Polls, Campaigns and Political Cash

New polls and campaign filings suggest how candidates are faring ahead of the midterms. Plus, Utah has a billion-dollar surplus. Dennis Romboy, Michelle Quist, and Marty Carpenter join host Jason Perry on The Hinckley Report this Friday at 7:00 pm to discuss how the economy will influence spending.

Utah Headlines

General

• BYU to honor ‘Black 14’ football players kicked off Wyoming’s 1969 team (Deseret News)
• Vernal Middle School student brought gun to school with a plan and target, police say (KSL)
• Lao-Americans celebrate the largest Buddhist temple newly constructed in Utah (Fox13)

Politics

• Brigham City councilmember Tom Peterson sworn in to House seat vacated by new DNR head (KUTV)
• Why are we so afraid of immigrants and refugees? Anti-immigration proponents are using fear to convince us that immigrants and refugees should not be allowed into our country (Deseret News)
• Semifinalists for Utah’s new state flag are now displayed outside the Capitol — and there’s still time to pick your favorite (Salt Lake Tribune)
• GOP candidate Trevor Lee ran a secret Twitter account that attacked LGBTQ people and Utah Gov. Cox. Now he’s been rebuked by Republican leadership. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Business

• Space industry taking giant leaps in St. George, host rare meet-up with active astronaut free to public (St. George News)

Education

• Investigation finds teacher’s classroom ‘built for nonwhite students’ doesn’t violate law, policy (Deseret News)
• Utah school districts facing child aftercare crisis due to shortage of qualified employees (KUTV)
• 'It's a mess': Dog poop on school grounds a growing problem in Murray District (KSL)

Environment

• U.S. becomes 137th nation to agree to phase down super-pollutants (Deseret News)
• Utah’s Lila Canyon coal mine is burning underground (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Salt Lake City is dependent on water from our canyons. How long can it keep growing while using them for recreation? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Great Salt Lake managers raise causeway berm in effort to stave off rising salinity (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Stanford researchers find wildfire smoke is unraveling decades of air quality gains, exposing millions of Americans to extreme pollution levels (Standford.edu)

Health

• ‘More people than ever’ are surviving cancer, according to U.S. study (Deseret News)
• Cannabis use during pregnancy could hurt baby into the teenage years. Researchers continue to learn more about the adverse mental effects to babies from cannabis use during pregnancy (Deseret News)
• BYU study says that wearing a step tracker may increase steps even if you don’t look at it much (Deseret News)
• COVID-19 in Utah: 3 graphs show the latest on case counts, hospitalizations and deaths (Salt Lake Tribune)

Housing

• Housing market needs ‘difficult correction’ to balance out, Fed says. In Utah, it’s already happening (Deseret News)
• Editorial Board: The Utah approach to homelessness — We see human beings in need of help (Deseret News)
• SLC’s proposed tiny-house village draws vocal support, but not everyone is sold (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Salt Lake City leaders switch gears as housing crisis worsens (Salt Lake Tribune)
• New Utah housing data: Home sales fall while days on market jump (KUTV)

National Headlines

General

• The heartbreak and cost of losing a baby in America 😢 (NPR)
• Hurricane Fiona has left hundreds of thousands in Puerto Rico without power or water (NPR)
• A defiant Alex Jones says he's 'done saying I'm sorry' at Sandy Hook trial (Washington Post)
• The online incel movement is getting more violent and extreme, report says
  The Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed more than 1 million posts showing a rise in advocacy of rape, including child rape, and mass killings (Washington Post)

Politics

• Democrats may nix filibuster if they retake the Senate (Deseret News)
• Stop thinking just about Election Day. We're in voting season now (NPR)
• Trump’s legal woes mount without protection of presidency (AP)
• Dearie asks Trump lawyers whether they believe FBI lied about seized documents (Washington Post)
• Jan. 6 Twitter witness: Failure to curb Trump spurred ‘terrifying’ choice (Washington Post)
• Biden blasts Graham on proposed abortion ban: ‘My church doesn’t even make that argument’ (The Hill)
• Democratic firms prevail in suit against Project Veritas (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• World opinion shifts against Russia as Ukraine worries grow (AP)
• UN rights experts present evidence of war crimes in Ukraine (AP)
• U.S. has sent private warnings to Russia against using a nuclear weapon (Washington Post)
• Ukraine war comes home to Russians as Putin imposes draft. As Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” enters a new chapter, Russians are being plucked from villages around the country for training and military service. (New York Times)
• Staged voting is happening in Ukraine amid international condemnation. (New York Times)
• ‘One man chose this war.’ Harsh words fly at a U.N. Security Council meeting. (New York Times)

World News

• Global stocks slide for 3rd day on economic growth fears (AP)
• War, Inflation Knock World Economy Off Balance (Wall Street Journal)
• Backbreaking work for kids - even very young kids - in Afghan brick kilns (AP)

News Releases

Utah ranks among top states in delivering digital government services

The state of Utah has been a leader in delivering online government services and information for many years. That position was reinforced by the most recent rankings for state digital government services. 

