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Situational awareness - July 31, 2020

Good morning from Salt Lake City

Let's Friday!

TICK TOCK

95 Days to the 2020 election (11/3/2020)

173 days to inauguration day (01/20/2021)

178 days to the start of the 2021 Utah Legislature (1/25/2021)

Here are the stories you need to pay attention to this morning:

Utah will allow students who have been exposed to coronavirus to return to class so long as they are not showing symptoms and none of their household has tested positive. President Trump suggests delaying the 2020 presidential election. Congress is nowhere near a deal on another coronavirus stimulus bill.

FRIDAY TRIVIA

This week's question comes from Ronald Fox:

Tomorrow is the first day of August, the month we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment giving Women the Right to Vote. Utah lead the way, allowing a woman to cast the first vote in a modern election in the nation in 1870.

Name the first woman to be appointed to a state supreme court and the first woman to become a federal district judge in U. S. history. Who is she and what was her father's political tie to Utah?

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Today At Utah Policy

New Utah guidelines say students exposed to coronavirus can still attend classes
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
The Utah coronavirus website says people who have been exposed to Covid-19 but are not showing symptoms may be asked to quarantine for 14 days to avoid exposing others. That's not the case for Utah schoolchildren.Bob Bernick's notebook: Come out, come out wherever you are
By Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor
Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, winner of the GOP primary for governor this year, is apparently going into a political turtle shell.Salt Lake Chamber honors 2020 Business Champions
By Salt Lake Chamber
The Salt Lake Chamber recognized this year's Business Champions at a virtual awards ceremony held in their honor on July 30, 2020.

OTHER UTAH HEADLINES

Deseret News

Jay Evensen: Mysterious seeds from China? More evidence the world is full of cons Utah unemployment claims decline for 12th week Sen. Mike Lee urges DOJ investigation into acquisition of lamb processing plant Mitt Romney slams Trump foreign policy, 'fawning' over Chinese leader Salt Lake City schools to resume Sept. 8 via remote learning Andersen wins unusual tie-breaker in Republican primary for Morgan County Commission

Salt Lake Tribune

Parents on Salt Lake City's west side - where the virus has hit the worst in Utah - don't want to send their kids back to school Salt Lake City schools will start only online this fall, with plans to return in person 'as soon as it's safe' Utah has ordered return of more than $13K to people who were price gouged With cities creating their own police agencies, what's the future of the Unified Police Department? Utah students can go to school after exposure to COVID-19. Here's what else state guidelines say. Mitt Romney proposes compromise on logjammed pandemic aid Protesters ask Utah governor to close meatpacking plants

Other

Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee nixes school mask exemption request, says concerns addressed in state order (Daily Herald)

NATIONAL HEADLINES

Coronavirus relief stalls

Congress is nowhere near a deal on another COVID stimulus, which means expanded unemployment benefits for millions of Americans are set to expire [Politico].

Can't do that...

President Donald Trump suggested on Twitter that the U.S. should delay the November election. Trump doesn't have the authority to postpone the election [Bloomberg].

Republicans rejected Trump's suggestion to delay the election [Politico].

2020 election

Donald Trump's re-election campaign hits pause on their campaign advertising to review their messaging strategy [CNN].

Former President Barack Obama unleashed on President Trump during fundraising events, warning against Trump's efforts to push "native, racist, sexist" fears and bringing up past allegations of sexual assault involving Trump [NYT].

Flynn again

A federal appeals court will revisit an earlier decision allowing the Department of Justice to drop criminal charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn [NYT].

Umm...What?!!!

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes refused to answer when directly asked whether he has been given foreign information meant to damage Joe Biden, according to a transcript of a closed-door committee meeting [CNN].

Chilling story

The Department of Homeland Security compiled "intelligence reports" on journalists who published leaked documents and covered the protests in Portland [WaPo].

Economy

Public health experts are calling for urgent new measures to halt the spread of the coronavirus, which is harming the U.S. economy [WaPo].

The U.S. economy posted its worst drop on record as GDP fell nearly 33 percent in the last quarter [CNN].

Poverty in the U.S. could spike next year without a new stimulus and extended unemployment benefits [Bloomberg].

Unemployment claims rose for the second straight week. 1.4 million filed initial claims last week [CNN].

Tragic

Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain died Thursday from coronavirus complications [Fox News].

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong government delayed legislative council elections for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic [WaPo].

BUSINESS HEADLINES

New tool aims to connect out-of-work Utahns to job training from colleges, companies (Deseret News) COVID-19 and low interest rates creating bidding wars in Utah housing market (Deseret News) Salt Lake County wants to give $35 million to local businesses (Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County issuing new round of small business grants to help survive pandemic (Deseret News) New state COVID-19 recovery program aims to get customers through the doors of small businesses (Standard-Examiner) Ogden, Weber County tout grant programs to aid businesses hit by downturn (Standard-Examiner)

Policy News

Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report 7-31-20
Outdoors Report-- KSL.com: 3 tips for being more comfortable while camping-- KSL.com: Groups launch million-dollar campaign to protect Bears Ears artifactsFruit Heights City launches community-wide water conservation pilot program
Fruit Heights City, Utah has introduced a first-of-its-kind city-wide pilot program to encourage residential water conservation.

More National Headlines

Focus Groups Show Midwest Swing Voters Solidly Behind Trump (CNN) 'I Was Stabbed For Being A Conservative Journalist': Videographer Injured At Portland Protests (Daily Caller) 'When you're leading, don't talk': The hazards of glide-path campaigning (The Hill) Vandalism Is Violence: Destructive Riots Are Not 'Just Property Damage' (FEE) Riots for thee, but not for me (Spectator) The Left Eats Their Own, Portland Edition: Wall of Moms Collapses, Accused of Anti-Blackness (PJ Media) 2020 Democratic Platform Continues Anti-Israel Themes First Pushed By Obama in 2012 (The Lid) 'Big Tech Is Out to Get Conservatives,' Jim Jordan Warns. He Gave 15 Examples (PJ Media) Feinstein: China Is 'Growing Into a Respectable Nation' (Free Beacon) Seattle has fallen to woke racism (Spiked) Seattle Mayor Again Blames Trump After Rioters Blew Open a Police Station Using a Van Full of Explosives (PJ Media)

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1498 - On his third voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus became the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.

1777 - The Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of the Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."

1790 - The first U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.

1792 - Director David Rittenhouse laid the cornerstone in Philadelphia for the U.S. Mint, the first building of the federal government.

1932 - the Nazi Party wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.

1964 - Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon.

1974 - Watergate figure John Ehrlichman was sentenced to prison for his role in the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. He was in prison for 18 months. Ellsberg was the Pentagon consultant who leaked the "Pentagon Papers."

1991 - Congress voted to overturn a 43-year-old law and voted to allow women to fly military warplanes in combat.

2012 - Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.

2017 - Anthony Scaramucci resigned after 10 days as President Donald Trump's communications director.