We have some new material to add to the reader discussion posted in and under yesterday's article, "The Standard-Examiner Endorses Yet Another Knuckleheaded Idea". Although this article provoked a thorough reader discussion, we now have new information to add to the discussion mix. Rather than append this as an update, we've decided to start off with this brand-spankin' new article.
Yesterday afternoon we received an email from Std-Ex editor Don Porter, furnishing some fresh new information. Thanks to Don's heads-up, we provide our readers links to eight mp3 audio files, straight from the Std-Ex website, providing inside information on the material which the Std-Ex editors apparently considered prior to publishing Tuesday's ice tower endorsement editorial. Listen with delight, as Don Porter and several other Std-Ex editors grill the Little Lord Godfrey about his rationale for wasting taxpayer money on this latest knuckleheaded project. We're sure you'll all find these audios to be most interesting:
1. Godfrey on Ogden economic history and visionOur favorite clip of course is audio #3, wherein Mr. Porter asks Boss Godfrey how much city money has already been invested in the ice tower project to date. Godfrey hems and haws, does an extended soft shoe and finally comes out with a figure around $5,000. The amount is "not significant," says Godfrey. Of course we've already learned from Councilwoman Jeske on Tuesday night that the true amount of city expenditures is at least $124 thousand. So Godfrey's off-the-cuff estimate is only off by $119 thousand. We guess that's "close enough for government work," as the old saying goes. Of course we know our "precious" mayor would never lie about something like this. We're quite sure that he merely "mis-spoke."
2. Godfrey on Ice Tower $200K and private dollars
3. Godfrey on total city money for Ice Tower
4. Godfrey on Ice Tower operational funds
5. Godfrey on 25th Street merchants and the Ice Tower
6. Godfrey on the unique design of the Ice Tower
7. Godfrey on marketing for the Ice Tower
8. Godfrey on the risk vs. benefit of the Ice Tower
Lots of interesting stuff on these audios; and we thank Don Porter for the heads-up. And remember, gentle readers, Tuesday's Std-Ex editorial was evidently written in reliance upon the accuracy of information provided by Boss Godfrey in the interview which is the subject of these audios.
Have at it, gentle readers.
