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• Suspect killed by officers in Taylorsville shootout had previously been shot by police

  02-12-2021 22:31 via sltrib.com
  
  West Valley City • A suspect is dead and two police officers were seriously wounded after a standoff in a Taylorsville convenience store parking lot late Wednesday ended in a shootout.This wasn’t the first time police have shot at Anei Gabriel Joker, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office confirmed. Law enforcement records show a teenager with the same name and date of birth was shot and wounded by Cottonwood Heights police in 2017.According to West Valley City police,
  
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• COVID-19 case count in Utah now exceeds 600,000 since pandemic began

  02-12-2021 22:02 via sltrib.com
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.More than 600,000 cases of COVID-19 have been documented in Utah since the start of the pandemic, according to the Utah Department of Health.Another 1,981 cases of coronavirus were reported on Thursday, bringing the statewide tally to 600,079. T
  
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• Ranking the most used Utah Jazz lineups this season

  02-12-2021 22:00
  
  If Utah Jazz Head Coach Quin Snyder deserves credit for one thing (side note:  he deserves credit for a lot of things) it might be his ability to recognize what works, and stick with it. The Jazz have leaned increasingly on four-out lineups featuring a conventional rim protector in the middle during his tenure, with […]
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• A new variant, censorship accusations, Utah’s redlining consequences and more on ‘Behind the Headlines’

  02-12-2021 21:54 via sltrib.com
  
  Nine books are removed from libraries in one school district — prompting accusations of censorship. Scientists work to better understand the omicron variant of the coronavirus, and to better predict its impacts on the pandemic. And a look at how discriminatory housing practices from Utah’s past carry through to the present day.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune data reporting fellow Shane Burke, reporters Andy Larsen and Courtney Tanner, and news columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW
  
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• Rep. Paul Ray, sponsor of Utah’s COVID ‘endgame’ bill, to leave Legislature for a new job at state health department

  02-12-2021 21:24 via sltrib.com
  
  Rep. Paul Ray, who spent the last two decades in the Utah House, is leaving the Legislature later this month for a position with the Utah Department of Health and later the new Utah Department of Health and Human Services.Starting on Dec. 16, the Clearfield Republican will be the department’s new assistant director of legislative affairs, UDOH announced on Thursday.“I am grateful to use my abilities, knowledge and connections within health and human services to continue to improve th
  
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• David Amott: LDS Church should spare the historic Provo Temple

  02-12-2021 21:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Over the past decade, several temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have undergone (or are currently in the process of) extensive renovations: Salt Lake City, Manti, St. George, Mesa, Washington, D.C., Oakland and Jordan River, to name a few. With each renovation, certain needs of the church have been addressed: extra capacity, less expensive to maintain, structural reinforcement and seismic fortification or adjusting the interior to allow temple ceremonies to fit modern sta
  
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• Health a concern for No. 12 BYU men’s basketball after Utah Valley upsets Cougars in overtime

  02-12-2021 19:10 via sltrib.com
  
  Orem • Long after the No. 12 BYU men’s basketball team lost to the Utah Valley Wolverines in a 72-65 upset, the UCCU Center was still abuzz with triumph. “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas blared as fans in green UVU T-shirts lingered on the court.But the feeling was somber in the bowels of the area as Cougars coach Mark Pope addressed the media. The team lost center Gavin Baxter to a torn ACL, which marks a third season-ending injury for him.Pope said losing Baxter wasn
  
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• Suspect dead, 2 officers wounded in Taylorsville shootout

  02-12-2021 18:55 via sltrib.com
  
  A suspect is dead and two police officers were seriously wounded after a standoff in a Taylorsville convenience store parking lot ended in a shootout.According to West Valley City police, at about 10 p.m. Wednesday, officers located 20-year-old Anei Gabriel Joker, who was wanted in connection with a rape and robbery investigation, at a 7-Eleven at 4110 S. Redwood Road — just inside Taylorsville City limits. Joker was inside his car with an infant believed to be about 9 months old and refus
  
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• Alicia Du and Dillan Barlow: Why the next generation of Utahns is stepping up on climate change

  02-12-2021 18:00 via sltrib.com
  
  As high school student leaders here in Utah, we know that climate change is one of the top concerns of our generation. From conversations at school to the discourse on social media, few topics command as much focus and attention. For young people with decades of life ahead, this issue is personal.In Utah, the stakes are even greater. We are already experiencing warming at twice the rate as the world average. If these trends continue, Utah’s economy will face serious consequences. Less freq
  
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• Alex Veilleux: The Uinta Basin Railway is a climate train wreck

  02-12-2021 18:00 via sltrib.com
  
  We are in the midst of a rapidly closing environmental window during which we can arrest the progression of climate change caused by carbon dioxide emissions, primarily from the widespread use of fossil fuels. Many experts now believe we have only a decade before entering an irreversible feedback loop of global warming that will result in massive losses of arable land, biodiversity, habitable coastlines and drinkable water.But with the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of the proposed Uinta B
  
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• Utah State thriving under new coach Ryan Odom, as the Aggies prepare to take on Saint Mary’s

  02-12-2021 17:30 via sltrib.com
  
  A lot of doubt circled the Utah State basketball team in the wake of Craig Smith’s exodus from Logan to Salt Lake City. Under Smith, the Aggies won 25 games in back-to-back seasons and then 20 games in a COVID shortened season a year ago. In each of those three seasons, USU qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Would the Aggies be able to replicate that success under new head coach Ryan Odom?Through seven games the doubt is being dispelled and the critics are getting a resounding answer. Utah
  
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• ‘How ‘Bout This Jazz’ podcast: Can the Utah Jazz backcourt step it up on defense against other elite NBA guards?

  02-12-2021 17:09 via sltrib.com
  
  It’s December and the Utah Jazz go into the last month of 2021 winners six out of their last eight games.Last Monday, the Jazz shut down Damian Lillard en route to a win over the Portland Trail Blazers. The Weber State alumnus is just one of many star guards in the NBA’s Western Conference. With the likes of Steph Curry, Luka Doncic, Chris Paul and Devin Booker, and (when he comes back from injury) Jamal Murray in the conference, it’s likely the Jazz backcourt of Mike Conley an
  
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• Latest from Mormon Land: How LDS scriptural warnings about dying democracies may apply to U.S.

  02-12-2021 16:47 via sltrib.com
  
  These are excerpts from The Salt Lake Tribune’s free Mormon Land newsletter, a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Want this newsletter with additional items in your inbox? Subscribe here. You also can support Mormon Land with a donation at Patreon.com/mormonland, where you can access, among other exclusive gifts and content, transcripts from our “Mormon Land” podcasts.A voice of warningA global watchdog group has
  
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• Joseph Q. Jarvis: Patients’ health care needs must come first

  02-12-2021 16:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Gov. Spencer Cox, in announcing his new health policy initiative, the Utah Sustainable Health Collaborative, said that Utah’s health system leaders must leave their biases behind.Citing statistics that have been known for decades that health care costs are rising faster than general inflation, that measures of health are declining despite increasing health care spending, and that families are more often bankrupted by health care costs than any other expenditure category, Gov. Cox is convin
  
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• Aaron Quigley: Harm reduction can keep people alive so their substance abuse can be treated

  02-12-2021 16:30 via sltrib.com
  
  “Just don’t die.”Those are the words I used to say to clients struggling with substance use who left the programs I’ve worked in over the years.“If you die, we can’t help you anymore.”We can’t control how ready our clients are to make a change in their lives. From unwilling to unable there are just too many factors. It was heartbreaking to watch someone sick walk out the door, but I always sent them with that same message. Just don’t die.Thes
  
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• How has Utah saved $75 million on welfare? By providing next to none and taking credit for LDS welfare instead.

