Utah Headlines

Political news

• Video: ‘Malice Toward None’ — can we learn to disagree better? (Deseret News)
• Erin Mendenhall: ‘We are breathing life into a reality so many only dreamed we might ever reach’ (Deseret News)
• Utah AG, 26 other states, respond to reports of Instagram marketing to 'likely pedophiles' (KUTV)

Election news

• The Utah Democratic Primary went smoothly, party credits mail-in voting (KSL Newsradio)
• Multiple voters want party to go back to primary election after 2024 GOP caucus (KUTV)

Utah news

• Navigating the tax season: Comparing state-by-state tax burdens across income levels (Deseret News)
  
• New Salt Lake airport central tunnel gets opening date as Phase 3 construction continues (KSL TV) 
• Weber State alum named Utah’s new state parks director (Standard Examiner)

Crime/Court

• Utah State Prison issues warning to visitors after 4 arrests: Leave your drugs at home (KSL)
• Officers were justified in entering home where 3 bodies were found in 2015, Utah Supreme Court says (KSL)
• Child found chained to bed: Court records detail scene during Provo couple's arrest (KUTV)

Faith

• See a list of everything the Church of Jesus Christ obtained from the Community of Christ (Deseret News)

Education

• Legislature’s censure of state school board member Natalie Cline dominated education headlines but Utah lawmakers point to funding boost (Deseret News)

Environment

• USU climate science program prepares students to blend management and policy (UPR)
• Utah, 3 other states offer 'pivotal' long-term plan for Lake Powell, Lake Mead (KSL)

Family

• Navigating the challenges of locating quality, affordable summer child care in Utah (Utah Business) 

Health

• Utah ranks fifth in nation for body image issues (KSL Newsradio)
• Intermountain Health is testing new technology to screen for jaundice (KSL TV)
• Respiratory ailments ease in Southern Utah; evolving COVID may mean less time at home for those infected (St. George News)

Housing

• St. George Area Parade of Homes draws thousands, features homes worth up to $8M (St. George News)

National Headlines

General

• Fed's Powell: Don't expect a soft landing victory lap (Reuters)
• He lost $500,000 on Bitcoin. Now he’s celebrating (Wall Street Journal)
• A conversation with Rob Henderson on his bestselling book, and how elites don’t practice what they preach (Deseret News)

Political news

•  Ahead of the State of the Union, Biden confronts four thorny challenges (New York Times)
• McConnell pans ‘totally inappropriate’ idea of term limits for Senate GOP leaders (The Hill)
• Arizona investigators issue grand jury subpoenas as state’s 2020 Trump election probe accelerates (Politico)
• House clears long-delayed spending package ahead of shutdown deadline (Politico)

Election news

• Nikki Haley suspends presidential campaign (Deseret News)
• Biden vs. Trump: A familiar matchup in an unprecedented election (Wall Street Journal)
• Elon Musk says he isn’t donating to Trump or Biden for president (Wall Street Journal)
• Where will Nikki Haley’s supporters go now that she dropped out? (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Russian missile strike hits near Zelensky motorcade in Odessa (Washington Post)
• Too little ammunition, too many Russians: The harrowing retreat from Avdiivka (New York Times)

Israel and Gaza

• Gaza ceasefire talks deadlocked, Houthis kill two in ship off Yemen (Reuters)
• Israel rejects far-right plan for new limits on access to important mosque (New York Times)

World

• Scientists say they’re closer to reviving mammoths. What could go wrong? (Washington Post)
• Vanuatu police, aided by US Coast Guard, say Chinese vessels violated fishing laws (Reuters)

News Releases 

Curtis and conservative allies introduce legislative package on China

Last week, Representative John Curtis (R-UT) cosponsored the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) comprehensive China bill, the Countering Communist China Act. The bill counters the malign influence and theft perpetuated by the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party. Curtis introduced the bill alongside RSC Chair Kevin Hern and RSC National Security Task Force Chairman Joe Wilson. (Read more)

Romney, colleagues introduce CRA to overturn Biden regulation threatening 27 million American independent contractors

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today joined HELP Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and 30 Republican colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final worker classification rule that jeopardizes the ability of 27 million Americans to work as independent contractors and threatens the gig economy. This comes as the DOL final rule was released earlier this year. (Read more)

Owens, good to chair joint hearing on student athletes 

On Tuesday, March 12, at 10:15 a.m. ET, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (UT-04), and the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Bob Good (VA-05), will hold a joint hearing titled “Safeguarding Student-Athletes from NLRB Misclassification.” (Read more)

Maloy, Estes, Lamborn, Fulcher, and Biggs reintroduce legislation to protect private water rights

Representatives Celeste Maloy (UT-02), Ron Estes (KS-04), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Russ Fulcher (ID-01), and Andy Biggs (AZ-05) have re-introduced the Water Rights Protection Act to prevent the federal government from seizing privately owned waters. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced a companion piece of legislation in the Senate. (Read more)

Utah announces preliminary presidential preference poll results

The Utah Republican Party announced preliminary presidential preference results with 78.8% of precincts reporting. UTGOP Chairman Robert Axson released the following statement regarding the results and the successful party-run caucus night: 

“Following a successful caucus night, I’m proud to announce preliminary results for Utah Republican Party’s Presidential Preference Poll,” said UTGOP Chairman Robert Axson. “I want to thank all the candidates who participated, our dedicated organizers and volunteers, and especially the caucus-goers, even when dealing with long lines and some hiccups to the check-in process in some locations.” (Read more)

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On This Day In History 

• 322 BC - Aristotle dies.
• 1274 - Thomas Aquinas dies.
• 1530 - King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope.
• 1876 - 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention — the telephone.
• 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
• 1923 - “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost is published.
• 1938 - Janet Guthrie is born. She was the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500.
• 1942 - The first cadets graduated from the Black flying school at Tuskegee.
• 1965 - Alabama state troopers and 600 black protesters clash in Selma during "Bloody Sunday"; protesters included future congressman John Lewis, who was beaten and hospitalized, and Amelia Boynton, who was beaten terribly. White Unitarian minister the Rev. James Reeb died of his injuries.
• 1975 - U.S. Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate.
• 1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
• 1985 - “We Are the World” single is released to benefit African famine.
• 1998 - Amanda Gorman is born.
• 2010 - Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar for her movie “The Hurt Locker.”
• 2022 - Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 6 million according to Johns Hopkins figures, with 57% of the world's population fully vaccinated.

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“The tides and seasons of our biology and the universality of the way we bear and nurture humanity connect us wordlessly across cultural divides, language barriers and political chasms.”

— Camille N. Johnson, Relief Society general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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