Utah State University’s interim president acknowledges that job cuts are inevitable as school prepares its strategic reinvestment plan. The Logan university is offering voluntary separation options for eligible employees. All of Utah’s degree-granting public colleges and universities are preparing reinvestment plans in hopes of recovering millions in budget dollars. In a recent message to Utah…
There are still 175 days until the 12th annual FanX comic convention returns to Salt Lake City, but Dan Farr, the convention’s founder and show producer, already has the engine running hot putting together a “really good” guest lineup for 2025. “We always change things up…but the number one thing that changes for people is…
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 3, 1973, the first handheld portable telephone was demonstrated for reporters on a New York City street corner as Motorola executive Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. Calling from Motorola’s DynaTAC phone while standing in front of…
Utah has often set the national standard in using legislative power to protect children online. The latest bill to pass, SB142, protects children from entering legal contracts. It may seem silly; you wouldn’t have an 8-year-old sign a binding legal agreement, yet children enter into contracts and share their information online daily. “Every time a…
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issued the Shanghai Communique, which called for normalizing relations between their countries, at the conclusion of Nixon’s historic visit to China. Nixon made one of the most significant foreign…
In today’s classrooms, the battle for student attention has reached a breaking point. Phones have transformed from simple communication tools into pocket-sized supercomputers, and they’ve transformed Utah’s classrooms with them. We have a combined 22 years of teaching experience — one of us is a former schoolteacher and administrator, while the other currently teaches at…
The price of groceries increased by 9.9% in 2022 when inflation was at its most recent peak, making it the most elevated cost increase since 1979, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Inflation and supply chain disruptions made it so no one factor affected the price hike in goods. In 2023, prices…
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Oct. 10, 1911, Chinese revolutionaries launched an uprising that led to the collapse of the Qing (or Manchu) Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took…