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Utah Headlines

General

• 'Everybody started panicking': Passenger describes bus crash that injured 23 (KSL)
• Oregon woman killed in tubing accident at Deer Valley (KSL)
• Tooele City’s fire department gets first female firefighter (KSL Newsradio)

Politics

• Great Salt Lake Collaborative offers internships for 2023 Legislative Session (KSL TV)
• Iron County to hold meeting to address ballot mail-out issues from recent election (Fox13)
• Utah’s Bonneville Shoreline Trail bill advances out of U.S. House on a unanimous vote. Rep. Curtis’s bill proposes to redraw wilderness boundaries to enable bike riding on the proposed trail alignments in Salt Lake and Utah counties. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Business

•  Utah tech layoffs continue, as yet another company valued over $1B sheds hundreds of workers two weeks before Christmas. Pluralsight becomes at least the fourth Utah ‘unicorn’ to cut employees in recent weeks. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• After rapid pandemic expansion, Amazon delays opening new Weber County warehouse (KSL TV)

Culture

• You’re not alone in not understanding your Gen Z colleagues— your guide to Gen Z slang (Deseret News)

Education

• Working to make ‘College educated’ and ‘Native American’ the norm (Deseret News)
• Rocky Mountain University announces new president to succeed founder: Cameron Martin (Daily Herald)
• College Republican president says students want a greater voice at USU (Cache Valley Daily)
• Uneven growth in the Alpine School District prompts a look at school boundaries (KUER)

Environment

• Illegal pot grows are making forests high on water contamination (Deseret News)
• Infinite, clean energy? Scientists set to announce fusion breakthrough (Deseret News)
• The U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet? (NPR)
• Nonprofit asks skiers to dispose of environmentally unfriendly ski wax (KSL Newsradio)
• The ‘power of aridity’ is bringing Glen Canyon Dam to its knees (KUER)
• Drilling crews to flood Utah’s Lila Canyon coal mine fire with foam, water from boreholes drilled into part of mine that has burned since Sept. 20. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah has a lot to do if it’s going to move away from coal-fired power (KUER)

Health

•  CRISPR gene-editing may boost cancer immunotherapy, new study finds (NPR)
• Why heart disease in women is so often missed or dismissed (New York Times)

National Headlines

General

• Treasury Secretary Yellen predicts ‘much lower inflation’ by the end of 2023 (Deseret News)
• Orion capsule back after 25-day journey as NASA inches closer to moon landing (Deseret News)
• Ken Niumatalolo reveals how abruptly he was fired at Navy. It was in the locker room, after the game and it blindsided him. (Deseret News)
• What the reaction to the ‘Twitter files’ reveals about the media (Deseret News)
• Bankman-Fried, disgraced former CEO of FTX crypto exchange, arrested in Bahamas (NPR)
• Elon Musk’s Twitter disbands Trust and Safety Council (Wall Street Journal)

Politics

•  Prosecutor: Oath Keepers saw Jan. 6 as 'first battle' in war (AP)
• The asset bubble that’s quietly popping. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed policymakers meet this week to raise borrowing costs again in a fight against the highest inflation in four decades that they're not close to winning. (Politico)
• Republicans fear Trump civil war could cost them in 2024 (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• The supply chain that keeps tech flowing to Russia (Reuters)
• Paris hosts a vast gathering to coordinate urgent aid for Ukraine. (New York Times)
• Cornered in Ukraine, Putin ditches annual news conference (AP)
• Ukraine: Doctors from occupied city open hospital in Kyiv (AP)

World News

•  Bali’s water crisis threatens local culture, UNESCO sites (AP)
• Despite soaring deaths in Somalia, monitor says it’s not yet a famine. Some object. (New York Times)

News Releases

Gov. Spencer Cox orders TikTok ban on state-owned devices

Gov. Spencer J. Cox has issued an executive order to prohibit the use of TikTok on all state-owned electronic devices. This order will take effect immediately.

The order states that agency or agency employees may not, on any state-owned electronic device, download or use the TikTok application or visit any TikTok website. The executive order applies to all state executive branch agencies. “State-owned electronic device” includes a state-owned mobile phone, laptop, tablet, or other electronic device. (Read More)

Gov. Cox nominates Coral Sanchez to Third District Court

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has named Coral Sanchez to fill the Third District Court vacancy left by Judge Su Chon’s retirement. Sanchez’s nomination requires confirmation by the Utah Senate.

“Coral Sanchez brings a wealth of experience to the bench,” Gov. Cox said. “The people of Utah will benefit from her expertise and we appreciate her interest in serving our community in this new role.” (Read More)

Wilford Clyde to be honored as 44th Giant in Our City

The Salt Lake Chamber today announced that Wilford Clyde, Chair of Clyde Companies, Inc., will be honored as the 44th Giant in our City. The award recognizes those with exceptional and distinguished service, as well as extraordinary professional achievement, and is widely known as the most prestigious business award given in Utah. 

“We could not be more excited for Wilford to be honored as the next ‘Giant in our City,’” said Derek Miller, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber and Downtown Alliance. “His leadership, business acumen and stewardship are exceptional. At his core, Wilford is a builder, not only of highways, bridges and dams, but of communities. He serves on numerous boards and donates his time and resources to help secure our future. Wilford is a true leader and an example anyone can aspire to.” (Read More)

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Upcoming

• Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit with the Salt Lake Chamber — Jan. 12, 2023, Salt Lake City Marriott, 8 am - noon, Register here
• Legislative session begins, Jan. 17, 2023, le.utah.gov

On This Day In History

• 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln is born. 
• 1903 - Ella Baker is born. An organizer, she tried to develop local leaders for civil rights campaigns but found male leaders in the NAACP quite unwilling to delegate power.
• 1916 - Soldiers perish in avalanches in the Italian Alps, an estimated 10,000 over several days beginning Dec. 13
• 1920 -  George P. Shultz is born. An American economist and businessman, he also became the 60th Secretary of State
• 1964 - In El Paso, Texas, President Lyndon B. Johnson & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
• 1990 - South African President F. W. de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
• 1993 - Susan A. Maxman becomes first woman president of the American Institute of Architects in its 135 year history
• 2000 - Al Gore concedes the presidential election to George W. Bush.
• 2003 - Saddam Hussein captured in a hole in the ground close to his hometown of Tikrit
• 2019 - 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg named Time's Person of the Year

Wise Words

"Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah, blah, blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.”

—Greta Thunberg 

On the Punny Side

What do you call an elf who runs away from Santa's workshop? 

A rebel without a Claus. 

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