  02-12-2021 16:11 via sltrib.com
  
  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.Near the start of the pandemic, in a gentrifying neighborhood of Salt Lake City, visitors from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived at Danielle Bellamy’s doorstep.They were there to have her read out loud from the faith’s signature scripture, the Book of Mormon, watc
  
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• Suspect dead, two police officers wounded in Taylorsville shootout

  02-12-2021 16:04 via sltrib.com
  
  A suspect is dead and two police officers were seriously wounded after a standoff in a West Valley City convenience store parking lot ended in a shootout.According to West Valley City police, at about 10 p.m. Wednesday officers located 20-year-old Anei Gabriel Joker, who was wanted in connection with a rape and robbery investigation, at a 7-Eleven at 4110 S. Redwood Road — just inside Taylorsville City limits. Joker was inside his car with an infant and refused to come out.“He would
  
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• Predicting the outcome of every Utah Jazz game in December

  02-12-2021 16:00
  
  At 14-7, the Utah Jazz are enjoying a solid 2021-22 season so far, but a dominant December should be at the top of every Jazzman’s Christmas list. After all, this team still holds the potential to upgrade from solid to dominant. Luckily, the Jazz’s upcoming December slate is reasonably forgiving. With a number of lottery […]
  Predicting the outcome of every Utah Jazz game in December - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• President Joe Biden’s approval rating plummets in Utah

  02-12-2021 15:43 via sltrib.com
  
  Inflation and the continuing pandemic are taking a massive toll on how Utahns perceive President Joe Biden’s job performance.A new Utah Public Opinion Pulse survey from OH Predictive Insights finds Biden’s favorability has cratered, dropping 20 points since August. Only 32% of the Beehive State’s registered voters view Biden favorably, while 63% hold an unfavorable opinion of him, a net favorability of minus 31%.
  Graphic courtesy of OH Public InsightsUnsurprisingly, Biden&rsquo
  
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• Tracy Gruber and Nate Checketts: Utah’s new Department of Health and Human Services will improve services to the public

  02-12-2021 15:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Streamlining government is more than just moving boxes on an organizational chart. Ultimately, it’s about improving services for Utahns and providing those services more efficiently. It takes intense process review, a willingness to change, and a lot of work.Earlier this week our departments released the transition plan for the integration of the Utah Department of Health and the Department of Human Services into the new Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) on July 1, 2022. (The
  
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• 10 specific ways Utah can improve its ranking as the worst state for women’s equality

  02-12-2021 15:30 via sltrib.com
  
  If Utahns don’t want their state to be named the worst for women’s equality for a fifth year in a row, there are some clear steps they can take, according to new report released Thursday.Researchers outlined their 10 recommendations in the study, which was commissioned by Zions Bank and compiled by the Utah Women and Leadership Project at Utah State University.The findings in their report, titled “Women’s equality in Utah: Why Utah is ranked as the worst state, and what c
  
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• Suspect dead, two police officers wounded in West Valley City shootout

  02-12-2021 15:29 via sltrib.com
  
  A suspect is dead and two police officers were seriously wounded after a standoff in a West Valley City convenience store parking lot ended in a shootout.According to West Valley City police, officers located 20-year-old Anei Gabriel Joker — who was wanted in connection with a rape and robbery investigation — at a 7-Eleven at 4110 S. Redwood Road at about 10 p.m. on Wednesday. Joker was inside his car with an infant and refused to come out.“He would not exit the vehicle and he
  
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• This holiday tree got the highest bid in history at Utah’s Festival of Trees fundraiser

  02-12-2021 15:06 via sltrib.com
  
  With the help of a pair of Utah social media influencers, a Festival of Trees entry paying tribute to a 3-year-old girl who died of cancer has garnered an auction bid of $50,000 — the most money a single tree has raised in the festival’s 51-year history.The tree, “A Christmas for Jocelyn,” was donated by volunteers at the Intermountain Foundation of Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital and designed and decorated by Julie Saxton, in honor of Jocelyn Marie Duchar
  
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• Utah high school promotes fundraising ‘jail event’ with image of a Black boy behind bars

  02-12-2021 14:47 via sltrib.com
  
  A Utah charter school invited its students to send their classmates to “lunch jail” as part of a fundraising event — and then promoted the campaign with an image of a Black child in an orange jumpsuit behind bars.Advocates are demanding to know how the ad for social media was approved, calling it insensitive and derogatory. And they say they’re concerned about the impact of it on students of color.“That’s who they felt deserved to be behind bars, seriously?&rd
  
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• Why aren’t Utah football assistants being mentioned for job openings at other schools?

