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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Judge denies injunction in state flag initiative case, says lawsuit 'unlikely to prevail' (KSL)
• Editorial Board: Cox should veto bill that risks millions to preserve an antiquated coal-fired power plant (Salt Lake Tribune)
• These are the 2024 policy wins for Utah’s Great Salt Lake (KUER)

Election news

• Critics consider legislative, legal action after chaotic Utah GOP presidential caucus. (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Caucuses are inefficient, inaccessible, insecure and undemocratic. Automatic captioning and microphones can only partially address the needs of Utahns, like me, who are hearing impaired. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• GOP US Senate hopefuls meet, voice concern about border security, government overreach (KSL)

Utah news

• IOC members are coming to Utah in April. Here’s why (Deseret News)
• Utah State coach shuts down postgame interview with news of firing (Salt Lake Tribune)
• US Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis speaks for first time since release from Japanese prison (KUTV)
• “This will never be done again:” A magical title run for Utah State (Cache Valley Daily)
• Utah Food Bank opens two pantries on Navajo Nation (UPR)
• After a girl’s death, Utah closed Diamond Ranch Academy. A new program may open in the same spot with some of the same employees. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Business/Tech

• Mastercard names Jon Huntsman as vice chairman and president of strategic growth (Deseret News)
• F.A.A. audit of Boeing’s 737 Max production found dozens of issues. The company failed 33 of 89 audits. (New York Times)

Crime/Court

• Gunman pleads guilty to murdering University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe (KSL)

Culture

• Open house for Manti Utah Temple will begin this week (Deseret News)
• Salina man preserves piece of Utah history with vivid stories (Fox13)
• A year of festivities planned for Lindon’s centennial celebration (Daily Herald)

Education

• Utah school vouchers will cover extracurriculars, not just private school tuition (KSL Newsradio)
• Alpine School District reconfiguration: meetings provide public comment opportunity (KSL Newsradio)
• State looking at developing de-escalation training for Utah teachers (KUTV)
• Provo elementary principal, assistant principal reinstated after ‘reported concerns’ (Daily Herald)
• USU professor wins national award as he prepares for quakes (Cache Valley Daily)
• Washington Elementary students ‘Level Up,’ learn restorative justice (St. George News)
• First university in Utah renames DEI office after lawmakers ban words. It is now called the Office of Institutional Engagement and Effectiveness (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment

• Utah expected to have cheapest electricity rates in the nation this year (Deseret News)
• Utah's snowpack reaches annual average — and more snow is forecast this week (KSL)
• UPR Presents: 'Is Great Salt Lake a Person' panel discussion (UPR)

Family

• Utahn’s project to create baby burial clothing out of wedding dresses sees outpouring of support (KSL TV)

Health

• Breast cancer mortality rate has decreased by 58% (Deseret News)
• Intermountain Health testing app to ease jaundice detection in newborns (Standard-Examiner)

Housing

• How Salt Lake Crossing is combatting loneliness with a co-living approach (Deseret News)
• Renters in Utah have few protections. SLC is stepping in to help with this new tool. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Bill requires homeless resource centers to prioritize beds for certain groups (KSL)
• What’s next after multiple pro-renter bills fall short at Utah Legislature (KSL TV)

National Headlines

General

• One massive tragedy of World War II still being ignored (Deseret News)
• NAACP urges student-athletes to reconsider Florida colleges after state eliminates DEI programs (KSL TV)
• United States faces 'increasingly fragile world order,' spy chiefs say (Reuters)
• Florida teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender ID under ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill settlement (AP)
• 2 dogs die during 1,000-mile Iditarod, prompting call from PETA to end the race across Alaska (AP)
• Boeing whistleblower found dead in apparent suicide (The Hill)

Political news

• Peter Navarro ordered to prison on March 19 (Politico)
• Trump calls TikTok a threat but says some kids could 'go crazy' without it (Reuters)
• The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw — even the naked — and may have secrets to tell (AP)
• Anti-sex trafficking advocate accuses GOP Sen. Katie Britt of distorting her story (NPR)
• House GOP report details testimony that contradicted key Jan. 6 witness (Washington Post)

Election news

• Poll: Most GOP voters say Trump reflects their values, Democrats say same of Biden (Deseret News)
• Bloodbath at RNC: Trump team slashes staff at committee (Politico)
• Trump’s freewheeling speeches offer a dark vision of a second term (Washington Post)
• Young voters helped elect Biden in 2020. His campaign is courting them again in 2024 (NPR)
• At a Republican Party event in Kansas, attendees physically assaulted an effigy resembling President Biden. (New York Times)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine needs more than a billion dollars to rebuild its scientific infrastructure, UN agency says (AP)
• Ukraine war sparks rare challenge to Putin from Russian soldier's wives (Wall Street Journal)
• Intelligence officials warn of losses for Ukraine without more US aid (New York Times)

