One Utah

So, in Sunday’s paper, Paul Rolly wrote:
Jake Garn is mad. He says he is tired of being called the last Republican mayor of Salt Lake City because he was not the Republican mayor when he served as the city’s chief executive in the early 1970s.
This stance strikes me as more of the empty “bipartisanship is [...]

Yeah I admit it, I was late to the game in watching the The West Wing - I basically avoided dramas on TV for years then found myself one night absorbed by an episode - the writing was so clear, so sharp, the dialog was beyond perfect (the president’s daughter’s kidnapping was a sublime shark [...]

Last night, I was walking a precinct for the Becker campaign.  The basic schtick was easy - knock on the door, ask “Are you voting in the Mayoral primary on September 11?  Have you decided who you’re voting for? What is the primary issue for you in the mayor’s race?  Here is some information about [...]

Okay, that’s headline is so tacky I couldn’t resist.
On friday night, a friend and I donned our Ralph Becker For Mayor t-shirts, grabbed our free tickets and headed for the arts festival.  We arrived about 6:30 and were then until almost 11.  In that time, we ran into other folks in their bright yellow Becker [...]

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Last night I attended the Utah Arts Festival with a friend as two of Becker’s Bumblebees (more on this later!).
When we first arrived at about 6:15 or so the crowd was a bit thin but lively and fun. As the sun sank lower in the sky, the crowd grew amazingly. By [...]

Again today, dear reader, Thomas Friedman is wawahing over the lamentable state of endemic violence and the chaos and blood that is created:”Gaza is turning into Mogadishu. Hamas is shelling Israel, Israel is retaliating”. (Retaliating? After what Israel has done to all the Arab lands it now occupies, the question of who is attacking [...]

It’s another Ozone Red Alert day here on the Wasatch Front. It’s now been almost three months since I installed a 2 kWh, ten-PV panel, sun-tracking solar power system in my backyard. Some of you may have even watched the video of its installation: a series titled “Harvesting the Sun” on my website schreinervideo.com. When [...]

Lots more pictures here.

Today was the Salt Lake City Gay Pride Parade. It was huge, and it was fun.

It was a little cloudier Saturday afternoon than Day 1 so solar production was slightly off. And as you can see by following the yellow line (left above chart), it was a bigger consumption day. Like most people do on weekends, we did laundry, used the coffee maker, paid bills using computers and printers, ironed [...]

This may be a first for me.
Steve Urquhart - yes, that Steve Urquhart - writes on his blog (I’m posting the whole entry since it is short):
Some excellent candidates are lining up to run for Salt Lake City mayor. SLC mayor is one of those interesting positions where a finite group of people elect someone [...]

Rocky laid out a bullet-proof prima-facie case for the impeachment of George W. Bush.
Hannity retreated into his hallmark pandering strategy refusing to address the facts in the case for impeachment of Bush. Not one word about Bush, the Constitution, illegal rendition, torture, wiretapping US citizens illegally, or the suspension of Habeas Corpus. Just personal attacks [...]