Countdown: 14 days until early voting starts in Utah, 28 days until the 2012 election, 112 days to the start of the 2013 legislative session.

Jim Matheson goes negative against Mia Love in his ads [Utah Policy].

Both Love and Matheson are hitching their wagons to Mitt Romney’s campaign [Daily Herald].

Rep. Jason Chaffetz visits Libya to investigate the death of a U.S. ambassador [Tribune].

As Utah Policy first reported, Utah has taken more than 70,000 names off the voter rolls. Democrats say the move “smells fishy” [Tribune].

Ben McAdams and Mark Crockett debate SkiLink and the “Broadway-style” theater in downtown Salt Lake City [Tribune].

Crockett is under fire for using corporate logos in his campaign materials without actually securing the endorsement of those companies [Deseret News, Fox 13].

Martell Menlove, husband of Rep. Ronda Rudd Menlove, is named the new state superintendent [Daily Herald, Tribune].

Eagle Mountain officials are proposing the city join the United Fire Authority along with a small tax hike to battle rising costs from fighting fires [Daily Herald].

A Coalville woman gathers enough signatures to put a measure to roll back two Summit County tax hikes on the 2014 ballot [Park Record].

Salt Lake County needs more poll workers to help with early voting and next month’s election [Deseret News].