Davis County Watch: Announcements

Proposed Tax increase: Public Meeting

2006-12-12T07:56:00.000-08:00

Public Notice of Special Meeting of the Davis County Commission, Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.

At the Event Center (Fair Park), Building 2, 151 S. 1100 W, Farmington, Utah

The Commission thinks that this meeting will be well attended which is why they have chosen a venue that will hold a lot of people.

I cannot attend on Wednesday. Wednesday nights are difficult for those who participate in Scouting or Mutual activities that night.

Please attend and oppose the tax increase! Here is why.

Davis County continues to grow. Property values in the County continue to increase. The very people who would qualify for the relief in question (Senior Citizens) are, often, also property owners and pay the tax. Were these people not to have the burden of an additional tax, their money would be well spent on themselves. Growth can take care of itself based upon current tax levels. Those who do not qualify for relief volunteer in high numbers. The County assesses the value at $500,000 for the year of volunteer service between June 2005, and June 2006. These same people will not be equitably served to also pay an increase in addition to their volunteer service.

Bastiat calls this activity legal plunder.

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."

This tax has been lumped in with a Jail maintenance, and flood control tax. These taxes should be considered on their own merits, not on the merits of the others. Again, the tax base grew this last year, and continues to grow. Revenues into Davis County have increased. New revenue could be put towards real needs.

Two-thirds of the Commissioners who represent our County, and will vote on this increase, are lame-ducks and will be out by the end of the year. One of these Commissioners(McConkie) was voted out because of his participation in a scheme to raise taxes on the County in a way that was seen as unnecessary by the electorate. The remaining, lame-duck, commissioner(Page), also supported this heavy tax increase. It is reasonable to assume that if Page were not retiring that she too would have lost on this basis. This kind of, weighty, decision should be left to the incoming group to decide.

One month is all I ask.

Fake news story riles Davis District

2006-12-05T21:10:00.000-08:00

The newly formed Davis Parents Association have done their best to create a three-ring circus on their new website http://davisparents.org/

Hat tip to the Deseret News, although they did their best to obscure the actual location of DPA's website. (i.e. they followed the common news media practice of not publishing it.)

Transportation problems

2006-11-30T12:38:00.000-08:00

I got in a car accident yesterday. Everyone is okay. Maybe I'll feel like writing about it one day, but now....

One glimpse, though. That commercial was on the radio, when the accident happened, in which Burt Bacharach is singing, "I hope I never get hit in the rear...again".

I was laughing at those lyrics, until...Well.

Today, I don't like irony.

Salt Lake County ‘betrays’ NSL in open space vote

2006-11-24T10:29:00.000-08:00

Salt Lake County has voted to side with it's own. If the disputed 80 acres gets disconnected from Salt Lake City, then North Salt Lake will still have to contend with Salt Lake County in order to use the land. North Salt Lake plans to fight for annexation from Salt Lake County if things progress that far.

This David now has to fight two Goliath's.

Salt Lake County ‘betrays’ NSL in open space vote

Up to $10,000 REWARD

2006-11-17T08:05:00.000-08:00

UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTORS ARE OFFERING A REWARD OF UP TO $10,000 FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF THE PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR PLACING CORROSIVE CHEMICALS INTO THE COLLECTION BOXES AT THE NORTH SALT LAKE POST OFFICE, LOCATED AT 345 NORTH HWY 89, NSL, UT 84054, WHICH CAUSED THE DESTRUCTION OF UNITED STATES MAIL BETWEEN OCTOBER 27-28, 2006.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS INCIDENT, PLEASE CONTACT POSTAL INSPECTOR WAKEFIELD AT (801)887-1922 OR THE BOUNTIFUL POLICE DEPARTMENT (801)298-6000.

ALL INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

DAVID WAKEFIELD
POSTAL INSPECTOR
DENVER DIVISION
SALT LAKE CITY OFFICE

Blogging without a name (Not even a fake one)

2006-11-07T15:39:00.000-08:00

A new, anonymous, blogger has started writing about South Davis County. Here is what I can surmise about them.

They've, likely, tried blogging before.
They probably live in Bountiful now.
They grew up in Bountiful, attended Bountiful High School, and were taught by, one, Kim Burningham.

I always have a hard time swallowing the concept of someone who posts anonymously, but this guy(yes, I think they are male) doesn't even use a handle! How shall I refer to them? S.D. Dude? As far as I'm concerned, someone, who can't even be identified, won't get much attention. Even I've been lambasted by the Clipper's editorial page.

