Entries Written By Parkrag
Know What You’re Doing Before Using Those Supermarket Reward Cards
This post isn’t specifically about Park City, but it applies to us. Many of us use our rewards cards, at places like Smith’s. Other times we key in our phone numbers at places like Fresh Market or Petco to get a discount. Yet what happens to that information behind the scenes? I had always assumed that …
What Good Survey Results Look Like
During the School District’s Bond effort they did a “survey” of residents in order to understand what they’d be willing to pay for a bond. I think the answer was about $60 million. From reports it seemed like many survey calls were to cell phones of prominent people… which runs counter to the randomized nature you’d …
Shower Thought: Medical Marijuana Coming to Utah? Sure.
Everywhere you look on traditional media you see coverage about Utah legalizing medical marijuana. When my friends no longer have to go to Evanston to buy a keg of beer, I’ll believe it. For now, I wonder what the powers that be are trying to distract us from? Is it making public land available for obtaining oil …
The National Citizen Survey Shows Park City is a Great Place to Live
If there is a truism across most of humanity it would be that people like to complain. Yet even given that, in the 2015 survey of “livability” of our city, Park City generally came up all roses. 96% of people felt quality of life was positive 97% felt Park City was great place to live …
Park City School District is Taking a Big Gamble with Removing Reading Aides
This morning, on KPCW, Leslie Thatcher interviewed school board member Tania Knauer. Ms. Thatcher asked Ms. Knauer about removing reading aides from our elementary school classrooms. The exchange was as follows: Leslie Thatcher: There is a petition moving through, lots of churn on social media with regard to reading aides and the fear from parents that …
Park City Needs to Be Wary of Hubris Regarding Sundance
The Park Record’s Jay Hamburger wrote an article entitled, Sundance moves forward, but is it too big? The article cited a conversation between Robert Redford and Park City City Manager Diane Foster. Apparently Redford “wondered [to Foster] if the festival was getting too big.” It also cited comments from an Associated press story where Redford said he heard, “negative comments …
What Will The Measures of Success Be When Considering Transportation?
This morning on KPCW, County Manager Tom Fisher was talking about the various options to pay for transportation solutions in Summit County (bonds, tax increases, etc). He spoke about one of the components or the process being a wish list of projects that could be presented to citizens, so they know what the options are. …
Why the Upcoming Recession Will Be Good In Some Ways for Park City
As the stock market has dropped over 6% in the last 5 days, the Chinese economy is slowing, and there are signs that boom we’ve seen since the end of the great recession is coming to a close, I feel bad for those of us that will be negatively impacted by the next recession. However, …
Spring Skiing May Be Upon Us (for a few weeks)
It looks like Punxsutawney Phil may have called it right. While I know that February and March are our biggest snow months and weather forecasts longer than 7 days are fraught with error, it looks like spring skiing for the foreseeable future. I’ll take it … given the cold winter.
Proposed New School Courses
Each year new classes are added to the curriculum of our schools. On Tuesday, the Park City School Board will discuss, and potentially approve, new courses for the 2016-2017 school year. These classes include: Music Independent Study Jazz Techniques Healthy Lifestyle Yoga AP Computer Science Global Problem Solving If you have an opinion on whether these …
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