The Hinckley Report, PBS Utah’s weekly political roundtable, airs Fridays at 7PM. Hosted by Jason Perry and produced in partnership with the Hinckley Institute of Politics on the University of Utah campus, the program provides insight and analysis of the most pressing political issues facing our state.

Utah Headlines

General

• Mothers of two fallen Utah players receive game balls following Utah's win over USC (Fox13)
• New analysis ranks the best states for retirement. Utah comes in at #31. (Deseret News)
• How do you know when it’s time to leave a neighborhood, a state or a country? (Deseret News)
• The man who saw too much. Don Duff’s discovery in October 1962 helped push the world to the brink of nuclear war. Sixty years later, with the specter of nuclear conflict back in the headlines, the effects linger. (Deseret News)
• He’s a volunteer pianist, WW2 veteran, retired English professor, author and has over 500 jazz hits memorized (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah woman says fake cop pursued her for miles, stopped her (KSL)
• Task force aims to solve, prevent murders and disappearances of indigenous people. One member of the Utah Task Force for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls said there are at least 34 open cases of indigenous women and girls in the state at the moment. (KSL)
• Topaz: the sobering story of Utah’s version of the World War II concentration camp (St. George News)

Elections

• Candidate debates and new polling (Hinckley Report)
• Super PACs are playing a supersized role in the Senate race between Mike Lee and Evan McMullin (Deseret News)
• State of the race: Sen. Mike Lee, Evan McMullin butting heads in bid for U.S. Senate (Deseret News)
• It’s election season. Here are 9 local races we’re watching (Deseret News)
• Here are the candidates running in Utah’s congressional district races in the 2022 midterms (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Statements from candidates for Utah’s four seats in the House of Representatives (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Where do Mike Lee and Evan McMullin stand on inflation, abortion, immigration and gun control? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Nick Mitchell and Chris Stewart spar over 2020 election and abortion during Utah’s 2nd Congressional District debate (Salt Lake Tribune)
• SLCO Council candidate profile: Richard Snelgrove (ABC4)
• SLCO Council candidate profile: Suzanne Harrison (ABC4)
• Utah House District 72 candidates have much in common, but different perspectives on issues (St. George News)
• Salt Lake County D.A. Sim Gill, challenger Danielle Ahn clash over public safety. Gill is running for a fourth term. His opponent is a recent law school graduate who thinks his office is broken. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Here’s what county clerk candidates across Utah believe about Biden’s 2020 presidential election. Candidates in four Utah counties have espoused conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 presidential election. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• What clerk candidates Lannie Chapman and Goud Maragani say about Salt Lake County’s elections. Democrat Lannie Chapman and Republican Goud Maragani agree elections should be secure, but only Maragani has called into question the results of the 2020 election. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Democrats have a narrow path to seize control of the Salt Lake County Council. Here’s how they could do it. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Politics

• Utah Supreme Court declines to lift injunction on abortion ban (Fox13)

Business

• Salt Lake City and the port authority have forged a deal for the northwest quadrant. The port’s tax income will decrease over time, and it must fund environmental and community improvement projects. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• New study finds challenges and opportunities for women-owned businesses in Utah (UPR)
• More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit (Reuters)

Economy

• September inflation report: Grocery prices are still on the rise (Deseret News)

Education

• Utah students look forward to relief as loan forgiveness applications open (KUTV)
• Latino students are the 2nd-largest demographic in Utah schools. Here’s how the state school board election could impact those students. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment

• World Wide Fund for Nature report says wildlife populations have decreased by 69% since 1970 (Deseret News) 
• Brad Wilson: The Great Salt Lake Summit presents a next-level public education program (Deseret News)
• Can innovation combat climate change? A new $1.5M University of Utah award is looking to find out. The award, which was announced during U.S. Rep. John Curtis’ Conservative Climate Summit, will be open for applications in January. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• As a Black American, I envied the ancestral connections of others. Then a single DNA test changed my world (Deseret News)
• A Utah-born activist untangles a violent family history in her memoir. Yvonne Martinez traces the roots of her family’s pain to the patriarch, killed by a Utah posse in 1922. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• New report ranks the states on how good they are for mental health. (Utah: not so good at #41) (Deseret News)
• Majority of Utahns aren’t worried about getting COVID-19 or the flu despite predictions of ‘double whammy’ this winter (Deseret News)
• Long COVID study of 100,000 shows slow, sometimes partial recovery. The Scottish study cites fatigue, shortness of breath and cognitive disfunction as among the most common signs of long COVID (Deseret News)
• The chain reaction of postpartum depression on the family: how to break the cycle (Deseret News)
• Why did he suspect a COVID surge was coming? Yankee Candle reviews (NPR)

