Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell, a leader in promoting social justice in the state and country, called efforts to ban critical race theory in Utah schools "unfortunate."
| Updated: 7:56 p.m.
Starting Saturday, visitors to state-run liquor stores and other Utah government buildings will be able to walk through the doors mask-free.
Gov. Spencer Cox is rolling back the face covering requirement for state workers and visitors to Utah government buildings in light of dropping COVID-19 case counts and growing vaccination numbers, according to an administration memo circulated this week.
Employees can keep wearing masks if they prefer until the Utah Department of Health “determines that the COVID-19 pandemic has abated,” Jon Pierpont, Cox’s chief of staff, wrote in the Wednesday memo to executive branch workers.
“Mask wearing continues to offer health benefits and is left to the discretion of each individual employee,” Pierpont continued in the memo, first reported by FOX13. “Employees should respect the decisions of others regarding masks.”
Alli Martin and John Arthur: Rally to support our LGBTQ students
(Photo courtesy of Reycraft Books) Pictured is the book cover of Call Me Max written by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Luciano Lozano. The story is about a transgender boy.
By John Arthur and Alli Martin | Special to The Tribune
| May 13, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Imagine you’re a child in school and your teacher tells you to pick a book off the shelf about a kid like you. You look at the titles. There are books about athletes and orphans, stories of vampires and zombies and talking animals, but nothing about a kid who is transgender. So, you grab anything and sit back down.
Last summer, well…It just wasn’t summer, right? Sure we went on hikes, longer than usual walks, dusted off the bike to pedal around empty streets and generally got away from our locked-down lives as best we could, but, meh. We’re talking about summer all caps SUMMER with festivals, parades, patios and un- bridled, unfettered, just-plain goofing off. And while not everything will be back in full form, there are rumors and rumblings of a proper Salt Lake Summer about to come out of hibernation and roar. As we, hopefully, tentatively, carefully, nervously look forward with our bleary eyes toward SLC’s summer glories, we find ourselves with a little bit of that old spring swing in our step. We’ve got a lot to make up for. This year it’s DOUBLE SUMMER. Get out there and make it count.