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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Provo mayor named president of Utah League of Cities and Towns (Daily Herald)
• Utah congressmen respond to Biden impeachment inquiry (Deseret News)
• Sens. Mike Lee, Mitt Romney respond to House impeachment inquiry into President Biden (Deseret News)
• Utah leaders react to N.M. governor's order to ban carrying guns in Albuquerque (KSL)

Election News

• A dozen Utah cities to use ranked choice voting in upcoming election (KSL Newsradio)
• Artificial intelligence wants your vote (Deseret News)
• Will the Republican Party go the way of Romney or Trump? A civil war is raging between ‘national conservatives’ and ‘freedom conservatives’ to determine what the future for American conservatism will look like (Deseret News)
• GOP presidential candidates respond to Biden impeachment inquiry (Deseret News)

General Utah news

• 173 animals have been illegally killed over the past 6 weeks, Utah wildlife officials say (KSL)
• ‘This process is not working.’ Utahns frustrated with state review of crime victim complaints (KSL TV)
• Private medical records for transgender minors will be shared with the state, Utah judge rules in sports ban case (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah YouTuber Ruby Franke's family weighs in on child abuse claims (KUTV)
• Former clients speak out against 'evil' practices of Connexions Classroom (KUTV)
• Farmington officers’ use of deadly force in Chase Allan case deemed justified (Standard-Examiner)

Business

• Women-led startups have more than doubled since COVID as women take their work-life balance into their own hands (Fortune)
• A ‘C’ change is afoot for new Apple iPhone 15 (Deseret News)
• Why one health system in Georgia is eliminating the Christmas Eve holiday in favor of Juneteenth (Deseret News)
• Here's how Utah's latest inland port hopes to 'save the family farm' (KSL)
• Owners of Utah neuropathy clinic surrender Utah nursing licenses (KSL TV)

Culture

• ‘Such a tough little dude’: Adopted at birth, Jakob Robinson proud of his Vietnamese and Black heritage (Deseret News)
• Joel Briscoe: As a bishop, the urgent ‘church finances’ discussions I had rarely made the news (Deseret News)
• 'Stranger Becomes Neighbor': Afghan strike force veterans who aided US military seek a home (KSL Podcast)

Education

• Salt Lake City School District’s enrollment is half of what it was in the 1960s (Deseret News)
• ‘We want you to flourish’: New BYU President Shane Reese welcomes students to campus (Deseret News)
• Growth, innovation and new beginnings: New Utah State president Cantwell shares her vision for USU’s future (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment

• Lawmakers talk Great Salt Lake and its challenging, complex nature (Deseret News)
• Estonian company gives up eastern Utah leases in another sign oil shale may never be a state energy source (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah settles with U.S. Magnesium over years of environmental violations (Fox13)

Family

• Do marriage and religion make people happier? (Deseret News)
• Perspective: Ruby Franke and the dangers of ‘sharenting’ (Deseret News)

Health

• Turmeric shown to ease indigestion symptoms in recent study (Deseret News)
• Can forgiveness be good for your health? (Deseret News)
• The signs of chronic stress — and how to tell if you have it (Deseret News)
• Experts recommend vaccination, not throwing out old COVID tests amid rise in cases (KSL)
• Apparently it needs to be said. Health department urging Utahns not to swim when they have diarrhea (KSL)
• Screening for early detection of depression already helping thousands in Utah (KUTV)
• The Mediterranean diet really is that good for you. Here’s why. (New York Times)

Housing

•  Study claims rent prices fell 5% in Utah since last year (KUTV)
• Why more baby boomers are sliding into homelessness (Wall Street Journal)

National Headlines

General

• AirTag helps teen find $12,000 bike across the Atlantic (Deseret News)
• What adults in other countries get wrong about American religion (Deseret News)
• Child poverty in the US jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus pandemic benefits ended (AP)

