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<suharrison@slco.org>, "Internships" <internships@romney.senate.gov>, "Joel_wellum" <joel_wellum@lee.senate.gov>, "Utah Republican Party" <info@utgop.org>, "Utah Democrats" <mail@utdem.org>, "Utah Medical Association 2021" <info@utahmed.org>, "Utah Hospital Association 2021" <jill@utahhospitals.org>, "Utah Travel" <travel@utah.com>, "membership@utahretail.com" <membership@utahretail.com>, "communications@utahbar.org" <communications@utahbar.org>, "Utah Apartment Association 2022" <info@uaahq.org>, "amy.stutzenberger@uvu.edu" <amy.stutzenberger@uvu.edu>, "lish.harris@utahtech.edu" <lish.harris@utahtech.edu>, "stephanie.hoffman@slcc.edu" <stephanie.hoffman@slcc.edu>, "chris.bertram@slcc.edu" <chris.bertram@slcc.edu>, "david.nobles@slcc.edu" <david.nobles@slcc.edu>, "Molly Sween" <mollysween@weber.edu>, "sociology@byu.edu" <sociology@byu.edu>, "byu-info@byu.edu" <byu-info@byu.edu>, "Utah State University Provost 2022" <provost@usu.edu>Sent: Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 9:25 PMSubject: Re: Need for UT-produced Comprehensive 'UT Almanac'From permanent Utahn resident John Kevin McMillan of Salt Lake City, Utah.December 31, 2023Dear Utah State House of Representatives Majority Leader Mike Schultz,Happy New Year to yourself, your relatives, and your Utah State Government colleagues.After further review of the online links to "almanacs" in other states that I shared with you in my December 29 brainstorming letter (farther below) to you, I need to mention that the cited "almanac" for Rhode Island was actually published in 1930, and that the cited statewide almanac for New Mexico was apparently published in the early 1990s.My primary intent in my leisuretime brainstorming letter was to offer you examples of statewide almanacs and other types of almanacs in a variety of topic areas that have been published in other U.S. states.I am hopeful that you and other State Government of Utah officials, along with news media organizations and Utah State Library officials, might possibly want to draw ideas and informationfrom what you believe to be the very best and most applicable for Utah of the themes and categories used by a variety of almanac editors in other respective states.That proposed review by you first-rate State of Utah officials of other U.S. states' almanacs might help facilitate the compilation of a completely new and truly unique Utah-produced statewide almanac that highlights the distinctive attributes of our great state, the uniqueness of Utah's history, and the Herculean challenges facing Utah and Utahns of today.Below are additional online links I have obtained to almanacs in other U.S. states that I hope might be useful to yourself and to other state officials, including Utah State Library officials:Missouri Legends Almanac:Indiana History and Trivia Almanac:Virginia Politics Almanac:https://publishing.gmu.edu/press/catalog/almanac-of-virginia-politics/North Carolina Gardener Almanac:https://extensiongardener.ces.ncsu.edu/almanac-gardener/North Carolina Kids Almanac:https://www.sosnc.gov/divisions/publications/kids_page_almanacDelaware Newcomers Guide:https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/66843/newcomers-guide-88-a-delaware-almanacAlmanac of all U.S. States:https://www.amazon.com/Arkansas-Hunters-Almanac-Steve-Bowman/dp/0963883224Massachusetts Nature-WildlifeAlmanachttps://www.massaudubon.org/nature-wildlife/outdoor-almanacMassachusetts Almanac:https://www.massalmanac.com/East Tennessee Almanac:https://www.amazon.com/East-Tennessee-Almanac-Robert-Beverley/dp/0962928917Kentucky Almanac:https://www.amazon.com/Clarks-Kentucky-Almanac-Facts-Second/dp/1883589789.San Francisco, California, Almanac:https://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-almanac-Everything-about/dp/0891410929University of Michigan Almanachttps://obp.umich.edu/campus-statistics/michigan-almanac/Mississippi Almanac:https://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Almanac-Ultimate-Reference-State/dp/0964354500Maryland Kids Almanac:https://sos.maryland.gov/mdkids/Pages/Almanac.aspxMaine Garden Almanac:https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781684750092/A-Maine-Garden-AlmanacFlorida