It’s voting season!

While you’re gearing up to decorate for the fall holidays, don’t forget to
decorate your ballot with your picks for votes in this election. And take note — this year, the election dates have changed. Be sure you mail your ballot by November 20th. Visit vote.utah.gov to learn more.

Utah Headlines

Political news

• Sen. Luz Escamilla: Terms of engagement. A vibrant democracy means building trust with minority communities (Deseret News)
• Rep. Owens weighs intercepting a House Appropriations seat (Roll Call)
• As EPA takeover looms, Park City schools ask Mitt Romney for help (Salt Lake Tribune)

Election news

• Voters receive ballots (Hinckley Report)

Utah news

• Food pantries facing high demand and lower inventories (Davis Journal)
• Sunday Edition with Boyd Matheson and guest Joseph Braude (KSL TV)
• St. George man and woman involved in fatal incidents on Bluff Street on different days last week identified as siblings (St. George News)
• Volunteers remove invasive species, plant native trees at site of infamous Bear River Massacre (Fox13)
• Semi-truck crashes into Tooele car dealership, causing massive fire (Fox13)
• Deer flies through windshield, kills driver in Box Elder County (ABC4)
• Large blaze impacts Bountiful home, neighbors come together to help family of nine (KSL Newsradio)

Business/Tech

• Tyson recalls dino nuggets after pieces of metal were found in them (Deseret News)
• The new headache for bosses: Employees aren't quitting (Wall Street Journal)
• This rural Utah county’s ‘biggest export’ is its own kids. Here’s how it hopes to help them stay. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah-grown Homie vowed to ‘disrupt’ home buying and selling. Here’s what went wrong. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• ‘We’re nerds’: How a Utah engineering firm got into making lightsabers (Salt Lake Tribune)

Crime

• Muslim woman from Millcreek recounts targeted assault that could be charged as hate crime (KSL Newsradio)
• Judge tosses motion to dismiss Kouri Richins case (Fox13)
• Utah AG Sean Reyes accused of intimidating witnesses on behalf of Tim Ballard (Deseret News)

Culture

• How Arlee’s crossing guard job became her sanctuary (Deseret News)
• Advent calendars, explained: Where they came from and why they're everywhere now (NPR)
• How a deaf Utah woman is teaching others about life with cochlear implants (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Is Gen Z the most undateable generation ever? Maybe — but it’s not really their fault (Deseret News)

Education

• 94% of Utahns say school attendance is important but nearly 25% of kids are chronically absent (Deseret News)
• Davis School District board member Derek Lamb resigns; replacement search begins (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Researchers hope to develop biofertilizer using Utah plant bacteria (UPR)
• USU’s expanded welding program is opening the door for more women in the trades (KUER)
• Utah school districts sue social media giants, citing youth harm. Utah is suing Meta and TikTok — and so are 20 Utah school districts. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• New Jersey becomes first state to require K-12 media literacy (Governing)

Environment

•  Why it takes so long to get advanced nuclear reactors up and running (Deseret News)

Family

• Millennials aren't having kids. Here are the reasons why. (Washington Post)
• Perspective: ‘Just about anybody’ can perform a wedding. Is this trend contributing to divorce? (Deseret News)

Health

• FDA proposes ban on food additive found in fruity sports drinks, sodas (Deseret News)
• These teens got therapy. Then they got worse. (The Atlantic)
• Early trauma linked to 48 percent higher chance of serious headaches (Washington Post)
• Perspective: It’s time to stop pretending that regular cannabis use is harmless (Deseret News)
• Weighted blankets for babies may increase the risk of SIDS (Deseret News)

Housing

• Foldable housing? New 'microshelter' community coming to Salt Lake City (KSL)
• All-cash buyers buoy luxury housing market while mortgage rates sink everyone else (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• Matthew Perry foundation established in his honor to help people with addiction (KSL)
• Trump Trials: Donald Trump takes the stand (Washington Post)
• Ken Mattingly, astronaut who helped Apollo 13 crew return safely home, dies at age 87 (AP)

Politics

• Trump lawyers attack law clerk, overshadowing Eric Trump’s testimony (New York Times)
• 'It feels like the new McCarthyism': How the Israel-Hamas war is redefining the limits of free speech (Politico)
• Santos says he’d run again if expelled (Politico)
• Johnson embraces deficit fight, setting up battle over Medicare, Social Security (The Hill)
• Greene readies Tlaib censure resolution round two amid outcry over genocide comments (The Hill)
• Guns rights and domestic violence protections collide at US Supreme Court (Reuters)
• Texas lawmakers put the brakes on sweeping immigration enforcement bill. For now (KERA)
• Is Matt Gaetz the true winner of the speaker’s race? (Deseret News)

Election news

• ‘He should get out’: DeSantis outflanked by Trump on his home turf (Politico)
• Dem fears mount amid Biden’s polling slump and Israel backlash (Politico)
• Axelrod suggests Biden drop out of 2024 presidential race (The Hill)
• Trump and allies plot revenge, map out plans to use government to punish opponents if he wins in 2024 (Washington Post)
• Trump indictments haven't sunk his campaign but a conviction might (New York Times)
• Lauren Boebert wants 'mercy.' Some Republicans want an alternative (New York Times)
• Republican Peter Meijer, who supported Trump’s impeachment, enters Michigan’s US Senate race (AP)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Moscow bombs Odesa after Ukraine destroys Russian warship in Crimea (Politico)
• Zelenskyy's top aide slams West over war fatigue (Politico)
• Ukraine's secret plan to save a city trapped in purgatory (New York Times)

Israel 🇮🇱

• Israel announces 'large attack' as communications blackout cuts off Gaza (New York Times)
• As Gaza death toll soars, secrecy shrouds Israel's targeting process (Washington Post)

World

• Tens of thousands of ancient coins have been found off Sardinia. They may be spoils of a shipwreck (AP)
• Ethiopia says disputed western Tigray will be settled in a referendum and displaced people returned (AP)
• Earthquake in Nepal kills over 150 people, destroys homes (Deseret News)

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Upcoming

• Air quality in Utah's oil country with USU Research Landscapes — Nov. 9, 4:00-5:30 pm, O.C. Tanner HQ, Salt Lake City, RSVP here
• Interim Day — Nov 14-15, le.utah.gov
• Celebrating 30 years of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, with the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation — Nov 16, 10 am, MST, Register here
  
• General election — Nov. 21
  

On This Day In History 

• 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca lands in Texas 
• 1854 - John Philip Sousa, American march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), is born in Washington, D.C.
• 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States
• 1874 - Helen Thompson Woolley, American pioneer of gender studies, is born. Her 1903 dissertation, “The Mental Traits of Sex,” was among the first major research efforts that empirically challenged the “science” of the “weaker sex,” used as an argument to keep women at home. 
• 1917 - New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections
• 1940 - Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s birthday
• 1962 - UN condemns apartheid in South Africa
• 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini takes over in Iran
• 1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
• 1991 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party

Quote of the Day

"Our objective is only to establish a reasonable, fair, orderly, and secure system of immigration into this country and not to discriminate in any way against particular nations or people."

—Ronald Reagan, Nov. 6, 1986

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