Former Sen. Pete Knudson dies at 86; SLC issues summer pollution warning; some unincorporated SL Cty neighborhoods to become part of Sandy
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Situational Analysis | June 13, 2024

It's Thursday and National Sewing Machine Day

Sincere condolences to the friends and family of former Sen. Pete Knudson, who passed away last week. He served the state for many years, in a variety of capacities.

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Utah Headlines

Political news

  • Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Utah in late June (Deseret News)
  • The Supreme Court decision that could rock Utah (Deseret News)
  • Salt Lake's Delta Center zoning changes meet opposition from Planning Commission (KSL)
  • Supporters, developer clash over future of Redwood Drive-in at planning commission meeting (KUTV)
  • Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. Celeste Maloy push Justice Department to crack down on teen vaping and illegal e-cigarettes (Deseret News)

Election news

  • 2 former Utah Supreme Court justices endorse Michelle Quist in Utah AG race (Deseret News)
  • Congressman Blake Moore endorses John Curtis for U.S. Senate seat (Deseret News)
  • Poll: Trump leads big among Utah voters; Biden, Kennedy tied (Deseret News)

Utah news

  • New food bank opens in Hurricane (KSL Newsradio)
  • Salt Lake City named as possible training camp site for 2026 FIFA World Cup (KUTV/AP)
  • Memorial honors Borgstrom brothers' sacrifice 80 years later (Cache Valley Daily)

Olympic news

  • Utah is now one vote away from hosting the 2034 Winter Games. Here’s what just happened (Deseret News)

Business/Tech

  • Annual inflation ticks down in May but housing prices still sticky (Deseret News)
  • X is now hiding which posts you like from other users (AP)

Crime/Courts

  • Sandy couple found dead in murder-suicide, police say (KSL)
  • Unlocked Lamborghini with keys inside stolen from SLC airport (KUTV)
  • A Utah mom's case could break through a wall of legal immunity surrounding vaccine makers (KUTV)
  • Moms ask for case to move forward as man pleads not guilty to murdering Eagle Mountain boys (KSL)

Culture

  • Former ‘American Idol’ star announces she’ll serve a Latter-day Saint mission (Deseret News)
  • Why is Utah’s biggest Juneteenth celebration in Ogden and not SLC? (Salt Lake Tribune)
  • The ‘Utah curl’ is not new, but here’s why people are fascinated (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

  • University of Utah grows ‘downtown presence’ with $38M acquisition (KSL)

Environment

  • Global emissions and horrific weather events. How they connect (Deseret News)
  • Heat, wind, low humidity combine for Red Flag Warning in Southern Utah (St. George News)

Family

  • Why having a married father at home matters to boys (Deseret News)
  • Utah families press US to let would-be Haitian adoptees come amid turmoil in Caribbean nation (KSL)

Health

  • Checking email? Scrolling? Don’t forget to breathe (Deseret News)

Housing

  • Is the federally required count of homeless individuals effective? (Deseret News)
  • Foundational progress made in Utah homeless services but urgent crisis persists, report finds (KSL)
  • Developers turning sites of unused, underutilized landmarks into housing projects (KUTV)
  • With state money to help the homeless, there's scrutiny on street camping (Fox13)
 

National Headlines

General

  • Arizona man charged with trafficking guns to kill Black people, start race war (Reuters)
  • You can renew U.S. passports online again (Washington Post)
  • Ancient genomes reveal which children the Maya selected for sacrifice. Thousand-year-old DNA from Chichén Itzá offers eye-opening details of the religious rituals of ancient Maya. (New York Times)

Political news

  • Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations (AP)
  • Republican-controlled US House votes to hold attorney general in contempt (Reuters)
  • Southern Baptist Convention votes to oppose in vitro fertilization (Washington Post)
  • ACLU sues Biden administration over new executive action on the southern border (NPR)

Election news

  • Trump is returning to Capitol Hill to meet with Republican lawmakers, a first since Jan. 6 attack (AP)
  • Bullish GOP hones legislative plans for 2025 (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

  • Study details huge emissions resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Reuters)
  • G7 leaders agree to lend Ukraine billions backed by Russia’s frozen assets. Here’s how it will work (AP)
  • Biden, Zelensky to sign 10-year U.S.-Ukraine security deal at G-7 summit (Washington Post)

Israel and Gaza

World news

  • 4,000-year-old Greek hilltop site mystifies archaeologists. It could spell trouble for new airport (AP)
  • Heavy snows and drought of deadly ‘dzud’ kill more than 7 million head of livestock in Mongolia (AP)
 

Number of the Day 

Number of the Day, June 13, 2024

 

News Releases

Rep. Moore releases statement endorsing John Curtis for open US Senate seat

Congressman Blake Moore released the following statement endorsing John Curtis for the US Senate Seat: “I often ask for, and usually take, John Curtis’s advice, but not this time. He told me early in my time in politics to avoid endorsing other candidates because it’s usually just trading political favors. But I feel compelled to share my opinion on why I am supporting John Curtis in this Senate race, free of any request from John or his team in any way." (Read More)


Romney highlights & garners support for his One Door to Work Act

At a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on the reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) highlighted the importance of his legislation to lift people out of the social safety net and into the workforce. Romney’s One Door to Work Act would allow states the flexibility to implement Utah’s successful model of consolidating federal workforce development and social safety net programs within a single state entity—like Utah’s Department of Workforce Services—to help unemployed workers reintegrate more quickly into the workforce. (Read/Watch More)

 

Tweet of the Day

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  • August 14 â€” Hatch Foundation "Titan of Public Service" recognizing Sen. John Thune, Grand America
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On This Day In History 

  • 1774 - Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit the importation of slaves
  • 1777 - 19 year-old Marquis de Lafayette lands in the American colonies to fight alongside George Washington
  • 1807 - Thomas Jefferson is subpoenaed in Aaron Burr’s treason trial
  • 1888 - US Congress creates the Department of Labor
  • 1920 - The US Post Office says children can no longer be sent via parcel post
  • 1966 - Supreme court establishes Miranda rights in Miranda v. Arizona
  • 1967 - Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Justice, is appointed to the US Supreme Court
  • 1971 - The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers
  • 1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster.
  • 2023 - Trump pleads not guilty in classified docs case

Quote of the Day

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
—Sydney J. Harris


On the Punny Side

If I'd had twin daughters, I would have named one Kate.

And the other DupliKate.

 

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