Monday Morning Pot-luck

Rolling out our new "Godfrey Dog & Pony Show" mp3 audio collection

We commented last week on the subject of Emerald City's recently compiled "wish list," wherein the city council reportedly enumerated a list of $43.2 million in capital improvements, to be prioritized over the next five years. Having reviewed the list at the time of publication of the above article, we queried whether the council may have "forgotten" about our dilapidated water and sewer systems -- systems which need $138 million in repairs to bring them up to snuff.

This morning's Standard-Examiner editorial follows up on the subject, with some new information from from Emerald City CAO John Patterson. Emerald City has planned for the expenditure of approximately "$7.2 million worth of rehabilitation between now and 2012," The Std-Ex reports. A mere "drop in the bucket," the Std-Ex calls it. Like the Std-Ex editors, we wonder whether the $7.2 million, over a five-year period, is nearly enough. It sounds like a band-aid solution to us.

And the Std-Ex letters section features yet another Boss Godfrey rah-rah letter from the Boss Godfrey Campaign Letter Mill this morning, in which declared Emerald City resident and apparent Godfrey-lemming Jean H. Mathews complains that "other people" are ill-informed. Judging from Ms. Matthews' letter, it would appear that there remains at least a rear-guard of a few people residing in our Brave New MattGodfreyWorld who still cling to the now-thoroughly discredited notion that it's Chris Peterson's own money (and not our Mt. Ogden Park equity) which Chris "plans" to "invest" in our town -- and that Boss Godfrey has the lumpencitizens' best interests at heart. Godfrey is "aggressive and single minded," Ms. Matthews readily concedes. "Aggressive and single minded" -- like a swarm of killer bees -- we ever so snarkily intone.

And last but not least, we're going to reprise a discussion we had earlier on these Weber County Forum pages, in which one of our gentle readers highlighted an April 16 question & answer session at Weber State U.

Whereas we'd earlier posted a written transcript of that entire proceeding, we're now going to one-up ourselves, with some new material furnished over the weekend by another gentle reader. In that connection we've uploaded a series of mp3 audio files to our archive storage site, which are helpfully indexed at this link. We have a full audio transcript, along with some carefully selected audio excerpts and text files. Be sure to check it out.

The written transcript was revealing; but you ain't heard nuttin' yet -- until you hear it all delivered in the Alternately Snarling & Sniveling Boss Godfrey Munchkin Voice. We encourage you all to download these files to your iPods and play them back everywhere you go. Amaze your Friends! Experience endless gleeful hours of knee-slapping auditory pleasure!

We've also added a link to these files in the sidebar, entitled "Godfrey Dog & Pony Show."

Have at it, gentle readers.

What's on your minds this Monday morning... or later in the day, as the case may be?