Deseret News

• Editorial: Ron Lafferty’s death sparks these questions about the death penalty
• Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke concedes District 6 race
• Utah’s final new homeless center to begin taking in men next week
• Utah’s water czar: 1 of the most powerful men you likely never heard of
• Latest tax reform plan subjects still fewer services to Utah sales taxes

Salt Lake Tribune

• Wealth Matters: A new generation of the Huntsman family stakes out a new path for charitable giving
• Is religion off-limits on the job? What the law says may surprise you.
• Erin Mendenhall says she’ll take ‘immediate steps’ on air quality the day she takes mayor’s office
• Salt Lake City Council Chairman Charlie Luke concedes in close District 6 race
• Iranian American Society of Utah nonprofit says U.S. sanctions against Iran have created problems for it

Other

• USU alumnus accused of threatening President Trump (Logan Herald Journal)

• Flexible coworking office spaces are now a major presence in Salt Lake City, but could the boom go bust? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• BambooHR keeps workers happy and fulfilled even as the Utah software firm mushrooms in size (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Converting this old silver foundry in Salt Lake City into trendy office space ‘is just the beginning,’ developers say (Salt Lake Tribune)

• The Media Holds A Massive Double Standard About Naming Whistleblowers (Federalist)
• Alex Vindman Is Living, Breathing Proof That The Deep State Exists, And It Is Corrupt (Federalist)
• How To Trigger A Global Recession In One Easy Step: Ban Fracking (RealClearEnergy)
• Bloomberg Will Hit an Iceberg (RealClearPolitics)
• Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart (WIRED)
• Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate (National Review)
• Democrat Mazie Hirono: We Should Believe in Climate Change as If It's a Religion, Not a Science (Townhall)
• Trump economy is really experiencing a middle-class boom -- this data doesn't lie (FOX Business)
• Obama, Clinton Alumni Serve At UN, Continuing Liberal Influence Over International Affairs During Trump Era (Daily Caller)
• Supreme Court appears inclined to let Trump end DACA program (NBC News)
• What Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand about Brexit (Spectator)

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Be Yourself

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Impeachment

A top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy regarding Ukraine told House impeachment investigators last month that President Donald Trump directed the freezing of military aid to Ukraine over the summer [NBC News].

Two senior U.S. officials told House investigators that Ukranian leaders were aware nearly $400 million in congressionally approved security assistance had been frozen well before the information became public, which undercuts a key point of President Trump's defense that there was "no quid pro quo" over the aid [Washington Post].

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Jimmy Carter

The former president was hospitalized Monday evening for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain caused by recent falls [Washington Post].

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Woah!

Two political supporters of Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas deal from the Ukrainian government shortly after Perry proposed one of the men as an advisor to the country's new president [AP].

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Oh, please let this happen!

Rudy Giuliani is considering launching a podcast to provide analysis on the public impeachment hearings [CNN].

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Trump's taxes

A Trump-appointed federal judge ruled that the president cannot sue New York state officials in a Washington DC court to block the release of his tax returns [CNN].

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2020

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is reportedly laying the groundwork to launch a presidential bid next year [Washington Post].

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Immigration

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether the Trump administration can end a program that keeps about 700,000 young immigrants from being deported [New York Times].

The U.S. held a record number of migrant kids in custody in 2019 [AP].

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Yikes!

Google is collecting the personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states [Wall Street Journal].

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Fare thee well

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was voted off "Dancing with the Stars" Monday night. Critics say he should have been booted off the show weeks ago [Washington Post].

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