My Follow-up Letter Today to Utah House Majority Leader Mike Schultz on Why Utah Needs a Truly Comprehensive and Authoritative Annually Updated Online and Hardbound 'Utah Almanac':

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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

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Sent: Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 8:43 PM

Subject: re: Need for First-Rate Comprehensive 'Utah Almanac'

December 29, 2023

Dear 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.

I strongly believe that any and all Utahn public-policymakers, students, educators, businesses, members of the general public, and visitors to our wonderful state are currently put at a major disadvantage.

 That disadvantage derives  from the current absence of a truly comprehensive and fully-up-to-date Utah "Facts on File"(registered trademark company name)-style online and hard-copy reference almanac for our entire  state.

We Utahns without a first-rate and complete "Utah Almanac" on our home library bookshelf or school library or public library  bookshelf or workplace bookshelf  are deprived of a golden opportunity for developing statewide pride in our state, a sense of full connectedness to and camaraderie with all other Utahns,  and current  in-depth knowledge about and invaluable new  insights about  our entire state and other Utahns.

We Utahns are also currently deprived of the opportunity for enjoying  immediate and easy-to-obtain year-round  access to the full array of pertinent fully up-to-date statistics and factual information relating to the economy of Utah, the history of inventions in Utah, demographics-related sociological issues, public safety-related issues, public health-related facts about Utah of today, the environmental quality of Utah, the history of law-enforcement in our state,  factual profiles about each and every county and city or town of Utah, profiles on noteworthy civic groups and religious groups and political groups in Utah, cultural and political and religious  leaders of Utah, the  culinary history of Utah, etc.

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

Utah "Almanac":
https://www.netstate.com/states/alma/ut_alma.htm

Utah Reporters Almanac:

https://www.utahinvestigative.org/almanac/

"Colorado Almanac":

https://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Almanac-Facts-about/dp/1558685987

"Wyoming Almanac":

https://wyomingalmanac.com/

"New Mexico Almanac":

https://www.amazon.com/New-Mexico-Almanac-1492-1992-Quincentennial/dp/096258813X

"Oregon Blue Book":

https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/about.aspx

California:

(a) California "Energy Almanac".

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac

(b) "Southern California Almanac"

https://roseinstitute.org/socal-almanac/

(c) "California Health Care Almanac":

https://www.chcf.org/resource/california-health-care-almanac/

(d) "Los Angeles Almanac":

https://www.laalmanac.com/index.php

"Arizona Almanac":

https://azlibrary.gov/dazl/arizona-almanac

Montana Almanac:

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780762736553/Montana-Almanac-Second-Edition

Washington (State) Almanac:

https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Almanac-Facts-About-State/dp/1558684735

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/