Yet three years ago, when County Council member Joe Hatch made a motion during budget hearings to give a $10,000 grant to Utah Children to help the nonprofit agency develop a Web site to provide information on low-income assistance programs, the motion was voted down. The six Republicans on the council opposed it; the three Democrats favored it.
During the discussion, the Republicans, who were being advised by staffers of Workman, said that was not the proper role of government.
Coincidentally, the director of Utah Children was Karen Crompton, Workman's mayoral opponent in 2000.
Rocks from a glass house? Former Glendale Community Council Chairman Jay Ingleby in 2001 blasted Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for opposing a sprawl mall on the west side. Ingleby said the mall would help dilute "all this Spanish stuff coming in," that makes the west side look like "Tijuana."
His latest one-man campaign against the mayor consists of faxes to the Salt Lake City Planning Commission containing his and others' written opposition to the proposed Recycling Market Zone and claiming in a letter to the editor to a local newspaper that Anderson should be investigated for using his city computer for campaign correspondence.
Ingleby's petitions were faxed from a machine at the University of Utah's Chemistry Department, where he works. That is against university policy, except in rare instances.
A hidden treasure? Utah State Prison inmates on a work crew at the BFI recycling facility recently found a stash of counterfeit $100 bills among the debris sifted for recyclables before being sent on to the Salt Lake County landfill.
They turned it over to their supervisor and the FBI is investigating, said prison spokesman Jack Ford.
Even if the inmates had been tempted to keep the money, it would have been hard to distribute because of its poor quality, said Ford. "It was printed on white typewriter paper."
MADD getting MADDer: Now, DUI could also stand for "Dumb Unmitigated Idiot."
For two years, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), in conjunction with the Salt Lake City public relations agency The Intrepid Group, has taken a dramatic message to high schools, malls and sporting events.
The display was a demolished car that was involved in a fatal DUI accident. Thanks to financing by Robert DeBry and technical work by Midvale Radiator, the car was welded together and mounted on a trailer on which it traveled to various anti-drunken driving demonstrations.
Over the Labor Day weekend, someone broke the welds, pushed the car off the trailer, stripped the car of its tail lights and wheels, and stole the trailer. The car was parked behind Intrepid's building at the time of the assault. It had been donated by the parent of a DUI accident victim.
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