Show OdMou I fimuiMi ThoHomM Journal Login Utah Qagi4AaiilM9 wnofi oipwnNr 'TfkMeonokKiohtanmonIMy ttghrnmloutolmumict through any kind ot iongumtm tunori&Kv§ iffecMn (WMIWMM) (r 49 4004 100 PaQOlS 1 Oar vlocr WHAT HAPPENED Withholding OK for IRS not for public information ID mM THE REST OF THEMFEg? imwas—oicom an enrollment decline” This attitude is common among certain gov- ernment officials who mistakenly think the information gathered by the agencies they work for is their personal property to be parceled out when and how they deem fiL Never mind that the information was gathered for the public’s benefit at die public’s expense by people paid with the public’s money Never mind that one of the main roles of the press in America is to act as a watchdog over government offi- cials And never mind that Utah has a law making such records public To make it worse state officials When The then invoked Catch-2- 2 Herald Journal submitted an official request to USU for the numbers university officials said die newspaper had to get them from Foxley’s office but when we submitted an official request to Foxley’s office the response was: “The Utah State University data has (sic) not yet been received by this office” Foxley however maintains the enrollment numbers are not secret That’s good to know Ms Foxley We’re confident you respect the law and will find a way to get USU’s enrollment figures to us as soon as you read this They’re not yours after all Your viow Cache County Sheriffs Office there were just 63 employees The sheriffs Proposition 5 inhibits democratic action office now has over 93 full-tim-e employees Let's take a quick look at what was editor Innuendo Personal attack Red To the ring Congratulations Wayne Biggs for your telling response (Sept IS) to my letter to the editor (Aug 26) that alerted thecitizensofCache Valley to dangerous Propositions Mr Biggs not only put words in my mouth but admitted his goal of deciding my vote for me in what was heretofore my privilege as a Utah citizen with little over a month to gamer pub- lic support for this proposition — a clearly deceptive attempt to restrict Utahns’ access to the polls and remove our right to voice our opinions — he alerted us all to what the proponents’ misleading television and print campaign will surely entail in an attempt to scare folks into approving a frightening precedent But like other intelligent readers of The Herald Journal — and editors of the Deseret News Salt Lake Tribune ftovo Daily Herald and outdoor writer for the Ogden Standard Examiner who have resoundingly opposed this myopic proposition — I can easily spot a campaign of intolerance We will not waver in our deep sense of protection of our last-minu- te right to vote Cherish freedom or sacrifice iL Go to the polls on Nov 3 Vote NO on Propositions Margaret Pettis Hyium Sheriff's staff budget show undue increase To the editor This letter is in response to a recent frontpage article in the Cache Citizen: This year our Republican-appointe- d sheriff tried to increase his buqpt from less than $4 million in 1997 to over $S million in 1998 He also managed to increase our future tax obligations a 400 percent increase in ty fed-Fa- st Grant moneys obligating of thousands of dollars in current and future tax moneys to his office In 1996 before I retired from the in sheriffs office personnel This year the sheriff asked the County Council for permission to hire civilian jail control-roo- m operators to replace more costly corrections certified deputies This was done to reduce jail operating costs However there were no savings to taxpayers as the sheriff (fid not replace jail certified control-roooperators with civilians — he simply shifted them increasing the overall size of his staff m While all this staffing increase is occurring the jail administration continues sending 20 to 30 inmates a day at a cost of more than $400000 a year over the hill to the new Box Elder County Jail Was I the only law enforcement official who thought "If the Cache County Jail was going to house their inmates out of our county they ought to act financially responsible and not increase the size of their current staff? I shoulda gone to law school By Ted P—a become for the media Well not exactly I found myself wishing as the deadline A strangers things that are none of your business and — as the interviewing virtuosa Barbara Walters has repeatedly demonstrated — they’ll not only answer but half the time they’ll tell you more man you wanted to know Only occasionally do you get to topple governments or save lives but reporters do get to do good from time to time For the inquisitive and at least it’s generally rewarding work And semi-idealis- tic for those of a storytelling disposition what better way to sprod your time than to pet paid for minding other people's business and writing about it? These days though I’m wishing I had chosen another field I’m not covering the president of course and I’m thankfully not in a position to have to ask nosy questions of him and the first lady and Socks the First Cat and Buddy the Hist Dawg and the maids and minims and Secret Service agents and all the rest of the royal retainers Grand Inquisitor Starr has the Question category more than cornered and has really taken a lot of the fun out of the whole journalistic thing But even though I’m not in foe White House press pool and don’t have to folrev- low up the High Sheriff’s grand ji elations with embamssinx “c questions of my own I do find myself In Why didn't the sheriff wait to hire these new officers until they had built this new jail? By simply delaying the hiring of these 30 new employees he the position of having to explain and may nave been able to retire some of the defend not only the press but the whole almost $2 million in outstanding debt that he currently owes on our present mess to friends and students and neighbors I jail It is my belief that die sheriff is hous- meet in die grocery aisles “It’s been a pretty exciting time for ing inmates in Box Elder County to justia colleague offered appreciatively