Local Headlines 9-24-18

Deseret News

Pignanelli and Webb: Kavanaugh, Trump’s coattails & wildfires

Op-ed: This bill streamlines the deployment of high-speed internet across Utah

Op-ed: A vision that elevates Utah’s education system? It already exists

Editorial: Should Las Vegas pump water it doesn’t own?

Utah tops in job growth in U.S., jobless rate flat in August at 3.1%

Regents to ask lawmakers for $6M to place college advisers in every Utah high school

Utah Supreme Court weighing Cottonwood Mall project referendum

Couple supporting McAdams says Love misused their images for her TV commercial

Downtown soup kitchen getting $1.5 million remodel, new work training program

Utah takes more steps to tether parole, probation lengths to offenders’ progress

13 things voters should know about Utah’s medical marijuana initiative

Salt Lake Tribune

Stuart Reid: Jumping into medical marijuana debate has discredited LDS Church

Editorial: Don’t let fees ruin public education in Utah

Editorial: Pole Creek fire second guessing only adds political haze

A Utah high school student was happy working at KFC. But with this program’s help, he’s a pre-med senior in college.

Mormon church takes another step in its anti-Prop 2 push, invites female bloggers to meeting about medical marijuana

Utah’s economy added 55K jobs in past year, up 3.5% — again ranking No. 1 in America

Utah legislator files bill to close a ‘loophole’ he says led to the release of one of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnappers

Other

John Curtis, local leaders, talk aftermath of Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires (Daily Herald)

Group proposes changes to cut Utah prison population in half, save $250 million (Standard-Examiner)

Forum panelists support medical marijuana, but some not in favor of Utah’s Prop 2 (Park Record)