A Thursday Morning Potpourri

We find several interesting items in this morning's Standard-Examiner.

First, a hearty Weber County Forum tip o' the hat to the Std-Ex publisher, editors and staff for today's Weber Plus election section. Not only does the Std-Ex deliver stories on our pending federal Senate and House of Representative races, but also six full pages of candidate profiles for the contested races in Box Elder, Morgan and Weber Counties. This is by far the best general election coverage we've seen from the Standard-Examiner within recent memory, and we thank the Standard for providing this useful information.

For the convenience of those WCF readers in remote locations who follow Weber County politics, but don't have print edition readily at hand, we link those articles diectly affecting Weber County voters here.

In this connection, we note that the Std-Ex seems to be developing a separate election module on its non-pay site. We'll be watching this site closely as the November 7 election date approaches, and hope the Std-Ex's IP people soon come to the realization that there are other colors in the internet pallette beyond black and shades of grey.

Secondly, we are encouraged to learn that Republican State Senate candidate Jon Greiner is working actively to defuse the negative publicity he's received this past week due to his pending Hatch Act investigation. As we suggested earlier, we believe the voters deserve to make their own choice, and that the outcome of our Senate 18 race should not depend upon the arbitrary decision of some Washington bureaucrat. Read all about it here.

Finally, we've learned from one of our lower comments sections that Smart Growth Ogden apparently put on a public event last night, geared toward the Peterson/Godfrey Land-grab. If somebody wants to send us a write-up on this event, we'd be glad to put it up as a main article.

Meanwhile, we link this morning's Deb Badger Standard-Examiner letter to the editor, just to kick-start the discussion.

Have at it gentle readers.

Talk about whatever suits your fancy.