The Salt Lake Bees gathered in the Smith’s Ballpark outfield for a photo Tuesday, and Media Day observers scanned the faces in an effort to locate the team’s new manager.

Lou Marson blended right into the rows of players. He’s 32, and looks even younger than some of the Bees. Veteran catcher Dustin Garneau is only 14 months younger than Marson.

That’s the way Marson likes it. He’s happy to be managing Triple-A players in Salt Lake City, as opposed to working at a lower level such as Orem in the Los Angeles Angels organization.

“I don't know how well I would do with the really young kids, babysitting,” he said.

Marson, having been promoted from the Double-A Mobile (Ala.) BayBears after his first season as a manager, will wait for the Angels’ kids to come to him. The Bees will open the franchise’s 25th anniversary season Thursday at Albuquerque with the usual mix of veterans and prospects, plus the promise that a restocked Angels system should provide some rising stars at some point.

Rainy in SLC this week, but Bees manager Lou Marson will take it over Mobile. pic.twitter.com/V8RHeyOUYU

— Kurt Kragthorpe (@tribkurt) April 3, 2019

Right-handed pitcher Griffin Canning will start the season with the Bees, after quickly reaching the Triple-A level last summer. He’s the Angels’ No. 2 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline. No. 1 prospect Jo Adell’s timetable is slowed by a weird combination of injuries, having hurt his ankle and hamstring while rounding second base in an Angels spring training game in March. When he’s healthy, Adell likely will be assigned to Mobile, where outfielder Brandon Marsh (No. 3) and infielder Jahmai Jones (No. 4) will begin the year.

The top prospects with the Bees right now are left-hander Jose Suarez (No. 5), second baseman Luis Rengifo (No. 7) and first baseman Matt Thaiss (No. 8). Third baseman Taylor Ward, who batted .352 in 60 games for the Bees last season before joining the Angels, is back in town.

Marson will mange them, only three years after he realized in spring training with the Angels that his career never would be the same because of a shoulder injury. Otherwise, he would have played for the Bees in 2016, hoping to extend his six-year tenure in the major leagues with Philadelphia and Cleveland. Known as an outstanding thrower from behind the plate, Marson has a standard joke about the injury's effect: “I couldn't even throw a party anymore.”

So he transitioned to coaching, becoming the Bees' hitting coach in 2017 and Mobile's manager in 2018. That's a quick ascent in the profession. Former big-league infielder David Newhan, Marson's successor in Mobile, is 13 years older.

Six former catchers, including the Angels’ Brad Ausmus, are big-league managers — and Ausmus replaced another one, Mike Scioscia.

The preparation for catchers becoming managers stems from “relating with the pitchers, being on top of little details throughout the game, signs — just everything that goes with being a major-league player, you’ve got to tackle as a catcher,” Marson said. “It’s helped me so far.”

Jim Winder will return to Salt Lake County as chief of investigations in the district attorney’s office.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced the hire Wednesday in a news release. Winder has served as Moab’s police chief since 2017.

He announced this week plans to leave that job and return to Salt Lake County, though he declined to say where he would work.

Before going to Moab, Winder was Salt Lake County sheriff for 10 years. In all, he spent 30 years at the Sheriff’s Office. Gill and Winder are both Democrats.

“I’m looking forward to the opportunity to serve," Winder said in the release, “and I can’t wait to get started.”

In an interview Thursday, Gill said Winder will oversee a division of about 13 investigators, plus support staff. The investigators are certified peace officers who investigate cases after local police forces are done with them and conduct a few investigations themselves.

In July, Winder called his own news conference to blame his successor at the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Rosie Rivera, for the cities leaving the Unified Police Department — the countywide police force overseen by the sheriff. Winder also criticized the cities that left UPD.

Gill on Wednesday said he had no concerns about Winder’s ability to get along with all the police forces with whom the district attorney’s office works.

“He’s a professional," Gill said. "He’s a law enforcement officer.”

Four women who say the Salt Lake County district attorney’s office mishandled their sexual assault reports have a new avenue to seek the justice they believe they deserve. And they plan to take it.

In light of a new law approved this year, the women will drop their unique request before the Utah Supreme Court in favor of seeking a second review of potential criminal charges by prosecutors with the Utah attorney general’s office.

The announcement came on Utah’s Fourth Annual Start by Believing Day — a day aimed to change the way society responds to sexual assault.

University of Utah law professor Paul Cassell, who filed the original petition on behalf of the four women, and others gathered for a Wednesday news conference, where the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office presented a proclamation signed by Mayor Jackie Biskupski declaring Utah’s capital a “Start by Believing” city, encouraging people and organizations in the city to provide support to sexual assault survivors.

One of the women pressing her case had been known in court papers simply as Jane Doe 1. She reported she was raped by a classmate but Salt Lake County prosecutors declined to take on her case.

Her name is Tabitha Bell.

She stood Wednesday in front of a roomful of lawmakers, elected officials and reporters and voiced her support for the law change. With her assistance dog, Nox, at her side, Bell said she hopes these changes will make it so no other victim will feel ignored by the justice system in the way that she has.

She said the Salt Lake County prosecutor who looked at her case told her that he believed she was assaulted — but couldn’t take her case to trial.

“I just want to make sure that everybody is believed,” she said, “and gets the justice they deserve.”

Utah lawmakers passed a bill that allows victims of first-degree felonies to petition the attorney general’s office for a review if their local prosecutor declines to move forward. Previously, the attorney general’s office would take a second look only if there was a question of “abuse of discretion" by local prosecutors, which is rare.

This legislation, signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert, came several months after the four women petitioned the Utah Supreme Court to take an unprecedented step of assigning a new prosecutor to their cases.

Crystal Madill, another woman who petitioned for the review along with Bell, said in a Wednesday statement that she at first was apprehensive about the legislation, saying she questioned the intentions of those involved. But she is excited now that people who say they have been victimized will get another chance for a review by someone trained to handle sexual assault cases.

