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Good news! Temperatures are easing up a bit this week.

🌤 42 – 88° in Logan

🌤 63 – 93° in Salt Lake City

⛈️ 73 – 90° in St. George | 💧 50% chance

Mondays have always been hard for me, and it always feel like Monday isn’t a “real” day. I’m not as productive as I am the rest of the week, and I always avoid scheduling too many meetings. I just can’t give my colleagues 100% at 9 a.m. on a Monday! By about 10 or 11 a.m. once I’ve had a crisp, delicious Diet Coke and checked my emails, I’m much more functional.

Tell me: Do you have a Monday workday routine or trick that helps you wake up and tackle the day ahead? If so, reply to this email because I want to hear it!

Also on our minds: The Lori Vallow-Chad Daybell case timeline, tourism is squeezing Utah dry and are dating apps worth the emotional burnout?

A last note for the trumpeter’s father

In the early 1940s Takara “Tak” Inouye and his family arrived at Topaz War Relocation Center after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order. This infamous order rounded up some 120,000 Japanese-Americans from the west coast and sent them to internment camps throughout the west to wait out the war. Eighty years later, the American imprisonment of Japanese-Americans still haunts the nation, and it still haunts Tak’s son, Mark Inouye.

Eight decades later, Mark is still uncovering his father’s story. Learn what he discovered here.

Military recruitment numbers are down, are politics to blame?

The Army, Air Force and Navy have all struggled to meet their recruitment goals this year. Some branches of the military are offering attractive signing bonuses to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, but people still aren’t signing up. The military has given official reasons like fewer in-person recruitment opportunities due to the pandemic and fewer young people meeting the physical requirements, but some conservative critics have argued that the military is distracted by a message of “wokeness.”

How much could politics be playing a role, and what are your thoughts? Read the article and let us know what you think.

Entertainment:

How this new ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ takes Atticus Finch ‘down off that pedestal’ (Deseret News)

Love:

Finding love online: Is it worth the mental burnout? (Deseret News)

The Courts:

Doomsday Mom: A timeline of the Lori Vallow-Chad Daybell murder case (Deseret News)
10 former Kingston members allege abuse, exploitation in new lawsuit (KSL)

Faith:

Elder Rasband shares how the gospel’s joy abounds in Africa (Church News)
Suicide is not a sin to be judged (Religion News Service)

Wasatch Front:

How a Salt Lake City market played a major role in Chick-fil-A's 1st new milkshake flavor in 4 years (KSL)

Eastern Utah:

Search and rescue crews recover body of man at Flaming Gorge (KSL)

The West:

U.S. housing slump is here to stay. What does that mean for Utah, the West? (Deseret News)
Utah trees' leaves are dying early due to extreme heat, local arborist says (FOX13)
Tourism is sucking Utah dry. Now it faces a choice — growth or survival? (The Guardian)

The Nation:

'When we stand together:' Joe Biden, other leaders pay tribute on 21st anniversary of 9/11 (USA Today)

The World:

Will Europe toilet paper crisis make it to U.S., replay shortage? (Deseret News)

BYU v. Baylor:

3 takeaways from No. 21 BYU’s thrilling 26-20 win over No. 9 Baylor (Deseret News)
How football fans reacted to ESPN’s ‘Cougar Tail’ segment (Deseret News)
BYU joins Utah in the Top 15 of both major polls after Cougars’ win over Baylor (Deseret News)

Thanks for reading Utah Today! If you have any comments, questions or suggestions we’d love to hear them — just reply to this email or send an email to newsletters@deseretnews.com.

— Kathleen

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