Each week the Standard-Examiner hashes out issues large and small and takes a thumbs-up, thumbs-down stance. Have a thumbs-up or thumbs-down you’d like to give? Email a submission of 100 words or less to jmccabe@standard.net.

Here’s what we recommend this week for praise and criticism:

THUMBS UP: To Hill Air Force Base for the 2018 Warriors Over the Wasatch Air and Space Show, which brought more than a half-million people to the region last week.

Tom Mullican, chief of Hill’s 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs office, said the event went off without any major glitches and air show fans should count on another aerial exhibition in 2020.

“We’re planning on another show in two years,” he said. “We don’t have any solid dates or anything like that, but it will probably be in June again.”

The show is held every other year and the two-day event regularly draws more than 500,000 visitors. It serves as a major economic driver for the greater Davis/Weber county region.

This year’s show included the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, an F-35 attack demonstration, a special operations parachute team and several other military and civilian aerial demonstrations.

Displays of modern and historic military aircraft and equipment were also featured, and an entire hangar was dedicated to STEM education, with aerospace companies providing displays and interactive activities.

THUMBS UP: To Ogden officials for setting aside funds for the continued upgrade and renovation work at the Union Station.

The city’s proposed 2019 budget includes more than $205,000 for capital improvements at the station and more than $333,000 for operations.

The money would come from another administration budget proposal that would bump up the city’s certified property tax rate.

Last year, the city formally ended a nearly 13-year agreement with the Union Station Foundation, with Ogden resuming management and operation of the city’s historic downtown train depot, which was built in 1924.

Money in the 2019 budget is meant for building improvements scheduled to be made at the station ahead of next year’s sesquicentennial of the driving of the Golden Spike.

On May 10, 1869, the ceremonial Golden Spike was driven at Promontory Summit in Box Elder County, connecting the rail lines of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific and completing the first transcontinental railroad across the United States.

A large convention is set to be held at the Union Station for the anniversary.