Tonight on KVNU’s For the People…

We’ll talk with Summerfest Chairman Steve Bower who says he is resigning.

The City of Logan’s War on Property Rights is escalating. Tomorrow night the City Council and Mayor will tour the City assessing the extent, or even the existence, of blight. The results of a survey conducted by the Neighborhood Council will also be presented to the Council. Alan Hinckley, chair of the Neighborhood Council will present those findings tomorrow night and joins us tonight.

We’ll examine the results and validity of the Neighborhood Council survey.  We’ll also share a letter sent out by the Logan Landlord Coalition.

All of that, your phone calls and more, tonight on KVNU’s For the People!

Dear Members,

The Attached letter is being sent to request you help in addressing concerns we share regarding Logan city policies that affect our private property rights.

On Tuesday April 1, 2008 a bus will leave the west parking lot at the city offices, the Public is invited to attend this bus tour, the tour will show the areas of “concern” where park strip parking will be done away with come May 1st of this year. This policy only has to do with Residential properties, and not commercial.

Please plan to make the bus tour.

Please write those in power and let them know your thoughts.

thanks,

Kent Dunkley

And yes Rob, we’re damn jealous.

Congrats, Amicus.

-Tom

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The results of Logan City’s unscientific, self-selecting, leading survey are in.

Check out the results here.

-Tom

Ryan Yonk will be riding on tomorrow night’s City Council bus tour of Logan’s Ghetto.  Ryan will be broadcasting live during the bus tour with a play by play of inner-Logan’s blight.

-Tom

Tomorrow night (Tuesday) before the Logan City Council meeting the Council is going on a “field trip” to visit “inner Logan” to assess how the City ought to proceed when the War on Property Rights commences May 1.

Some time ago I was told by a member of the Council that the only thing that would deter the City from proceeding roughshod over property owners would be “green power”.

I was a little puzzled by what that meant and asked for a further explanation.

“Well,” I was told, “we need property owners to organize, speak up and show up with the same kind of numbers that the environmentalists did for the IPP3 vote.”

The public is invited to attend the field trip and ride along with the Council on the bus. This is not a public hearing, however, it is an opportunity for property owners to be present and influencial.

Tomorrow’s bus ride through the Mayor’s Ghetto is perhaps the best opportunity to pressure the Council to change course and adopt a pragmatic approach to “inner-Logan”.

All of us that live in the Mayor’s Ghetto know that it is not blighted. Sure, there occasional properties that aren’t kept up like most of us would like. However, these are the exception and not the rule. An overwhelming majority of properties in the Mayors Ghetto are well-kept, tidy and reflect positively upon our community. For the City to punish all property owners to reach a handful is to cut off the nose to spite the face.

That’s why this bus ride is such a great opportunity for property owners in Logan. You property owners will have a captive audience on the bus as you ride through Logan and pass undeniable evidence that the gripes of the bureaucrats in Community Development, the Mayor’s Office and a half dozen citizens are baseless. While you look over their shoulder, the Council will come to the realization that the War on Property Rights is wrong and unjustified.

The bus leaves at 4:30 PM from the northwest entrance to City Hall.

-Tom

Don’t count it out.

-Tom

From today’s New York Times:

Former President Bill Clinton dismissed the notion that the discord had hurt the party’s chances of capturing the White House.

“We just need to relax and let this happen,” Mr. Clinton said in Girardville, according to The Associated Press. “Nobody’s talking about wrecking the party. Everywhere I go, all these working people say: ‘Don’t you dare let her drop out. Don’t listen to those people in Washington, they don’t represent us.’ ”

There isn’t a true Washington ‘insider’ that doesn’t condemn ‘those people in Washington’ while portraying themselves as ‘outsiders’.

-Tom

Tonight on KVNU’s For the People…

We’ll continue our conversation with Stephen Graham of the anti-gay group Standard of Liberty.

KVNU’s Craig Hislop talks with North Logan Mayor Carey Watkins.

Some members of the Libertarian Party of Utah are upset over the gubernatorial candidacy of “SUPERDELL” Schanze and are making plans to prevent him from receiving the party’s nomination.

Should Hillary Clinton quit the race for the Democratic nomination?

