UDOT spokesman says Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola plan intentionally ignored non-skiers and non-drivers - Salt Lake City Weekly

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• The mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, where state transportation officials plan to construct a roughly $500 million gondola to the Alta and Brighton ski resorts.

Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon is a state treasure, beloved and sought out by skiers, mountain bikers, rock climbers, hikers, leaf peepers, bird watchers and much, much more.

But it was only that first category of canyon visitor on the minds of the Utah Department of Transportation when it issued its recommendations for the construction of a half-billion-dollar gondola project that will move people from a parking lot exclusively to two private ski resorts, according to a UDOT spokesman.

"The main concern with mobility is that during the winter, resort-bound skiers arrive during the same peak travel period in the morning," UDOT's Mitchell Shaw said in a prepared statement. "By reducing use of vehicles by the main users—resort skiers—the recreation users who want to travel to the trailheads should have improved mobility on S.R. 210."

While Shaw is correct that pulling any drivers off the road is better for all the drivers left on the road, he went on to explain that any secondary benefit from gifting a gondola to skiers is intended to be enjoyed by drivers and drivers alone. Because not only would the gondola skip lower-canyon destinations, UDOT believes that any transit service to those areas—including as low-impact as a humble bus stop—would impede the ability of skiers to reach the resorts as quickly as possible.

"Additional bus stops in the canyon would also add travel time for all travelers on the bus, making transit a less-attractive option for the majority of users," Shaw said. "During the summer, [car] traffic is better dispersed throughout the day, so there is not a peak mobility concern that would warrant summer bus service in Little Cottonwood Canyon, including service to trailheads."

Shaw's comments would seem to confirm the criticisms of gondola opponents, who object to such a large sum of taxpayer dollars being directed toward a project with so limited public benefit. Despite the opportunity to move toward a holistic, year-round, multi-modal transportation corridor serving all users, UDOT's plans explicitly double-down on car-centrism and disregard the potential for car-free travelers entirely.

On its website, the anti-gondola group Save Our Canyons argues that rather than solving traffic congestion, UDOT's plans will threaten critical watershed areas while limiting canyon access for non-resort users.

"We support lower-cost solutions that utilize our existing infrastructure, such as carpool incentives ... year-round enhanced bus service with stops at multiple locations and more frequent service at peak times, enforcement of the traction law, and mandatory parking reservations at ski resorts," it states.

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• In a summary of its transportation alternatives, UDOT claims that trailheads in the lower section of Little Cottonwood Canyon would not be serviced by bus, train or gondola.

Materials released by UDOT as part of its environmental impact study suggested that lower-canyon transit stops would not be possible regardless of what is built, whether that be a gondola, a cog rail line or bus rapid transit (BRT). But Shaw explained that is largely a reflection of preference, not policy, as UDOT doesn't see its role as facilitating canyon transportation outside of cars, which are currently allowed to be driven to and parked at many trailhead-adjacent areas.

"UDOT is not responsible for increasing use at the trailheads or at dispersed recreation sites, but for improving mobility on S.R. 210," he said. "In the future, if the USDA Forest Service identifies a need to increase transit service at the trailheads, it can work with UTA to implement it."

In a follow-up phone interview, Shaw and Josh Van Jura—the UDOT project manager over the gondola—reiterated that the Utah Transit Authority and the Forest Service are free to explore changes to lower-canyon access. And while UDOT engaged in some discussion around the subject with the Forest Service, they said, the department did not pursue transportation options beyond the resorts, seeing skier access and the car traffic it causes as the sole problem to be addressed under the current project.

They did note that cyclists and pedestrians are free to travel up the canyon on their own power, but emphasized that non-car transportation on Highway 210 is not a Department of Transportation concern.

"They aren’t within the problem and the purpose and need statement," Van Jura said.

In recent months, UDOT representatives have testified at Salt Lake City Council meetings and state legislative committee hearings, where they've suggested that the departments priorities are shifting from a car-exclusive agency to one that supports active and public transportation. But that talk has yet to materially translate into UDOT's plans and construction projects, which give non-car users as little space as possible, if any space at all.