you” the new to a of $7 fy building taxpayers the other day referring to the million law enforcement complex muck that Zippergate has Now let's talk about what our sheriff had to say in his Cache Citizen interview earth-shatteri- would happen in the field ng of oh tum physics or maybe tennis or ' testimo- ny to Ken Stair’s grand jury was already weU under way and many of my students were lobbying to turn it on (It is testimony in itself to how dull my lec- for this column approached that 1 had into marine biology and so could on a boat somewhere off the Galapa- watching turtles reproduce Or at ast that something s 1 learned when I was a reporter a journalist has a license to be nosy It's fascinating work talking with both the powerful rod the obscure with movers and shakers about whatever they are moving and shaking and with just plain folks about their crops or kids or African violets You can ask total dais the president's videotaped tures can be that students who had already seen some of the president’s interminable preferred more of it to listening to me) hair-splitti- quanEliza- bethan letters so I could write about that imtMH You know something — anything — to keep from having to try to nuke sense of the only dung mat Americans seem- ng Others were frustrated “Can’t we talk about anything else?” one asked refer- ring not so much to the class as the national conversation about Bill Clinton’s private life “There are so many ingly have on their minds Without other mings really important things that William Jefferson Clinton and his overdie government should be doing” Pollsters and spinmeisters take note weening recklessness at least I could joyfolly have turned this week to other These 93 students provide a snapshot of stories that stand out on the American public opinion among the landscape: the suddenly redeemed set in die hinterlands: 66 percent think American pastime of baseball thanks to GBntDd'iihdiilff belfopbrasTtir bhoiiM Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire or the resign up from 44 percent two weeks death at age 38 of track and field ago: phe-no- m Florence Griffith Joyner who combined beauty fingernails style grace and speed to make running actually look like fun But no The world’s electronically pro psyche is focused whether we want it to be or not an two middle-age- d white men in suits one a tragic disappointment and the other a warped huntch I ing dog And don’t say that it’s the media driving this — all four networks carried die (Xnton grand jury testimony on Monday morning 'and CNN was reporting a record 35&000 hits per hour on its website verriou We may complain about it but we eat it up I talked with a Minneapolis editorial writer friend right after the Starr report was first splashed all over the Internet She had read it (I still haven’t) “Sure Bill Clinton is pathological” she said her voice lowering “but Kenneth Starr is a pornography” Others lave pointed out with a pSrti- an wink the irony of the Republicans rushing the Starr report with all its exhaustively minute details of oral er “improper relations” between the presi- dent and Monica Lewinsky onto the Internet Weren’t those the same Republicans who so passionatety attacked the accessibility or “questionable material” onthe Web where impressionable minds can find it? Anyway when I got to University Hill on Mboday for my 8:30 “Medin Smarts” Impeachment: 14 Resignation: 52 Censure: 9 Ignore it all: 5 Abstain: 20 What we do in “Media Smarts” is to examine ways that mass media messages permeate our lives and help set an agenda for how we see the world and define what’s important in it Just as a fish is largely unaware of the water in which it swims many in the “information age" have trouble identifying the elements and possible toxins that make up our environment As students become more aware of the “water” in which they swim and start to think critically about our man media environment — the cultural climatology framed by TV and radio news and MTV advertising and movies — some of them Mart to get a little indignant about their mass media diet and the additives it may contain that they hadn’t noticed they were consuming These were the students who resent having their entire worldview constructed ana defined for them by Bill Clinton's mid-li- fe stupidities and me of his political foes They have more important things to think about fm with them Tad Psasa ppaaaatMuauadu) la hand ol Via Department of Communication at Utah Stale Unhmmlty Ha column appears on Via Opinion page ovary ottier Sunday Launaafroro tive Ifs no longer the village idiot who can expect to become n cop because there's nothing else he can do!” For Mr Nelson to suggest that Sheriff Sheriff Malmbere Sheriff Carter riff Bodrero and deputies like my father myself my daughter and the hundreds of other professional law enforcement officers who have protected served or died for the citizens or this great country are idiots who couldn't do anything U&SENATE-UTA- H Sen Robert Bennett Republican — US Senate Washington DC 20310 Utah office: 4223 Fed(202) 224-344-4 eral Building 123 S State SL Salt Lake City UT 84138 (801) 524-3933 Sen Orrin Hatch Republican — US Seriate Washington DC 20310 Utah office: 8402 Fed(202) 224-523-1 eral Building 123 S State SL Salt Lake City UT 8413 U&SENATUDAHO UJHOUSE-UTA- Dirk Kempthorne Republican — SD-40 Room 3 Washington DC 2 20310 (202) Idaho office: 303 N Stir Street Room 338 Boise ID Janies V Hansen Republican — ' Represents 1st Congressional District B 224-614- 83703(208)334-177- 6 Lany Ckrig Republican — 302 Hart Building Washington DC 20310 (202)224-273- 1 Idaho office: 304 N 8th ID 83701 (208) SL Room 149 Boise 334-13- H winch includes Cache County Washington office: 2466 Rayburn Building U£ House of Representatives Washington DC 20515 (202) 11 office: 1017 Federal Building 324 25th SL Qgden UT 84401 (801) 625-5677 or 393-83- 61 ' 60 Sec OUR VIEW on Page 19 See LAWMAKERS on Page 19 rAallard Pillnoro I'm Wt tx vtxAP caotwf jur (Vifi lib CUM! 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