We all know that Deer Valley isn’t the same place it used to be. A short three years ago the resort was awarded the best ski resort in North America. Fast forward to 2020 and Ski Magazine now splits things into East and West Coast. This year DV was ranked 5th in Western Resorts. So, …

Happy 4th of July. I hope everyone is doing as well as they can given the odd circumstances we find ourselves in. This is the time I start thinking about schools and the fall. This year, that is a particularly interesting exercise. No one knows how Park City schools will function come late-August. The Governor …

“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” Mary Antoinette uttered as french citizens starved in the streets in 1789. Let the starving eat cake. Yet, recent events in Park City make for an interesting discussion, given the recent Black Lives Matter murals panted on Main Street in the last week. Across the country, recent protests around police …

“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 …