It was a whirlwind, three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for Clark Ivory and his team. Almost to the hour, the itinerary was jam-packed with all things housing. 

What can we all do to help more Americans obtain the American dream of homeownership — instead of standing around and pointing fingers at what we can’t control?

“We’re going to have to allow greater density. We’re going to have to allow new innovations. New plan concepts. New construction techniques. New financing. New public-private partnerships. Hundreds of new ideas need to come forward,” Ivory said.

Are Utah voters ready to move on from Donald Trump?

The former president didn’t fare well in a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll, even among Republicans. In fact, he finished third in a field of potential 2024 GOP presidential candidates, including one of his biggest critics in Congress.

Also, 6 in 10 Utahns overall have an unfavorable impression of Trump, though he does a little better with Republicans.

Read more here.

More in Politics:

• What do we know about how Latino and Black voters cast their midterm ballots? (Deseret News)
• Elon Musk tweeted that he’d publish discussion among Twitter executives that led to the censorship of the story on Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election (Deseret News)

Health:

• Post-college depression in graduates and what to do about it (Deseret News)
  
  

Business:

• Highlights from the November job report (Deseret News)
• Will the housing bubble pop or deflate? (Deseret News)

Faith:

• The first Giving Machine in the Southern Hemisphere (Church News)
• A Latter-Day Saint booth at the Sikh festival in Yuba City (Church News)

Northern Utah:

• The debate surrounding Ogden School District's surplus land (Standard-Examiner)

Wasatch Front:

• Midvale students quilting after school for the homeless (KUER)
• Hit-and-run driver still at large after killing a young woman in Provo (FOX13)

Southern Utah:

• Fighting to protect national monuments in southern Utah

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The West:

• Understanding avalanches and climate change (Deseret News)
• How people are redefining home in the west, and it isn't a new idea (Deseret News)

The Nation:

• How this Texan fell in love with her homeland after moving away (The Atlantic 🔒)
• The Supreme Court to decide whether business can refuse service to same-sex weddings (USA Today)

The World:

• Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky criticizes the Russian oil cap (BBC)
• A "rogue wave" hit the Viking Polaris cruise ship on it's way to Argentina (NBC News)

How the Utes' resolve is getting them to the Rose Bowl

The Utes knew that they weren't guaranteed a shot to play the Pac-12 championship game. A number of things had to go a certain way in order for them to make it to Las Vegas.

Even with the odds somewhat against them, they found their opening.

“As gratifying as any season I can remember. We had our backs against the wall when we got beat by Oregon a couple of weeks back,” Whittingham said. “These kids never blinked, never flinched. We kept believing. Once we got the news after the Oregon game that there was a pathway that we could get to this game, our guys were just ecstatic.

The Utes will be back in Pasadena in January for their second ever Rose Bowl.

Read more here.

New With The:

• BYU Cougars: What will BYU's 2023 football class look like? (Deseret News)
• Utah Jazz: Lauri Markkanen needs to embrace his success as a star player (Deseret News)
  
• Utah Utes: Utah basketball's historic win against Arizona (The Daily Utah Chronicle)

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