Today's Featured Articles:
Today At Utah Policy
Salt Lake City’s two newspapers are taking very different paths
I’m an old duffer, so I’ve always liked turning the pages of a genuine paper newspaper -- despite the ink stains. I enjoy the serendipity of discovering things I didn’t know I was interested as I thumb through the various sections. I used to even like…
Today At Utah Policy
Webb’s Wrap: Plenty to be frightened about . . . or not . . . Will polls get it right this time? . . . What will we line our birdcages with?
Happy Halloween tomorrow. There’s plenty to be frightened about. Anyone who wants to be miserable and depressed can find plenty of justification. Consider just three scary matters: --The COVID-19 pandemic is getting worse, not better. Many states and nations…
Today At Utah Policy
Mitt Romney suffers low approval ratings among his fellow Republicans
Utahns, overall, are split in their opinions of the kind of job U.S. Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney are doing, a recent UtahPolicy.com poll finds. Neither Republican is up for re-election this year: Lee runs for a third, six-year term in 2022 and Romney faces…
Situational Analysis
Welcome to Friday. If 2020 wasn't bad enough: "Experts Fear Lab-Grown Brains Will Become Sentient" (Popular Mechanics).
TICK TOCK
4 days to the 2020 general election (11/3/2020)
6 days to legislative leadership elections (11/5/2020)
18 days to the Board of Canvassers meeting (11/17/2020
45 days until the Electoral College meets (12/14/2020)
81 days to inauguration day (01/20/2021)
87 days to the start of the 2021 Utah Legislature (1/25/2021)
Today at Utah Policy
Analysis: The incredible monopolistic power and riches of Google, Facebook & Twitter
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Are gigantic technology companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter platforms or…
Webb's Wrap: Can we still call them newspapers? . . . The silly mailer wars . . . Are there 'shy' Biden supporters?
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Here are questions that inquiring minds really want to know: After the first of the year,…
Guest opinion: Reflections on the newspaper business
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Sometimes a stunning announcement, even when it is inevitable and probably makes sense…
Local Headlines
Deseret News
- Derek Miller: Regardless of who wins the election, economic recovery must continue
- Op-ed: Proposition 9 will not benefit Utah County residents
- Jay Evensen: Trump or Biden isn’t the most important thing on your ballot
- Utah has paid out $1.6 billion in unemployment benefits over 7 months
- Air pollution building in northern Utah: How long will it last?
- Sen. Mike Lee compares Donald Trump to Capt. Moroni from Book of Mormon
- COVID-19 surges in Utah, spread is ‘out of control’
- Utah preps response plans amid national worries over voter intimidation, threats
- Anti-mask protesters target state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn
- Big flags on big trucks: What these displays say about the upcoming election
Salt Lake Tribune
- Trump administration delists the gray wolf
- EPA guts plan that would have slashed pollution from Utah coal plants
- Governor calls for action but state strategy is unchanged as Utah sees 1,837 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths
- Sen. Mike Lee says Donald Trump is like Book of Mormon hero Captain Moroni
- Sen. Mike Lee asks social media giants for even one example of blocking liberal content. They struggle.
- Seven Utah cities have now bailed out of an Idaho nuclear power project
- Utah’s early vote: Younger voters are turning out and the GOP is catching up
Other
National Headlines
- 'We’ve got to stop the bleeding': Democrats sound alarm in Miami (POLITICO)
- U.S. GDP grew at record 33.1% annualized rate in third quarter, as economy roars back from COVID (JTN)
- Just in time for Halloween: Worst-case scenarios for the election (Roll Call)
- How much can change in six years? Ask these Senate Republicans (Roll Call)
- The NYT Exaggerated the Stature of ‘Anonymous’ — and the Rest of Media Built Him Up Even Further (National Review)
- About That ‘Uncoverable’ Biden Story (National Review)
- Last Call in the Kennedy Belt (City-Journal)
- Suckered by Big Wind in the UK (RealClearEnergy)
- My Resignation From The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald)
- Twitter Suspends U.S. Border Chief For Celebrating Wall’s Protection From Illegal Aliens (Federalist)
- What the Democrats Achieve By Threatening to Pack the Supreme Court (New Yorker)
- How Third-Party Candidates Could Determine the Presidency (RealClearPolitics)
- Tony Bobulinski and implausible deniability (Spectator)
- Joe Biden: The greatest commandment has guided my politics (Christian Post)
- Republicans look to Philadelphia riots to bolster Trump in Pennsylvania suburbs (Washington Examiner)
- Americans say they are better off under Trump, but is America? (USA Today)
- Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest (Wall Street Journal)
- Biden dismisses record economic growth as not 'nearly enough' to dig out of 'deep' recession (FOX News)
Policy News
Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report 10-30-20
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Outdoors Report -- Salt Lake Tribune: Two Utah ski resorts rank among the top five in…
Business community calls for patience and civility with the 2020 election
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The Salt Lake Chamber, along with the signatories below, has issued the following…
The world in 2020 and beyond: Watch a conversation with CFP President Richard Haass
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Dr. Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Miles Hansen,…
Hatch Center webinar highlights bipartisan solutions to civics crisis
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Salt Lake City, UT - The Hatch Center - the policy arm of the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation -…
The Point takes next steps to initiate master planning process
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The Point of the Mountain State Land Authority has released the results of its statewide…
Utah is one of five states to receive ‘A’ grade in a government technology survey
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SALT LAKE CITY - The Center for Digital Government announced the state of Utah again…
Hatch Center unveils policy blueprint to fix nation’s civics crisis
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Washington, DC- The Hatch Center-the policy arm of the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation has…
Lighter Side
In What Gear
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. A Joke a Day
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. A Joke a Day
Wise Words
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For Today: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Winston Churchill
