Show vw fT &8T AVAILABLE r I'p1 fight conclusions anmonSMy to be gathered out of a multitude of COPY selection’ athre The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday March 30 2001 Page 15 Our view the ’02 torch Nc are currently being taken for individuals to run segments of the Olympic torch relay across America prior to the opening Ceremonies for the 2002 Winter Games The Herald Journal news staff thinks it has a perfect candidate for the relay as it makes its way through our neck of the woods Although our nominee wouldn’t likely come to most people’s minds when they try to think of local celebrities to bear the torch we believe he embodies the spirit of universal goodwill strived for by the Olympics better than perhaps anyone who will raise the immortal flame above their heads next winter Most valley residents probably don’t even know his name although virtually everyone hereabouts knows him by sight We are talking about Brent Carpenter the man who rides his bicycle far and wide honking his Harpo Marx-styl- e bicycle horn and waving at everyone he sees And should you think this 51 -- year-old victim of palsy lacks in required athleticism try keeping up with him when he pedals up and down the hills of Northern Utah If you would like to join us in nominating Brent or anyone else for the torch relay visit the Salt Lake Olympic Committee Web site at www saltlake2002 com arid fill out a nomination form The case of a Logan man facing $82000 in back payments for 60 years of free electricity has made its way across the world A reporter with a Japanese television news program called The Herald Journal this week seeking details in the story which went over the national news wire after appearing in this newspaper in January Dems hope for lightning strike Have you ever walked the shore of Bear Lake? If so you may have noticed — like one of us did quite the other day — that a dark coarse sand around strip of the lake is not sand at all It’s millions of tiny shells! ' By Dale McFeatters Scrippa Howard News Service unex-pected- ly T Have a great spring everyone It is our understanding that many Utah counties areheing solicited Jr the possible science Research shows no positive correlation between fawn recruitment and coyote removal Rather coyote removal increases “mesopredators” (skunks raccoons foxes etc) while decreasing species diversity of songbirds and other small mamtnals Furthermore coyotes are a historical component of our natural environment and have evolved oyer time within the constraints of biological diversity which means that they have for centuries with other species We highly recommend that anyone vant concerned about deer populations What does tend to strike is take a more approach by lightning The resulting working to preserve natural habits wreckage has not been pretty open space migrational links and Sen Hubert Humphrey was Johnwinter range areas for mule deer Scison’s vice president but lost his own ence shows us that species popula- - race for the presidency in 1968 tions historically have cycled up and In 1972 Sen Thomas Eagleton appropriation ipf $100000 to support a bounty on coyote hunting The Bear River Watershed Council (BRWC) a regional nonprofit conservation organization is formally opposed to any such measure First we do not believe that supporting the position of one specific group (Sportsman for Fish and Wildlife) is an ’appropriate use of tax revenues By approving such a measure it would seem that the counties could be opening themselves up to similar requests from a variety of -issue oriented groups The tenets of this measure are representing a slippery slope that should be considered with sound reasoning and extreme caution Secondly the stated purpose of this proposed bounty is to lessen alleged impacts from predators bn mule deer fawiis resulting in stronger mule deer herds for the supposed betterment of hunting opportunities Hie BRWC believes this theory to be a misguided approach at best one based on reaction and void of good single- ng wide-rangi- ng 8ENATE-UTA- ed ial pro-acti- ve down without the influence of was forced to step down as the humans It also shows us that when Democratic candiwe attempt to change one component date after disclosures of a history of of nature for pur benefit the results mental illness can often be a ripple effect of negaial tive consequences We urge Cache County and all other counties to oppose the proposed bounty on coyotes Hm Wagner 236-877- 5 224-544-4 H 33 224-525- 225-045- 80 ILS SENATE4DAHO : Larry Craig Republican — 520 Hart Senate Office Building Washing- ton DC 20510 2 (202) Idaho office: 801 E Sherman Room 7 193 Pocatello ID 83201 (208) 224-275- 236-681- Michael Crapo Republican —111 Russel Senate Office Building ington DC 20510 (202) Wash- 224-614- 2 Utah office: 1017 Federal Buadng 324 25th St Ogden UT 84401 (801) 625-567-7 or 393-636-2 ILSHOUSE4DAHO Mike Simpson Republican — Rep- resents 2nd Congressional District which Includes Franklin County 1449 Longworth House Office Building 1 Washington DC 29515 (202) Idaho Office: 304 N 8th Room 225-553- 325 Boise ID 83702 (208) 334-195- ‘ n dbi 3 X a-- gt f u cm toNewHamp- - nlll?cildbelniiHlel by any or all of his fellow Democrats to simultaneously run for and erstwhile Senate colleagues: In in Connecticut so he is still in the addition to Lieberman and Clinton Senate and actively hoping lightning Evan Ind Joseph Biden Del Bayh will strike Tom Daschle SD Chris Dodd Lieberman is why American polConn Richard Durbin 111 John itics are so fascinating Political Edwards NC Russ Feingold Wis junkies had always assumed that the first devoutly religious candidate who and John Kerry Mass With the possible exception of his faith made an open show-owould be a Christian fundamentalist Daschle the Senate Democratic-leadeof and Feingold instead it was a liberal Orthodox Jew He has the true politician’s skill campaign reform and maybe not even them the general public probaof not teeming to be a politician Backers of a 2004 Lieberman canbly could not pick them out of a police lineup