Show 'ff m tf 'f 'V'--- '' ! m 'f ' f ' '' r r 0 hi ' ''' : i V V r KHyirY'rf'V'y vy"' ' vTvi:r ' v 'ivi V- -' y v - ' ' ' Tht Hwald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 12 2000 Page3 Nomore Header Input Baa Dai For the Herald Journal Surveyor Ben Johnston of Johnston Engineering in Tremontou has commuted to Brigham City as many five times a week to view Box Oder County record! Besmes the drive time both ways u I am a Logan High School student and 1 would like to com ment on cheerleader tryouts that we had on Friday I would just like to say dud it is a disgusting popularity contest Some of the gidstnat tried out had tons of talent but they were not picked because they aren’t die most populat There are so many other schools outside of thia little valley that have their cheerleaders bejudjpd on their talents Professional judges pick the cheerleaders and die cheerleaders have talent and that's what a cheerleader is supposed to be So let me congratulate the new Logan High School cheerleaders Some of ybu have the talent but some of you just got in because you are popular i county records to Internet name of the company and Ijndlightcom is die Web service die offices is sometimes essbnial but it win be wonderful to accesy records in five seconds when it usually takes hours “The money he’d save in gas is astonishing" InGeo intern Jer Cama-rat- a mid cl Johnston’s Commute Todd Hougaard started InGeo Systems three and a half years ago with the vision that he would develop Dy n6UP8nWaQ8w0nn Start judging cheerleaders on their talent ©Local company bringing he has to wait in line to search through county files which many times can be a long arduous process three-mon- th - Landlightcom allows multiple users in a single organization-taccess county data simultaneously his efforts by producing Web sites like Landfightxran ' "We couldn’t do the GIS and die other systems with a degree of quality like we felt we needed if we were spread across too many industries" Hougaard laid "We needed to be focused and so we pursued those items that we felt we had-thbest strengths in" ' Hickman said the county and trial InGeo agreed to a the site test to That period period expired at foe end of February Lynn Lemon Cache County executive said the trial period will be extended until an agreement is in place InGeo and county executives company offers Hougaard said Most people who use Landlightxran don’t even know that InGeo Systems is the provider of die site "We are trying to build the brands separately" he said local government applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) but he has since augmented Fortunately for Johnston soon he may be able to view those records from his home computer InOeo Systems a company based in North Logan has anne up with a system that publishes county data right over the Internet on a site called Ijfldlightcom Only Cache County data is available on the database but the coppany hopes to add Box Elder to the mix soon- Johnston said driving to the county the Internet rite will discuss such a proposal and unlike some systems that only allow a single user to dial direedy into the county’s computer Camareta said That's what made a believer out of Jim Hickman of Hickman Land Title ' Company He has followed the implementation of the Landlighkcom by the county since the beginning Before Landlightcom Hickman or : his employees had to dial up the county on a single computer paying a minimal moodily fee InGeo’s prod-- 1 uct changed all that by engineering InGeo Systems is distinctly the make a report on how the system is working "Cache County has spent zero dollars on Landlightcom" Hougaard said "They contracted with us to build their internal county operations It was to update their old DOS system to a modem clientserver system We have paid the entire cost for developing Landlightxran” Hougaard said he is sure other companies are trying to do the same Sec RECORDS on Page 12 I just gotta say “Wall wall wah!” I’ve been reading this col--: umnfor a week tnd a half and all I seen here is wah wah wah Some-one call die wahmbulance What a bunch of whiners This county is of whinen Goodbye M To those who dislike the Sound Off section: Does hearing both sides of a story or someone’! opinion that might be different than your own get under your skin that much? To say this section ncedi to be removed from the paper says to me you do not believein the Constitution of die United States which allows a person’s opinions to be t heard If it bothers youJhat much i then don’t read it The first o$ fixing a problem is knowing what the problem is So let’s hear it -- all of it