“It is absolutely when not if,” said Fraser Bullock, “and it’s likely either 2030 or 2034.”

Here are a few reasons why:

• After Los Angeles won the 2024 Olympics, the United States Olympic Committee named Salt Lake its favored American city to bid for future Games.
• The 2002 Olympic venues are well-preserved — which means the budget proposed for hosting a future Olympics is significantly less than the 2002 budget.
• The International Olympic Committee has established a "new norm" for determining host cities that has replaced schmoozing IOC delegates for their votes with a system that objectively identifies the top candidates and buffers the voters from the bidders.

How the ‘Build Back Better’ Act could be built back different

The Democratic majority in the Senate is so thin that the future of the "Build Back Better" Act can be decided by one Democratic senator who won't vote for it — such as Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., or Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.

Those who are watching the back-and-forth between Manchin and his party believe pieces of the original bill on controlling inflation, redoing the tax code, bringing down the cost of prescription drugs and addressing climate change could pass as individual measures or as a new, trimmed-down bill.

Meanwhile, Sinema has said she opposes any tax hike, so she would likely not support Manchin's priority of rolling back the tax breaks for corporations during the previous administration.

Read more.

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Olympics roundup: Salt Lake City’s Jaelin Kauf wins USA’s 2nd medal

Salt Lake City resident Jaelin Kauf won the USA’s second medal of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday morning, taking silver in women’s moguls skiing.

To win silver, Kauf had to make it through one round of qualifying — she finished third in her qualifying round — and then finished fourth in the first finals round and second in the second finals round to make the medal round.

Read more about Kauf's silver medal-winning run, as well as how other Olympic athletes with Utah ties did on Sunday.

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