The Standard-Examiner comes out swinging this morning in connection with the Powderville incorporation fiasco, with about as hard-hitting an editorial as we've ever seen from our home town newspaper. This morning's opening paragraphs set the tone:
The utter freakishness of the town-incorporation law passed by the Legislature in 2007 continues to defy common sense in Weber County.From there, the Std-Ed editorial board launches a no-holds-barred editorial barrage, landing haymakers on the parties who bear chief responsibility for the "utterly freakish" Powder Mountain mess, i.e., our bone-headed state legislature, (whose passage of SB-466 amounted to legislative malpractice,) and the greed-head developer (who has arrogantly taken advantage of the legislature's chain of errors.) You can read this morning's full Std-Ex editorial here:
Members of the Weber County Commission are in a bad spot. But by attempting to find an ethical, moral solution to their quandary, they are, perhaps, violating the law. A really bad law, mind you, but a law nevertheless.
On Tuesday commissioners once again refused to rubberstamp a list of town council and mayor appointees from the creators/developers of Powder Mountain Town. Their reasoning: Maybe it’s possible to put a shine on this lump of ... coal.
"Powder town, chapter 2"
And whatever you do, don't forget to take a gander at another fantastic Calvin Grondahl cartoon, which springboards off this marvelous Commission Zogmaister quote, appearing midway through today's Std-Ex editorial: "Commissioner Jan Zogmaister’s sarcasm was apropos when she remarked that if those people were appointed, a family reunion could constitute a quorum of city government."
And while we're on the Powderville subject again, we'd like to draw our readers' attention to another fine new article appearing on Ogden Valley Forum. OVF has published this morning a guest editorial by Eden resident Darla Van Zeben, who articulates a definitional distinction between Powderville "petitioners" and "petition sponsors." Confusion over this terminology is causing friction in the Powderville neighborhood, Ms. Van Zeben reports, and we thank Ms. Van Zeben for helping us distinguish between the two groups, who vary considerably, we'll speculate, in their "culpability" in re this matter:
"From the Powderville Neighborhood"
That's it on the Powderville topic this morning, folks.
Comments are invited, as per usual.
Update 8/22/08 1:58 pm MT: We'll also note in passing that Ogden Valley Forum, our friends, allies and cohorts throughout this entire Powder Mountain Incorporation Mess, have yet another new article on the Powderville topic ths morning.
