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Utah Headlines

General

• Staff member at southern Utah youth treatment center charged with rape, sexual abuse of students (Fox13)
• A nonprofit’s relatively simple answer to America’s complex immigration system: Be a neighbor. ‘The power rests in the community, and that is a really significant shift in the way resettlement has ever been done in the U.S,’ the group’s founder says (Deseret News)
• Here’s how Utah drivers can be safe in winter conditions – and which roads are most dangerous in snow (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Income disparity rising in rural communities, BYU study says (KSL)

Politics

• Are Utah voters ready to move on from Donald Trump? Former president finished third in a field of potential 2024 GOP presidential candidates in new (Deseret News)
• Qatar government paid for Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes’ trip to see the World Cup match (KSL)
• Shalise Obray: Dignity is the key to healing our political division (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah’s Blake Moore, John Curtis urge GOP colleagues to support Kevin McCarthy for House speaker (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Orem mayor and son hit with $1M civil suit judgment (Daily Herald)

Culture

•  How a Utah widow built a food blogging empire. Alyssa Rivers started ‘The Recipe Critic’ as a hobby to share her love of food. Now she has fans nationwide. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

•  Post-college depression is real. Here’s what you need to know (Deseret News)
• Another Utah elementary school is slated to close. Part of the problem this time is the safety of the building. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• To ease victim’s trauma, the U’s new police station has a soft interview room (KUER)
• Oral storytelling could put kids on the path to literacy, finds Utah State University study (KUER)
• Students in despair: As experts sound the alarm on children’s mental health, the crisis deepens (Washington Post)

Environment

•  Grayson Massey: U.S. fossil fuels and climate change action don’t have to clash (Deseret News)
• Scientists in Moab are working to understand how climate change will impact desert biocrusts (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Can healing the land at the Bear River Massacre help us adapt to a changing world? The Northwestern Shoshone are prioritizing restoration of Battle Creek, which runs through one of the bloodiest sites in U.S. history. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Special education teacher Jaynell Hollins helps students reach their potential in Granite School District (Fox13)

Family

• The way home. One year ago this February, the war in Ukraine started. For millions of families that has meant leaving home to become part of Europe’s largest movement of refugees since World War II. This is one family’s story of finding a new home (Deseret News)

Health

• Not just a man’s disease: Making a place for women with hemophilia (Deseret News)
• The connection between COVID-19 and home births (Deseret News)
• Random acts of kindness have many health benefits (Deseret News)
• How a 20-minute phone call is saving lives in Utah. Five months after the national rollout of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline some challenges remain, but Utah’s crisis workers keep up with demand. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Housing

• Utah’s top home builder went to Washington, D.C.; met with Mitt Romney. Here’s why: Shifting housing market is an opportunity — not roadblock — to solving our affordability crisis, and these innovations are key, Clark Ivory says (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• More than 40,000 people remain without electricity in North Carolina after two power substations were damaged by gunfire. "An attack like this on critical infrastructure is a serious, intentional crime," according to Gov. Roy Cooper. (AP)
• FedEx driver arrested in the killing and kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl (Deseret News)

Politics

• Joe Biden says he’s ‘pro-union.’ Labor may disagree (Deseret News)
• The Supreme Court is hearing a case on LGBTQ rights and religion (again). Here’s what you need to know (Deseret News)
•  What do we know about how Latino and Black voters cast their ballots in the midterms? (Deseret News)
• Former GOP congressman Jim Kolbe of Arizona dies at 80 (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• 11 p.m. in Lviv: A city rich in culture and history transformed by war (Deseret News)
• Ukraine reports new barrage of widespread Russian strikes (AP)
• Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation (AP)
• Explosions rock two military bases in Russia, according to some Russian media. (New York Times)
• To help Ukraine, a widow parts with a rare emerald from a 1622 shipwreck. (New York Times)

World News

•  Ethiopian guards massacred scores of Tigrayan prisoners, witnesses say. The deadliest killings occurred at the Mirab Abaya prison camp, where current and retired Tigrayan soldiers were detained (Washington Post)
• Iranian official signals possible suspension of morality police (Washington Post)

News Releases

USBE elects James Moss as Chair for 2022 – 2023

The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) elected James Moss to serve as chair of the 15-member governing board.

Moss, first elected to the board in 2020, will serve a two-year term as chair and be joined by Molly Hart and Jennie Earl as vice chairs. The leadership terms begin in 2023. Board members elect leadership biennially using a preferential voting method and have the option of creating one, two, or three vice chair seats. (Read More)

Public comment sought on general financial literacy draft update

The Utah State Board of Education is seeking public comment on a draft revisions to the state’s general financial literacy standards. Comments will be accepted through January 1, 2023.

A general financial literacy course is taught to Utah high school students. Standards for that course are periodically updated to ensure information is current and correct.

Public comment form here.

Draft revisions to general financial literacy standards here.

General financial literacy website here.

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Upcoming

• Utah Health Policy Project annual conference, Dec. 7, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 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
• Legislative session begins, Jan. 17, 2023, le.utah.gov

On This Day In History

• 1847 - Jefferson Davis is appointed to fill vacant US Senate seat for Mississippi

• 1848 - US President James K. Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming a gold discovery in California

• 1901 - Walt Disney is born

• 1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America

• 1933 - 21st amendment is ratified; Prohibition ends

• 1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Women

• 1945 - Aircraft squadron disappears in the Bermuda Triangle

• 1946 - US President Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights

• 1952 - Great Smog of London: Killer fog creeps in, as still winds and cold temperatures cause pollution fueled by coal smoke to stagnate. It lasts 4 days and over 8,000 deaths are attributed to the smog.

• 1955 - Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama by Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists

• 1978 - U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan sign “friendship treaty”

• 2008 - Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by Russian and American scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II2013 - South African president Nelson Mandela dies at 95

• 2018 - US state funeral for former president George H. W. Bush

• 2019 - WHO says 142,000 people died of the measles around the world in 2018, nearly 20,000 more than in 2017

• 2021 - Bob Dole, veteran of the US Senate and 3X presidential candidate dies at age 98

Wise Words

"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest."

—Nelson Mandela

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