The Hinckley Report Returns Tonight on PBS Utah

This week on Utah's weekly political roundup, how will a controversial constitutional amendment affect other races on the ballot this November? Host Jason Perry talks with political insider Glen Mills and journalists Max Roth and Lindsay Aerts about the dynamics at play in the 2024 election cycle.

Utah Headlines

Political news

• What issues unite and divide Utah voters? Where does housing affordability rank? (Deseret News)
• Take 2: Interview with Celeste Maloy (KUTV)

Election news

• How do Utah Indian Americans feel about Kamala Harris? (Deseret News)
• 60 days out: Your one-story stop for Utah’s biggest general election races (Deseret News)
• Ballot language on Utah initiative constitutional amendment released (Deseret News)
• Guilt-laden and ‘unfair’: Education officials slam ballot language to change how Utahns’ income tax dollars are spent (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Trump Utah fundraiser rescheduled for Sept. 14 in Salt Lake City (Deseret News)
• Governors race face new challenge with multiple candidates with the same last name (KSL TV)

Utah legislature

• New legislation in the works to address youth gang violence in Utah (KSL Newsradio)

Municipal news

• Liddy Huntsman Hernandez: Who benefits? Salt Lake City residents deserve answers on the Capital City Revitalization Zone (Deseret News)
• $500,000 price tag to replace the 200 trees accidentally poisoned on North Temple (KSL TV)
• Commissioners clash over ‘misrepresentation’ at legislative meeting (Moab Times)

Utah

• Utah State Fair kicks off 11 day festivities with rides, food, and more (ABC4)
• SLC, state fair seal off access to troubled stretch of Jordan River Trail (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Social media scam using 'lost child' posts hits St. George, spreading (KUTV)

Crime/Courts

• Provo woman arrested in disturbing child sex abuse case involving her daughter (KSL)
• Man who threatened skier, snowboarder near Brighton with a gun had to write an essay. Here’s what it said. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Culture

• From Israel to dwarfism, the ‘Snow White’ controversies, explained (Deseret News)
• Utah's Brazilians host festival Saturday to 'celebrate our culture' (KSL)

Education

• Salt Lake School District middle school educator named Utah’s Teacher of the Year (Deseret News)
• Newman Elementary gets library makeover courtesy of University of Utah, Big 12, others (KSL)
• BYU announces type of degrees, location for new medical school (Deseret News)
• Utah schools reassess safety measures in wake of Georgia shooting (KUTV)
• Utah experts see personalized education with AI tutors for students from all backgrounds (KUTV)
• Weber State welcomes nearly 400 international students, setting new record (ABC4)

Environment

• Are you ready for solar panels on the southern shores of the Great Salt Lake? (Deseret News)
• Navajo Nation just tightened rules for uranium trucking. Utah mill owner says they’re ‘a little excessive.’ (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah Supreme Court hears arguments from teens that fossil fuel policies violate their rights (Standard-Examiner)

Family

• China stops foreign adoptions of its children after three decades (Reuters)

Health

• Utah vaccination rates drop as national measles cases rise (KSL Newsradio)
• Utah’s youth gun-related ER visits in 2024 are on track to exceed last year (KUER)

Housing

• Homeless shelter operator pulls offer after North Salt Lake council opposes proposal (KUTV)
• Utah builds more new homes than any other state in the nation (KUTV)

National Headlines

General

• Georgia arrests father of teen suspected in school shooting (Reuters)
• Fashion is slowly embracing the needs of disabled people. It’s happening for some Paralympians, too (AP)
• For second year in a row, most U.S. cities see declines in homicides, violent crime (Washington Post)

Political news

• As Jimmy Carter nears 100, he is buoyed by Harris’s run for president (Washington Post)
• Hunter Biden pleads guilty in federal tax case (Reuters)
• Texas sues to block Biden rule protecting privacy for women who get abortions (Reuters)
• The cases of January 6th (AP)
• After a study found toxic metals in tampons, lawmakers are pressing the FDA to act (NPR)
• Boebert defends vote against veterans’ health benefits, saying she didn’t want to spend ‘$600 billion forever’ (The Hill)

Election news

• Trump says he will tap Musk to lead government efficiency commission if elected (Reuters)
• Harris pulls ahead of Trump in fundraising with a strong August (Reuters)
• American company, Russian propaganda: New Kremlin tactic reveals escalating effort to sway US vote (AP)
• ‘It’s disastrous’: White evangelicals waver after Trump’s shifts on abortion (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine presses for long-range strike support, US announces more aid (Reuters)
• In Ukraine, a city grieves for a family killed in a deadly Russia missile attack (AP)

Israel and Gaza

• An American hostage was murdered; where is the outrage? (Deseret News)
• Netanyahu gives a starkly different take on Biden administration’s hopes for a Gaza deal (AP)

World news

• The miracle of reconciliation after genocide (Deseret News)
• UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed (Reuters)
• A 27-year-old just became queen of New Zealand's Maori (NPR)
• 17 Kenyan schoolchildren burn to death in dormitory fire (Washington Post)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Romney joins amicus brief supporting Uinta Basin Railway Project in Supreme Court Case

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined a group of colleagues, led by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, in filing an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States opposing the extreme judicial expansion of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and supporting the construction of the Uinta Basin Railway, a proposed 88-mile rail line that would connect the oil-rich Uinta Basin region of eastern Utah to the national rail network. (Read More)

Nominees announced for Fourth District Court vacancy

The Fourth District Judicial Nominating Commission has selected nominees for a vacancy on the Fourth District Juvenile Court. This position was created by the Legislature during the 2024 Legislative Session. 

The nominees for the vacancy are: Jared Anderson, Attorney/Owner, Anderson Law, Conflict Attorney, Utah County; Tyler Berg, Attorney, Parental Defense, Utah County Public Defender’s Association; Michael Howard, Assistant Attorney General, Utah Attorney General’s Office; Erik Jacobson, Attorney, Moody Brown Law; Ryan Petersen, Senior Partner, MacArthur, Heder, and Metler, P.C. 

Written comments can be submitted to the Fourth District Judicial Nominating Commission at judicialvacancies@utah.gov or Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, P.O. Box 142330, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2330. The deadline for written comments is noon Sept. 15, 2024. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• September 17-18 — Interim Days
• October 4 — Conservative Climate Summit, 7:30 am - 3:00 pm, UVU, Register here
• October 4 — Hatch Foundation hosts Civil Dialogue Symposium with Dana Perino, 2:00 pm, USU, Register here
• October 7-9 — One Utah Summit, SUU, Register here
• October 15-16 — Interim Days
• November 15 â€” Women & Business Conference & ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, Grand America Hotel, Register here
• November 19-20 — Interim Days

On This Day In History

• 3114 BC - The Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar begins
• 1522 - Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates the globe and returns to Spain - without Magellan
• 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette is born.
• 1860 - Jane Addams is born. The founder of Hull House in Chicago, the first major settlement house, she was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). She was also a suffragist and helped establish the American Civil Liberties Union.
• 1866 - Frederick Douglass becomes the first US black delegate to a national convention
• 1901 - William McKinley is shot (25th US president). He died of gangrene on Sept. 14
• 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an airplane solo
• 1915 - The first tank is produced in England
• 1916 - 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee
• 1975 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
• 1995 - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of GOP Senator Bob Packwood
• 1997 - Some 2.5 billion TV viewers watch Princess Diana’s funeral

Quote of the Day

"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
—Princess Diana

On the Punny Side

I'm old enough to remember that when paper bags were blamed for the destruction of millions of trees, plastic bags were the solution!

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