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Utah Headlines

General

• Inflation hitting Utah Food Bank patrons and donors. Food and financial donations to the Utah Food Bank are looking different this year thanks to inflation. The pantry is also seeing an increase in need. (KSL Newsradio)
• What the Rose Bowl is doing to honor memories of late Utes Ty Jordan, Aaron Lowe. Their names will be a permanent part of Rose Bowl Plaza. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Incredible story. Driver impaled by guardrail on US-89 saved by good Samaritans, first responders (KUTV)
• Utah on track to surpass November's 2,100+ reported crashes before end of December (KUTV)
• 8 Utahns charged for defrauding consumers of $100 million through the sale of dietary supplements (ABC4)

Politics

• Utah Senate President Stuart Adams received trip to World Cup paid for by Qatar government (KSL)
• Utah Sen. Mike Lee says Democrats using ‘dual threat’ to pass spending bill (Deseret News)
• Utahns call on Sen. Romney to protect Dreamers (KSL)
• Editorial Board: What will Gov. Cox do with $3 billion in tax surplus? (Deseret News)
• Big raise for Utah teachers may depend on passing controversial school voucher bill (KUTV)
• Orem City Manager Jamie Davidson resigns post (Daily Herald)
• Cache County Clerk to leave office in 90 days (Herald Journal)

Business

• 'A dream come true': Tooele Fire Department hires 1st female firefighter (KSL)
• The holiday rush and Utah’s low unemployment are a tough combo for the post office (KUER)
• November retail sales fell in biggest drop in nearly a year, down 0.6% (Wall Street Journal)

Education

• Researchers at BYU successfully sequenced the entire genome of leopard species going extinct (KSL)
• Doug Knuth Named SUU Athletic Director (SUU News)
• How South Jordan students are learning to draw their vision for their city (Fox13)
• Judge: 3 Black students can’t claim racism damages under Davis schools Justice Department case (Standard-Examiner)
• Utah Valley University’s faculty and president are at odds over one word: ‘Accountability’ (KUER)

Environment

• Gov. Cox’s office now opposes controversial plan to siphon water from Great Salt Lake (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Pacificorp and California power giant take another step to reshape the Western electricity grid (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• How grandparents fit into grandchildren’s lives: American Family Survey (Deseret News)
• Utahns call on Congress to expand Child Tax Credit (UPR)

Health

• New study shows that cold weather lowers immune response in the nose, leading to increased cases of the cold and flu (Deseret News)
• Intermountain Healthcare hospitals ranked highly for maternity care in new report (KSL Newsradio)
• Utah ranks #9 highest flu activity in U.S., study shows (ABC4)
• White House reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests (AP)

Housing

• 'We're not starting from scratch': Homeless providers discuss progress in addressing crisis (KSL)
• How a member of the Utah Homelessness Council upended a feed-the-hungry program. SLC’s Food Justice Coalition now struggles to continue a free lunch program for those living on the margins. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Inflation rates slowed again in November: Here’s what’s getting cheaper (Deseret News)
• Federal Reserve raises interest rates once again — but at a slower rate (Deseret News)
• Why Oregon’s governor is commuting all of the death sentences in the state (Deseret News)
• Twitter suspends account that tracked Musk's private jet, despite billionaire's 'free speech' pledge (KSL)
• Families shattered by tornadoes in Louisiana and Mississippi (AP)

Politics

• House passes bill to extend government funding for 1 week (AP)
• Poll: Americans want compromise, but have no confidence Congress will work together (NPR)
• The U.S. is suing Arizona over shipping containers on the border with Mexico (NPR)
• Ron DeSantis holds early lead over Donald Trump among GOP primary voters, WSJ poll shows (Wall Street Journal)
• Senate passes bill to ban TikTok on U.S. government-issued devices (Washington Post)
• Lawmakers grapple with sheer size of FTX’s missing billions (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦 

• No Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine, Russia says (KSL)
• Russia warns ‘consequences’ if US missiles sent to Ukraine (AP)
• Home-grown supply operation outfits Ukraine’s women soldiers (AP)
• Russia’s killer drones and the global trail that supplies them (Reuters)
• An alternate reality: How Russia's state TV spins the Ukraine war (New York Times)
• The U.S. plans to more than double the number of Ukrainian troops it trains in Germany. (New York Times)

World News

• Biden tells African leaders US is ‘all in’ on the continent (AP)
• U.N. peacekeeper killed in rare attack in Lebanon (Wall Street Journal)

News Releases

American Fork High School and Utah Valley University students gather clothing and supplies for Ukrainians

A small service project to collect clothing for the people of Ukraine started by the young men and women of the American Fork Utah South Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has turned into a much larger undertaking involving students at American Fork High School and Utah Valley University.

The students set up drop-off locations around northern Utah County during Nov. and Dec. to gather sleeping bags, blankets, quilts, jackets, hats, gloves and other winter apparel and will bring them to a drop-off location in American Fork on Dec. 15 at 3 p.m. A group of Ukrainian students attending UVU will be on hand to help collect and pack the materials and speak to the media about how this will benefit their families back home. (Read More)

Utah County Commission grants $2 Million to Utah Valley University’s College of Health and Public Service

The Utah County Commission approved a $2 million grant today for the Utah Valley University (UVU) College of Health and Public Service (CHPS). The grant will be used to expand the university’s healthcare programs and projects that serve vulnerable populations. (Read More)

Sen. Lee introduces bill to protect children online

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act, which would direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue a rule requiring all commercial pornographic websites to adopt age verification technology to ensure children cannot access pornographic content. (Read More)

Sen. Lee introduces the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act to establish a national definition of obscenity that would apply to obscene content transmitted via interstate or foreign communications. 

Obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment and is prohibited from interstate or foreign transmission. The Supreme Court, however, has struggled to define obscenity, and its current definition under the “Miller Test” runs into serious challenges when applied to the internet. (Read More)

Rep. Stewart introduces bill to prevent lab funding for foreign adversaries

Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) introduced the Stop Adversarial Funding Expenditures for Laboratories Act. This legislation would prohibit any head of a Federal agency from providing assistance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and other laboratories in adversarial countries. (Read More)

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Upcoming

• Utah Economic Outlook and Public Policy Summit with the Salt Lake Chamber — Jan. 12, 2023, Salt Lake City Marriott, 8 am - noon, Register here
• Legislative session begins, Jan. 17, 2023, le.utah.gov

On This Day In History

• 1791 - Bill of Rights ratified with 10 amendments. (12 were proposed.)
• 1832 - Gustave Eiffel is born.
• 1836 - The temporary home of the U.S. Patent Office, the Blodget Hotel in Washington, D.C., goes up in flames. The office held approximately 10,000 patent documents from 1790-1836 and the fire destroyed nearly all of them.
• 1913 - Muriel Rukeyser is born. A poet who won the Yale Younger Poets award in 1935 for her first book, “Theory of Flight,” she also wrote 13 other books of poetry
• 1944 - US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
• 1961 - Architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, sentenced to die by an Israeli war crimes tribunal
• 1966 - Walt Disney dies of lung cancer at age 65
• 1973 - Kidnapped grandson of Getty billionaire found alive near Naples, Italy, five months after his disappearance
• 1978 - US announces it will recognize communist China
• 1988 - U.S. House of Representatives recommends impeaching President Clinton
• 2011 - US declares an official end to the War in Iraq
• 2020 - MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations across the US
• 2021 - bell hooks dies at age 69

Wise Words

"Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits."

—bell hooks

On the Punny Side

What did the gingerbread man put on his bed?

A cookie sheet!

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