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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Hunting Utah’s biggest bully — social media (Deseret News)
• Sunday Edition: Robert P. George (KSL TV)
• ‘It will represent Utah from now to — I hope — forever’: Utah’s new flag is now official (KSL Newsradio)
• 2024 Utah Legislature: Data reveals who passed the most bills, who voted ‘no’ most, and a surprise: bipartisanship (Salt Lake Tribune)
• South Salt Lake City Council censures member over fiery social media posts (Salt Lake Tribune)
• On the border and the deficit, Utah Republican delegation takes aim at Biden’s State of the Union (Standard-Examiner)
• Super Tuesday & 2024 Legislative Session Recap (Hinckley Report)
• Both Sides of the Aisle: Super Tuesday, Utah's GOP caucuses and Legislative Session takeaways (UPR)

Election news

• Mapping where Utahns voted for Trump, where they backed Haley and where turnout was lowest (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Was Utah’s Super Tuesday caucus a reflection of voters — or of the party base? (KUER)

Utah news

• Utah’s first minority judge, Raymond Uno, dies at 93 (KSL)
• FOX 13 Investigates: NIL records are out of the game in Utah, other states (Fox13)
• Ranking shows Utah is not so trashy when it comes to garbage in its landfills (Deseret News)
• The City Library is one of the world’s most popular, according to new rankings (Deseret News)

Business/Tech

• Defense Department report exposes proposed government program to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft (Deseret News)
• The Body Shop is closing down all US operations after filing for bankruptcy (The Hill)

Crime/Court

• Provo couple arrested after alleged rape of their 15-year-old daughter, police say (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Roommate arrested in connection to disappearance of two Southern Utah men (KUTV)
• Utah State Hospital staff member arrested for rape of patient (ABC4)
• Texts between Sean Reyes and Tim Ballard raise questions about criminal investigation (Fox13)

Culture

• Newlywed Kristin Chenoweth shares her best marriage advice — and her thoughts on the new ‘Wicked’ movie (Deseret News)
• Utah Flag Day: Celebrating the bigger beehive (Deseret News)
• From farmhouse DIY content to faith: Why this Latter-day Saint influencer is now sharing her beliefs (Deseret News)
• Utah professor played critical role in creating 'Explorer Barbie' (Fox13)
• Arthur Brooks: Overwhelmed? Just say ‘no.’ The science of how to stop saying yes to everything—and be happier (The Atlantic)

Education

• University of Utah advisory body formed to aid with Latino recruitment, retention (KSL)
• Sterling Scholar program's impressive legacy (KSL)
• Female Utah students win $12k in tech for school through national STEM contest (Fox13)
• Utah charters want district student info for advertising. The rules are stuck in debate (KUER)
• Students worry as Utah Tech University strives to comply with state’s new anti-DEI rules (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• Utah adoption agency calling on U.S. government to help bring adopted kids from Haiti (KSL TV) 

Health

• Father fights for life after cancer diagnosis, advocates for genetic testing (KSL)
• How high blood sugar, hypertension and obesity can add up to cancer risk (NPR)
• How Big Pharma is fighting Biden’s program to lower seniors’ drug costs (Washington Post)

Housing

• Utah ranks third in nation for most unaffordable housing market behind Hawaii, California (KUTV) 

National Headlines

General

• 'Oppenheimer' crowned best picture at the Oscars (Reuters)
• Ukrainian director of ‘20 Days in Mariupol,’ says he’d rather have no Oscar and no war (New York Times)
• Put down those pencils: The SAT is moving completely digital (Deseret News)
• US 'prepper' culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest (Reuters)
• The U.S. prison population is rapidly graying. Prisons aren't built for what's coming (NPR)

Political news

• Baby boom in Congress spurs call for remote voting for new moms. Conservative lawmaker Anna Paulina Luna gets support from liberals on proposal but cold shoulder from GOP leaders (Wall Street Journal)
• The end of political centrism (The Atlantic)

Election news

• Where will Nikki Haley’s voters go? (Deseret News)
• No Labels is looking for a presidential candidate. Will it find one? (Deseret News)
• Biden raises $10M in 24 hours after his State of the Union speech (Reuters)
• Trump mocks Biden’s stutter again, drawing outrage (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Trump won't give money to Ukraine if elected, says Hungary's Orban (Reuters)
• Shift in Russian tactics intensifies air war in Ukraine (New York Times)
• ‘It’s a way of life’: Women make their mark in the Ukrainian Army (New York Times)

Israel and Gaza

• One day, this Israeli tech founder was closing deals. The next, he was near death on a Gaza battlefield. (Wall Street Journal)
• Ramadan begins with no cease-fire; Netanyahu stands by plan to attack Rafah (Washington Post)

World

• US forces fly in to beef up security at embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel (AP)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

UVU and RMU partner to educate future occupational therapists

In a unique higher education partnership,Utah Valley University (UVU) and Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (RMU) signed an agreement to enhance educational opportunities for students to enter the field of occupational therapy. This program is designed to help students obtain an advanced occupational therapy education and enter the workforce earlier than traditional pathways. (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 

• 1779 - Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 1903 - Dorothy Schiff, owner and publisher of the New York Post, is born. She sold the Post for an estimated $30 million to Rupert Murdock in 1976.
• 1904 - Hilde Bruch is born. She escaped from Nazi Germany in 1933 to England and then America. Her pioneer work made her the leading expert in eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa.
• 1918 - US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of a new flu. It’s the start of a worldwide pandemic that killed 50-100 million
• 1921 - Charlotte Friend, a microbiologist in the 1950s at Sloan-Kettering Institute, was born today. She discovered a link between defective maturation and tumor growth in mice -- discoveries that were critical in establishing the role of viruses in some cancers.
• 1941 - FDR signs the Lend-Lease Bill which lends money to Britain for their war effort.
• 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader.
• 1997 - The ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.
• 2011 - 9.0 earthquake hits Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant.
• 2018 - Superhero movie "The Black Panther" becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn $1 billion worldwide.
• 2020 
  • COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths.
  • NBA suspends 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19.
  • President Trump announces 30-day ban on travel to the US.
  • Dow Jones drops 20%
  • Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for a criminal sex act and rape in New York 

Quote of the Day

“I feel so grateful that I get to push back against a bully that I feel is so impactful to children in Utah and that bully is social media companies.”

—Aimee Winder Newton

On the Punny Side

I quit my terrible job at the candy store.

So long, suckers! 🍭

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