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The Intermountain Power Project's transformational “IPP Renewed” project is under construction and on track for mid-2025 start-up. The project includes new natural gas-fueled electricity generating units that will also utilize "green" hydrogen for long-term, dispatchable storage of renewable energy. There are currently 600 workers on site in Milliard County, with 1200 expected during peak construction. Click here to watch construction unfold. 

Utah Headlines

Political news

• Should politicians have an age limit? (Deseret News)

Election news

• Maloy barely leads Edwards late Tuesday as 2nd District race still too close to call (Deseret News)
• Maloy takes the lead over Edwards in Utah 2nd Congressional District Republican primary (KSL Newsradio)
• Celeste Maloy and Becky Edwards are nearly even in Utah’s CD2 Republican primary (KUER)
• Celeste Maloy, Becky Edwards neck and neck in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District GOP special primary election (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Municipal primary election results: Who's advancing in Wasatch Front mayoral, city council races (KSL)
• Primary election results: Here are the latest vote totals in Salt Lake County cities, Ogden and St. George (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Knuth, Nadolski lead tight Ogden mayoral voting, some ballots still to be counted (Standard-Examiner)
• St. George council incumbents survive the primary but will face pro-Dixie challengers (KUER)
• Salt Lake City mayoral debate: What to know and how to watch (Salt Lake Tribune)

General Utah news

• Utah is the most debt-ridden state in U.S. Here’s why (Deseret News)
• Federal prosecutions are on the rise in Utah. What crimes are the feds pursuing most? (Deseret News)
• New development aims to become the 'urban core' of Utah County (KSL)
• Eclipse may be the largest single event to draw people to Piute County in county history (KSL TV)
• Judge dismisses former University of Utah police chief’s claims of retaliation over his reform efforts (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Lori Vallow Daybell files appeal to Idaho conviction (KUTV)

Business

• Elon Musk blames Anti-Defamation League for lost X revenues, threatens to sue (Deseret News)
• In case you didn’t hear, Trader Joe’s has had its 6th recall in 2 months (Deseret News)
• Car prices coming back to Earth. Is now a good time to buy? (KSL TV)
• Powder Mountain’s pivot point: Reed Hastings commits $100M for ski area improvements (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Expert: 'This is a disturbing trend' as new report reveals 7 million men missing from workforce (KUTV)

Culture

• Polynesian Days festival brings island culture to Utah, raises money for Maui (Deseret News)
• For a canning champion, this Utah State Fair might be her last (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

• The safety net of school. For millions of kids in poverty one mentor can make a difference (Deseret News)
• Bat infestation at Highland High poses questions of health and safety (KSL TV)
• Mountainland tech college breaks ground on Payson campus, to open spring 2025 (Daily Herald)
• To the Jordan School District, AI is not the enemy. But they still want guardrails (KUER)
• Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Whose fault is that? (New York Times)
• Children hit hardest by the pandemic are now the big kids at school. Many still need reading help (AP)

Environment

• In Colorado, a city mired by the politics of water scarcity (New York Times)
• $28 million directed to West-wide land projects to help wildlife, fish (Deseret News)
• West Nile virus detected in mosquitoes in Weber County, Utah correctional facility (Deseret News)

Family

• Opinion: We disagree on abortion. Here’s a pro-family agenda both parties can support. (Washington Post)
• Silent suffering: Why kids don't report bullying to adults (KSL)

Health

• Why are you so tired? Your sleep schedule needs a reset (Wall Street Journal)
• Why do we feel so tired after a vacation? (Deseret News)
• Medical tool the size of a dinner plate left in woman’s abdomen (Deseret News)
• Can too much music be bad for your mental health? (Deseret News)
• CDC warns of deadly flesh-eating bacterial infection spread (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• Young-adult writers who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have yielded smashes. (New York Times)
• Elon Musk borrowed $1 Billion from SpaceX in same month of Twitter acquisition (Wall Street Journal)
• Things to know about aid, lawsuits and tourism nearly a month after fire leveled a Hawaii community (AP)
• Tropical Storm Lee will soon be a major hurricane — with 150 mph winds or more (NPR)

