Our home town newspaper is brimming with 2007 election-related information this morning. We hardly know where to start.
We suppose however that this morning's lead editorial, in which the Standard Examiner editors make their first Emerald City election 2007 candidate endorsement, is the most significant article in this morning's Standard-Examiner lineup.
And which city council candidate does the Std-Ex recommend this morning? [drumroll]: Amy Wicks!
Our compliments to the Std-Ex for their most excellent pick. We couldn't have done better ourselves. And we suppose this endorsement does force us to sheepishly admit that the Std-Ex may not be a slavish Godfrey House Propaganda Organ after all.
Be sure to visit the Standard-Examiner's website, where you can view the taped interviews of councilwoman Wicks, along with that of her bumbling and hapless At-Large Seat "C" challenger, Royal Eccles.
Next on the Weber County Forum playlist this morning we'll direct our readers' attention to this John Greiner Op-ed rebuttal piece. Loyal trooper to the last, Chief Greiner this morning arises to the service of his Commander-in-Chief Boss Godfrey, and attempts to refute Professor Hutchins' startling 10/23/07 crime statistics Op-ed revelations. The apparent point of Chief Greiner's article: ALL crime stats are skewed, according to the whims of those who produce and/or collect them, says Chief Greiner. Ogden City owns its own statistics, and Boss Godfrey's administration won't stand for any danged professional neuroscientists interpreting their numbers, unless they attend all the proper crime conferences.
Next, we'll note today's obligatory Boss Godfrey rah-rah letter, submitted by the always reliable Gondolist lemming Jeanette Ballantyne. Yes we checked the Gondolist Cult membership list, and have confimed that Ms. Ballantyne is indeed a charter member.
And last but not least, we can't fail to note this morning's Boss Godfrey crime-fighting story, wherein Boss Godfrey goes beyond the mere reporting of his admittedly skewed crime statistics, but actually becomes part of Chief Greiner's own hopelessly-rigged crime stats database himself. Weber County Forum readers had of course earlier been made aware that Boss Godfrey apprehended a bicycle thief during the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Since then, the story has been reported in "weird news" columns all over the country, even as far away as North Texas.Boss Godfrey has been struggling for years to put Emerald City "on the map." We believe he's succeeded this week. This is the best Ogden-related story, we think, since the last time Emerald City appeared on the weird news story map.
That's a wrapup of the morning's Emerald City news, WCF readers.
It's your turn to take it from here.
