Honoring Healthcare Heroes

Utah Business and Roseman University of Health Sciences are proud to honor those who have made it their mission to improve the state of health in our state.
Do you know a Healthcare Hero who deserves to be recognized for their contributions to the community? Nominate them here before nominations close on August 14.

Utah Headlines

Political news

• President Biden arrives in Salt Lake City, hours after FBI kills man who threatened the president (Deseret News)
• ‘Threats against the president’: Read the criminal complaint against the man who died in Provo FBI raid (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Who was Craig Robertson, man accused of threatening Biden, other officials? (Fox13)
• Glenn Wright: What Biden’s visit to Utah means to Utah’s veterans (Deseret News)
• Hotel Monaco in Salt Lake City becomes fortress for President Joe Biden's visit (KUTV)
• Rep. Curtis is the winner of the best office for constituent services in the U.S. House of Reps (Deseret News)
• Utah lawmakers want to strengthen penalties for hoax school threats (KUTV)
• State treasurer talks ESG and why people should be concerned (Cache Valley Daily)

General Utah news

• Police arrest ex-wife of former therapist charged in 'ritualistic child sex abuse' case (KSL)
• 'The outlook is optimistic': Utah's tourism industry still buzzing after record $12B year (KSL)

Business

• Disney set to raise streaming prices even as it continues to lose subscribers (Deseret News)
• Another successful year for a market run entirely by kids (Cache Valley Daily)
• South Valley Chamber partners with five local hotels to launch pilot program for menstrual product accessibility (Utah Business)
• AI will take more jobs from women than men by 2030, report says (Washington Post)

Culture

• IMA to host pickleball palooza to raise money for nonprofits (ABC4)
• Wheelchair Palooza: wheels-on skatepark experiences for wheelchair users this weekend (ABC4)

Education

• Back to school also includes getting ready to drop off children at college (KSL TV)
• Statue of Izzy Tichenor to be placed in school where family says she was bullied before death (KSL TV)
• Utah school district will pay $200K to 3 Black students who said they were punished after reporting racism (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Back-to-school anxiety? Experts offer tips for coping (KUTV)
• Utah parents are concerned high school student-athletes practicing too much (Fox13)
• NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission operator reports at Small Satellite conference held at USU's Logan campus (UPR)
• Colleges spend like there’s no tomorrow. ‘These places are just devouring money.’ (Wall Street Journal)

Environment

• 'Dixie' Sugarloaf in St. George added to National Register of Historic Places (St. George News)
• After decades, a tribe's vision for a new marine sanctuary could be coming true (NPR)

Family

• This Catholic couple wanted to be foster parents. Why Massachusetts banned them (Deseret News)

Health

• Taking as few as 4,000 daily steps can reduce risk of early death, new study finds (Deseret News)
• Deaths, disabilities from heart problems related to air pollution are on the rise, study finds (KSL)
• ADHD patients look for alternatives amid drug shortages (Fox13)
• COVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how to help (AP)
• How heat makes health inequity worse, hitting people with risks like diabetes harder (NPR)
• Hospitals shutter maternity wards amid falling birthrates (Wall Street Journal)

Housing

•  Utah homes sell in an average of 27 days, fastest in the country (TownLift)

National Headlines

General

• Why is this random Alabama brawl going viral and digging up the state’s racial history? (Deseret News) 
• Well this is horrifying. A lawsuit accuses a Georgia doctor of decapitating a baby during delivery by applying too much force during the attempted vaginal delivery. (AP)
• Female scientists who worked on A-bomb mostly absent from ‘Oppenheimer’ (Washington Post)

Politics

• Special counsel Jack Smith got a secret search warrant for Trump's Twitter account (NPR)
• Here are four major challenges facing Ron DeSantis’s campaign, according to Republican strategists. (New York Times)
• Former federal judge: Trump now an even greater danger to American democracy (The Hill)
• GOP alarms go off after Ohio abortion vote (The Hill)
• Staggering Ohio loss ignites an identity crisis within the anti-abortion movement (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine announces 'humanitarian corridor' for ships stuck in Black Sea ports (Reuters)
• Ukraine uses small-unit tactics to retake captured territory (Wall Street Journal)
• 'Music helps you to fight’: Ukrainian artists drown out the grind of war (Washington Post)
• Russian ‘revenge’ mission: Ukraine braces as Kremlin steps up attacks on recaptured areas (Politico)

World

•  After a massive grain theft scheme, food aid is slowly returning to Ethiopia (Deseret News)
• Ethiopia’s government recaptures Amhara region towns from militia, government and residents say (AP)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Rep. John Curtis named winner for exemplary Constituent Accountability and Accessibility

The Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) today announced that Rep. John Curtisis a winner for a Democracy Award, CMF’s award recognizing non-legislative achievement and performance in congressional offices. Curtis was selected for outstanding achievement for the category of Constituent Accountability and Accessibility. The Constituent Accountability and Accessibility category recognizes offices that provide clear and relevant information on their work and publicly acknowledge metrics for that performance.

Among other noteworthy items, CMF included the following reasons for selecting Rep. Curtis for an award: “The office of Rep. John Curtis strives to never keep constituents waiting for a response to request – aiming to respond within one to five business days. At the end of each week, the office compiles a weekly report sent to the entire staff, which includes a response time. The report also tallies the top letters constituents sent in, plus “letters of the week”, which include letters from individuals who were particularly thoughtful in writing to the Congressman about their ideas and priorities. Rep. Curtis personally calls constituents each week, and the office ensures that everyone gets a response.” (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Interim Days — Aug 7-10, le.utah.gov
• Municipal election filing period for cities using ranked choice voting — Aug. 8-15
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Sen. Mitt Romney — Aug 21, 10:00-11:30 am, Hinckley Institute, U of U
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. John Curtis — Aug 22, 9:00-10:30 am, Center for Constitutional Studies, UVU
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Sen. Mike Lee — Aug 22, 3:00-4:30 pm, Hinckley Institute, U of U
• 'Titan of Public Service' gala recognizing Senator Mitch McConnell and former Transportation and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, hosted by the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation — Aug. 22, 7 p.m., Register here
• Legislative Education and Mental Health Coordinating Council — Aug 23, le.utah.gov
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. Blake Moore — Aug 29, 10:00-11:30 am, Olene S. Walker Institute of Politics & Public Service, Lindquist Hall, Weber State
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. Burgess Owens — Aug 30, 12:00-1:30 pm, Hinckley Institute, U of U
• Municipal/Special election primary — Sept. 5
• 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
• 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 

• 1776 - Word of the Declaration of Independence finally reaches London
• 1793 - Louvre Museum opens in Paris
• 1846 - Smithsonian Institution created.
• 1858 - Anna J. Cooper is born. Upon receiving a Ph.D in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924, Cooper became the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree.
• 1874 - Herbert Hoover is born. He becomes the 31st US president.
• 1921 - FDR stricken with a paralytic illness at summer home. At the time it was thought to be polio, but could possibly have been Guillain–Barré syndrome
• 1943 - Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
• 1977 - Son of Sam serial killer is arrested.
• 1981 - 6 year-old Adam Walsh is found decapitated.
• 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second woman and 107th Justice to serve on the US Supreme Court.
• 2018 - Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in "counter-extremism centers" in China presented to UN Committee on Human Rights.
• 2019 - Jeffrey Epstein found dead in his jail cell.

Quote of the Day

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

—George Bernard Shaw

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