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Good morning! We’re starting to get a slight chill in the air in the evenings which can only mean one thing… 🧣🍂🎃

☀️ 47 – 85° in Logan

🌤 64 – 92° in Salt Lake City

🌤 66 – 93° in St. George | 💧 10% chance

This is about the time of year where people start having heated debates about a core tenet of American life: Pumpkin spice.

People either hate it, or they love it. I even know some people who secretly love pumpkin spice, but also love the certain cultural cachet of publicly hating it, so they will only ever enjoy this delicious seasoning in secret. As for me, I love it enough that I make it in bulk and keep a mason jar of it in my spice cabinet at all times. (But that won’t stop me from going to Trader Joe's for even more spicy goodness.)

Tell me: Are you team pumpkin spice? If so, do you have any good recipes I can share with our Utah Today readers?

Also on our minds: Utah State’s Blake Anderson opens up about losing his son to suicide, the guy who gave Gorbachev a Book of Mormon and what gets ignored when we talk about Martha’s Vineyard.

Utah ranks as No. 2 best state for teachers nationwide, WalletHub study says

According to a new WalletHub study, Utah is the second best place — coming in just behind New York State — for teachers, especially when it comes to opportunity and the work environment. However, when it came to spending per student and the student-to-teacher ratio, Utah came in 50th and 51st, respectively.

What else does the study say and what does the Utah Education Association have to say about it? Read the full story here.

Are you an educator? Reply to this email and let us what you know what you think of the story.

What Biden said during his ‘60 Minutes’ interview

This week, President Joe Biden sat for an interview with “60 Minutes” and addressed several top-of-mind issues for American voters, most notably the pandemic, inflation, the Trump investigation and whether he’ll run again in 2024 saying, “Look, my intention as I said to begin with is that I would run again. But it’s just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen.”

Read some of his other top quotes here.

More in Politics:

Who will voters punish more in November — Republicans or Democrats? (Deseret News)
Activist high school student beats incumbent to win Boise school board election (Deseret News)
Skip the election day lines: Here are the states that offer early voting (Deseret News)

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Sports:

Utah State’s Blake Anderson reveals son died by suicide, stresses importance of mental health (Deseret News)
Pac-12 ‘crown jewels’ are on a losing streak — with religious bigotry (Deseret News)
The media was all over BYU’s racism scandal. So why did no one care about Oregon’s cruel chant? (Deseret News)

Business:

Housing recession deepens: Homebuilder confidence falls, homes sell below list price (Deseret News)
Movies get a tax break to film here, but should they? (Utah Business)

Health:

Boxing and football put him in a fog, light therapy gave him his life back (Deseret News)

Education:

No longer a college, Westminster gains university distinction (KSL)

Faith:

Discovering truth: Can science and religion coexist? (Deseret News)
The Episcopal Diocese of Utah welcomes new bishop at her ordination (Deseret News)

Northern Utah:

Goodbye Bessie: Decline of small dairies in Cache Valley mirrors national trend (Herald Journal🔒)

Wasatch Front:

This year’s Strawberry Reservoir kokanee salmon watch party was canceled due to lack of fish (KUER)
Man stabbed ‘multiple times’ while sitting on SLC park bench (ABC4)

The West:

4.4 magnitude earthquake recorded 31 miles from St. George (KSL)

The Nation:

Perspective: What the conversations about Martha’s Vineyard left out (Deseret News)

The World:

Alleged Ukrainian shelling kills 13 in Donetsk, Russian missile narrowly misses nuclear plant (Deseret News)
I gave Gorbachev a Book of Mormon — and witnessed firsthand Queen Elizabeth II’s jokes (Deseret News)

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— Kathleen