Local Headlines 12-8-15

Salt Lake Tribune

Op-ed: Coyote bounty is human mismanagement of predator/prey balance

Op-ed: Pass the America Gives More Act to keep charitable work going

Editorial: UTA shows how bad ideas bloom in secret

Rate of high-school graduates climbs again in Utah

Sen. Mike Lee to donate suspect donations to charity

Utah law enforcement to welcome Syrian refugees and help them assimilate

Utah lawmakers will have $560 million more to spend next year

Councilman drops legal claims against West Jordan City, colleagues

Update on the cast of characters in the Swallow-Shurtleff scandal three years after the saga began

Deseret News

Evelyn Everton: Utah’s ongoing energy threat

Ralph Hancock: John Rawls and the mirage of liberal neutrality

Utah’s graduation rate increases to 84 percent

Legislative group favors fixing up Utah State Fairpark, keeping it in place

Utah Department of Public Safety to tighten security on refugees

Utah has $560M in new money for upcoming budget, but sales tax revenue down

Other

Provo installs new technology in council chambers in transparency effort (Daily Herald)

Local firearm sellers see increase in sales in wake of mass shootings (Logan Herald Journal)