“I acknowledge that it is uncomfortable to even think about for most of us, but sexual assault is a reality,” she said. “It is time for us to stand up and sit outside our comfort zones with survivors and give them a chance to exercise their right to get justice.”

Madill had reported to police that a massage therapist repeatedly touched her genitals and pressed his genitals against her arm during an appointment. Two months after her initial report, she said, prosecutors concluded there was “insufficient evidence” to move forward.

Salt Lake County prosecutors questioned why she sought a massage that would be performed while she was nude, and asked her to think about the impact of charges on the man’s future, she said.

The four women argued in the petition that Salt Lake County prosecutors didn’t act on strong evidence supporting the filing of criminal charges. Bell was 17 years old when she says another student sexually assaulted her while they worked on a school project. Another woman says she was abused by a former co-worker. A third says the former Provo police chief raped her. And Madill reported she was assaulted by a massage therapist.

The Salt Lake Tribune generally does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault, but Bell and Madill agreed to be named.

When the petition was filed in October, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill defended his prosecutors and said there were other options available to survivors — including seeking a review with the attorney general or petitioning for a grand jury. He said recently that he was not opposed to the new legislation, saying that he did not mind a second review if the case has been closed by his office and they have decided not to file charges.

Cassell said the women’s cases highlight a troubling gap in the criminal justice system: Alleged victims have limited ways to challenge decisions by prosecutors.

The new legislation, he said, is an important step forward.

“Utah’s new review procedure sets an important precedent for how victims can obtain a chance to have these nonprosecution decisions reviewed,” he said in a statement. “We should not allow critical decisions about whether a case is to be prosecuted to the entirely unreviewable discretion of a local prosecutor.”

The women’s cases will now move to the attorney general’s office, where a prosecutor there will look at their cases again and decide if criminal charges are warranted.

Reed Richards, with the Statewide Association of Prosecutors, said the new process will allow the attorney general’s office prosecutor to look at the case as if it were the first time it was being presented for possible charges.

He called it "a wonderful step forward in the Utah legal system.”

This is a bummer. A bummer a blind man could see coming from 50 go-routes away, but a bummer, nonetheless.

Salt Lake City lost its pro football team on Tuesday, lost its pro football league.

You don’t really care because darn-near nobody around here even knew it existed in the first place. You didn’t have enough time to get acquainted with it, let alone get attached to it — just 52 days.

And poof. It’s gone.

“Pray for us,” said Gionni Paul, a former Utah Ute and now former Salt Lake Stallion linebacker who isn’t sure what his football-playing future holds.

I went to exactly one Alliance of American Football game, the Stallions against the Memphis Something-er-others, at Rice-Eccles Stadium. It was surreal watching a pro football game played in March on the Utes’ home field, dressed out as it was in baby blue.

Indications that trouble was on the horizon reared up when exactly three of about 40 seats in the press box were occupied, my own being one of them. You could have thrown a spiral down press row and not hit anyone on account of one obvious reason — the place was a ghost town.

Eyes being drawn out the press box’s large windows directly at the stands was unavoidable because Rice-Eccles looks strange, almost haunting, when it is empty, and on that occasion, it was basically that. They said 8,310 people were in attendance for the game, but in that huge open space it looked more like 310.

I once waited in a concessions line at an NFL game with more people in it.

The AAF is suspending operations, it was reported on Tuesday, after losing millions of dollars over a glorious lifespan of … eight games. The Stallions are serving out the suspension, along with their league-mates. And that is sad.

But not unexpected.

The facts that not enough people bought tickets for the AAF’s games and the care factor was low were just a couple of the problems vexing the league. The others were that the AAF’s owners/investors wanted the league to be connected to the NFL, serving as a kind of Triple-A outfit for the big boys. NFL scrubs theoretically could play in the AAF to better prepare them for a more frontline role in the top league and increase interest, and the level of play, in the bushes.

That didn’t work out so well when the NFL players association wouldn’t cooperate, pointing to bylaws in the collective bargaining agreement that prevented what some might classify as overuse of said players. And when the union swung the hammer on the idea of enabling third-string players to participate in additional games and practices to benefit the AAF … well, that plan stalled.

The NFL was never going to cooperate with somebody else’s league. It doesn’t need a minor league — that’s what college football is for. The players union was never going to sign off on it.

They’re too busy protecting the players who want to be protected, who already have made the NFL and don’t want to be pressured to get their ligaments torn and hamstrings pulled by playing in some backwater deal. Unfortunately, that protection also kills the dreams of other players who are on the fringe of the show, and now have few options as to where they can pursue those dreams.

It was supposedly knowledgeable executives who put the AAF together, football people who knew all the ins and outs of the pro game, guys and gals who would avoid landmines that had blown the arms and legs off of previous attempts to launch these kinds of endeavors. The AAF had television deals and qualified coaches and good talent with which to field an overall product that would be pleasing to an educated football public.

AAF teams were better, on average, more athletic, more skilled than a whole lot of college programs that draw 60,000 spectators on any given Saturday. The league’s athletes, its competitive structures were solid, the games, at least some of them, were enjoyable. I had a fine time at the Stallions’ game and deep down wished there were more than a smattering of fans in the stadium to see the action.

They weren’t there. And that Saturday was a blue-sky, 50-degree kind of day, perfect for taking in a little springtime football, a whole lot more entertaining, in and of itself, than watching, say, a college spring scrimmage.

It was bound to take time to make the connection between potential fan bases and teams. Fifty-two days aren’t enough to house train a puppy, let alone grab the attention of fans, change their habits, make them care, establishing a real pro league.

The biggest problem of all came down to what usually causes problems — a lack of money. The league was supposed to have cash to burn, and since January that fire was raging. Steve Spurrier, the noted coach of a team known as the Orlando Apollos, told the Orlando Sun-Sentinel in the smoking aftermath that league executives lied.

