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Days to the 2019 Utah municipal elections: 47 (11/5/2019)
Days to the first day of the 2020 Utah Legislature: 130 (1/27/2020)
Days to the Utah presidential primaries: 166 (3/3/2020)
Days to the 2020 Utah primary elections: 278 (6/23/2020)
Days to the 2020 election: 411 (11/3/2020)
Overwhelming majority of Utah voters support so-called 'red flag' laws
By Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor
By nearly 90 percent majorities, Utah voters support not selling guns to people who have been determined mentally ill by a mental health professional, a new UtahPolicy.com/Y2 Analytics poll finds.
Attorney General Sean Reyes discusses Utah's involvement in the legal action against Google
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes recently announced the state was part of a sweeping anti-trust legal action against Google for their practices in the digital advertising sphere.
Hatch claims Biden didn't believe Anita Hill in new documentary
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Former Sen. Orrin Hatch says Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden did not believe Anita Hill's claims of sexual harassment in a new Fox News documentary set to air this week.
Rep. John Knotwell to resign from the Utah House
By Press release
Representative John Knotwell will resign from the Utah House of Representatives, effective September 30, 2019.
Governor appoints Scott Baird as executive director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality
By Press release
Gov. Gary R. Herbert has announced the appointment of Scott Baird as the executive director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.
Report: Water revenue mix creates 'winners' and 'losers'
By Utah Foundation
Utah Foundation releases Who Gets the Bill? Water Finance and Fairness in Utah. In this third installment of Utah Foundation's new Paying for Water Series, the property tax versus water rate debate is examined from the standpoint of fairness.
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A whistleblower complaint that the acting director of national security is withholding from Congress reportedly involves President Trump's communications with a foreign leader. Trump's interaction with the unnamed leader included a "promise" that was so troubling it prompted a U.S. official in the intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint [WaPo].
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the attacks on Saudi oil facilities an "act of war" on Wednesday [WaPo].
President Trump is weighing a "menu" of responses toward Iran for their alleged role in the attack on the Saudi oil fields [NYT].
President Trump says he's ordered the Treasury to "substantially increase" the sanctions on Iran [NBC News].
There's a proposal to expand background checks for gun purchases making the rounds in Congress, but President Trump has not yet signed off on the plan [Politico].
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing after a photo surfaced showing him wearing brownface makeup to a party at a private school where he was teaching in 2001 [Time].
President Trump taps Robert O'Brien, the nation's top hostage negotiator, as his new national security advisor [Politico].
The White House is withdrawing the nomination of Jeffrey Byard to head FEMA [Politico].
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by another quarter-point [NYT].
CEO confidence falls to the lowest level since 2016 [Axios].
The Navy confirms the videos purporting to show UFOs are legitimate, but won't say what the mysterious objects are [CNN].
McAdams bipartisan bill seeks fair taxpayer return for oil and gas drilling on public lands
Congressman Ben McAdams, together with Florida Republican Congressman Francis Rooney, introduced legislation to adjust oil and gas royalties and return fair market value to taxpayers for oil and gas development on public lands.
Romney: Greatest threat to freedom is an authoritarian China
In an exchange with the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at a Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) highlighted the threats China poses to freedom around the world and America's responsibility to develop a strategy to confront them.
1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
1796 - George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1881 - President James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin more than two months earlier. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
1982 - Emoticons were born when Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman proposed using a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis - :-) - to depict a horizontal smiley face.
1985 - Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
2008 - The Bush administration asked Congress for $700 billion to buy up troubled mortgage-related assets from U.S. financial institutions.
Greatness
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."Ralph Waldo Emerson
Making the Cut
"Unlike previous debates, where all you needed to make it onstage was a permission slip from your mom, this one had a higher threshold for entry. So only the top 10 candidates made the cut, all right. Eleven if you include Marianne Williamson debating from the dimension of the mind." - TREVOR NOAH
