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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Howard Stephenson: Utah must lead to defuse the national debt bomb (Deseret News)
• Gov. Cox redirects $1.2 million to program reimbursing school lunch debt (KUTV)
• Utah County Commissioner Tom Sakievich resigns amid battle with brain cancer (Daily Herald)

Election news

• State auditor speaks on signature validation process (ABC4)
• Auditor concludes it’s ‘statistically likely’ Gov. Cox gathered enough valid signatures for 2024 ballot (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Here’s what your ballot will say about Utah’s Constitutional Amendment D on legislative power and citizen initiatives (KSL TV)

Utah legislature

• Legislative oversight panel's hearing on Gavin Peterson's death pushed to October (KUTV)

Utah

• How treating men and women the same can be dangerous (Deseret News)
• The ‘100 deadliest days’ are over. How did Utah motorists fare? (Deseret News)
• Utah roads mark deadliest month in history as summer traffic fatalities rise over 20% (Fox13)
• 8-year-old boy dies after accidental shooting in Lehi parking lot (KSL)

Biz/Tech

• Troubled Boeing Starliner will return empty on flight set for Friday (Deseret News)
• Costco's first membership price hike in 7 years just went into effect (KSL)
• Purple Mattress closing 2 Utah manufacturing plants, making way for other businesses (KSL Newsradio)

Crime/Courts

• Court dismisses another lawsuit against Tim Ballard, Operation Underground Railroad (KUTV)
• Woman, 3 children found dead in West Haven, Weber County (KSL)

Culture

• Why do weddings just keep getting more expensive? (Deseret News)
• Happy birthday, Barbie! Krispy Kreme releases Barbie-inspired doughnuts for the doll’s 65th anniversary (Deseret News)
• Joey Chestnut vs. Takeru Kobayashi: How Netflix’s hot dog eating contest played out (Deseret News)
• America is lonely and disconnected. This community is bucking the trend (Deseret News)

Education

• University of Utah launches website for AI resources, initiatives (KSL)
• Pleasant Grove High School bans cell phone use (KSL Newsradio)
• Utah Tech University offering free access to over 7,000 tech courses through 'Learn and Work' program (St. George News)

Environment

• Utah strikes deal with mineral company in ‘major milestone’ for Great Salt Lake (KSL)
• Over $7M raised for Jordan River restoration projects. Here’s how it’s being used (KSL)
• National parks in southeastern Utah bring hundreds of millions of dollars to local economy, NPS says (Fox13)

Family

• Perspective: The young adults who are going ‘no contact’ with their parents (Deseret News)

Health

• Why you really need to wash your produce before you cut or eat it (Deseret News)

Housing

• North Salt Lake residents urge outright rejection of permanent shelter (KSL)

National Headlines

General

• Armless archers inspire millions with stunning feats at 2024 Paralympic Games (Deseret News)

Political news

• Should churches endorse political candidates? New lawsuit reignites old debate (Deseret News)
• Ketanji Brown Jackson gets personal with NPR about family and the Supreme Court (NPR)

Election news

• How important is next week’s presidential debate? (Deseret News)
• Raise taxes on the rich or cut them? Harris and Trump differ on how to boost the US economy (AP)
• China is pushing divisive political messages online using fake U.S. voters (NPR)
• John McCain’s son says he will support Kamala Harris in November (Washington Post)
• Republicans fret over Trump’s freefall among women (The Hill)
• Harris campaign, DNC, announce unprecedented down-ballot spending (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Russian air attack kills four members of same family in Ukraine's Lviv (Reuters)
• ‘We behave like humans’: How Ukraine frames its fighting and the laws of war (Politico)
• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Kuleba resigns as Russian strikes kill 7 people in Lviv (AP)

Israel and Gaza

• US charges Hamas leader, other militants in connection with Oct. 7 massacre in Israel (AP)
• Hamas threats to kill hostages could weaken group’s hand in negotiations (Wall Street Journal)

World news

• Turkey wants to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, official confirms (AP)
• Husband drugged wife, recruited over 70 men to rape her, prosecutors in France say (Washington Post)

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News Releases

Gov. Cox reverts unspent ARP to GEER to cover school lunch debt

Gov. Spencer J. Cox has redirected $1.2 million of American Rescue Plan (ARP)  Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools (EANS) funds to the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Program (GEER), creating a new grant in the Utah Grants system. This grant permits local education agencies to apply for reimbursement of school lunch debt attributable to low-income families. (Read More)

State Auditor releases letter regarding aspects of the signature validation process

The Office of the State Auditor (Office) received many requests to review validated signatures of candidates in the recent primary election. We initiated a limited review of certain election processes including controls over and disclosure of voter registration information, as well as the validation process associated with signature-gathering by candidates. Today, the State Auditor released a letter regarding our initial observations of aspects of the signature validation process.

The Office reviewed signatures collected by three candidates running for statewide office: the Cox/Henderson campaign, the Curtis campaign, and the Brown campaign. Based on the statistical sampling of validated signatures within our primary population of validated signatures for voters with privacy protection, as well as consideration of the secondary population of uncounted signatures, we conclude that it is statistically likely each of these candidates met the statutory threshold of required valid signatures. Of note, had the signature validators reported that additional signatures were required, each candidate had ample time to gather additional signatures to meet the statutory threshold. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Sept. 4 â€” Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. Celeste Maloy, 6:00 - 7:00 pm, Hinckley Institute of Politics, Register here
• Sept. 5 — Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. John Curtis, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Hinckley Institute of Politics, Register here
• September 17-18 — Interim Days
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• October 4 — Hatch Foundation hosts Civil Dialogue Symposium with Dana Perino, 2:00 pm, USU, Register here
• October 7-9 — One Utah Summit, SUU, Register here
• October 15-16 — Interim Days
• November 15 â€” Women & Business Conference & ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, Grand America Hotel, Register here
• November 19-20 — Interim Days

On This Day In History

1886 - Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1888 - George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"

1893 - English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy

1951 - President Truman makes the first transcontinental television broadcast

1957 - Arkansas troops block the "Little Rock Nine" from entering a segregated high school

2002 - Kelly Clarkson wins the first “American Idol”

2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter), attacked and killed by a stingray at 44

2016 - Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican

2017 - US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), will be stopped

2020 - Record 52% of American 18-29-year-olds are living with their parents because of the pandemic according to Pew Research Center study

Quote of the Day

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

On the Punny Side

Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

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