Salt Lake Tribune

Editorial: Poor or rich? In Utah, depends whom you ask

Editorial: Back to normal: Time to restore our values

IRS probe: Hatch wants to hear from Utahns

Analysis: Medicaid expansion would save Utah millions, cover 123K uninsured

NSA, Herbert confident data center can avoid new energy tax

Recording reveals Mark Shurtleff’s 'bizarro' $2 million offer

Deseret Chemical Depot destroys contaminated waste

Deseret News

Op-ed: Fighting the ignoble reign of money

Editorial: Sharing ideas

One third of millenials regret going to college

Report: Medicaid expansion will cost taxpayers

Kennecott lays off roughly 100 workers Thursday

Questions swirl around spending cuts to national parks, lax controls in travel spending

Salt Lake City ranked the 14th healthiest major city in America by NerdWallet

Utah ranks No. 1 for economic outlook for sixth year in a row

Other

Heidi Toth: Politics and the seven deadly sins (Daily Herald)

Utah still last in per student spending (Standard-Examiner)

Utah reps question Air Force chief over sequestration, F-35s (Standard-Examiner)

IRS unfairly targeting you? Sen. Hatch wants to know about it (Daily Herald)

Protester interrupts Obama speech on drones, Guantanamo (The Hill)

Issa ready to bring IRS official back before Oversight committee (The Hill)

Father of Chechen shot by FBI suspects son was tortured (Reuters)

Senate Clears Obama Pick for D.C. Circuit Court (Wall Street Journal)

GOP Rep. Jo Bonner to resign from Congress (USA Today)

Zachary Fardon nominated as next U.S. attorney in Chicago (Chicago Sun-Times)

Mass. Senate hopeful Markey to release tax returns (Associated Press)

Obama orders Justice to review media leak guidelines (USA Today)

Tom Tancredo jumps into Colo. governor's race (USA Today)

In Colorado and Connecticut, the Gun-Rights Fight Gets Local (Bloomberg)

In a Circuslike Outing, Weiner Hits the Campaign Trail (New York Times)

Texas Cities See Population Boost, Census Said (Fox News)

Countdown: There are 166 days to the 2013 municipal elections, 249 days until the start of the 2014 Legislature, 525 days until the 2014 midterm elections and 962 days until the 2016 Iowa Caucuses. 

An analysis says expanding Medicaid coverage will save Utah more than $130 million and would give health insurance to 123,000 residents [Tribune].

A new report ranks Utah #1 for economic outlook next year [Utah Policy, Tribune].

House Majority Leader Brad Dee goes on a European vacation with three lobbyists, but Dee insists the trip was above board because everybody paid their own way and they didn’t discuss politics [Tribune].

Former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is caught on tape offering to get $2 million for Utah Businessman Darl McBride if he would shut down a website critical of another Utah businessman. That money was to come from a third Utah businessman who was in trouble with the Attorney General’s office [Tribune].

Former Legislator and current blogger Holly Richardson says she’s had enough with the “culture of corruption” permeating the Attorney General’s office [Holly on the Hill].

Sen. Orrin Hatch wants to hear from Utahns who think they have been inappropriately targeted by the IRS as part of his investigation into misconduct by the agency [Tribune].

Kennecott lays off 100 workers because of the massive landslide at their Bingham Canyon Mine [Tribune, Deseret News].

The Boy Scouts vote to allow gay members in their ranks [Deseret News].

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launches a new political action committee to support Republicans who share his point of view [Tribune].

Gov. Gary Herbert says he is confident the state can work out a deal to avoid taxing the electricity used by the new National Security Agency data center at Camp Williams [Tribune].