The Hinckley Report, PBS Utah’s weekly political roundtable, returns Sept. 9 at a new time, 7 p.m. Hosted by Jason Perry and produced in partnership with the Hinckley Institute of Politics on the University of Utah campus, the program provides insight and analysis of the most pressing political issues facing our state.

Utah Headlines

General

• From violent protests to holiday pay — the history of Labor Day (Deseret News)
• The walls (and the vacuums) have eyes! How Big Tech watches us (Deseret News)
• Two hikers die in Utah and a third is injured. Hikers fell in American Fork and Neffs Canyons over the holiday weekend (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Local author publishes book exploring ghost stories and lore of southern Utah (KSL)
• Two shot, one in custody after shooting at Utah Lake (KSL Newsradio)
• Labor Day marks end of '100 Deadliest Days' on Utah roads (KUTV)
• Lone officer in rural Utah town fired for ticketing mayor’s son, lawsuit alleges. Who is policing Moroni? (Salt Lake Tribune)

Politics

• Tired of national politics? Your local representative wants to talk to you (Deseret News)
• Could Republicans own education issues this November? (Deseret News)
• Instant family: How U.S. Senate candidate Evan McMullin became a husband and father overnight. The former presidential candidate married a woman with five children last summer (Deseret News)
• Utah Legislature’s intern coordinator fired from role for ‘unprofessional’ emails about female interns (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Bill to require clergy to report abuse in the works (ABC4)
• The IUP Panel on student loan forgiveness, the cost of college and write-in campaigns (ABC4)

Business

• Here’s how Entrata is doing after founder’s hate-filled meltdown, ouster (Deseret News)
• Unions are more popular than ever. So why do so few of us belong to them? (Deseret News)
• Bosses say remote work kills culture. These companies disagree. (Washington Post)

Education

• Change agent: BYU business school dean Brigitte Madrian on the link between progress and purpose (Deseret News)
• Sen. Ann Millner: Our students are struggling to read, but we have a plan (Deseret News)
• Sweltering classrooms, shortened days: The cost of climate change on schools (Deseret News)
• 100 protesters yelled slurs in Provo as LGBTQ students at BYU celebrated coming back to school (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah Tech set to host weekly ‘University Forum’ community-wide lecture series (St. George News)
• The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors (Washington Post)

Environment

• Can I water my lawn? Making sense of Utah’s water regulations (Deseret News)
• Excessive heat warning: Highs of 108 expected in national parks this week (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah youths hold ‘die-in’ for Great Salt Lake, challenge elected leaders to take bolder action (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Extreme heat in Utah causing fish to die in Utah's reservoirs, ponds (Fox13)
• SLC’s summer air quality improved this year. Here’s why — and how residents can continue the trend. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• ‘It’s about the kids’: Cedar City advocate speaks up for child care providers (St. George News)

Health

• Utah launching first of its kind suicide prevention playbook (KUTV)

Housing

• Salt Lake City mayor lauds Millcreek homeless shelter as ‘a historic plan.' Temporary facility at a former county library would keep unhoused Utahns from freezing on the streets, but the plan is already drawing blowback from neighbors. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Las Vegas investigative journalist dies in stabbing outside home (Las Vegas Sun)
• Ruby Bridges writes a children's book (AP)
• California could see blackouts as heat wave taxes the power grid (NPR)

Politics

• Judge grants Trump bid for special master in document search (AP)
• ‘Deeply problematic’: Experts question judge’s intervention in Trump inquiry. A ruling by a judge appointed by former President Donald J. Trump surprised specialists and could slow the documents investigation. (New York Times)
• Biden responds to heckler at speech: ‘Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot’ (The Hill)
• GOP still has inside track to House majority despite Dem gains (Politico)
• Trump lashes out in first rally since FBI search, calls Biden an "enemy of the state" (New York Times)
• American policy is splitting, state by state, into two blocs. This will have profound implications for the union. (The Economist)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• Ukraine says Russian shelling disconnects Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant from grid (Wall Street Journal)
• Zelenskyy: Ukrainian nuclear power plant ‘one step away from a radiation disaster’ (The Hill)
• Russia is buying North Korean artillery, according to U.S. intelligence (New York Times)

World News

• Zimbabwe says measles outbreak has killed 700 children (KSL TV)
• China has recorded coronavirus cases in nearly every province over the past week, prompting lockdowns for some 60 million residents and mass testing. The seemingly endless restrictions are leaving people wearier by the day. (New York Times)
• Liz Truss becomes Britain’s new prime minister (AP)
• Israeli army says soldier likely killed Al Jazeera reporter (Politico)

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Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• “Impulsivity, poor decisions, and what to do about it" with USU Blue Plate Research — Sept 9, 11:30 am, Gallivan Hall downtown SLC, Register here
• Women in the Money with Utah State Treasurer's Office — Sept. 15-16, Salt Lake Sheraton + online, Register here
• Interim Days — Sept. 20-22, le.utah.gov
• ULCT Annual Convention — Oct 5-7, Salt Palace Convention Center, Register here
• One Utah Summit — Oct 11-13, Southern Utah University, Register here
• Senate debate between Mike Lee and Evan McMullin — Oct. 17, 6 pm, at UVU
• Interim Days — Oct 18-20, le.utah.gov
• General election â€“ Nov 8
• 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

• 1522 - Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates the globe and returns to Spain - without Magellan
• 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette is born.
• 1860 - Jane Addams is born. The founder of Hull House in Chicago, the first major settlement house, she was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). She was also a suffragist and helped establish the American Civil Liberties Union.
• 1866 - Frederick Douglass becomes the first US black delegate to a national convention
• 1901 - William McKinley is shot (25th US president). He died of gangrene on Sept. 14
• 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an airplane solo
• 1915 - The first tank is produced in England
• 1916 - 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee
• 1975 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
• 1995 - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of GOP Senator Bob Packwood
• 1997 - Some 2.5 billion TV viewers watch Princess Diana’s funeral
• 2018 - Burt Reynolds dies of cardiac arrest at 82

Wise Words

“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
― Jane Addams

The Punny Side

I'm not a fan of elevator music.

It's bad on so many levels.

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