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Today is the 65th day of the year. There are 300 days remaining in 2019.
8 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
45 days to the Utah Libertarian Party state convention (4/20/2019)
59 days to the Utah State Republican Party Organizing Convention (5/4/2019)
89 days until the municipal election filing period opens (6/3/2019)
93 days until the municipal election filing period ends (6/7/2019)
108 days to the Utah State Democratic Party Organizing Convention (6/22/2019)
160 days to the 2019 Utah primary elections (8/13/2019)
244 days to the 2019 municipal elections (11/5/2019)
327 days to the first day of the 2020 Utah Legislature (1/27/2020)
335 days to the 2020 Iowa Caucuses (2/3/2020)
603 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
Lawmakers worry the fight over higher-alcohol beer might lead to a liquor ballot initiative in 2020
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Some Utah lawmakers fear the failure to pass a bill allowing grocery and convenience stores to sell higher alcohol-content beer could lead to a liquor themed voter initiative in the 2020 election....
Lawmakers considering $341 million income tax reduction, but not until 2022
By Bryan Schott and Bob Bernick
Legislative leaders say they're eyeing a $341 million income tax cut, but the entire reduction will be phased in over time to correspond with a proposed overhaul of the sales tax....
Senate gives final approval to hate crimes legislation, sending the issue to the House
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
The Utah Senate gave final approval to the so-called "hate crimes" bill on Tuesday morning, sending the proposal to the House....
Deseret News
Salt Lake Tribune
Other
Yikes! Despite claims to the contrary, President Donald Trump demanded White House staffers grant his daughter Ivanka Trump a security clearance over their objections - https://cnn.it/2IXtdva
Uh oh! North Korea is apparently rebuilding a long-range missile testing facility that has been dormant since last year - https://nbcnews.to/2ITxwaR
Breaking point at the border. More than 76,000 migrants were apprehended attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally in February, which is the highest number in the last 12 years - https://nyti.ms/2ISOCWt
The federal deficit jumped 77% in the first four months of 2019. The deficit was fueled by higher spending and the Trump tax cuts - https://wapo.st/2ITwwU9
Most Americans believe Trump committed crimes before he became president. A Quinnipiac poll found 64% of Americans believe Trump committed crimes before taking office, but only 45% say he committed crimes while he has been president. 59% say Congress should not impeach President Trump - http://bit.ly/2ITOlmg
Democrats plan to seek 10 years of Trump's tax returns. House lawyers are preparing their request in a way they hope will survive a court battle - https://wapo.st/2ISQ0IF
Trump wrote checks to Michael Cohen in the midst of official business in the White House. 11 times he signed the payments to his former personal lawyer as part of what federal prosecutors say was a criminal scheme to skirt campaign finance laws - https://nyti.ms/2IVWarl
More trouble for Trump's business. New York State regulators have issued a subpoena to the company's insurance broker following Michael Cohen's testimony that the company may have committed insurance fraud - https://nyti.ms/2IWbXq6
Trump's former lawyer says the Mueller investigation is not a "witch hunt." Ty Cobb said on the ABC News podcast "The Investigation" that Robert Mueller is "an American hero" - https://abcn.ws/2IWfHYZ
Michael Bloomberg won't run for president in 2020. Instead, he's going to pour truckloads of money into electing Democrats and defeating President Donald Trump - https://nyti.ms/2IVWpCL
Trouble for Ocasio-Cortez. The freshman Democrat's chief of staff established two political action committees that paid a corporation he ran more than $1 million in 2016 and 2017 - https://wapo.st/2IVXYRo
Foreign influence campaigns are continuing "virtually unabated." Former FBI Director Christopher Wray says foreign efforts to sow discord online are continuing without the government stopping them - https://cnn.it/2IWb5lk
1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and brought Maine into the Union as a free state, and made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase slavery-free
1836 - Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 - The Supreme Court rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that a slave could not sue for his freedom even though his owner died in a so-called "free state."
1869 - Dimitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday in an effort to shore up the banking system.
1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
Join us on March 26 for a privacy trends at home and abroad presentation
World Trade Center Utah invites you to a special presentation on Tuesday, March 26 featuring Parsons Behle & Latimer attorney Tomu Johnson to discuss privacy requirements from the European Union and California and how those privacy trends affect inter...
Computer science in every Utah classroom
The Salt Lake Chamber, Utah's largest and longest-standing business association, has convened some of Utah's major employers from industries including aerospace, manufacturing, technology and more, to advocate for robust computer science education in every Utah classroom. Du...
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Doing Thing Right
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Biggest Challenge
"When President Obama left office, he warned Donald Trump that Kim Jong-un's nuclear threat would be his biggest challenge. Well, that, and learning to read. But mostly the nuclear challenge." - TREVOR NOAH
Here are the stories we're following today:
Email us anytime with feedback, questions, story suggestions, news tips, etc... Send us an email at this link.
The UtahPolicy.com daily newsletter gets you up to speed on the top local and national news about politics and public policy. Our news is curated by Managing Editor Bryan Schott, along with help from Golden Webb. ((Click here to subscribe))
Today is the 65th day of the year. There are 300 days remaining in 2019.
