Plus, would Utah voters elect Trump, Biden or a third-party candidate if the election were tomorrow?
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| A lot of Utah hotel rooms are already booked for a 2034 Olympics — here’s why |
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| | Salt Lake City must secure nearly 24,000 hotel rooms for Olympic officials, media, sponsors and others if it is to host the 2034 Winter Games. Although the International Olympic Committee won’t make a final decision on the Games’ location until July, Utah officials have already booked more than 21,000 hotel rooms — including some that have yet to be built. “It’s not a splashy part of the program, but it is a fundamental requirement to host the Games, making sure they have a place to sleep,” said John Sindelar, accommodations adviser to the bid committee. One of the biggest locations for Games-time lodging will be The Point, the massive mixed-use development planned at the site of the former Utah State Prison. There, 1,000 rooms will be set aside in hotels and apartments, Sindelar said. Other entities that have committed at least 1,000 rooms during an Olympics include the Grand America and Little America hotels in Salt Lake City, and hospitality management companies that operate Hilton, Marriott and other nationally branded hotel properties. |
Read more about how the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games plans to prepare Utah for the 2034 Winter Games. |
| If the election for U.S. president were being held today, and the candidates were President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who would Utahns vote for? According to a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll, 43% of registered Utah voters say they would support Trump if a Trump-Biden general election were held today. Thirty-three percent said they would vote for Biden and 24% said they would support another candidate. These results build on a separate Deseret News/Hinckley Institute poll conducted in August 2023, when a majority of Utah voters said they would “definitely” or “maybe” consider voting for a third-party candidate in 2024. A nonprofit group, No Labels, is pushing for ballot access across the country, too, though it has yet to declare who will be its candidate. The group plans on creating a ticket with a Republican and a Democrat. “We have never seen these numbers that we have seen repeatedly in extensive research and modeling — that 60% don’t want these two choices. It is unprecedented. And everybody knows it,” Nancy Jacobson, founder and CEO of No Labels, told the Deseret News. Read more about the poll's findings. More in Politics Two of Utah’s members of Congress face primary challenges (Deseret News) Rep. Tyler Clancy wants to help victims better understand the criminal justice process (Deseret News) Bill would expand the scope of warnings on pornographic materials (Deseret News) | FROM OUR SPONSOR JON M. HUNSTMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS What Does it Mean to Dare Mighty Things? Dare Mighty Things: (v) the act of courageously attempting to do big and audacious things that make you uncomfortable, that stretch you, and allow you to grow, even as you experience failure and doubt along the way. Daring Mighty in little and big things is not an act but a habit toward excellence. | Entertainment What to see this Valentine’s: 11 highly anticipated movies coming to theaters in February (Deseret News) At 80, Joni Mitchell will achieve a new first in her career: Performing at the Grammys (Deseret News) What big shows are coming up in Utah? (Deseret News) Health Stressed or depressed? Try a coloring book (Deseret News) With opioid deaths soaring, Biden administration will widen access to methadone (NPR) Faith ‘Bursting at the seams’: How schools and institutes carried out CES Date Night (Church News) Church responds to Japan earthquake with donations, service and relief (Church News) Science and Tech James Webb telescope releases new photos of stunning spiral galaxies (Deseret News) Student credited with discovery of tiny, beaked dinosaur (Deseret News) An AI just learned its first words with the help of a camera-strapped baby (Deseret News) Weber and Davis Counties Ogden children's justice center breaks ground on new facility as child abuse cases rise (KSL) Police call death of missing woman whose body was found in Bountiful 'suspicious' (KSL) Washington County Never-occupied '90s home for sale in St. George goes viral for being 'time capsule' (KSL) Childhood home of Utah’s most notorious outlaw could soon become a state monument (Deseret News) The U.S. and World The US says it may bomb more Middle East targets. One militia says it doesn’t want a wider fight (Associated Press) Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill named first minister of Northern Ireland (Washington Post) Atmospheric river expected to bring life-threatening floods to Southern California (NPR) Oklahoma rattled by shallow 5.1 magnitude earthquake (Associated Press) Theresa Dear: Black history is full of trailblazers. Here are 7 everyone should know (Deseret News) | Conner Mantz and Clayton Young — training partners, former BYU collegiate champions and Utah natives — are going to the Olympics. On Saturday morning, they finished 1-2, respectively, in the nationally televised U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando to qualify for this summer’s Paris Olympics. Mantz finished the fourth marathon of his life with a time of 2:09:05, one second ahead of Young. Leonard Korir, the 37-year-old naturalized citizen from Kenya, was third in 2:09:57. Read more about the two former BYU stars going to the Olympics.
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