Archive for the 'The Vent' Category

The Vent 8/11/2007

Venter’s comments in bold, mine follow.
What happened to development paying for itself? If the county annexes all unincorporated areas into a sewer district, we’ll be taxed, and we’ll pay for growth. But what’s new?
As I understand it, developers have to pay for most or all of the infrastructure of a subdivision (roads, sidewalks, water) before […]

The Vent 8/4/2007

As usual Venter’s comments in bold and mine follow.
That there is a person who believes that comparsion between their great-grandmother who married in 1860 and a young girl of the 21st century, forced to marry a man not of her choosing, is shocking. If the polygamist girl of age 21 chooses to marry an old […]

The Vent 7/28/2007

This is a weekly feature of Common Sense for Utah. I reply to comments left on The Vent which is published Saturday on thespectrum.com. My comments follow the bolded Vent’ers comments.
In 2008, let’s send out GOP Monopoly Party state representatives on a slow boat to China to count the skyscraper building cranes at their […]

The Vent 7/21/2007

On Sundays, I like to comment on the previous days The Vent. The Vent is a Saturday opinion feature of The Spectrum that takes calls and e-mails and publishes them. They’re usually wrongheaded and vitriolic, i.e., fun.
Venter comments will be in bold. My comments will follow.
Utah’s governor should use his power as the state’s […]