Back from the holidays, it's the Mormon News Report podcast! Today on the show, an historic temple goes down for renovations, the final tallies of the Giving Machines, holiday parties in Modesto can get a bit crazy, and finally, are Mormon women caught between work/education and religion? All that plus more on the Report!

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Finally Statehood! Utah's Struggles 1849 - 1896 by Edward Leo Lyman

HEADLINES

* 'Giving Machines' raise $625,000, 'exceeding expectations' in first-year test run (The Denver Channel 7 ABC)

* Settlement reached in church suit (The Garden Island, Kaua’i Hawaii)

* Man loses part of ear in fight with son at church. Here’s where deputies found him (The Modesto Bee)

* It’s the start of a new era as Salt Lake Temple begins its 4-year renovation (Deseret News)

* Mormon women are caught between economic pressures and the word of God (Quartz)

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