The population of Bald Eagles in Utah peaks around this time of year before many migrate to Canada and Alaska for the summer.
There will be several free public viewing events around the state, planned by Utah’s Division of Natural Resources. Make sure to do your part to see these wonderful and magnificent creatures!
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Trump told reporters before leaving the White House early Monday that he was headed to Utah for a great event that is "so important for states' rights and so important for the people of Utah." Trump was met by cheers of support as he touched down Monday morning in Salt Lake City. Supporters gathered at Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base raised shouts and applause the moment they glimpsed Trump's bright red tie through the door of the plane. Trump waved to the group and clapped as he disembarked, flanked by Hatch and Lee and followed by Zinke in a black cowboy hat. They were greeted on the ground by the governor and his wife, Jeanette. The president and the Utah senators paused to shake hands and visit with the crowd, including twin brothers Trevor and Tristen Tharp, 16, who came dressed in suits and wigs to resemble Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The brothers said Trump chatted briefly with them as they asked him to sign the bill of their red "Make America Great Again" hat and praised him as "a very good-looking man." "I get that all the time," was the president's response, according to the boys. Lee called KSL Newsradio's "The Doug Wright Show" from Air Force One en route to Salt Lake City. "We're very excited to see the president taking this big step," Lee said, calling the monuments "a great example of how the federal government sometimes oversteps its bounds." Cheers reverberated through the Utah Capitol rotunda as President Donald Trump announced dramatic reductions to the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments during a brief visit to Utah Monday. "You know the best how to take care of your land," Trump said, telling the crowd of state and local officials and other invited guests that past administrations had "severely abused" the 1906 Antiquities Act in designating the monuments. Within hours, eight conservation groups represented by San Francisco-based Earthjustice — including the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and the Sierra Club — sued Trump in federal court in Washington, D.C. The lawsuit is focused on the Grand Staircase-Escalante and contends the president lacks the authority under the Antiquities Act to downsize national monuments. A lawsuit over Bears Ears is also expected soon. “The gloves are off and we’re taking the fight to the president in Washington, D.C.,” said SUWA attorney Steve Bloch. “We’re outraged by what the president’s trying to do.” Trump said at the Capitol that the monuments have led to "harmful and unnecessary restrictions" as a result of federal overreach on hunting, ranching and what he termed responsible economic development. "They've threatened your very way of life. They've threatened your hearts," he said, promising the state's national treasures would be protected by listening to the local communities that "know the land the best and that (cherish) the land the most." Trump said his actions mean "public lands will once again be for public use." He called modifying the monuments set aside by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama a "very historic action to reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citizens," that should be seen as sensible rather than controversial. Joining Trump onstage were Utah's congressional delegation, including Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, who traveled with him from Washington, D.C, aboard Air Force One, Gov. Gary Herbert, and other state and Native American leaders. "Four more years," someone shouted from the audience as the president signed a pair of proclamations. He did not announce details but did sign a cowboy hat for San Juan County Commissioner Bruce Adams before leaving the stage. Information distributed after the president's speech showed a "modified" Bears Ears National Monument, sliced from nearly 1.35 million acres into an 86,447-acre Indian Creek unit and a 142,337-acre Shash Jaa unit. Grand Staircase-Escalante will be cut back from nearly 1.9 million acres to three units — the 211,983-acre Grand Staircase, the 551,117-acre Kaiparowits and the 243,241-acre Escalante Canyons. The numbers are similar to those that surfaced in reports last week based on leaked documents. The president's proclamations also protect grazing and opens roads to motorized vehicle use, according to the information provided, while allowing for eventual tribal co-management of Shash Jaa. Virginia Jim, a Navajo who lives in San Juan County, said Bears Ears restricted rather than protected land her family considers sacred. "We don't want it fenced up," she said. "We just want people to leave it alone." San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman beamed as he showed off Trump's signature on his yellow-and-white striped tie and bright red "Make America Great Again" baseball cap. Lyman, who spent 10 days in jail and was ordered to pay $96,000 in restitution after leading an ATV ride protesting motorized vehicle restrictions in Recapture Canyon, said the president's actions "restore the county's voice." He said those who "love the concept of a national monument" need to think about the people who live in the region. "They need to take a minute to kind of step into our shoes and recognize there are people down there who view this as much more than a recreation area," Lyman said. "It's the place where we make our livings, it's the place our history is connected to." Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Capitol and some waved signs and yelled at the president along the motorcade route. Later, there was a confrontation on State Street near 100 South between some protesters and police in riot gear. Trump left Utah shortly after 1 p.m. Before heading to the Capitol, Trump toured the LDS Church’s Welfare Square and sat down with top church leaders in a meeting arranged by Hatch. They talked about religious liberty, the church’s welfare program and church doctrine, and Trump praised the church’s efforts to help needy people around the world. “The job you've done is beyond anything you could think of — 180 countries, taking care of people the way you take of people, and the respect that you have all over the world,” the president said. While waiting for the president to arrive at the Capitol, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Herbert met privately at the Capitol with members of Utah's congressional delegation as well as state and local officials. House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, kicked off the program from a podium at the base of the stairs to the Utah House decorated with American flags, telling the crowd that "the little guy's voice was heard" by the White House. Zinke praised the monument reductions, based on recommendations he made following a tour of the remote areas earlier this year after Trump ordered a review of monuments designated over the past 21 years. "When you get shot at, sometimes you do it for the right reasons, and the president is doing this for the right reasons — to make sure Utah has a voice,” the interior secretary said. Earlier Monday, Zinke told reporters on Air Force One, "When a monument is used to prevent rather than protect, the president is right to take action." He said he reviewed 150 monuments, including 27 in detail. Only a "handful" of changes were recommended, with the biggest being Grand Staircase-Escalate, named by Clinton in 1996, and Bears Ears, by Obama in the final days of his presidency. Zinke said his report will be released Tuesday. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, said he believes federal legislation is needed to protect the reduction from being reversed by a later president — and make it less susceptible to action in the courts. "It is true everyone now is threatening to sue, and one judge making a silly decision could unravel almost everything one way or the other," he said. Bishop, along with fellow Utah GOP Reps. Chris Stewart and John Curtis, have scheduled a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to lay out legislation to give congressional approval to the new boundaries and detail land uses. Doing that through legislation will give "some finality and some certainty to it, and the entire delegation's going to be working on that. That's the tough part. So this is the easy part today. Tomorrow starts the hard job," Bishop said. Utahns are split over what should happen to the national monuments, with thousands of people turning out to protest the president's actions Saturday at the Capitol, while others rallied in San Juan County in support of the reductions. Those who want to leave the monuments as they are say they must be protected to preserve tribal artifacts and pristine natural landscapes, while those who say they're too big don't want to limit mining and other potentially profitable activities. More lawsuits are anticipated. Environmental and Native American groups have pledged to challenge the new boundaries, seen as the largest-ever rollback to previous presidential designations under the Antiquities Act. Trump's announcement is a long time in the making. At the beginning of the year, state lawmakers, along with members of Utah's congressional delegation, pushed the newly elected president to roll back the monument designations. The Utah Legislature quickly passed resolutions urging Trump to rescind the Bears Ears designation and to reduce Grand Staircase-Escalante. Former Gov. Mike Leavitt — who said he was told again and again that nothing was happening in the days before Clinton went to the Grand Canyon to announce Grand Staircase-Escalante — called Trump's actions an important statement about the Antiquities Act. "I hope it’s a big red stop sign that says to future administrations, we need to use this law the way it was intended, not as a way of being able to set aside massive areas of land far beyond what is required," Leavitt said. In Washington, Hatch in particular used his influence with the president to get the issue on the administration's agenda. In April, Trump ordered a review of national monuments that included both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. According to Hatch's office, the president even said, “I’m approving the Bears Ears recommendation for you, Orrin," when he told the senator in October he'd follow Zinke's recommendation to resize the monuments. The White House said then that Trump was heading to Utah to make his decision public, but it was Hatch who confirmed when the president was coming and invited him to meet with leaders of the LDS Church. Some were already calling the president's visit a "soft launch" for a Hatch re-election campaign. Politico reported Trump is pushing Hatch to run again to block Mitt Romney, one of his harshest critics during last year's presidential race, from seeking his seat in the Senate. Trump called the senator, who was first elected in 1976, "a true fighter" in his speech at the Capitol "We hope you will continue to serve your state and your country in the Senate for a very long time to come," the president said to applause. Hatch has yet to say whether he will seek an eighth term in 2018. He has been seen as one of Trump's most loyal allies in Congress, even though the president is not all that popular among Utahns. A recent UtahPolicy.com poll found that only 45 percent of Utahns approve of the president's job performance, the same margin Trump won the reliably Republican state in the 2016 presidential race. Romney, the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee was out of town on business Monday but said it was "welcome news that President Trump and Sen. Hatch are coming to Utah to reverse much of President Obama’s federal land grab of Bears Ears." Can you ever win so much that you end up losing? Google and some of their tech cohorts are having to answer that question as they prepare to testify before congressional investigations into Russia interfering with eh recent election that took place this next upcoming week.
