Tonight on PBS Utah: Impact of Political Violence

With the FBI investigating another assassination attempt on former Pres. Donald Trump, The Hinckley Report examines the rise of political violence in America. Political insider Chris Bleak joins journalists Daniel Woodruff and Heidi Hatch on this week's panel with host Jason Perry.

Utah Headlines

Political news

• Gov. Cox opposes electing judges after series of rulings prompts anger from lawmakers (KSL TV)
• Two advocacy groups sue the State of Utah over Inland Port (KSL TV)
• Gov. Cox condemns abuse in death of 12-year-old West Haven Boy (KUTV)

Election news

• Harris, Trump jostle for Latter-day Saint votes (Deseret News)
• Will something else on Utah’s November ballot be declared void? Here are the new efforts to stop Amendment A (Deseret News)
• Utah governor says he's optimistic Trump can unite the nation despite recent rhetoric (KUTV)

Legislature

• Lawmakers revive bill targeting ritualistic child sex abuse (Daily Herald) 

Municipal news

• Salt Lake City garners ‘welcoming’ status due in part to outreach to immigrants (KSL)
• Logan City considers allowing more short-term rentals and ADUs (UPR)

Utah

• ‘I’m optimistic’: Gov. Cox comments on Utah’s future with Sundance Film Festival (Deseret News)
• SLC emergency communications center gets 1,384 calls during Tooele Army Depot detonation (KUTV)

Biz/Tech

• Deseret News publisher named to Pew Research Center Board (Deseret News)
• Outdoor Retailer cancels November show in Salt Lake — will now host one event a year (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Jeff Flake brings deep experience, love of Utah to new global trade post (Deseret News)

Crime/Courts

• Rape reports at the University of Utah spiked in 2023, largely due to 150 reports from one victim-survivor (Deseret News)

Education

• LGBT Resource Center closure due to new state law spurs U. students to launch their own space (KSL)

Environment

• Opinion: To keep electricity prices low and beat China, Utah needs energy abundance (Deseret News)
• Things are looking up for Utah Lake (KSL Newsradio)

Family

• How young people can break an intergenerational cycle of poverty within 15 years (Deseret News)
• Utah celebrates 50th anniversary of Women, Infants and Children program for families in need (KSL)

Health

• Fatal drug overdoses down in the U.S. — but not in Utah and the West (Deseret News)

Housing

• New bill could encourage affordable housing for military families near Utah's Hill Air Force Base (KSL)

National Headlines

General

• Should we blame greed for inflation? If so, whose? (Deseret News)
• S&P 500 surges to record high on euphoria over Fed rate cut (KSL)
• Kentucky sheriff charged in killing of judge at courthouse (AP)
• Shohei Ohtani surpasses 50-50 milestone in spectacular fashion with a 3-homer, 2-steal game (AP)
• John A. Clements dies at 101; his research saved thousands of babies (New York Times)

Political news

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being investigated for collecting dead whale (AP)
• The most surprising new gun owners are US liberals (Wall Street Journal)
• Mike Davis could be Trump’s attorney general, and he says he wants to put journalists in gulags and kids in cages. He also says he’s trolling (Politico)

Election news

• I’m the Governor of Ohio. I don’t recognize the Springfield that Trump and Vance describe. (New York Times)
• Donald Trump says Jews will be partly to blame if he loses election (Reuters)
• Kamala Harris joins Oprah Winfrey in emotional campaign event (Reuters)
• Voters split on whether Harris or Trump would do a better job on the economy: AP-NORC poll (AP)
• GOP downplays Trump’s increasingly aggressive approach to global trade (Washington Post)
• ‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum (CNN)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Zelenskyy to visit US, present victory plan to Biden (Politico)
• EU pledges to loan Ukraine up to $39 billion to help rebuild its economy and power grid (AP)

Israel and Gaza

• Exclusive: Hezbollah handed out pagers hours before blasts - even after checks (Reuters)
• Hezbollah hits northern Israel with 140 rockets (AP)

World news

• A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads (AP)
• Mayor of French town apologizes for his comments downplaying mass rape case (AP)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

RMU, United Way of Utah County to host annual health fair today in Provo

For the third consecutive year, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (RMU) and the United Way of Utah County are inviting community members to attend a free health fair aimed at improving health outcomes for underserved and uninsured individuals and families in Utah County.

• What: Free Health Fair  
• When: Friday, September 20, 2024  
• Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM  
• Where: South Franklin Community Center, 770 S. 700 West, Provo, UT  (Read More)

House committee passes bipartisan Maloy bill to cleanup abandoned hardrock mines

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has passed the bipartisan Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act by unanimous consent. The bill, introduced by Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT) and Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK) in the House, will establish a pilot program under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow “Good Samaritans” – such as non-profits, local governments, and state agencies – to obtain permits to clean up abandoned hardrock mines. (Read More)

Romney, Republican colleagues introduce substantive legislation to compete with China

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations (SFRC) Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific; Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member of SFRC; and Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Todd Young (R-IN), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today introduced the STRATEGIC Act of 2024, legislation to set up the United States and its allies and partners for success in the strategic competition against China. (Read More)

Romney, Kaine introduce bipartisan bill to target China’s maritime militia

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chair of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, today introduced bipartisan legislation that provides the administration with the authority to sanction foreign adversary entities that provide support to China’s maritime militia. The Targeting Illicit Disruption and Encroachment in Seas (TIDES) Act aims to expand our toolkit to respond to China’s use of its maritime militia to exert excessive territorial claims, harass U.S. ships and those of our partners in the South China Sea, and carry out illicit fishing activities.  (Read More)

Senate passes Romney bill to reduce dependence on China for critical minerals

The Senate unanimously passed the Intergovernmental Critical Minerals Task Force Act, bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Gary Peters (D-MI), and James Lankford (R-OK), that would reduce the United States’ reliance on China and adversarial nations for critical minerals. The legislation, which was introduced in June 2023 and passed out of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) later that month, now heads to the House for consideration. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• 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
• Jan. 9 — What’s Up Down South Economic Summit. St. George. Register here
• Jan. 10 — Rural Utah Data Symposium. St. George. Register here

On This Day In History

• 1519 - Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the 1st successful circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1664 - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men
• 1777 - Nearly 5000 redcoats kill sleeping American soldiers with bayonets and swords in the Paoli Massacre.
• 1850 - The slave trade is abolished in DC
• 1881 - Chester Arthur becomes president, the 3rd in one year, after James Garfield dies
• 1899 - Anna Strauss is born. She was the League of Women Voters national president from 1944 to 1950 and believed in simplicity, brevity, and consensus building. Truman named her to the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights in 1951.
• 1963 - President John F. Kennedy proposes a joint mission to the moon between the US and the Soviet Union.
• 1973 - Billie Jean King triumphs in “Battle of the Sexes” after beating Bobby Riggs, the former #1 male tennis player who had announced “no broad can beat me.”
• 2001 - President George W. Bush declares a ‘war on terror’ in a joint session of Congress
• 2011 - The US ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
• 2017 - Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Puerto Rico as a category 4 hurricane, knocking out all power and killing 25
• 2021 - First edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein" sells for $1.17 million, setting new world record for a printed work by a woman

Quote of the Day

“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

On the Punny Side

What do you call a bee that's having a bad hair day? 🐝

A Frizzbee.

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