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Boondoggles over Practical Projects

by Paul
The Reserve at East Bay, Provo, Utah | Logo golf ball from T… | Flickr

Stand up for East Bay Golf. Meeting planned Wednesday, 5 pm at the course. Be there. Stop insanity. – Dick Harmon w Deseret News.

Apparently the city of Provo is needing cash after all the leader’s spending on boondoggles and are going after green space.

So basically, to pay for a bus that no one will use so that the city can look to the outside world as more “green”, they are going to sell actual green space to put down concrete and asphalt…. makes sense…

Just FYI, that bus that no one will use, has a cost that is now over $200 Million!

East Bay GC is one of the busiest courses in the state. Home to four high schools, one college, and two college’s student classes. Not to mention all the locals who use it.

Here’s a run down of other projects Provo has spent money on in the last ten years, and these are only ones that come to mind.

New Courthouse – $90 Million

New Rec Center – $45 Million

New High School – $60 Million plus?

New Elementary Schools – $100 Million Plus?

Park Redesigns – Who Knows

New Conference Center – Unknown contribution

New Hospital – Unknown contribution

Sound and responsible spending right?

College Sports Insanity

by Paul

I took the kids out yesterday evening to get some parts for a project we were working on and didn’t realize that the BYU / Utah football game was close to kickoff. This red car with four Ute flags came speeding up behind us honking, and the occupants were yelling obscenities at all the cars they passed.

I kind of smiled and laughed at, who I thought were, some kids from Utah.

But when this car pulled up alongside us, it was a grown man smoking who was maybe 45-50. He flipped us off and screamed F%*$ BYU and F%*$ you! then sped off to the next car…

I was a little confused and just kept thinking, what? I mean…. he’s old… I’m not playing naive and have seen it plenty before, but seriously? I just felt sorry and a little embarrassed for him. It’s just a kid’s school game. I get as an alumnus of a school, you may want to donate and support kids going to your former school. I get that. I also get that people still take pride in how kids do that play at their former school. Or taking pride in any school your kids go to. But that? I will never get that.