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Today is the 79th day of the year. There are 286 days remaining in 2019.
31 days to the Utah Libertarian Party state convention (4/20/2019)
45 days to the Utah State Republican Party Organizing Convention (5/4/2019)
75 days until the municipal election filing period opens (6/3/2019)
79 days until the municipal election filing period ends (6/7/2019)
94 days to the Utah State Democratic Party Organizing Convention (6/22/2019)
146 days to the 2019 Utah primary elections (8/13/2019)
230 days to the 2019 municipal elections (11/5/2019)
313 days to the first day of the 2020 Utah Legislature (1/27/2020)
321 days to the 2020 Iowa Caucuses (2/3/2020)
349 days to the 2020 Utah presidential primary (3/3/2020)
590 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
Utahns give Bishop, Stewart and Curtis good approval ratings, but they don't much like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
By Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor
Utahns living in their individual congressional districts give the state's three Republican U.S. House members good grades, a recent UtahPolicy.com poll shows.
2019 Political Bracket Face-Off Day Two
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
The next eight matchups in our 2019 "Political Bracket Face-Off" are live!
Romney says he 'can't understand' why Trump keeps attacking McCain
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Sen. Mitt Romney criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday for attacking the late Sen. John McCain.
2019 Political Bracket Face-Off day one results
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Day one of our 2019 Political Bracket Face-Off is in the books. Who is moving on and who is out of the tournament?
Enough lunacy to power a city - Bernick and Schott on politics
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski shocks the Utah political ecosphere by announcing she won't run for another term this year. With Biskupski's exit from the race, who is the new frontrunner? With all of the money candidates are raising and spending, is there room for someone else to enter the race?
Guest opinion: Bernie Sanders is not a politician - he's a preacher
By Jared Whitley
When Bernie Sanders pulled in a record haul of campaign donations, I made a gentle wisecrack on Facebook that he should have to share this money with all the other contenders in the name of socialism.
Deseret News
Salt Lake Tribune
Mueller's team says they're too busy with "other work" to respond to a court request to unseal documents. The filing is fueling speculation that the probe may be wrapping up...or not - https://wapo.st/2HKrcAy
Mueller began investigating Cohen in 2017. Newly unsealed court filings show special counsel Robert Mueller sought emails from Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, nearly a year before his team raided Cohen's office - https://politi.co/2HEZxkm
Waiting on Mueller. Journalists, Democrats and Republicans are anxiously looking for any signs that the special counsel is ending his investigation - http://bit.ly/2HOctEm
Pelosi doubles down on impeachment stance. The House Speaker says launching a drive to impeach President Trump is a "waste of time" unless the evidence against him is overwhelming - http://bit.ly/2HFrl88
White House ignores document requests. White House lawyers have not responded to more than a dozen letters from Congressional Democrats asking for documents related to their investigations of the administration - https://wapo.st/2HI4OHS
Trump's tax cuts aren't enough. White House officials concede the $1.5 trillion tax cut passed by Congress in 2017 won't be enough to deliver the 3 percent annual growth promised by President Trump - https://nyti.ms/2HHIXAo
Biden tells supporters he's running. The former vice president told a half dozen supporters he plans to run for president in 2020 - https://on.wsj.com/2HNhGN3
Democratic debate ticket. Democratic presidential hopefuls must either get 1 percent support in a series of public polls or 65,000 individual donors to qualify for the first primary debates - https://wapo.st/2HKuxzd
A court win for Trump. The Supreme Court ruled the federal government can detain immigrants convicted of crimes without a bond hearing even if they committed the crimes years earlier - https://politi.co/2HIT9IT
Republicans step up attacks on big tech. Conservatives amp up their complaints that social media and tech companies are biased against them - http://bit.ly/2HJzRTv
Top Democrat says the Trump family is the "greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime." Rep. James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, also compared Trump's behavior to Hitler - https://nbcnews.to/2HFrsR6
Trump sidelines his top North Korea negotiator. Recently President Trump shut down an effort by his top negotiator to reestablish back-channel communications with North Korea - http://bit.ly/2HJ2lwK
Ronald Reagan's daughter says he would be "horrified" by today's GOP. Patti Davis says the former president would be "heartbroken" by the state of the Republican Party and President Trump's behavior - http://bit.ly/2HOgski
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1915 - Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity.
1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2003 - In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
Join WTC Utah on March 25 for a Diplomatic Luncheon with Montreal
World Trade Center Utah, in partnership with Montral International and the Governor's Office of Economic Development, is delighted to host a luncheon seminar to discuss Doing Business with Montral.
Dr. Brian E. Shiozawa to provide morning keynote remarks at Utah Technology Innovation Summit in April
Dr. Brian E. Shiozawa, regional director of intergovernmental and external affairs for Region 8 of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will give the keynote remarks during the morning session of the Utah Technology Innovation Summit on Apr. 1 at the Little America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City, the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR) announced.
Education
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver
Bribe DNA
"Actress Lori Laughlin, one of the 50 people charged for paying bribes to get their children into colleges, was released yesterday on a $1 million bond. Said Laughlin: 'How about we make it a million and a half and my daughter gets into law school?'" - SETH MEYERS
