Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 57 - 97° ☀️ | ⚠️ Salt Lake City: 72 - 100° ☀️ | ⚠️ St. George: 80 - 111° ☀️ | ⚠️ ⚠️ Excessive heat warning My colleague, Hanna Seariac, made a list of 102 things to see and do in Utah. Here are five I had never heard of: Look at the stained glass Roots of Knowledge mural at Utah Valley University in Orem. Drive down to a ghost town like Grafton or Old Irontown. Visit one of the most interesting rock formations — Wahweap Hoodoos in Kane County. Visit the Fort Douglas Museum in Salt Lake City. Take a trip down the Pony Express National Historic Trail in Salt Lake City. Have you done all these things? You can find Hanna's whole list here. Also on our mind: A gene variant might be why some people don’t show COVID-19 symptoms,theBiden administration cut funding to Wuhan lab and Steve Young is moving to coaching. |
| Ahead of DeSantis’ visit to Utah, a new poll shows him losing ground to Trump among the state’s GOP voters |
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| | GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is coming to Utah today. He will visit the state Capitol this afternoon, where he will hold a press conference and will likely have private events planned for later in his visit. But as DeSantis attempts to rev up his campaign in the Beehive state, a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll of Utah's Republican voters shows former President Donald Trump has pulled slightly further ahead of his primary challenger. None of the other Republican candidates, however, have so far come close to knocking DeSantis off his second-place perch. Of the 495 registered Utah Republican voters surveyed, 29% said they would vote for Trump and 24% said they would choose DeSantis. Former Vice President Mike Pence comes in third with 6%, followed by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, both at 4%. In the previous month’s poll, the two frontrunners were nearly tied, with Trump ahead of DeSantis 27%-26%. Michael Barber, a political science professor at Brigham Young University, said he is surprised to see Trump’s durability among Republican voters. “There seems to be about 50% of the Republican primary electorate that is just there with Donald Trump no matter what, and no amount of indictments or new revelations about his involvement there seem to budge them — they represent a pretty substantial portion of the Republican primary electorate,” he said. In another poll question, Utahns were asked what qualities they most want in a leader. The first choice, at 33%, was moral character, followed by trustworthiness at 17%. |
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More in Politics Biden admin cuts funding to Wuhan lab. Stewart, Romney supports move (Deseret News) IRS whistleblower testifies on Hunter Biden probe (Deseret News) | After a faith-filled life defined by dedication, service and testimony, Sister Patricia Terry Holland — the wife of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — died Thursday, July 20, at the age of 81. A former general officer in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sister Holland — the mother of three, grandmother of 13 and great-grandmother of 5 — will be remembered for her constant support of her husband and their efforts to share love and light in nations across the world. Born Feb. 16, 1942, in Enterprise, Utah, to Maeser W. and Marilla Terry, Sister Holland embodied the faith and legacy of her pioneer ancestors. That faith carried her from the isolated farming community of her youth to marriage and motherhood, general Church leadership and the visibility of her husband’s callings and — in recent years — through illness that illustrated her tenacity and character. When Sister Holland was 16 years old, her parents moved to St. George so their only daughter would have someone to date. She met Jeffrey Holland. “He was smart. He was a wonderful student,” she said. “He knew how to make friends. He had this just wonderful ability to make people feel good.” After attending Dixie College, supporting Elder Holland in his missionary service, and studying piano and voice with a faculty member of Juilliard School of Music in New York City, she married her high school sweetheart on June 7, 1963, in the St. George Utah Temple. Read more about Sister Holland's life. | FROM OUR SPONSOR UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Comedy, Magic, and Music: Unmissable Trio of Plays Sparkles at the Festival Utah Shakespeare Festival presents three season stand-out shows: a comedic catastrophe in The Play That Goes Wrong, magic in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and musical romance in Jane Austen’s Emma. Enjoy familiar actors and stunning visuals. For $10 off select tickets, use code DesNews23. | Health What constipation and volunteering have to do with Alzheimer’s (Deseret News) A gene variant might be why some people don’t show COVID-19 symptoms (Deseret News) Faith Elder Bednar tells BYU-I graduates to both ‘believe and see’ and ‘see and believe’ (Church News) Biden to meet with pope’s Ukraine peace envoy, with the plight of children top of cardinal’s agenda (Religion News Service) Business Crumbl drops suit against Crave Cookies (Deseret News) Utah-based Extra Space Storage merges with Life Storage in $12B deal (KSL) Salt Lake County Utah man wants road rage to be made a felony after assault on highway (Fox 13) $18M donation brings new cancer center to Primary Children's Hospital (KSL) Utah and Iron Counties Provo institutes citywide fire restrictions ahead of Pioneer Day holiday (Daily Herald) Cedar City in negotiations to buy nearly $16M in water rights (St. George News) The West Bureau of Land Management to host wild horse adoption event in Utah (St. George News) Up to 5,300 customers lost power in downtown Chandler area amid extreme heat (ABC 15) The Nation Record-breaking heat wave projected to expand to more regions across the U.S. (Deseret News) Lawmakers claim UFO 'cover-ups' from Pentagon, military as witnesses head to Congress (Fox News) The World Shooting in New Zealand kills 2 before World Cup (Deseret News) India bans rice shipments to curb price rises (BBC) Sports Steve Young is moving to coaching (Deseret News) Here’s where Utah is predicted to finish in the Pac-12 this season (Deseret News) What we learned about BYU from its first trip to Big 12 football media days (Deseret News) Big 12 women’s swimming and diving: Can young Cougars find their stride in Power Five league? (Deseret News) The top Latter-day Saint football prospect in the 2024 class will soon make his college decision (Deseret News) |
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