What You Need to Know About Utah Politics Today - February 12, 2014

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 8:30am

Local News Highlights: Daily Briefing

Reyes askinglawmakers for more money for Amendment 3 ruling. Lockhart's education technology plan will help build wireless capacity in schools. Battle over "Count My Vote" heating up on the Hill.

Countdown:

29 days until the final day of the 2014 Legislature
132 days until Utah's 2014 primary elections
265 days to the 2014 midterm elections
628 days to the 2015 elections
693 days until the 2016 Iowa Caucuses
999 days to the 2016 presidential election

Today's Utah political news highlights:

Attorney General Sean Reyes is asking lawmakers for more money to appeal the Amendment 3 ruling in federal court [Standard-Examiner].
81 Utah Republican lawmakers sign on to a court brief defending Utah's ban on same-sex marriage [Tribune].
The state is readying an appeal to a ruling that struck down parts of Utah's ban on polygamy [Standard-Examiner].
House Speaker Becky Lockhart's push for more technology in educationwill include money to increase the wireless capacity of schools [Tribune, Deseret News].
Legislation spawned by the House investigation into John Swallow starts to trickle out in the Legislature [Utah Policy].
The Utah House passes a bill offering grants, paid for by private businesses, for preschool education [Utah Policy, Tribune].
A Senate committee approves a bill allowing the state to adopthigher air-quality standards than the federal government [Tribune].
The fight over how political parties nominate their candidates is heating up on the Hill [Utah Policy].
Advocates call for Utah to raise the minimum wage to $10.25 per hour [Deseret News, Tribune].
A Senate committee kills a measure making failing to weara seat belt a primary offense [Tribune].
The City of Orem has been forced to freeze its checking account following a case of check fraud [Daily Herald].
The Utah Department of Health says they've found an elevated rate of cancer surrounding a medical waste incinerator [Tribune, Deseret News].

On this day in history:

English colonists founded Savannah, Georgia in 1733.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in 1809.
The Utah Territory granted women the right to vote in 1870. That was later revoked in 1887.
The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in 1999

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