Plus: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox presented a new strategic partnership plan to Mexican authorities on Wednesday.
Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 31 - 45° 🌨️ | 80% 💧 Salt Lake City: 41 - 50° 🌨️ | 90% 💧 | ⚠️ St. George: 51 - 70° 🌤️ | 10% 💧 ⚠️ Freeze Watch What's the most dangerous thing you've done recently? It was probably getting in the car to drive somewhere. Sometimes we forget about the very real risk of fatal car accidents — a risk that has jumped since the pandemic, according to this latest Deseret News Editorial Board column. "Utah has a Zero Fatalities campaign. To some, this may sound unrealistic. In reality, it is the only acceptable number," the board writes. Read more about why car-crash-related deaths go up in October and what you can do to prevent an accident. Also on our mind: The U.S. House finally has a new speaker, a Christian baker who won his Supreme Court case is still fighting legal battles and the Jazz's season opener versus the Kings. |
| Utah Rivers Council: GSL is a mortgage and 3 states owe a huge debt |
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| | The Utah Rivers Council recently unveiled its ambitious 4200 Project that includes 12 recommendations including drastic measures, such as restructuring water rates and banning ornamental grass altogether in Utah. “There is no goal to restore the GSL by Utah and that is really a problem,” said Zach Frankel, executive director of the council. “Gov. (Spencer) Cox has been reluctant to support a water elevation goal and that has allowed him to celebrate minor successes.” Frankel said the lake needs an additional eight million acre-feet of water and to get there, even if every northern Utah farmer stopped using water and every man, woman and child in northern Utah didn’t use any water, it would still take 4.5 years to get there. The council, among its most ambitious goals, aims to stop all upstream diversions to the Great Salt Lake not only in Utah, but the neighboring states of Idaho and Wyoming that are part of the Bear River Compact. |
Read more about the council's dozen legislative recommendations. |
| What? Utah Gov. Spencer Cox presented a new strategic partnership plan to Mexican authorities on Wednesday during a trade mission to the country. Why? Mexico is one of Utah's biggest trade partners. The strategy aims to strengthen business and cultural ties between Mexico and Utah by putting forward 12 recommendations related to job creation, trade, tourism and language acquisition. Who? This week, Cox and other Utah government officials and business leaders, including World Trade Center Utah CEO Jonathan Freedman, met with the country’s secretaries of economy, tourism and foreign affairs, as well as executives from Aeroméxico. So what? Mexico is Utah’s largest import market and third largest export market. And this trade supports 51,000 Utah jobs, totaling $5.6 billion in 2022. Read more about the governor's recommendations and what the trip accomplished. More in Politics The House has a new speaker (Deseret News) What did Utah Sens. Mike Lee, Mitt Romney say about the new House speaker? (Deseret News) Sen. Mike Lee asks about the 85,000 migrant children the government has lost contact with (Deseret News) 4 Trump co-conspirators have pleaded guilty. What does that mean for Trump? (Deseret News) | FROM OUR SPONSOR BALLET WEST Three Ballets, One Epic Evening! Don’t miss Ballet West’s triple-bill, Firebird, performed live with the Ballet West Orchestra! William Christensen’s The Firebird tells the folktale of a magical bird set to a gripping score by Igor Stravinsky. Next is the world premiere of Fever Dream. Closing out the program is Balanchine’s patriotic Stars & Stripes with energetic music by John Phillip Sousa. Three ballets, one epic evening! Reserve your seats now at BalletWest.org. | Health Toddler formulas lack nutritional value, new study from pediatric experts suggests (Deseret News) Nasal flu vaccine, FluMist, may soon be available to self-administer at home (Deseret News) Faith 5 years after a Supreme Court win, Christian baker Jack Phillips is still making cakes — and fighting legal battles (Deseret News) Jennifer Graham: Can people of faith embrace a ‘porn-critical’ sex ed curriculum in schools? (Deseret News) Family More men are caring for frail parents, spouses. Here’s what kind of help they need (Deseret News) Schumer vs Grassley: Who is the ultimate Senate matchmaker? (Deseret News) Business and Economy Bitcoin is up over 20% in the last week. Here’s what’s going on (Deseret News) Housing market predictions: Don’t expect home prices to come down, Goldman Sachs says (Deseret News) Salt Lake County 14 Utahns report illness due to drinking raw milk; West Jordan dairy identified as the source (KSL) Beloved hiking, cycling spot set to close for three years (FOX 13) Utah and Grand Counties Nationwide inventory of low-head dams is created by BYU professor, students (Daily Herald) Criminal charges filed against alleged drug organization manager in Moab (KSL) The West Romney, Lee urge colleagues to keep greater sage grouse off endangered species list (KSL) Immigrants are coming to North Dakota for jobs. Not everyone is glad to see them (NPR) The World Sweden is closer to NATO membership (Deseret News) Will Canada allow people with drug addictions to apply for assisted suicide? (Deseret News) Sports An analysis of the Jazz's season opener versus the Kings (Deseret News) What Utah basketball has learned about itself from camp and a ‘secret scrimmage’ 🤫 (Deseret News) ‘An absolute unbelievable human being’: What makes Utes’ two-way star so special (Deseret News) Faith, football and freeways: Inside an Idaho couple’s epic road trip (Deseret News) | Green Canyon players celebrate their 2-0 win over Park City in the 4A girls soccer state championship at America First Field in Sandy on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News) Read more about the Wolves' rewarding win against Park City. |
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