It’s the weekend! Here’s your forecast: 🌨️ 16 – 38° in Logan | ❄️ 30% chance ⛅ 29 – 43° in Salt Lake City | ❄️ 10% chance ⛅ 32 – 55° in St. George It’s Friday again! You know what that means — our weekly roundup of this week’s best stories. ——— 🎁 Perspective: The CDC’s gift to the GOP: Bethany Mandel makes the case for how COVID-19 vaccines became political. ✍️ Debunking a rumor of election fraud by a Latter-day Saint congregation in Tucson, Arizona: A viral tweet about election fraud has one Latter-day Saint bishop saying, “We’re not organized enough to pull that off.” 🗳️ Why Massachusetts resisted Mitt Romney 2.0: Chris Doughty had the perfect resumé to be the next Massachusetts governor, but then the GOP passed him over. 🌭 Perspective: The predicament of Mitt Romney: Larry Bartels shares his view that it’s time for Sen. Mitt Romney to endorse a candidate in the heated Senate race between Lee and McMullin. 🤩 Ken Jennings says Latter-day Saint upbringing helped him amid rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ fame: Life has a funny way of surprising you. “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings reflects on his life and how he got his dream job. 🤔 FBI, CIA, NSA ... BYU? Do federal intelligence and security agencies recruit heavily from the Latter-day Saints? 📱 Utah teens wearing blackface went viral. An unrelated community hundreds of miles away fielded the backlash: A video went viral, the internet piled on and an unrelated school 230 miles away got the brunt of it. ——— Also in this issue: No — Latter-day Saints aren’t deviants, 1 in 5 deaths for adults 20 to 49 is related to excessive drinking and how Utah businesses are fighting inflation. | .png?width=1200&upscale=true&name=Utah%20Today%20Banner%20(v2).png)
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