“Everyone was led to believe that the Alliance was well-funded and we could play three years without making any money and this, that and the other. Obviously, everything that was said was not very truthful.”

Trevor Reilly, a former Ute and New York Jet linebacker who suited up for the Stallions said wasteful spending was to blame for the AAF’s woes.

“The league had too many costs — outside of players and coaches,” he said. “Food, travel, hotels, lodging. It could have been done more efficiently. There were some success stories. San Antonio was averaging 25,000 to 30,000 fans. The TV broadcasts were averaging half-a-million viewers. It’s just that promises were made to a main investor that weren’t delivered on. And he was being asked to keep writing checks.”

The writing stopped on Tuesday.

“It could start up again,” Reilly said. “It could be done better.”

But it won’t be.

It was kind of cool — in a lonely sort of way — while it lasted.

Say a prayer, then, like Gionni Paul requested, for the Stallions, for pro football in Salt Lake City.

Make it a benediction.

GORDON MONSON hosts “The Big Show” with Jake Scott weekdays from 3-7 p.m. on 97.5 FM and 1280 AM The Zone.

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It went under the radar in Monday night’s game over the Hornets, coming as it did in the Jazz’s fifth consecutive win and their 10th victory in 11 games. It was also overshadowed by the scoring outburst of Charlotte’s Kemba Walker. Meanwhile, Jazz players typically don’t like to make a big deal of acknowledging individual stats.

But Rudy Gobert’s 18-point, 18-rebound effort was a big deal.

It was his 62nd double-double of the 2018-19 campaign … which just happens to tie some dude name of Karl Malone for the most point/rebound double-doubles in a single season in franchise history. The Mailman set the mark back in 1987-88. If Rudy manages one more over the team’s final five games, he’ll have the record to himself.

“He hasn’t changed his mentality — I think it’s grown even more after All-Star [weekend],” teammate Donovan Mitchell said of the center from France. “I think that is just a testament to his work ethic. He’s determined, and you see it on a daily basis in practice and in games.”

Donovan Mitchell, on Rudy Gobert: "He hasn’t changed his mentality — I think it’s grown even more after All-Star [weekend]. I think that is just a testament to his work ethic. He’s determined, and you see it on a daily basis in practice and in games." pic.twitter.com/bpNXG7za3b

— Eric Walden (@tribjazz) April 3, 2019

Lest the big man get big-headed, he’ll have to try again next year if he wants the single-season franchise mark for double-doubles. “But,” you begin to say, before I interject and tell you to go back and re-read what I wrote: He’s tied for the most point/rebound double-doubles in a season! With only five games left, he cannot catch some other guy named John Stockton, who registered 69 points/assists double-doubles back in 1991-92.

In case you missed it …

Tonight in Phoenix, Jae Crowder is probable to return, but Derrick Favors and Kyle Korver will both miss another game. The Jazz say they’ve had enough injuries at this point that they’re well-prepared to step up when someone goes out. Meanwhile, with several more games against teams eliminated from playoff contention upcoming, Utah’s players said they also must be vigilant not to let any complacency creep in.

The Jazz have won 10 of 11, but columnist Gordon Monson wondered if they should intentionally lose to chase a potentially more favorable playoff path. Gordon had a busy week writing about the Jazz, also touching on their approach to individual stats, and whether the franchise has lost a little bit of its home mojo.

Among the Tribune’s other interesting Jazz-related stories of the week, Andy B. Larsen wrote about Ricky Rubio’s constant involvement in the community, delved into why NBA coaches can’t yell at players quite as vociferously as, say, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo does, and wrote about the team’s Autism Awareness Night, which was obviously a big deal to Joe Ingles. And finally, I wrote our weekly weekend NBA column, which touched on the fan reaction that Suns guard Jimmer Fredette got at Vivint Arena last week.

Other people’s stuff

• ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon, who counts the Rockets, Mavericks, and Jazz among his beats, was in Salt Lake City on Monday for the game against the Hornets. After Rudy scored 18 points on 8-for-10 shooting, and did plenty of his other usual things to bolster Utah’s attack, MacMahon wrote that Gobert “is this season’s most underrated offensive weapon.”

• Mike Sorenson of the Deseret News is covering tonight’s game in Phoenix, and wrote about Jimmer’s second opportunity to show the Jazz what he can do.

• Along those lines, I’d like to think this was an April Fools Day joke, considering it happened on Monday, but not being there, I couldn’t say for sure. Suns coach Igor Kokoskov, the former Jazz assistant and friend of Jazz coach Quin Snyder, issued an apparent warning: “Quin Snyder better be ready. Jimmer is coming. And I’m serious. He’s going to play more.”

It's #Jimmer time! 🏀🔥🚀

"We're just getting him ready for @utahjazz. Just a warm up. Quin Snyder better be ready. Jimmer is coming. And I'm serious. He's going to play more." @Suns Head Coach, Igor Kokoškov #TakeNote #ValleyBoyz #BYUhoops #Suns #Jazz pic.twitter.com/OXeywCDpXE

— Ian Mikutel (@IanMikutel) April 2, 2019

• He may be out injured right now, but Kyle Korver is still one of 12 finalists for the “Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award” (yeah, I’ve never heard of it either), which Ryan Miller of KSL.com wrote about.

• If you care to read more about how Joe and Renae Ingles are dealing with their son’s autism diagnosis, Tony Jones of The Athletic wrote a story.

Up next

The Jazz have just five more regular-season games remaining, which will alternate home-and-away. They’re in Phoenix tonight against the Suns, then return to the Viv on Friday to face the Sacramento Kings. On Sunday, they’ll be in Los Angeles to face whatever is left of the Lakers. Next Tuesday, they wrap up their home slate vs. the Denver Nuggets, and the next night, they wrap up the regular season by going back to L.A. to take on the Clippers.

Boston • Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman faced court appearances Wednesday on charges they took part in the college bribery scandal that has ensnared dozens of wealthy parents.

