Local Headlines 12-12-18

Deseret News

Op-ed: Proposition 4 is a win for everyone

What is Utah doing about illegal, annoying robocalls, telemarketing scams?

Ranchers reveling in Trump’s proposed rollback of water regulations

Utah Rep. Mia Love: Trump ‘obviously’ doesn’t understand GOP’s issues with minority women

For sale: One embattled jail in rural Utah

Too close for comfort: Groups say oil and gas leases jeopardize pristine public lands in Utah

Mark Huntsman re-elected chairman of the Utah State Board of Education

Salt Lake City Council votes to give themselves a nearly $10,000 pay bump

Utah patients upset at surprise medical bills; hospitals, insurers at odds over who is to blame

‘I’m in’: Retiring state Sen. Jim Dabakis joins 2019 race for Salt Lake City mayor

Salt Lake Tribune

Why was the surly bobcat Mr. Murderbritches freed, while thousands of other ‘nuisance’ wild animals get a bullet?

Feds hold biggest Utah oil and gas auction in years, setting off heightened concerns from environmentalists

UDOT buys homes to make way for I-15 widening, but neighbors say vacant houses bring squatters, drugs, graffiti

Outgoing Sen. Jim Dabakis announces plans to run (again) for Salt Lake City mayor

The internet is in love with a massive reply-all failure in Utah government

The public is ‘beating the hell out of us’: Inland port board member blames community engagement for slow progress on planned development

Rep. Mia Love: ‘My job is not to walk in lockstep’ with Trump

Walmart looks for last call on 3.2 beer in Utah

‘This is about access to democracy for me’: Salt Lake City Council votes to increase its own pay in an effort to encourage diversity of representation

Other

Utah County Commissioners delay decision again on implementing sales tax (Daily Herald)

Summit County officials have captive audience with state representatives (Park Record)

Valley residents visit with representative from Sen. Mike Lee’s office (Logan Herald Journal)