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Situational Analysis | August 31, 2022 It's Wednesday and National Trail Mix Day. Seems like a good day to start a new feature at Utah Policy that we're calling "Trail Mix." This will be a place where Utah politicos share the mix of experiences along the trail to their current positions. Today, we begin with Derek Miller, the current president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber and lover of trail mix (the snack). Be in the Know - Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, died yesterday at age 91. âAfter decades of brutal political repression, he embraced democratic reforms. He believed in glasnost and perestroika â openness and restructuring â not as mere slogans, but as the path forward for the people of the Soviet Union after so many years of isolation and deprivationâ President Joe Biden said. Gorbachev was, âthe only politician in Russian history who, having full power in his hands, voluntarily opted to limit it and even risk losing it, in the name of principled moral valuesâ for which he was praised by the West and mocked - even reviled - in Russia. According to Dr. Samuel Ramani, one of Gorbachev's final messages came through a close friend and journalist Alexey Venediktov: "What Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev did is all destroyed. All Gorbachev's reformsâto zero, to ashes, to smoke."
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The Trump team likely sought to conceal classified documents from investigators, said the DOJ in an 11:30 pm filing laying out the agency's justification for the Mar-a-Lago search. In the 36-page filing, (plus 18 more of attachments and exhibits), the DOJ detailed its evidence that classified documents had been withheld from previous attempts to collect them. The filing says in some instances "even FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted to review certain documents." The search found twice the number of classified documents Mr. Trumpâs lawyers turned over voluntarily while vowing that they had returned everything.
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Trail Mix with Derek Miller In our first episode of "Trail Mix," we visit with Derek Miller, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber about the mix of experiences along his trail to his current position. His first job started when he was 11. One of his favorite parts of his current job is the policy piece. He's got some advice for people who would like the same kind of position he's currently in and his favorite part of the snack trail mix? All of it. But he's got a special way of eating it.... 
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Utah Headlines General - Derwin Gray: Iâm Black, and I bleed blue. We all need to confront racism (Deseret News)
- Utah pastor calls for 'bottom-up' approach to root out racism (KUTV)
- Duke player 'felt heard' in conversation with BYU athletic director (Fox13)
- Editorial Board: Solar panels, cancer therapies, scratch-proof glasses â all from the space program.We canât afford not to launch Artemis 1. (Deseret News)
- Ex-USU football player gets 7 months in jail in sex assault of student as she slept (KSL)
- ð Naked man in car flees from police, hides in American Fork business (KUTV)
- Utah Little Leaguer returns home after severe injury (ABC4)
- Utah ranked among the top 20 hardest-working states in America (UPR)
Politics - Utahâs liquor board issues three bar licenses, while warning other bars about too many violations. âWe literally have to ration the licenses,â one commissioner said at the August DABS meeting. (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Utah lawmaker Steve Handy launches write-in campaign to try to keep his House seat (KUTV)
- Group suing Utah over COVID laws rebrands, plans more involvement on Capitol Hill (Fox13)
- FEMA awards Provo $50 million for aquifer recharging project (Daily Herald)
- Former HUD Secretary Ben Carson coming to Ogden, invited by Weber County GOP (Standard-Examiner)
Business - Crumbl CEO gives lawsuit update as #UtahCookieWars continue (Deseret News)
- Heber has one of the highest rates of remote workers in the country (KSL Newsradio)
Economy - Utah has lowest percent of 'poor' highway bridges in the country, recent report finds (KSL)
Education - Is Bidenâs student loan forgiveness plan good for students? Opinions are divided on whether or not the plan will increase inflation, target the most in need and benefit students long term (Deseret News)
- Online school shooting threat puts police in 3 Utah counties on alert (KSL)
- Davis School District works to keep students cool during heat wave (KSL TV)
- Vanguard Academy requests court to stop action from replacing entire school board (KUTV)
- Public school with ties to polygamy may go private, asks for restraining order (Fox13)
- NAACP president calls for resignation of Salt Lake City school board member who has apparently moved out of state (KUTV)
- SUU professor sues SUU, argues requirement to use studentâs they/them pronouns violates free speech (Salt Lake Tribune)
Environment - Southern Utah rain flushes out hordes of scorpions (Deseret News)
- Buses, trains and GREENbikes will be free this week. See where, when and why. (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Tom Moyer and Lauren Barros: Utah Republicans can help solve climate change. A carbon border adjustment would face the issue at no cost to Utahns. (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Summer 2022 relatively smoke-free in Utah, but record heat is hurting air quality (KSL)
Health - Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19 (NPR)
Housing - Riverdale homeowners fear sewage issue could cost them their house (KUTV)
- âWeâre in a housing recession.â The housing market has cooled so much as the Fed withdraws its support for the economy that some analysts say it may be in a slump. (Politico)
National Headlines General - California passes bill to increase online safety for children. How will it impact the internet? (Deseret News)
- Survey finds young people follow news, but without much joy (AP)
- For U.S. troops who survived Kabul airport disaster, guilt and grief endure (Washington Post)
- Canât go home, canât enter the US: Thousands of Afghans remain stuck in between (The Hill)
Politics - Trump Hires Former Florida Solicitor General as Lawyer in Documents Case (New York Times)
- Garland bans political DOJ appointees from participating in campaign events (The Hill)
Ukraine ðºð¦ - Along the front lines in Ukraine, cut off from resources, a resilient city holds on (NPR)
- UN inspectors head to Ukraine nuclear plant in war zone (AP)
- Russia deepens Europe's energy squeeze with new gas halt (Reuters)
- Ukraineâs overstretched psychiatric hospitals face wave of traumatized soldiers (Wall Street Journal)
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On This Day In History - 1842 - Mary Putnam Jacobi is born. She was an American physician, author and suffragist.
- 1850 - King Kamehameha III declares Honolulu, HI a city and the official capital of the kingdom of Hawaii.
- 1870 - Maria Montessori is born. The Italian physician and educator is best known for her educational method. Today, nearly 20,000 Montessori schools provide educational services around the world.
- 1888 - Jack the Ripperâs first victim is murdered
- 1910 - Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be 'the servant and not the master of the commonwealth'
- 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, which he calls an âexpression of the desireâ¦to avoid any action which might involve [the U.S.] in war.â
- 1936 - Marva Collins is born. She is famous for applying classical education successfully with lower-income students, many of whom had been wrongly labeled as 'learning-disabled' by public schools.
- 1968 - Dr. Michael E. Bakey leads the first simultaneous multi-organ transplant. The transplant included a single donor and four recipients.
- 1997 - Princess Diana dies in a Paris car crash. She was 36.
- 2015 - ââPresident Obama officially re-designates Alaskaâs Mt. McKinley as Denali, its native American name
Wise Words "People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me."
âDiana, Princess of Wales
The Punny Side I made a playlist for hiking. it has music from The Peanuts, The Cranberries and Eminem. I call it my Trail mix. | | |
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