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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Rep. Burgess Owens responds to Columbia University president’s resignation (Deseret News)
• The conversation Sen. Mike Lee wants to have about NATO (Deseret News)
• Moab hasn’t had city property taxes in 32 years. That’s about to change. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Election news

• Here’s what Gwen Walz — teacher and wife of Harris’ VP pick — told Utah women supporters (Salt Lake Tribune)

Utah

• Salt Lake wants to build a park surrounding downtown. Here’s when it could be completed (KSL)
• Video shows heroic efforts by police, citizen to save teen’s life in fiery Highland car crash (KSL TV)
• Worker severely burned in Duchesne County oil field explosion (KUTV)

Business/Tech

• Report shows which companies are ‘championing’ Utah’s women in the workplace (KSL TV) 
• Biden administration announces $1.6B for new chip manufacturing plants in Utah, Texas (KSL)

Crime

• 'Find my iPad' feature helps crack series of burglaries, thefts in Woods Cross (KSL)

Culture

• Is your life on the path you want it to be? Writing your own eulogy can bring clarity (Deseret News)

Education

• University of Utah merging 2 historic programs to establish new school (Deseret News) 
• 150,000 students return for new school year in Utah (KSL Newsradio)
• Alpine School District welcomes students back to school (KSL TV)
• Help FOX13 collect school supplies for Utah kids (Fox13)
• How college campuses, programs work to keep Utah students safe (Fox13)
• Why school supply costs don't always add up for Utah families (Fox13)
• Strike Force: USU leads collaborative $2.3M NSF grant to study earthquake critical zones (Utah State Today)
• CEHS special education students assist Fijian teachers, children in their c😀lassrooms (Utah State Today)

Environment

• Why a group of Utah lawmakers visited this nuclear lab (Deseret News)
• A plan to save Colorado River water could come with big costs, both financial and environmental (KUER)
• Mind the gap: Yearlong analysis identifies diverse water measurement needs in Great Salt Lake Basin (Utah State Today)

Family

• Colin Farrell launches foundation for adults with disabilities like his own son (Deseret News)

Health

• Major sacrifice: How this woman’s organ donation changed a family’s life (Deseret News)

Housing

• Homelessness remains on the rise in Utah, but not all the numbers are bad news (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• In a small rural town, Latter-day Saints and Methodists share a church. The arrangement keeps it from closing (Deseret News)
• Two doctors among five people charged in 'Friends' star Matthew Perry's death (Reuters)
• Stock market today: Wall Street leaps, and S&P 500 rallies 1.6% as US shoppers drive the economy (AP)
• Child sex-trafficking victim who killed her abuser will finally learn her fate (Washington Post)

Political news

• Inside the MAGA RV Park in western Arizona (Deseret News)
• Water treaty between Mexico and U.S. faces biggest test in 80 years (NPR)

Election news

• Kamala Harris wants to ban grocery price gouging but several economists and GOP leaders worry price control could cause shortages (Deseret News)
• Wisconsin primary voters oust more than a half-dozen legislators, setting stage for Dem push in fall (AP)
• Harris wants to give families a big tax break for a new baby (NPR)
• Americans’ first impressions of Walz are positive, negative for Vance (Washington Post)
• Fake accounts on Meta pushed conservatives to run for office as independents (Washington Post)
• Harris picks up ‘double haters’ as Democratic enthusiasm jumps: Poll (The Hill)
• Trump: ‘I’m entitled to personal attacks’ against Harris (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine racks up gains with Russia incursion, faces challenge holding territory (Reuters)
• US-Russian dual national jailed for 12 years on treason charges for $52 donation to Ukraine (AP)
• Ukraine's troops are in trouble on the eastern front (Wall Street Journal)

Israel and Gaza

• Hezbollah weighs risks of backlash at home in war with Israel (New York Times)
• Gaza ceasefire negotiations to resume as Israel orders new evacuations (Reuters)

World news

• A trainee doctor is raped and killed in India, sparking protests and an attack at a medical college (AP)
• Wounded and grieving, Rohingya flee deadly attacks in Myanmar (Reuters)

Number of the Day 

Utah earns national recognition for innovative support of future teachers

The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) is getting recognition this week from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) for its pioneering efforts in supporting aspiring teachers as they complete their clinical practice experiences, also known as student teaching. The Utah case study, featured in NCTQ’s new Clinical Practice Action Guide, details how the state addressed financial barriers to student teaching that were keeping many aspiring teachers out of the profession. Earlier this year, the state passed HB 221 with unanimous support, offering $6,000 stipends for aspiring teachers completing their student teaching experience. (Read More)

Two new hires in Salt Lake County Mayor’s administration

Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson announces the appointment of Anndrea Wild as director of the Office of Homelessness and Criminal Justice Reform and Liz Sollis as her communications director. Wild joins the Mayor’s leadership team, currently working to implement the Mayor’s Homelessness, Human Services and Criminal Justice Plan. Sollis has nearly three decades of public service in state and county government as well as extensive local non-profit employment and volunteer experience. (Read More)

President Adams and Minority Leader Escamilla’s statement regarding the passing of Sen. Mayne

Senate President J. Stuart Adams and Minority Leader Luz Escamilla issue the following statement regarding the passing of former Sen. Karen Mayne:

“Today, we lost an extraordinary stateswoman and one of our dearest friends. Sen. Karen Mayne was a trailblazer and exceptional leader who showed us how working together, despite political differences, can strengthen our state.

We will forever be grateful for the years we were lucky enough to spend working alongside Sen. Mayne. During this time, we witnessed her unwavering dedication, compassion and grace in serving the people of Utah. Not only was she a confidant of ours but also a source of inspiration, both personally and professionally." (Read More)

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On This Day In History

• 1841 - President John Tyler is burned in effigy outside the White House for vetoing a second attempt to re-establish the Bank of the United States.
• 1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for 1st time by transatlantic telegraph cable. He replies ""it is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle."
• 1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon
• 1940 - The first official Army parachute jump takes place at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
• 1947 - Carol Mosely Braun is born. She was the first African American woman elected to the United States Senate, and the first woman elected to the Senate from Illinois when she waged a successful campaign in 1992.
• 1948 - Babe Ruth dies
• 1954 - Sports Illustrated magazine debuts
• 1977 - Elvis Presley dies at age 42
• 2018 - Aretha Franklin dies at age 76

Quote of the Day

"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right."
—Aretha Franklin

On the Punny Side

Why did the art thief’s van run out of gas as he drove away from the museum?

Because he had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.

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