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Good morning! Here are today’s temperatures:

⛅️ 54 – 89° in Logan | 💧 10%

⛅️ 67 – 94° in Salt Lake | 💧 10%

🌤️ 71 – 99° in St. George | 💧 10%

Michael O. Leavitt, the 14th governor of Utah, learned an important lesson from public service. “The issues with the most impact are those that have cascading consequences,” he said.

While watching a repairman work on a clock in the governor’s office, he noticed that when the large gears of a clock are turned, the smaller gears spin.

During a Deseret News “Yellow Couch” interview, titled “Gov. Michael O. Leavitt — Lessons of the Grandfather Clock,” Leavitt said “an important part of leadership is the ability to identify the big gears.” Watch the interview here.

Also on our minds:

See photos from this year's Salt Lake City Greek Festival
Utah's Rep. John Curtis reflects on emotional meetings in Israel
How Latter-day Saint singer Emma Nissen lost her voice and found her purpose

Will young voters turn Utah blue? These Aggies are skeptical

Brigham Tomco writes: A recent Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll found Democratic Senate candidate Caroline Gleich trailing Republican 3rd District Congressman John Curtis by more than 30 percentage points. But Gleich’s hunch, she later told the Deseret News, is that the youngest voters in the youngest state in the nation are eager for an alternative to the GOP of Donald Trump.

Gleich first entered politics interning for former Gov. Gary Herbert’s environmental adviser as a student at the University of Utah. Now, she hopes her focus on the “climate crisis,” abortion access and housing costs will drive young Utahns to the polls.

“Right now, frankly, the Senate is overrepresented by older people, and we need to have more younger voices,” Gleich told the Deseret News editorial board last week, pointing out that the median age of the Senate is 65; Curtis is 64. “There’s a lot of young people especially that are disillusioned with the state of politics and ... the state of Congress.”

But while Utah’s Gen Z voting block appears to be following national trends of leaning more liberal than older generations, new Deseret News polling and interviews with USU students prove the difficulty of any Democratic path to victory that passes through Utah’s college campuses.

Power plants and carbon emissions. What’s at stake

Amy Joi O'Donoghue writes: Opening briefs were due Friday before the U.S. Supreme Court that could decide the fate of the remaining coal-fired power plants operating in the United States, including the decades-old Hunter and Huntington power plants in Emery County.

Utah has joined 24 other states in a lawsuit challenging the rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has been put on hold by an appellate court. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association has also filed a lawsuit challenging the power plant edict.

“EPA’s power plant rule is unlawful, unreasonable and unachievable. It exceeds EPA’s authority and poses an immediate threat to the American power grid,” the association’s chief executive officer, Jim Matheson, said. “Under the rule, EPA illegally attempts to transform the U.S. energy economy by forcing a shift in electricity generation to the agency’s favored sources.”

The EPA has until Oct. 11 for its response before the court, while all briefs are due Nov. 1. Oral arguments are expected to follow.

Read more about coal-fired power plants in Utah.

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Health

Utah’s youth gun-related ER visits in 2024 are on track to exceed last year (KUER)
New Utah report links housing affordability to negative health outcomes (KSL)
Meg Walter: Why are people still picking fights about COVID-19? (Deseret News)

Faith

A conversation with the most prolific religion journalist in America, Terry Mattingly (Deseret News)
'I love Jesus and I love jazz' — inside the rise of Emma Nissen (Deseret News)

Entertainment

'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' is a good time. But not for kids (Deseret News)
After 40 years, ‘Wheel of Fortune’ is entering a new era (Deseret News)

Utah

See photos from this year’s Salt Lake City Greek Festival (Deseret News)
The Paris Paralympics are almost over. Utah’s turn to host the post-Olympic event comes in 2034 (Deseret News)

The U.S.

Multiple people shot near Kentucky highway, 'armed and dangerous' person of interest ID'd (NBC News)
Mother of Georgia shooting suspect called school to warn of emergency, aunt says (The Associated Press)

The World

Venezuela says presidential opposition leader Edmundo González has left country (CBS News)
‘Sustainable’ logging operations are clear-cutting Canada’s climate-fighting forests (Reuters)

Sports

What we know now about Jordan Love's leg injury (Deseret News)
‘We’ll see:’ Utah coach Kyle Whittingham addresses Cam Rising’s injury, whether he’ll be available next week (Deseret News)
How the ‘little things’ meant a lot in BYU’s 18-15 win over SMU Friday night (Deseret News)
3 takeaways from Utah State’s blowout loss to USC (Deseret News)

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