Lawmakers, however, are increasingly focusing on the need for transportation options and multi-modal infrastructure. A $45 million fund for the buildout of a statewide trails network (to be overseen by UDOT) was approved this year, along with $200 million to build a new FrontRunner station in Draper and to expand the double-tracked portions of that line.

Those figures suggest that for the cost of a gondola to the ski resorts, Utah could instead expand its passenger rail network by roughly three stations, bolstering connections for the entire transit network (a cog rail line up the canyon could also pull double-duty as a year-round transit connection for the southeast corner of Salt Lake County).

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Finally, a Logitech name-brand headset for little school kids - The Verge

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With a bouncy build, interchangeable ear cups, and your choice of 3.5mm, USB-A, and USB-C, what else do you need?

When my six-year-old’s teacher told us we had to buy her a wired headset for school, I must have spent an entire hour doomscrolling Amazon reviews. Normal headsets wouldn’t fit, and every option for younger kids was from an alphabet soup brand of dubious quality — they felt like so much of a gamble that we eventually just went with one of the cheapest options.

Logitech’s new Zone Learn would have been an instabuy for me. Not only does the $40 rotating boom mic headset come from a name brand but it also actually looks thoughtfully designed — minus one feature, perhaps.

It’s flexible, adjustable, gives you the choice of over-ear ear cups or on-ear ear pads (in case your kid needs more or less isolation or gets claustrophobic or sweaty) and your pick of audio cables: 3.5mm (AUX), USB-A, and / or USB-C.

Did I mention both those ear cups and cables are modular, and you can swap them right out? The $40 retail kit only includes over-ear cups and both 3.5mm and USB-C cables, but Logitech says even consumers can “simply order more earpads and cables when they need to be replaced.”

Ear cups twist to swap out.

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Logitech also says it’s been tested to repeatedly resist drops up to four feet, survive being cleaned again and again with school chemicals, and that its cables should even resist being casually chewed on by a bored kid.

Over-ear, on-ear, and three different modular cables are available to educators.

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Logitech doesn’t advertise any volume output limitation, though. We asked the company about that, and here’s a partial statement from Logitech spokesperson Wendy Spander:

We tuned the acoustic performance of the product to be optimized around learning applications, focused on vocal clarity, and designed the fit of the headset to balance the comfort for K-12 learners while maximizing the likelihood of good noise isolation. We were able to ensure that the Zone Learn headsets are compliant with EN 50332-2 and based on that testing, have a result that is well below the 100 dBA maximum as set by the EU requirements. Beyond this we do not currently limit the maximum sound pressure from the headsets (through the cables or otherwise) in order to meet the requirements and needs of schools. 

That might be slim comfort if your kid cranks tends to crank up volume up to the max: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommends less than 15 minutes of exposure per day to 100dBA sounds to avoid hearing loss, and even OSHA limits workers to two hours per day. But it depends on the device that’s sending audio to those headphones, too.

I’d probably be comfortable with it, personally, as my six-year-old is naturally adverse to loud noises and yet actually complained that her alphabet soup headset wasn’t loud enough to hear. YMMV.

The $40 retail package is coming this summer, while educators should be able to order sets with their choice of cable and ear pad this spring for $35 each.

Update, 3:03PM ET: Added that this headset doesn’t advertise a volume limiting feature, Logitech’s response, and some context.

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Sagans' Two Phil's Restores Faith in the 'Little Guys' - BloodHorse.com

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The last week has been nothing short of a fairytale for the Sagan family.

Just four days ago on a blustery afternoon at Turfway Park, they watched as their first homebred, Two Phil's , soared down the stretch to capture the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3), thus solidifying a spot in the May 6 Kentucky Derby (G1).

Ironically, the now-top contender on the Derby leaderboard with a mighty 123 points, was a horse that no one seemed to want after two failed attempts at the sales in both his yearling and juvenile years.

"We were in Book 1 at Keeneland (2021 September Yearling Sale) and we couldn't sell him, we tried, he RNA'd. Everyone came to look at him and no one liked him," said Anthony Sagan. "Then we went to OBS with Jimmy Gladwell and his daughter Nellie. They broke him in the wintertime and really liked him; he actually worked as well as Arabian Knight and a few of the top contenders.

