Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 40 - 72° 🌤️ Salt Lake City: 55 - 76° ☀️ St. George: 58 - 89° ☀️ Imagine waking up and looking out your window into the fall weather and ... seeing a flamingo. Over the weekend, five American flamingos were spotted in Port Washington, Wisconsin. How? Scientists think it was a real-life Dorothy and Toto moment. The birds, they say, were likely carried there by Hurricane Idalia. Flamingos were also dropped off in Alabama, North and South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and Texas by the storm. Hope they find their way home! Also on our mind: Everything you missed from the 2nd GOP presidential primary debate, the numbers say Latter-day Saints aren’t going anywhere and Colin Kaepernick wants an unusual job with the Jets.
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| Silicon Slopes Summit reveals uncanny parallels of Netflix and Qualtrics founders |
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As it turns out, Qualtrics founder and Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith has an awful lot in common with Netflix’s founder, and newly minted owner of Powder Mountain ski resort, Reed Hastings. It all came to light in a candid on-stage conversation on the opening day of the tech-focused Silicon Slopes Summit Wednesday at the Delta Center. Both companies had similar startup dates, Netflix in 1997 and Qualtrics in 2002, and both founders now find themselves fully involved in ventures, funded by their first-act accomplishments, well removed from their high-tech roots. Smith is currently in the midst of building a multifaceted professional sports empire and Hasting is now embarking on a reimagining, and rebuilding, of a sprawling northern Utah ski area. Their conversation took place just hours after Smith’s management team announced a new streaming service, Jazz+, that will provide direct-to-consumer broadcasts of Utah Jazz games. And that news comes just one day before Netflix officially ends the DVD-by-mail portion of its business and officially becomes a streaming-only service. |
Read what University of Utah President Taylor Randall had to say at day 1 of the conference. |
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After resigning from the Utah Legislature last week, Republican Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate Wednesday at an event in Draper. “We have an opportunity to send a conservative fighter to the U.S. Senate, armed with Utah’s conservative values, who will fight for change,” said Wilson, who has represented Utah’s 15th District in the state House since January 2011, while his family and friends gathered behind him on stage. “Well, I am that conservative fighter and that’s why today I am announcing my candidacy to be the next U.S. senator from Utah.” He is running for the seat held by Sen. Mitt Romney, who recently announced that he will not seek a second term, leaving the door open for the “next generation” of leaders. Many conservative leaders like Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith, Salt Lake City Mayor Jenny Wilson, Utah State Rep. Kera Birkeland of District 4, Utah State Rep. Karianne Lisonbee of District 14, and former Utah State Rep. Greg Hughes spoke prior to Wilson’s remarks. Read more about how Wilson differentiated himself from fellow candidates. More in Politics Everything you missed from the 2nd GOP presidential primary debate (Deseret News) 79% of Iowa Republicans are considering someone besides Trump (Deseret News) Inside the scramble to avoid a government shutdown — and why it will likely fail (Deseret News) Rep. John Curtis ‘very seriously’ looking at a run for Mitt Romney’s Senate seat (Deseret News) Sen. Lee and Rep. Curtis propose way to keep national parks open during shutdown with federal dollars (Deseret News) The Trump fraud case, explained (Deseret News) |
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Health and Family Here’s when Utah’s COVID-19 vaccine order may finally be filled (Deseret News) How many texts does a teen get? Study says half get at least 237 a day (Deseret News) Faith Jacob Hess and Stephen Cranney: Latter-day Saints aren’t going anywhere. Look at the numbers (Deseret News) National foundation honors Latter-day Saint woman as ‘pioneer’ of social work (Church News) Business and Economy Amazon sued by FTC, 17 states over allegations of overcharging (Deseret News) The deal that ended the writers strike: A look at what the 3-year agreement says (Deseret News) Salt Lake County 3 more cities investigating string of Latter-day Saint church burglaries (KSL) Sparks continue to fly as Salt Lake mayoral candidates discuss west side issues (KSL)
Cache and Utah Counties Ex-USU professor pleads guilty to misusing university funds (KSL)
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The Nation Is free speech dying on college campuses? (Deseret News) U.S. soldier who crossed border into North Korea is now in American custody. What will happen to Travis King next? (Deseret News) The World The conflict in Azerbaijan, explained (Deseret News)
Deadly fire at a wedding in Iraq kills at least 100 people (Deseret News)
Sports With Big 12 home opener looming, is there reason to believe BYU’s run game really is fixable? (Deseret News) Have Cougars lost another defensive starter to injury? (Deseret News) What Travis Kelce just said about Taylor Swift — and ‘cupid’ Andy Reid (Deseret News) Colin Kaepernick wants a job with the Jets. It’s probably not the one you think (Deseret News) |
Fall colors in East Canyon on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Scott G Winterton | Deseret News) See the entire photo gallery entitled, "Mother Nature’s fall colors are on full display." |
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