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Trump's pick as national security adviser once shared classified material. The likely Interior secretary opposes GOP's efforts to sell off public lands. Voters want Utah electors to change their vote.
Happy Thursday. A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in Donald Trump's White House, "inappropriately shared" classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan. That's the same guy, by the way, who said Hillary Clinton should be locked up for using her private email server. [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-national-security-adviser-shared-secrets-without-permission-files-show/2016/12/13/72669740-c146-11e6-9578-0054287507db_story.html?utm_term=.7fdd454187b4">WaPost</a>]
<strong>Topping the news: </strong>President-elect Donald Trump's likely pick to head the Interior Department,<strong> </strong>Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, opposes the idea of selling federal lands to the states but has a record of voting to develop federal land. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4711383-155/trumps-choice-to-head-interior-opposes?page=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Voters are still badgering Utah's electors to defect and prevent Trump from taking office, but the electors still won't budge, and a poll shows Utahns mostly favoring the Electoral College. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4713296-155/pressure-ramping-up-on-utah-electors"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865669280/Presidential-electors-pressed-to-dump-Trump-Utahns-favor-keeping-Electoral-College.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>] [<a href="http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-news/are-utahns-in-favor-of-the-electoral-college/619255370"; target="_blank">ABC4</a>]
-> Salt Lake City Council members mull over which of the four neighborhoods selected to house new homeless shelters should get the low-impact women's facility and family facility. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4711390-155/sugar-house-favored-for-womens-or?page=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
-> Some residents recovering from the dropped bomb that their neighborhood will soon border a homeless shelter site think about selling their property while others opt for looking past self-interest and giving it a shot. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4711384-155/some-residents-say-theyll-move-away?page=2"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-news/sugar-house-homeless-center-threatens-nearby-property-values/620199839"; target="_blank">ABC4</a>]
-> Unhappy Salt Lake City dwellers take it out on officials at a Wednesday night community meeting. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4711366-155/salt-lake-city-officials-get-earful?page=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
<strong>Tweets of the day: </strong>From @<a href="https://twitter.com/jesseberney"; target="_blank">jesseberney</a>: "Congratulations to everyone on Twitter for the perfect campaign you would've run."
From @<a href="https://twitter.com/ddiamond"; target="_blank">ddiamond</a>: "'When they go low, we go high' is a noble sentiment. But it may be the wrong one for American politics circa 2016."
From @<a href="https://twitter.com/RexHuppke"; target="_blank">RexHuppke</a>: "The one thing I am looking forward to after Trump's inauguration is really throwing myself into some backyard fracking."
<strong>In other news: </strong>Talk of an Utah Schools Now ballot initiative to bump up income taxes by 7/8 percent to fund education prods the Legislature into floating options of its own to take the initiative's place. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4713983-155/utah-lawmakers-feel-compelled-to-respond?page=1"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865669314/Utah-GOP-continues-SB54-appeal-as-lawmakers-try-to-work-out-fix.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>]
-> Utah tuition prices have increased 214% in the last 20 years. [<a href="http://utahpolicy.com/index.php/features/today-at-utah-policy/11757-">UtahPolicy</a>]
-> Utah Policy's No. 9 story of the year is Paul Huntsman buying The Salt Lake Tribune. [<a href="http://utahpolicy.com/index.php/features/today-at-utah-policy/11756-Bryan%20Schott%20and%20Bob%20Bernick">UtahPolicy</a>]
-> The Utah Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case against the state Division of Air Quality for allowing an oil refinery's expansion, but the court cast doubt that the suit was sufficiently different from a previously dismissed one brought by the same group. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4714139-155/utah-supreme-court-says-environmentalists-refinery"; target="_blank">Trib</a>] [<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865669286/Utah-Supreme-Court-hears-second-refinery-expansion-challenge.html"; target="_blank">DNews</a>] [<a href="http://kuer.org/post/utah-supreme-court-hears-refinery-pollution-case"; target="_blank">KUER</a>]
<span style="line-height: 1.5;">-> The 17 defendants in the case of the Bundy armed standoff against federal officials will be tried in three groups corresponding with their level of involvement in the conspiracy. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/4713237-155/judge-breaks-17-bundy-defendants-into"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]</span>
-> Pat Bagley sketches Trump's jobs plan in action: plumping up the rich and leaving whatever's left over for the rest. [<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4713921-155/bagley-cartoon-the-trump-jobs-plan"; target="_blank">Trib</a>]
<strong>Nationally:</strong> Top tech executives make their pilgrimage to Trump Tower where the president-elect pledged an open line of communication and his presidential support. [<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/14/technology/trump-tech-summit-silicon-valley/"; target="_blank">CNN</a>] [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/14/the-biggest-names-in-tech-just-made-nice-with-trump/?utm_term=.94553103ed94"; target="_blank">WaPost</a>] [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/trump-tech-summit.html?ref=politics&_r=0"; target="_blank">NYTimes</a>]
-> Trump's daughter Ivanka will take over some of the first lady's duties and move to Washington with her husband, Jared Kushner, who is also slated for a spot in the administration. [<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/14/politics/ivanka-trump-white-house-office-of-the-first-family/index.html"; target="_blank">CNN</a>] [<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/310414-ivanka-trump-to-get-office-in-white-house-space-reserved-for"; target="_blank">TheHill</a>]
-> U.S. intelligence agencies say Russian President Vladimir Putin had a personal hand in the way hacked emails were used to mess with the election. [<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-officials-putin-personally-involved-u-s-election-hack-n696146"; target="_blank">NBCNews</a>]
<strong>Where are they?</strong>
<ul>
<li>Gov. Gary <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/GovHerbert"; target="_blank">Herbert</a></strong> does the governor's monthly news conference, sits down for a staff holiday luncheon, presents the Utah Cross Award to SFC's Brett C. Heath and kicks back at the Governor's Mansion holiday open house.</li>
<li>Lt. Gov. Spencer <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerJCox"; target="_blank">Cox</a></strong> heads to an Arts & Culture Business Alliance meeting, dines at a staff holiday luncheon, chats with the Department of Heritage & Arts, nails down some schedules and a photo and video at the liutenant governor's office and ends the night at the Governor's Mansion holiday open house.</li>
<li>State Auditor John <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/FrugalDougall"; target="_blank">Dougall</a> </strong>celebrates his office's year's work at its annual signing day luncheon and team building event.</li>
<li>President Barack <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama"; target="_blank">Obama</a> </strong>gets his daily briefing in the Oval Office.</li>
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— Thomas Burr and Zoe Woolf McGinn
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