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Hosted by Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, The Hinckley Report brings together Utah's top journalists, lawmakers, and policy experts to provide insight and analysis on current events and political news.

Utah Headlines

Political news

• Grand County, state auditor reach tentative agreement, tax revenue to be released (Salt Lake Tribune)
• As it grows, will Utah’s solid red start to crack? Some see a purple opening (KUER)

Election news

• Editorial Board: Why your vote is important (Deseret News)
• Utah County commissioner calls on clerk Aaron Davidson to recuse himself from Tuesday’s election (Deseret News)
• Opinion: The age of podcasts is changing how politicians campaign (Deseret News)
• Henderson faces online threats as some call for lowering political temperature (KSL)
• Here’s how Utah’s ballots make it from your table to tabulation (KSL TV)
• Nonprofit helps Salt Lake City’s unsheltered with registering to vote (KSL TV)
• Here’s what can go wrong on election night — and how county clerks might respond (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Salt Lake City Police releases public safety statement ahead of 2024 general election (ABC4)
• Upcoming election brings anxiety for some Utahns (Fox13)
• Johnson sees challenge from Bernal in Utah Senate District 3 (Standard-Examiner)

Municipal news

• Mountain View Corridor project on track for April 2026 despite winter challenges (KUTV)
• Spanish Fork receiving FEMA aid for 2023 flooding to help city get ‘back to where we want to be’ (Daily Herald)

Utah

• Donations needed for USANA program that feeds students during holiday break (KSL)
• 'Telling our story': Critics voice concerns with Utah's diversity measure, tout import of speaking out (KSL)

Biz/Tech

• How immigrants and refugees are helping Utah’s culinary workforce rebound (Salt Lake Tribune)

Crime/Courts

• Utah woman who matched online with 'serial killer in the making' shares story of attack, with warning (KSL)
• Utah County inmate set for trial tries to have victim killed, police say (KSL)

Culture

• Photo gallery: Shriner patients celebrate Halloween (Deseret News)
• Tom Holmoe unveiled his latest elaborate Halloween costume (Deseret News)

Education

• Elementary school in Spanish Fork transforms overnight into Toy Story wonderland (Fox13)

Environment

• Access is uniting unlikely alliances for area in Big Cottonwood Canyon (Deseret News)
• The Jordan River Trail isn’t living up to its potential. The Tribune’s ‘Trail of neglect’ series explores why, and what might change. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• It’s the economy: Voters outline their worries in American Family Survey (Deseret News)
• How the Harris-Trump divide broke this American family (Politico)

Health

• Avian Influenza confirmed in eight Cache Valley Dairies (Cache Valley Daily)

Housing

• Ground broken for nearly 300 new starter homes in Weber County (KSL Newsradio)
• Utahn's plan for scattered homeless shelters 'was never going to work' (KUTV)
• Controversy following Clinton townhome development continues (Fox13)
• Salt Lake City introduces two new renter programs (KUER)
• Cox: There are ‘broken incentive structures’ worsening Utah’s housing crisis (Daily Herald)
• Decade of Switchpoint expansion writes positive stories, tales of redemption after homelessness (St. George News)

National Headlines

General

• Inflation dips to lowest level since 2021 ahead of election (Deseret News)
  
• Pay bumps outpace price increases as inflation slows (KUTV)
  
• Lock of Washington's hair and other presidential memorabilia up for auction (Reuters)
  
• Not just for summer: ‘Brat’ is Collins Dictionary’s word of the year (AP)
  

Politics

• The election cases playing out in the Supreme Court before Nov. 5 (Deseret News)
• Perspective: James Carville is having a moment — and that’s a good thing (Deseret News)
• AP sources: White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns (AP)
• Here are the key Electoral College dates to keep in mind ahead of Inauguration Day (NPR)

Election news

• The controversy over ‘garbage’ comments (Deseret News)
• Trump promises to protect Christians. What about Christian refugees? (Deseret News)
• Native Americans face voting hurdles as election looms (Reuters)
• Kamala Harris says Trump’s comment on women ‘is offensive to everybody’ (AP)
• Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign’s closing argument (AP)
• Court orders Arizona to release list of voters whose citizenship hasn’t been verified (AP)
• Trump suggests ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’ (Washington Post)
• Polls show Harris with big early-vote lead — despite GOP gains (Washington Post)
• ‘I’m Not Supposed to Say This,’ Trump Says. But Then He Does. (New York Times)
• Trump sues CBS for $10B over Harris’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Zelenskiy blasts allies for 'zero' response to North Korean deployment (Reuters)
• North Korea will back Russia until victory in Ukraine, foreign minister says (Reuters)
• Russian bomb hits building in Ukraine’s 2nd largest city, killing 3, including 2 teens (AP)

Israel and Gaza

• Israel pounds Lebanon, Gaza after US truce push (Reuters)
• Death toll from Israeli strikes in central Gaza rises to 25 as 13 people are killed in Lebanon (AP)

World news

• Botswana votes out ruling party after 58 years in power (Reuters)
• Google fined $20 decillion — more than world’s total wealth — by Russian court (AP)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Republicans, Democrats prioritize education issues differently, with some common ground

Heading into Election Day, a new Sutherland/Y² Analytics survey shows where Republican and Democratic voters diverge and align on key education issues. Data also shows a difference between parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of the quality of education in Utah. The findings are highlighted in Sutherland’s newest issue brief, available here. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Nov. 5 — Election Day!
• Nov. 7 â€” Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce Growth and Prosperity Summit, 8:00 am - 3:00 pm, UVU Grand Ballroom. Register here
• 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
• Jan. 21 — Utah legislative session begins
• Mar. 7 — Utah legislative session ends

On This Day In History

• 1348 - The Black Death reaches London on or about this date
• 1512 - The Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public
• 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act
• 1800 - John Adams moves into White House in the last year of his only term as president
• 1848 - First medical school for women, the New England Female Medical School, opens. In 1874 it merged with Boston University to become one of the world’s first co-ed medical schools
• 1897 - The first building of the Library of Congress opens to the public. As imagined by Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Spofford, an elaborate dome tops the grand, circular reading room.
• 1922 - The end of the Ottoman Empire as Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople.
• 1950 - An assassination attempt threatens President Harry S. Truman
• 1952 - United States tests the world’s first hydrogen bomb
• 1955 - Vietnam War begins
• 1993 - European Union goes into effect
• 1999 - NaNoWriMo begins

Quote of the Day

"The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."

—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Former U.S. President

On the Punny Side

While working at The Rolling Stones bakery, you don’t always get what you want...

But you do get what you knead.

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