Good Tuesday morning. August rolls on with heat and smoke. Good time to cocoon in place.
TICK TOCK
- 63 days until the last day to register to vote by mail (10/9/2018)
- 70 days until mail-in ballots are sent to voters (10/16/2018)
- 77 days until in-person early voting begins (10/23/2018)
- 84 days until the last day to register to vote in person or by mail (10/30/2018)
- 87 days until in-person early voting ends (11/2/2018)
- 91 days until the 2018 midterm elections (11/6/2018)
- 174 days until the first day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (1/28/2019)
- 219 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
- 819 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
HERE ARE THE STORIES YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO TODAY
Independent redistricting commission. If Prop. 4 passes, can Democrats expect to win more legislative races and perhaps dominate a congressional district? Publisher LaVarr Webb says don’t bet the farm (Utah Policy).
Exclusive poll: Utahns want a bigger effort to prevent teen suicide. Utah’s teen suicide rate is too high. Leaders are taking action, but two-thirds of Utah adults say not enough is being done (Utah Policy).
OTHER UTAH HEADLINES
- New CEO of World Trade Center Utah outlines his vision for the international trade advocacy organization (Utah Policy).
- The Salt Lake Chamber’s Derek Miller inaugurates CEO Success Stories podcast by interviewing Gov. Herbert (Utah Policy).
- Central Wasatch Commission delays vote supporting federal wilderness designation as protestors weigh in (Deseret News).
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s fundraising stop in red Utah is a clear signal she’s serious about running for president (Deseret News).
- Robert Redford says he is retiring from acting at age 81 (The Independent).
- Salt Lake City is hiring a full-time census coordinator to make certain all immigrants are counted (SL Tribune).
- Holladay rejects voter petition on former Cottonwood Mall site, but schedules special election just in case (SL Tribune).
NATIONAL HEADLINES
- Rick Gates, the government’s star witness against Paul Manafort, says he committed crimes Paul Manafort, while also stealing money from Manafort (Politico).
- Republican strategist Karl Rove says Trump should keep expectations low for 2018 elections, instead of predicting a ‘red wave” (The Hill).
- In closely-watched Ohio special election, Troy Balderson and Danny O’Connor make final pitches to rally voters as voting begins today (Cleveland.com).
- International: U.S. reimposes Iran sanctions (Wall Street Journal). Scores killed in latest Indonesian earthquake (Associated Press). Why Saudi Arabia is waging diplomatic war on Canada (Vox.com).
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1782 – General George Washington creates the Purple Heart military badge.
- 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt, at the time a former U.S. president, is nominated as the Bull Moose presidential candidate. After recovering from an assassination attempt, Roosevelt loses to Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson.
- 1947 – Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to the Tuamotu Archipelago near Tahiti.
- 1959 – A U.S. satellite produces the first photograph of earth from space.
- 1964 – Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving Pres. Lyndon Johnson authority to oppose “communist aggression” and expand U.S. military roles in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