Politics

• George W. Bush: PEPFAR should be saved. Take it from me — and Michael Gerson. (Washington Post)
• Auto workers strike would test Biden’s assertion he’s the ‘most pro-union president in US history’ (AP)
• Tax cuts are here to stay - and so are exploding budget deficits (Wall Street Journal)
• Trump has been privately encouraging GOP lawmakers to impeach Biden (New York Times)
• How Donald Trump’s DOJ gave Biden a major assist in the coming impeachment probe (Politico)
• F.B.I. agent undercuts claims of political interference in Hunter Biden inquiry (New York Times)
• Tuberville refuses to budge on military promotions despite growing GOP pressure (The Hill)
• Tuberville says Senate ‘couldn’t get the votes’ to impeach Biden (The Hill)
• Trump, Biden both tumble in Iowa: poll (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• North Korea's Kim vows full support for Russia's 'sacred fight' after meeting Putin (NPR)
• Ukraine says it hit Russian naval targets in attack on Crimea (Reuters)
• Russia's offensive to reverse Ukraine's gains is stalling (Wall Street Journal)

World

• Libya storm death toll expected to swell as sea washes bodies ashore (Reuters)
• ‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000 (The Guardian)
• Aid trickles into Libya but flood damage hampers relief efforts (New York Times)
• Scenes from a deluge: Photos of the floods devastating Libya (New York Times)
• International crews in Morocco to recover bodies days after deadly 6.8 quake earthquake struck (AP)
• Cascades of red wine flood a city's streets in Portugal after huge tanks rupture (NPR)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Govs. Cox and Sununu urge Americans to “Disagree Better” at New Hampshire event

National Governors Association Chair Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu welcomed governors, national experts and students to New Hampshire for the first in a series of bipartisan events to help address toxic polarization in America – the aim of Gov. Cox’s 2023-24 NGA Chair’s Initiative: Disagree Better. (Read More)

Statement from Rep. John Curtis on impeachment inquiry

Today, Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the House of Representatives is opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Following the announcement, Representative John Curtis (UT-03) made the following statement: I am closely monitoring the formal inquiry Speaker McCarthy announced today and have the utmost confidence in the investigative tools Congress has at its disposal to help us determine the facts, said Rep. Curtis. I am pleased that Congress will have the opportunity to examine the allegations against President Biden. At the same time, I am committed to legislating as well as oversight, both of which are important work that my colleagues and I have been sent to Washington to do. I will continue to advocate for full transparency while getting things done for Utahns.

Former Speaker of the Utah House, Minority Whip and U.S. Attorney for the Dist. of Utah Ronald L. Rencher passes away

With great sorrow, pride and gratitude for one of our own, we at Parsons Behle & Latimer acknowledge and celebrate the storied career of Ronald L. Rencher whom we lost on Sept. 11, 2023.

At a notably young age, Rencher firmly established himself as a leader in the Utah legal and business community as one of the chief architects of one of the largest and most complex energy development projects in the state’s history; and as a prominent member of the Utah House of Representatives from 1971 – 1976 as well as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah. (Read More)

UVU Center for Constitutional Studies to host annual Constitution Day conference on Western-State Constitutions

Utah Valley University’s Center for Constitutional Studies will hold its annual Constitution Day conference on UVU’s Orem Campus Thursday – Friday, Sept. 14 – 15, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday and from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday. (Read More)

WSU, TheDream.US partnership awards $1.2M in scholarships

Weber State University’s partnership with TheDream.US, the nation’s largest college and career success program for undocumented students, is providing nearly $1.2 million in scholarships to WSU Dreamers for the 2023–24 academic year. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day 

Upcoming

• 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
• Launching the Dan Jones Center for Public Service — Sept. 27, 6:00-8:00 pm, Hinckley Institute of Politics, RSVP 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 

• 1818 - Lucy Good Brooks is born. Following the Civil War, the former slave founded the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans. The orphanage served African American children in the Richmond, VA area for nearly 60 years.
• 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith is elected to the Senate. Formerly a U.S. Representative in the House, Smith’s election to the Senate made her the first woman elected to both chambers of Congress and also the first Republican woman elected to the Senate.
• 1993 - Israel-Palestine peace accord signed on the South Lawn of the White House
• 1998 - George Wallace dies at age 79
• 2001 - Civilian air traffic resumes in the US
• 2017 - UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now "catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar
• 2021- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett makes first official visit to Egypt in a decade for talks with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi 

Quote of the Day

"As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves."

—Margaret Chase Smith

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