Over the course of a typical week at Weber County Forum, we usually build up a backlog of news articles we meant to spotlight, but never got around to bringing to front-stage. This week has of course been no exception.
In that connection we thought we'd clear out our article queue this morning, and showcase a couple of articles submitted by our gentle readers. Our intelligent and thoughtful readership is one of the prime factors which has made such a success of our humble little backwater blog. So as the weekend winds to an end, we'll let a pair of our readers drive the discussion this morning.
First, we link to an article appearing in Friday's Deseret Morning News. Submitted by a reader under the clever psuedonym not because of a gondola, the article reports on three sizable companies who've recently relocated to our fair state. As our reader's "handle" slyly foretells -- strangely -- not one of them mentions gondolas.
And a second anonymous reader submits a second Deseret News article, on the topic of Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Mayor Anderson is of course a political lightning rod if there ever was one -- a liberal fish out of water in our oh-so-conservative state.
Toward the end of the article we find this fantastic paragraph, wherein even our own Emerald City Mayor rails against against the Salt Lake Mayor who's the favorite whipping-boy for so many Utahns.
"It's embarrassing for the rest of us; Mayor Anderson is so over the top, nobody wants to be associated with him," said Matthew R. Godfrey, mayor of the nearby city of Ogden. Godfrey said Anderson had not worked well with other mayors across the state and that his views were out of step with those of fellow Utahns.This looks like a prime example of the pot calling the kettle black, we think. We at Weber County Forum are quite certain that our own Boss Godfrey has to be the most embarrassing mayor in the Beehive State by far.
However, in the spirit of keeping this article purely reader driven, we thought we'd try something a little different. We haven't run a poll in a while; so we're going to do one right now. And in that connection we ask a question. Of the two eccentric northern Utah Mayors who are mentioned in Friday's Deseret News article, which one is the most embarrassing -- Rocky Anderson or Matthew Godfrey?
You can vote in the poll right here; and we'll also embed a poll module in the right sidebar.
Take Our Poll!
Have fun; and don't forget to leave us your comments!
Update 3/26/07 11:57 a.m. MT: We've had some discussion in the below comments thread about Kent Jorgenson's proposed "Option 'B'." In that connection, and for our readers' information, we link here the full text of a communication we received via email from Mr. Jorgenson on May 5, 2006, in which he first sets forth his plan for an alternative to the Godfrey/Peterson Landgrab.