8 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
45 days to the Utah Libertarian Party state convention (4/20/2019)
59 days to the Utah State Republican Party Organizing Convention (5/4/2019)
89 days until the municipal election filing period opens (6/3/2019)
93 days until the municipal election filing period ends (6/7/2019)
108 days to the Utah State Democratic Party Organizing Convention (6/22/2019)
160 days to the 2019 Utah primary elections (8/13/2019)
244 days to the 2019 municipal elections (11/5/2019)
327 days to the first day of the 2020 Utah Legislature (1/27/2020)
335 days to the 2020 Iowa Caucuses (2/3/2020)
603 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
Lawmakers worry the fight over higher-alcohol beer might lead to a liquor ballot initiative in 2020
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Some Utah lawmakers fear the failure to pass a bill allowing grocery and convenience stores to sell higher alcohol-content beer could lead to a liquor themed voter initiative in the 2020 election....
Lawmakers considering $341 million income tax reduction, but not until 2022
By Bryan Schott and Bob Bernick
Legislative leaders say they're eyeing a $341 million income tax cut, but the entire reduction will be phased in over time to correspond with a proposed overhaul of the sales tax....
Senate gives final approval to hate crimes legislation, sending the issue to the House
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
The Utah Senate gave final approval to the so-called "hate crimes" bill on Tuesday morning, sending the proposal to the House....
Deseret News
Salt Lake Tribune
Other
Yikes! Despite claims to the contrary, President Donald Trump demanded White House staffers grant his daughter Ivanka Trump a security clearance over their objections - https://cnn.it/2IXtdva
Uh oh! North Korea is apparently rebuilding a long-range missile testing facility that has been dormant since last year - https://nbcnews.to/2ITxwaR
Breaking point at the border. More than 76,000 migrants were apprehended attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally in February, which is the highest number in the last 12 years - https://nyti.ms/2ISOCWt
The federal deficit jumped 77% in the first four months of 2019. The deficit was fueled by higher spending and the Trump tax cuts - https://wapo.st/2ITwwU9
Most Americans believe Trump committed crimes before he became president. A Quinnipiac poll found 64% of Americans believe Trump committed crimes before taking office, but only 45% say he committed crimes while he has been president. 59% say Congress should not impeach President Trump - http://bit.ly/2ITOlmg
Democrats plan to seek 10 years of Trump's tax returns. House lawyers are preparing their request in a way they hope will survive a court battle - https://wapo.st/2ISQ0IF
Trump wrote checks to Michael Cohen in the midst of official business in the White House. 11 times he signed the payments to his former personal lawyer as part of what federal prosecutors say was a criminal scheme to skirt campaign finance laws - https://nyti.ms/2IVWarl
More trouble for Trump's business. New York State regulators have issued a subpoena to the company's insurance broker following Michael Cohen's testimony that the company may have committed insurance fraud - https://nyti.ms/2IWbXq6
Trump's former lawyer says the Mueller investigation is not a "witch hunt." Ty Cobb said on the ABC News podcast "The Investigation" that Robert Mueller is "an American hero" - https://abcn.ws/2IWfHYZ
Michael Bloomberg won't run for president in 2020. Instead, he's going to pour truckloads of money into electing Democrats and defeating President Donald Trump - https://nyti.ms/2IVWpCL
Trouble for Ocasio-Cortez. The freshman Democrat's chief of staff established two political action committees that paid a corporation he ran more than $1 million in 2016 and 2017 - https://wapo.st/2IVXYRo
Foreign influence campaigns are continuing "virtually unabated." Former FBI Director Christopher Wray says foreign efforts to sow discord online are continuing without the government stopping them - https://cnn.it/2IWb5lk
1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and brought Maine into the Union as a free state, and made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase slavery-free
1836 - Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 - The Supreme Court rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that a slave could not sue for his freedom even though his owner died in a so-called "free state."
1869 - Dimitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday in an effort to shore up the banking system.
1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
Join us on March 26 for a privacy trends at home and abroad presentation
World Trade Center Utah invites you to a special presentation on Tuesday, March 26 featuring Parsons Behle & Latimer attorney Tomu Johnson to discuss privacy requirements from the European Union and California and how those privacy trends affect inter...
Computer science in every Utah classroom
The Salt Lake Chamber, Utah's largest and longest-standing business association, has convened some of Utah's major employers from industries including aerospace, manufacturing, technology and more, to advocate for robust computer science education in every Utah classroom. Du...
More National Headlines
Doing Thing Right
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Biggest Challenge
"When President Obama left office, he warned Donald Trump that Kim Jong-un's nuclear threat would be his biggest challenge. Well, that, and learning to read. But mostly the nuclear challenge." - TREVOR NOAH
Utah Breaking News
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
By Bryan Schott and Bob Bernick
Legislative leaders say they're eyeing a $341 million income tax cut, but the entire reduction will be phased in over time to correspond with a proposed overhaul of the sales tax.
Legislative sources tell UtahPolicy.com that, when the proposed income tax cut is fully implemented in FY2022, it will cover four key areas and include approximately $80 million of targeted cuts geared toward lower-income Utahns.
