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‘Compassion that kills’: Gov. Cox says ‘sea change’ in Utah’s homeless system is coming
Projected on two large screens in front of a hotel conference room full of more than 300 people on Wednesday, a video told the story of Brandon Curtis, a Utahn who died at the age of 43 of a drug overdose on Aug. 16. In the video, his father and stepmother, Ken and Steph Curtis, said his exposure to drugs started when he was about 7 years old, “with a babysitter who gave him marijuana to calm him down.” Ken Curtis said “his mother contributed to that,” adding that was the main reason they later divorced. Then in 2012, he said Brandon’s mother “killed herself with a drug ...