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  There is a gigantic football game involving the University of Utah on Friday night. With the Utes making yet another run to the Pac-12 title game, should Kyle Whittingham’s top assistants’ names be mentioned more for coaching vacancies elsewhere? That’s where we’re going to kick this week’s mailbag off.As always if you have a question for the Utah Utes mailbag, you can fire off a tweet to @Joshua_Newman, slide into my DMs, email me at [email protected], or even lea
  
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• Voting rights debate reignites in San Juan County with new commission, school board district proposals

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  A debate over voting rights in San Juan County — the only county in Utah where the majority of the population is non-white — has reignited as elected officials prepare to adopt new school board and county commission districts following the 2020 Census.At a public hearing held in Monticello on Tuesday night, Bill Cooper, a redistricting expert hired by the county to draw new maps, presented several options for both its five-member school board and the three-member commission districts
  
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• New limestone quarry under Grandeur Peak will scar Parleys Canyon unless we all wake up, Editorial Board writes

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The first level of government approval required for a proposed open-pit limestone quarry in the highly traveled Parleys Canyon between Salt Lake City and Park City appears to be little more than a rubber stamp, to be issued soon by the notoriously weak Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (DOGM).That’s why Utahns should insist that the further levels of permitting required — from Salt Lake County, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality and any other elective or appointed offici
  
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• Letter: For many LGBTQ students, access to LGBTQ literature is a lifeline

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I was appalled when I read that Canyons School District, the school district I attended only a few months ago, was reviewing and considering removal of certain LGBTQ literature from school libraries for promoting sexual content. I graduated from Corner Canyon High School last May. During my sophomore year, I came out as gay. What should have been a moment of breathtaking freedom and relief was, in reality, heartbreaking as I lost friends and experienced discrimination from my classmates. Through
  
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• Letter: Fellow Republicans: Face the facts and act like grownups.

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I’m doing my best to face facts and act like a grownup. I am a Republican. Those who these days have the gall to call themselves Republicans are something else completely alien to me.Today’s Republicans are the rioters who are out to commit murder and mayhem upon their enemies. I don’t choose to be their enemy but they see me as an enemy for some reason.I’m just trying to tell them the facts.The Colorado River will be dry by 2100 and Florida will be under water by 2100 if
  
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• Letter: Congress can help beat back COVID by fighting AIDS, too

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  We all know that COVID-19 has had a devastating impact across the globe. With millions of lives and livelihoods lost, the pandemic has been a crisis unlike anything experienced in decades. The last time the entire world was this focused on a pandemic threat was over two decades ago, when HIV/AIDS was killing almost 4,000 people every day and new infections doubled every year. Since then, the global response to AIDS has largely become a global success story, but the COVID-19 pandemic threatens th
  
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• Devin Lloyd returned to Utah for moments like Friday night’s Pac-12 championship game

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Instead of playing in Friday night’s Pac-12 championship game, Devin Lloyd could be getting paid to play football.Lloyd could have left the University of Utah after last season, declared for the NFL Draft, and no one would have questioned him. Worst-case scenario, Lloyd would have been a day 3 pick last spring. He then would have been a safe bet to make an opening-day 53-man roster, leaving behind a college career that included All-Pac-12 selections in 2019 and 2020.Lloyd flirted with the
  
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• Commentary: Debate over federal debt limit is a ruse to distract us

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The upcoming debate regarding the debt limit is a ruse, a hypocrisy exacted on the American people.The debt limit caps the amount of money the government can borrow. Failure to raise the limit would be calamitous, adversely impacting the U.S. economy and global financial markets, delaying Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid payments and possibly suspending student loans. Subsidized breakfast and lunch programs for low-income students would cease, as would food-stamp programs.Delays could redu
  
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• Andy Larsen: Omicron has a scary-sounding name, but just how much will it change the course of the pandemic?

