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After the Nebo District school board decided Wednesday to disallow President Barack Obama's forthcoming nationwide speech to students from all of its schools, John Talcott, who was a teacher in that district for 27 years, called the board to ask why.
He was told that parents were concerned and had called the district, but board officials could not tell him how many were for airing the speech and how many against.
In fact, he said, they couldn't tell him how many parents actually called. They told him they had no idea, even though the Provo Daily Herald reported last week that only about a dozen people had called the Nebo District about the speech.
That doesn't exactly sound like a mandate, but remember, the Nebo District is in southern Utah County -- Eagle Forum country, where only one call, from one particular person, would do the trick.
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Ready, fire, aim » Chance Williams probably isn't the most popular guy in the Utah County city of Woodland Hills, because he has publicly questioned the integrity of some of the city officials and their hiring practices, and he ran in the Republican primary last year against incumbent state Rep. Mike Morley.
So he wasn't totally surprised when the city ordered he put in a fire hydrant in front of his property at his own expense after he subdivided the lot. But just as he is being forced to have the fire hydrant installed, the city decided to repave his entire
Now that, he thinks, is a little much -- even for a rebel in Utah County.
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Must be the Democrats » KUER's Dan Bammes, on a recent morning segment, said in reference to new rules limiting gifts to Utah legislators: "There can be no gifts for legislators worth $50."
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What's good for the goose? » U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz is seeking applications from high school juniors interested in being a page in Washington, D.C. Qualifications include having a 3.0 GPA, being at least 16 years old and the applicant must live in the 3rd Congressional District, which is interesting because Chaffetz himself doesn't live in the 3rd District, nor did he when he was elected to represent that district last year.
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One-stop shopping » A reader reports that the Division of Motor Vehicles office in Draper, where you go to pay a fine in order to get a car out of impound after a DUI is at 14545 S. Minuteman Drive, right next door to the Utah State Liquor Store at 14555 S. Minuteman Drive.
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Dressing for the occasion » After Gov. Gary Herbert viewed the damage from the New Harmony fire last week, he gave television interviews while wearing a baseball cap that said: "Torch Run."
