The Best Education Would Be the County Attorney Filing Charges of Warranted

Earlier this week, Summit County Attorney Judge Robert Hilder, issued a press release regarding electioneering allegations against both the school board and bond opposition groups. His press release noted that the County Attorney’s office was investigating both groups for wrongdoing. In today’s Park Record, Judge Hilder is quoted as saying, “I’m not looking to aggressively prosecute …

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Summit County Attorney Issues Press Release on Allegations of Illegal Electioneering on Park City School Bond Issue

Summit County Attorney, Judge Robert Hilder, issued a press release stating that his office was investigating allegations of “inappropriate and possibly illegal conduct occurring by both proponents and opponents of the upcoming Park City School District bonding issue.” The release says, “Reports state that officials representing the school district may have used public funds to campaign in …

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Park City Filmed ‘Blood and Oil’ Cut to 10 Episodes

Variety is reporting that the ABC show, Blood and Oil, which has taken over the Park City Film Studios has been cut 10 episodes. This season will now likely end in December. More importantly, given its poor ratings, it’s the strongest sign yet that the show will be canceled. Hopefully the owners of the studio …

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What Do We Really Need?

We received a submission from Jim Tedford, who is one of the leaders of Citizens for Better Education, a group opposing the Park City School bond. His submission asks a number of questions that I believe are worth pondering. Do we need to write a “BLANK CHECK” for unspecified,unneeded “Athletic Facilities”? Do we need more …

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A New Way of Paying for Education

A Friend of the Park Rag sent us a story about Salt Lake County, Goldman Sachs, and the State of Utah working to provide Pre-K to more students in the Granite School District. Pre-k was free to disadvantaged kids but had a long waiting list and cost the Granite School District $1,500 per student for the …

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A Response to Clay Stuard’s Proposal for Our Schools

We received an anonymous reply to Clay Stuard’s proposal on how he would recommend we approach a bond for our schools. It has some standard name calling that’s getting frankly getting a little old. Any upgrade to our schools is likely going to impact almost everyone in our community. If you have kids and are in …

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