Plus, a new model to describe the political spectrum
Good morning! Here are today's temperatures: 🌤️ 26 – 47° in Logan 🌤️ 33 – 60° in Salt Lake City ⛅ 40 – 67° in St. George Over the last 25 years, dating has gone from an expected norm to a rare exception in many communities. The Church Education System is taking steps to re-instill a courtship culture, and gathered an estimated 20,000 young people in one week for massive date events. Also on our mind: Former President Donald Trump wins the South Carolina Republican primary, the 'unlikely love affair' between young Americans and libraries and the value of trust and relationships in business.
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| Redefining the workplace: The new wave of home-based entrepreneurs |
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| | In the past three years, more and more people have decided to risk it all to make it as an entrepreneur. The U.S. Small Business Administration reported that a record 5.5 million new business applications were filed in 2023 alone. During the pandemic, with jobs moving fully remote and companies having no choice but to reduce their workforce, people realized it didn’t take going into an office every day to create income. For Provo-based Tanner Yarro, the creation of his company happened all within the comfort of his own home. Yarro Studios sells gaming goods and allows Yarro to have a creative outlet and be his own boss. “Once you taste the freedom of not having to work for somebody,” Yarro said, “I really think it's impossible to go back, how could someone go back to that?” Utah was recently ranked as the ninth-best state for a budding entrepreneur to start a business. The Beehive state was placed as the second-best state for job creation, fifth for consumer spending growth and 13th for its corporate tax rate. |
Read more about the rise of small businesses in Utah and the risks and rewards of being your own boss. |
| Generations of civic dialogue have relied on a simple paradigm to describe the spectrum of ideological belief: conservatives on the right, liberals on the left and moderates in the middle. "This model is increasingly obsolete," Tomicah Tillemann and Luke Johnson write. "Fixing our politics will require a new model with new language for identifying and understanding the forces at work in our system." To make sense of the disorder consuming the country’s politics, Tillemann and Johnson propose adding a new axis to the models that Americans use to assess would-be leaders. In addition to the traditional measures of left and right, voters would evaluate whether candidates approach their work as “builders” or “performers.” Builders are characterized by a commitment to solving problems and bringing disparate people and viewpoints together, while performers tend to simplify and amplify conflict. I Read morefrom Tomicah Tillemann and Luke Johnson about what can be done to better evaluate elected officials and other actors in the political sphere. 🚨 Election update: Trump wins South Carolina GOP primary More in Politics ‘This scares me to death’: Utah official says novel approach needed to address housing shortage (Deseret News) More than $1.1 billion added to Utah’s new state budget by legislative leaders (Deseret News) Utah lawmakers celebrate passage of sexual harassment safeguards for employees (KSL) | The U.S. and World Israeli officials to meet on a proposed pause in Gaza while the Cabinet is set to OK a Rafah plan (The Associated Press) Ukraine desperate for supplies as Russia advances on invasion’s 2-year anniversary (NBC) Video shows Oklahoma nonbinary teen after attack in school bathroom, the day before their death (The Associated Press) Flaco, the beloved New York owl, died after building collision (NPR) What Alabama ruling means for patients with frozen embryos: one woman's story (Reuters) Utah Zions Bank President and CEO Scott Anderson retiring after 33 years (Deseret News) What big shows are coming up in Utah? Here’s the latest (Deseret News) Judge declines to throw out suit against Ogden police officers who shot, killed knife-wielding man (KSL) Popular campground near Utah-Arizona border is going completely cashless (KSL) Sports Alissa Pili returning to Galen Center headlines Utah-USC matchup with high postseason stakes (Deseret News) Analysis: BYU’s defense blasted again in 84-74 loss to slumping Kansas State (Deseret News) BYU 3-point shots go arctic cold in loss to KSU (Deseret News) Analysis: Utah men's basketball vs. Colorado (Deseret News) Faith Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra perform 1st concert in the Philippines (Church News) Video: See how those in Nauvoo commemorate when the Saints left the city (Church News) Health Why — and how — grandparents influence a mother’s mental health (Deseret News) Switching to electric vehicles could prevent millions of illnesses in US children by 2050, report estimates (CNN) |
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