"He went to OBS and worked :10 2/5 at the sale and didn't like the surface, didn't 't have a good day. No one liked him over there; we couldn't sell him. We were trying to get $100,000 and we couldn't get it."

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Two Phil’s first time under saddle

Deciding to cut their losses, the Sagan's put the Hard Spun   colt into training with Larry Rivelli in Chicago at his Hawthorne Park base. Shortly after, they formed a racing partnership with Vince Foglia of Patricia's Hope, and picked a name for the colt.

"My father is Phillip and my friend Jerry La Sala who got us started, his father's name is also Phil. They're both in their 80s and they're both characters," Sagan said. "They really are. Someone in my family came up with it...everyone loved it, it stuck, and we went with it."

La Sala, a retired jockey and family friend of the Sagan's, pushed them towards purchasing their first horse several years back when he found a General Quarters  filly in Florida. The elder Sagan spent his career in the advertising business and despite owning harness horses in the past, had never quite dipped his toes into Thoroughbreds until purchasing the filly.

Named Mia Torri  for the elder Sagan's mother-in-law, the filly would go on to become a dual stakes winner in 2017 with wins in the Sunshine Millions Distaff Stakes and the Sugar Maple Stakes. She also recorded two runner-up finishes in graded company including the 2016 Charles Town Oaks (G3) and the Bed o' Roses Invitational Stakes (G3) in June 2017 which would be the last start of her career.

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Mia Torri wins the 2017 Sugar Maple Stakes at Charles Town

After fracturing her sesamoid, the now 10-year-old mare retired at 4 with $314,720 in the bank from 10 starts.

"We were deciding what to do, whether to sell her. I came up with the idea of 'let's breed her.' We put her on a farm in Kentucky with Spruceton Farm, Elise Handler, who still has her and has done a great job with her," Sagan said. 

"We went to lunch with Jerry and Steve Leving, who is Jareth Loveberry's jockey agent now, which is a coincidence, but at the time, he was the one who talked us into breeding to Hard Spun. He's kind of a breeding guy and said 'this is a good match for you.' That's how we got to Hard Spun. The first baby came out and didn't make it, it died. The second live foal is now Two Phil's."

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Two Phil’s as a foal with Mia Torri at Spruceton Farm

Though the chestnut colt began his career with a fifth in a maiden special weight last June at Churchill Downs, he was in the winner's circle after his next two starts including a maiden at Colonial Downs and the Shakopee Juvenile Stakes at Canterbury Park, both going six furlongs over the dirt. Next out at Keeneland he came seventh in the 1 1/16-mile Breeders' Futurity (G1), which was a major turning point in his career according to Sagan.

"We drew the 12, we were 70-1, I think Larry wanted to see if he could compete and give him a test drive," Sagan said. "Everyone going into the race told me he had no chance, doesn't belong and turning for home he was fourth sitting five lengths off. He got beat 10 lengths and split the field.

"Jareth got off the horse and I was there, he was smiling. Most jocks, when they run seventh, they get off and they're not smiling. He said 'This horse is better going long.' ... If it wasn't for that race, this horse might have been in a seven-furlong, mile type of range for the rest of the way. ... We always knew he was going to be a really nice horse but we never dreamed he'd be like this."

And yet the dream has morphed into reality as Two Phil's blazed through the remainder of his 2-year-old year, firing off a 5 1/4-length victory in the Street Sense Stakes (G3) last October at Churchill. He continued his forward motion into 2023 with a second to Instant Coffee  in the Jan. 21 Lecomte Stakes (G3) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots and returned to the New Orleans oval a month later for third in the Feb. 18 Risen Star Stakes (G3) behind Angel of Empire  and Sun Thunder .

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Two Phil's wins the 2022 Street Sense Stakes at Churchill Downs

Despite his big runs ahead of the Jeff Ruby starting gate on Saturday, the colt's connections were brought to the edge of their seats as they wondered if they would make it to the first Saturday in May. In response, Two Phil's took his time around the Florence, Ky. surface, sitting patiently right off the pace until demolishing Major Dude  in the stretch to run away a 5 1/4-length winner under jockey Jareth Loveberry.

It was only mere seconds after the pair crossed the wire when eruptions of cheers resounded and tears were shed—all in disbelief from the display of raw talent from a "horse nobody wanted."

