Utah Headlines

Political news

• Editorial Board: Republicans now need to focus on governing well (Deseret News)
• Burgess Owens celebrates GOP victory with Disney World trip, angles for committee chairmanship (Deseret News)
• Perspective: Building bridges after a divided election (Deseret News)
• Sen.-elect John Curtis: Want to understand the nation’s true heart and soul? Take a drive across America (The Hill)
• Utah entertainer performed at Trump rallies — and paid the price (Deseret News)
• Sunday conversation: Theresa Dear speaks on unity, reconciliation (Deseret News)
• To understand Latter-day Saint views on immigration, look at all the data (Deseret News)
• Utah's Latino Trump backers cite economics, border issues in support for him (KSL)
• Editorial Board: Tribune editorial: The Utah Senate is blocking access to government records (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah Attorney General’s Office charges $7,282.07 for work-related calendars (Fox13)
• Analyzing election data (Hinckley Report)

Municipal news

• South Jordan Residents fighting against construction near the Jordan River (KSL Newsradio)
• Parking shortages, booted cars, over-occupancy among woes from Vineyard’s ‘growing pains’ (KSL)
• UDOT suggests adding lane to I-15 in southern Utah County, improving Santaquin interchange (Daily Herald)

Utah

• Draper aquarium inviting public to meet, name new zebra shark (KSL)
• Jay Evensen: Have you paid for last Christmas yet? (Deseret News)
• Utah Latino immigrant activists brace for Trump’s promised mass deportation (KUER)
• Provo-based nonprofit helps paralyzed Boise resident become certified scuba diver (KSL)
• Hunters want to donate game meat to food banks, but Utah doesn't allow it (KSL Newsradio)
• Community raises money for 12-year-old’s mariachi dreams in Taylorsville (ABC4)

Biz/Tech

• US no-frills pioneer Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy protection (Reuters)

Crime/Courts

• 2 men dead after shooting and hours-long SWAT stand off near Liberty Park (KSL)
• Questions raised over cost, effectiveness of Utah's death penalty as crime deterrent (KUTV)

Culture

• Our Thanksgiving kick-off: Cleaning the fridge (Deseret News)

Education

• Disagreeing with dignity: Salt Lake School District hopes to be nation’s first ‘dignity district’ (KSL)
• Granite School District shares new high school bathroom designs to combat vandalism, bullying (KSL)
• West Valley City high school teacher fired after committing 'boundary violations' with students (Fox13)
• How is the cellphone ban playing out in Granite School District? (KSL Newsradio)
• Utah public schools to get $5M funding boost next year after Amendment B passage (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Mountain West says there’s insufficient evidence in volleyball Title IX complaint (AP)
• USU virtual reality study aims to prepare teachers for tough classroom situations (KUER)

Environment

• Opinion: Voters sound the alarm on rising energy costs (Deseret News)
• Utah Senate leader hopes microreactors can help make the state ‘one of the nuclear headquarters for the world’ (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Yes, Utah still relies on coal, but it’s a shrinking part of the energy mix (KUER)
• How unconventional crops could save water — and reshape Utah farming (KUER)
• Federal agency to hold geothermal lease sale in Southwestern Utah (St. George News)

Health

• A look inside the Utah medical examiners office (Deseret News)
• E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots leaves 1 dead and dozens sickened across the US (KSL TV)

National Headlines

General

• The daughters of Malcolm X sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader’s assassination (AP)
• As it enters polar night, this Alaska town won’t see sunrise for 64 days (Washington Post)

Political news

• Perspective: Dear Kamala (Deseret News)
• Advocates from around the country urge lame-duck House to resume payments to downwinders (Daily Herald)
• Donald Trump has set a new low bar, says LDS reporter, for ‘expectations of presidential behavior’ (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks (CNN)
• Trump’s risky cabinet pick (Deseret News)
• Trump’s Pentagon pick paid woman after sex assault allegation but denies wrongdoing, his lawyer says (KSL TV)
• Trump taps Brendan Carr to chair Federal Communications Commission (Reuters)
• Donald Trump Jr. says pushback against Cabinet picks proves they’re the disrupters voters wanted (AP)
• Some Arab Americans who voted for Trump are concerned about his picks for key positions (AP)
• Ramaswamy: ‘We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright’ (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia (Reuters)
• Moscow warns US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with long-range weapons (AP)
• Russia pounds Ukraine's power grid in 'massive' air strike (Reuters)
• In pictures: 1,000 days of war in Ukraine (Reuters)

