Good morning, Utah Today readers! Here’s today’s forecast: 🌦️ 60 – 88° in Logan |💧 40% chance ⛈️ 772 – 92° in Salt Lake City |💧 50% chance ⛈️ 76 – 93° in St. George | 💧 60% chance ⚠️ Flood watch It’s that time of the week! Here are some of the most popular stories we published this week in case you missed them: ☎️ Church responds to AP story on abuse of a child and reporting hotline: Early in the week, Tad Walch reported on Associated Press’ story about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ abuse hotline. He also covered the church’s response to the story. 🐘 What Rusty Bowers said about the future of Arizona Republicans: According to Hunter Schwarz’s story, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers take is that the “Arizona Republican Party has fallen.” 💔 Kate Taylor Lauck: I survived abuse. I worked for the church’s help line. The AP story broke my heart: Investigative attorney Kate Taylor Lauck opens up about her experiences as an abuse survivor who worked for the church’s help line advocating for victims of abuse. 🏈 Marc Wilson recounts how LaVell Edwards avoided a mutiny after ’78 season: It seems everyone always has a story about how amazing LaVell Edwards was, and his legacy lives on in BYU football to this very day! 🚗 Hey! That jerk flying by in the closing lane isn’t hurting, he’s helping: As someone who prefers to merge at the last minute, I can’t tell you how delighted I was to see that “zipper merging” is now the law. 🌴 Jennifer Graham: The Mar-a-Lago raid is a risky move on Trump and a sobering moment for the country: In the midst of the chaos and uncertainty of Monday night’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, Ideas and Culture Editor Jennifer Graham wrote an insightful opinion piece on the possible downwind effects of this event. 🏡 The dark side of Utah’s surging home values: An ‘unprecedented’ tax burden: If you’ve sold your home this year, you might be delighted in the increased home value you experienced, but for those who are staying put, be prepared for sticker shock come tax season! Also on our minds: Community leaders call on elected officials to help address rising food insecurity, the James Webb Space Telescope photos strengthen a scientist’s faith and the NBA’s tampering rules are a joke (but not the funny kind). | 