Utah Headlines

Political news

• Remembrances pour in honoring Mia Love (Deseret News, KSL, Salt Lake Tribune) 
• Editorial Board: Utah’s Lt. Gov. Henderson deserves praise for standing up to Trump’s whitewashing of history (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Sen. John Curtis: Government funding crisis averted — solutions avoided (Deseret News)
• Sen. John Curtis addresses Trump’s clash with judges, Social Security reform on ‘Meet the Press’ (Deseret News)
• Sen. Mike Lee criticizes Jimmy Kimmel, Democratic response to Tesla attacks (Deseret News)
• Hundreds protest at Ogden event featuring Rep. Blake Moore, co-chair of DOGE caucus (Deseret News)
• Jeremy Pope: As long as partisans are only interested in opposing presidents of the other party, there will never be an effective check on the presidency (Deseret News)
• Why Mayor Erin Mendenhall sees recent legislative session as ‘punitive’ for Salt Lake City (KSL)
• Mayor Mendenhall sees a pride flag ban as ‘harmful’ to Utah’s Sundance bid (KUER)
• Why this national group gave Utah Legislature its Black Hole Award (Deseret News)
• Will Gov. Cox veto any bills? (Hinckley Report)

Utah

• Utah teen, F1 Academy’s Lia Block, blazes historic trail in motorsports on and off the track (Deseret News)

Biz/Tech

• How a Utah family made Owala water bottles to Gen Z what Stanley Cup is to millennials: ‘emotional support.’ (Salt Lake Tribune) 
• Will Utah’s new barber licensing lead to ‘hack jobs’ — or new opportunities for cosmetology professionals? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself; CEO leaves after failed bids (Reuters)

Crime/Courts

• Numbers show the immigrants ICE is keeping in Utah jails (Fox13)

Culture/Community

• On God's errand: The Pamela Atkinson story (Deseret News)
• Perspective: Abuse in our prisons is killing our humanity (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Parallels between my interned Japanese relatives and Mahmoud Khalil (Deseret News)
• The first-of-its-kind case putting Utah’s new religious freedom law to the test (Deseret News)
• Photo gallery: Match Day at the University of Utah School of Medicine (Deseret News)
• Immersive Harry Potter exhibit coming to Utah, offering a magical experience (ABC4)
• Utah Islamic Center observes Ramadan with community, family (Fox13)
• New documentary follows young adults during Latter-day Saint and NAACP fellowship to Ghana (Deseret News)
• Grand County had the highest rate of domestic violence cases in Utah. A national program is coming in to help. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education - K-12

• Hook and ladder school: Utah County teens learn firefighting skills (Deseret News)

Education - Higher

• Utah gymnastics runs away with Big 12 Conference championship (Deseret News)
• BYU is headed to the Sweet Sixteen. Here’s how social media reacted (Deseret News)
• Taylor Randall, Christopher Koopman: The great distraction — how America’s universities recapture innovation (Deseret News)
• University of Utah partners with Abundance Institute in quest for 'unsurpassed societal impact' (KSL)

Environment

• Cox celebrates Utah’s recent snowpack bump, cautions some cities will still have to ‘sacrifice’ (KSL)
• A copper mine is expanding in Milford. Why it is important (Deseret News)
• The BLM in Utah has lost park rangers, engineers and geologists in a matter of months. See where. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• 1 in 4 military families face food insecurity. Volunteers at Hill Air Force Base hope to help (KSL)
• Salt Lake City ranks top metro for families; expert weighs in on why (KSL TV)
• American women are giving up on marriage (Wall Street Journal)
• Young adults are unprepared for adult life. A college course is helping them get ready (Deseret News)
• How family size contributes to well-being (Deseret News)

Health

• Opinion: It’s time to fix the Inflation Reduction Act to support mental health (Deseret News)
• Global AIDS program teetering after Trump admin’s shock-and-awe (Politico)

Housing

• Here’s what Utah lawmakers did — and didn’t — pass to address the housing crisis this year (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• ‘Sometimes you gotta do the human thing’: The heartwarming reason why Joe Ingles and his family are the talk of the NBA (Deseret News)
• Kitty Dukakis, humanitarian and activist for mental health, dies at 88 (Washington Post)
• George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who became a beloved champion, dies at 76 (NPR)
• Murphy, a beloved bald eagle who became a foster dad after 'adopting' a rock, dies following violent storms in Missouri (AP)
• Former US attorney found dead in Virginia home at 43 (The Hill)

Political news

• IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants (Washington Post)
• Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (Reuters)
• Second lady Usha Vance will visit Greenland as Trump talks up US takeover (AP)
• Schumer says he won’t step down as Senate Democratic leader despite government funding uproar (AP)
• Trump said he didn’t sign the Alien Enemies Act proclamation. So who — or what — did? (Washington Post)
• Venezuela accepts flight carrying deportees from U.S. for first time in weeks (New York Times)
• White House political chief warns the GOP: Democrats are ‘running angry’ (Politico)

DOGE/Musk

• Opinion: When your car changes sides in politics (Deseret News)
• Musk is positioned to profit off billions in new government contracts (New York Times)
• Why did Elon Musk go after bunkers full of seeds? (New York Times)

Ukraine/Russia

• At least 7 killed in Ukraine after Moscow launches drone attack ahead of ceasefire talks (AP)
• US and Russia talk about Ukraine war, eye a Black Sea ceasefire (Reuters)

Israel, Gaza, Syria

• Palestinian deaths in Gaza rise above 50,000 as Israel expands its military campaign (NPR)
• As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died (AP)

World news

• Trump turbulence leads allies to rethink reliance on U.S. weapons (Washington Post)
• Trump vs. Canada: Prime Minister Carney calls snap election to take on president (Politico)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Owens tackles bureaucratic roadblocks in higher education

Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) introduced the Change of Ownership and Conversion Improvement Act to streamline the review process for changes in ownership at colleges and universities, ensuring that federal red tape doesn’t stand in the way of innovation and opportunity. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Apr 7 —Pillars of the Valley Elder Matthew S. and Paige Holland, with the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce, 7:00-9:00 pm, Register here
• Apr 24 — Giant in Our City with the Salt Lake Chamber, 6:00-9:00 pm, Register here
• May 1 — High school writing contest deadline with The Rostra: Applying the wisdom of the past to the problems of today. More info here
• Aug 7 — Titan of Public Service, Sen. Tom Cotton, with the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, Grand America Hotel

On This Day In History

• 1826 - Matilda Joslyn Gage is born. She was a founding member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, a prolific author, an abolitionist, a freethinker, a women’s rights and Native American rights activist. She was written out of history by more conservative suffragists.
• 1832 - Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio
• 1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory.
• 1925 - KSL begins transmission in Salt Lake City
• 1989 - Exxon Valdez crashes, causing one of the worst oil spills in history.
• 1996 - Shannon Lucid becomes the first female US astronaut to live aboard a space station.
• 1998 - Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shoot their classmates and teachers in Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing five and wounding 10. 
• 2014 - Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea

Quote of the Day

"The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today."
—Matilda Joslyn Gage

On the Punny Side

I just realized that the word “seven” has “even” in it.

That’s odd.

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