Little, old, me.

Mr. S.D. Guy's website

The Blog that wouldn't post

2006-10-30T10:11:00.000-08:00

I've discovered a defect in my little hack to post topically on DCW (that's short for Davis County Watch). If I save a draft of my post, or the blog automatically saves a draft, then it doesn't get put up on the parent blog. So, I'm ditching this scheme, and I'm going to try the Blogger Beta. Give me a week or so to work up the guts to take the plunge, and we'll be back, and better than ever.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

2006-10-01T18:19:00.000-07:00

You may have noticed the blog is pink again. This time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For more information, go to Pink for October.

Blogger BETA already does Categories

2006-09-25T11:39:00.000-07:00

After doing all the work to come up with my snazzy Blog-by-topic workaround, I've discovered that Blogger BETA let's you do virtually the same thing. They call it 'Labels'. See this example from a blog of a friend of mine. I haven't decided to take the plunge, yet, since I have already done the work. However, anyone is welcome to take advantage of the work that Blogger has done to give us this feature.

The Breakfast Exchange Club of South Davis County: Meet the Candidate

2006-09-23T20:28:00.000-07:00

The Breakfast Exchange Club of South Davis County is a member of the National Exchange Club and the Rocky Mountain District Exchange Clubs. It meets at the Cotton Tree Motel in North Salt Lake (Kmart Exit) on Thursdays at 7:30AM. A speaker is featured each week at these meetings and the public is invited, free of charge. Breakfast may be obtained from the Diner, if desired, for a nominal fee.

Breakfast Exchange Club of South Davis County
Thursday, September 28th, 7:30 AM
Cotton Tree Motel in North Salt Lake (Kmart Exit)

Speakers will be:
Bret Millburn, Candidate for Davis County Commision (Seat A)
Louenda Downs, Candidate for Davis County Commision (Seat B)

Don't Worry! You'll still be able to meet Kim Burningham Thursday night at 6:00 PM.

Preserving Davis County: Proposed Property Tax increase

2006-09-22T14:17:00.000-07:00

Open houses for the public, regarding the proposed tax increase, will be held on October 25th at the Centerville Library (5:00-8:45 p.m.), and on October 26th at the Layton Library (5:00-9:00 p.m.). For details, click here.

Questions or comments regarding the proposed tax increase can be emailed to 2007budget@daviscountyutah.gov

Focus:
Flood Control
Operating the New Jail
Our Senior Citizens

Source: Davis County Website

Blog Organized by Topic

2006-09-19T07:37:00.000-07:00

If you will look down the sidebar for Davis County Watch, you will now see seven links under the heading 'Davis County Topics'. I've always wished that Blogger had a feature to allow a person to blog by topic. What I didn't realize is that Blogger does allow categories. It just requires some tweaking. Here is what you'll need if you want to blog by topic with Blogger.

Ingredients:

At least two blogs with Blogger (One Master Blog and one on a specific topic).
A gmail (email) account.

Steps to a Topical blog with Blogger:

I setup my gmail account to filter based on an alias. Let's say that your email address is jane.doe@gmail.com. Any email sent to jane.doe+blogthis@gmail will make it into your inbox. You then setup gmail to forward all emails sent to jane.doe+blogthis@gmail to your Mail-to-Blogger Address (i.e. jane.blog.blogger.com)
Next I go to my master blog. In my case it is Davis County Watch, and I click on the Settings-->email tab. I fill out my Mail-to-Blogger Address (i.e. jane.blog.blogger.com) and I check publish (now anything emailed to this address will automatically be published to my Master Blog.
If I haven't done it already I go to blogger and create one or more entirely new blogs. I called one of mine Davis County Watch: Announcements (http://daviscountywatch-announcements.blogspot.com)
I click on Settings-->email tab for one of my topical blogs. I fill out the BlogSend Address with my alias jane.doe+blogthis@gmail. I do this same thing for each of my topical blogs.

That's it! Now anytime I publish to my Announcements, or one of my other topical blogs, then that post will be automatically posted to Davis County Watch as well. I basically trained my topical blogs to blog for me on Davis County Watch.

So, what does this mean for you? It means that you can now click on one of the topics in the sidebar and look at just the topics that interest you. If you aren't at all interested in what I have to say, but want to hear from one of my Guest Bloggers, then you can click on that topic. If you like RSS Feeds, then you can subscribe to only the Feed for the topic that interests you.

