Ten Things You Need to Know for Tuesday
by Bryan Schott
09/11/2012 | 683 views | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
We are 56 days out from the 2012 election and 139 days away from the start of the 2013 legislative session.

Jim Matheson agrees to four debates with Mia Love, but she wants more [Tribune].

Love and Matheson squabble over whether her budget plans would cut federal student aid [Deseret News].

The LDS Church is taking great pains to say they are not taking sides in this year’s presidential race after an email surfaces naming an apparent Mitt Romney supporter as the contact person for an effort to get Church members in Nevada to register to vote [Tribune].

Democrat Peter Cooke says Utah gives too many tax breaks to out-of-state companies that relocate to Utah instead of focusing on businesses that are already in the state [KUTV].

A new report says up to 9-percent of Utah’s prison population is made up of illegal immigrants [Tribune].

Utah’s School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration warns groups opposed to tar sands mining on public lands in the state will be subject to criminal prosecution [Deseret News].

Peg McEntee says the Utah Transit Authority should cut the travel budget for top officials instead of bus service [Tribune].

Members of the Utah PTA discuss how they fought against a controversial bill that would have mandated the teaching of abstinence-only in Utah’s sex ed classes [Tribune].

One in seven Utah households struggle putting food on the table [Deseret News].

Kristen Cox, who is heading up the new Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, does not let the fact she is blind slow her down [Deseret News].
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Ten Things You Need to Know for Friday
by Bryan Schott
May 24, 2013 | 11021 views | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
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].
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