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Situational Analysis | Dec. 12, 2022 It's Monday and Gingerbread House Day. Great activity for a snowy evening. Be in the Know - Saturday was International Human Rights Day. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was instrumental in seeing the declaration of 30 universal human rights through to completion. She and other women on the committee made sure the document said "all human beings." The first draft said "all men." Those 30 basic human rights are aspirational and require work from all of us to see them realized. Where does that work start? As Eleanor recognized, âIn small places, close to home â so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.â
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Utah Headlines General - Latter-day Saint head football coach Ken Niumatalolo steps down at Navy (Deseret News)
- ChatGPT and the future of art (Deseret News)
- Does AI mean the death of the college essay? (Deseret News)
- Why a soccer journalist mattered to basketball. Grant Wahl, who died this week while covering the World Cup in Qatar, wonât soon be forgotten (Deseret News)
- Former UHP trooper pleads guilty to forcible sexual abuse of children, sentenced to serve 30 months of probation (KSL)
- Iranians in Utah continue to push for awareness, change in home country (Fox13)
- State sharpens data on hate crimes; LGBTQ people are top targets (Standard-Examiner)
- How should Utah grow â when many donât want it to? (Salt Lake Tribune)
Politics - Carolyn Jones has dedicated 50 years to election work in southern Utah (KSL)
- Salt Lake City has a new parks plan. What does it say about people experiencing homelessness? (Deseret News)
- Cognitive rigidity is not an American tradition. Why do we act like it is? It takes self-mastery and self-control to welcome views in opposition to our positions and beliefs. But if Abraham Lincoln did it, we can too (Deseret News)
- State employees, Great Salt Lake and rural Utah win big in latest budget proposal from Gov. Cox. Governor proposes to spend tens of million of dollars on the ailing lake, employee raises (Deseret News)
- Cox proposes tuition freeze for state-supported colleges, universities. Plan would provide more state funding for compensation but require schools to cut costs to cover their share (Deseret News)
- Utah receives over $15M in federal funds for improving internet access (KSL)
- What Utahâs art industry is working on for the legislative session (ABC4)
- Utahns and Political News with host Jason Perry, Dennis Romboy, Heidi Hatch and Marty Carpenter (Hinckley Report)
- On Message with Marty Carpenter: World-class response (UPTOL Underground)
Business - Retail theft takes particularly hard toll on small local businesses (KSL)
Education Environment - Salt Lake Valley west-siders bear the brunt of our bad air. Hereâs how we will tell their stories as never before. âReaching for Airâ will take deeper look at pollution and how it affects residents. (Salt Lake Tribune)
Family - Perspective: Itâs been 2,197 days, and everyone still thinks Iâm a real adult (Deseret News)
- Study finds 50% of adolescents have been exposed to pornography (Deseret News)
- Where can hungry Utah kids turn when school lunches shut down for holidays? Districts organize pantries not only for food but also for winter clothes. (Salt Lake Tribune)
Health - Utah's 2023 goals: Make health care more affordable, improve maternal health (KSL)
- Utah flu season could be the worst in a while as hospitalizations surge early (Salt Lake Tribune)
Housing - What you need to know about Utahâs real estate market (ABC4)
National Headlines General - Los Angeles County grants girl license to own a unicorn (KSL TV)
- âI want to talkâ: Griner opened up during her long trip home (AP)
- Slowing growth edges out inflation as top concern (Wall Street Journal)
- As fentanyl flooded the U.S., Washingtonâs mistakes worsened the crisis (Washington Post)
- In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive (NPR)
Politics - Whatâs in the $858 billion military spending budget thatâs now headed to the Senate? The bill includes a pay raise for military service members and additional aid to Ukraine (Deseret News)
- Finding Kyrsten Sinema. The Arizona senator is applauded by supporters as principled and denounced by critics as dangerously arrogant. (Deseret News)
- Young votersâ enthusiasm for Democrats waned during midterms (AP)
- How Kari Lakeâs campaign to be the Trump of 2022 unraveled. Interviews, internal documents and audio show how the former TV news anchor squandered a chance to become Arizonaâs governor â a defeat that carries warnings for the GOP in 2024 (Washington Post)
- This week: Congress faces government funding deadline (The Hill)
- Supreme Court seems poised to reject robust reading of âindependent state legislatureâ theory (Politico)
Ukraine ðºð¦ - Zelensky and Biden discuss Ukraineâs grid as country scrambles to restore power (Wall Street Journal)
- Dog therapy for kids facing the trauma of the war in Ukraine (AP)
- Free for a month, Kherson still toils to clear Russian traps (AP)
- Ukraine PM urges more military aid to counter Russia attacks (AP)
- Russia is using old Ukrainian missiles against Ukraine. The missiles, returned to Russia in the 1990s under an agreement aimed at assuring Ukraineâs sovereignty and territorial integrity, have shown up in rubble. (New York Times)
World News - Church donates $10 million to fight polio and tetanus in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa (Church News)
- Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests (AP)
- The Dead Sea is dying. These beautiful, ominous photos show the impact (NPR)
- Smothered, poisoned and shot. Nigerian Army massacred children in its war against Islamist insurgents, witnesses say (Reuters)
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News Releases USBE chair, superintendent statements on proposed budget Utah State Board of Education Chairman Mark Huntsman and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Sydnee Dickson offered the following comments on Governor Spencer J. Coxâs proposed state budget, which includes recommendations for a $6,000 compensation increase for teachers, a 5 percent increase in weighted pupil-unit (WPU) funding for schools, $476.9 million for educator support, and an increase in funding to make optional full-day kindergarten available for all Utah families. (Read More) | | |
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Upcoming - Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit with the Salt Lake Chamber â Jan. 12, 2023, Salt Lake City Marriott, 8 am - noon, Register here
- Legislative session begins, Jan. 17, 2023, le.utah.gov
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On This Day In History -
1870 - Joseph Rainey (South Carolina) becomes 1st African American to serve in US House of Representatives -
1915 - Frank Sinatra is born -
1961 - Nazi German army officer Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel -
1963 - Frank Sinatra, Jr returned by kidnappers after his father paid the $240,000 ransom demanded -
1980 - US copyright law amended to include computer programs -
2000 - US Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush's favor and thus handing him the presidency
Wise Words "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." âUniversal Declaration of Human Rights, Article I
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