I haven't worked out all the kinks yet, but things are looking good. I'm sure I could have chosen some better topics. Rest assured I will be adding more. I spent a lot of time moving most of my old posts under one of the categories, and I discovered that it's hard to categorize everything perfectly. For example, I have a category called Creative Solutions that is full posts about people/politicians doing nasty things. In a sense 'creative' has become a synonym for 'nasty'. On the other hand, I've posted some legitimate, productive, solutions that others have proposed there.

Update: I should really have given a hat tip for this hack to Oreilly.com

Categories on Davis County Watch

2006-09-19T00:03:00.000-07:00

I will be implementing a little blogger hack that allows me to organize my posts into categories shortly. I'll give more information later.

P.S. This is why I haven't posted much lately.

Announcing: The Utah Rattler

2006-09-18T23:45:00.000-07:00

One more blog has emerged in the blogosphere. I believe it's an associate of mine, but I don't want to give anything away since anonymity is the new currency of the web.

Nevertheless, he is a resident of Davis County--resides in Bountiful, and blogs on national issues as well. I think he and I should agree about 99% of the time, so if I haven't done something to offend you today, you could check with the Rattler!

Utah Rattler

Kay Briggs is retiring as Mayor: A little cricket told me...

2006-09-18T23:42:00.001-07:00

One of my sources tells me that Kay Briggs is going to be retiring as Mayor of NSL and that Lynn Ballard, formerly a County Commissioner Candidate, wants the job. If I wanted to show some real credibility I would get an additional source. Also, I'll be pulling a Robert Novak, and not revealing my source-except, maybe, to a Grand Jury.

Now is your chance, dear readers, to confirm my information by answering these questions, three.

Where has Briggs been asked to go? By Whom? And in what capacity?

Update:

I've been told by two individuals now that Mayor Briggs is going to the Dominican Republic.

Update II: The Clipper has confirmed the story here

Introducing: Education in Utah

2006-09-18T23:42:00.000-07:00

Education in Utah is a new blog started by a friend of mine, Natalie, who did a stint as a guest blogger here at Davis County Watch. She'd sent me an email encouraging me to blog on an education issue that had cropped up locally. I don't know if it was because I appeared to drag my feet in posting anything, or if it was my contrary reply, but she decided to blog about it herself.

She's extremely qualified to speak as a supporter of public schooling. She's on about every PTA board imaginable. Plus she's a firebrand, so the posts should be interesting.

This blog should not be confused with Educating Utah.

I'm Back!!!

2006-09-18T23:36:00.000-07:00

Thank you Natalie and Alice for helping me out this like week with your prolific posts. I've changed the background to blue (it's supposed to be blue-I could be better at my color mixing.) in honor of my new boy. I understand a lot of people were confused by the pink motif. This also signifies that it's my show again.

It's funny how I have gotten used to things being a certain way. I've been tempted more than once to intervene, but that would not be polite. Let me offer one example. I made a conscious choice, when I started blogging, not to post pictures to the blog. It wasn't that I didn't know how, but I wanted people to come here because of what I'd written. The first picture I saw posted caused me some, completely illogical, anxiety. Don't worry, I'm over it now.

This week has also been an exercise in self-examination. Natalie pointed out, of late, that I have a Paypal link. It may appear to some that I'm really raking it in for my efforts as a blogger. Let me disabuse my readers of this concept. I had put that link up with the idea that I would never solicit payment, but that I wouldn't close the door to it. Ergo, the Paypal link. Rest assured that I've not, yet, gotten a penny for my efforts. If I ever found some money in my account I would be surprised!

And, on coming home from the hospital I discovered that I am now missing one lawn sign, and I want it back! I think the city I live in, North Salt Lake, might have an ordinance that states I can't have a lawn sign up except just before an election, but I'm not sure. This sign was for Bret Millburn, and his race is not decided until November. I was going to take it down after the Primary, and put it up again just before the election, but that can't happen without my sign.

Davis County: Early Voting Schedule

2006-09-18T23:21:00.000-07:00

Why vote early? If you're like me you wonder if life will throw you a baby boy, a little early, when you might, otherwise, be voting. Here is a modified schedule(removing past-dates) taken from the Davis County Website(pdf).

2006 PRIMARY ELECTION

EARLY VOTING DATES & LOCATIONS

Davis County Courthouse
28 East State Street #236
Farmington, UT
June 19 – June 23 (8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.)

Bountiful Library
725 South Main Street
Bountiful, UT
June 20 and 22 (7:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon)
June 19 and 21 (4:00 P.M. – 8: P.M.)
June 23 (1:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.)