The Center for Digital Government ranked Utah second overall in the 2022 State Government Experience Awards. The Awards recognize progress and innovation in the delivery of online services in government at the state and local level. Utah has finished in the top three of the Center’s rankings every year the state has been eligible since 2006, and even claimed the top ranking in 2007, 2009, 2017, and 2018. (Read More)

USBE: Two Davis Catalyst Center programs win 2022 Utah CTE Excellence in Action award

Utah State Board of Education Utah Career and Technical Education (CTE) recently announced the Davis Catalyst Center Entertainment and Digital Media program and the Unmanned Aerial Systems program as the winners of the 2022 Utah CTE Excellence in Action award. These programs were selected based their uniquely inventive and effective approaches to stimulating student learning, offering extensive work-based learning experiences, maintaining strong partnerships with higher education institutions, industry, and community organizations, while preparing students for postsecondary education and career success. (Read More)

Smith’s celebrates Zero Hunger | Zero Waste achievements

Smith’s Food & Drug Stores, a division of The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced its latest milestones and results for Zero Hunger | Zero Waste, the company’s bold vision to end hunger in the communities it serves and eliminate waste across the company by 2025. 

“Zero Hunger | Zero Waste is shaping the local discussion around how to end hunger and eliminate waste across America,” said Aubriana Martindale, Smith’s corporate affairs manager. “At Smith’s, we are intently focused on using our scale for good and
we encourage our customers, associates and other businesses to join us.” (Read More)

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Upcoming

• ULCT Annual Convention — Oct 5-7, Salt Palace Convention Center, Register here
• UWLP Book Club: How Women Rise By Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith —Oct. 6 & Nov. 10, 12:00pm-1:00pm or 7:30pm-8:30pm; Virtual, Register here
• One Utah Summit — Oct 11-13, Southern Utah University, Register here
• Breakfast Briefing: The New Look of Transportation in the 2020s with the Utah Foundation — Oct. 13, 8:30 am, Zions Bank Founders' Room, Register here
• Senate debate between Mike Lee and Evan McMullin — Oct. 17, 6 pm, at UVU
• Interim Days — Oct 18-20, le.utah.gov
• Effecting Societal Change for Child Sexual Abuse — Oct. 26, 8:00am-11:30am; Virtual and in-person at Saprea in Lehi, UT, Register here
• General election â€“ Nov 8
• Hacks to Help Women Maximize Income and Minimize Expenses —Nov. 9, Noon-1:00pm; Virtual, Register here
• Utah Foundation’s 2022 Annual Luncheon â€” Nov. 16, noon, Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek, Register here
• Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit with the Salt Lake Chamber — Jan. 12, 2023, Salt Lake City Marriott, 8 am - noon, Register here

On This Day In History

• 1838 - Victoria Woodhull is born. She became the first woman candidate for U.S. President (1872) for the Equal Rights Party, and with her sister Tennessee, became the first women members of the NY Stock Exchange (1870’s)
• 1846 - Planet Neptune is discovered
• 1863 - Mary Church Terrell is born. An outstanding speaker, she became the first president of the National Association of Colored Women. She was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage. She was also the first African-American woman in the United States to be appointed to the school board of a major city, serving in the District of Columbia until 1906. 
• 1906 - Harriet Hardy is born. She was an American pioneer in occupational medicine and the first woman professor at Harvard Medical School. Her main points of study were toxicology and environmental related illness.
• 1923 - "The Prophet," by Lebanese-American poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran, is published
• 1933 - Standard Oil geologists arrive in Saudi Arabia, after the discovery of a massive oil field in Ghawar a couple of months earlier.
• 1955 - An all-white jury finds Roy Brant and John William Milam not guilty of the brutal murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Sumner, Mississippi.
• 2019 - Climate activist Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders "How Dare You" for not addressing climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York
• 2020 - President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election at a White House press conference

Wise Words

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The Punny Side

What’s it called when four Spanish ships sink?

Cuatro cinco 

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