| Show 8Hp4iHi iajwe 4fiuFaWuE'idiieWWfrlly?iMvWrwf4rWna '3fciil 553 rr1 'wit1 imon The Herald Journal Logan Utah tongues than through any kind of authoritative sebcthn" — JudgaLMnwdHMd Amwfean JuiM Saturday November 20 1999 (irS-1M1- ) Pages Our view Judicial review process should be open to public I the United States justice doesn’t just mean everyone is treat n ed equally in the eyes of the law It also means everyone is treated conduct review should be public Otherwise the court system oper- ates under a double standard Charges against virtually everyone else even grand jury indictments in the of the are public record open to scrutiny equally people eyes Americans are not — and should by anyone and publication by the not be — content with assurances press Likewise virtually all court from the government that the jus- proceedings are public People can tice system is fair Except in rare sit in the courtroom read newspacases the system should be open to per accounts watch television or listen to the radio and decide for public inspection Unfortunately one of the most egregious violators themselves whether die accused is of this principle is the justice sys- getting a fair trial and the verdict tem itself and sentence are just Herald Journal reporter Jeremy It’s part of the democratic found that the out Pugh recently process Although most judges are Utah Judicial Conduct Commission appointed they are usually appointhad scheduled a hearing to review ed by elected officials and die votallegations against North Logan ers should be aware of allegations Justice Court Judge Louis Griffin against judges so they can appraise The hearing was canceled howevthe wisdom of die appointments Besides making judicial conduct er when Griffin resigned But state officials would not conproceedings public could benefit firm or deny Griffin was the subject judges too In Griffin’s case the of a judicial conduct review Under lack of information prompts many Utah law the commission need people to suspect die worst In fact the Cache County attoronly release the results of such a hearing ney determined Griffin did nothing Since the hearing was canceled to warrant criminal charges and if however the commission won’t say the judge had not resigned the Judi-:iwhether it was looking into GrifConduct Commission may fin’s actions or why But The Herhave absolved him of wrongdoing But we’re unlikely to find out ald Journal editorial board thinks since it’s all secret everything relating to a judicial al Your view ‘Bible’ records family’s memoirs By Elan Goodman ThaiBoston Globa w are on countdown to The paper and pen those basic kitchen utensils with which we map out this feast are set upon the table Lists must be made post-it- s must be posted atten-betion must I reach up to the T-D-ay pa kitchen shelf for the duly designat- Protect your children by buckling seat belts To the editor Every day children are needlessly injured and killed on our state’s road-- ’ ways for the same reason — an adult failed to make sure the child was led up Traffic crashes are the leadi in8 cause of death to children in America BYU's resistance to USU's admission remain It does seem that with their clout and USU's facilities and financial backing they should have been admitted three or four requests ago Instead the WAC admits the likes of San Jose State and SMU both with poor facideaiindiV ed Thanksgiving bode in search of guidance to family feasts past A small navy notebook with gravy stains and ”®OT That is why the Logan City Police tion ABC Mobilization: America Buckles up Children Over the Thanksoffigiving holiday week Nov 22-2- 8 cers will be looking for and ticketing careless drivers adults who despite the widespread attention to child passenger safety fail to take responsibility for protecting children by not making suit they ride buckled up Since we've waged these nationwide crackdowns over the past two years child fatalities have dropped by 123 percent and restraint use among toddlers has climbed from 60 to 87 percent To build on our progress it’s time that the community joins law enforcement in declaring zero tolerance for unbuckled children It will take the collective outrage of all of us to reach careless drivers who don't make sure their child passengers are protected No one should look the other way when they see a child at risk Those who care about children must make sure that their relatives friends and neighbors understand that letting a child ride unbuckled — no matter how short the ride — is always life threatening and never worth the risk We can no longer tolerate children being