Local News Highlights: Daily Briefing What You Need to Know About Utah Politics Today - January 27, 2014

Local News Highlights: Daily Briefing

What You Need to Know About Utah Politics Today - January 27, 2014

The 2014 Legislature gets underway. Utahns rally for clean air. Wayne Owens' son jumps into politics.

Countdown:

• Today is the first day of the 2014 Legislature
• 45 days until the final day of the 2014 Legislature
• 148 days until Utah's 2014 primary elections
• 281 days to the 2014 midterm elections
• 644 days to the 2015 elections
• 709 days until the 2016 Iowa Caucuses
• 1015 days to the 2016 presidential election

Today's Utah news highlights:

• Thousands of residents rally at the state capitol urging lawmakers to do something about the state's air quality problems [Tribune].
• Possibly hiking the gas tax will be on the agenda for lawmakers as they get down to business today [Deseret News].
• A number of measures in reaction to the John Swallow scandal will be in play during the 2014 Legislature [Tribune].
• Utahns favor tighter regulations for payday lenders [Tribune].
• Rep. Jerry Anderson moves to de-criminalize cohabitation [Standard-Examiner].
• Rep. Brad Dee lays out his priorities for the 2014 session [Standard-Examiner].
• Lawmakers race to raise money ahead of the 2014 legislative session [Tribune].
• Utah's plan to increase education performance is running into the reality of finances and school capacity [Deseret News].
• It's looking more and more likely a plan to move the state prison from Draper will come to fruition [Tribune, Deseret News].
• Gov. Gary Herbert's approval rating is hovering around 75% while Sen. Mike Lee is still below 50% [Utah Policy].
• The company operating a medical incinerator in North Salt Lake says they are planning to move the facility to Tooele County [Tribune, Deseret News].
• Doug Owens, son of the late Congressman Wayne Owens, is jumping into the race for Utah's 4th Congressional District [Utah Policy].
• Former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sits down for a lengthy interview on a number of topics [Salt City Throwdown].
• So very weird. A member of the Utah County Republican Party is suing the party's vice chair for statements he made about her during party meetings [Daily Herald].

On this day in history:

• Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent lamp in 1880.
• Russian forces liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945.
• The U.S. Air Force began atomic testing in the Nevada desert in 1951.
• The Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris in 1973.
• First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said allegations against her husband were part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" in 1998.
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPad tablet in 2010.
• J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye," passed away in 2010.Today In History. What Happened This Day In History

   

  A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

   

  January 27

   

  1695   Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. 

  1825   Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." 

  1862   President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies. 

  1900   Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels. 

  1905   Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties. 

  1916   President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program. 

  1918   Communists attempt to seize power in Finland. 

  1924   Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin. 

  1935   A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates. 

  1939   President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France. 

  1941   The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington. 

  1943   The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden. 

  1959   NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight. 

  1965   Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon. 

  1967   Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft. 

  1973   A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam. 

  1978   The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois. 

  1985   Pope John Paul says mass to one million in Venezuela. 

    

  Born on January 27 

  1756   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musical genius and composer whose works included The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute. 

  1850   Samuel Gompers, first President of American Federation of Labor. 

  1859   Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor who ruled Germany during World War I but was forced to abdicate in 1918. 

  1900   Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine."