Let Utah Manage Utah Lands

Utah has filed a landmark lawsuit over control of unappropriated federal lands. State statute prohibits the privatization of public lands except in rare circumstances, underscoring Utah’s commitment to keeping public lands in public hands and locally controlled. Learn more: standforourland.utah.gov.

Utah Headlines

Utah legislative news

• Utah Legislature elections: 1 in 4 House races have already been decided (Daily Herald)
• A Utah boy’s death highlighted a gap in the child welfare system. Advocates say these solutions could save lives. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Political news

• New poll shows half of Utahns now support legalizing recreational marijuana (Fox13)

Election news

• A Utah voter's guide to the 2024 election, complete with multiple links (KUER)
• 2024 voter guide (KUER)
• Your Voice Your Vote: How county clerks verify Utah ballots (KSL Newsradio)
• More Utahns than ever are looking for information on judges on their ballots. Here’s where to go (Deseret News)
• Fast-approaching election could forever alter sprawling Alpine School District (Deseret News)
• Meet the candidate: Caroline Gleich, running for US Senate (KSL Newsradio)
• Election Day will cap years of voter registration efforts in Utah’s Navajo Nation (KUER)
• Meet the candidate: Katrina Fallick-Wang, running for Utah’s 4th Congressional District (KSL Newsradio)

Municipal news

• Development in S. Utah desert reserve? Official shares plans if Northern Corridor is rejected (St. George News)

Utah

• Zach Wilson’s advice for Jake Retzlaff (Deseret News)
• Utah mom warns of danger at pumpkin patches after emergency surgery for young son (KUTV)
• Utah ranks in the top five safest states in America, study shows (ABC4)
• Utah elevates Mike Bajakian to offensive coordinator (KSL Newsradio)
• 'They do not feel heard': Comunidades Unidas redoubling efforts to aid immigrants (KSL)

Biz/Tech

• Women make up nearly 10% of Utah CEOs — and that's an improvement (UPR)
• Derek Miller: Investing in child care and workplace flexibility would strengthen Utah’s workforce (Salt Lake Tribune)

Crime/Courts

• Judge orders Utah woman charged with murder not to have contact with her children (KSL)
• 2 men arrested after allegedly defrauding vacation home property manager of $48K (St. George News)

Culture

• The art of the 'dirty soda' (Deseret News)
• Navigating ‘romantasy’ as a person of faith (Deseret News)

Education

• Opinion: Promoting free speech and civility on college campuses (Deseret News)
• These Utah school districts and charter schools put children in seclusion (Fox13)
• High school coach sets up nonprofit to help kids in need with extracurriculars (KSL Newsradio)
• U of U continues to make changes 6 years after death of student Lauren McCluskey (KUTV)

Environment

• Is Utah Lake the hidden gem of Utah County? (Deseret News)

Family

• Utah teens under pressure: An 'epidemic of loneliness' (Fox13)

Health

• White House wants insurance to cover OTC birth control (Deseret News)
• Average health care spending has gone up nearly 20% in Utah, study says (KSL)
• Nearly 700 waffle products recalled after listeria contamination, including Utah-native Kodiak Cakes (KSL TV)

Housing

• Volunteers of America Utah opens 16-bed residential treatment program for homeless men (KSL)

National Headlines

General

• Learning about God from dogs, Orthodox monks breed and train canines in upstate New York monastery (AP)
• GoFundMe bets social media can unlock Gen Z giving with Meta partnership (AP)
• Few Americans ever make it to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Here’s what it's really like. (Washington Post)

Political news

• The White House public tour has been upgraded so visitors can see, hear and touch more (AP)
• The Central Park 5 are suing Trump over Philly debate comments (NPR)
• Supreme Court declines a challenge to a consumer safety agency's structure, for now (NPR)

Election news

• Harris, Trump pick up the pace two weeks to Election Day (Reuters)
• Trump makes more debunked claims about FEMA as he surveys storm damage in North Carolina (AP)
• Votes won’t be counted for Arkansas medical marijuana ballot measure, court says (AP)
• McDonald’s agreed to Trump event but says it isn’t endorsing a presidential candidate (AP)
• For many voters, Trump’s sneering dismissiveness of Harris’s intellect reeks of racism and sexism (Washington Post)
• Harris holds slim leads in 4 swing states, Trump polling ahead in 2 others (The Hill)
• Trump pitches faith leaders in North Carolina (Deseret News)
• Trump and Harris' closing messages to Republicans are as different as they come (NPR)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• US consults allies about North Korea troops in Ukraine (Reuters)
• Ukraine's population has fallen by 10 million since Russia's invasion, UN says (Reuters)

Israel and Gaza

• Blinken heads to Israel to revive Gaza ceasefire talks after Sinwar death (Reuters)
• He dreamed of escaping Gaza. The world watched him burned alive. (New York Times)

World news

• Putin hosts BRICS summit in Russia under shadow of Ukraine war (Reuters)
• Australian senator heckles Charles: ‘You are not my king’ (Washington Post)
• How do you forgive the people who killed your family? Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and perpetrators live side by side. (The Atlantic)
• Opinion: What genocide survivors taught me about the failure to protect human dignity (Deseret News)

Number of the Day 

Utah Apple Crunch Day at the Utah State Capitol

The Utah State Board of Education’s Farm to Fork Initiative and the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food are celebrating National Farm to School Month by hosting the annual Utah Apple Crunch Day. This event will take place on Wednesday, October 23rd, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. on the West Plaza of the Utah State Capitol.

Apple Crunch Day provides students with the opportunity to learn more about where their food comes from by cycling through various stations. Kindergarteners from Canyons School District will participate in a Q&A with a Utah apple grower, engage in farm-focused activities, and sample Utah apples from the Mountainland Grower’s Cooperative. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Oct. 21-22 — Utah Lake Symposium, UVU Campus, Register here
• Oct. 24 — CD4 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Nov. 5 — Election Day!
• Nov. 15 — Women & Business Conference & ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, Grand America Hotel. Register here
• Nov. 19-20 — Interim Days
• Jan. 9 — What’s Up Down South Economic Summit. St. George. Register here
• Jan. 10 — Rural Utah Data Symposium. St. George. Register here

On This Day In History

• 1797 - First parachute jump is made over Paris
• 1834 - Abigail Scott Duniway is born. An early western author and Pacific Northwest suffrage leader, (1871-1915), she succeeded in winning woman suffrage in Oregon (1912)
• 1916 - US suffragette Inez Milholland collapses during a speech in Los Angeles (dies weeks later). Her last words are to President Woodrow Wilson “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?”
• 1928 - Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
• 1962 - JFK addresses the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act
• 1979 - Utah Jazz wins their first game as Utah franchise against the San Diego Clippers
• 2012 - Lance Armstrong stripped of his seven Tour de France titles

Quote of the Day

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."
- Abraham Lincoln

On the Punny Side

My local volleyball club's website is down.
Must be having problems with their server.

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