Politics

• Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader on Jan. 6, sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy (Politico)
• Former Biden White House aide wins crowded primary for safe Dem seat in Rhode Island (Politico)
• Navy secretary says Tuberville ‘aiding and abetting’ communist, autocratic regimes (The Hill)
• 44 percent of Republican-aligned voters ‘seriously concerned’ about Trump charges (The Hill)
• Texas AG Paxton pleads not guilty as historic impeachment trial begins (Washington Post)
• The AP Interview: Harris says Trump can’t be spared accountability for Jan. 6 (AP)
• Vice President Kamala Harris on Trump indictment: “Everyone has their right to their day in court” (AP)
• Vivek Ramaswamy’s hard sell (Deseret News)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Blinken visits Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine’s counteroffensive (AP)
• Ukraine's forces try to punch 2nd hole in Russian lines (New York Times)
• Russian pilot describes defection to Ukraine, urges others to follow (Wall Street Journal)
• Ukraine's secret boat raids are exposing cracks in Russia's southern front (Wall Street Journal)
• Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger at losses, disarray (Reuters)
• Meet the man leading the front-line effort in Ukraine's cyber war with Russia (NPR)

World

• Disastrous flooding underway in Greece as extreme weather swarms Europe (Washington Post)
• Workers seeking shortcut carve hole in China’s Great Wall, police say (Washington Post)

Number of the Day 

News Release

Utah’s consumer sentiment falls in August

Utah’s consumer sentiment fell 7.5% in August (from 77.3 in July to 71.5), according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumer Sentiment. This is Utah’s first statistically significant decline in sentiment since February. (Read More)

Weber State’s McKay Education Building to be transformed into renovated learning space

Construction is progressing on Weber State University’s McKay Education Building, which is undergoing a complete renovation to modernize and upgrade its teaching and learning spaces. Originally built in 1972, the McKay Education Building is now being stripped to its frame and foundation. The rebuild will provide updated classrooms, new study spaces, increased natural light and roof-mounted solar panels. Construction is expected to be finished by December 2024. (Read More)

Reps. Curtis, Tonko introduce the Pediatric Research Site Network Act

Last week, Representatives John Curtis (UT-03) and Paul Tonko (NY-20) introduced the Pediatric Research Site Network Act, legislation designed to empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to collaborate with organizations in the scientific and academia to close gaps within pediatric clinical trials. (Read More)

Romney, colleagues introduce CRA to overturn Biden’s student loan plan

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined his Senate Republican colleagues, led by Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, in introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s reckless income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of bachelor’s degree student loan borrowers not having to pay back even the principal on their loans, costing taxpayers as much as $559 billion. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day 

Upcoming

• 2nd Annual Conservative Climate Summit with Rep. John Curtis — Sept. 8, 8:00 am-3:00 pm, UVU, Register here
• Interim Day — Sept. 18, Utah Tech University, le.utah.gov
• A Bolder Way Forward with the Utah Women and Leadership Project — Sept. 20, 12:00 - 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
• Understanding Sexism in Utah with the Utah Women and Leadership Project— Oct. 10, 12:00-1:15 pm, Register here
• Interim Day — Oct 10-11, le.utah.gov
• Interim Day — Nov 14-15, le.utah.gov
• General election — Nov. 21

On This Day In History 

• 1522 - Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates the globe and returns to Spain - without Magellan
• 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette is born.
• 1860 - Jane Addams is born. The founder of Hull House in Chicago, the first major settlement house, she was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). She was also a suffragist and helped establish the American Civil Liberties Union.
• 1866 - Frederick Douglass becomes the first US black delegate to a national convention
• 1901 - President William McKinley shot. He died of gangrene on Sept. 14
• 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an airplane solo
• 1916 - 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened in Tennessee
• 1975 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
• 1995 - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of GOP Senator Bob Packwood
• 1997 - Some 2.5 billion TV viewers watch Princess Diana’s funeral
• 2018 - Burt Reynolds dies of cardiac arrest at 82

Quote of the Day

“I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be.”

—Princess Diana

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