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$97 million in federal emergency aid helped make ends meet.

Legislation gets unanimous approval in committee and some say it doesn’t go far enough on restraints, drugs and isolation rooms.

Mitt Romney seeks monthly payments for kids of up to $350, replacing welfare, tax credits Lee Davidson © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Children at the Jewish Community Center walk like mummies to help with social distancing as they take a nature walk on July 2, 2020. Instead of families waiting for annual income tax returns to benefit from tax breaks for their children, Sen. Mitt Romney is proposing giving them monthly payments of $350 for children age 5 and under and $250 for school-age kids — and boosting overall support. Popular Searches “This proposal o...

Utah officials had questions about how to react to state’s first case of COVID-19 U.K. variant, emails show Erin Alberty © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Zeanne Timbol administers a test for COVID-19, at the Intermountain Salt Lake Clinic, on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. Two cases of the U.K. variant have been detected in Utah so far. Health officials at first weren’t certain how to investigate the first known case in Utah of the more-infectious “U.K.” coronavirus variant, according to emails among federal, state and county agencies. But that initial uncer...

Racism isn’t a hypothetical topic for Utah’s Black pastors. They’ve tasted it. Peggy Fletcher Stack © Francisco Kjolseth (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Oscar T. Moses, poses for a photograph with Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, prior to the start of the 2020 legislative session at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday, Jan. 26. Black Christian pastors in Utah may minister to small congregations, with older members slowly dying out, or large ones, attracting younger believers. But most of them face a sim...