"Everybody knew this was our shot. If he runs well here we're in the Derby and if he doesn't, we're not," Sagan said. "Everyone was on pins and needles. ... It's a great story, it's a great feeling, we couldn't be more happy, and there will be a lot of Two Phil's fans at Churchill, I'll tell you that.

"The horse is not supposed to do what he's done, he's progressively gotten better and better and he's kind of a freak to be honest. My father started with one horse in this game and out came Two Phil's. ... Horse racing is a crazy game and that's why people play it. If only the best horses and best breeds won, the little guys wouldn't play."

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Connections of Two Phil's after winning the Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park

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Little Caesars' Pretzel Crust Pizza Is Coming Back - Food & Wine

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We still have a full work week before April Fool’s Day, but some brands seem to be getting a head start on their annual pranks. A few days ago, Little Caesars teased the arrival of a new kind of pizza crust on their social media channels. “After years of begging, we’re finally giving it to you,” the company wrote on Instagram. “The Crust the World Craves is coming.” 

The next day, it revealed that the crust in question was…made of corn cobs. (Sigh.) According to another Insta-post, those corn-covered pies were made with “hearty American-grown corn” and “a two-liter bottle of liquefied butter.” They tried to keep the corn thing going for another several days before revealing on Monday that, no, the real launch was a pretzel-crust pizza. 

Little Caesars’ Pretzel Crust Pizza originally debuted in 2014, and, in the years since it disappeared from menus, the chain’s fans have flat-out begged for it to come back. The large pie has a butter-flavored pretzel crust — without the need for two liquefied liters’ worth — and is topped with a cheddar cheese sauce, mozzarella and Muenster cheese, and pepperoni. 

It’s also available in a stuffed crust version, or you can swap the cheddar sauce for a tomato-based pizza sauce. The Pretzel Crust makes its triumphant return today, Monday, March 27, and has a suggested retail price of $6.99 plus tax. 

"We are thankful to have countless Pretzel Crust Pizza fans that are extremely vocal about their love for this product," Greg Hamilton, Little Caesars’ Chief Marketing Officer, said in a statement. "Despite bringing it back several times, it feels like the pretzel fervor has not waned. We're bracing ourselves for the predictable outcry on social media when it eventually goes away again."

If traditional crust is more your jam, then Little Caesars is currently running a promotion for a large two-topping pizza for $7.99. To redeem this offer, just order your pie with your two fave toppings online or through the Little Caesars app, and use the cod TOPPINGS1 at checkout. That offer is good at participating locations until Sunday, April 2. 

It sounds like the Pretzel Crust Pizza may not stick around forever, so enjoy it while you can. And if anything can help you cope with what’s sure to be a week of Brands Making Jokes before April Fool’s Day, it’s probably a slice of pizza.

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'$5 million is too little:' Activists tell California reparations committee to aim higher - Fox News

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Activists on Wednesday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination, dismissing the idea of payments of $5 million per person as "nothing" and "too little."

The demands were made at an in-person meeting of the California Reparations Task Force, which was created by state legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020. The committee was hearing comments from the public as it considers final recommendations to submit to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to Newsom's desk to be signed into law.

The task force is considering a proposal to give just under $360,000 per person to approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the U.S., putting the total cost of the program at about $640 billion.

Meanwhile, the city of San Francisco is weighing its own reparations proposals at the local level. Earlier this month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors expressed "unanimous" support for a draft plan of more than 100 reparations recommendations for the city, including a proposal to dole out $5 million each to qualifying Black residents. The proposal would cost non-Black families in the city at least $600,000, according to Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Reverend Tony Pierce calls for more than $5 million in reparations for each Black Californian at a meeting of the California Reparations Task Force on March 29, 2023. (YouTube screenshot from )

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Both ideas are skimping on what's necessary to pay Black Californians, according to activists who spoke at the gathering.

"I believe that 5 million in reparations is too little for the work that foundational Black Americans have done for this country and as well for other countries," one speaker said. "I believe that 7.6 million [dollars] is a number that can be used very wisely in our foundational Black American communities."

