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Utah Headlines

General

• Duke volleyball player, BYU AD Tom Holmoe, BYU volleyball coach address racially charged incident (Deseret News)
• Duke volleyball player who was called racial slurs in Utah says BYU failed in initial response (Salt Lake Tribune)
• ‘Utah has a reputation’: NAACP releases statement on banned BYU fan (ABC4)
• A surprise guest at the Ephraim Utah Temple groundbreaking: President Russell M. Nelson (Deseret News)
• There couldn’t be a more fitting recipient for this year’s Ty Jordan/Aaron Lowe Memorial Scholarship: Utah quarterback Ja’Quinden Jackson (Deseret News)

Politics

• Man allegedly threatened Senate candidate Evan McMullin and his wife with a gun (Deseret News)
• Charlotte Maloney: Darlene McDonald will champion Utahns ‘from the cradle to the grave’ (Deseret News)
• The ‘Utah way’: Latter-day Saint women’s pioneering efforts in voting rights (Deseret News)
• Rep. Joel Ferry resigns from the Legislature but is still on the November ballot. Utah Democrats say they’ll ask the courts to force Ferry off he ballot if he won’t withdraw. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• U.S. Rep. Blake Moore to barn-storm 1st District in early September (Cache Valley Daily)
• ‘We need that perspective’: Gov. Cox says Utah needs more women in politics (KUER)

Business

•  A conversation with talent acquisition specialists: Here's what Utah's leaders have to say about the state of the market (Utah Business)
• ‘Just magical’: Business owner starts networking group for women in Hurricane, encourages others to join (St. George News)

Economy

• Powell says ‘some pain’ ahead for consumers, signals Fed will continue aggressive rate hikes (Deseret News)
• Analysis: Pain of breaking inflation will reverberate around the globe (Reuters)

Education

• Why BYU removed an LGBTQ resource pamphlet from freshman gift bags and refunded the costs (Deseret News)
• BYU requires new hires to waive their right to clergy confidentiality (Salt Lake Tribune)
• USU saying little about VP's sudden departure (Herald Journal)

Environment

• Balancing science and culture on this Hawaiian mountain (Deseret News)
• As drought crushes Utah, Salt Lake City to review landscaping rules. In the past 18 months, the city has noted 136 violations of park strip rules. But enforcement is on pause because officials concede the existing rules conflict with conservation efforts. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Who is paying to push for and against the Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola? Two organizations — Gondola Works and Friends of Little Cottonwood Canyon — have emerged on either side of the gondola debate. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• How long can a drying West keep Lake Powell? Barring big changes to the way the West uses water, the massive reservoir on the Colorado appears to be headed toward calamity. But there might be a silver lining. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• Utah may not monitor wastewater for monkeypox. Here’s why (Deseret News)
• Simple ways to boost your mental health (Deseret News)
• Scholarship aims to help more Utah parents get access to postpartum care (KSL)
• Intermountain Healthcare study seeks to address antibiotic overprescription nationwide (KSL)
• The price we pay for being less social (Wall Street Journal)

National Headlines

General

• Shootings spiked during the pandemic. The spike now looks like a 'new normal' (NPR)
• The great drought and the great deluge, all at the same time (Washington Post)
• The office’s last stand. It’s either the end of the era of flexibility around where work takes place — or the beginning of outright rebellion. (New York Times)

Politics

• Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives. The agency has been hit with a wave of threats and vitriol since the FBI retrieved scores of classified records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club (Washington Post)
• Graham predicts ‘riots in the streets’ if Trump prosecuted over classified docs (The Hill)
• Judge unseals Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit, with redactions (Roll Call)
• ‘I deserve to know the truth’: Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn is ever-present at Jan. 6 hearings (The Hill)
• When an election denier becomes a chief election official (Politico)
• What I Learned About Media Rage After Getting Fired From Fox. I was fired from my job on Decision Desk after calling the election for Biden in 2020. The funny thing is I should have seen it coming. (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• After a deadly jail blast, Ukrainians want answers about war prisoners held by Russia (NPR)
• International Atomic Energy Agency to visit Ukraine nuclear plant amid renewed shelling (AP)
• Ukraine says long-anticipated southern offensive has begun (Reuters)
• More vital than ever, Ukraine's trains bind a land fractured by war (New York Times)
• Ukraine says it has recovered the bodies of about 300 fighters killed in the siege of Mariupol’s steel plant. (New York Times)

News Releases

Utah rancher Heidi Redd to be inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame will welcome four 2022 Inductees and two award winners at the 46^th Annual Induction Luncheon and Ceremony. The luncheon will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.

Heidi Redd is an accomplished adventurer and rancher, running one of Utah’s largest ranches.  She is credited with co-creating an innovative partnership between working ranches and land conservation organizations.  Redd partnered with The Nature Conservancy Utah Chapter in 1997 to preserve her 5,200 acres of land, 300,000 acres of grazing allotments, biodiversity and unspoiled red rock scenery.  In 2009, the Canyonlands Research Center was established as a year-around outdoor laboratory for scientists, universities, and federal agencies. (Read More about Heidi Redd's remarkable life)

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• “Impulsivity, poor decisions, and what to do about it" with USU Blue Plate Research — Sept 9, 11:30 am, Gallivan Hall downtown SLC, Register here
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• 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

• 1533 - Pizarro executes the last Inca emperor via strangulation
• 1632 - John Locke, English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), born in Wrington, England
• 1877 - Brigham Young dies at age 76
• 1913 - Sylvia Kaye is born. A lyricist and composer, she wrote over 100 songs for her husband, Danny Kaye.
• 1929 - Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight
• 1970 - Native American group occupies Mount Rushmore to protest broken Treaty of Fort Laramie
• 1990 - Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
• 1997 - Netflix is founded as an online DVD rental business
• 2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes 2nd and 3rd landfall as a category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.
• 2018 - John McCain becomes the third person to lie in state at the Arizona state capitol rotunda.
• 2021 - Hurricane Ida makes landfall as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Wise Words

"Give the franchise to the women of my nation."

—Hannah Kaaepa

The Punny Side

I was really confused when my printer started playing music.

Turns out the paper was jamming.

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