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Ten Things You Need to Know for Wednesday – August 26, 2015

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Good Wednesday morning from Salt Lake City. 

Dueling rallies supporting and protesting Planned Parenthood take place at the Capitol. Jeb Bush visits Utah for a fundraiser. Utahns are not very optimistic about the economy.

The clock:

  • 69 days to the 2015 election – (11/3/2015)
  • 145 days to the 2016 Iowa Caucus (tentative) – (1/18/2016)
  • 152 days to the opening day of the 2016 Utah Legislature – (1/25/2016)
  • 153 days to the 2016 New Hampshire Primary – (1/26/2016)
  • 197 days to the final day of the 2016 Utah Legislature – (3/10/2016)
  • 307 days to the 2016 Utah primary election – (6/28/2016)
  • 440 days until the 2016 presidential election – (11/8/2016)

Wednesday's top-10 headlines:

  1. Dueling rallies, one supporting Planned Parenthood and one against, take place on Utah's Capitol Hill [Tribune, Deseret News, Fox 13, ABC 4].
  2. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush visits Utah for a fundraiser where he says Donald Trump's popularity is due to end sooner or later [Deseret News, Tribune].
  3. A BYU poll suggests if Trump were to win the GOP nomination, Utah's steadfast support of Republicans at the top of the ticket could waver [Utah Data Points].
  4. Most Utahns say they expect the economy to either remain the same or worsen over the next year [Utah Policy].
  5. The American Legion agrees to move out of their office space at the State Capitol building into a larger one [Utah Policy, Tribune].
  6. Utah County Officials decide to keep a proposed sales tax hike on the ballot that may necessitate residents voting twice on election day because the question won't appear on vote-by-mail ballots [Deseret News, Tribune].
  7. The state liquor board declines to rule on a request to allow the sale of mini liquor bottles, opting to leave that question up to the legislature [Deseret News].
  8. Federal prosecutors want San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman to spend time in jail for illegally riding an ATV into Recapture Canyon [Deseret News, Fox 13].
  9. China's economic woes continue which is leading to more uncertainty in world markets [Reuters].
  10. ESPN suspends baseball analyst Curt Schilling after he sends out a since-deleted tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis [USA Today].

On this day in history:

  • 1920 – Eight days after it was ratified, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect – giving women the right to vote.
  • 1978 – Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 246th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I. He died 33 days later.
  • 2005 – Hurricane Katrina struck Florida's Atlantic coast, causing flooding that claimed 11 lives.
  • 2012 – Republican officials announced the party's national convention in Tampa, Florida would be delayed by a day because of Tropical Storm Isaac.