UTAH’S TOP 50 | OGDEN’S MAYOR-ELECT | FATHER OF Y2K BUG Legendaryskier is century’s bestathlete B-1 Ex-track star readyfor a new challenge C-1 Hetried his best to stop the menace E-1 he Salt LakeGri uiie http://www.sltrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 ‘Volume 259 Number 75 ©1999, The Salt Lake Tribune 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Telephone numbers listed on A-2 SUNDAY, DECEMBER26, 1999 ° The Corradini Era: Best of Times, Worst of Times BY REBECCA WALSH Winter Olympics, the Buzz, Gateway and lightrail, or if she simply capital- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Mayor Deedee Corradini was in ized on a booming economy and lucky timing. Only timewill tell if the Corra- She sweptintooffice eight years ago as the city’s first female mayor. She dogged by scandal or the gritty businesswoman who dragged Salt Lake City into the 21st century. Corradini and her staffers are put- charge of Salt Lake City during its best times and manyof its worst — someof her own making. dini Utahns remember best is the leader right-hand man on Gateway and transportation projects. But others are skeptical. Crossroads Urban Center director Glenn Bailey says Corradini’s years in office benefited big developers such as Roger Boyer and Larry Miller at the expense of the homeless, low-income residents and small businesses. ting their best spin on the era. limps out two terms later, worse for the wear but proud. History will determineif her prideis ‘misplaced, whether Corradini can “She did an extraordinary job working for a constituency in Salt Lake City —people with money — that appreci- “Deedee has done more to reshape the face of Salt Lake City than anyone else except possibly Brigham Young,” says Brian Hatch, Corradini’ claim some of the credit for the 2002 Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini, wearing her trademark red, leaves anindelible mark on Utah's capital af- ter eight years in ‘ See CORRADINI, Page A-11 office. Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune 1999 UTAHN OF THE YEAR Gun Training Due For an Upgrade Stiffer standards are likely for concealed-weaponspermits BY DAN HARRIE ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Changes arein store for Utah’s lax training requirements for obtaining a concealed-weapons permit. One way or another, standards are likely to get stricter in requiring would-be gun toters to prove xy can safely handle firearms. . Utah has issued 28,500 concealed-carry licenses since the law was liberalized in 1994. Flawsin the current system are under attack on three fronts: in the state Legislature, in the agency that is supposed to oversee concealed-carry licenses and in the private sector, where instructors are banding together to fashion a professional code of conduct. > “For most people, it’s common sense,” says House Majority Leader Kevin Garn. “If you're going to give ‘somebodya license, they sure as heck ought to know what they're doing.” ‘Thatisn’t always so now. events in January, February and seems distant amid the forward-looking hustle of the @ Others considered A-2 helppolice themselves, outside oversight will not be required,” the groupsaid in an online “alert” newsletter. “If Utah’s CCW permit instructors do not aggressively address these issues, an external solution maywell be imposed on them,and then everyone gets Garn says a friend of his recently completed a the short end ofthe stick.” The resultofthose prods is a newly formed professional association called the Utah Self-Defense Instructors Network (US-DIN). The idea how to shoot a gun,” says Garn. Serious defects in Utah’s gun-safety training were group is attempting to set voluntary standards of quality control and to head off government quality of the courses. A sampling of seven classes by four reporters found they ranged from comprehen- government one,” says instructor Winton Clark Aposhian,one of the association's founders. Instructors as a whole concede there are a few sloppy or practice to sham courses that seemed designed mainly to earn quick, easy money for state-certified derelict trainers, but they are “a vast minority,” says Aposhian. The group heldits first meeting Nov. 23 and adopted a code of conduct. It promises instructors will stick to their state-approved lesson plans, main- sive seven-hour sessions that included firing-range No event in 1999 so shook Utah’s soul as the of the 2002 Olympic Games. At year’s end, the whiplash of “If Utah’s CCW [concealed-carry weapons] in- structors take some immediate affirmative steps to “firearms familiarity” course required to obtain a concealed-carry permit. The problem? “He has no highlighted last September in a Salt Lake Tribune investigation that showed a wild fluctuation in the scandal surrounding the ‘Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune Gun-safety instructor Mike Gounley, whose students include other guntrainers,is among Utah gui experts who emphasize by-the-book instruction. ‘The dayafter that story was published, the lobby group Gun Owners of Utah (GOUtah!) began pushing instructors to clean up their own act before the state clamped down. intervention. “A self-policing organizationis often better than a See CONCEALED,Page A-4 and business pillars heretofore rarely challenged.It will be a long time before trust again is offered so unconditionally. 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