Bridges and walls: It's to their credit that members of the Granite School District Board of Education have decided to listen to their constituents. It's too bad they waited so long. The board will be meeting with parents in various communities over the next few months to listen to their concerns, frustrations and suggestions. But disgruntled patrons came close to breaking from Granite and forming their own district before this outreach was planned. Board members say they thought they were being responsive before, but that's not enough. People have to feel they are being heard, and the Granite District hasn't shown it's listening.

The potty is over: The crypto panic has passed, and tiny tots can return to public pools in Utah, with one condition: They've got to be potty trained. Babies and toddlers in allegedly waterproof "swim diapers" got the blame for Utah's massive outbreak of the parasite, which is spread via human and animal feces and causes severe diarrhea. More than 1,700 cases were reported this summer, compared to 30 in an average year. The outbreak prompted pool closings, and children under age 5 were banned from public pools before restrictions were relaxed last week. Now health officials need to permanently pull the plug on kids who aren't potty trained, and mandate weekly "super-chlorination" of pools as a preventive measure.

Dangerous imagination: It's hard to imagine what someone was thinking when he made a false report to police that he had seen and talked with the two Daggett County Jail escapees, both convicted murderers, on a highway north of Vernal. But it doesn't take any imagination to know what a prosecutor should do now: Throw the book at the guy who made the bogus report. Authorities intend to file a criminal charge for making a false police report and demand restitution for the cost of the manhunt that was based on it. A psychological evaluation probably is in order, too.