injured and killed because adults fail to buckle them up Officer Chris Kleven Logan City Police Department Aggies should drop down or drop out To the editor Ladell Anderson's recent commentary in the Deseret News seems to be more than prophetic Since most of the decision makers creating the Western Athletic Conference in 1962 have moved on or are deceased only conjecture remains over Utah and least in footbalL come The Bip Sky may be looking to realign their conference to: 1 Promote more natural rivalries which in turn puts more fannies in the seats and 2 Cut travel costs A conference consisting rtf Montana Montana State Idaho Idaho State USU Weber State Northern Ari- zona and New Mexico State would accomplish this USU would be at or near the top in this group College football u all about one thing these days — booster and bucks The biggies hive both and are the ones who rotate from numbers one through twenty year in and year out in the raring polls Teams like USU will have to drop football or go back to the way things were before money and greed took over Play the game for school pride and giving the student athlete a way to get an education On second thought dropping the USU football program may be the way to go after the team's and coaches' inept showings against Idaho Boise State and New Mexico State limitary Ogden The Pilgrims had given thanks for bountiful harvest Lincoln declared thanks for the union But today’s Crest is less about national union than family reunion Americans My aunt handed it over with pleasure don't worry about a fractured nation we and reservations Could we be trusted worry about splintered families We take with the stuff and stuffing at this inherithe United States for granted and give tance? thanks for each other In fact over a decade our original In the years since I became die keeper vow to be culinary conservatives has of the Thanksgiving book I have learned been stretched if not broken Chestnuts just how fragile family connection can have crept into the stuffing Sauteed be How easily it can break off Most of our grown children have left apples and onions now sit beside the dreaded green bean casserole Pecan pie home they are exports from their native has appeared along with a Pilgrim state The cousins connect by phone and e--j jext to the lemon chiffon iMi It’S mail talking across borders oceans and hand managed to fit a time zones keeping in touch Without worth of information on a single touching She saved paper and empty pages tor Now my generation provides their as if we would ail live to cele-- a roots We are not just a sandwich generahundred holidays between three tion stuffed between growing kids and covers aging parents We are also the link die Her profligate heirs scrawl across the open fine the cord We stay in place white space passing the book around for and in so doing keep their place comments and updates We demand Today I am much more conscious of after-dinnnotes as payment for dessert bow much work — not hard wort but But for all our modern postmodern daily work — my elders did to keep son-in-la- w “"berry stashed been fani and no waydd baridaamml VfiplffFd pl Novi since last It sits somewhere that? When new is the rivalries what Mountain West Conference spun off the between "The Joy of Cooking'' and a best schools in the old WAC (please book stuffed with yellowing recipes that exclude UNLV which wu invited for someone someday surely will make 1 brush the cover and open the pages in money reasons only) it's almost an search of which were eaten last tips: pies embarrassment to be invited to join the year how many pans of stuffing and bunch of misfits that are left over Here’s a fact: Utah and BYU will pounds of turkey were devoured did we run out of white wine or red? always keep their boot against USU's This mill book hu become my famithroat It’s relied protecting your territoarcheological record of ly's ry along with their money edge in iving Along with entries about recruiting With all of the above in mind and not there are seating folks it is time to let some reality sink potatoes sweet hits and flops portion conlistsi culinary in distasteful as it may be control It’s as USU is on a box The Big West is fad- trol and portions out of close as we come to a family bible ing in to the sunset A group of buffoons On Thursday it will be exactly 10 called the Sun Belt Conference would since this book and this holiday years have about as much drawing power at moved one door and one generation USU as team curling USU wu smart in down the street rad into our home The saying thanks but no thanks to that