The future of the Dirty Devil Hangs in the Balance!

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a draft motorized travel management plan for the remote and stunning Henry Mountains and Dirty Devil area—a plan that will determine where off-road vehicle (ORV) use is allowed in this landscape for decades to come. The BLM is accepting public comment through Saturday, October 26. This is your chance to help defend the Dirty Devil.

Utah Headlines

Political news

• Beauty industry licensing restructure could affect over 60,000 workers statewide (KSL)

Election news

• Sen. Mike Lee, Glenn Beck and others join Donald Trump on webinar directed at Latter-day Saint voters (Deseret News)
• Rick Larsen: Those who treat politics as religion undermine the Constitution they claim to love (Deseret News)
• Utah volunteers knock doors for Trump in Arizona ahead of election (Deseret News)
• Could Mitt Romney be Kamala Harris’ secretary of state? (Deseret News)

Municipal news

• Price residents struggle with housing costs, but the city has hope (KSL)
• Grantsville now full of skeletons one year after controversial display (Fox13)

Utah

• Daybreakers race 900-pound pumpkins — and porta-potties — in annual regatta (KSL)
• Sunday Edition: Kevin Eubank (KSL TV)
• Undefeated BYU Sees Slight Bump In AP Top 25, Utah Falls Out (KSL Newsradio)
• Matt McCarty wins Black Desert Golf Championship in 2nd PGA start; Utah pros Blair, Blake make memories (St. George News)
• Ogden mother Erika Carr dies after raising $1M for her children’s future (ABC4)

Biz/Tech

• Utah’s Picklr aims to take the nation’s fastest growing sport to the masses (Deseret News)
• Ryan Starks: The return of the Olympics is a golden opportunity for Utah businesses (Deseret News)
• Opinion: AI has a home in Utah, and it’s creating newfound prosperity for all (Deseret News)

Crime/Courts

• Fighting Utah’s gang crime (KSL TV)
• Societal change needed to support survivors of domestic violence (KSL TV)
• A Utah nonprofit helps families pick up the pieces after homicide (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

• Multiple school districts fail to provide teacher bullying data to public (Fox13)
• BYU appoints 2 leadership roles for its planned medical school (Daily Herald)

Environment

• Fire officials hold public meeting to discuss Yellow Lake Fire, mapped at over 30k acres (KUTV)

Family

• Jay Evensen: Is the world ready for depopulation? (Deseret News)

Health

• Bird flu forces the culling of 1.8 million chickens in northern Cache County (KSL)
• Are political disagreements stressing you out? Here are tips to bridge the divide (NPR)

Housing

• Editorial Board: Utah makes the hard decision to return to a homeless shelter model after the 'service center' model turns out to be a bust (Salt Lake Tribune)
• As winter shelter deadlines draw near, Weber County is short one thing: a building (KUER)
• Utah homes are getting bigger and more expensive. How can design break the cycle? (Standard-Examiner)

National Headlines

General

• Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans (NPR)
• Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows (Washington Post)

Political news

• Johnson doesn’t expect another Jan. 6. But he still has doubts about election integrity. (Politico) 
• Johnson slams door on Congress returning for disaster aid. Congressional leaders say new disaster spending legislation can wait until the lame duck. (Politico)

Election news

• Economists say inflation, deficits will be higher under Trump (Wall Street Journal)
• Trump calls for adding 10k Border Patrol agents after derailing a bipartisan border bill (KUTV)
• Harris is laying out a new plan to empower Black men as she tries to energize them to vote for her (AP)
• Man with guns arrested near Trump rally in Coachella, sheriff says (NPR)
• Trump goes to war against real-time fact checks (Washington Post)
• Trump urges using military to handle ‘radical left lunatics’ on Election Day (Washington Post)
• Harris’s Final Challenge: Restore a Splintering Democratic Coalition (New York Times)
• Internal polling memo has warning signs for Senate Republicans (Politico)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Russia says it captured a southern Ukraine village in a push before winter comes (AP)
• Ukraine denounces Russia's reported execution of captured troops (BBC)

Israel and Gaza

• Israel steps up military pressure in north Gaza amidst fears of siege and displacement (Reuters)
• Israeli strike on hospital tent camp kills 4 and ignites a fire that burns dozens (AP)
• 4 Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack that leaves dozens injured (NPR)

World news

• Nobel economics prize goes to inequality researchers Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (Reuters)
• China deploys record 125 warplanes in large scale military drill in warning to Taiwan (AP)
• They fled their homes to escape Boko Haram. Now Nigeria is resettling them back despite their fears (AP)

Number of the Day 

10,000 high school seniors will be directly admitted, offered scholarship opportunities to three top colleges in northern Utah

Three Utah colleges are making higher education more accessible and affordable than ever by automatically admitting over 10,000 high school seniors in Davis, Morgan and Weber counties. 

Davis Technical College, Ogden-Weber Technical College and Weber State University announced their direct admissions initiatives today. Every senior across the counties’ public school districts, along with some charter and private schools, will receive acceptance letters beginning this month. (Read More)

Olympus High teacher wins 2024 Harbor Freight ‘Tools for Schools’ prize for teaching excellence

Chris Nielsen, an automotive teacher at Olympus High School in Holladay, Utah has been named a winner of the 2024 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence. Chris won a total of $50,000 – $15,000 for himself and $35,000 for Olympus High School’s program. In a surprise assembly held last week, Nielsen was presented the check in front of the student body. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Oct. 14 â€” CD2 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 15-16 — Interim Days
• Oct. 16 — Nurturing Hope in Ourselves and Others: The Science of Hope and Well-Being sponsored by the Utah Women and Leadership Project, 12:00 - 1:15 pm. Register here
• Oct. 17 — CD3 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 24 — CD4 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Nov. 5 — Election Day!
• 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

On This Day In History

• 1066 - King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. He was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
• 1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence
• 1644 - William Penn is born in London, England. An English Philosopher and Quaker, he was the founder of Pennsylvania,
• 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is born. He became the 34th US president.
• 1912 - Theodore Roosevelt shot at a campaign event in Milwaukee 
• 1922 - Timpanogos Cave National Monument is established
• 1926 - A.A. Milne publishes the illustrated children’s book, Winnie-the-Pooh.
• 1947 - Piloting the Bell X-1, Major Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins
• 1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating non-violence
• 1976 - Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman
• 2014 - Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to Anita Sarkeesian's planned lecture the following day

Quote of the Day

"Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.”
― Milton Friedman

On the Punny Side

Why is there always a shop selling luggage at the airport?

Who is going on vacation, carrying armfuls of clothes, saying, "I'll pack when we get there?"

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