“I’m announcing a change in our color-coded guidelines We are going to make a modification t the orange guidelines to accommodate Salt Lake City School District and those schools within the district limits so they can open up.”

Park City is a tourism economy. We depend on Sundance

You have to love Utah. Rich, entitled developers manipulate the legislature to make up rules that can make them millions. One of their last names is Romney. Such is the case with the town of Hideout. Hideout is a town of about 900 people, near the Jordanelle Reservoir, on your way to Kamas. I knew …

I have followed local government for a long time. Sometimes you hate the outcome but often you respect the people involved and the process. People throughout Summit County and Park City governments are generally competent. They know the game and are respectable. Tonight I listened to a special meeting from the Hideout Town Council about …

It’s been a surreal 2020. I think most of you’d agree. It became more surreal on Sunday morning. Outside Run-a-muck, the world’s Utah’s best off-leash dog park, there was a gentleman from Basin Rec putting notices on car windshields who were parked along the street. They read: WARNING PARKINGREGULATIONS ARECHANGING!PARKING IS NO LONGER ALLOWED IN …

Many readers likely remember the Mountain Accord. It was a multi-faceted process that touched everything from watershed to transportation in the Wasatch Mountains. It drew members from almost every group imaginable including the legislature, local governments, outdoor groups, and ski resorts. It also drew ire from many Parkites about a proposed gondola between Big Cottonwood …

There are a few days where you can be number one or two at anything! Today, Summit County is number two. Tomorrow we could become number one if everyone is willing to help. Today we had 38.2 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents. That puts us in the number two place behind Utah County — and …

Party on Park City! Today we hit the highest number of Coronavirus cases ever in Utah with 1,411 new cases reported. Our schools reached a new record as well, with the high school reporting 2 new cases, bringing the total to 5 at PCHS. Ecker Hill had 3 cases and Treasure Mountain had 1, the …

We are entering dark days in Utah related to the Coronavirus. Each day, and every day, over 2,000 people are testing positive for Covid-19. That will only get worse as we enter flu season and people misattribute symptoms. In our schools, teachers are doing the best they can. Parents are doing the best they can. …

The Park Record announced, “Sundance 2021 brings no movie stars, film moguls or corporate bigwigs to fill hotels.” Is that what it was about? Filling hotels? Seeing stars? Airbnb-ing your second home’s mortgage so you could ski once a year? Enabling corporate takeover of Main Street? Sales Tax revenues? Transient Room Tax? It sounds so …