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Box 2370 I Park City, Utah 84060 "'Xt-.T 1 ' Each Offae d Independent Owned And Operated MORE DOGS ON MAIN The legislature in action I've tried to ignore the legislature the last couple of weeks because it is just too painful. But as the session nears an end, things that started out as bad ideas with no future sprout legs, and before you know it we have laws. So much time gets taken up on proposals that seem to have very little to do with filling the potholes on the freeways that you wonder how the state is able to keep the lights on. Meanwhile, larger priorities get ignored. The school system is breaking the state as the number of kids swells. Rather than deal with structural funding problems, they've decided everything can be solved by selling advertising on the sides of the buses. This one would allow school districts to sell advertising space on the sides of the school buses. The bill has some limits. The signs must be on the sides of the buses. Of course we couldn't go into the ad business without regulating content. The ads must be "age appropriate" and cannot advertise liquor, illegal drugs, tobacco, condoms, or Democratic candidates. The bill's sponsors thought that each ad would generate around $1,000 a year for each bus. That wont buy a set of tires for a school bus. But it speaks volumes about how our legislature views education. In other school news, the legislature is going to require that school social studies classes teach that the United States is a "compound constitutional republic" and not a democracy. (All this time I thought it was a plutocracy.) That's a distinction that has some members of the legislature losing sleep, though I think most would be hard pressed to describe the difference. The bill would also require teaching about other forms of government, such as monarchy and oligarchy - which is pretty much what we have here in Utah. Noxious as the stuff is that they are actually voting on, By Tom Clyde you can only imagine the proposals that are rejected as being too far out there, even for the Utah Legislature. My secret sources in the capitol have sent me a list of bills that never got introduced. First off is the "Gun Rights for Fetuses Act." This would pick up where the other gun legislation falls short, and issue a Browning M1911 (the official state semi-automatic weapon) to every fetus. Then there is the "We Don't Need No Stinking would be free at non-union charter schools.) Only the most dedicated teachers would show up for work when it becomes a volunteer position. That would weed out all those greedy union teachers who are only in it for the money. Salt Lake City was recently named the ninth most toxic city in the U.S. by Forbes magazine. Ninth? Really? Surely we can do better than ninth. Proposed legislation would give tax credits to people who buy specially equipped coalburning cars. There's no better way to demonstrate that global warming/climate change is a hoax than to get more people The school system is burning coal. Only a very few breaking the state as the would need to change over before Salt Lake could achieve number of kids swells. its rightful place as the most Rather than deal with toxic city in the country. We're Number 1. structural funding probUtah will join a number of lems, they 've decided other states in the elimination everything can be solved of concealed weapons regulations. Under actual legislation, by selling advertising on the requirement that you get a the sides of the buses." permit to carry a concealed weapon would be eliminated. It is perfectly legal to carry a Ethics Act," which eliminates gun openly; a permit is only any messy details like disclo- required to carry a concealed sure of financial or familial weapon. Rep. Carl Wimmer is interests in legislation they are concerned that well-dressed voting on. Lobby contacts and law-abiding open-carry citigifts wouldn't need to be dis- zens may suddenly become closed or reported. All that criminals when putting their pesky and loophole-laden dis- suit coats on over their pieces. closure stuff would be re- (Frankly, that probably makes placed with a simple market- sense when you start with the place where legislative favors open-carry position.) Legiswould be sold to the highest lation that didn't make it this session would simply have bidder. made it mandatory for every School funding is always a Utahn to carry a gun at all problem, and it's a matter of times. It would have been pride that we spend less per introduced, but it got bogged student than Alabama and down in a discussion over Mississippi. Maintaining that whether it should be OK to crappy level of funding is advertise ammunition on increasingly difficult. But school buses. under a new proposal, the public schools would be funded entirely by a sales tax on Tom Clyde practiced law in children's shoes. Of course it Park City for many years. He. would be up to the parents lives on a working ranch in whether to buy shoes for their Woodland and has been writkids or not, especially when ing this column for nearly 25 they cost $1,000 a pair. (Shoes years. SUNDAY IN THE PARK Armada V" Authier Blizzard Bogner Burton Dalbello Dale of Norway Descente/DNA •^;,}V'> Dynastar Fire & Ice Hell Is For Heroes Icebreaker Jet Set Values to 70% off J. Lindeberg Lange 'Unlike any other sport shop in Utah' Sale starts... Mammut M.Miller Mountain Force Napapijri Nordica Parajumpers Phenix Postcard