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Utah Headlines

General

• Protect the value of American invention (Deseret News)
• Orem family says teens poured dish soap in their pond, killing hundreds of koi fish (ABC4)

Elections

• Perspective: The good, the bad and the ugly in this year’s elections (Deseret News)
• Special election to replace Sen. Gene Davis after sexual harassment allegations (KSL Newsradio)
• Election Day reports with host Jason Perry and joined by Ben Winslow, Lindsay Aerts and Glen Mills (Hinckley Report)

Politics

• What do the midterm election results mean for Mitt Romney’s political future? (Deseret News)
• The IUP Panel on the midterm election results (ABC4)
• Two freshman lawmakers discuss joining the Utah Senate (ABC4)

Business

• In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Noe Martinez decided to follow his dream and start a small business. He and his wife Claudia sold their home, bought a food truck, named it TacoMania and started selling tacos in Riverton (KSL).
• Local rocket facility involved in upcoming Artemis launch (Fox13)
• Utah company aims to make waves creating lithium-ion batteries (Daily Herald)

Culture

• This BYU adjunct professor perfected the Utah pink sugar cookie. Now she’s moving onto soups. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Dirty Dough, Crumbl and the Utah Cookie War. The true tale of the Utah Cookie War and how it continues (Deseret News)

Education

• Utah universities pushing to increase Hispanic enrollment (KSL)
• Piute School District continues moving towards 4-day school week (Fox13)
• Lawmakers and educators still struggle to define how Utah should teach ethnic studies (KUER)

Environment

• 2 months in, Montana hunters have killed 55 wolves. Conservation groups are suing to stop the season (Deseret News)
• Utahns speak out against UDOT's proposed gondola plan in Little Cottonwood Canyon (KUTV)
• Utah’s West Desert could hold a decade’s worth of indium. Indium is used to produce things like touchscreens, windshields, and solar panels. (KUER)

Family

• Adulting is hard, even for adults. Children take longer to launch than in the past. How long should parents continue to help them? (Deseret News)

Health

• More than half of U.S. adults in a 2021 study reported symptoms of major depressive disorder after a coronavirus infection. The risk of developing these symptoms — as well as other mental health disorders — remains high up to a year after you’ve recovered. (New York Times)
• Research shows that multiple COVID infections could lead to severe health complications, affecting multiple organ systems (Deseret News)
• The health benefits of a random act of kindness (KSL Newsradio)
• ‘He went without it for two weeks and it cost him his life’: Utahns rally for more insulin accessibility (ABC4)
• Free program to discuss grief and loss amid holidays (Standard-Examiner)

Housing

• Why two housing experts disagree on how much Utah home prices will drop in 2023. In a market characterized by ‘volatility’ and ‘uncertainty,’ Utah housing predictions vary (Deseret News)
• U.S. veteran homelessness reduced by 55 percent in 12 years (Fox13)

National Headlines

General

• Elon Musk ordered immediate layoffs at Twitter, fired executives by email, laid down product deadlines and has transformed the company. The fallout has often been excruciating, said 36 current and former Twitter employees and people close to the company. (New York Times)
• A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions
  The pharmaceutical giant halted ad spending after fake blue-check accounts went viral. For $8, Twitter is ‘losing out on millions of dollars in ad revenue,’ a former Eli Lilly official said. (Washington Post)
• A student gunman was at large after fatally shooting three people and wounding two others at the University of Virginia (New York Times)
• Exclusive: Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps (Reuters)
• 6 dead after 2 planes crash mid-flight during airshow in Dallas (NBC)

Elections

• Trump blames McConnell for GOP election losses: ‘He blew the midterms’ (The Hill)
• Mastriano concedes to Shapiro, calls for election reform (The Hill)
• Republicans eye Manchin as top target in 2024 (The Hill)
• Blame all the single ladies. Some pundits on the right have decided that unmarried women are at fault for the GOP’s electoral dysfunction. (The Bulwark)
• Kari Lake cuts into Katie Hobbs' lead in Arizona governor's race, but Lake's path to victory now harder (Arizona Central)
• Heading into the midterms, New England was considered a region where Republicans might make crucial inroads, potentially picking up seats in a Democratic stronghold on the road to a broader victory. Instead, the result here looked more like a blue wave. (Washington Post)

