Local Headlines 8-29-13

Salt Lake Tribune

Editorial: WVC’s new chief: Russo faces a difficult job

Utah lawmakers likely to debate use of search warrants

West Valley City and South Salt Lake recounts set for Thursday

Mormon mom wants medical marijuana for her sick son

Representatives of Utah want congressional vote on Syria

Sen. Lee says Obamacare creates horror stories

Utah joins in celebrating King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

Scientists leave GOP due to attitudes toward science, say Utah educators

Salt Lake City’s ‘lighter, quicker, cheaper’ gets mixed reviews

NSA may have nabbed phone records too during Salt Lake Olympics

Deseret News

Op-ed: Sen. Jones’ bill deserves discussion

Dan Liljenquist: Extreme poverty requires hand-to-hand combat

Jay Evensen: Replace prison with a large public park

Editorial: Ignoring miners

West Valley City to rename street in honor of Cesar Chavez

Vote recounts for mayor’s races in West Valley, South Salt Lake

Cancer diagnosis ends Murray mayoral candidate’s campaign

A conversation with new West Valley Police Chief Lee Russo

The ‘Dream’ lives on: Utahns mark MLK speech but say there’s more needs to be done

Food stamp fraud: big problem or exaggeration?

Other

Santaquin to raise property taxes 32.5 percent (Daily Herald)

Provo mayor, councilman going to China (Daily Herald)

Poll: Utahns support legalization of medical marijuana (Daily Herald)

Utah ACT scores high among states with 100 percent participation (Logan Herald Journal)

Editorial: Cheers for town halls (Standard-Examiner)

At state Capitol, bells remind to ‘let freedom ring’ (Standard-Examiner)

$17M Powder Mountain project could hit taxpayers (Standard-Examiner)

Districts to get first letter grade (Standard-Examiner)