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• Crime is WAY down in Ogden... Scout's Honor

  Number of comments: 10
  Standard-Examiner publisher Lee Carter expesses his "special" Thanksgiving thanks for Ogden City's crime fighting team, Chief Greiner and Boss Godfrey
  
  Just for sake of archival consistency, we'll highlight two items appearing in this morning's Standard-Examiner, which fall into the well-travelled Weber County Forum topic category, Godfrey the Crime' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:27am EST
  by RudiZink

• Tuesday Morning Emerald City News Roundup

  Number of comments: 5
  Open topic thread: Dwell on any of the topics suggested below... or start up a discussion all your own
  
  Three Weber County Forum-topical items on this morning's Standard-Examiner Live! Website, which we'll briefly reel off one-by-one, as a prelude to a WCF open topic thread:
  
  1) Scott Schwebke [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner: Utah GOP Opposes Citizens Initiative on Ethics

  Number of comments: 4
  Sign the petition and sending a strong citizen message to the fatcats in Utah GOP legislative leadership
  
  The Standard-Examiner carries an Associated Press story this morning, reporting that the Utah Republican Party's "governing committee" passed a resolution on Saturday, opposing the Utahns for Ethical Government UEG citizen legislative' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:41am EST
  by RudiZink

• The Ogden Streetcar Corridor Must Run Up 25th Street

  Number of comments: 36
  Be sure to sign the online petition, and register your support for a 25th Street alignment
  
  By Dorrene Jeske
  Ogden City Council Member
  
  UTA has posted information and maps for the Ogden Downtown to WSU/McKay-Dee corridor on their website. You can find the 11-page document www.rideuta.com/files/Ogden_WSU_briefing%20materials32309.pdf. It [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:45am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner: OUR VIEW: Mayor's Salary Not Top Priority

  Number of comments: 14
  Your WCF blogmeister admits he's stumped, and poses a sincere reader query
  
  Interesting example of how something which we believe was really a non-story has proliferated out of all reasonable proportion on the pages of the Standard-Examiner (and elsewhere) during the past week.
  
  Last Sunday the SE [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:13am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner: "Mt. Ogden Golf Course Losing Money! Really!"

  Number of comments: 6
  Mayor Godfrey again presents the golf course "problem" as one with only two possible solutions
  
  By Monotreme
  
  The Standard-Examiner has seen fit to repeat the "Mt. Ogden Golf Course Losing Money! Really!" meme one more time:
  • Upgrading Mt. Ogden Golf Course to take money
  Mayor Godfrey [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:50am EST
  by RudiZink

• WSU Game Day Thread

  Number of comments: 17
  “We’ve just got to worry about ourselves,” said WSU coach Ron McBride. “We put ourselves in this predicament."
  
  From this morning'sStandard-Examiner front page sports story:
  OGDEN — Weber State University fans will not only be cheering for the Wildcats today as they take on Cal Poly, but they’ll'" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:57am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner Editorial: Time to Stop Double Dipping

  Number of comments: 5
  Note to our "fiscally conservative" state legislature: Are you listening?
  
  We don't want the day to completely slip away, without shining the spotlight on a fine lead editorial appearing in this morning's Standard-Examiner. In a most craftsman-like fashion, editorial page editor Doug Gibson draws a bead on a quirky' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by RudiZink

• Ogden Veteran's Home Dedication Ceremony Report

  Number of comments: 2
  It was awe-inspiring to be a part of such a patriotic event
  
  By Dorrene Jeske
  
  I attended the dedication ceremony for the Veteran's Home yesterday, which was the subject of a front page article in this morning's Standard-Examiner:
  • Ogden veterans home hosts grand dedicationAt 9:30 AM, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by RudiZink

• Ogden Veteran's Home Dedication Ceremony Report

  Number of comments: 1
  It was awe-inspiring to be a part of such a patriotic event
  
  By Dorrene Jeske
  
  I attended the dedication ceremony for the Veteran's Home yesterday, which was the subject of a front page article in this morning's Standard-Examiner:
  • Ogden veterans home hosts grand dedicationAt 9:30 AM, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by RudiZink

• Streetcar Stakeholder Meeting! Very, Very, Very Important!

