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Unsplash Utah health officials are encouraging people to still wear masks after the statewide mandate ends Saturday. This story and more in Friday evening s news brief.
Friday evening, April 9, 2021
Northern Utah
Salt Lake City School District Votes To Push Back Start Times
Students in the Salt Lake City School District will be able to sleep in a little more next fall. The district voted this week to delay the start time for some schools by an hour, moving the high school start to 8:45 a.m. and extend the day to 3 p.m. The board also decided to move all middle schools to an 8 a.m. start time. Elementary schools have the choice between starting at 8 or 8:45 a.m. The district has been considering a later start time for over a year, citing a growing body of research which shows that starting school later helps students get more sleep and reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety. Read the full story.
Originally published on April 9, 2021 12:19 pm
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with tribal leaders as well as Utah state leaders Wednesday in San Juan County to talk about Bears Ears National Monument. They toured the monument together Thursday morning.
Haaland is visiting southern Utah this week as part of an Interior Department review of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Former-president Donald Trump shrunk both monuments in 2017 at the behest of Utah politicians.
Haaland is under pressure to enlarge Bears Ears from Native American tribes as well as environmental groups. President Joe Biden even promised to restore the monuments during his presidential campaign. But she’s facing opposition from Utah’s state leaders and congressional delegation, who have historically opposed the monument.
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Mountain West News Bureau. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland heard from leaders of nine Pueblo communities during a visit to Albuquerque.
Last month, Deb Haaland made history as the first Indigenous person ever confirmed by the Senate to serve in a president s cabinet. In her first official trip as secretary of the Interior, she visited the Mountain West with a focus on tribal issues.
Haaland spent Tuesday in Albuquerque, hearing from leaders of nine Pueblo communities from across Northern New Mexico. She was welcomed by Wilfred Herrera, chairman of the All Pueblo Council of Governors and a former governor of the Pueblo of Laguna, of which Haaland is a citizen.