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As California's Salton Sea dries up, nearby residents are plagued with poor air quality caused by dust accumulation from the lake.

It has led to some residents, like Rosa Mandujano, to consider moving out of state. Her 5-year-old son Ruben, who has asthma, suffers from infections that make him sick five months out of the year, and it gets worse when the air quality is bad.

That same dust problem could soon affect Utahns. In the state’s first Great Salt Lake Strategic Plan, Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed noted increasing dust emissions from the lake’s low water levels and that the accumulation poses a public health risk.

“When you have an exposed lake bed that weathers over time, which has happened over years, you see additional dust days and problems with PM 2.5 and PM 10,” he told KUER’s “RadioWest.” “And we know that we’ve had a problem (with air quality) along the Wasatch Front especially.”

The Forward Party won’t run a presidential candidate. It still plans on influencing the election

The Forward Party won't have a candidate on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election, but it believes its candidates running in local elections could impact the result of the election.

The party, which was founded in 2022, knows that a contested presidential election will fall on the shoulders of local officials who deal with administering elections.

“Regardless of who wins (the 2024 presidential election), there will be lawsuits,” said former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman — one of the party's co-founders and co-chairs — who was in Utah for a Utah Forward Party leadership meeting Friday.

Those local officials could be Forward candidates, like the six running in elections across the state of Utah.

“What you want is officers in those positions who are nonpartisan, not making these decisions based on partisanship, but based on what’s correct,” Whitman said.

Read more about the Forward Party and how it hopes to help ensure a secure election.

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Through his coaching tree, LaVell Edwards’ influence on football will never cease

While a lot has been said about legendary BYU coach LaVell Edwards' "quarterback factory," his coaching academy deserves more attention.

Edwards' coaching tree stretches across college football and into the NFL. Some notable coaching products include Mike Holmgren, Kyle Whittingham, Mike Leach and Andy Reid, who is looking to win his third Super Bowl on Sunday.

Reid wouldn't be coaching in the big game if it wasn't for Edwards asking him during practice one day if he had considered the profession. Prior to that, his dream was to write for Sports Illustrated.

The Chiefs head coach was an offensive linemen at BYU at the time, but Edwards had noticed how Reid helped his fellow linemen understand what they needed to do. Edwards thought that would serve Reid well as a coach.

Read more about the influence of Edwards' coaching tree on the world of football.

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