  Number of comments: 39
  Please come let them know that you support a 25th Street alignment
  UPDATE: Dan S. live blogs from the stakeholders' meeting
  
  From the Trolley District Website community calender:
  When: Thu, November 19, 1:30pm – 3:30pm Where: Weber Center - 2380 Washington Blvd. (map) Description: The stakeholder committee' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:30am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner: City OKs the Use of Eminent Domain

  Number of comments: 22
  At this point the obvious unanswered question is "Why now?"
  
  By Dan Schroeder
  
  Today's Standard-Examiner article answers the question that I posed yesterday afternoon:
  • City OKs use of eminent domain / Land to be used for Ogden River Redevelopment Project AreaEminent domain has been approved' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by RudiZink

• Sign the Streetcar Petition!

  Number of comments: 1
  We're down to our last night before the stakeholders make their final recommendations
  
  By Chris Bentley
  
  Hello, dear friends!
  
  Well, we're down to our last night before the stakeholders make their final recommendations. That means that there's still time to make a difference in this historic and [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:12pm EST
  by RudiZink

• Bits And Pieces From Last Night's Emerald City Council Meeting

  Number of comments: 30
  City Council Notes - 11/17/09
  
  By Dan Schroeder
  
  I arrived in the council chambers just after 6:00, so I missed the Board of Canvass meeting which took place at 5:50. I would assume that the vote was duly certified, and that there were no surprises in the final [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:56am EST
  by RudiZink

• Powder Mountain Update: A New Citizen Petition

  Number of comments: 13
  Please do your part to help free the beleaguered Ogden Valley citizens from Utah-style corporo-fascist tyranny
  
  There's more frenzied activity on the Powder Mountain Township front, as the valiant citizens of Ogden Valley mobilize yet again to get our from under the Powder Mountain Developers' thumb. House [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:10am EST
  by RudiZink

• A Couple of Potential Red Meat Items on Tomorrow's Council/RDA Calenders

  Number of comments: 51
  The council is presented with a chance to correct a Gang of Six Council error; and the nasty subject of Eminent Domain arises on the tomorrow's RDA agenda
  
  There's nothing in the Northern Utah print media which we could properly label as nutritious Weber County Forum political red meat [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:47am EST
  by RudiZink

• House District 10 Pre-2010 Legislative Session Open House

  Number of comments: 5
  Attend the public meetup with House Representative Brent Wallis on November 19
  
  Received this missive via email from House District 10 Representative Brent Wallis last night:
  Hi Rudi: I am going to be hosting an Open House Thursday, November 19th at 6:30 p.m in South Ogden City Hall,
  [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:46am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner: How Much Should Your Mayor Make?

  Number of comments: 44
  A tacit admission that another pizza delivery boy and ne'er do well is a bad idea for Ogden?
  
  By Monotreme
  
  The Standard-Examiner carries this interesting story this morning on the front page of the hard-copy edition:
  • How much should your mayor make?
  In it, Mr. Schwebke' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:05am EST
  by RudiZink

• College Game Day Open Thread

  Number of comments: 4
  Two Utah collegiate games we'll be closely watching today. Read all the pregame hype here
  • WSU v. NAU
  • Utah v. TCU
  The WSU home field kickoff is set for 1:00 @ WSU's Stewart Stadium. The Utah/TCU game starts @ 5:30 p.m.
  
  WSU fans who are [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:50am EST
  by RudiZink

• Sign the Streetcar Corridor Alignment Petition

  Number of comments: 8
  Let the UTA bureaucrats know that the lumpencitizens of Emerald City WILL NOT SETTLE for a hokey 36th Street streetcar alignment
  
  For those following current developments in the ongoing UTA Ogden Streetcar study, please take note that one of our gentle readers has furnished a copy of a [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:15am EST
  by RudiZink

• Lifties and Smarties

  Number of comments: 33
  Ogden's two-party political system
  By Dan Schroeder
  It’s time to admit it: Ogden has a two-party political system.
  One party includes Mayor Godfrey, his department heads, city council members Johnson and Stephenson, and majorities of the Chamber of Commerce, local realtors, and the Standard-Examiner management.
  The other party includes council' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:01am EST
  by RudiZink