All of that, your phone calls and more, tonight on KVNU’s For the People!

From City Weekly:

The daily newspapers have already declared “Super Dell” Schanze the Libertarian candidate for governor. Not to minimize their equally premature designation of nudist/Libertarian legal counsel Andrew McCullough for attorney general, but just who do they think Libertarian are?

Not your average political party, for sure.

“We may be small and ineffective but, by God, we have our pride,” says Jim Dexter, a former Libertarian Party of Utah chairman who has re-upped with the party just to oppose the Schanze nomination. Dexter has combined forces with Willy Starr Marshall, a gay Libertarian activist who was once mayor of Big Water, in Kane County, to certify something other than Schanze on the ballot.

That “other” is NOTA, or None of the Above, an infrequent but effective tactic for the party that booted perennial candidate Ken Larsen before he could rack up yet another failed gubernatorial bid. Larsen then went on to form the Personal Choice Party with its smiley face logo.

SUPERDELL is a lot of things, but he is not a Libertarian or libertarian.   When he appeared on KVNU’s For the People SUPERDELL advocated “righteousness” in government.

-Tom

From the Deseret Morning News:

AMERICAN FORK — Along with pornography, same-gender attraction falls under the category of “serious social problems,” according to the Parent Teacher Student Association at American Fork High School.

Both topics are to be discussed at 6 p.m. today at a PTSA forum titled “Protecting Our Youth From Serious Social Problems,” said Belinda Jensen, the organization’s president.

“I think sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS are an important reason to look at this,” Jensen said. “I also believe that it is a lifestyle that is not conducive to families.”

Valerie Larabee, executive director of the Utah Pride Center, a gay and lesbian advocacy group, said if the concern is sexually transmitted diseases, the forum should focus on preventing unprotected sex, not on sexual orientation.

The focus, she said, can have harmful impacts on youths.

“When youth are questioning their sexual orientation … and they are in an environment filled with misinformation and hate, that can be conducive to depression and suicidal thoughts,” she said.

However, Jensen said the forum will focus on same-sex attraction “because it is more blatant in our society and it is becoming more popular among activist groups that are pushing issues like clubs in schools.”

I remember like it was yesterday when the Straights and the Gays came to Mountain Crest High School in the late 90′s to recruit students to their “lifestyle”. It was a hard choice, picking between joining the Straights or the Gays.  Long hours of deliberation. The Gays offered fantastic style, organization, cleanliness and a discount to IKEA as well as a full ABBA box CD set as a signing bonus. The straights promised they wouldn’t beat me up.  The Straights also promised me super-human immunity from sexually transmitted diseases. You know only “the Gays” get STD’s.

So I chose to join the Straights.

But I will say the Gay recruiters made a compelling case.

-Tom

From today’s Tribune:

John McCain got some help Thursday from former Republican rival Mitt Romney, a pairing that months ago seemed improbable as the two fought bitterly for the party’s presidential nomination.
In their first campaign swing as allies, Romney appeared with the likely Republican nominee at a private fundraiser in Salt Lake City. The two were traveling to Denver for a second fundraiser.
They were joined by Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., an early McCain supporter whose name has been mentioned as a potential vice presidential pick. Meg Whitman, the outgoing chief executive of eBay Inc., and a former Romney backer, also joined them.
McCain, who has struggled to raise campaign money compared with Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, is on a weeklong western fundraising swing. Romney is popular in Utah and Colorado, states with large numbers of residents who are members of his Mormon faith.
The former Massachusetts governor dropped out of the race last month after it became apparent it would be near impossible to topple McCain in the convention delegate race. A week later, he endorsed the Arizona senator and pledged to do whatever he could to help McCain win the nomination.

Does anyone else question the sincerity of Mitt Romney’s endorsement of John McCain? It’s not as if the two merely disagreed with one another on policy issues in the primary campaign. It was much more than policy. It was personal with each man questioning the integrity of the other.

Now, Mitt Romney is positioning himself as the “future” of the Republican Party. John McCain needs money. So Mitt Romney does his duty to the Party by taking McCain to Utah, Romney’s fundraising gold mine.

Anyone else think this is 100% BS?

-Tom

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