Good morning, Utah Today readers! Here’s today’s forecast: ⛈️ 49 – 68° in Logan |💧 60% chance 🌥 57 – 74° in Salt Lake City |💧 50% chance ☀️ 64 – 85° in St. George Happy Friday! Congratulations on making it through the week. Here’s the lineup of some of your favorite stories as a reward. ——— 🫣 Sen. Mike Lee has support of all Republican senators — except one: Nothing I can write will explain this story adequately, so you should go ahead and read it yourself. Is this feeling of awkwardness what it feels like to be British? 🏈 ‘The definition of grit’: How No. 21 BYU beat a top 10 team at home for the first time since 1990 on a wild Saturday night in Provo: In some of the biggest Utah news of the week, the Cougars beat Baylor! 👨🏻 Can BYU become a ‘fanbase of Ted Lassos’?: Speaking of the big game, Hal Boyd wrote this great piece about the great impression BYU fans left on Baylor fans. They were compared to Ted Lasso in the most flattering way possible. 😢 Doomsday Mom: A timeline of the Lori Vallow-Chad Daybell murder case: An up-to-date timeline of everything you ever wanted to know (or didn’t want to know) in this sordid murder case. 💉 Is it too soon to get a flu shot? 3 things you need to know: All the current advice on getting vaccinated for the flu and Covid-19 this fall. 💸 Why food prices are rising at the fastest clip in 40 years: Has anyone else noticed that food is really expensive all of the sudden? That’s because prices were up 11.4% in August. Tell me: Do you like this weekend roundup of stories you may have missed? Reply and let me know! ——— Also on our minds: Utah might get the Olympics… just not in 2030, Elizabeth Smart brings her self-defense class to SUU and what a Harvard professor learned from Abraham Lincoln about when the Constitution was ‘broken.’ |