Monday Morning Emerald City News Roundup

Not much to speak about in the realm of Emerald City red-meat today; but we'll belatedly issue an important reminder, and highlight a couple of back-burner items

1) For those who may be unaware, we'll remind everyone that there's a special council session set for noon today:

• Ogden City Council Special Meeting Agenda

We do hope at least a few of our readers will plan to attend, to witness the swearing-in of our 2010-11 council, and the election of council leadership. And if any of our readers do attend, we'd certainly welcome any any post-session reports.

In this connection, we invite our readers to prognosticate on which members of the new council will be elected to the Council Chair and Vice-Chair slots.

2) Encouraging story in Sunday's Standard-Examiner edition, the first installment in the Standard's announced article series, spotlighting the dual benefits of the ongoing gentrification of Ogden's Central City neighborhood. In the case of homeowner Shalae Larson, the city benefits not only through the rehabilitation of an Emerald City Victorian-style architectural gem, but also gains a smart and dedicated community activist:

• Ogden couple turns blackened shell of old house into place to live

(For those readers who'd like to snoop inside Ms. Larsen's recently renovated digs, the Standard also supplies a nice slide show.)

3) We'll also note in passing that The Salt Lake Tribune followed up a couple of days ago on last Wednesday's Weber County Forum rant, with its own critique of Rep. Carl Wimmer's recent foray into anti-individual liberty/big government intervention:

• Women's choice

The Trib agrees with your blogmeister's take, of course. As everyone knows, here at Weber County Forum we never lie, and are ALWAYS right.

That's it for this Monday morning, O Gentle Ones. Expand on either of the above topics... or start up a conversation all your own.

Update 1/4/10 11:43 a.m.: And one more thing. As a result of a little light googling. we're minded that on January 4, 1896, Utah was admitted to the union as the 45th state of the Union.

Happy Statehood Day, Utah!

Update 1/5/10 7:15 a.m.: Jessica Miller provides her writeup on yesterday's Special Council Session here:

• New Ogden City Council members take the oath of office