Ten Things You Need to Know Today - Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 7:45am

Utah Policy

Good Tuesday morning from Salt Lake City. There are 65 days left in 2015.

Congress and the White House reach a budget deal. Becker and Biskupski's advertising is not making much of an impact. Consultants hired to help plan the prison move.

The clock:

7 days to the 2015 election - (11/3/2015)
83 days to the 2016 Iowa Caucus (tentative) - (1/18/2016)
90 days to the opening day of the 2016 Utah Legislature - (1/25/2016)
91 days to the 2016 New Hampshire Primary - (1/26/2016)
136 days to the final day of the 2016 Utah Legislature - (3/10/2016)
246 days to the 2016 Utah primary election - (6/28/2016)
378 days until the 2016 presidential election - (11/8/2016)

Tuesday's top-10 headlines:

Congress and the White House reach a tentative two-year budget deal to avoid a shutdown [Washington Post].
Ben Carson takes the lead nationally over Donald Trump in the latest poll [New York Times].
Donald Trump says he got his start in the business world with a "small" one-million dollar loan from his father [CNN].
Our latest poll shows advertising by Ralph Becker and Jackie Biskupski isn't making much of an impact on likely voters [Utah Policy].
The Prison Development Commission hires two consultants to help them start the process of moving the prison from Draper to Salt Lake City [Deseret News].
Does Utah have a $96 million budget surplus or a $103 million surplus? Both numbers are true in a sense [Utah Policy].
Salt Lake County Mayor and County Sheriff Jim WInder clash over a proposed cut in employee retirement benefits [Tribune].
Efforts to resolve the lawsuit by the Utah GOP over SB54 through mediation have failed [Deseret News].
A new report says Utah's public defender system is inconsistent and needs more oversight to be effective [Utah Policy, Deseret News, Tribune, Fox 13, KUER].
Marian Edmonds-Allen resigns as executive director of the Utah Pride Center just three months after taking the job [Deseret News, Tribune].

On this day in history:

1682 - The city of Philadelphia was founded by William Penn to serve as the capital of the Pennsylvania Colony.
1787 -The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.
1904 - The first rapid transit subway opened in New York City.
1947 - "You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio.
1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
2005 - White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of criticism from fellow conservatives.

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