Layton Library
155 North Wasatch Dr.
Layton, UT
June 20 and 22 (7:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon)
June 19 and 21 (4:00 P.M. – 8: P.M.)
June 23 (1:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.)

DCRW: Primary Debate

2006-09-18T23:19:00.000-07:00

Davis County Republican Pre-Primary Debate on June 20th

The Davis County Republican Women and Davis County Republican Party will be co-hosting a pre-primary debate on June 20th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Davis County Public Library in Centerville (45 S. 400 W behind the Home Depot). Candidates up for election from Davis County in Republican Primary have been invited to participate in the event. Questions will come from members of the Davis County Republican Women and Davis County Republican Party officers. Due to time constraints, questions from the floor will not be allowed. The format for the evening will be as follows:

6:30 p.m. Legislative District 19 Candidates (Sheryl Allen and Marc Jacobs)
7:00 p.m. Sheriff Candidates (Bud Cox and Todd Richardson)
7:30 p.m. County Commission Seat B Candidates (Michael Deamer and Louenda Downs)
8:00 p.m. Legislative 20 (Paul Neuenschwander and Ron Mortensen)
Several candidates will be available after the event for further questions.

“This event is the only chance for citizens to hear from candidates in this type of setting,” said DCRW President Trudie Biggers. “It will be interesting and informative to watch the candidates as they interact with one another. Members of DCRW in particular will be watching for those candidates who best represent the principles of the Republican Party Platform.”

The primary election will be held June 27th. All registered Republicans residing in the county may participate.

For more information about the event contact Trudie Biggers at 546-6835 or Don Guymon at 574-9461.

Please Attend - The Negative Impact of Illegal Immigration

2006-09-18T23:16:00.000-07:00

Ronald Mortensen

Candidate Meeting

The Negative Impact of Illegal Immigration

Location: Bountiful City Library Date: Thursday, June 8, 2006 Time: 7:00 pm

Ronald Mortensen, Ph.D., a retired Foreign Service Officer and Republican Candidate for the House of Representatives in District 20, invites you to a discussion on the negative impacts of illegal immigration.

While immigration is federal responsibility, many of the negative impacts of illegal immigration fall on Utah and its citizens. During this discussion, we will look at the epidemic of illegal immigrant driven identity theft that appears to be targeting our children and other issues that you may wish to cover.

By the conclusion of the evening, we will have identified the things that our elected state representatives can do to mitigate the negative impacts of illegal immigration.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Please take the time to click on the hyperlinks in the last paragraph for additional and important information on illegal immigrant driven identity theft.

According to a Brookings Institute study, Utah is an emergency gateway for illegal immigration. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Utah is a destination of choice for illegal immigrants due to our driver's privilege card, in-state college tuition for the children of illegal immigrants and the generally welcoming attitude of Utahns.

Following the march of tens of thousands for illegal immigrant rights, KSL-TV reported that there are an estimated 90,000 illegal immigrants in Utah with other media outlets setting the number at 100,000.

Those who support illegal immigrants argue that these are good people who take jobs that Utahns won't do. They contribute to the economy, pay taxes, enhance the state's diversity and deserve to be given a path to citizenship.

Those opposing illegal immigration cite national security concerns that come from a porous, uncontrolled border and a disregard for the rule-of-law. They point out that illegal immigrants suppress wages, take jobs that many of our young people and other citizens would do, drive up the crime rate and increase the cost of health care, social programs and public education.

Proponents of Utah's in-state tuition law argue that it is unfair to make the children of illegal immigrants pay out-of-state tuition at our colleges and universities. After all, they were brought here by the parents and shouldn't be made to pay for their parents illegal acts. The Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce strongly supports in-state tuition and argues that it will prepare these young people to be leaders in our business community.

Opponents note that even if a students who are illegally in the United States graduate from college, they will still not be able to legally work in the United States. They also argue that Utah's in-state tuition program opens the state up to potential litigation from American citizens and legal immigrants who have to pay out-of-state tuition. Finally, they point out that Governor Mitt Romney vetoed an in-state tuition bill that was passed in Massachusetts arguing that it was not appropriate to reward illegal acts.

It has been widely reported that wherever there are large numbers of illegal immigrants, identity theft becomes a major problem since they require Social Security numbers and other documents in order to obtain employment. In fact, a rather limited, 2005 investigation by the Attorney General's office revealed that 1,800 Utah children under the age of 12 had their Social Security numbers stolen. When applied to the entire population, tens of thousands of Utah's children may well be the victims of identity theft.