• Ogden Streetcar Planning Update: Sign the Danged Petition

  Number of comments: 18
  One last chance to tell the mind-number UTA/UDOT bureaucrats what's up with the Lumpencitizens of Emerald City
  Happily, the little glitch in the online petition software which was earlier reported in this space... has now been fixed
  
  In the wake of yesterday's WCF article, wherein we shined the [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:45am EST
  by RudiZink

• Ooops! 3 Vacant Ogden Buildings NOT Ready

  Number of comments: 17
  Let us hope that at least the news editors of the SE understand now just how easily they were played by the administration last month
  
  By Curmudgeon
  
  Have to hand it to the Standard-Examiner for putting on public display today the extent to which it got royally played [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:39am EST
  by RudiZink

• Audit Calls For End to Rehiring Retirees

  Number of comments: 11
  Double dippers may cost state retirement system $900 million in coming decade
  "It was evident in the cases we reviewed that retiring was, with few exceptions, simply a maneuver to begin drawing both a pension and a salary," the audit said. "Returning to work soon after retiring suggests the retirees" [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:10am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner Letter: Many Want a 25th Street Streetcar Route

  Number of comments: 15
  Don't let Utah transportation bureaucrats toss the public input out with the trash
  
  There's not much Emerald City news to report about this morning. Believe us... we've looked. Nevertheless we did find one Weber County Forum-topical item over on the Standard-Examiner website this morning which we believe ought to' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:24am EST
  by RudiZink

• Tuesday Morning Emerald City News Roundup

  Number of comments: 21
  More on Friday's Powdervillian fundraiser, a post-election editorial critique, and a Standard-Examiner website outage update
  
  Three Standard-Examiner items worthy of note this morning. We'll briefly reel them off one by one:
  
  1) Last week we provided a heads-up about the latest development in the Powder Mountain [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:41am EST
  by RudiZink

• Another Blue Sky Utah Mega Ski Resort Hits the Bankruptcy Auction Block

  Number of comments: 7
  More circumstantial evidence that its a good thing that Emerald City citizens didn't sip the Godfrey/Peterson/Lift Ogden Kool-aide
  
  By Curmudgeon
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune has a story up about a much touted mega ski resort development in Utah, Elk Meadows, once touted as a can't fail exclusive up-market [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:35pm EST
  by RudiZink

• Spotlight on Today's Most Peculiar Standard-Examiner "Comic" Insert

  Number of comments: 6
  A Mark Shurtleff campaign propaganda piece, posing as a tribute to the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution?
  
  By Curmudgeon
  
  In this morning's Standard-Examiner, there is an insert, a comic book treatment of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by a comic book' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:30am EST
  by RudiZink

• Special Notice to the Voters of Ogden's Ward 1

  Number of comments: 0
  Two days remain to validate twelve Ward 1 provisional ballots
  
  This morning we have a quick heads-up for the voters in Ogden City Ward 1. As everyone knows, council incumbent Jesse Garcia was narrowly edged out by Godfreyite challenger Neil Garner by a preliminary vote tally of [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:25am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner Guest Commentary: Golf Course Plan Should Preserve Intrinsic Value

  Number of comments: 9
  Time for our new city council, we think, to grab the bull by its horns
  
  The Mt. Ogden Golf Course story is back on the discussion front-burner, with this morning's most-excellent Hoyle Sorenson Guest Commentary:
  • Golf course plan should preserve intrinsic valueMr. Sorensen refers to the four' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:30am EST
  by RudiZink

• Standard-Examiner: Does a Post-Election Power Shift Loom For the Emerald City Council?

  Number of comments: 20
  Will the SE Editorial Board recognize that fixing the admittedly abysmal state of Mayor-Council relations will require a substantial communications shift on the part of the Mayor and his staff, and not just on the part of the Council?
  