Housing

• Gentrification is here. This is how a new Salt Lake City group wants to fix it (Deseret News)
• The worrying state of Utah's housing and rental market (RadioWest)

National Headlines

General

• Kanye West to buy conservative social media platform Parler (AP)
• Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school (AP)
• Economists now expect a recession, job losses by next year. Majority think Federal Reserve will start cutting rates in late 2023 or early 2024 (Wall Street Journal)

Elections

• Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) called out Republican challenger Herschel Walker for skipping the Atlanta Press Club debate on Sunday: "Half of being a Senator is showing up." (The Hill)
• Most say voting vital despite dour US outlook: AP-NORC poll (AP)
• Republicans gain edge as voters worry about economy, Times/Siena poll finds (New York Times)
• Utah emerges as wildcard in battle for the Senate (The Hill)

Politics

• What is the Mitt Romney martyr thesis? An Atlantic columnist believes the thesis fails to fully explain the GOP’s support for rough-n-tumble Donald Trump (Deseret News)
• Co-founder of Trump’s media company details Truth Social’s bitter infighting. Will Wilkerson, one of Trump Media & Technology Group’s first employees, alleges the company violated securities laws and that Trump pressured executives to hand over their shares to his wife. He shared a cache of internal documents with The Post and federal investigators that he says support his claims. (Washington Post)
• Trump attacks American Jews, posting they must ‘get their act together’ on Israel (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• Latter-day Saint father, Idaho man dies fighting with the international legion in Ukraine (Deseret News)
• Waves of suicide drones strike Ukraine’s capital (AP)
• The EU is moving toward training thousands of Ukrainian soldiers on its own soil (NPR)
• ‘Coffins are already coming’: The toll of Russia’s chaotic draft. Newly mobilized recruits are already at the front in Ukraine, a growing chorus of reports says, fighting and dying after only days of training. (New York Times)

World News

• Pregnant women struggle to find care after Pakistan’s floods (AP)
• U.K. Reverses Nearly All Tax Plans to Reassure Markets (Wall Street Journal)

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Upcoming

• Senate debate between Mike Lee and Evan McMullin — Oct. 17, 6 pm, at UVU
• Interim Days — Oct 18-20, le.utah.gov
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• General election â€“ Nov 8
• Hacks to Help Women Maximize Income and Minimize Expenses —Nov. 9, Noon-1:00pm; Virtual, Register here
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• Biases, Barriers, & Barricades for Utah Women: A Solutions-Based Workshop with UWLP and the Policy Project, Nov. 15, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Sandy, Register here
• Utah Foundation’s 2022 Annual Luncheon â€” Nov. 16, noon, Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek, 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

On This Day In History

• 1871 - US President Ulysses S. Grant suspends habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina during prosecutions against Ku Klux Klan
• 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)
• 1898 - Shinichi Suzuki is born. The self-taught musician was also a philosopher and educator. His love of music and education led Suzuki to developed the Suzuki method of teaching music.
• 1931 - Al Capone goes to prison for tax evasion
• 1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany
• 1943 - Death Railway completed in Burma (now Myanmar), built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers
• 1956 - Dr. Mae Jemison is born, the first African American woman in space
• 1973 - OPEC enacts oil embargo
• 1979 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
• 2019 - Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's acting chief of staff says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump's own political interests

Wise Words

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
—Jimmy Carter

The Punny Side

Saw a man standing on one leg at an ATM. Confused, I asked him what he was doing...

He said: “Just checking my balance.”

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