Foundational Black Americans are descendants of Black people who were enslaved in the U.S. According to the speaker, reparations are overdue for all foundational Black Americans both for the suffering they endured and for helping "every culture get on their feet." He also called for various other reparations measures, such as giving 40 acres and a tractor and colleges agreeing not raise tuition prices for foundational Black American families.

"To try to keep holding foundational Black Americans back from what is due for us is just another form of slavery," he concluded. "It is preposterous and totally absurd."

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Another activist identified as Reverend Tony Pierce similarly said current reparations proposals aren't enough.

"Where's the money? Where's the cash? Where's the check?" Pierce asked emphatically. "$5 million, San Francisco's already made a move. $5 million is nothing, and I'll tell you why."

Pierce argued that $5 million spread over 50 years would only amount to $100,000 year, and then with taxes, "you'll be lucky if you end up with $40,00 a year."

The reverend added that $223,000 for housing isn't sufficient, saying anti-Black discrimination such as "predatory lending" is prevalent.

"Where's the money?" he concluded with a raised voice.

Lisa Holder, a member of the California Reparations Task Force, at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

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It's unclear how California would afford to pay more than $5 million to Black residents. Newsom announced in January that the state faces a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year. Then weeks later, the California Legislative Analyst's Office, a government agency that analyzes the budget for the state legislature, estimated in a subsequent report that Newsom's forecast undershot the mark by about $7 billion.

Still, Lisa Holder, a reparations task force member and president of the far-left Equal Justice Society, vowed in a recent opinion piece that the committee's "recommendations will be breathtaking."

Last year, the state task force made several preliminary recommendations in an interim report. A final report with the panel's official recommendations is due by July 1 to the state legislature.

In San Francisco, which has roughly 50,000 Black residents, the city board has expressed interest in various reparations ideas such as a guaranteed annual income of at least $97,000 for 250 years and a home in the area for just $1 a family.

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Another idea under consideration is a "comprehensive debt forgiveness" program that would clear all personal, educational and credit card debt of low-income Black households. 

Like California, San Francisco is also facing a massive deficit, estimated at $728 million, making it unclear how the city would pay for such a reparations plan.

Aaron Kliegman is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital. 

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Detroit City Council narrowly approves more incentives for Olympia around Little Cesars Arena - WDIV ClickOnDetroit

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DETROIT – Detroit City Council narrowly approved a plan to provide more state incentives to Olympia Development for projects around Little Caesars Arena.

It’s a decision with more than $400 million hanging in the balance. That $400 million in state incentives would have gone away had the city council not approved the plan by Tuesday (March 28).

“Today, City Council voted for a future where all Detroiters who want a good paying job can find one. Our young talent shouldn’t have to leave Detroit for Atlanta or Chicago or Miami to pursue their dreams. With today’s vote, many more of those dreams will be achieved right here in a growing and vibrant city. Thank you to Detroit City Council and to the members of the Neighborhood Advisory Committee who worked so hard to reach an agreement that will benefit all Detroit.”

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan

“We thank the Detroit City Council, Mayor Duggan, the Neighborhood Advisory Council, and all of the Detroiters who support the future of The District Detroit and the inclusive economic impact that this project will have on our city and state, including thousands of jobs and much needed affordable housing. We look forward to continuing our work with the Neighborhood Advisory Council, City of Detroit and the State of Michigan.”

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Archibald: The little girl in the Nashville school bus is all of us - AL.com

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Republican legislatures and school boards, and the parents who stormed them in recent years, were so concerned children might feel discomfort or embarrassment about actual history that they called for banning school instruction on race in America.

Which is like banning the study of America.

Better to keep children in the dark than take the chance they might feel bad about themselves. Or their country. Children are delicate, you know.

Since 2019 a lot of states have passed laws or bans or restrictions to protect their kids from such introspection. Alabama did it. Florida did it famously. Tennessee did it, too.

In the time since, there have been more than 130 school shootings across this land, according to a database of attacks kept by the Washington Post. More than 180 people have died or been injured in those shootings, in schools where tens of thousands of students -- almost 40,000 since 2019 -- attended classes.

And we are worried about our children feeling discomfort.

It’s discomforting. It’s so, so much more than that.

