It's Monday! Let's get going on another week!
Hillary Clinton announces her 2016 campaign. Marco Rubio will jump in the 2016 presidential race today. Herbert and Lee enjoying high approval ratings.
Countdown:
- Days to the 2015 Utah municipal primary elections – 120
- Days to the 2015 election – 204
- Days to the 2016 Iowa Caucus (tentative) – 281
- Days to the opening day of the 2016 Utah Legislature – 288
- Days to the 2016 New Hampshire Primary – 289
- Days to the 2016 Utah presidential primary – 443
- Days until the 2016 presidential election – 576
Monday's top-10 headlines:
- Hillary Clinton makes it official by announcing her run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination [Politico].
- Florida Senator Marco Rubio will join the 2016 fray today by announcing his bid for the White House [Washington Post].
- Gov. Gary Herbert and Sen. Mike Lee are enjoying high approval ratings according to our latest survey [Utah Policy].
- Sen. Mike Lee's path to another term in Washington just got a lot easier [Tribune].
- A federal judge deals a blow to the Utah GOP's lawsuit against the "Count My Vote" compromise by refusing to grant the party's request for a preliminary injunction [Deseret News, Tribune, Fox 13].
- Salt Lake County Democrats meet in their annual convention to pick new leadership [Utah Policy].
- Utah leaders warn of the devastation that would follow a big earthquake along the Wasatch Front [Deseret News].
- Federal regulators are getting close to approving EnergySolutions' waste disposal facility near Clive that will host thousands of tons of depleted Uranium [Tribune].
- Logan officials are considering using crowd funding to pay for needed repairs to city facilities [KSL].
- A federal judge blocks a Utah state judge from hearing a lawsuit brought by an environmental group over rural roads in Tooele [Tribune].
On this day in history:
- 1861 – Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces at the start of the Civil War.
- 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington.
- 1970 – An oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 as it was on its way to the moon prompting command module pilot Jack Swigert to utter the famous words, "Houston, we've had a problem."