Keep this column running ‘ ‘ I thhik there needs to be n The row l6SS tl&VGlGd Tw0 Canada Geese make their way through Thuraday afternoon ' streetlight at 600 West and 200 NortL Does anyone else agree? Tm from die Soudi and I’ve lived in this valley for three and a half yean I have to laugh when I dunk about the claims of prejudice and ' intolerance from people in the moved here I South Until I believed that to be truth And it if hilarious to look around me and hear what’s going on in this valley and in Utah I’m moving bade to North Cardins simply because of a lack of prejudice there Okay here’s a new topic: Many schools across the nation have found that children in middle school and highschool perform much bet- - ’ ter and receive higher grades if ldloolrtartalittlelalermthe Presently our children in County School District start school at 7:30 ajn which requires many to load buses at 6:35 am Let’s see - that means they have to get up somewhere betwc 5:36 and 6 in the morning Ourchil-drtn- ’s normal biological clocks do not work well with this type of schedule When I asked a pediatrician about this issue he said “that's Of course it's ridicua lous that we send our teenagers to school so early” : ‘ Brant StewnsHenid Joucnsl' a field near Benson Marina Leavitt likely to side with utilities on bill des an independent utilities watchdog House Bill 320 was primarily drafted by Questar Corp whose subsidiary Questar Gas provides most resents consumers in utility rate Utah residents with natural gas Questar pushed the bill through the fiBft The advocates left Friday’! meet- Legislature after the consumer coming convinced Leavitt would sign the mittee opposed its plan to have Utah bill meaning die demise of the Com-- ratepayers pay more than $7 million-foa natural gas processing plant mittee of Consumer Services which Price near of hundreds blocked advocates uy Leavitt’s father Dixie Leavitt is on to in millions of dollars overcharges decade last die in Questar’s board of directors and ratepayers owns company stock worth about $1 "When he signs it will let every' one know he rides with the utilities million In addition to eliminating the Comand his own family’s interest against Utah consumers’’ said Claire Ged- - mittee of Consumer Services Jeff Fox a utilities analyst for the Cross- roads Urban Center said “It repre- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov Mike Leavitt met with 18 consumer advocates who and want the governor to veto a bill that would disband a state office that rep- sents a wholesale restructuring of utility regulation in die state” He said it favors utilities in the small-busine- ss : " rule-maki- process allows the com- ng panies to negotiate settlements on r key issues without spelling out who can participate and could deny consumers the right to be heard in utility rate proceedings Utility lobbyists and legislators who hacked the bill contend the current utility regulatory system is too adversarial and accommodate the slow-movin- to g mar- fort-changi- ng ketplace Leavitt echoed some rtf those senti ments to the advocates who represented groups as diverse as the Amer-ica- n Association of Retired Persons the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Utah Sheetmetal Contractors Association He noted that the changes would 1 not go into effect until after the next legislative session which allows continued debate on the mid-200- merits of the legislation The consumers advocates disagreed with Leavitt “Now that the utilities have gotten what they want they have no incentive to negotiate’’ Fox said The governor said he will “probably” sign the bill Cocho & Counting mi n i fti lldre ’to 1999 ford Acr Cachelmd Logarfschool dis er - ‘ I'm calling the Herald Journal to uy how grateful I am for the Sound Off column It helps me clear up a misconception that I’ve been laboring under for lothese 24 years I was under the impression that once yon became an adult yon were supposed to cast off the high school pettiness and nitpicking and focus on more mature issues -- 1 don’t know -- like making die world a better place leu ugly (dace What a relief to know that it s completely OK m an adult to take time out of my adult life and call the paper to complain about things like where other churches spend their money the life choices of i sou in the valley and i chocolate chip cookies use chunks or chipt Sec SOUND on Page 7 21 N M 99 N 49 49 52 47 47 69 66 62 58 52 66 39 59 52 67 49 62 59 39 62 59 59 42 71 49 67 44 64 67 52 62 52 37 44 79 56 42 ExlJQa nfantgCMntwtxbm Reading 64 73 Got a local nawa tip? 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