Israel and Gaza

• Gaza war may stoke ‘generational’ terrorism threat, top intel official says (Washington Post)
• If Israel invades Rafah, Biden will consider conditioning military aid to Israel (Politico)

World

• US pledges more funds for Haiti security force as situation 'untenable' (Reuters)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Statewide Feed Utah food drive will take place March 16

On Saturday, March 16, faith-based congregations and other organizations will collaborate with Utah Food Bank for the third statewide Feed Utah food drive. Residents across the state will receive door hangers during the days leading up to the food drive, and the public is asked to support this initiative by placing a bag of non-perishable food outside their front door by 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 16. Volunteers will pick up donated food, then collect and deliver it to Utah Food Bank’s warehouses, Macey’s Grocery, Lin’s, and agencies and partner locations across the state. This effort is the result of a partnership between Utah Food Bank and its partner agencies, Macey’s Grocery, Lin’s, JustServe and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These donations will help provide food to the estimated 317,000 Utahns, and 1 in 10 Utah kids, who are unsure where their next meal will come from. (Read More)

Housing, education, taxes are top issues for Utah likely voters, survey finds

Heading into the 2024 elections, most likely voters in Utah view housing affordability, education funding and taxes as most important to their vote, a new survey from Sutherland Institute and Y2 Analytics shows. By contrast, controversial issues like tech regulation and DEI are least important to how Utahns will vote. (Read More)

US Senate passes bill to extend, expand RECA

The Senate voted today 69-30 to advance legislation that would protect and strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) by extending the program for six years, giving victims more time to apply for aid, doubling compensation offered to communities downwind of nuclear weapons test sites, and including previously excluded communities harmed by radiation from above-ground nuclear weapons testing, uranium mining and nuclear waste storage. Both Utah Senators voted against the bill. (Read More)

Rep. Maloy reintroduces the Daylight Act

Today, Congresswoman Celeste Maloy (UT-02) reintroduced the Daylight Act, legislation that would allow states to observe Daylight Saving Time year-round.

“Americans are tired of springing forward and losing sleep and falling back and losing sunlight. Dozens of states, including Utah, have already passed laws to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. The federal government needs to get out of the way and allow them to make that choice instead of mandating the needless practice of changing our clocks twice a year,” said Rep. Maloy. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• March 16 - Utah Women Run Annual training, 8:30 am-2:30 pm, Hinckley Institute of Politics, Register here
• March 20 — Utah Foundation Annual Lunch, 11:45 am-1:30 pm; Grand America, Purchase tickets here
• March 21 - Utah Women in Society – A Living Room Conversation, 12:00-1:15 pm, online, Register here
• April 20 — United Utah Partyconvention
• April 27 — State GOP and Democratic Conventions

On This Day In History 

• 1776 - A public notice appears in local papers recognizing the sacrifice of women to the cause of the revolution. The notice urged others to recognize women’s contributions to the war.
• 1806 - Jane Means Appleton Pierce is born. The 15th First Lady of the United States is one of the more tragic figures of the White House. Despite her dislike of Washington DC and having left years before, the Democratic party pulled her back when they nominated her husband, Franklin Pierce, for president in 1852. He ran against Whig Winfield Scott, winning 254 electoral votes. On the way to the inauguration, their last surviving son, Benjamin Pierce, died at the age of 11 in a train accident. The couple’s first two sons had died young, at the age of 3-days and the other at age four years.
• 1871 - Katherine Fenton Nutter is born. She came west as a telegraph operator and became “Utah’s Cattle Queen.”
• 1907 - Dorrit Hoffleit is born. She became a senior research astronomer at Yale University, known for her work in variable stars, astrometry, spectroscopy, meteors and mentoring.
• 1912 - Juliette Gordon Low leads first Girl Scouts meeting in the United States.
• 1933 - FDR broadcasts first ‘fireside chat’ during the Great Depression, 8 days after his inauguration.
• 1947 - Mitt Romney is born.
• 1964 - Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam.
• 1993 - Janet Reno is sworn in as the first woman US Attorney General, after unanimous confirmation by the US Senate.
• 2003 - Elizabeth Smart is found.

Quote of the Day

"The strength of our representative democracy is through the voice and the vote of the people, and the greater participation, the stronger that voice.”

—Sen. Curt Bramble

On the Punny Side

What's blue and smells like red paint?

Blue paint. 

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