Last year, bills were introduced in the legislature that would have repealed Utah's in-state tuition provision, ended the issuance of driving privilege cards and required employers to verify employment eligibility and Social Security numbers. None were considered by the full body of the Senate or the House.

The Clipper Online Poll

2006-09-18T23:11:00.000-07:00

I have had a few assumptions regarding the state of Utah political thought.

First, there are more Democrats in the blogosphere than Republicans. Second, there are more Republicans who will vote than Democrats. Third, online insta-polling is flawed.

Thinking I knew enough, I sabotaged the Clipper online poll.

It was always my intention to make this known, but not for the reason that I am now. I knew that the results of the poll could not be trusted and I knew many across the divide knew that as well- but they weren't saying anything about it as long as their guy was winning. I figured two things would happen if ballots were stuffed in Milburn's box. First, that the ballot stuffing would be recognized and exposed. Second, that one or more people would retaliate and that Miller's box would become very full. At this point I thought that the poll would be seen as a loss, the results in question, and shutdown.

On the last point I was very wrong.

The poll was shutdown but, somehow, the results of that poll seem to be held inviolate. I wish to apologize to any whose opinion has been changed, or not, as a result of my manipulation. What I did may not have been illegal, but it was wrong. Just because a process is flawed does not mean that trust in that process should be violated without regard. It was not my intention to swing favor in the direction of any one candidate (I placed a number of votes in McConkie's box with that in mind), but I did swing favor and I feel awful about it. I ask of any that read this to not let a tainted poll show a candidate's quality, but let the candidate's themselves show it. It wasn't "cheating", for any one candidate, it was monkeywrenching for none.

Revealing my part in this charade was supposed to be satisfying. It has been anything but that. It has, however, been entirely voluntary. If I did one good thing, in the end, it was to come clean anyway.

Blogswarm: Everybody's doing it

2006-09-18T23:09:00.000-07:00

Blogswarm (n): A million monkeys typing while Shakespeare sleeps.

The people at Exoro have come up with a novel idea. It is simply this. To start Utah's first blogswarm. The thing that I'm not sure about is whether I like being lumped in with everyone else. Am I opposed to getting nuclear waste in my backyard? Yes! I don't even care whose waste it is, I don't want it here. In fact I think the best argument against the storage of Nuclear waste in Utah is that it must be transported across the country to get here. That is as large a target for a terrorist attack that I have considered. But, I have nothing original to contribute to the argument. I recieved two emails from Utah Policy.com. The first email said this, "If we generate a groundswell, we could earn recognition from some of the nation’s power bloggers, consequently introducing your blog to a large new audience. " Okay, so I'm actually supposed to be blogging about this important issue because it will bring national attention to me? What about the cyclops fish? What about the fact that I blog on local issues, and don't need, or want a national audience?

The second email was even more enticing.

"If you are able to post tonight we will try to link to it in tomorrow’s UPD." Now, I'm really tempted. I mean I probably write one good post for every ten, and Golden Webb rarely links to me. I kind of enjoy the challenge, really. But, this is as close to a sure-thing as I've ever gotten from Utah Policy.com. Maybe I'm just being too difficult. I should just throw in with the rest and start typing. It's too late now.

I've got to say, though, that I read one exceptional post at Utah Planner's Corner on the topic. Maybe this blogswarm thing really does bring out the creative spirit in it's participants?

deseretnews.com | S.L. may turn 120 acres into open space zone

2006-09-18T22:44:00.000-07:00

Public Hearing with the SLC Council on:
Tuesday November 15th at 7:00 pm
451 South State Street, Salt Lake City
3rd floor in the City Council Chambers

Questions to ask the City Council.

If the contested 80 acres gets annexed to NSL, are you going to feel that this process was a waste of time?

When North Salt Lake has to provide emergency services to patrons of the 'natural trail' will you foot the bill?

Deseret News:S.L. may turn 120 acres into open space zone

deseretnews.com | No amnesty, critic says

2006-09-18T22:19:00.000-07:00

Representative Tom Tancredo will be speaking at the auditorium of the Redwood-Salt Lake Community College tonight at 7:00 PM. He is taking a hard-line stance against immigration puting the onus on employers rather than the government. Immigration becomes an important issue for Davis County to address considering the large illegal inmate population in our jails. Tancredo would have more illegals sent to jail. What sort of effect could this have on our Counties bottom line?

deseretnews.com | No amnesty, critic says

DesNews:Budget cuts loom for rec center

2006-09-18T22:11:00.000-07:00

Today is the day to make your voice heard. Those who can attend the Recreation District meeting at 4:00 PM, please do.

