Good morning, Utah Today readers! Here’s today’s forecast:

🌤 55 – 92° in Logan |💧 10% chance

🌤 72 – 97° in Salt Lake City |💧 10% chance

⛈️ 73 – 96° in St. George | 💧 30% chance

You made it! What a week for news, amiright? Here’s a roundup of the stories you liked best from the week:

🐘 What Mitt Romney says about Liz Cheney possibly running for president: With Rep. Liz Cheney contemplating her political future and a possible presidential run, Sen. Mitt Romney says he would discourage her to run.

📈 Opinion: What everyone’s missing about the Inflation Reduction Act: According to opinion writer Jay Evansen, the Inflation Reduction Act misses important key points particularly when it comes to income tax. 

🏡 Why the housing market is in recession in terms of sales — but not prices: The economy is sending some mixed signals right now. Katie McKellar wrote about the housing market in Utah this week.

🙅🏻‍♀️ Perspective: The vandals who desecrated Latter-day Saint chapels are wrong — abuse is not welcome here: A licensed mental health counselor and abuse survivor as well as a former bishop and stake president gave their perspective this week on how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints protects its members from abuse.

📎 America’s most remarkable kid died in Newcastle, Utah — his legacy never will: At age 14, Kevin Cooper may have been the world’s most driven kid — he ran several businesses, owned a house and published an autobiography. Unfortunately, he passed away over the summer. Had it not been for journalist Bari Weiss, his story may have been lost to time. Daryl Gibson wrote an incredibly touching story about him this week that brought tears to my eyes. Take some time to read and share it today.

🥛 Princeton Review retires ‘Stone-Cold Sober,’ rebrands with BYU still No. 1: BYU is no longer the No. 1 “Stone-Cold Sober” school in the country anymore… because the Princeton Review retired the title in favor of “Cancel the Keg.” The school also ranks high on other cleverly-named superlatives, and the University of Utah also ranked No. 1 in a notable category.

💰 Mitt Romney has a word for Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan: bribe: Sen. Romney, as well as other state representatives, had some choice words for President Biden this week.

Also on our minds: Good riddance that Playboy attitudes are out of vogue, what people are saying about the Manti Te’o documentary and do you qualify for Biden’s student loan forgiveness? 

Read the full story here.

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By the way, the biggest news of the day — objectively — is that there might be a “National Treasure 3.” I can’t tell you if Nick Cage is a good actor or a bad one, but I can tell you that this movie franchise is the best thing this country has ever produced second only to the United States Constitution. Now if you don’t mind me, I’m going to go watch the first two movies.

— Kathleen