Google and Facebook are two of the heavy hitters in question as they dominate the U.S. digital ad market! Google is at about 40% while Facebook is close to 20% of American internet marketing revenue according to eMarketer. Ongoing pressure to limit the spreading of false news and to stop foreign influence in U.S. elections could halt funds and raise costs in the future if Facebook or Google have to add further human monitoring to their advertising systems. Both Twitter and Facebook have already announced plans to make political ads more transparent in line with a bill introduced by Senator Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar. Facebook said it was adding 1,000 human reviewers to monitor ads. Google has yet to share an official response as to how it will comply with the new rules surrounding political ads. It's still uncertain if Congress will regulate Google, but there seems to be a newfound willingness to consider such actions as Google should not be left immune while all the other social media moguls are doing their part. In June Google was hit with a $2.9 billion fine by European Union for hurting competitors. In response, Google changed their product search results in Europe by allowing competitive online retailers to bid for premium spots in search results. EU regulators have said they will keep a watchful eye on whether the adjustment actually gives equal treatment to rivals. The only recent statement Google has publicly shared is the support "to improve transparency, enhance disclosures, and reduce foreign abuse." Google is also contemplating further steps they could take and is pledging to work closely with congress, etc. to explore the best solutions. Google is not all about just making money as they are funding (AI) artificial intelligence technology, Pixel phone hardware, Home smart speaker, as well as the Project Loon balloons , which were recently deployed to deliver internet access to hurricane-ravaged parts of Puerto Rico. Hopefully Google can learn to share and play nice with others and understand that with great power, comes great responsibility! The Uber and Lyft ride-hailing services will begin operating on Thursday (6/29/17) in upstate New York and on Long Island, a move that officials say will provide work for thousands of drivers and reduce alcohol-related road accidents.
The ride-hailing apps should become available for those regions exactly at 12:01 a.m. under legislation approved by state lawmakers and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier in the month. The original measure called for the services to begin upstate and on Long Island on July 9, but Cuomo and the Legislature worked out a deal to push up the start to just before the busy Fourth of July holiday. The two ride-hailing apps had been limited to picking up passengers in New York City until lawmakers voted this year to permit the expansion. The state Department of Motor Vehicles said more than 20,000 drivers are expected to provide rides for Uber and Lyft. The agency, whose duties include regulating ride-hailing companies, said that's the number of drivers who filed information with the DMV to become drivers for the two apps. All those drivers are either on Long Island or in upstate New York, DMV officials said. Buffalo, the state's second-largest city, had been one of the largest cities in the country without access to Uber or Lyft. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown joined Erie County District Attorney John Flynn and local law enforcement leaders to praise the arrival of Uber and Lyft. "Anything that we can do to produce more jobs, to produce more employment opportunities and circulate more dollars into our economy, benefits the economic development and the economy of Buffalo and western New York," Brown said. Police officials said giving people another option to taxis will cut down on the number of drivers who get behind the wheel after drinking. "If ride-sharing can reduce the number of DWI arrests and alcohol-related crashes, then all this effort was worth it," said Timothy Howard, sheriff for Erie County, which includes the city of Buffalo. America has certainly come a long way in regards to the issue of parental paid leave. For the first time, Both republicans as well as Democrats strongly feel that there are enough benefits in paid leave that government should play a role. Exactly how much time should be covered is still up for debate in the months ahead.
One thing's for sure though...based on a CNN review of more than 20 studies on the health impacts of paid parental leave on parent and child, it was discovered that most studies come to the same conclusion: Paid parental leave can have a significant positive effect on the health of children and mothers. Alas, the question remains; how much time is the right amount of time? Forget politics for a moment, and how a paid leave system would ultimately be financed. How much time is best for babies, for mothers, or for the fathers involved? Anyone who follows this issue knows the United States stands in an embarrassing position as the only high-income nation not to have a national paid leave policy. It is also one of only a few countries around the world without such a plan. One study concluded: Based on infant health, maternal health, gender equality and female labor force participation, it is highly recommended six months to a year of paid family leave. The timing for such a conversation couldn't be more important, as President Trump is calling for six weeks of paid parental leave. Ivanka Trump recently discussed the President's plan with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and other Republican members of Congress. On the flip side a Democratic alternative calls for 12 weeks of paid parental leave. Former presidential candidate and current Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders and Democratic Party Chairman, Tom Perez are planning on coming back to visit the great state of Utah once again! They plan on also stopping by in Arizona, Nevada and Florida as well. They will be scheduled to visit sometime between 4/17 - 4/23/17 for what they are calling their "Unity Tour." Both Perez and Sanders hope to better "unite" the Democratic Party in lieu of the recent presidential election they lost to the Republican Party, Donald Trump. Republicans are struggling to repeal Obamacare as promised by President Trump and are therefore asking him to help congress find some common ground.