Israel and Gaza

• Hezbollah media head killed in Israeli strike on Beirut, security sources say (Reuters)

World news

• Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost (NPR)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Natalie Pinkney’s statement on election victory

Natalie Pinkney, candidate for Salt Lake County Council At Large C, issued the following statement after becoming the apparent winner of the 2024 General Election for the Salt Lake County Council At Large C seat. Natalie will be the first Black Woman elected to the County Council, and the first Black person elected in a county-wide election in Utah. 

Thanks to our supporters and volunteers, our campaign conducted an extensive field operation, knocking on over 23,000 doors, making over 180,000 phone calls, and sending out over 150,000 text messages to voters across the county. These personal interactions, combined with our targeted advertisements across radio, TV, social media, online video, and billboards allowed us to get our message out to voters from all parts of the county.  (Read More)

Owens pushes for FAFSA reform

Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chair Burgess Owens (R-UT) voted to pass the FAFSA Deadline Act, ensuring that the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is fully operational by October 1st.

“For too long, families have been left scrambling due to the Education Department’s FAFSA delays and dysfunction, putting futures on hold and dreams at risk,” said Rep. Owens. â€œWith today’s passage of the FAFSA Deadline Act, House Republicans are providing students and parents with the tools they need to plan for college and access financial aid. This is a victory for accountability, for opportunity, and, most importantly, for the millions of young Americans who deserve better.”  (Read More)

SITLA announces massive funding for beneficiaries

The numbers are in – the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (TLA) is excited to announce over $117.9 million will be distributed to its 12 beneficiaries. Public schools receive the majority of the funds, coming in at over $111.3 million for the upcoming school year, an increase of over $5 million from last year. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Nov. 19-20 — Interim Days
• Dec. 3 â€” Promoting Civility and Dignity in Utah, with UWLP, 12:00-1:15 pm, Register here
• Jan. 9 — What’s Up Down South Economic Summit. St. George. Register here
• Jan. 10 — Rural Utah Data Symposium. St. George. Register here
• Jan 14 — Utah Taxpayers Association Legislative Outlook Conference, 9 am - 12:00 pm, Little America Hotel, Register here
• Jan. 21 — Utah legislative session begins
• Mar. 7 — Utah legislative session ends

On This Day In History

• 326 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. In 1626, a much larger basilica is dedicated on the same site 
• 1787 - Sojourner Truth is born. She was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist
• 1857 - Rose Knox is born. One of America’s foremost businesswomen, she co-founded Knox Gelatin Co. and revolutionized the company following her husband’s death initiating a five-day work week and two-week vacations
• 1872 - Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting
• 1883 - Railroads create the first time zones
• 1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (1881-85), dies at 57
• 1902 - Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt
• 1910 - British suffragettes storm Parliament on Black Friday. They would not gain the right to vote for another 8 years. 
• 1914 - Mary McDermott gave birth to triplets weighing a total of 24 pounds (10.9 kg), the heaviest set of triplets ever born. During their lifetime, she and her husband Michael would also have three sets of twins and six single babies.
• 1916 - Five miles of mud, a million casualties. British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded
• 1928 - Mickey Mouse’s “birthday” - makes his first appearance on Steamboat Willie
• 1945 - Wilma Mankiller is born. She was the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation
• 1949 - Vice-President Alben W. Barkley and Jane Rucker Hadley wed in St. Louis, MO. The event marks the first marriage of a vice-president while in office.
• 1956 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase "we will bury you!" to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow.
• 1964 - J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
• 1978 - Jonestown mass murder/suicide as 909 people die
• 1989 - Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
• 1991 - Terry Waite released after four-year kidnapping in Lebanon
• 1999 - 12 die in bonfire at Texas A&M
• 2011 - Minecraft is released
• 2021 - US judge exonerates two men for the killing of Malcolm X in 1965, saying they were "wrongly convicted" 

Quote of the Day

"Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along."
—Wilma Mankiller

On the Punny Side

Where do football players go when they need a new uniform?

New Jersey.

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