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Four men and one woman are vying to take the reins of the Utah Republican Party as current chair Derek Brown is stepping aside after a single two-year term.
Leading Utah’s dominant political party for the next two years seems like a plum assignment, but there are some difficult challenges facing its next leader. Those include the seemingly endless fight over whether candidates should be allowed to gather signatures to secure a place on the primary ballot, bypassing the traditional caucus and convention path. Utah is unique in that the party takes an active role in selecting candidates, whereas most other state parties merely provide support for those hopefuls.
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The spokes in Singapore’s deep tech wheel
Building a deep tech ecosystem from nothing has been a tough challenge for Singapore. But now, it’s facing an even tougher challenge feeding talent to the ecosystem and getting funding to keep it going
16 Mar 2021
SGInnovate is a unique government-owned organisation that promotes Singapore deep tech to the world, and invests in funds and startups too
The country attracted talent programme Entrepreneur First which, alongside Antler, has produced 87 deep tech startups since 2017
Success stories include SoftBank-backed medical startup Biofourmis and Transcelestial, which uses lasers to increase internet connectivity
But an emerging talent and early-stage funding gap is threatening to slow down the flywheel keeping the ecosystem vibrant
SALT LAKE CITY Standard time could see its sunset in Utah and other Western states as a pair of bipartisan bills in Congress seek to let states make daylight saving time permanent, giving residents more evening sunlight year-round. Nobody wants to reset their clocks twice a year. This is an unpopular, outdated practice that does nothing but confuse our schedules. It s time the federal government let the states decide, Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, said Wednesday in a statement provided to the Deseret News.
Stewart is sponsoring the Daylight Act, would allow states to stay on daylight saving time permanently if they choose.