By Matt Crabtree & The Herald Journal
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LGBTQ support organization Encircle broke ground for a new location in Logan on Tuesday.
Encircle, a nonprofit focused on providing local space and resources for LGBTQ youth, recently kicked off plans for expansion after receiving a $4 million donation from Apple, Qualtrics co-founder Ryan Smith and his wife, Ashley Smith, and Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds and his wife, Aja Volkman.
The Logan home is part of a project to establish eight new homes in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona. A similar ceremony was conducted last week for an Ogden location.
This story is made possible thanks to a community reporting partnership between The Herald Journal and Utah Public Radio.
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Young people in Boise have been holding rallies calling for action on climate change in recent years.
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Chase Bank is receiving an April Fool s greeting today from Boise youths, who are calling the institution out for its investment in fossil fuels.
A recent report found JPMorgan Chase has financed $317 billion worth of coal, oil and gas projects since the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted in 2016, the most of any bank.
That s prompted Extinction Rebellion Youth Boise to hold a flash-mob dance party at the city s downtown location.
Petra Hoffman, a Boise High School sophomore and one of the group s coordinators, noted JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said he supports the Paris Agreement.
By Jackson Wilde & The Herald Journal
• Apr 1, 2021
Logan City Police say a construction worker was seriously injured after plummeting five stories at a construction site on Wednesday.
Capt. Curtis Hooley told The Herald Journal said a couple of workers were installing trusses on the top floor of a building on 800 E near USU. Hooley said at some point the man’s ladder became unstable and he fell through a window.
“I don’t know if the ladder collapsed or he fell off the ladder,” Hooley said, “but he unfortunately fell through the open window there wasn’t glass in it, I don’t think.”
Utah Lawmakers have voted to require every cellphone and tablet sold in the state of Utah to automatically block pornography.
According to the Associated Press, critics of the bill are calling it a direct intrusion on free speech. Supporters are arguing it’s an essential step in helping parents keep explicit content away from their children, especially because most of them have spent more time online during the pandemic.
Governor Spencer Cox hasn’t publicly said whether he will sign or veto the bill. If he signs it, the measure wouldn’t go into effect unless five other states implement similar laws. He has until March 25 to decide.