Welcome to Friday. Today is Good Friday for most of the world’s Christians and thus, Easter is on Sunday. The weather should be just about perfect.
5 things you need to know
- Two out of three Utahns favor universal background checks before being allowed to purchase a gun.
- In Utah, women lost twice the number of jobs as men as the pandemic shutdown unfolded.
- Preliminary CDC data shows that the number of suicides in the United States declined 5.6 percent from 2019 to 2020. It was the third consecutive year of decline.
- Arabic coins minted in 1693 showed up in Rhode Island, potentially solving a centuries-old mystery of murderous pirate Capt. Henry Every.
- Taiwan’s worst train crash in decades kills 51, injures hundreds Friday morning.
Countdown
12 days until the end of the Cox/Henderson administration’s first 100 days (04/14/2021)
22 days until the United Utah Party Organizing Convention (04/24/2021)
28 days until the Biden/Harris administration’s first 100 days are up (04/30/2021)
29 days until the in-person Utah GOP Organizing Convention (05/01/2021)
162 days until half-way through the Cox/Henderson’s administration’s 500-day plan (09/11/2021)
