In 1992 Democrat strategist James Carville popularized the adage, “It’s the economy, stupid.” His point was that in the upcoming election the Democrats should focus on the economy. The problem was that, up until that point, Bill Clinton’s campaign was all over the map. It wasn’t focused. Similarly, in Park City, we’ve known that our corner of …

As residents of Park City and Summit County, many of us have become accustomed to luxuries. Some of those luxuries include the services provided by our local governments. Those government entities include Park City Municipal, Summit County, and the Park City School District. We live in a wealthy area, and growth has enabled our government groups …

“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: