Category Archive For "Park City"
Summit County Council Candidate Colin DeFord’s Use of Social Media is Encouraging
For years, information in Summit County has been disseminated through the Park Record and KPCW. Both do a great job but they have their limitations. Both only have a limited staff, both are mainly one way communication mechanisms, the Park Record has only so much space to print upon, and KPCW local news has less than an …
Teen Gathering Spot Makes Sense
In today’s Park Record, citizen Melissa Band wrote a letter entitled, Kids need a place to call their own. Essentially, Ms. Band is calling for a location where teenagers could hang out in a safe place. It frankly makes a lot of sense. For twenty years, the knock on Park City kids, from outsiders, has …
What Good Survey Results Look Like
During the School District’s Bond effort they did a “survey” of residents in order to understand what they’d be willing to pay for a bond. I think the answer was about $60 million. From reports it seemed like many survey calls were to cell phones of prominent people… which runs counter to the randomized nature you’d …
The National Citizen Survey Shows Park City is a Great Place to Live
If there is a truism across most of humanity it would be that people like to complain. Yet even given that, in the 2015 survey of “livability” of our city, Park City generally came up all roses. 96% of people felt quality of life was positive 97% felt Park City was great place to live …
Bomb Threats and Counter Terrorism in Park City? WTF?
I feel like I’ve woken up this Monday morning in Park City Bizzaro Land. First I read that not only did the Utah Attorney General’s office going undercover to investigate Human Trafficking at Sundance but that “undercover agents also attend[ed] film screenings that authorities believe might have potential for some type of disturbance, including terrorism.” Don’t get me …
Park City Sucks
In late December I wrote a column on how Park City may have made a big mistake by letting Vail use the term Park City for their ski resort. Since that time I’ve done research, thought more about the topic, and frankly become more upset that our community is now forever tied to a Vail ski resort name. …
If Vail Succeeds Will We Have Three Times the Number of Visitors?
I love our community. I’m receiving a lot of thoughtful analysis on a number of topics. Case in point is an analysis a reader did on the potential impact Vail may have on visitors. The reader’s analysis shows that if Vail achieves the same “density” of skiers per acre of resort as they do at their Colorado …
Uh… Park City… We Have a Problem
Much like a rocket designed by NASA, Park City has been on autopilot. We came out of the Great Recession and the tax dollars flowed in, both sales and property taxes. Park City seems to be a desirable place to be. Excellent. Vail, once again, proving they are the “smartest guys in the room,” did what …
You Don’t See This Every Day …
A reader emailed this picture of the General Lee UDOT cruising the streets of the Snyderville Basin this morning. I suppose you have to admire this driver’s creativity, and as a fan of the Dukes of Hazzard, I have to give the obligatory golf clap. Yet, slapping a confederate flag on the back of a state of …
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