tradition was delivered into our ambivabunch Now what? USU is going to have lent hands an unmistakable rite of pasto ingest a large ego reduction pill at sage incontrovertible proof that we had JKrit Department is joining thousands of agencies across the nation in the next Opera- myste- - Godey's Lady's Book She crusaded for the union for "the renewed pledge of love and loyalty to the Constitution of die United States” Today I am much more conscious of how much work— not hard work but daily work—rny elders did to keep lamily together of age er ways we have taken our inheritance seriously Around our dining room with its mongrel collection of chairs dishes generations and eating prejudices we assemble the people we collectively call family We have become the home that our family goes to when they go "home for the holidays” Our house was 8 years old in 1863 when Abraham Uwenlw proclaimed this "day of Thanksgiving and Praise’' The force behind that Civil War declaration wu Josepha Hale editor of the powerful CWHw Micofter aithe White latflme a he trad breakfast Sometime between the potatoes and the pie I will insist that everyone write in the Thanksgiving bible There are only a few pages left for this millennium Next year we will begin a new book We promise It is after all our turn Another chance in Northern Ireland Bv Script Howard News Service If a peaceful settlement comes to Accords he got them to agree on a framework that could lead to a settle- der until it raw how the new government would work In essence neither ment and as his last act he got the par- side would go first A breakthrough came on the eve ties to at least consider trusting each Northern Ireland the credit will go to a other In Northern Ireland that's real Down East Yankee of Lebanese descent And Mitchell left behind an progress former US Senate Democratic leader opportunity to get the stalled Good FriGeorge Mitchell day accords: moving again — if toe parAfter almost five years of mediating ties will take advantage of iL he is bowing out of the talks between the Those accords called for creation of a Northern Irish Protestants who favor new government but to oversimplify continued union with Great Britain and somewhat the major patty the Northern Irish Catholics who favor the Ulster Unionists were not about to union with Ireland Mitchell refused to let the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein patty in pro-Briti- sh be daunted by what seemed an irreconcilable stalemate and patiently overcame one impasse after another He got the parties to agree to talk he got them actually talking last year in the Good Friday the government unless its violent underground arm the IRA dismantled its hid-de- n arsenals The IRA was adamant about not disarming in its view tantamount to surren If was the Ana£an1&0fte The Opinion papa Is Mended to aoquaM madam Mi a varfaty of vfawpoMa on manais oT put Importance and pnMda membem of toe commune MW a torum tor dmjr dews flemonal ootumne cartoons and bom rvaonra rvnni Mam or vw wiubpb uq vm maaflaalmmm opnnni EdUoilalB under dw haadtog t)ur mpmaenl toe views t toe Herod Journal Wooed Members ot tie edtorial board Mn RUCESMTHfeubMiar CHARLES MctXXLUMtoianaQtog editor MKEWENNERORENMyeWtor CINDY YURTHtoatome ether would discuss disarmament and consider doing so under international supervision Now Unionist leader David Trimble must convince his constituents to let Sinn Fein into the new government The general level of prosperity in both Ireland and Northern Ireland makes this the time to act As one of the negotiators said "There is no other way forward” Even a modest level of trust and good will would be a breakthrough Mitchell for his part says he's leaving and not coining back — bt the man from Maine has said that before J Mats la tie tdllorPolsnMyijnloutoroiifUtoMm Tha Herald JoumW watoomee 3 of Mitchell’s departure The IRA said it If4135 EBBS Herald Journal -- traded the chopping onions and stuffing turkey by OHior views Mallard Fillmore As ifJdkjHl family together This is the message given to us between the binders of a small blue book: It's our turn So on Thinday we’ll be up by dawn al not sa outMudto in hovmvf and wsisus meenma tie right add al Man to'oontami w wu ungvi inn uyu iWfuranum ov urn Laden should be: wTVpeaMton and double apaoed wNe mom toan 450 wonts In langto maMd budida gAraeed ana bmuom onynmn pnonn motmpq number tor puipoeoe at veriSoadon w Signed by too autoor IndMduWs am Mad So one puMahod I wng pnrao MnavuEiini Mare to tyMtortotynewaaom Quasi earn manterlea die also watoomo and ass run at nriuii Madbridantai |