Politics

• “The President's words that day at the rally endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building,” Mike Pence tells David Muir of Donald Trump’s tweet during Jan. 6 siege. “It was clear he decided to be part of the problem.” (ABC News)
• What happens to family policies like child care, paid leave now? (Deseret News)
• Congress is split down the middle. Is the country as well? While Americans aren’t happy with Biden or the economy, Democrats still did better than expected (Deseret News)
• McMullin loss in Utah senate race raises independent candidacy questions (KUTV)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a triumphant visit to Kherson on Monday morning, saying that the city’s liberation marked “the beginning of the end of the war” and pledging to drive Russia entirely out of his country. (Washington Post)
• Kherson Diary: No power, no water but the joy just flows (AP)

World News

• Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced an anti-government protester to death and handed down jail terms to five others, state media said. The ruling is likely the first death sentence related to protests that have swept Iran in recent weeks (AP)
• U.S. intelligence officials have compiled a classified report detailing extensive efforts to manipulate the American political system by the United Arab Emirates, long considered a close and trusted partner. (Washington Post)
• Afghan women will no longer be allowed in parks, a spokesperson for the Taliban's morality ministry said (Reuters)
• In brutal drought, Kenyan herders look for hope underground (AP)

News Releases

Dignity Index releases ratings for victory, concession messages 

Today’s passages come from remarks that Utah candidates made Tuesday night.

On election night, after the votes are tallied and the decisions are announced, candidate speeches are important.  Campaigns are divisive; political attacks hurt people, and the words candidates choose offer a chance to heal. That’s why a good election night speech is a humble one, and it probably isn’t humble enough unless it was hard for the candidate to say.

This past Tuesday night, after Congressman Tim Ryan from Ohio lost his Senate race to J.D. Vance, Ryan said to his disappointed supporters, “I had the privilege to concede this race to J.D. Vance.”

The fact that this line made national news is a sign that — at this time in American political life – we’re amazed by grace.

We hope this won’t always be the case. (Read More)

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Upcoming

• SL Chamber Women and Business Conference — Nov. 14, 8:00 am - 3:30 pm, Grand America, Register here
• Interim Days, Nov 15-16, le.utah.gov
• Advancing Religious Freedom in a Divided America with Judge Thomas Griffith, hosted by Sutherland Institute and the Int'l Center for Law and Religion Studies— Nov. 15, 9:30 am - noon, More info here
• Biases, Barriers, & Barricades for Utah Women: A Solutions-Based Workshop with UWLP and the Policy Project, Nov. 15, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Sandy, Register here
• Utah Women Run Fall Celebration — Nov 15, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Hinckley Institute of Politics, RSVP here
• Utah Foundation’s 2022 Annual Luncheon â€” Nov. 16, noon, Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek, Register here
• Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit with the Salt Lake Chamber — Jan. 12, 2023, Salt Lake City Marriott, 8 am - noon, Register here

On This Day In History

• 1851 - Herman Melville publishes “Moby-Dick”
• 1889 - Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, sails around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the fictional record set by Phineas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
• 1948 - Prince Charles is born.
• 1954 - Condoleeza Rice is born. She is the first black woman, second African American (after Colin Powell), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright) to serve as US Secretary of State.
• 1959 - Bryan Stevenson is born. An American social justice activist and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, he is also the author of Just Mercy
• 1960 - Six-year-old Ruby Bridges walks into William Frantz Elementary School accompanied by federal marshals
• 1970 - Plane crash devastates Marshall University football team
• 1985 - Volcano erupts in Colombia, burying nearby towns and killing over 20,000
• 1994 - First public trains run through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France under the English Channel

Wise Words

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”
— Bryan Stevenson

The Punny Side

What do you call a bunch of rabbits walking away from you?

A receding hare line.

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