“A town with money is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and dang’d if he knows how to use it.” In TV lore, it doesn’t get better than when Conan O’Brian wrote those words for the Simpsons episode “Marge versus the Monorail” back in 1993. …

Summit County bought recently bought over 20 acres of land between Jeremy Ranch Elementary School and the Burt Brothers. They plan to put affordable housing, a park and ride, and retail on the space. We have a number of concerns. We recently posted an article asking where the water will come from for these 2,000 …

Yesterday we wrote about a poor experience with the Summit e-bike share

On Tuesday, the Park City School

On Tuesday, the Park City School District voted to indefinitely po

The spat between the county council and Summit Land Conservancy highlights a problem over the Osguthorpe Farm

Summit Land Conservancy is trying to buy the Osguthorpe Farm and place a conservation easement on the property. That sounds good, but it appears to cost over $14 million to do that. We always like to look at the alternative. The Osguthorpe Farm is zoned as Rural Residential. This means that with base de

Yesterday I was trying to look up zoning related to the Osguthorpe Farm. The County has a nice interactive map that allows you to view the zoning of a parcel of land. However, when I browsed there I saw this:  

Over the past few years we’ve written about why hosting another Olympics may not be a good idea. We cited an Outside magazine article that referenced the Olympic’s environmental damage, cost overruns, and money spent that could be used for other purposes. We’ve talked about Denver and why it rejected the games over traffic congestion …

In some ways I hate property taxes. A property tax means you don’t truly own your property. If you don’t pay your property tax, your house is taken away. The flip side is that property taxes provide a stable source of revenues for our city, county, and schools. So we understand why they are instituted, …