Rossignol Park City Resort Center (Ice Rink level) Tuesday, March 15th 5-Bpm 649-4600 Bazookas Freeride Shop (PC Resort Center) Tuesday, March 15th 5-8pm 649-8455 Park Avenue (1615 Park Ave) Tuesday, March 15th 7-1 Opm 649-4806 Deer Valley (Silver Lake Village) Wednesday, March 16th from Bam 649-4601 Salomon Spyder Swiss Army Tecnica Toni Sailer COLESPORT "Expect The Unexpected" Special note: No phone orders. For markdown purposes, stores will be closed Tuesday March 1 Sth during the following hours: Resort Center Stores from 2-5pm, Park Ave Store from 4-7pm and Deer Valley Store from 5pm. Keeping the light on By Teri On It is a line from an old Beatles song - my earworm right now: "I heard the news today, oh boy." But instead of the familiar sad, slow tempo, it comes out with the swell of cello and a primal heartbeat made by chest thumping the human voice. It comes with smiles and tears and an acute re-understanding of the price of freedom of expression. It comes on a vibrational level that is reaching formerly restricted air space and thought space and mind space on the planet. It comes from the annual gathering of the tribe at the TED conference. Each year around 2,000 people from all over the world meet for one week to exchange ideas. To listen to astrophysicists and breakthrough medical inventors, musicians, paleontologists and teachers and chefs and guerilla artists. This year, in addition to all that, we heard from brave citizen journalists who are changing the world. Their world. Our world. The subtext for the conference on Technical Entertainment Design advances "ideas worth spreading." You can see a library of these talks on the website TED.com. The idea of speaking truth to power was never so clear as at a pre-conference day in a desert workshop when a young man from the Middle East stood up to talk about what he was doing to spread ideas in his corner of the world. "In our region we think of it as revolutions worth spreading," he said. "Ideas," he continued with a wisdom seldom seen in thirty-yearolds, "are the new oil and the new soil." As with all things TED, you are hit with wave after wave of emotions and information that layer and never settle but bubble up as you start to connect your own dots along the way. The next day, still pre-conference, during a backstage tour with our same small group, we were included in presentations from TED gathered and disseminated information in the Middle East, we were ready to hear about the biggest news story of our lifetimes. In an impassioned 18 minutes he spoke about- his reporters and cameramen being in the square in Egypt at the height of the revolution. And how, one evening, he received a call on his cell phone from a man in the square. The man implored him to not let the cameramen leave at night. To keep filming. "That light lets people know they are • being watched. Without it, there will be genocide." And so he changed his He spoke of the unimagplans and made his tired, small ined joy of a people who staff continue to record the protest through out the night. have never known anyHe spoke of the unimagthing but life under a dicined joy of a people who have tator. How throughout never known anything but life under a dictator. How the Middle East there throughout the Middle East was an awakening and a there was an awakening and a deep abiding desire of people deep abiding desire of to control their own destiny in people to control their a democratic fashion. And he implored us, cautioned us, own destiny." demanded us, to let them discover and grow their own twenty. She has created her form of government, by the own trusted news source that people and for the people of is now being used by such that region. established media as the In all my years of journalGuardian and The New York ism there has been the refrain: Times. It is called crowd- Our job is to shine light in voice.org. On this site you dark corners. It usually means hear and see protests happen- backroom politics, or land ing in real time. With brave developments, or unfair workmen and women talking to the ing conditions. The idea of camera and telling us about keeping the light on in dark human-rights violations not corners of the world is breathonly throughout the Middle taking. Hearing from the East but in Africa and China. I brave people who are risking was in awe of her poise, her their lives to do so filled me humor and ultimately by her with wonder and awe. I heard extraordinary bravery, the news today, oh boy! And brought on by her desire to I'm still trying to process it this Sunday in the Park ... simply tell the truth. The next morning, when the conference officially start- Teri Orr is the director of the ed, we were already question- Park City Performing Arts ing how we could to process Foundation that provides prothe volume of new ideas that gramming for the George S. would come our way. So when and Dolores Dori Eccies Wadah Khanfar, the head of ^Center for the Performing Al Jazeera, took the stage to Arts. She is aiso aformer editor share how his news source / T h * k Record. Fellows - those young people making dramatic contributions. We heard about art projects, medical breakthroughs, astounding discoveries. And then we were asked to put our cameras away. More than asked. We were told that any recording of the next Fellow would put her life in danger. Out on stage came a young woman in jeans and a hoodie. She lives in the Middle East. She is a whisper over 44 |
