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Published May 21, 2021 at 8:52 AM MDT Listen • 4:42 / Utah Pride festivities are back on with a different look this year. Instead of the parade and festival, which were cancelled last year due to the pandemic, the focal point will be what organizers are calling a “Story Garden.” This story and more in the Friday morning news brief. Friday morning, May 21, 2021 State Another ‘Boogeyman’ In Education Some educators in Utah are calling Critical Race Theory t...

The latest Utah new from Tuesday evening, May 18, 2021.

The Ipswich-based ethical coffee company is putting people ahead of profit as it prepares for the reopening of the hospitality sector.

Published: 12:00 AM May 17, 2021    Ready to reopen: (l-r) Paddy & Scotts MD Jon Reed, operations director Zoe Hill and founder Scott Russell - Credit: Paddy & Scotts The Ipswich-based ethical coffee company is putting people ahead of profit as it prepares for the reopening of the hospitality sector. For all hospitality businesses, 2020 was a tough year – but Future 50 member Paddy and Scott’s is positive about the future. With the phased return of hospitality – which started outside o...

Read later Summary: This week - digital acceleration gets industry credibility, while cybersecurity earns the US Presidents attention. ServiceNow makes waves with Knowledge 2021, and supply chains get scrutinized. Your whiffs include a trip to the trough (of disillusionment) for blockchain - and autonomous vehicles. Lead story - MyPOV: If theres one theme thats become a pandemic marketing unicycle a bit over-used this year, its the theme of digital acceleration. But heres what Digital subscr...

KUER The Utah Jazz are heading into the NBA playoffs in first place in the Western Conference. This story and more in Monday mornings news brief. Monday morning, May 17, 2021 State Weekend COVID Update Utah health officials reported 562 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend. Around 35,000 doses of the vaccine were administered, with more than 1.1 million Utahns now fully vaccinated. The positivity rate for the past week is 3.5%, slightly up from a week ago. Health officials reported over the ...

KUER K-12 schools in Utah will not be required to have a mask mandate in place during the last week of the academic year. This story and more in Thursday evenings news brief. Thursday evening, May 13, 2021 State Red Rock Wilderness Battle Continues With Trolling Legislation Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, and Rep. John Curtis, R-UT, introduced legislation Thursday to designate 289,000 acres of land in Illinois as federally protected wilderness. It’s an attempt to troll Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, who i...

Published May 13, 2021 at 9:43 AM MDT Listen • 5:13 / The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that the Logan and Cache County area has achieved Clean Air Act standards for fine particulate pollution for the first time since 2008. This story and more in the Thursday morning news brief. Thursday morning, May 13, 2021 State Will Ending Federal Pandemic Benefits Get People Back To Work? Utah announced Wednesday it will opt out of federal pandemic-relat...

So what will stick online and what won’t? We have clues: Going back to the grocery sector, another exemplar of ‘a good war had by most’ in the main - a few supply chain sticky moments aside - it’s clear that it’s a not a zero sum game going forward. The online shift happened and while many people will want to return to in-store, equally many will have been awakened to the convenience of online ordering and delivery. Similar themes from my piece, Store re-openings are not a return to n...

Published May 7, 2021 at 8:58 AM MDT areeya_ann/Getty Images/iStockphoto / iStockphoto In some parts of the Mountain West like Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming, teen pregnancy rates are higher than average, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research from the University of Colorado Boulder finds that when access to contraceptives goes up, the percentage of girls who drop out of high school goes down. This story and more in the Friday morning news brief. Stat...