The actresses along with Loughlin's fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and dozens of others were charged last month in a scheme in which authorities say parents paid an admissions consultant to bribe college coaches and rig test scores to get their children into elite universities.

Huffman, Loughlin and Giannulli, whose Mossimo clothing had long been a Target brand, have not publicly commented on the allegations. They were set to make their first appearances in Boston's federal court along with other parents charged in the scheme.

Huffman arrived at the courthouse late Wednesday morning, hours before the hearing was scheduled to begin.

Loughlin, who played Aunt Becky on the sitcom “Full House” in the 1980s and ’90s, and Giannulli are accused of paying $500,000 to have their two daughters labeled as recruits to the University of Southern California crew team, even though neither participated in the sport.

The Hallmark Channel — where Loughlin starred in popular holiday movies and the series "When Calls the Heart" — cut ties with Loughlin a day after her arrest.

Loughlin's and Giannulli's daughter, social media star Olivia Jade Giannulli, was dropped from advertising deals with cosmetics retailer Sephora and hair products company TRESemme.

Huffman, the Emmy-winning star of ABC's "Desperate Housewives," is accused of paying $15,000 that she disguised as a charitable donation to cheat on her daughter's college entrance exam.

Among the other parents expected in the Boston court Wednesday was Gordon Caplan, former co-chairman of the international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, based in New York.

Caplan is accused of paying $75,000 to get a test supervisor to correct the answers on his daughter's ACT exam after she took it. Caplan's firm said after his arrest that he has been placed on a leave of absence.

The consultant at the center of the scheme, Rick Singer, pleaded guilty and is cooperating with investigators. Former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith also pleaded guilty.

Several coaches pleaded not guilty , including tennis coach Gordon Ernst who’s accused of getting $2.7 million in bribes to designate at least 12 applicants as recruits to Georgetown.

Washington • President Donald Trump eased up on his threats to close the southern border as officials across his administration explored half-measures that might satisfy the president’s urge for action, like stopping only foot traffic at certain crossings.

Facing a surge of Central American migrants trying to enter the U.S., Trump last week threatened to seal the border this week if Mexico did not immediately halt all illegal immigration into the U.S., a move that would have enormous economic consequences on both sides of the border.

While Trump on Tuesday did not back off the idea completely, he said he was pleased with steps Mexico had taken in recent days and renewed his calls for Congress to make changes he contends would solve the problem.

"Let's see if they keep it done," he said of Mexico. "Now, if they don't, or if we don't make a deal with Congress, the border's going to be closed, 100%." He also said that he might only close "large sections of the border" and "not all of it." He added that his posturing was "the only way we're getting a response."

Later Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen held an emergency call with Cabinet members and White House aides, saying, "We are going to treat it as if we have been hit by a Category 5 hurricane," according to a person on the call. The person was not authorized to discuss the call publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Nielsen was creating an emergency operations center and named U.S. Border Patrol official Manny Padilla as an operational crisis coordinator to manage the response from within the different immigration agencies at the Department of Homeland Security. Padilla is a 30-year Border Patrol veteran and was recently the head of the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas.

His job will be different from that of the immigration or "border czar" that Trump is considering, the official said.

Closing the border completely would disrupt manufacturing supply lines and the flow of goods ranging from avocados to cars, making for a "potentially catastrophic economic impact," in the words of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader.

Some inside the administration also worry it would only exacerbate illegal immigration.

Meantime, administration officials grappled with how they might minimize the impact of a shutdown or implement less sweeping actions.

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, for example, told CNBC he's been looking at potentially keeping truck lanes open.

"We are looking at different options, particularly if you can keep those freight lanes, the truck lanes, open," he said. As for the hundreds of thousands of tourists and workers who cross the border legally, Kudlow said, "that may be difficult."

Earlier, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had told reporters that, while, "Eventually, it may be that it's the best decision that we close the border," the president was "not working on a specific timeline" and all options remained on the table. The Council of Economic Advisers, she said, was conducting a number of studies on the impact, and "working with the president to give him those options."

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in an appearance on MSNBC that closing only certain entry ports, or parts of all of them, could be among the steps short of closing the entire border.

It was a shift from Trump's threat late last week to seal the whole border, and quickly. "I am not kidding around," he said then, exasperated by the swelling numbers of migrants, thousands of whom were being released into the U.S. because border officials had no space for them. Arrests along the southern border have skyrocketed in recent months and border agents were on track to make 100,000 arrests or denials of entry in March, a 12-year high. More than half of those are families with children, who require extra care.

With southern border facilities near a breaking point, U.S. officials are busing many migrants hundreds of miles inland and dropping them off at bus stations and churches. Trump has mocked and vowed to end that "catch and release" practice but overwhelmed authorities saw no choice.

Responding to Trump's threats, Nielsen rushed home late Monday night from Europe, where she was attending G7 security meetings and intended to fly to the border mid-week to assess the impact of changes already made, including reassigning some 2,000 border officers assigned to check vehicles to deal with migrant crowds and new efforts to return more asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait out their case.

Officials were hoping to have as many as 300 asylum seekers returned to Mexico per day by the end of the week near Calexico and El Paso in Texas and San Ysidro in California. Right now, only 60 a day are returned.

Nielsen has also requested volunteers from non-immigration agencies within her department and sent a letter to Congress seeking more money and detention space and broader authority to deport families faster. The request was met with disdain by Democrats.

Even absent the extraordinary step of sealing a national border, delays at border stations have been mounting due to the personnel reassignments, Homeland Security officials said. When the Otay Mesa, California, entry port closed for the night Monday, 150 trucks were still waiting to get into the U.S.

Shutting certain border stations or parts of them would not be unprecedented. Over the Thanksgiving holiday last year, Trump claimed he'd already "closed the border" after officials briefly closed the northbound lanes at San Ysidro, California, for several hours in the early morning to bolster security because of concerns about a potential influx of migrant caravan members.

Mexican officials announced Monday they'd pulled 338 Central American migrants —181 adults and 157 children— off five passenger buses in a southern state that borders Guatemala, and said they had detained 15 possible smugglers on immigration law violations. But that was not unusual for Mexico, which has for years been cracking down on migration.

In 2014 then-President Enrique Pena Nieto launched a program that was described as ensuring orderly migration but in practice resulted in making it much more difficult for Central Americans to transit.

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Associated Press writers Catherine Lucey and Darlene Superville in Washington and Maria Verza in Mexico City contributed to this report.

Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney don’t want to see any transfer of funding from Hill Air Force Base projects toward construction of President Donald Trump’s wall on the southern U.S. border.

In a letter to acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan and Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, the two senators expressed “our significant concerns about potential plans to divert funds away from critical military construction projects in Utah as a result of the February 15, 2019, emergency declaration.”

They added that such a move would “undermine military capabilities that are essential to our national security strategy.”

Lee and Romney were among 12 Republican senators who voted to override the president’s emergency order to transfer money from other budget items to border wall construction. The two senators said the move amounted to a usurpation of congressional authority.

Trump later vetoed the congressional resolution blocking his order.

Nearly $130 million in funding approved for Hill Air Force Base is on a list of potential Pentagon projects that could be tapped for border wall construction under Trump’s emergency order. The target amount for wall construction is $3.6 billion of the $6.8 billion on the list.

“Nothing on that list is final. It was just an initial pool of possibilities and I literally have gone through hundreds of emails and calls on this exact topic. Every state and a couple of countries are saying, ‘Hey what about my project? How’s this going to impact [my state],'" Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, a Department of Defense spokesman, told The Salt Lake Tribune.

“The short answer is it was just an initial pool of potential projects,” Davis said. "The secretary [of defense] is going to be using input from the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff and independent counsel to finalize the list. But we’re not quite sure when that list will be available.”

Rep. Ben McAdams, the only Democrat in Utah’s congressional delegation, tweeted out his support of the senators’ letter.

“As the only member of the Utah House delegation to oppose the President’s emergency declaration, I stand with @SenatorRomney and @SenMikeLee on this issue," he tweeted. “This is a case in point of why we must stand up for Utah and for our checks and balances.”

As the only member of the Utah House delegation to oppose the President's emergency declaration, I stand with @SenatorRomney and @SenMikeLee on this issue. This is a case in point of why we must stand up for Utah and for our checks and balances. #utpol https://t.co/c3QSStBM6z

— Rep. Ben McAdams (@RepBenMcAdams) April 3, 2019

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said the military construction projects on the initial list are all high priorities. At the same time, he gave a nod to the importance of border security.

Even if the Defense Department projects are postponed, “it is not a question of if they will be completed, but when,” Bishop said in a statement. The projects at Hill Air Force Base, he added, “must be completed as soon as possible.”

He then blamed Democrats for blocking border wall funding in the earlier budget bill and called for an end to the Senate filibuster. “The filibuster must be abolished, America must be defended, and we must secure our borders.”

One project the Utah senators singled out for attention was the Utah Test and Training Range Consolidated Mission Control Center, which provides real-time air and ground monitoring and test functions for the latest generation of aircraft.

About $20 million was appropriated for this center, located in two 74-year-old converted warehouses, and it is “in urgent need of important upgrades to maintain fighter pilot combat readiness,” as well as to improve safety and ensure more accurate test results of weapons systems, they said.

Diverting those funds, they warned, would “have a severe and unacceptable impact on our military readiness, at a time when the U.S. faces increased threats around the world. We respectfully urge you to reject any diversion of funds away from this critical project and would like an assurance that no reprioritization will be made that could impact readiness at Hill Air Force Base.”

If a decision is made to tap the Hill funding, the senators asked to be notified and afforded an “immediate briefing.”

Donovan K. Potter, a spokesman for Hill, said he had no additional information to offer regarding the control center or other projects on the list. He did say there have been no conversations between base officials and the senators.

“There has not. We’ve been instructed that all of the communication goes directly to the Air Force level,” Potter said, referring further questions to Davis, at the Department of Defense press office.

Davis also declined any discussion of the control center or other projects at Hill, saying, “It would be hypothetical to carry on a conversation about something that might or might not be impacted."

Please excuse me for a minute while I go to the emergency room to have my sore neck checked.

OK. I’m back now. The doctor took an X-ray and discovered I have a mild case of whiplash.

“Have you been involved in an accident recently?” the doctor asked.

“No,” I said. “Not since that woman with a cast on her leg ran a red light and broadsided me on Second South a few years ago.”

Here’s what I remember about that experience. The instant my car got hit, everything began happening in slow motion. The car spun around in slow motion. The people in the car behind me looked on in horrified slow motion. I hung onto the steering wheel for dear life in slow motion. My Dr Pepper splashed in slow motion. And all I could think was “Damn. My. Car. Seats. Will. Be. So. Sticky. Now. Because. Of. All. That. Dr. Pepper. Spurting. Everywhere.”

(Author’s note: All those periods represent me thinking in slow motion.)

Don’t you think it’s funny how Trauma Brain works? I mean, hello. My car was busy getting totaled on 200 South and I was worried about sticky seats.

Whatever. That’s not the point. The point is my doctor wondered why I was exhibiting signs of whiplash. I should have told him it’s because of all the changes that have been happening in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lately.

Here’s a brief recap of those changes:

1. We’re not Mormons anymore. We’re members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Which, frankly, is a mouthful.

2. This also means that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir isn’t the Mormon Tabernacle Choir anymore. It’s The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. Which, frankly, is another mouthful.

3. We go to church for two hours instead of three now. Which has eliminated the need for me to sneak home and take a Dr Pepper break sometime between the first and third hours.

4. Like E.T., missionaries can phone home now on a weekly basis.

5. Also, they can text home on a weekly basis — an option not available to E.T. in 1982.

6. Eleven-year old boys don’t have to wait until they are 12 to be ordained deacons. (The same can’t be said of 11-year-old girls yet; or 12-year-old girls, for that matter.)