didacy have been meeting informally But that could change Lightning — and disingenuously It’s too early to begin planning' a presidential cam- - 'could always strike - commutes of 40 and 50 miles or Scrippa Howard News Service Idaho office: 801 E Sherman Pocatel- Lake City UT 84138 (801 ) 524-43- foLne to he manJudtitegood er Suburbs the living condition of choice ! Bear River Watershed Council Logan San Robert Bennett Republican — lo ID 83201 (208) US Senate Washington DC 20510 Utah office: 4225 FeK US HOUSE-UTA(202) eral Building 125 S State St Salt James V Hansen Republican — Lake City UT 84138 (801) Represents 1st Congressional District Sen Orrin Hatch Republican — which includes Cache County Wash- US Senate Washington PC 20510 ington office: 2466 Rayburn Building 1 Utah office: 8402 FedUS House of Representatives Wash(202) 3 eral Building 125 S State St Salt ington DC 20515 (202) 524-59- JjLEf ce Other views A H front-runn- tor Lawmakers ILS one-justi- nt should be opposed To the editor ial best-kno- he US Senate has 100 members and it’s a sure bet that each one of them has thought lightning could — and if there were any justice should — strike and make this particular senator president Alas presidential lightning has hot been kind to the Senate since 1960 when two senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were elected presi-deand vice president Of the seven presidents since Johnson four including die incumbent were goverRichard Nixon nors or but 16 years gone was an from that office Gerald Ford was a House member and George Bush senior a kind of itinerant public ser- Your view Coyote bounty paign said one leaving a meeting where they already had and presidential candidate under The of the possible Ford in 1976 and then mi his own in Democrats is Sen Hillary Rodham 1996 Clinton who if anything has a little Sen Lloyd Bentsen was the runtoo much name recognition Her ning mate on the 1988 ticket that lost upstart upset victory in New York to Bush and Sen Dan Quayle but made her an automatic 2004 presithat administration lasted only one dential possibility but after the White term defeated by Bill Clinton and House silver scandal she may have Sen A1 Gore Gore true to form to get behind her and went on to lose on his own think about 2008 Has that dissuaded the present None of the Democrats want to members of the Senate? Hardly At hurt Gore's feelings He lost a heart- least 10 of them all Democrats are breaking race last year by a considered potential candidates and margin and is the presumptive if President Bush stumbles badly you for the party's 2004 could probably make that 11 with the nomination if only because no one addition of GOP Sen John McCain else wants to be this early in the Sen Bob Dole has the distinction of being both a losing mericans have many but the Census tells us who we truly are — a nation of suburbanites In 1999 for the first time half of the country — 1363 million people —i were suburbanites an increase of 17 million over the decade In 1999 the other half of the nation was divid- ed between city dwellers 30 percent and rural folk 20 percent When the Census finishes calculating the 2000 figures later this spring die percentage of suburbanites or as (he Census inelegantly describes it Metropolitan Outside Central City will again increase and the percentages of Metropolitan Inside Central City and Nonmetropolitan will again "dwindle In the 19th century America was die land of the small town then there was die great surge and self-imag- es fann-to-ci- ty The hew suburbs are even more remote in distant counties arid adjoining states but people are willing to sacrifice to live there now at the outset of the 21st century America is the land of the subdivi sion The experts say that what is fueling the growth of suburbs now is the sune that prompted the exodus and their families from the War II: the desire of cities Americans to own their own home and a piece of ground The new suburbs are even more remote in distant counties and adjoining states but people are willing to sacrifice to live there predawn post-Wor- ld more And these suburbs especially the mature ones no longer deserve the belittling description “bedroom community” Rather than economic appendages of a central city they are increasingly economic units in their own right And that unhappy byprod- uct of suburban growth the commuter traffic jam is more and more often from suburb to suburb Going back to Sinclair Lewis the suburbs have not fared well at the hands of America's novelists being derided for their isolation and sterili- ty Leftist authors in particular seemed irritated by the proletariat acquiring family sedans and moving on to green lawns and better schools' Suburban growth has given us the pejorative ‘‘urban sprawl” It may not be the most efficient aesthetic or environmentally correct way to live but as the new Census will show it is indubitably the way Americans want to JiveW’K Mallard Fillmore Herald Journal mss The rterrtd Journal welcomes letters to the or oronnvg iw6r wff not be pubfiahed however and the edtor rtseives the right to edKal Mere to conform to the length and style isquinmentB of too book rownoaiy wwoui Ilo- yJu W- exweu- - &a HIP Hm pbh OF HINU TTw Opinion ptga it intandsd to acquaint raadatawltoi variety of vtowpoMs on mattan ' ol pubic importance and provide tnembais of the communly widi a forum tor toair view Panonal ooiumna cartoona and Mtan from readers reflect the opinione of their writers and creators ErHoriale under toe hearing ’Our raprewvv Bit vwtm or mo Moran jouvns WbotfdMimbm of twtdtoM board: NICOLE FARRELLfeby edtor ' edtor BRUCE SMTHpuMahar CHARLES MoCOLLUIMnenaging edtor CINDY YURTHAeaturee MM letters should bo: Typewritten and No more than 450 words in tongto w Addressed and include daytime phone number for pi epnenenf verilr ntton Signed by toe author Individuals aie bided to one puMehed let- ter within any y period AddeseEinaN letters to hjMarOhjnewsAom Guest commentaries are also welcome and are run at theedtor'edacretion double-space- 30-da- d L |