Ace Reporter Schwebke's persistent digging yields yet more pay-dirt
A hearty Weber County Forum Tip O' the Hat this morning to the Standard-Examiner's Ace Reporter Scott Schwebke, who has recently been exhibiting the traits of a journalistic ferret, digging out facts like an old-fashioned investigative reporter on a Mission from the Journalism God.
After nearly two weeks of hemming and hawing, the always evasive and hyper-secretive Boss Godfrey has finally released to Mr. Schwebke the Lewis, Young, Robertson & Burningham Inc. "fiscal analysis," commissioned by an un-named "somebody" in May of 2006, and delivered in November of that year.
His Standard-Examiner story of this morning provides us a short synopsis of the document's contents -- and as an added bonus -- the Std-Ex has uploaded the full-text PDF version to its website.
Our quick glance at Mr. Schwebke's article reveals that the cost of this study was actually $16 thousand, and NOT the $200 thousand figure which has been rattling around these past two weeks, although it remains unclear which, among the various players involved in this story, actually coughed up the sixteen thousand bucks to Lewis, Young, et al. Curiously, the document has the word "draft" stamped all over it, raising the tantalizing question of whether the paid consultant ever got paid at all.
And our Evelyn Wood-style perusal of this "fiscal analysis" posted on the website suggests that it's nothing new, and that it's really no big deal at all -- raising once again the question of why Boss Godfrey didn't release it in the first place.
Our personal calendar is fully booked for the day, so we'll merely lay out the new information, and leave the analysis to our gentle readers. Number-crunching types are invited to pore over this document, and give us their lowdown on its true meaning.
For those readers with a burning issue of your own, you may consider this a pre-weekend open-topic thread.
Comments, anyone?
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