7. There have been significant changes in an important temple ceremony.

Shortly after the change from three-hour church to two-hour church was announced, I ran into a woman at the grocery store who’d read a conference column I’d written wherein I expressed a STRONG desire for less pew time. She and I were standing in the deli by that thing that keeps roasted chickens warm. (I add this detail only because I remember everything in my life by what food I was eating or smelling at the time.) She asked what I thought. And I told her that I was THRILLED. But that (surprisingly) I missed the sociability of the three-hour block. I don’t miss it enough to want to go to church for three hours again. But still.

Here’s the deal: Change — even if it’s change you’ve hoped for — can be hard. At least for me it is. You’d think at this age I would be better at dealing with change because by the time you’re my age, you’ve witnessed so much of it. In my lifetime alone, I have witnessed man going to the moon and man not going to the moon, which is part of the reason there are plenty of conspiracy nuts out there who think man never went to the moon.

And then there are the personal changes you experience along the way — children growing up and having children of their own, parents dealing with health issues, a career coming to an end. Wow. So much stuff.

Anyway. I’ll be tuning into conference this weekend to see if there are any more changes in store for us Not-Mormons. But first I’ll buckle up.

Ann Cannon is The Tribune’s advice columnist. Got a question for Ann? Email her at askann@sltrib.com or visit the Ask Ann Cannon page on Facebook.

The ongoing $3.6 billion rebuild of Salt Lake City International Airport should give Delta Air Lines and its hub there a big competitive advantage in the West, a top airline official said Wednesday.

“We’re going to look back on it and go, ‘That was money well spent,’” Holden Shannon, Delta’s senior vice president of real estate, told a convention of the Airports Council International, meeting at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. He added that the new airport “is remarkable.”

Shannon said Delta is in the process of spending $12 billion to $14 billion through passenger fees nationwide to help upgrade its terminals at airports, including Salt Lake City, New York’s LaGuardia, Seattle, Atlanta and Los Angeles International.

Delta and industry observers, he said, figure “the expansion of these key locations will give us a 20-year advantage” by making passengers want to travel to its superior facilities designed to offer advanced operations and service.

“The most important project we have is Salt Lake City, right here,” he said. The project, Shannon added, will make what had been considered airport palaces “look like a cottage” — and should make Utah’s capital the hub that passengers prefer in the West.

He praised the new design with parallel terminals between two runways. He said it will help avoid bottlenecks seen at too many other airports with spiderweb designs, where planes that have landed often must wait for aircraft that are blocking narrow taxiways before advancing to gates. It should help keep operations on time.

The design also makes expansion easier by adding more parallel terminals as needed.

Salt Lake City’s new gates are designed to accommodate aircraft of many sizes to offer great flexibility to airlines and their operations.

While many airports create huge entry and check-in areas, Shannon said, Salt Lake City and other new Delta projects seek to put less there and put more space and better facilities where passengers spend most of their time — at and beyond security around gates.

Shannon said new Salt Lake City terminals will include more seats, all with access to power plug-ins, and more area for lines at check-in — instead of obstructing crowded hallways. Also, the airport will be designed to allow international passengers to more freely use biometrics — such as eye scans — to avoid the need to present passports in different areas.

He said Salt Lake City will have a new Delta Sky Club that “will be an amazing amenity. It will have almost 30,000 square feet and gorgeous views of the mountains.”

Concessions chosen for the airport offer the sorts of food and retail most passengers want, Shannon said, while some other airports tend to offer choices that are too exotic and expensive.

“What we’ll see in the Salt Lake City airport," he said, “is much more relevant and thoughtfully placed and branded high-quality concessions.”

Shannon added that the rebuilt airport will be “a vehicle for commerce and expansion here” that will benefit the state.

Current facilities at the airport were designed to handle about 10 million people a year. The airport now sees 25 million passengers a year pass through it.

Shannon praised the city for keeping the facilities in remarkably good repair, given their age and the number of people using them — and said other airports in similar conditions have fared far worse.

But he’s excited about replacing them with new state-of-the-art facilities, likening it to demolishing a run-down neighborhood and replacing it with top-of-the-line buildings.

“Airports are like tear-down neighborhoods," he said, “and we’re building McMansions right now with lots of capability.”

Traditionally, Utah state law has allowed anyone, for any reason, to place a tracking device on another person’s car. That’s about to change after the Legislature passed a bill criminalizing the use of trackers without a car owner’s permission, or unless the tracker is placed by a licensed private investigator.

Supporters say the change respects privacy and property rights. But the bill generated an at-times heated debate at the Capitol, with some lawmakers questioning whether the exemption for private investigators creates a loophole for Utahns to legally spy on each other.

On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune reporter Bethany Rodgers, Rep. Marie Poulson, D-Cottonwood Heights, and Michelle Palmer, vice president of the Private Investigators Association of Utah, join Benjamin Wood to discuss Utah’s new vehicle tracking law and the ongoing debate over when, and whether, private investigators should be allowed to trace a person’s movement.

Click here to listen now. Listeners can also subscribe to “Trib Talk” on SoundCloud, iTunes and Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and other major podcast platforms.

“Trib Talk” is produced by Sara Weber with additional editing by Dan Harrie. Comments and feedback can be sent to tribtalk@sltrib.com, or to @bjaminwood or @tribtalk on Twitter.

Reno, Nev. • Burning Man organizers say the U.S. government wants to place unreasonable conditions on a proposal to expand the counter-culture festival’s capacity to 100,000, including stepped-up security searches and new perimeter barriers that land managers say would reduce vulnerability to acts of terrorism.

Group leaders say the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed stipulations for a new 10-year special use permit would for the first time require certified building inspections, maintenance of a county road and air quality mitigation that could raise their costs by $10 million a year at the annual event in the desert 100 miles north of Reno.

