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Show don't then deliver? Why must citizens spend their resources to protect themselves from the NRC, an Agency whose mandate is to protect the citizens? Is it becoming impossible to narrow the widening despair between the NRCs position and the public's trust? I wish I had the answers. Only honesty from the NRC can begin to resolve the wide disparity between reality and the NRC position. Much credit for some good old fashioned common sense should go to the Grand with their convictions and protect the future County Council for having the courage to stay of Grand County. I hope the State of Utah strengthens its participation in this matter, rather than just saber rattling . City Election Results I was not disappointed that I was so very wrong in my predictions on the outcome of the Moab City elections. As you may recall, I forecast that apathy would rein and only candidates would run unopposed and be elected to Moab three voraciously was a plethora of candidates. Apathy was vanquished for there turned out office. It City once, if not for all To the winners, good luck, (and may you make much of your own luck). And to the losers, at least you tried. It is the wonder of die USA that almost anyone can try to help the best way they know how. And just a reminder that before the next real issue of the Zephyr is out, candidates for County elected positions will have had to file for those pro-grow- Peter gazes into a Christmas bauble and sees the Ghost of Things-yct-to-Com- th offices. c. Cross with the Boss My editor and I have a difference of opinion. He doesn't feel thatjyhaHhavebeen writing about for the past four editions has anything to do with Charlie's original Moab in a NutshelL Buckminster Fuller once said, Thejjinciptefbehind reality are more real than to help me grasp what Mr. Fuller was the qualities they produce." My o editor-cofiflnu- es Wilderness, what wilderness? In a case of awesome indifference, the Grand County Council reversed our community's decision on Wilderness. Two years ago Grand County went through a most rigorous public process to support Governor Leavitt to develop a Congressional Wilderness proposal Every acre of land proposed then by Grand County qualifies for Wilderness designation. Then, because a Salt Lake political action committee called the Utah Association of Counties (UAC) "doesn't like" Wilderness of any designation, our current County Council met one recent afternoon and reversed months of community input "Doesn't like" is in parentheses because the UAC really loves wilderness. The Wilderness debate is the cheap and easy way to continually siphon rural monies to Wasatch communities. This spring alone $800,000 in Class B road monies were diverted from Grand County to the Wasatch. Isn't it now curious that two months before the legislature meets, the Wilderness debate suddenly pops up again? By continually pushing the Wilderness button two months before the legislature meets, the primarily Wasatch-funde- d UAC does its job. It diverts dollars from rural Utah in return for an Resolution from the Legislature. anti-Wildem- EDITOR'S NOTE: As toe were about to go to press , the Grand County Council reversed its decision to reverse its decision. So as Emilie LetteUa once said, "Never mind. " However, Peter's assessment of the UAC is still right on the money. I "Curiouser and curiouser", said Kafka to the Mad Hatter of the Watching the last four years of Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atlas tailings site has been like watching Alice in Wonderland as if it had been written by Franz Kafka for the Grand Old Opera. The NRC Red Queen says, "reasonable assurance is concurrence, reasonable assurance is deterrence, some reasonable assurance with your currants and whiskey?" The most current serving of "reasonable assurance" began with the most illogical Kafkaesque logic, a simple math problem. Some simple division has further divided any belief I never had that the NRC really cares about our health and the environment. When shown a mistake that is dearly a mistake, the NRC says it is not a mistake, that it is correct I am not reasonably assured. (Curiously, it is the only letter of mine the NRC has ever responded to, and I try to be a good pen paL) What would it mean for the "experts" to knowingly answer a question incorrectly? I say knowingly because I have a very hard time believing that a bunch of PhDs can not do simple problem solving division. Is it fraud to be paid for something that you knowingly non-regulati- on meaning. I think my Stiles wants me to write more about "the qualities they produce" kind of things. Examples: that the school district unfairly makes the girls soccer team go out and raise their own funds for their program and uniforms, that the Dump District continues to waste our money by requiring all our trash to gp through a transfer station when it doesn't need to, that the recreation district continues to pay exorbitant salaries to men who control the Big Red Bam, that the school district just walked away from the Old Middle School and let it fall into worse ruin, that the Dump District squandered a lot of money building a Class 1 landfill rather than the Class 2 landfill we needed, that most of the "no new taxes republicans added three new taxes, that Editor's Note: I think stories about Autumn are great when they're written for the Autumn issue (OdoberNovember). Yet I think that it's butterflies, Alan Greenspan and Jesus Christ that are the current principles which are impacting Moab the most. This debate was set off when I actually ran into my editor in Moab and he asked me what I was planning on writing about When I told him it would mostly be about the spirit of Thanksgiving and the end of this summers insanity he became animated. NO, no, no, not Thanksgiving; the paper is only out for a week and then Thanksgiving is over. Ok, how about Christmas? I asked. To me. Fall is the most wonderful time in Moab. Our community is winding down from a long hard summer, the fall colors that are never supposed to be nice are spectacular, the primary election has brought an end to the summer's annual debacle and most importantly, we have time to see our friends again. People have time to sit down and redetermine everyone's genealogy (who's second cousin versus third cousin, and which ones can be married versus are actually married). We have time to spend a quiet Friday night learning to dance the Hukaa, the New Zealand tribal war dance. These are some of the things that give our community the common unities we need to exist and to survive, not the ever expanding laundry list of questionable government decisions and expenses, that happens everywhere. As I've said before, "To incite insight is what I try to do. It is a debate, no one is ever wrong. We try to better focus our future by looking at the past and today in a different way. Mistakes are welcome, words and ideas of the past can not hurt us, only how we bring or don't bring them to life. So how do butterflies affect Moab? Scientists have shown that periodically there is a fifty percent decline in the butterfly populations of North America. Every year that this has happened, El Ninos occur. This year there was a 65 decline in North American butterfly And remember We'll be open for almost all of the winter months. MUHBHWHOaiaHaU! contemporary santa Season's Greetings from all of us at Fat City. S3S8S3 |
