Entries Published On July, 2015
Live Blog of the School’s Last Public Focused Master Planning Meeting
Tonight we are at the School District’s public meeting related to rebuilding its Kearns Campus and moving Treasure Mountain to Ecker Hill. The connection is a little spotty, so I’ll do my best to keep up. Click Read More to follow along…
What Park City Could Learn From Mr. Star Wars
The Washington Post has an interesting article on affordable housing, the wealthy, and George Lucas (Creator of Star Wars). It seems Mr Lucas wanted to expand his Skywalker Ranch studio in Marin County California. Citizens opposed the idea, saying things like, “The studio expansion would pose a serious and alarming threat to the nature of our valley …
Building Costs are Rising … So We Better Rebuild Schools Now!!!!!!
One of the arguments the School District’s Master Planning Committee likes to make is that construction cots are rising by 5% per year. So, we better build lots of stuff now because it will cost more to do so later. While costs are rising, that’s generally ALWAYS been true. Take a look at the Turner Non Residential …
Best High School in the Nation?
I received an email from a reader about Park City Schools: After hearing Dr. Conley’s talk about being the ‘best’ in the nation, I wondered what metric for scholastic achievement they are using. According to the 2015 US News/ World Report, out of the 20,000 or so high schools in the country, PCHS is not even …
Can Our Governments Please…Please…Please… Just Work Together?
Yesterday morning on KPCW, Basin Recreation’s Rena Jordan was on with KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher. Ms. Jordan was giving an update on various topics but the one that caught my attention was about Basin Rec building a fieldhouse on 17 acres of land near the new Silver Creek Village (by Home Depot). You see, the school district also …
Rock and Roll and the Lack of Diversity in Park City
It doesn’t get better than spending an evening with an old friend. In this case, I had the chance to spend Saturday evening at the Van Halen concert down in Salt Lake at USANA amphitheater. It was everything one could ask for in rock concert. David Lee Roth, even at age 61, still slides down …
Live Blogging Tonight’s Public Meeting on The School Rebuilding Project
Tonight the School District is holding their final public meeting on rebuilding the Kearns campus and moving Treasure Mountain Junior High next to Ecker Hill Middle School. If you want to attend, the meeting is at 6PM at the High School. If you can’t make it, I’ll be live blogging the show meeting. Word has it that …
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