Happy Thursday!
It’s been five years since President Barack Obama’s famous tan suit “scandal.” On Aug. 28, 2014, Obama held a press conference to discuss the Islamic State in Syria. But the takeaway for most viewers was the color of his suit, with one Republican congressman complaining that it showed a “lack of seriousness” from the president. [WaPo]
Topping the news: The same former Salt Lake City police officer who handcuffed nursed Alex Wubbels has been hired to work at Weber County jail. [Trib] [DNews]
-> “Don’t trust us, don’t deal with us, tell us to go to hell,” said Rep. Rob Bishop when asked what the proper federal role should be in Utah public schools. [Trib]
-> Clean air advocates and some Utah leaders speak up while the Environmental Protection Agency proposes a rollback of America’s clean car standards. [Trib] [DNews]
Tweets of the day: From @BBCWorld: “'Our war on nature must end,' said young climate activist Greta Thunberg when she arrived in New York by boat for the UN climate summit"
-> From @AOC: “Imagine being on Twitter and having the worst thing you’re called in a given day is ‘bedbug.’ My own friends roast me harder than that"
-> From @MirandaDevine: “#JeffreyEpstein victim Virginia Roberts outside a New York courthouse today, tells the world’s media that Prince Andrew ‘knows exactly what he has done. I hope he comes clean about it’.”
-> From @IlhanMN: “Sorry, @ALGOPHQ, but this is a representative democracy. I was elected with 78% of the vote by the people of Minnesota’s 5th District, not the Alabama Republican Party. If you want to clean up politics, maybe don’t nominate an accused child molester as your Senate candidate?”
Trib Talk: Utah’s Division of Air Quality projects that by 2024, homes and businesses will be the primary source of air pollution in the state. On this week’s episode of the “Trib Talk” podcast, host Benjamin Wood and freelance journalist Heather May discuss the ways home builders and businesses are trying to keep the air clean. [Trib]
Also in the news: The Bureau of Land Management just signed off on a massive potash mine on a dry Utah lakebed. [Trib]
-> A juvenile at West High School had a gun. Then, the police arrested the individual. [Trib]
-> Utah County is set to receive $10.6 million in funding for watershed restoration in the wake of the Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires. [DNews]
-> Ogden residents seeking to limit the use of deadly force by city police officers are pushing for a redefinition of when deadly action is authorized. [StandEx]
-> A new audit says that district and juvenile courts in Utah aren’t efficiently tracking and protecting evidence used in trials. [Trib]
-> Researchers at the University of Utah found that the risks of prenatal exposure to opioids are far from clear. [Trib]
-> Expect traffic delays along the Wasatch Front this Labor Day weekend. [Trib]
-> While the Democratic National Convention will be held in Milwaukee next year, Utah delegates are slotted to stay in Illinois. [Trib]
-> Columnist Robert Gehrke writes about the Good Samaritan Program’s departure from its longtime home. [Trib]
-> Cartoonist Pat Bagley questions whether everything President Donald Trump touches turns to gold. [Trib]
Nationally: A new Trump administration policy says that children born abroad to some United States service members and other federal employees will no longer be granted automatic citizenship. [NYTimes] [CNN]
-> President Trump is reportedly pushing to seize land on the Mexican frontier in order to make progress on the southwestern border wall. [NYTimes] [WaPo]
-> Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. [CNN] [NYTimes]
-> Hurricane Dorian hits Puerto Rico while a “political storm” rages between President Donald Trump and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz. [CNN]
-> Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson said he will resign at the end of the year. Now, Georgia has become an emerging swing state, and state Republicans are now forced to defend two seats. [Politico] [CNN]
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-- Bethany Rodgers and Clara Hatcher