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Business owners along the Ogden Pioneer Days Parade route complain to the city about spectators illegally congregating out in front of their businesses.

Ogden City Council takes their complaints seriously, and passes an ordinance legalizing camping along the parade route.

There, problem solved.

The dust-up last week between Kaysville and Layton over who should pay for a school resource officer at Fairfield Junior High, which serves both cities, got us wondering.

Just how effective are school resource officers?

Turns out, nobody really knows.

There appears to be a glaring lack of hard evidence that SRO programs have reduced crime or made schools safer.

Tiffany Anne Dazley, Abby Jayne Ronnow and Kendal Marie Andersen have big plans for the future by thinking small.

The three Weber State University graduates of design graphic engineering, had come up with a sustainable home floor plan that downsizes our notions as to what an appealing house can be.

The goal of their senior project, “Sustainability Through Size,” was to design a living space that’s affordable, comfortable and environmentally responsible.

When it comes to teen drivers, government can only do so much.

No matter how much parents plead, beg and fret about finding a way to get out of training, or even allowing their teenage children to get behind the wheel, it is going to happen.

And summer time is the deadliest time for teen drivers.

Last week, Alabama passed the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country.

The legislation focuses almost totally on enforcement as a solution to illegal immigration, a move some critics have seen as more an attempt to scare away illegals rather than actually contribute to solving the problem.

Another organization born in the South had a similar motive after the Civil War. Its initials were KKK.

There is no process more political in America than redrawing election boundaries.

No matter what government level the process is at, the temptation to draw lines to protect a political power base is just too great.

Gerrymandering goes back to the early days of our republic and is even named after Gov. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, who first employed the idea back in 1812 to form a district in the shape of a salamander.

The sideshow theater involving the exploits of Congressman Anthony Weiner and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has made American politics more of a joke than it already has become.

Not that other politicians need any assistance in this area, but more buffoonery is becoming an ever-increasing distraction from serious political discourse in this country during these tough economic times.

So, we’ve got some advice for these two comic characters if they really care about America.