The Hinckley Report, PBS Utah’s weekly political roundtable, airs Fridays at 7 p.m. Hosted by Jason Perry and produced in partnership with the Hinckley Institute of Politics on the University of Utah campus, the program provides insight and analysis of the most pressing political issues facing our state.

Utah Headlines

General

• Sometimes TikTok trends are really dumb. The latest is putting tape on your mouth while you sleep. Here’s why experts say it’s dangerous (Deseret News)
• Finding our bearings. Can the invention behind Stonehenge and bicycles help solve a fractured society? (Deseret News)
• 'We have to break the silence,' Utah leaders say of child sexual abuse (KSL)
• A Grand County sheriff's deputy was seen twirling a lasso and told onlookers she was planning to lasso a Black man suspected of shoplifting a pair of sunglasses, prompting calls for training and accountability (KSL TV)
• National Geographic names Utah a 2023 top spot for ‘breathtaking adventure’ (ABC4)

Elections

• Fox News wanted a nationally televised debate between Mike Lee and Evan McMullin. Only one of them agreed. (Hint: It was not Utah's senior Senator) (Deseret News)
• Rep. Burgess Owens, Darlene McDonald set to debate in Utah’s 4th Congressional District on Friday (Deseret News)
• How to request an absentee ballot to vote in the midterms (Deseret News)
• Independent Senate hopeful McMullin: Utah 'needs better representation' (Daily Herald)

Politics

• Can a tax code amendment help Utahns conserve water? (KSL)
• Utah has education funding 'game plan' in place for recession (KUTV)
• Parents push for more books to be removed from schools (UPR)
• Advocates push to restore Child Tax Credit to bring children out of poverty (UPR)

Business

• Check your shelves or fridge for these 5 products — they’ve been recalled. Products include a popular cleaning product brand, a heating pad, breakfast sausage, a medical device and dry shampoo (Deseret News)

Education

• An estimated 40% of U.S. college students experience food insecurity (Deseret News)
• Here's why these Utah school districts got $4.7M to electrify their bus fleet (KSL)
• Survey: Female students report more barriers to higher education (Daily Herald)
• Utah Valley University Announces New Dean of Woodbury School of Business: long-time U of U faculty member Dr. Robert Allen (UVU)
• Bridgerland Technical College opens new Entrepreneurship Center (UPR)

Environment

• Tiny hands help reach a big goal: planting Salt Lake City’s 1,000th tree of the year. Mayor Erin Mendenhall meets her annual goal — again — for sprucing up the west side. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Rep. Melissa Garff Ballard: Can Utah become a hydrogen power hub? Sen. Romney’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act forecasts great things in Utah’s future (Deseret News)
• World is off track on reducing emissions, U.N. report finds (Deseret News)
• Utah’s largest solar and battery power plant is coming to Emery County (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah Rivers Council proposes change on how water is paid for in the state (KSL Newsradio)
• New analysis wants to pinpoint the water lost to evaporation on the Lower Colorado River (KUER)
• What it looks like as drought strangles the mighty Mississippi (Washington Post)

Family

• Valerie Hudson: We need a new ethic of sexual integrity that requires more of men. If what we want is fewer abortions, an exclusive focus on women’s bodies is a mistake (Deseret News)
• ‘Cash or candy?’ How Halloween can help kids learn about money (Deseret News)
• Dating gone bad. What America gets wrong about sex (Deseret News)
• It's getting easier to find baby formula. But you might still run into bare shelves (NPR)
• Susan R. Madsen: Be aware of the seven basic types of intimate partner violence. A focus on abuse to the body can blind us to many other forms of violence. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• Could the next pandemic emerge from melting glaciers? Data says maybe (Deseret News)
• Concussion protocols are based on research of mostly men. What about women? (NPR)

Housing

• Advocates worry eviction expungement law doesn’t help renters enough. Landlords can veto the expungement and don’t need to provide any proof, or even explain why. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Apple to switch to USB-C charging to comply with new EU law. An Apple official stated that the company will have to give up its notorious lightning chargers for USB-C in 2024 (Deseret News)
• Iowa women claims her father was a prolific serial killer, with 70-90 victims. Lucy Studey claims her father, Donald Studey, killed women for a span of three decades (Deseret News)
• Whether gas prices are up or down, don't blame or thank the president (NPR)
• Bono discusses his new memoir, 'Surrender,' and the deep-rooted spirituality at U2's core (NPR)

Elections

• Inside the campaign of Idaho’s most zealous advocate: Raúl Labrador (Deseret News)
• A second woman accuses Herschel Walker of pressuring her to get an abortion (Deseret News)
• Oregon might elect a Republican governor for the first time in four decades (Wall Street Journal)
• Democrats scramble into defensive posture in final stage of midterms (Washington Post)
• Meet the mega-donors pumping millions into the 2022 midterms (Washington Post)
• Turnout among young voters expected to match, possibly exceed midterm record: survey (The Hill)
• 'Going to be ugly': All signs point to Republican landslide in Florida (Politico) 
• Trump to hold rally in Florida with Rubio — but not DeSantis (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• Nuclear drills and ‘dirty bomb’ claims raise concerns about Russian escalation (Deseret News)
• 'Kill everyone': Russian violence in Ukraine was strategic (AP)
• Russia, NATO hold nuclear drills as Ukraine villages pounded (AP)
• Ukraine battles intensify; Russia eyes space retaliation (AP)
• Putin wants to divide Ukrainians. Mykolaiv is a test case. In a battered city on Ukraine’s southern coast, salt water runs from the taps and electricity is sporadic. Residents curse Russia, but also express frustration with their own leaders. (New York Times)
• Putin to deliver key speech after repeating unfounded ‘dirty bomb’ claim (Washington Post)

World News

• Europe’s energy crisis raises firewood prices, theft fears (AP)
• A rising dollar is hurting other currencies. Central banks are stepping in (New York Times)

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Upcoming

• "Love your enemies": An Evening with Arthur Brooks — Oct 27, 6:00 pm, UVU, Register here
• General election â€“ Nov 8
• Hacks to Help Women Maximize Income and Minimize Expenses —Nov. 9, Noon-1:00pm; Virtual, Register here
• UWLP Book Club: How Women Rise By Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith — Nov. 10, 12:00pm-1:00pm or 7:30pm-8:30pm; Virtual, Register here
• Advancing Religious Freedom in a Divided America with Judge Thomas Griffith, hosted by Sutherland Institute and the Int'l Center for Law and Religion Studies— Nov. 15, 9:30 am - noon, More info here
• Biases, Barriers, & Barricades for Utah Women: A Solutions-Based Workshop with UWLP and the Policy Project, Nov. 15, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Sandy, Register here
• Utah Foundation’s 2022 Annual Luncheon â€” Nov. 16, noon, Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek, 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

On This Day In History

• 1659 - Quakers executed for their religious beliefs in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1787 - The Federalist Papers start appearing in New York newspapers under the pseudonym "Publius"
• 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues his “Mormon extermination order”
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt is born
• 1871 - Democratic leader of Tammany Hall NY, Boss Tweed is arrested after the NY Times exposes his corruption
• 1904 - New York City subway opens
• 1962 - The US and the USSR step back from the brink of nuclear war
• 1969 - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
• 1972 - Glen Canyon National Park established
• 1994 - US prison population exceeds one million
• 1997 - Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference"
• 2004 - Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918

Wise Words

“To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”

– Terry Tempest Williams

The Punny Side

What did the werewolf say when he broke his toe?

Ow-oooooh!

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