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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck in Salt Lake City detail the battle they see between good vs. evil (Deseret News)
• Video: Mike Leavitt joins 'Yellow Couch' to talk about leadership (Deseret News)
• Conservative group praises Gov. Cox in ad for ‘dismantling’ DEI (Deseret News)
• Take 2 Podcast: Constitutional amendments, Lyman write-in drama, free school lunch (KUTV)

Election news

• Opinion: Why a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to weaken free government (Deseret News)
• Lawsuit filed to remove proposed constitutional amendment from the ballot (Deseret News)
• Rob Bishop: To prevent Utah from becoming California, we must pass the ballot initiatives amendment (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Critics say Amendment D language misleads. So we asked Utahns what D says (KUER)
• Utah Debate Commission releases governor polling data, debate schedules (KSL TV)

Utah legislature

• Utah political leaders explore breaking up Rocky Mountain Power's parent company (Fox13)

Municipal news

• An MLB ballpark could be on its way to SLC’s west side. What could happen to the affordable housing around the Power District? (Salt Lake Tribune)

Utah

• Utahn Hunter Woodhall wins gold at 2024 Paralympics (Deseret News)
• Utah National Guard looks to develop 24,000-plus acres of 'terribly underutilized' land (KSL)
• Opinion: SB205 passed. What’s next for child sexual abuse prevention in Utah? (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Does the state of Utah deserve to kill? (Deseret News)
• Sunday Edition: The legacy of President Russell M. Nelson as he nears his 100th birthday (KSL TV)

Biz/Tech

• Meet Utah’s entrepreneur-in-residence: Brad Bonham (Deseret News)
• U.S. hiring and unemployment rebound slightly in August as Fed gets set for likely rate cut (Deseret News)

Crime/Courts

• West Haven mother killed 3 young children, then herself (KSL)
• Workers at Uintah County assisted living center accused of beating non-verbal resident (KUTV)
• 'Unforgivable sin;' Father charged with killing Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office deputy (Fox13)

Culture

• Post Malone’s highly-anticipated country music tour begins in Utah — the place he calls home (Deseret News)
• 3 podcasts to try if you want to get into hockey (Deseret News)

Education

• Parsing the conundrum of smartphones in the classroom (Deseret News)
• Opinion: School cellphone ban is dangerous for kids (Deseret News)
• Gov. Cox, lawmaker, state school board, private partners take aim at school lunch debt (Deseret News)
• Educators begin active shooter training as lawmaker heads to Georgia to learn from its tragedy (KSL)
• Panic alert devices similar to one used in Georgia shooting to be implemented in Utah schools (KSL)

Environment

• Opinion: Permitting reforms will boost energy jobs and investment in rural America (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Any bill reforming RECA must include uranium miners AND downwinders (Deseret News)
• Power plants and carbon emissions. What’s at stake (Deseret News)

Family

• ‘Vacation’ grandma or ‘everyday’ grandma? (Deseret News)
• 'Grandparents with Open Arms': Ogden organization works to keep kids safe with the help of relatives (Fox13)
• 'We want answers': Hundreds of families in limbo after China ends overseas adoptions (NPR)

Health

• ‘Don’t hesitate to reach out’: Utah offers suicide prevention resources for those in crisis (KSL)
• CDC, FDA hail lowest e-cigarette use among teens in a decade (Deseret News)
• Why Utah’s hospital capacity lags behind nearly every other state (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Salmonella outbreak linked to recalled eggs sickens 65 people across several states, including Utah (Fox13)
• Utah’s youth gun-related ER visits in 2024 are on track to exceed last year (KUER)

Housing

• Plans for homeless shelter in Davis County neighborhood fall through (KSL)

National Headlines

General

• A conversation with one of the most prolific religion journalists in America, Terry Mattingly (Deseret News)
• Mother of Georgia mass shooting suspect called school before attack (Reuters)
• 'I lied.' A teacher describes protecting her students during Apalachee HS shooting (NPR)
• Tyreek Hill is detained by police before Dolphins game. Officer is subsequently placed on leave (AP)
• Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer has died at age 58 (AP)
• To the world, he is an anti-trafficking hero. Women tell a different story about Tim Ballard (New York Times)

Election news

• Russia focusing on US social media stars to covertly influence voters (Reuters)
• Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris. How did Trump respond? (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Why debates are so crucial to presidential elections (Deseret News)
• The path to the White House: 2 months to go (Deseret News)
• From Kennedy-Nixon to Harris-Trump: classic quips, rips and slips from six decades of U.S. presidential debates (Reuters)
• Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate (AP)
• More Black Americans are certain to vote for Harris, Post-Ipsos poll finds (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Sweden announces $440 million support package for Ukraine (Reuters)

Israel and Gaza

• Israeli snipers again face scrutiny after death of American civilian (Washington Post)

World news

• South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s (AP)
• Videos from Sudan’s killing fields reveal ethnic hatred behind massacres (Washington Post)

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News Releases

Utah Debate Commission announces poll results for 2024 general election gubernatorial candidates

The Utah Debate Commission (UDC) has extended invitations to all candidates who met the threshold for participation in our general election gubernatorial debate to be held Wednesday, September 11, 6:00 PM, Salt Lake Community College,1575 South State St., Salt Lake City, Utah.
The debate qualification threshold of 10 percent, plus or minus the margin of error, was set by the UDC Board of Directors when the Commission was established in 2013. With the margin of error in this poll of 4.31 percent, candidates who achieved at least a 5.69 percent qualified for an invitation to participate. 
The qualifying candidates are:

• Spencer J. Cox, Republican
• Brian Smith King, Democratic
• J. Robert Latham, Libertarian (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Sept 10 — Presidential Debate, 6:00-7:30 pm, MDT
• Sept. 11 — Gubernatorial Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Sep. 17-18 — Interim Days
• Oct. 1 — Attorney General Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 4 — Conservative Climate Summit, 7:30 am - 3:00 pm, UVU, Register here
• Oct. 4 — Hatch Foundation hosts Civil Dialogue Symposium with Dana Perino, 2:00 pm, USU, Register here
• Oct. 7-9 — One Utah Summit, SUU, Register here
• Oct. 8 â€” CD1 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 10 — US Senate Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 14 â€” CD2 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 15-16 — Interim Days
• Oct. 17 — CD3 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 24 — CD4 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Nov. 5 — Election Day!
• Nov. 15 — Women & Business Conference & ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, Grand America Hotel, Register here
• Nov. 19-20 — Interim Days

On This Day In History

• 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots"
• 1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
• 1776 - Congress renames the nation the United States of America
• 1839 - John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph
• 1843 - Nancy Johnson patents the ice cream freezer. Thank you, Nancy!
• 1890 - Harland Sanders is born. The founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, he started his first restaurant out of a service station. But an entrepreneurial restaurateur was not his first occupation. The Colonel served in the military (but wasn’t a colonel), worked as a farmhand, served as a local midwife, and even studied law, among other jobs.
• 1893 - President Cleveland’s daughter, Esther, is born in the White House
• 1924 - Russell M. Nelson is born
• 1945 - 1st "bug" in a computer discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log
• 1956 - Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
• 1957 - US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
• 2015 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

Quote of the Day

"Grief is the price we pay for love."
—Queen Elizabeth II

On the Punny Side

What did the taxidermist do on his lunch break?

Stuffed his face.

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