  02-12-2021 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Omicron was first really discovered last week.Seriously, it was last Wednesday, Nov. 24, when South Africa detected the unusual coronavirus variant and immediately told the World Health Organization. And essentially the whole coronavirus world of scientists — a huge number of professionals involved, at this point — has been trying to figure it out around the clock since then.To be honest, this means that there just hasn’t been a lot of time for the experiments with the informat
  
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• Utah makes welfare so hard to get that some feel they must join LDS Church to get aid

  02-12-2021 12:59 via sltrib.com
  
  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.Near the start of the pandemic, in a gentrifying neighborhood of Salt Lake City, visitors from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived at Danielle Bellamy’s doorstep.They were there to have her read out loud from the faith’s signature scripture, the Book of Mormon, watc
  
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• Branden Carlson injury compounds depth troubles as Utah basketball drops Pac-12 opener at No. 20 USC

  02-12-2021 09:33 via sltrib.com
  
  Los Angeles • Even before the University of Utah opened Pac-12-play Wednesday night at USC with a 93-73 loss, the Utes’ injury situation was already bordering on the absurd.Gabe Madsen hasn’t played since the Nov. 9 opener with what an athletic department spokesperson called a ‘non-COVID illness.’ Marco Anthony sprained his ankle Nov. 21 vs. Tulsa and hasn’t played since, Bostyn Holt is done for the season with an ACL injury, and Dusan Mahorcic is out until at
  
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• What is a gold IRA? Here are 5 companies that can help you grow your portfolio

  02-12-2021 08:00 via sltrib.com
  
  We are living through uncertain economic times. Just this October, Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) hit 6.2% - that’s the fastest rate of inflation for 31 years. This reduces the value of any cash we have squirrelled away in an IRA or savings account.The harder we work, the more we can save, and the better our retirement. That’s what people say, isn’t it?Well how about letting some assets do the work for you?With a special kind of self-directed IRA called a gold IRA, you can aim
  
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• Utah Valley upsets No. 12 BYU in overtime

  02-12-2021 06:45 via sltrib.com
  
  Orem • Long after the No. 12 BYU men’s basketball team lost to the Utah Valley Wolverines in a 72-65 upset, the UCCU Center was still abuzz with triumph. “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas blared as fans in green UVU T-shirts lingered on the court.The Cougars on Wednesday faced a raucous crowd. They faced a scrappy Utah Valley squad that just wouldn’t go away. They gave up a lead, then came back from a deficit to force five extra minutes.BYU (6-1) had the opportuni
  
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• Health a concern for No. 12 BYU men’s basketball as Utah Valley upsets Cougars in overtime

  02-12-2021 06:21 via sltrib.com
  
  Orem • Long after the No. 12 BYU men’s basketball team lost to the Utah Valley Wolverines in a 72-65 upset, the UCCU Center was still abuzz with triumph. “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas blared as fans in green UVU T-shirts lingered on the court.But the feeling was somber in the bowels of the area as Cougars coach Mark Pope addressed the media. The team lost center Gavin Baxter to a torn ACL, which marks a third season-ending injury for him.Pope said losing Baxter
  
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• Utah Valley upsets No. 12 BYU men’s basketball in overtime

  02-12-2021 05:33 via sltrib.com
  
  Orem • The BYU men’s basketball team faced a raucous crowd at the UCCU Center. It faced a scrappy Utah Valley squad that just wouldn’t go away. It gave up a lead, then came back from a deficit. The game needed an extra five minutes to decide it.The No. 12 Cougars had the opportunity to win in regulation, but the Wolverines made all the clutch plays down the stretch to upset BYU, 72-65, in overtime on Wednesday night.The Wolverines went on a 10-0 run in overtime to secure the win
  
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• Marshall White Center, once an historic investment in Ogden’s marginalized neighborhoods, faces ‘demolition by neglect’

  02-12-2021 04:49 via sltrib.com
  
  Ogden has worked for years to transform its reputation from a rough-and-tumble town into a recreation magnet. But the city’s only public recreation center is forcing a reckoning with its past.Marshall White was a World War II veteran, youth mentor and Ogden police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1963. A Black man who died in the heat of the U.S. civil rights movement, White became an important symbol for the community and the city built and dedicated a recreation center in hi
  
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• Intermountain, MountainStar, pause employee COVID vaccine requirements amid legal challenges

  02-12-2021 04:46 via sltrib.com
  
  Two Utah healthcare providers are pausing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for caregivers until the legality of vaccine mandates is decided in the courts, according to a Tuesday statement from Intermountain Healthcare.Intermountain is joined by MountainStar Healthcare/HCA Healthcare in this temporary halt. A nationwide stay issued Nov. 30 by a federal court put the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement on hold, so Intermountain is temporarily pausing its suspension of careg
  
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