Local Headlines 2-5-18

Salt Lake Tribune

Op-ed: Count My Vote would take away accountability of elected officials

Op-ed: Don’t forget those who suffer from chronic pain

Op-ed: A new way of doing business on water

Editorial: Give us the tax debate, legislators

Trump’s new small-business leaders want to help rural Utahns

A Utah lawmaker is planning to cancel a tax hike for education, even if voters approve it

How Utah made $1.8 million from tiny piece of state-owned wildlife habitat

Utahns may lead on air quality awareness, but poll shows they lag on taking personal action

Conservative ‘small government’ Utah Legislature is busy pushing a record number of bills

Utah House Republicans aren’t giving up their bid to create a powerful new committee to investigate state and local agencies

How do you pass a tax hike in an election year? Target out-of-state visitors, not voters.

Utahraptor claws closer to becoming state dinosaur

Call for another Olympics bid advances in Utah Legislature

Utah is a step closer to changing its definition of domestic violence to include an abuser whom a victim has dated but hasn’t lived with

3 of 4 Utahns support tougher ban on cellphone use while driving

What will Trump’s reshaping of Interior Department mean for Utah and the West?

$144M wish list in hand, Salt Lake City leaders start the hard work of figuring out how much taxpayers can afford

Utah’s polygamous wives see a Martha Hughes Cannon statue in Washington, D.C., as a symbol of what women — including them — can accomplish

Gehrke: If Utah can import Canadian drugs safely and save millions, then why the heck shouldn’t we do it?

Deseret News

Frank R. Pignanelli and LaVarr Webb: The wild card in Utah political races — Trump

Boyd Matheson: Mayor Biskupski — tear down these walls!

Op-ed: Minimal support for raising Utah’s minimum wage

Op-ed: Hatch should close out career by reauthorizing home visiting program

Editorial: Shifting monetary policy could impact Utah’s investments

House passes bill to provide grant money for convicts seeking technical careers

Bills strengthening domestic violence laws moving through Utah Legislature

Bill creating legislative oversight committee pitched

Lawmaker unveils bill to undo Our Schools Now ballot initiative

Interior deputy pitches agency overhaul to Utah’s rural leaders

Committee approves bill naming Utahraptor state dinosaur

Bill limiting powers of temporary replacements for elected officials advances

Resolution advances proclaiming Utah ‘ready, willing and able’ to host another Olympics

Lawmaker mulling bill that usurps cannabis ballot initiative, could include implementation barriers

Utah lawmakers seek to snuff out smoking at the Capitol

Utah lawmaker seeks to ease burden on diabetics renewing drivers’ licenses

Committee puts bill banning cellphone use in school zones on hold

Utah, like most places, is struggling to find qualified police officers. What can be done about it?

Required testing doesn’t devour instruction time, Utah school district audit shows

Other

Proposed legislation will make it easier for Utah County to change form of county commission (Daily Herald)

UTA board supports bill that would drastically shrink its size (Standard-Examiner)

Recognizing Weber County’s ‘pro-business environment’ key in spurring growth (Standard-Examiner)

Utah Legislature considering tweaks to process of changing county government (Standard-Examiner)

Park City Rep. Tim Quinn breaks with party lines, supports eliminating grocery tax (Park Record)