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Situational Analysis | August 22, 2022 It's Monday of the last full week of August. It's also National Tooth Fairy Day - what's the going rate these days?? Condolences again going out, this time for the family, friends and many admirers on the passing of Dr. Kate Holbrook, managing historian of women's history in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' history department. Be in the Know Moab hit by a once-in-a-century flood this weekend, turning Main Street into a raging river, causing structural damage to buildings, washing away trails (and cars) and knocking out city water. A state of emergency has been declared and clean up has begun. Thankfully, no one was injured. Rapid Roundup Utahâs Little League team â and injured Easton Oliverson â will head home soon after they are eliminated from the Little League World Series, the BLM seeks feedback on plan to expand Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and an 81-yr old woman is nabbed with 5 kilos of heroine in her suitcase. | | |
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Utah Headlines General Digging up bones: Why Utahâs desert is a paleontologistâs playground (Deseret News) Zion Search and Rescue looking for missing woman after flash flood (Salt Lake Tribune) Politics Nobodyâs drummed up the vote quite like Sherrie (Deseret News) What Mitt Romney says is his most rewarding professional experience (Deseret News) Sen. Mitt Romney on the Great Salt Lake, inflation and more (ABC4) The IUP Panel on GOP primaries and the Inflation Reduction Act (ABC4) Utah property taxes 101: Why your bill is so high this year, and how you can lower it (Salt Lake Tribune) Business Intermountain Healthcare names interim president, CEO (KSL) The remote-work revolution is over. Cities lost. (Washington Post) Education Syd Dickson: âBe a builderâ â What I learned from teachers working through their hardest years (Deseret News) Judge grants injunction, halting enforcement of law banning transgender girls from girls sports (KSL) Davis School District hopes to create an inclusive learning environment, move beyond racism (KSL) Utah schools face staff shortages that can make it âincredibly challenging to operateâ. Many districts only have a handful of unfilled teaching positions, but are in âdire needâ of support staff. (Salt Lake Tribune) Keep an eye on your student's mental health this back-to-school season (NPR) Environment What Sen. Mitt Romney, House Speaker Brad Wilson saw on the Great Salt Lake. Growing concern over lakeâs health amid horrific Western drought (Deseret News) Study rates national parks for accessibility, and Southern Utahâs 2 parks are ranked at top and bottom (St. George News) Utah canât save or stretch its precious water if it canât super accurately measure it (KUER) Droughts hurt world's largest economies (Wall Street Journal) âAnother 1-in-1,000-year interval floodâ: Dallas area hit by 8 inches of rain sending cars floating down water-filled roads (Washington Post) Housing Why the housing market is in recession in terms of sales â but not prices (Deseret News) National Headlines General Is the truth out there? NASAâs UFO investigation moving forward at âfull forceâ (Deseret News) Stock futures fall in broad market decline (Wall Street Journal) Politics Jay Evensen: What everyoneâs missing about the Inflation Reduction Act. The income tax in this country is far too complicated. Fixing that would take real, difficult and bipartisan work that neither side, apparently, wants to do, but it would solve a lot of problems. (Deseret News) The Senate looks like a jump ball. Here are the 10 seats that will decide the majority (NPR) âWe got rolledâ: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump (Politico) Ukraine ðºð¦ Suicide missions, neo-Nazis and life inside Ukraineâs foreign legion (Deseret News) âTime stoppedâ: Ukrainians long to go home as war drags on (AP) Area near Ukraine nuclear plant hit again despite US pleas (AP) A Russian soldierâs journal: âI will not participate in this madnessâ (Washington Post) The daughter of 'Putin's brain' ideologist was killed in a car explosion (NPR) Aleksandr Dugin calls for Russia to punish Ukraine for his daughterâs death. (New York Times) World News US, S. Korea open biggest drills in years amid North threats (AP) UK economy shrank record 11% in 2020, worst since 1709 (Reuters) | | |
News Releases Romney and Speaker Brad Wilson tour the Great Salt Lake U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives Brad Wilson today toured areas connected to and dependent on the survival of the Great Salt Lake. Stops along the tour included Bear River inflows, an agricultural site, Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative, and Farmington Bay. As part of the tour, Senator Romney and Speaker Wilson toured the Great Salt Lake on an airboat to have a firsthand look at the implications of a receding lake. (Read More) Number of the Day | | |
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On This Day In History 1485 - Richard III, King of England (1483-85), is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field at age 32. His remains were discovered under a parking lot in 2012. 1775 - King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1847 - The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square held its first ever performance. 1864 - The International Red Cross is founded. 1864 - The first Geneva Convention is adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations 1912 - Cornelia âCoyaâ Knutson is born. She became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Minnesota (1955-1959) and was the first woman on the Agriculture Committee. She was defeated after an infamous âCome Home Coyaâ letter supposedly written by her estranged husband. While in Washington, she pushed for the first federal appropriations for cystic fibrosis research. 1921 - J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI 1933 - Cedar Breaks is declared a national monument. 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first African American on U.S. tennis tour 1990 - US President George H. W. Bush calls up military reserves Wise Words "The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose." âChadwick Boseman The Punny Side The Earth is made up of 70% water and itâs uncarbonated.. So itâs technically flat. | | |
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