:00
  
  For years I’ve purchased the Sunday edition of Salt Lake Tribune at stores in my neighborhood.  I’ve continued to do so since the newspaper went to a weekly printing.Is it now obsolete to put a date on a newspaper?  That’s the first thing I look at, because I’ve accidentally purchased outdated Tribunes in newspaper boxes around town.  Also, the date sets the framework for reading the weekly news.After searching the inaugural edition of the weekly Tribune fo
  
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• Letter: Vaccine sign-ups couldn’t have been any worse

  21-01-2021 14:00
  
  The great news was that vaccine appointments could be scheduled by phone on Jan. 13 at 8 a.m. for those over 80 (me).  I called at 7:30 to verify the number, then began redialing at 8.By nine I had experienced over 200 busy signals and half again as many failed calls. Three times I did get through to a message stating, “We are experiencing system problems, call back later.”Who could possibly have seen this coming?Queuing site management ain’t brain surgery. Sundance and ev
  
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• Letter: Preserve Utah’s historical integrity by saving 29th Ward Chapel

  21-01-2021 14:00
  
  The proposed demolition of the 29th Ward Chapel is outrageous and a tragedy in the making. An early meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and longtime community hub, the building is an important part of the west side’s unique character that would be forever lost if it were to be torn down in favor of yet another overpriced “luxury” apartment community that we seem to be such a fan of constructing these days.Too often in Utah, there seems to be a distur
  
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• Letter: As our experience shows, the vaccine roll out in Utah is a fiasco

  21-01-2021 14:00
  
  My wife and I are both over 70 years old and she is compromised because of lung cancer. We have tried to enter the “lottery for life” game show at the Utah County Health Department now several times and never can get an appointment for the COVID vaccine shot.The first time we tried we logged on exactly at the designated time and saw the place to sign up for an appointment. We clicked on it in 3 seconds. Surprise -- all slots were taken.The news stations said that all slots were fille
  
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• Holiday crowding revealed problems at new Salt Lake City International Airport

  21-01-2021 14:00
  
  The Christmas and New Year holidays were the first real test of how the first phase of the sparkling new $4.1 billion Salt Lake City International Airport could handle bigger crowds — because the pandemic had kept them small.It didn’t do well, officials now concede. But they say they are working on fixes.“There were some kinks, I’ll be the first to say,” Bill Wyatt, airport executive director, told the city Airport Advisory Board on Wednesday.Disabled people had tro
  
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• Utahans will have a new license plate option in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

  21-01-2021 06:22
  
  Starting this summer, Utahns will be able to pick a new license plate honoring Martin Luther King Jr.Sen. Luz Escamilla (D-Salt Lake City), who co-sponsored a bill for the plate in the state’s 2020 legislative session, said it is the perfect time for the plate to be released because King’s message of equality and justice is needed in the United States.“We lack tolerance,” she said. “His message needs ... to come back.”The new plate, which features different ha
  
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• Episode 11: “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” take their fights to Las Vegas

  21-01-2021 05:13
  
  Old feuds resurface in the 11th episode of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” once five of the six women travel to Las Vegas. But before they make the trip …Whitney’s family plan “My family is not your typical Mormon family,” Whitney Rose says. “Our family dynamic is very complicated.”As we’ve seen before, there are multiple marriages, multiple divorces, and multiple siblings and half siblings in the family. And Whitney’s father,
  
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• Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott stepping down in late June

  21-01-2021 04:27
  
  The Pac-12 will be in the market for a new commissioner this year.The conference announced on Wednesday evening that Larry Scott will step down from his position on June 30, a mutual agreement after he met with the league’s presidents and chancellors this week. Scott’s current contract was slated to expire in June 2022, but he will not seek a new one.The new commissioner, whoever it is, will immediately be thrust into negotiating the Pac-12′s next media rights deal. The current
  
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• President Joe Biden starts process to restore Utah’s national monuments

  21-01-2021 04:23
  
  Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments may soon be enlarged.Acting on a pledge he made as a candidate, President Joe Biden on Wednesday initiated a first step toward restoring the boundaries of the two formerly large Utah national monuments that Donald Trump had reduced by 2 million acres as a political favor to Utah politicians.Within the first few hours of taking the oath of office, the White House said the new president signed an executive order calling for, among other m
  
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• Lawmakers threaten funding cuts if Salt Lake City schools don’t reopen as promised

  21-01-2021 03:47
  
  If Salt Lake City kids don’t return to classrooms in person next month as planned, the district could lose more students and significant funding under a proposal backed by Utah lawmakers Wednesday.SB107, which passed out of committee on a 5-2 vote, specifically targets Salt Lake City School District — the only one in the state that has continued with all remote learning this year during the pandemic. The measure threatens that any district that doesn’t reopen with a face-to-fac
  
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• Company offers rapid COVID tests for passengers at Salt Lake City International Airport

  21-01-2021 02:45
  
  A rapid-test XpresCheck site opened Wednesday for travelers at the Salt Lake City International Airport.
  (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) XpresCheck, a Covid-19 testing site is now testing passengers at the Salt Lake City International Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Rick Egan/)The testing is located in the site formerly occupied by XpressSpa and is operated by that company, which has had its spas closed for months.Only a couple of passengers took advantage of the testing on Wednesday,
  
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• Utah picked to successfully defend its Pac-12 gymnastics title by conference coaches

  21-01-2021 01:36
  
  Utah’s gymnastics team has been tabbed to defend its Pac-12 title, as the Utes received six of the eight first-place votes and 48 points overall to land in the top spot of the coaches poll.the Utes were followed by UCLA (40), Cal (39), Oregon State (32), Washington (21), Arizona State (20), Arizona (17) and Stanford (7).The Utes claimed the inaugural regular season title last year after going undefeated but didn’t get a chance to take the conference meet championships since the seaso
  
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• President-elect Joe Biden starts process to restore Utah’s national monuments

  21-01-2021 00:42
  
  Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments may soon be enlarged.Acting on a pledge he made as a candidate, President Joe Biden on Wednesday was to initiate a first step toward restoring the boundaries of the two formerly large Utah national monuments that Donald Trump had reduced by 2 million acres as a political favor to Utah politicians.Within the first few hours of taking the oath of office, the White House said the new president would sign an executive order calling for, amo
  
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• Biden starts process to restore Utah monuments

  21-01-2021 00:11
  
  Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments may soon be enlarged.Acting on a pledge he made as a candidate, President Joe Biden on Wednesday was expected to initiate a first step toward restoring the boundaries of the two formerly large Utah national monuments that Donald Trump had reduced by 2 million acres as a political favor to Utah politicians.Within the first few hours of taking the oath of office, the White House said the new president will sign an executive order calling
  
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