Plus: Is orange juice the new eggs, what made the Super Bowl special and do faith-based programs help rehabilitate offenders?
Happy Valentine’s Day, my lovely readers! Here’s the forecast: 🌨️ 4 – 24° in Logan | ❄️ 50% chance ⚠️ 🌥️ 24 – 30° in Salt Lake City | ❄️ 30% chance 🌨️ 33 – 44° in St. George | 💧 70% chance ⚠️ Wind chill warning. Today I learned that Americans are expected to spend nearly $25.9 billion on Valentine’s Day this year. Americans must love love because not even high inflation is stopping this from being the second highest amount Americans have spent on Valentine’s Day according to the National Retail Federation. This is news to me, because every year I seem to forget it’s a holiday. One year, I even found myself in the grocery store checkout line wondering why everyone seemed to have all the makings of a romantic dinner in their baskets while I had a tub of cookie dough, a 12-pack of Diet Coke and sushi-for-one in mine. It finally dawned on me a few hours later. Tell me: Are you the kind of person who completely forgets holidays, or do you make your plans weeks and months in advance? Looking for something? Anything related to the 2023 legislative session will have a bee emoji next to it. 👉 🐝 Also on our minds: Is orange juice the new eggs, what made the Super Bowl special and do faith-based programs help rehabilitate offenders? |
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| | Monday, the House Education Committee voted unanimously to approve HB308, a bill eliminating a requirement for the state school board to assign letter grades to public schools. The letter grades are part of a state accountability report, but it has been criticized as ineffective and as painting an incomplete picture of what occurs in Utah schools. | A pool of contenders is beginning to develop for the 2024 presidential campaign. Among them are several Americans of South Asian descent, including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Vice President Kamala Harris and California Rep. Ro Khanna. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the U.S. and are predicted to be the largest immigrant population by 2055. Candidates from both sides of the aisle are taking note as they try to figure out how to win over South Asian voters. Read the story here. More in Politics: A bill to allow pregnant drivers to use the HOV lane fails in committee (Deseret News) 🐝 First lady Jill Biden visits Mesa to promote tuition-free community college (Deseret News) | This is the race: Join us on July 24 Don’t give up on your New Year’s resolutions! Sign up for the Deseret News Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K or 5K. Register now for the 4th oldest marathon west of the continental divide. | L😍ve: Is romance dead? The state of Valentine’s Day (Deseret News) Perspective: Love across the aisles (Deseret News) Health: Will orthrus take Utah for ‘a wild ride?’ (Deseret News) Congenital syphilis rates rise 900% in infants born in Mississippi (Deseret News) Police and Courts: FBI discover another classified document in Pence’s home (Deseret News) Utah Legislature passes bill to address 'epidemic' of missing, murdered Indigenous people (KSL) 🐝 Culture: Single women outpacing men in home ownership by millions (Deseret News) Jon Stan is designing your favorite pro athlete’s favorite sports apparel (Utah Business) Economy: Washing machines, fridges may get less expensive, more eco-friendly (Deseret News) Is orange juice the new eggs? Why this drink’s prices are reaching record highs (Deseret News) Education: Education projects worldwide show a love for all of God’s children (Church News) Utah lawmakers already gave teachers a raise. Now there’s a push to tie it to inflation (KUER) 🐝 Faith: Why those ‘He Gets Us’ ads about Jesus have sparked heated debates (Deseret News) A fresh start: Do faith-based programs work to rehabilitate criminal offenders? (Deseret Magazine) Worshippers hope — and pray — to save SLC church next to Judge Memorial HS from wrecking ball (Salt Lake Tribune🔒) Northern Utah: Man tried to run over ex-girlfriend with his car in Ogden, charges say (KSL) Wasatch Front: Park City ranked No. 3 ski destination in North America (KSL) UDOT to add more 'advanced' wrong-way driver detection systems in Utah (KSL) 🐝 Payson man now faces 47 felonies in child sex abuse, child porn cases (KSL) Southern Utah: 'Man cave furniture': St. George artist creates home decor and furniture from vintage cars (KSL) St. George missionary recovering at Boston hospital after getting hit by car (KSL) The West: A wasted world: Single-use plastic recycling lags far behind production (Deseret News) The World: Much of New Zealand goes without power as cyclone strikes (Deseret News) Turkish authorities investigate building contractors amid thousands of buildings collapsing after earthquake (Deseret News) Sports: Secret sauce of the Super Bowl? Friends and family (Deseret News) Patrick Mahomes again credits Alex Smith after Chiefs’ latest Super Bowl win (Deseret News) How trades around the NBA impact the Jazz (Deseret News) |
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