Almanac:https://www.walmart.com/ip/Florida-Almanac-Paperback-9781589808461/14549399New Hampshire Almanac:https://www.nh.gov/almanac/Iowa Almanac:http://iowaalmanac.weebly.com/Minnesota Sports Almanac:https://shop.mnhs.org/products/minnesota-sports-almanacAlaska Almanac:https://www.amazon.com/Alaska-Almanac-Northwest-Publishing/dp/0882406981Hawaii Fishing News Almanac:http://www.hawaiifishingnews.com/almanac.cfmOn Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 8:43 PM, John McMillan<mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:December 29, 2023Dear Utah State House Majority Leader Mike Schultz,Thank you again for your friendly December 6, 2023, e-mail reply letter that invited me to share with you concerns of mine about Utah.I am the youngest son of Murray (UT) native Dr. Calvin McMillan, a longtime educator and promoter of lifelong education through his career as a Botany Professor and plant ecology researcher for the University of Texas at Austin. Father had earned both his Bachelor's Degree and his Master's Degree at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.Utah House Majority Leader Schultz, I learned today through online research that numerous respective states in our western region of the USA currently benefit greatly from annual compilation of a statewide or multi-county regional almanac for the state that is sponsored either directly by their state government, such as by their State Library or their state's Office of the Secretary of State state agency, or by a college, or by a news media company in that state.I hope that the online links (below) that I obtained today will help to promote dialogue among members of your Utah State House of Representatives and other government employees in Utah, librarians in Utah, educators in Utah, news media professionals and authors and book publishers in Utah, businesses throughout Utah, Chambers of Commerce employees throughout Utah, and civic groups in Utah about how our great state can get the truly authoritative and factually accurate regularly updated online and hard-bound "Utah Almanac" that we Utahns richly deserve.Sincerely and Best Wishes,permanently alcohol-free (ever since 1990) and lifelong-tobacco-free very anti-marijuana-minded single adult white male British-German-American, lifelong American citizen, Nebraska native, and permanent Utahn resident John Kevin McMillan.My solo-occupancy rental-apartment unit home address ever since June 1, 2022: 535 South 200 East,Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111. I myself am a former full-time newspaper reporter and the founder and only member of the implicitly deistic and factually focused "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"----a non-proselytizing and public policy-minded alcohol-free, pro-law-enforcement new religion that does not agree to having a second member at any time in the foreseeable future. (I might add that my one-member-only fully independent religion is not currently registered with your state government.)My cell phone number: (512) 993-7305.My home phone: (801) 355-0850.The online almanacs I obtained online links for today through online research, and I included what I found for Utah partly to highlight the apparent need for a more thorough and comprehensive and more authoritative annually updated "Utah Almanac" for our entire state:"World Almanac Library of the States/Utah: The Beehive State"https://www.amazon.com/Utah-Beehive-Almanac-Library-States/dp/0836853326
Idaho "almanac":https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/28784/"Texas Almanac":https://www.texasalmanac.com/"New Hampshire Almanac"---- an online almanac compiled by New Hampshire State Library.https://www.nh.gov/almanac/"Oklahoma Almanac"--an online reference book that is provided by the State Government of Oklahoma:https://oklahoma.gov/libraries/state-government/oklahoma-almanac.html"Nebraska Extension Almanac":https://ianrmedia.unl.edu/nebraska-ag-almanac"Providence Journal Almanac: A Reference Book for the State of Rhode Island" that is sponsored by the Rhode Island Secretary of State:https://catalog.sos.ri.gov/repositories/2/resources/1057"Vermont Almanac":https://vermontalmanac.org/