The draft environmental impact statement points to the mass shooting at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in October 2017. It's apparently the first time the agency has analyzed terrorist threats as part of an environmental review for proposed activities on federal land.

While terrorism has never occurred at Burning Man, "several vulnerabilities exist," the 372-page document warns. It says the big crowds, "iconic status of Burning Man and widespread media coverage of the event could make the festival an attractive target for an individual or team of attackers."

Crowds at the weeklong celebration culminating on Labor Day weekend with the burning of a towering wooden effigy have grown from about 30,000 in 2002 to 79,000 in 2017. Attendance currently is capped at 80,000.

The draft issued last month says an attack could result in mass casualties that exceed the capacity of law enforcement and medical resources on-site.

"Since the event is a soft target with the potential to draw the ire of international and domestic terrorists, tactics from active shooter, vehicular assault and improvised explosive devices are real threats with a low to moderate risk of occurrence," the document said.

Without naming best-selling author Brad Thor's spy-thriller "Use of Force," it notes that "a novel depicting the Burning Man Event as a terrorist target was published in 2017 and depicts weaknesses in the event security."

"Limited access controls and lack of professional security resources at entrances points into the city, coupled with limited law enforcement staffing, are two critical event vulnerabilities," the agency said.

Bureau field manager Mark Hall said it's the first time he's aware of his agency has analyzed terrorism in an environmental review on federal land.

"Since the October 1, 2017 shooting in Las Vegas, however, a greater emphasis on large scale outdoor gatherings has evolved and (the Department of Homeland Security) recently provided new protocols for outdoor mass gathering event safety," he said in an email to The Associated Press.

The draft EIS proposes 10.4 miles of perimeter fencing under the 100,000-capacity scenario that would enlarge the closure area to 23 square miles.

Hardened physical barriers would reduce the risk of vehicle entry through the current "orange plastic trash fence," the agency said. Private security portals would reduce entry of firearms "and other contraband."

Burning Man leaders say the proposal would force them to hire private security "to conduct unwarranted searches without probable cause as a condition of entry into this section of public land."

Dominque Debucquoy-Dodley said in an email to AP on behalf of Burning Man Project that several stipulations would result in the government replacing, overseeing or managing operations organizers "have successfully built and managed for decades."

"Our initial assessment reveals that the measures recommended by BLM in order to issue our next permit are unreasonable" and "would forever negatively change the fabric of the Burning Man event," he wrote. He said "one brazen measure" would force the private organization to pay for maintenance of a public highway.

"This and many of the mitigations ... would raise ticket prices substantially."

Other alternatives analyzed would maintain capacity at 80,000, reduce it to 50,000 or deny a permit altogether.

Hall said it's the largest recreational permit BLM issues and one of the largest on all federal lands. He declined to speculate on mitigation costs.

The agency will pick a preferred alternative in the final EIS after a public comment period closes April 29. Public hearings are scheduled April 8 in Reno and April 9 in Lovelock.

Flagstaff, Ariz. • Two members of Arizona’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Tuesday on a plan to address a shrinking supply of water from a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West.

Republican Sen. Martha McSally and Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva vowed to move identical bills quickly through the chambers. Bipartisan lawmakers from Colorado River basin states signed on as co-sponsors.

Arizona, California and Nevada in the lower basin and Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming in the river’s upper basin spent years crafting drought contingency plans. They aim to keep two key Colorado River reservoirs from falling so low that they cannot deliver water or produce hydropower.

State water managers and federal officials have cited a prolonged drought, climate change and increasing demand for the river's flows as reasons to implement a plan that would run through 2026 when current guidelines expire.

In the lower basin, the states would keep water in Lake Mead on the Arizona-Nevada border when it falls to certain levels. The cuts eventually would loop in California.

The states want congressional approval by April 22 so that Mexico also will contribute water starting next year.

The bills introduced Tuesday reflect language proposed by the states but also a section that says the implementation of the drought plan won't be exempt from federal environmental laws.

The Imperial Irrigation District in California, which holds the largest entitlement to Colorado River water, and environmental groups had raised concern about draft language they took to mean federal laws like the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act would be disregarded.

Kim Delfino, California program director for Defenders of Wildlife, said Tuesday that the language eases their concerns, as long as reports accompanying the bills don’t undermine it.

St. George • A highway through a Utah national park will close for road repairs for most of April.

The Spectrum reports that Zion-Mount Carmel Highway will be closed for three weeks beginning April 9.

Officials say the road in the park 308 miles south of Salt Lake City will be fully closed from the Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel to Canyon Junction in order for a federal highway contractor to completely remove a section to rebuild the road and a retaining wall.

Officials say the east side will be limited to vehicles smaller than 7 feet, 10 inches in width and 11 feet, 4 inches in height between the east entrance and the Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel.

Former Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Wednesday that his tendency toward physical displays of affection and encouragement have made some women uncomfortable, and he promised to be “much more mindful” of respecting personal space.

In a cellphone video, Biden also teased an announcement of his political plans, promising to "be talking to you about a whole lot of issues," before conceding that his behavior had offended some.

"Social norms have begun to change. They've shifted," the 76-year-old Biden said, looking into the camera in a suit and open-collared shirt. "And the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset. And I get it. I get it. I hear what they are saying. I understand."

The video posted on Twitter was Biden's first direct comment on what has tripped up his preparations to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. He did not directly apologize but seemed to be seeking to ease some people's discomfort.

On Friday, former Nevada politician Lucy Flores wrote in New York Magazine that Biden approached her from behind, touched her shoulders and kissed the back of her head in 2014.

Since then, another woman has said Biden grabbed her face when he was thanking congressional staff at a 2009 event.

Biden, a former longtime U.S. senator from Delaware, first said in a statement that he did not recall the episode that Flores initially described in the magazine piece and then in subsequent weekend interviews.

In the video Wednesday, Biden insisted that what he described as the compassion from where the affection comes will not change and again nodded to the steps he's taking toward running.

