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Utah has filed a landmark lawsuit over control of unappropriated federal lands. State statute prohibits the privatization of public lands except in rare circumstances, underscoring Utah’s commitment to keeping public lands in public hands and locally controlled. Learn more: standforourland.utah.gov.

Utah Headlines

Utah legislative news

• TikTok visits Utah to show safety features. Lawmakers say it’s not enough (Deseret News)
• Utah Legislature to consider statewide housing plan, upzoning in 2025 (Daily Herald)

Election news

• Phil Lyman asks U.S. Supreme Court to put him on Utah’s general election ballot. Lyman’s petition was denied by the Utah Supreme Court in August. (Deseret News)
• Gov. Cox: I’m committed to tackling Utah’s most pressing challenges (Deseret News)
• Brian King: I am a Democrat because of my faith, not despite it (Deseret News)
• Meet the candidate: Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson, running for reelection (KSL Newsradio)
• Meet the candidate: Rep. John Curtis, running for US Senate (KSL Newsradio)
• Kamala Harris has raised twice as much money as Donald Trump in Utah (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Washington Co. election officials make changes to how ballots are processed (KUTV)
• Why local businessman and charity founder Bill Campbell decided to run for Congress (Cache Valley Daily)
• Meet Michelle Quist, the United Utah Party candidate running to be attorney general (Deseret News)
• Meet Andrew McCullough, the Libertarian running to be Utah’s next attorney general (Deseret News)
• Utah voters, here is what you need to know about Amendment C on your ballot (Salt Lake Tribune)

Utah

• Rejoice weary travelers, Salt Lake City airport’s shorter tunnel walk is finally here (KUER)
• ‘Suspicious’ explosion forces evacuation of 90 families from Lehi apartment building (KSL)
• Parents of Utah teens killed in accidents speak on safe driving (Fox13)
• 'Founded on so much sacrifice': Southern Utah’s newest citizens discuss naturalization (St. George News)

Biz/Tech

• Utah chain Mo' Bettahs acquired by 2 out-of-state firms, setting up 'next stage of growth' (KSL)

Crime/Courts

• Candace Lierd, founder of Utah anti-human trafficking organization, sentenced to prison (KUTV)
• Ballard accusers file new lawsuit alleging Victims Protection Act violations (KUTV)

Culture

• Inside the mind of Glenn Beck: Is America headed toward its ‘last exit?’ (Deseret News)

Education

• Utah County school hosts Harry Potter-themed reading reward night (Fox13)
• Study finds more than half of USU students report food insecurity (UPR)

Environment

• Utah a ‘first mover’ state to deploy advanced nuclear energy (Deseret News)

Health

• McDonald’s Quarter Pounder may be linked to E. coli outbreak in Mountain West (Deseret News)
• Utah collaborative looking to create model health care system (Deseret News)
• Traveling labyrinth at MountainStar sites offers path to inner peace (Standard-Examiner)
• What drugmakers did not tell volunteers in Alzheimer’s trials (New York Times)

National Headlines

General

• Boeing reports $6 billion quarterly loss ahead of vote by union workers who have crippled production (AP)
• US fines American Airlines $50 million over mishandling of disabled passengers and wheelchairs (AP)
• Former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries is arrested in federal sex trafficking case (NPR)
• Woman drops phone, gets stuck upside-down in rock crevice looking for it (Washington Post)

Political news

• Opinion: America’s youth show the way to a brighter political future (Deseret News)
• 5 questions answered about student loan forgiveness and who the latest news impacts (Deseret News)
• Rudy Giuliani ordered to turn over NYC apartment and 26 watches to Georgia election workers (AP)
• Inside the mind of Glenn Beck: Is America headed toward its ‘last exit?’ (Deseret News)

Election news

• Opinion: This presidential election is not about party or even policy — it’s about upholding the Constitution (Deseret News)
• Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’ (The Atlantic)
• Kamala Harris says no concessions on national abortion bill, including for religious exemptions (Deseret News)
• The ‘never-Trump, not-quite-Harris’ voters (Deseret News)
• Trump, Harris and the future of religious freedom (Deseret News)
• Trump targets hardcore partisans, Harris goes after moderates: Inside the campaign’s final sprint (AP)
• Will the polls be right in 2024? What polling on the presidential race can and can’t tell you (AP)
• Rapper Eminem and Obama rally voters for Kamala Harris in Detroit (AP)
• Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he'd do to the media if elected (NPR)
• U.S. intel officials say Russia is behind attempts to smear Tim Walz (NPR)
• Over 230 Republican candidates have cast doubt on the 2024 election (Washington Post)
• John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, warns Trump would rule like a dictator (New York Times)
• Democrats fear race may be slipping away from Harris (The Hill)
• What did JD Vance say in his latest swing through Arizona? (Deseret News)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• North Korea sent 3,000 troops to Russia for Ukraine war, South says (Reuters)
• Zelenskyy asks allies to act on reports of North Korean troops helping Russia (Politico)

Israel and Gaza

• Twenty reported killed in Gaza as Israel intensifies siege of north (Reuters)
• Israeli strikes pound Lebanese coastal city after residents evacuate (AP)
• In Gaza Camps Where Tents Are Now a Luxury, a Harsh Winter Looms (New York Times)

World news

• Transforming nations, one family at a time. International peacebuilding begins with family relations in the home (Deseret News)
• UN says Haiti conflict has 'worsened' as gangs push fresh attacks (Reuters)
• Hong Kong discovers dinosaur fossils for the first time (AP)

Number of the Day 

Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson prioritizes public safety and employees in 2025 budget proposal

Despite a slowdown in tax revenue and an economy stretched thin by the cost of goods, Mayor Jenny Wilson proposed a balanced 2025 budget that prioritizes public safety and employees, and ensures the County maintains its AAA bond rating. 

New public safety priorities detailed in the budget include purchasing bulletproof/stab vests for law enforcement employees—a cost that is currently absorbed by employees, an expansion of the Adult Detention Center, and building a Justice and Accountability Center. Funding for the latter two is dependent upon the passing of the $507 million Public Safety Bond. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Oct. 24 — CD4 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Nov. 5 — Election Day!
• Nov. 15 — Women & Business Conference & ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, Grand America Hotel. Register here
• Nov. 19-20 — Interim Days
• Jan. 9 — What’s Up Down South Economic Summit. St. George. Register here
• Jan. 10 — Rural Utah Data Symposium. St. George. Register here

On This Day In History

• 1850 - The First National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. It drew 1,000 people — annual national conferences continued to be held through 1860.
• 1889 - Frieda Fromm-Reichmann is born. She was a major pioneer using therapeutic relationships in treating mental illness at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland.
• 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight.
• 1911 - Martha Rountree is born. She was the creator and first moderator (1945-54) of the televised show of unrehearsed panel interviews, “Meet the Press”
• 1915 - An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave, led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters.
• 1974 - The first American women’s shelter opens in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• 1983 - A suicide bomber drives a truck filled with explosives into the US Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 US military personnel.
• 1989 - Gas leak kills 23 at a plastics factory in Texas
• 2002 - About 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 800 people hostage

Quote of the Day

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

—Juvenal, Roman poet

On the Punny Side

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor.

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