Representative Dennis Ross of Florida said, "He's the leader on this issue right now; he's the one that's got to hold us together." He also urged Republicans to "'stay strong on the issue" and that, "now is not the time to back down." Representative Bill Flores from Texas was quoted saying, "What the president can say is that the plan that gets presented to the conference is the one you need to vote 'yes' on...that's how he can be helpful." The main issue at the moment regarding healthcare reform is that the staunch conservatives are opposed to the new tax credits proposed with the claim that they would help Americans better afford health care. The main argument is that this type of tax credit is extremely costly with long-term unknown variables/ramifications. They also feel that the bill would actually only cover less individuals than the current Affordable Healthcare Act does. Three of the ring leaders you could say that are strongly opposing any kind of a light reform are Senators: Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah. They made it clear that they will not tolerate anything less than a full repeal of Obamacare! This particular issue comes only a month into President Trump's leadership. Unfortunately the majority of Republicans are facing internal struggle within their own party to finally do what they have been fighting/pledging to do all along (which is to replace the Affordable Healthcare Act with something better). House Speaker Paul Ryan is faithful and believes at the end of the day everything is going to work out! he said, "You're going to have a lot of churning on any kind of legislative product like this. This is a plan that we are all working on together, the House, the Senate and the White House, so there aren't rival plans. I feel at the end of the day when we get everything done and right, we're going to be unified." With what seemed like an eternity, the race was finally conceding by Senator Clinton to Donald Trump at approximately 3:30 am this morning! Both President Obama and Senator Clinton publicly shared their congratulations to Mr. Trump in good taste and fashion.
Donald attributes his ability to win this election through some serious state of the art consumer research and survey tools. Everyone including ourselves were positive that there was no chance of a snowball in hell that Mr. Trump was going to be able to win this! Boy did he prove us wrong! Not only was he able to get over the 270 electoral line for the win, but he also surpassed it at a total of 306 votes to Hillary's 232 making it a grand total of 74 electoral votes that Trump pretty much stole from 5 states that voted Democrat last 2012 election (Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Iowa)! If you add up all of those particular states electoral votes the precise amount is 83. So how did Donald do it?! Especially with spending 500 million less dollars than Senator Clinton! If this is any indicator of what is to come, I for one am truly excited to see what type of savings and incredible "new" methods he can bring to the table for our nation's economy and well-being! Hopefully this is a dawn of a new era where business and enterprise is able to truly be prosperous! A time where a Salt Lake City Business will not be so heavily taxed or down ladened with additional federal bureaucracies. Only time will tell; but from the start, Mr. Trump has an impressive display of skills and abilities to get the job done against all odds. His first objective will be to reverse Obamacare. Let's see what he does with that as he now has the full support of congress behind him due to a Republican majority in both the Senate and House! Stay tuned and be sure to leave your comments so we can all stay updated! In case you were not aware of who is making such a bold claim, it is in fact Tesla! Who else...right? With all of their other cutting edge technologies, why wouldn't they be able to keep their end of the bargain? In fact, Tesla has publicly stated that they are wanting to pioneer the first steering wheel-less driving car that is fully automated! Apparently, Tesla feels it is actually safer to eliminate the human condition in driving altogether. Most likely they are correct in that when you leave it up to the human condition, user error is why there are so many unnecessary automobile accidents daily. This is also counter intuitive at the same time because if Tesla is wanting to develop safer drivers, why are they making a vehicle that can go from 0-60 miles in 2.5 seconds? Their latest car that can accomplish this amazing feat is their Model S P100D Electric sedan. Granted there are many past vehicles that were just as fast if not faster (Porsche, Ferrari, etc.). However when you compare the price and long-term maintenance, their is no comparison. The reason Tesla's Model S is able to hang with the bad boys is because it has no engine, but rather four separate motors attached to each wheel. Imagine a child's wind up toy car that you put on the ground and pull backwards and then let it go and watch it rip! It is the same concept as far as kinetic energy ready to fly you down the road. Powering the Model S is an impressive 100 KW battery that boasts an amazing 315 mile charge before needing more juice! Recently a staff member of Salt Lake City Review was on vacation at West Yellowstone National Park (pictured above from cell phone) and reported seeing 7 or 8 charging stations all lined up in a row at their Grizzly Bear and Wolf Center. One thing is for sure...Tesla is here to stay and is trending a new path for us all to follow.
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