Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 50 - 78° ⛅ | 30% 💧 | ⚠️ Salt Lake City: 58 - 83° ⛅ | 30% 💧 St. George: 62 - 92° ⛅ | 40% 💧 ⚠️ Flood Watch Trust is contagious. So is its inverse. In the aftermath of World War II, the "Greatest Generation" rallied around its recently reelected Democratic president, Harry S. Truman, despite a vicious presidential cycle and even though polls, pundits and even newspapers had predicted that his Republican opponent would win. Many Americans, it turns out, were willing to trust a president for whom they did not vote. Eight decades later, trust in America's core institutions continues to fall. Michael Kofoed, a Utah native and an associate professor of economics at the U.S. Military Academy, writes for the Deseret News that trust is fragile and requires sacrifice and humility to grow. Tell me: Why do you think Americans' trust in government, religion and each other is declining? Have institutions failed us or have we failed to uphold our institutions? Also on our mind: Why Andrea Bocelli keeps coming back to Utah, a large majority of teens have the same politics as their parents and patience and pounds helped turn this former Utes receiver into a formidable defensive end.
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