Ten Things You Need to Know for Thursday – November 6, 2014
Bryan Schott
How Love pulled off her historic win. Hatch now in line for the presidency. Voter turnout on Tuesday was dismal.
Countdown:
Days until the opening day of the 2015 Utah Legislature – 81
Days to the final day of the 2015 Utah Legislature – 126
Days to the 2015 Utah municipal primary elections – 278
Days to the 2015 election – 362
Days to the 2016 Iowa Caucuses (tentative) – 438
Days until the 2016 presidential election – 733
Thursday's top-10 headlines:
Here's how Mia Love pulled off her historic win to become the first black Republican woman in Congress [Tribune].
Love does an interview with CNN that the Washington Post called "baffling" [Washington Post].
Sen. Orrin Hatch will become third in line for the presidency now that Republicans have control of the Senate [Tribune].
Sens. Hatch and Mike Lee are ready to get to work in the new Republican-controlled Senate [Deseret News].
Voter turnout for Tuesday's election was less than stellar [Tribune].
Next year's legislature will be the third most-Republican in Utah history [Utah Data Points].
The number of women on Utah's Capitol Hill will drop following Tuesday's election [Tribune].
The number of women on the Salt Lake County Council has doubled [Tribune].
Lawyers for the Tribune and Deseret News are fighting to keep some papers about their business dealings secret in the lawsuit filed by a community group over changes to their joint operating agreement [Tribune].
Utah's new water year is off to a dismal start [Deseret News].
On this day in history:
1860 – Former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency.
1861 – Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
2009 – The government reported unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in the U.S., the first time the jobless rate had hit double digits since 1983.