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Show if Friday FEBRUARY 22, 2008 www.heraldextra.com iiipief - YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS Utah Valley Edition 50 CENTS YOUR NEWSPAPER r ,u v:'.s.. .f eiate enirses Joe Pyrah 'DAILY HERALD Interstate 15 reconstruction through Utah County got a major boost on Thursday when Senate leadership announced they are endorsing apian. Under the proposal, would be rebuilt from 123000 South in Salt Lake County down to the S.R. 6 inter ) V ' GERALD NOW IS THE TIME TO PRUNE T intowemeiite 1--15. litically palatable to lawmakers from both counties, and the second is that it will leave additional funding for other Lake nowadays," said Sen. Mike road projects, including the Mounta-invieHe crossed the Dimitrich, Corridor, during the aisle to join with Republicans who are project. Senate President John Valentine, pushing the plan forward. said the cost for bonding The compromise to include part of Salt Lake County and stop at Spanish the smaller project will be about $3.8 Fork instead of Payson was for two A4 See reasons. The first is that it's now po- change in Spanish Fork. "We who travel Highway 6 now find that 6 is the safest part to Salt six-ye- Wider roads ahead 123000 South to where the Bangerter Highway meets be five lanes each way I Bangerter Highway to University Parkway will be six lanes each way I University Parkway to University Avenue will be five lanes each way t University Avenue to S.R. 6 will be four lanes each way will - Shaking the Silver Slate r .. . IN OUR TOWNS : 1 v i Press HERBERTAssociated SHOWING Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John looks on as he McCain, speaks in Toledo, Ohio Thursday. FOLKS A GOOD TIME Since onusw 'i f J f; in .' x. r i:. t Ju name ' I Li&, hi Lobbyist story threatens to n ..m-- W t" ' " r J SI. T : undermine McCain image Liz Sidoti .THE ASSOCIATED PRESS John McCain WASHINGTON sought to minimize damage to his man-o- f character image and his presidential hopes Thursday, vigorously denying and denouncing a newspaper report suggesting an improper relation- ship with a female MC1.IC IMtW3 ANALYSIS lobbyist. "It's not true," the likely Republican nominee said of the report that implied a romantic link with telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman and suggested McCain pushed legislation that would have benefited her clients. "At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust," said McCain, a four-terArizona senator and a hero of the Vietnam War. He described the lobbyist as a friend. McCain and his wife, standing together at a news conference, said they were disappointed that The New York Times ran its page one See A2 MCCAIN, 1 - -- - - A A6 BRIEFING A8 OUR TOWNS B1 OBITUARIES B4 BUSINESS B6 SPORTS CI WEATHER C8 LIFE & STYLE D1 D4 COMICS ' Some snow HIGH 42 LOW 26 VOLUME 85 ISSUE 206 IP 055 000501 gag a - - - v - - car lies in rubble with its roof crushed Thursday, after an earthquake hit the town of Wells, Nev. 6.0 earthquake hits northeastern Nevada THE ASSOCIATED WELLS, Nev. PRESS A strong earth- quake rocked this rural northeastern Nevada town early Thursday, damaging hundreds of homes, rupturing gas and water lines and felling brick building facades in the mostly unoccupied historical district. No serious injuries were reported The Associated Press. "It was like a bomb went off," said Elko County Commissioner Mike Nannini, who was standing in the $st. Cafe & Casino middle of the County commissioners declared a when the quake began. state of emergency in Wells, where "The walls and ceilings started some 20 to 25 buildings in the old, largely vacant historical district were coming down. Almost all of the businesses are shut down. We have no "heavily damaged," Elko County Sheriff's Sgt. Kevin McKinney told services and no fuel," he said at an after the magnitude 6.0 quake jolted the high desert town awake at 6:16 a.m. and rumbled across much of the emergency meeting of the county commissioners. Tom Turk, a state spokesman at the scene, said almost every one of the 700 residential structures in town had some damage. "It just immediately jumped into' rattling the walls," said Donna See QUAKE, A4 The bad luck o' the Irish: County commercial Havoc caused by apostrophes real estate holding up Sean ODriscoll EDITORIALS v ROSS ANDRESONEIko Daily Free Press THE INSIDE - - ASSOCIATED PRESS It can stop you from NEW YORK voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It's a problem familiar to O'Connors, D'Angelos, NTtours and D'Artagnans across America. When Niall O'Dowd tried to book a flight to Atlanta earlier this year, the computer system refused to recognize his name. The editor of the Irish Voice newspaper could book the flight only by giving up his national identity. "I dropped the apostrophe and ran my name as 'ODowd,'" he said. It's not just the bad luck o' the Irish. "Basically, there are a lot of programmers out there who forget that a growing portion of the American public are not called John Smith or Mary White." Erin Carney D' Angelo New York lawyer French, Italian and African names with apostrophes can befuddle computer systems, too. So can Arab names with with "van" hyphens, and Dutch surnames and a space in them. ' See APOSTROPHES, A2 Grace Leong DAILY HERALD For now, the commercial real estate market in Utah County is holding its own, fueled by momentum from robust growth in housing and employment oyer the past two years. But some real estate experts see slower growth this year, due to a weaker housing market, national economic uncertainties and concerns of possible overbuilding in the office sector. Statewide, commercial investment activity this year is expected to remain flat or even shrink slightly as many investors are now sidelined, IHW!liT!f:iHllJ7l waiting for value properties to become available. That compares with a 6 percent jump in commercial investments in Utah to $1.37 billion in 2007 from the previous year, according to Bryce Blanchard of NAI Utah Commercial Real Estate, one of several speakers at a real estate symposium in Provo on Thursday. "The jury is out for many economists as to whether the U.S. economy will go into recession in 2008, 2009, or simply have a soft landing," Blanchard said. "Utah typically trails national trends and See REAL ESTATE, -- -1 A2 |