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Fixing Ogden's aging water system a long, costly endeavor

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 8:29pm

OGDEN — The city administration has a proposal for a new water master plan that the city council is considering — and it isn’t cheap.

The recommended improvements total more than $170 million, to be spread out over 40 years.

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New regional shopping centers strong indicator of economic recovery

Mayor Steve Curtis, Steve Curtis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 10:46pm

“Being in this business for as long as I’ve been in it, it’s sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.”

— CARLY SIMON

Over the past 20 years, there has been a dynamic shift in the look and feel of the regional shopping center. This truth is emphasized with the completion of the “open-air” City Creek Center in Salt Lake City.

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Utah repeals 'forever' with pie-in-the-sky federal land suit

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 5:46pm

"The people inhabiting this State do affirm and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries hereof..."

-- Utah Constitution, Article 3, Section 2

When Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, is the voice of reason, the argument has gone off the rails. Utah suing the federal government to get Utah's federal land is one such train wreck.

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Government can support commercial enterprise

Mayor Steve Curtis, Steve Curtis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:46pm

"We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and, ultimately, human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development."

-- RONALD REAGAN

As mayor of a city, I often find myself in random conversations with those I serve as an elected official.

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Utah to Arizona: Don’t toll Interstate 15

Richard Simon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:41pm

WASHINGTON — A proposed toll on a 30-mile stretch of Interstate 15 in Arizona is drawing opposition from Utah.

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Crumbling infrastructure ranks U.S. behind Barbados

Bill Straub Evansville Courier

Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 2:55pm

WASHINGTON -- There's nothing wrong with America's infrastructure that trillions of dollars can't cure.

Any number of recent studies has cited the nation's crumbling roads, deteriorating bridges, inefficient airports and leaky dams as a reason for public concern and a deterioration of America's standing on the international stage.

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