Bountiful City Hall
790 South 100 East

Update: I don't like the title of this Deseret News article. It seems to imply that the Rec Center will end up costing us less than was originally planned when it is anticipated to cost 2.7 million more! A meeting, open to the public, will be held on August 15th at 6pm which all should attend that aren't going to today's meeting! For more information see Citizens for Tax Fairness.org.

DesNews:Budget cuts loom for rec center

Davis County Watch:One glaring ommission

2006-09-18T22:06:00.000-07:00

After nearly four months of blogging on issues affecting the south end of Davis County, a chink in my topical armor has been exposed. Read enough of my blog and you will see that I have mainly covered topics directly related to Bountiful and North Salt Lake. I've dabbled in other cities and ommitted others completely (a couple readers have mentioned Farmington).

It is time that I settle on the cities of interest to this blog. I decided, when I started the blog, that I wouldn't be talking about the Northernmost part of Davis County. It is just too much geography to cover. I must draw the line at the northern border of Farmington. Here are the cities, once and for all. Farmington, Centerville, West Bountiful, Bountiful, Woods Cross, and North Salt Lake.

Does anyone want to suggest a topic I have missed?

slSites: Local listings for the Salt Lake Valley

2006-09-18T15:58:00.000-07:00

Davis County Watch has been added to a directory of the 'best' websites in Salt Lake Valley. According to the site, "Salt Lake Sites is the largest open directory for Salt Lake City, Utah and surrounding communities. It has over 4200 listings in over 264 categories." I'm excited about all the new local sites that are finding their roots in Utah.

slSites

Town Hall Meeting Today!

2006-09-18T15:36:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder! The South Davis County Townhall Meeting is 2 hours away. Details here.

Town Hall Meeting:: Update: May 18th

2006-09-18T15:27:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, on the County website, details were finally posted about the Town Hall meeting (PDF) that I blogged about last week.

The 7 p.m. meeting will be in Room 230 at the Davis County
Memorial Courthouse, 28 East State Street, Farmington.

Tax Foundation: Tax Policy Blog

2006-09-18T15:25:00.000-07:00

Check out the Tax Policy Blog. They also have an RSS feed, and links to well written analysis of Tax Policies across the country. Research areas include Social Security Reform, State Taxes and spending, and Utah

StandardNET/Standard-Examiner

2006-09-18T15:19:00.000-07:00

The Standard-Examiner is going to be doing Midday Updates. StandardNET/Standard-Examiner: "The Midday Update offers a quick glance at breaking news. It runs Monday-Friday on StandardNET."

North Salt Lake City: Recreation Planning Workshop

2006-09-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

If you live where 'everybody is somebody' please attend the Planning Workshop. The evening is going to be catered. Remember the following bullet-points.

We don't need another park
We don't need another park
A cemetery might be nice

Date: Wednesday, May 11th
Time: 6:30-9:00 P.M.
Place: Eagleridge Golf Course Clubhouse

Questions? Call Natalie Gordon, NSL Planning Commission 397-2145
Please RSVP to: NSL City Offices 936-3877 x100

County Townhall Meeting: May 18th

2006-09-18T15:04:00.000-07:00

Mark your Calendars for May 18th at 7:00 P.M to be at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse, 28 E. State. The County will be hosting the first Townhall meeting for the County. Some have, rightly expressed some skepticism that this meeting will be well attended. I would agree, because it has not been well advertised by the County. Has anyone heard this advertised on Channel 17? The County website hasn't mentioned it. I've found the meeting mentioned in the Standard Examiner, and the Clipper only. Please, correct me if I am wrong.

The chance of having another meeting like this hangs on how many attend this first one. One issue that will be discussed is the County Jail expansion, but this time belongs to the Citizens, and any questions will be answered(we are told). In preparation to play 'Stump the Commissioner', on May 18th, comment to this post with your best questions? If you know you can attend, let us know in your comment?

Citizens For Tax Fairness

2006-09-18T15:02:00.000-07:00

I created this blog as a way to publicize issues, pertinent to residents of South Davis County, that have been swept under the rug. The opinions expressed, are my own, but the site is open to public comment. So, if you reside in my County, weigh in!

I'm providing a link to an organization, of which I play a small, fly on the wall, part. They've actually saved the County substantial amounts of money.

Citizens For Tax Fairness