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Utah Headlines

General

• Not everything is lost. The powerful, societal force of charitable giving (Deseret News)
• A place at the table. How one rabbi is bridging the partisan divide (Deseret News)
• Special Christmas tree pays tribute to teen hit, killed while riding bike (KSL TV)
• Riverton family honors child with Christmas tree (ABC4)
• Community comes together to grieve 6th grade girl killed in auto-pedestrian collision yesterday (KUTV)
• National Guard Airman from Roy dies after medical emergency while deployed in Guam (KUTV)
• Utah State University deep space radio makes history as it reaches moon’s orbit (ABC4)
• Former American Fork soccer coach arrested on charges of child sexual abuse (KSL TV)

Politics

• Editorial Board: What the 2022 election reveals about election fraud: In the United States, elections are remarkably fair and well-managed, despite the constant baseless allegations of fraud (Deseret News)
• Brothers in arms. The unlikely story of how the oddest couple of American politics saved religious liberty (Deseret News)
• Negative campaigning dominated Utah Senate race between Mike Lee, Evan McMullin. How much influence did those attack ads have? (Deseret News)

Business

• Opinion: How a 14-year-old Hispanic immigrant became an entrepreneur in the U.S. (Deseret News)
• Amazon says it had its biggest Thanksgiving shopping weekend ever (Reuters)
• Small businesses need a federal solution to address rising swipe fees. Visa and Mastercard have too much power in the marketplace and raise costs to business and consumers. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Culture

• A chef comes home, bringing Utah and Spanish cuisine together at Mar | Muntanya (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

• New alliance seeks to boost number, diversity of U. graduates. Invitation-only University Innovation Alliance is on track to double 68,000 degree goal by 2025 (Deseret News)
• UVU student group is asking people to give the gift of clean air by utilizing public transportation (KSL)
• Utah’s open enrollment policy is hard on schools in low-income neighborhoods. Schools lose funds and parental support when higher-income families abandon them. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Davis School District community gathers to discuss DOJ settlement concerns (KUTV)
• School principals say culture wars made last year 'rough as hell' (NPR)

Environment

• Want to save more water next year? Money flowing for secondary metering (Deseret News)
• The West’s next national monument? Biden ‘committed to protecting’ Nevada’s Spirit Mountain. If created, the 450,000-acre Spirit Mountain National Monument, or Avi Kwa Ame in Mojave, would be the second new monument Biden designates (Deseret News)
• Utah’s Coordinated Action Plan for Water released this week (KSL Newsradio)
• State OKs road upgrades for Parleys quarry project. Set to begin Thursday, fence construction is paused while UDOT weighs neighbors’ concerns (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• Perspective: Parents want more time with their kids. We should find ways to help them (Deseret News)
• ‘Difficult decisions’: Inflation increasing need for food assistance in Utah ahead of holidays (KSL TV)

Health

• Healing house. Dignified endings and new beginnings at a home on the margins (Deseret News)
• The science behind spirituality as an antidepressant (Deseret News)
• Angela Deneris and Cordelia Schaffer: We thought we were safe from lung cancer. Utah’s pollution proved us wrong (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Family caregiving takes a toll on ‘Utah’s Invisible Workforce’ (KUER)

Housing

• Can Florida’s collaborative approach to homelessness work in Utah? Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall thinks it can. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

•  ðŸ¥° Dwayne Johnson bought every Snickers bar at a Hawaii 7-Eleven to make up for stealing them as a kid (Deseret News)
• Viewers flock to watch glowing lava ooze from Hawaii volcano (AP)
• Victims’ families urge love, kindness as Idaho campus mourns (AP)
• Rise in Iranian assassination, kidnapping plots in the West alarms officials (Washington Post)
• The Washington Post will end its Sunday magazine, eliminate positions (Washington Post)
• CNN Layoffs Are Under Way (Wall Street Journal)

Politics

• The future of the Fed. The Federal Reserve is dramatically expanding its powers. Why the man who helped steer it says that’s dangerous (Deseret News)
• Politicians or performance artists? The 2024 presidential candidates you’ve never heard of (Deseret News)
• McCarthy readies for floor showdown in Speakership bid as opponents dig in heels (The Hill)
• DeSantis-backed school boards begin ousting Florida educators. New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week. (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• U.S. announces plans to help Ukraine in energy crisis (Deseret News)
• ‘Do something:’ Ukraine works to heal soldiers’ mental scars (AP)
• Ships Linked to Russia’s Biggest Grain Exporter Moved Stolen Ukrainian Cargo (Wall Street Journal)
• Russia’s foreign minister defended the strikes on Ukraine’s energy system. The U.N. has said they could amount to war crimes. (New York Times)

World News

• Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin shut down a reporter's sexist question about their ages (NPR)

Guest opinion: Speak up and speak out

by Dr. Ellen Brady

The former president ate Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Ye and Nick Fuentes, an avowed white supremacist whose views on women, Jews, racial minorities, the LGTBQ+ community, and democracy can kindly be described as cringe-worthy. More accurately and horrifyingly, his views are taken directly from the Nazi playbook. Elimination of elections, total subjugation of women, and comparisons of the slaughter 6 million Jews in Nazi crematoriums to “baking cookies” were some of the ideas put forth in podcasts and speeches....

We applaud Senator Mitt Romney for his clear denunciation of the former President’s embrace of these individuals. Accordingly, we call on our entire Congressional Delegation, Utah Legislators, elected officials at all levels of government, and ordinary citizens to speak out with equally clear denunciations—not only of this incident, but also of toxic culture of hate and bigotry fermenting in our society...

Please don’t pass on yet another opportunity to speak up and speak out. (Read More)

News Release

Sen. Lee & colleagues write to Leader McConnell: “No additional spending …”

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and colleagues delivered a letter to Leader Mitch McConnell expressing the need to pass a short-term Continuing Resolution that funds the federal government ONLY until shortly after the 118th Congress is sworn in. In the letter signed by Senators Lee, Cruz, Scott of Florida, and Braun, the Senators said in part: 

“The undersigned stand with the voters. We believe it would be both imprudent, and a reflection of poor leadership, for Republicans to ignore the will of the American people and rubber stamp an omnibus spending bill that funds ten more months of President Biden’s agenda without any check on his reckless policies that have led to a 40-year high in inflation. Since taking office, President Biden has overseen a $4.8 trillion increase in the national deficit, costing the average American household an estimated $753 more a month. It should be up to the new Congress to set spending priorities for the remainder of this fiscal year.” (Read More)

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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

• 1641 - Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
• 1761 - Marie Tussaud is born. She created wax sculptures and then a museum
• 1824 - Presidential election goes to the House of Representatives after no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes. The House chooses John Quincy Adams.
• 1862 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the State of the Union address, 10 weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation. 
• 1878 - First White House telephone installed
• 1893 - Dorothy Detzer is born. She worked at Hull House where she investigated child labor infringements for several years and became the national secretary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1924-46) where she became known as the “Lady Lobbyist” in Congress, respected for her research and integrity – no personal favors, private dinners or backroom deals
• 1913 - The world’s first assembly line begins at Ford Motor Company
• 1941 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
• 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
• 1978 - US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
• 1981 - AIDS virus officially recognized
• 1988 - Benazir Bhutto named the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
• 1990 - Ty Detmer wins the Heisman
• 2019 - Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China

Wise Words

"In giving freedom to the slave, we ensure freedom to the free–honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.”

—Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union address, 1862

The Punny Side

Have you ever tried eating a clock?

It’s really time consuming, especially if you go for seconds.

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