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Utah Headlines

General

• Saudi Arabian Ambassador Princess Reema back in Utah on mission to build ties (Deseret News)
• A member of Utah’s history-making Little League team is reportedly in the hospital with a serious injury (Deseret News)
• Local Little League all-star remains in ICU with head injury (St. George News)
• After death threats from the Taliban, an Afghan activist fled to Salt Lake City (KSL)
• Plane plunges into lake at Utah-Arizona border, killing two people (ABC4)

Politics

• Utah governor talks about possibility of MLB expansion team at Draper prison site (KUTV)
• Utah Republican Party passes resolution seeking to block gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth (Fox13)
• With Draper prison now closed, officials eye Utah’s next big redevelopment project (KUER)

Education

• Back to school? 10 lunch box ideas for your kids (Deseret News)
• Concerns raised that students' walk to school goes through SLC homeless encampments (KUTV)
• Utah teachers talk about challenges ahead of new school year (Fox13)
• Murray schools deal with staff shortages as new school year begins (Fox13)
• Utah kids start the school year in a brand new Sandy elementary school (Fox13)

Environment

• How will Utah be affected by an ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ predicted to hit the nation in 30 years? (Deseret News)
• Filling Lake Powell to maximize recreation benefits would require biggest water cuts in history, pro-reservoir group says in new report. A former commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation said the plan would likely be ‘impossible’ to implement. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Deadline looms for drought-stricken states to cut water use
  This week is expected to be the most consequential for Colorado River policy in years. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Monsoon's mark: Grand Canyon lifts water measure; Utah rain totals are going up (KSL)
• Weber Basin study: Secondary water meters drive down consumption (Standard-Examiner)
• The Southwest is running out of fresh water. Is ocean desalination the cure? (KUER)

Housing

• Could this proposal reduce the housing shortage in the West? (Deseret News)
• See how short-term rentals are taking over the Beehive State. In just two years, the number of Airbnb-style rentals in Utah grew nearly 27%. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Everything that you need to know about Salman Rushdie (Deseret News)
• The U.S. Army is developing combat-ready bras for female soldiers (Deseret News)
• Walmart tops Q2 expectations as Americans continue spending (AP)
• Prosecutors struggle to catch up to a tidal wave of pandemic fraud (New York Times)

Politics

• What were you doing at 4 a.m.? This 88-year-old senator was out running (Deseret News)
• One year after Afghanistan, here’s what happened to Biden’s approval rating. The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan marked the end of Biden’s honeymoon period (Deseret News)
• Biden administration begins midterm election campaign (Deseret News)
• Conservative nonprofit plans to spend millions bashing ‘woke’ left in midterms (Politico)
• Trump's revenge campaign takes aim at key Wyoming, Alaska Republicans (Reuters)
• Merrick Garland weighed search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago for weeks (Wall Street Journal)
• Justice Department opposes release of Mar-a-Lago affidavit (Washington Post)
• Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers have been told that he is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into 2020 election interference. (New York Times)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• Russia-Ukraine update: Moscow sent workers into occupied territory, but never paid them (Deseret News)
• Blasts, fire hits military depot in Russian-annexed Crimea (AP)
• Putin vows to expand arms trade with Russia’s allies (AP)
• Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion (Washington Post)

World News

• Scotland becomes the world’s first country to provide free menstrual products (Deseret News)

News Releases

Gov. Spencer Cox names Daniel O’Bannon as his new general counsel

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has named Daniel O’Bannon as his new general counsel. O’Bannon will begin his new assignment on Monday, Aug. 22.

O’Bannon is currently director of the Utah Division of Consumer Protection where he’s served with distinction for the past nine years, testifying before the state Legislature about numerous bills and warning the public about various issues including stimulus scams, price gouging schemes and consumer fraud. Prior to that, he served as staff attorney for Gov. Gary Herbert, a research attorney in the University of Utah’s Office of General Counsel and a law clerk in the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office. (Read More)

2022 Clear the Air challenge results announced

Results are in for the 13th annual Clear the Air Challenge, hosted by the Salt Lake Chamber, TravelWise Utah and UCAIR, with perennial winners Fidelity Investments and Dell Technologies-Utah taking top honors. Numerous businesses and individuals participated in the annual competition to show their commitment to our environment and to raise public awareness of the importance of clean air.

Collectively, this year’s participants eliminated 53,541 trips, saved 1,079,434.1 miles, 392.7 tons of CO2 and $0.6 million, and burned 1.4 million calories in just 31 days. (Read More)

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Upcoming

• Interim Days — Aug 16-18, le.utah.gov
• Women in the Money with Utah State Treasurer's Office — Sept. 15-16, Salt Lake Sheraton + online, Register here
• Interim Days — Sept. 20-22, le.utah.gov
• ULCT Annual Convention — Oct 5-7, Salt Palace Convention Center, Register here
• One Utah Summit — Oct 11-13, Southern Utah University, Register here
• Interim Days — Oct 18-20, le.utah.gov
• General election â€“ Nov 8
• Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit with the Salt Lake Chamber — Jan. 12, 2023, Salt Lake City Marriott, 8 am - noon, Register here

On This Day In History

• 1841 - President John Tyler is burned in effigy outside the White House for vetoing a second attempt to re-establish the Bank of the United States.
• 1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for 1st time by transatlantic telegraph cable. He replies ""it is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle."
• 1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon
• 1940 - The first official Army parachute jump takes place at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
• 1947 - Carol Moseley Braun is born. She was the first African American woman elected to the United States Senate, and the first woman elected to the Senate from Illinois when she waged a successful campaign in 1992.
• 1948 - Babe Ruth dies
• 1954 - Sports Illustrated magazine debuts
• 1977 - Elvis Presley dies\
• 2009 - Usain Bolt sets 100-meter dash world record

Wise Words

"Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible."

— Carol Moseley Braun

The Punny Side

I got fired from a keyboard factory because I didn't put in enough shifts.

So they wouldn't let me return or enter.

They even changed the caps locks.

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