Black Americans fare worse in health, from birth to death; Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem banned; $100,000 for used chapstick | | | The Utah Policy newsletter is your one-stop source for political and policy-minded news. We scour the news so you don't have to! Send news tips or feedback to Holly Richardson at [email protected]. | | |
Situational Analysis | May 24, 2023 What You Need to Know Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs announces Senate challenge to Mitt Romney. In his announcement video, he said he is "not a career politician or a Massachusetts millionaire." House Speaker Brad Wilson is also exploring a run and Senator Romney has not yet announced whether he is running or not.
From the AP: From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts. They have higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, higher incidence of asthma during childhood, more difficulty treating mental health as teens, and greater rates of high blood pressure, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses. Rapid Roundup One parent complained about Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb," so an elementary school in Florida has banned it; Marjorie Taylor Greene bid $100,000 for Kevin McCarthy's used chapstick; 16-yr-old girl dies after decorative post falls on her in West Bountiful; 3 dead, 2 seriously injured in crash; NB I-15 closed in Weber County. | | |
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Utah Headlines Political news Newly-formed state park division out to keep Utahns safe (Fox13) 'Our veterans are killing themselves every day in isolation': Group urges support for veterans (KSL) Why Utah may hire a company to provide age verification for online pornography site users (Deseret News) Kevin Greene: How to fix our outdated immigration system (Deseret News) Utah Supreme Court upholds law making it more difficult to access waterways, much to the dismay of outdoor enthusiasts (Salt Lake Tribune) General Utah news 2 hikers die in Buckskin Gulch slot canyon from ârelentless power of flash floodingâ (St. George News) Toddler stable after being shot with small-caliber bullet at Spanish Fork day care (Daily Herald) 30,000 fentanyl pills recovered during I-15 traffic stop (ABC4) Southern Utah drag group sues St. George, alleges discrimination for denying drag show permit (Salt Lake Tribune) Three teenagers severely burned in explosion up American Fork Canyon (KSL TV) Business Netflix to charge an additional $8 month for viewers living outside US subscribersâ households (AP) Bill Gates: AI will kill off Amazon, Google and drive future humanoid workers (Deseret News) Workers want a four-day week. Why hasnât it happened? (Washington Post) Education U of U Executive Education Program ranked 4th in nation (ABC4) Kaysville restaurant owners donate profits to employees graduating from high school (KSL) Environment Utah DWR: Donât take home baby deer or elk found in the wild (KPCW) At Lake Powell, record low water levels reveal an 'amazing silver lining' (UPR) Despite wet spring, Utah not completely in the clear for wildfires (KSL Newsradio) Timpanogos Cave National Monument delays opening day due to trail damage (ABC4) The first-appointed Great Salt Lake czar heartened by wet winter but says âwe still have great cause for concernâ (Salt Lake Tribune) Family The first social-media babies are growing up - and they're horrified (The Atlantic) Susan Madsen: These mothers have to send their children into abusive situations. We can change that. (Deseret News) Health Surgeon General warns that social media may harm children and adolescents. The report by Dr. Vivek Murthy cited a âprofound risk of harmâ to adolescent mental health and urged families to set limits and governments to set tougher standards for use. (New York Times) Papa Murphyâs cookie dough may be linked to salmonella in Utah, other states (KSL Newsradio) Housing Ogden nonprofit helping people transitioning off the streets make their new houses feel like home (Fox13) | | |
National Headlines General Space station welcomes 2 Saudi visitors, including kingdomâs 1st female astronaut ( AP) Christian Glass family to receive largest known police settlement in Colorado history (NPR) Nearly 2,000 abused by Catholic clergy in Illinois, state AGâs probe finds (Washington Post A year after Uvalde, officers who botched response face few consequences Washington Post Baby-formula makers face FTC probe for collusion (Wall Street Journal) Politics DeSantis plans to announce 2024 bid Wednesday on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk, sources tell AP (AP) DeSantis sees a path to the White House â 240 characters at a time (Politico) Ron DeSantis has a problem. It's Florida. (Politico) Trump team knocks DeSantisâ Twitter campaign launch: âThis way he doesnât have to interact with peopleâ (Politico) South Carolina ready to renew abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy after Senate vote (AP) More than 6 in 10 say Biden's mental fitness to be president is a concern, poll finds (NPR) Slim majority wants debt ceiling raised without spending cuts, poll finds (NPR) Trump criminal trial to start next March, with campaign in full swing (Reuters) Trump attacks Foxâs Laura Ingraham over âhit pieceâ on his poll numbers (The Hill) Trumpâs latest liability: Refusing to remain silent (Politico) McCarthy, bracing for defections, eyes a fraught path to a debt limit deal (New York Times) McConnell on possibility of default: âEverybody needs to relaxâ (The Hill) Harlan Crow refuses to cooperate with Dem senatorsâ Supreme Court probe (Politico) Ukraine ðºð¦ Russia extends arrest of US journalist Evan Gershkovich by 3 months, his parents barred from hearing (AP) Ukraine investigating role of Belarus in transfers of children, prosecutor says (Reuters) In Ukraine, brutality lingers (The Atlantic) Whatâs next for Russia after spilling so much blood for Bakhmut? (New York Times) Wagner chief's feud with Russian military cracks Putin's image of control (Wall Street Journal) Russiaâs Wagner boss says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle (AP) World Sudanese stuck in war zone after U.S. destroyed their passports (Washington Post) As protesters die in Peru, a nationâs security forces face little scrutiny (New York Times) | | |
News Releases Utah AG and Division of Consumer Protection sue over illegal robocalls Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, representing the Utah Division of Consumer Protection, a division within the Utah Department of Commerce, sued Avid Telecom, its owner Michael D. Lansky, and Vice President Stacey S. Reeves today for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people and violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and other federal and state telemarketing and consumer laws. Avid Telecom sent or transmitted more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry between December 2018 and January 2023 â more than 72 million of which went to numbers in Utah. (Read More) Bipartisan group of former governors asks Utah Supreme Court to reject extreme partisan gerrymandering A bipartisan group of former governors, represented by the States United Democracy Center and former Utah state legislator David R. Irvine, P.C., is urging the Utah Supreme Court to hold that extreme partisan gerrymandering violates the state constitution. The group filed a friend-of-the-court brief in League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature, supporting a challenge to congressional maps adopted by the Utah legislature. (Read More) Western Caucus members introduce legislation to stop the Biden administrationâs land grab Last week, Rep. John Curtis (UT-03), Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04), and Rep. Russ Fulcher (ID-01) introduced legislation alongside 10 of their Western Caucus colleagues to direct the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to withdraw the proposed rule titled âConservation and Landscape Health.â This rule undermines FLPMAâs multiple-use requirement for BLM lands and would hinder access to public lands for energy and critical mineral development, grazing, forest management, and recreation. With more than 90% of BLMâs 245 million acres located in the West, the rule would have an outsized effect on Western states and their residents. (Read More) | | |
Upcoming Northern Utah Conference to End Sexual Violence â May 31, USU Eccles Center, 8:30 am-4:00 pm, Register here Intellectual Property Rights webinar with the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation â June 1, 10:00 am, Register here Bolder Way Forward Launch â June 9, 9 am-1 pm, Zions Technology Campus, Register here Interim Days â June 13-14, Utah State Capitol, le.utah.gov | | |
On This Day In History 1775 - John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress. 1844 - Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message. 1878 - Lillian Moller (Gilbreth) is born. She completed a doctoral degree at Brown University with 4 young children at home. Her dissertation, Psychology of Management, was foundational to the field of organizational psychology. She is remembered as the âmother of modern management,â who balanced a trailblazing professional career while raising twelve children. 1883 - Brooklyn Bridge is opened. 1898 - Helen Taussig is born. A pediatric cardiologist and first woman full professor at Johns Hopkins (1959), she helped create the Blalock-Taussig shunt, a surgical technique which corrected âblue babyâ syndrome, and contributed to the ban on thalidomide in the 1960s. 1943 - Final entry in the Stroop Report, detailing the destruction of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto, compiled by Nazi officers, later used as evidence in the Nuremberg trials 2021 - Constitutional crisis deepens in Samoa after Speaker of the House shuts out Fiame Naomi Mataâafa from being sworn in as the country's first woman leader in 56 years 2022 - Mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Quote of the Day "If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our childrenâs birthright. So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left..... For there is always light, if only weâre brave enough to see it. If only weâre brave enough to be it." âAmanda Gorman On the Punny Side What is the medical diagnosis for owning too many dogs? Roverdose. | | |
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