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Utah Headlines

General

• Cox orders security review at state agencies after government building break-in (KUTV)
• ‘Tear down this prison': Demolition begins on old Utah State Prison in Draper (KSL)
• Utah Governor's Mansion is decked out in a Roaring '20s theme this Christmas (KSL)
• Beehive House, Lion House and Joseph Smith Memorial Building all closing for renovations in 2023 (KSL)
• Children recorded death threats from their father, who is accused of abuse (KUTV)

Politics

• Meet the women running the all-female leadership teams in Utah’s government (Deseret News)
• Senate passes Respect for Marriage Act; Utah Sens. Lee, Romney divided in vote (Deseret News)
• How faith leaders reacted to Senate passage of same-sex marriage protections (Deseret News)
• Resurgent Utah jail deaths prompt new legislative action (Standard-Examiner)
• Utah House GOP will add to its supermajority in January (KUER)

Business

• Renowned Utah restaurant, Hell's Backbone Grill, asks for help to keep doors open (Fox13)
• Small businesses eschew temporary hiring amid holiday season (Daily Herald)
• Nationwide study lauds Utah internet pricing, while others overpay (Cache Valley Daily)
• Local Christmas tree business prepares for shopping season despite inflation and forest fires (UPR)

Education

• Utah Valley University students pledge ‘Give the Gift of Clean Air’ by riding UTA (ABC4)
• Three Utah cities listed among best college towns in nation: Salt Lake City, Provo and Orem (ABC4)
• Air Force, University of Utah enter into 5-year joint research partnership (Standard-Examiner)
• These are the 22 books removed from Utah’s Alpine School District (KUER)

Environment

• Should Utah pay $50 bounties on coyotes killed in controversial contests? State employees sometimes staff event checkins to process bounties sought by contestants as they bring in truckloads of dead predators (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• The U.S. gun death rate last year hit its highest mark in nearly three decades, and the rate among women has been growing faster than that of men. Among Black women, the the rate of firearm-related homicides more than tripled since 2010, and the rate of gun-related suicides more than doubled since 2015. (AP)

Housing

• What happens when Utahns and HOAs disagree? This man says protections are needed (Deseret News)
• Will temporary ban on homeless shelters be lifted? Advocates call for city's guidance (KSL)

National Headlines

General

• 50,000-year-old ‘zombie virus’ revived from ice could be a ‘public health threat,’ scientists warn (Deseret News)
• Horrible. Riverside triple homicide: Suspect was a Virginia officer who catfished a teen online. Police say the man drove cross-country to abduct the girl, killing her mom and grandparents (Deseret News)
• Holocaust survivors offered DNA tests to help find family (AP)
• The mystery of rising prices: Are greedy corporations to blame for inflation? (NPR)
• New York City to Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets Against Their Will (New York Times)

Politics

• Trump should apologize for dinner with a white supremacist, Mike Pence says (Deseret News)
• MyGOPChairman? Mike Lindell to challenge Ronna McDaniel (Deseret News)
• In break with labor, Biden asks Congress to intervene in potential rail strike (Deseret News)
• Congress prepares to take up bill preventing rail strike (AP)
• Oath Keepers’ Rhodes guilty of Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy (AP)
• No longer fringe, small-town voters fear democracy's demise (AP)
• Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is expected to be chosen to lead House Democrats in the next Congress, making him the first Black person to lead a major political party and marking a generational shift.(Wall Street Journal)
• Biden to commit to honor tribes with huge Nevada national monument (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• NATO seeks to shore up Russia's neighbours as Moscow attacks Ukraine on multiple fronts (Reuters)
• Ukraine’s Power Shortages Force Millions of Refugees Into Lengthier Exile (Wall Street Journal)

World News

• Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s economic rise, dies at 96 (AP)
• Clashes in Guangzhou as China tries to quell COVID protests (Reuters)
• ‘Breach of the Big Silence’: Protests Stretch China’s Censorship to Its Limits (New York Times)
• Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta stone (AP)

News Releases

UVU students create NFTs in unique FinTech learning project

Business and computer science students at Utah Valley University (UVU) have created UVU-themed Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and launched a platform where they can be purchased. Proceeds from the sale of the NFTs will help fund Presidential Scholarships.

NFTs are one-of-a-kind digital files whose ownership is registered in a network of secure servers known as a block-chain. NFTs can be bought and sold just like physical works of art, photos, music, comic books, and gaming characters. NFTs now represent a $23 billion industry.

Rachel Bi, head of UVU’s FinTech Center and supervisor of the project, said that as international monetary systems increasingly incorporate blockchain technology, she wants to provide her students with a hands-on opportunity to understand how this emerging field works. (Read More)

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Upcoming

• Utah Health Policy Project annual conference, Dec. 7, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Register here
• Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit with the Salt Lake Chamber — Jan. 12, 2023, Salt Lake City Marriott, 8 am - noon, Register here
• Legislative session begins, Jan. 17, 2023, le.utah.gov

On This Day In History

• 1835 - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is born
• 1856 - The Martin Company arrives in Salt Lake
• 1874 - Winston Churchill is born
• 1876 - The first Thanksgiving college football game is played - Yale defeats Princeton 2-0.
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm is born. She became the first African-American Congresswoman, (D-NY, 1969-83), and the first woman and first African-American Democratic presidential nominee, receiving 151 delegate votes at the Democratic Convention in 1972 
• 1929 - Dick Clark (American Bandstand) is born
• 1950 - President Truman refuses to rule out atomic weapons in order to achieve peace in Korea.
• 1975 - Dahomey renamed People's Republic of Benin
• 1981 - The United States and U.S.S.R. open talks to reduce intermediate-range nuclear forces
• 1993 - The Brady Bill is signed into law
• 1995 - Official end to Operation Desert Storm
• 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, anti-globalization protests against the WTO meeting catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies
• 2004 - Ken Jennings 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy! ends
• 2013 - Paul Walker, American actor (The Fast and the Furious), dies in a car accident at 40
• 2018 - George H.W. Bush dies at 94
• 2020 - Discovery of Amazon rock art announced. Dating 12,600 and 11,800 years ago, there are thousands of paintings of now extinct Ice Age animals

Wise Words

"We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky."
—George H. W. Bush

The Punny Side

I can't believe that viruses and bacteria would just invade my body without permission.

That makes me sick.

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