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Situational Analysis | July 8, 2022 It's Friday and National Freezer Pop Day. Those darn things were the cause of an early parenting fail when my first toddler kept asking for "Razor Ducks, Razor Ducks!" I had no idea what he was talking about and he was very sad. Days later, I worked out that he was trying to say "freezer sticks." Sigh. Be in the Know Powerful former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated while giving a speech in Nara, Japan. He was shot from behind minutes after starting his speech and was airlifted to a hospital, but arrived without vital signs and never regained them. "Shocked" and "saddened," world leaders reacted to the attack. Even Iran called it an "act of terrorism." 300 Ukrainian refugees are making their way to Utah and they need support. Catholic Community Services is helping with "case management, employment services, health services, and education for their children" and are looking for volunteers as well as donations of furniture, household items, laptops and more. Click here to find out more. Rapid Roundup Actor James Caan is dead at 82, 34-yr-old Rihanna is now Americaâs youngest self-made female billionaire, José Eduardo dos Santos, former tyrant who plundered Angola, is dead at 79, and in some good news, U.S. job growth beats expectations and adds 372,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate holds at 3.6%. | | |
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Utah Headlines General Women & Leadership Project releases final study in series on Utah women of color (Daily Herald) On the road in Ukraine: One manâs journey to help his people (Deseret News) Apple unveils âextremeâ new security measure for iPhones, iPads and Macs (Deseret News) New program aims to support small businesses owned by refugees, immigrants in Cache Valley (Herald Journal) Police and FBI identify suspect in Dylan Rounds disappearance (KSL TV) One of two children hit by SUV passes away after South Jordan crash (KUTV) Politics Jen Plumb builds her lead over Sen. Derek Kitchen, but it remains oh so tight (Salt Lake Tribune) Why is a potential Republican presidential candidate coming to Utah? ð²ð²ð°ð²ð² (Deseret News) What a grocery store commercial and President Joe Bidenâs approval ratings have in common (Deseret News) âLaws prohibiting abortion in Utah are older than the State itself,â lawyers say in defense of trigger law (Salt Lake Tribune) Education How to improve school safety? New poll reveals what Utahns think (Deseret News) As the school year approaches, Utah schools are already suffering a staff shortage (KSL Newsradio) More workers without degrees are landing jobs. Will it last? The increasing availability of good jobs for those without degrees coincides with challenges for traditional higher education (Washington Post) Environment E-bikes are booming in Utah. Are you ready to be a power pedaler? (Salt Lake Tribune) How the Great Salt Lakeâs dropping water level is affecting a Utah bird refuge (KSL TV) Farmers are trying new water-saving tech in Utah's drought (Fox13) âItâs not doomsday yetâ for Lake Powell, but continuing drought poses litany of challenges (St. George News) Utahâs proposed oil railroad clears final regulatory hurdle. Next question for Uinta Basin Railway: Whoâs paying for multi-billion-dollar project state says is needed to increase Utah oil production? (Salt Lake Tribune) Two philanthropists gave up the opportunity to potentially earn $26 million on the sale of a 1,050-acre Ogden Valley plot that used to house a Trappist monastery. Instead, they put the land into a conservation easement to keep it pristine (Standard-Examiner) Health 14 more Utahns die of COVID-19. And, yes, weâre still in a surge. (Salt Lake Tribune) 6,872 new COVID cases in Utah reported over past week (Fox13) Hereâs a COVID-19 treatment pharmacists can prescribe (Deseret News) University of Utah Health workers walk out to protest the abortion ban and the fall of Roe (KUER) Scientists look to people with Down syndrome to test Alzheimer's drugs (NPR) Housing Cache County addresses housing crisis in new report (UPR) National Headlines General Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug charges (NPR) Are scientists about to unveil the mysteries of dark matter? Dark matter, making up about 80% of the universe, remains a mystery to scientists â the Hadron Collider could change that. (Deseret News) Will a pension bailout be enough to save Americaâs unions? (Deseret News) Biden awards medal of freedom to Biles, Rapinoe, late Senator McCain (Reuters) Big cities can't get workers back to the office. Occupancy is especially low in cities like New York, where workers are the engine of local economies (Wall Street Journal) Elon Muskâs deal to buy Twitter is in peril (Washington Post) US to diversify infant formula industry to avoid shortages (AP) Politics Colorado governor signs executive order to protect abortion rights (Deseret News) Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to fight Georgia subpoena (Roll Call) Trump left Sarasota media company weeks before federal subpoenas were issued (Herald-Tribune) Trump called him 'the strong, silent type.' Today, Cipollone testifies about Jan. 6 (NPR) GOP Senate hopefuls adopt a high-risk strategy for November. In one battleground state after another, theyâre ditching general election entreaties to independent voters in favor of hard-line appeals to the base. (Politico) In Muslim-majority Mali, Christians have been targeted and killed. This Latter-day Saint is running for president (Deseret News) Ukraine ðºð¦ Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the West of decades of aggression towards Moscow and warned that if it wanted to attempt to beat Russia on the battlefield it was welcome to try, but this would bring tragedy for Ukraine. (Reuters) Lavrov accuses West of âblatant Russophobiaâ as he is shunned at G20 meeting (The Hill) The U.S. identified at least 18 Russian âfiltration campsâ for Ukrainians, a diplomat says. (New York Times) | | |
News Releases Members selected for Romney Wildland Fire Commission U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) welcomed an announcement made by the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the selection of members to serve on the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, which Romney negotiated and secured in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Modeled after Romneyâs Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission Act, the wildland fire commission is tasked with forming federal policy recommendations and strategies on ways to better prevent, manage, suppress and recover from wildfires. Two Utahns were named to the Commission: Kathy Holder, who currently serves as Utahâs State Hazard Mitigation Officer, as well as the Mitigation and Recovery Section Manager for the Utah Division of Emergency Management and Bill Cox, a rancher and County Commissioner for Rich County, as an alternate for local representation. (Read More) Rep. Stewart defunds the Wuhan Institute of Virology The House Committee on Appropriations voted to advance a budget that would defund research labs in adversarial countries, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. The legislation would include defunding the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which many believe is the origin point for COVID-19. Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) â a member of both the House Committee on Appropriations and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence â introduced the amendment that is responsible for defunding these unaccountable, foreign research labs. (Read More) Number of the Day | | |
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On This Day In History 1776 - Liberty Bell tolls to announce Declaration of Independence 1831 - John Pemberton, American pharmacist (inventor of Coca-Cola), is born in Knoxville 1902 - Gwendolyn Bennett is born. The Harlem Renaissance poet, short story writer and artist, wrote a column âThe Ebony Fluteâ for the journal âOpportunity,â co-founder of âFire!!â a literary journal 1926 - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is born. A writer and lecturer, she developed techniques for counseling the dying and their families and âstages of griefâ to explain the process of grieving. 1932 - The low-point of the Depression as the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 41.22 1941 - German generalâs diary reveals Hitlerâs plans for Russia: âTo dispose fully of their population.â 1951 - Paris celebrates its 2,000th birthday. The history of Paris can be traced back to a Gallic tribe known as the Parisii, who sometime around 250 B.C. settled an island (known today as Ile de la Cite) in the Seine River 1959 - The first Americans are killed in South Vietnam 1994 - Kim Il-sung, Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94), dies of a heart attack at 82 2008 - American businessman T. Boone Pickens announces his "Pickens Plan", an energy policy that would move away from imported oil 2011 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic, dies at 93 2019 - US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors Wise Words âThe search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.â
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