"But I'll always believe governing — life, for that matter — is about connecting, connecting with people," he said. "That won't change."

Biden also said that he would be more careful about his actions in the future.

"And I'll be much more mindful. That's my responsibility, my responsibility, and I'll meet it," Biden said.

And in so doing, Biden was tacitly acknowledging a nagging concern for some voters: that he cannot adapt.

“The idea that I can’t adjust to the fact that personal space is important, more important than it’s ever been, is just not thinkable,” he said in closing. “I will. I will.”

After surveying thousands of returned missionaries, independent researcher Matt Martinich decided “urgent reform” was needed to help The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints achieve real growth.

He offered his suggestions in a recent post on his website, ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com, and discussed them further in a Salt Lake Tribune story and this week’s podcast.

Listen to the podcast here:

Boise, Idaho • Legislation lowering from 21 to 18 the age limit for carrying a concealed handgun within city limits in Idaho without a permit or training has been signed into law by Republican Gov. Brad Little.

Little signed the law Tuesday backers say is needed to align gun laws in urban areas with rural areas where those 18 and older can already carry a concealed handgun.

Backers say the change will protect law-abiding citizens from accidentally breaking the law when they travel across a county and enter city limits.

Opponents say there’s a big difference between rural Idaho and urban Idaho and not allowing persons age 18 to 20 to carry a concealed handgun is reasonable to prevent accidental shootings and shootings resulting from altercations.

Amaheim, Calif. • Four women were arrested and charged with running a prostitution network in Utah, Nevada and California that generated tens of thousands of dollars a month, authorities said Wednesday.

The women had a website that appeared to be a legitimate service but wasn't and had office space in two California cities they used as call centers, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.

"In this case we have women exploiting women for gain," Spitzer told reporters. "These are not victimless crimes."

Authorities said the four women are charged with pimping and pandering and the two alleged ringleaders, Jodi Leigh Hoskins, 43, and Torri Ti Wilkinson, 37, are also charged with conspiracy.

The other two women charged, Aisha Kaluhiokalani, 39, and Andrea Smith Tizzano, 30, allegedly ran the call centers, authorities said.

It was not immediately known if the women had lawyers.

Police found out about Companions Escorts a year ago through an undercover agent who was investigating human trafficking, said Sgt. Juan Reveles of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force.

The company has a website with photos of scantily dressed women and purports to meet "ALL your adult entertainment needs."

Three women were arrested Tuesday in California. Hoskins was arrested in Nevada and authorities are seeking for her to be extradited to Southern California.

This weekend is General Conference for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Rumors are racing about church leaders tweaking the prohibition against drinking coffee and tea currently laid out in the Word of Wisdom.

There is precedent, of course. During the last few General Conferences, the church implemented some pretty drastic changes, including cutting Sunday services to two hours, reimagining the church-wide fellowship program and eliminating weekly meetings and quorum identifiers of an entire priesthood office classification.

The media has reported that there has also been recent changes to the temple ceremony. These changes were very poignant to me personally, as well as many other women close to me.

So what changes will the church make this weekend? I doubt there will be any changes to the Word of Wisdom, as rumored, and that’s fine with me.

I recognize that the Word of Wisdom was not a prerequisite for temple attendance until the 1920s, and that early members did not similarly abstain from tobacco and alcohol. A shift would certainly be reasonable.

But I’ve been grateful for the nudge toward a healthier lifestyle, and am glad the church’s policy helped me avoid certain addictions in my life. Of course, I’ve had other addictions, including ingesting a copious amount of daily Excedrin for most of my 20s and 30s. And it’s not my business whether other members abstain or not.

Continuing along the vein of the reported changes to the temple ceremony, I would love to see some new policies directed at helping women feel more valued and heard. Of course, many may dismiss this idea as another over-sensitive, radical, feminist rant from Michelle. Go ahead.

But as we approach Easter season, it’s always helpful to remember that at least one man was pretty radical in His teachings and policy-shifts. That man’s own apostles abandoned him multiple times. His female-followers never did, and, as I wrote last year, ushered in the gospel of Christ at every opportunity.

At a minimum it would be nice to see a request made of the men to abstain from social media for two weeks. The church requested a similar fast of women last conference, and the disparity didn’t make much sense. The implication was that silly women don’t know how to control their social media habits but men don’t have similar problems. (I mean, can anyone say March Madness?)

Other innocuous changes could be:

• More female speakers at General Conference.

• Young Women presidents conducting, or at least attending, temple interviews for young women.

• Using “Heavenly Parents” in the Young Women’s theme (“We are daughters of our Heavenly Parents”).

• Wives of mission presidents being a co-president, because she really is. Why can’t they both be called Mission Presidents?

• Lifting the ban on women in local leadership positions like Sunday School President, Ward Mission Leader, Ward Clerk, etc.

• A larger role for young women during sacrament meetings.

• An official recognition that the temple ceremony changed to eliminate references to a subservient role for women.

One other “radical” idea: Why can’t mothers hold their infants during a baby blessing? There is nothing doctrinal about a mother sitting in the middle of a circle of men. No chain is broken. No “authority” is being abused. And oh, how mothers would love such inclusion.

I asked my bishop if I could hold my baby during a baby blessing once. I was nervous and embarrassed to even ask. He said no. Instead, he offered me time to share my testimony after the blessing, which was fine. That particular baby blessing, though, was sidelined by something else that was deeply hurtful, and I was left feeling completely left out of the entire experience. And this was my special baby. It was a difficult day.

The admonition to mourn with those who mourn, and comfort those in need of comfort, is real. And oftentimes applies where we least imagine it. Some will scoff at my vulnerability, but my apprehension about sharing such hopes is only strengthened by my knowledge that I am not alone.

I don’t suggest these ideas as a critic, but as a faithful member who hopes for things that may come from a loving Father. And Mother.

Michelle Quist is a columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune.

This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, April 4, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:

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