Local Headlines 3-7-14

Salt Lake Tribune

Editorial: Wasatch Front can’t wait for Tier 3

Editorial: Legislature should approve transportation tax bills

Utah House panel OKs changes to voter challenges

Despite criticism, child sex abuse prevention bill moves forward

Payday loan reform bill passes Senate, goes to governor

Bill to ban highway panhandling is approved, sent for signature

NH to Utah: The first-in-the-nation primary is ours, back off

Utah’s leaky tank fund needs an upgrade, lawmaker says

Senate passes bill to tweak school grading

Gov threatens to veto Lockhart’s education technology initiative

Senate passes bill to ban spying by aerial drone

Bill would exempt home-schoolers from Utah curriculum standards

GOP activist wins slander judgment against party officer

Third time’s a charm for autism mandate?

Chamber to provide primer on political caucuses

House approves bill to phase out wood stoves

Two Swallow-related bills overwhelmingly pass House

Utah’s top House Democrat won’t seek re-election

Utah’s Lee: Conservatives must redefine themselves to win races

Five days left: Seizures, sleeplessness as Utah families await cannabis oil bill

Deseret News

Op-ed: History lesson: ‘Taking back’ federal lands

Natalie Gochnour: Who are the real heroes of election reform?

Editorial: Endangered Species Act lost sight of its mission

Utah Democrats offer full Medicaid expansion bill

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell visits WSU

Bill allowing hemp extract for seizure treatment passees to full Senate

Lawmakers pass bill to protect child prostitution victims

Senate passes bill regulating police use of drones

Senate panel approves child sex abuse prevention training in schools

February deemed a snowpack savior for northern Utah

Students trumpet support for funding music in schools

House panel approves bill affirming state sovereignty in education

House passes two campaign reform bills

Utah’s uninsured speak out for health care access

Bill to allow state officials to set air pollution standards stalls in committee

Top House Democrat not seeking re-election

Gov. Herbert threatens veto of House speaker’s education initiative if price tag not slashed

Other

Senate: Lockhart education plan holding up budget talks (Daily Herald)

Op-ed: The logic for a Medicaid-based expansion (Standard-Examiner)