Plus: Utah led the way in women’s suffrage, miracle weight loss medicines and you can pry my diet soda out of my cold, dead hands.
Good morning, Utah Today readers! Here’s your forecast: 🌨️ 16 – 32° in Logan | ❄️ 60% chance 🌨️ 29 – 39° in Salt Lake City | ❄️ 80% chance 🌧️ 36 – 46° in St. George | 💧 100% chance In yesterday’s email, I wrote a bit about Nicolas Cage. I think he’s an interesting pop-culture icon because even though he is the punchline of many pop-culture jokes, he always seems to be working and has had an incredibly successful career. One of my favorite episodes of the show “Community” portrays one of the characters taking a class exploring whether or not Cage is a good actor. He cannot come to a conclusion and instead goes mad. In another episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," Andy Samberg’s character keeps a classy, well-educated witness in a safe house and makes him watch dozens of Cage’s movies. Then the witness finally gets out of the safe house and has an emotional meltdown when he discovers that Cage was in a period drama, “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” but Samberg’s character kept it from him. And that’s what makes his work interesting: For every unusual film he’s in like “Face Off,” he also does an artistic, critically acclaimed movie like “Red Rock West.” Even Cage seems to be in on the — should we even call it a joke? In 2022, he played a fictionalized version of himself in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.” Tell me: What is your favorite Nicolas Cage movie? Looking for something? Anything related to the 2023 legislative session will have a bee emoji next to it. 👉 🐝 Also on our minds: How Utah led the way in women’s suffrage, do miracle weight loss medicines work and you can pry my diet soda out of my cold, dead hands. |
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| | As a child, young Abby Palmer shared a small farmhouse with her nine siblings, experienced manual labor and economic uncertainty, and had a father whose diagnosis left him unable to perform the work needed to maintain the family farm. Through that hardship, she developed not only a warm relationship with her father, but she also inherited his empathy and tenacity — qualities that would later define her work as first lady of Utah. After her husband, Gov. Spencer Cox, won the election, she got right to work with initiatives to help children in foster care, athletes with intellectual disabilities, educator wellness and to perform community service. | On Tuesday, the final day for committee hearings for the 2023 Utah Legislature, a hearing was held on SB184. This bill would eliminate copay accumulator policies, an insurance policy that makes it so any financial assistance from nonprofits or medical companies would not count toward a patient’s deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. The bill passed in the Senate earlier this session 21-2, but it will not make it to the floor of the House this year. Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, who stated that insurance companies are “double dipping” to get money from vulnerable patients, said, “If there is a benefit that is paid into a health care system on behalf of a patient, the patient should get credit for that benefit.” Read the full story here. More in Politics: Protesters disrupt Senate hearing on ERA. Here’s what Sen. Mike Lee caught on camera (Deseret News) Perspective: Let’s stop exaggerating Biden’s cognitive condition (Deseret News) Return of the 'Zion Curtain?' Liquor bill requires some restaurants to build a wall (FOX13) 🐝 | FROM UTAH BUSINESS Saluting exceptional leaders Utah Business recognizes members of the C-suite who are changing the way we do business for the better. Are you acquainted with a C-suite executive who makes the hard decisions that impact daily operations as well as the long-term vision of their company? Submit a nomination before March 10. | Education: Bill banning diversity, equity offices in higher education is converted into study (KSL) 🐝 Lawmakers, educators still far apart on deal changing Utah’s constitutional earmark for education funding (Salt Lake Tribune) 🐝 Business: Elon Musk wants to build ChatGPT-style AI engine but says his version won’t be ‘woke’ (Deseret News) Utah’s large-scale events industry is booming (Utah Business) Health: Popular zero-calorie sweetener may raise the risk of heart attack (Deseret News) Wegovy and Ozempic: Is the weight-loss ‘miracle’ real and what are the barriers? (Deseret News) Police and Courts: Student loan forgiveness in the Supreme Court (Deseret News) Rape cases involving same suspect 'wrongfully closed,' getting new look after KSL Investigation (KSL) Media groups oppose bill requiring police to seek consent before identifying child homicide victims (KSL) 🐝 Technology: ‘Take It Down’ aims to help teens remove explicit internet images (Deseret News) Bill from Rep. Curtis passes; will disclose if appliances have recording devices (FOX13) 🐝 Faith: What’s the future of religious student clubs? (Deseret News) Women’s History Month: Latter-day Saint women pioneered efforts in voting rights (Deseret News) Northern Utah: Motorcyclist dies from injuries after collision in Ogden (KSL) Police identify man killed by roof collapse in Cache County (KSL) Wasatch Front: Man with history of domestic violence charged with allegedly slashing girlfriend (KSL) Salt Lake City airport expansion project gets cut of $1B in federal infrastructure funds (KSL) Southern Utah: Suazo Business Center expands to help Latino businesses in St. George (KSL) Woman killed in wrong-way crash in Moab; US 191 reopened (KSL) The West: Heavy snowfall hits California, 10 Western states under winter weather alerts (Deseret News) Study of bromine’s relationship to Utah’s bad air clears Senate committee (KUER) 🐝 The Nation: White House announces all federal employees have 30 days to remove TikTok from their devices (Deseret News) The World: What the French government announced to help ready Ukrainian athletes for Paris Olympics (Deseret News) More workers return to the office in Asia and Europe than in the U.S. (Deseret News) U.S. Treasury Secretary makes surprise visit to Ukraine. Here’s what she said there (Deseret News) Sports: Co-champion Utes well-represented on Pac-12’s All-Conference honors list (Deseret News) Heath Hughes returns to his old stomping grounds with hopes of earning upset victories (Deseret News) What the Jets’ GM’s latest comments on Zach Wilson could mean for the quarterback’s future (Deseret News) 'Nothing more joyful': Special Olympics team triumphs in Brighton High basketball game (KSL) |
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