  By Curmudgeon
  
  This morning's Standard-Examiner has up an interesting' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:45am EST
  by RudiZink

• The River Project Graduates From Firetrap to "No-Fee Landfill"

  Number of comments: 52
  That's how it works (and will continue to work) with Ogden City government, so long as Boss Godfrey remains at the mayoral helm
  
  Eye popping front page story in this morning's Standard-Examiner, reporting that Boss Godfrey's once ballyhooed Ogden River Project, which the administration brokered into the hands' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:15am EST
  by RudiZink

• Veteran's Day Parade Tomorrow A.M.

  Number of comments: 9
  Join your blogmeister tomorrow in downtown Ogden to thank our U.S. military veterans, reservists and active-duty troops for their service to our country
  
  Although we've been hog-tied with personal business for most of the day, there's one more immediately upcoming local event we'd like to spotlight this evening, before' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  by RudiZink

• Powder Mountain Update: Union Station Fundraiser Scheduled For Next Friday Night

  Number of comments: 5
  Fundraiser: Music, dinner and melodrama
  
  During the past two months we've maintained our lazer focus on Ogden City politics, and the 2009 Ogden City Municpal Election in particular. Over that time however we've unfortunately neglected another topic near and dear to hearts, the still-ongoing Powder Mountain Township [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:30am EST
  by RudiZink

• Thursday Morning Open Topic Thread

  Number of comments: 18
  A couple of non-red meat items to kick off the day's discussion
  
  There's not much in the way of "red meat" news in Emerald City this morning, so we thought it might be a good idea to set up an open topic thread. But first, here are a couple [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by RudiZink

• The Desert News Kickstarts a New Discussion About Two Citizens' Initiative Petitions Which Are Well Worthy of Your Attention

  Number of comments: 4
  Arrange to affix you signatures to the Utahns for Ethical Government and Fair Boundaries Redistricting Initiative Petitions via the contact information listed below:
  
  The Deseret News carries a good editorial this morning, once again touting the Utahns for Ethical Government (UEG) citizen legislative ethics initiative petition drive, which [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by RudiZink

• 2009 Ogden City Municipal Election Results

  Number of comments: 108
  Real-time vote tallies delivered to our readers through the technological marvel of electrons zipping along through little wires
  
  As promised in today's earlier article, and as we've done every year since the founding of Weber County Forum in 2005, we're once again delighted to provide a real-time feed' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  by RudiZink

• 2009 Ogden City Municipal Election Results

  Real-time vote tallies delivered to our readers through the technological marvel of electrons zipping along through little wires
  
  As promised in today's earlier article below, and as we've done every year since the founding of Weber County Forum in 2005, we're once again delighted to provide a real-time [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  by RudiZink

• Election Day: The Polls Are Open

  Number of comments: 67
  A rare opportunity to elect a veto-proof majority of fiscally conservative council grownups
  
  Here we go folks. Our sidebar countdown clock has clicked down to zero. The glorious day we've all been anxiously awaiting has now arrived. Your neighborhood polling places will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by RudiZink

• A few Back-burner Items in Advance of Tomorrow's Municipal election

  Number of comments: 21
  The results of our online website ratings poll; and some belated info from Ward 3 candidate Stephens
  
  OK folks. Now that we're on the threshold of tomorrow's critical municipal election, wherein the Emerald City Lumpencitizens are once again compelled to stand up for their conservative fiscal values and important [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:13pm EST
  by RudiZink

• Two More Strong Election-Oriented Editorial Pieces From the Standard-Examiner

  Number of comments: 9
  The SE advances a plan to get out the vote; and a regular SE guest contributor delivers a helpful civics lesson
  
  There are two strong editorial pieces in this morning's Standard-Examiner, each of them propounding the laudable theme of "getting out the vote" for tomorrow's Emerald City Municipal Election.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:45am EST
  by RudiZink

• A Standard-Examiner Editorial Page Our WCF Readers Won't Want to Miss

  Number of comments: 31
  If we didn't know better, we'd swear the Standard-Examiner is finally in touch with the true sentiments of the lumpencitizens of Emerald City
  
  Fantastic Standard-Examiner editorial page today. We'll award today's editorial page effort a solid "A" grade. On second thought... let's make it an A+:
  
  First, the' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:44am EST
  by RudiZink