It is life and death in the classrooms and hallways and the psyches of our children. It is a plague and travesty that our politicians act swiftly to keep children from feeling bad about the sins of their forefathers, but refuse to budge as deranged or misguided men and women march into schools with military might strapped to their backs. They deflect and pontificate and talk about absolute rights to bear the most deadly weapons, well-regulated militias be damned.

A photograph taken by Nicole Hester of The Tennessean hit hard this week, after the last school shooting, in which six people were killed at a private school in Nashville. The image is stunning, like a slap across the face, if you have the courage to really look at it.

A little girl, her tiny face and hand pressed pleadingly against the window of a Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools bus, cries into our souls. You feel her agony and her pain. You feel the fear and the keening, the sense that something happened in the presence of this child that will never be forgotten. That can never be forgotten. You know she will never see the world the same way again.

As parents and politicians worry that studies of slavery and civil rights are too upsetting for children.

As Congressman Andy Ogles, who represents that Nashville district that includes Covenant, poses for a Christmas card, as he did two years ago, with his family and an arsenal of military style firearms and the Yuletide message that “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil.”

Congressman Andy Ogles put the bang into Christmas.

Tell it to the families of the three 9-year-olds killed in that Covenant shooting. Tell it to the other 200 students at that small, safe private school that was supposed to be a haven.

Tell it to the 40,000 children who, since 2019, had their studies interrupted by gunfire, and fear, and a trauma most adults have never known.

Tell it to students who are drilled on what to do when an “active shooter,” marches in, as if it were a tornado warning or a fire drill.

Tell it to the preschoolers who are told to hide behind bookshelves if a bad man comes in. Or behind bulletproof whiteboards that cost more than a lot of teachers get paid in a year.

Tell it to the middle schoolers who are told to hide or run or fight. Tell it to the families of the dead, if you can look them in the face.

It says an awful lot – emphasis on the awful – about what is important to us as a region, and a country, and a culture.

Learning about ourselves, about what made our nation what it is today, is too harsh for our children. They are too delicate.

Giving people the tools to kill our children is a fundamental right.

It’s a little bit more than discomforting.

John Archibald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for AL.com.

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'Needs to be simple' not a 'hodgepodge': Idaho Gov. Little vetoes property tax bill - Idaho Capital Sun

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Idaho Gov. Brad Little vetoed a major property tax bill on Monday, calling on the Idaho Legislature to bring him a new bill and get the property tax issue right.

Little vetoed House Bill 292 after expressing several concerns about elements of the bill unrelated to property tax reduction. By late afternoon, the Idaho Senate had already advanced a counter proposal that will be sent to the Idaho House of Representatives on Tuesday.

Little opposed a section of the bill that would eliminate the March election date local school districts use for bond issues and levy elections. Little also said the bill jeopardizes bonding for critical infrastructure projects and funding for transportation initiatives.

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In a letter sent to legislators Monday, Little said the property tax bill reorders the priorities of claims for sales tax distributions and removes minimum guarantees for Transportation Expansion and Congestion Mitigation bond debt service. 

As a result, Little said the state had to pause the sale of Transportation Expansion and Congestion Mitigation bonds that was scheduled for this week. 

“In short, House Bill 292 has functionally halted major transportation projects access the state of Idaho,” Little wrote in Monday’s letter. 

Proceeds from bond sales were anticipated to provide $400 million in financing to contribute to 11 projects, including widening and replacing interchanges on sections of Interstate 84, designing bridge projects on U.S. Highway 95 and U.S. Highway 12 and widening Eagle Road.

“Let’s get property tax relief done right this session,” Little said in a written statement announcing the veto. “The simplest solutions are usually the best solutions, and I believe we can extract the property tax portions of House Bill 292 and deliver a true property tax relief bill this session. A property tax relief bill this session needs to be simple and carried out in a way that does not harm public schools, does not hold up needed transportation projects, and does not reveal more unintended consequences. The people of Idaho deserve simple property tax relief that will endure over time!”

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Property tax relief a critical issue to Idaho constituents

House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, told the Idaho Capital Sun she is pleased Little vetoed the bill. In an interview Monday afternoon, Rubel said it will be worth it for the Idaho Legislature to stick around for a few extra days and fix the property tax bill now so the state doesn’t spend years dealing with unintended consequences. 

Rubel said she sees a clean path to remove what she described as the bad parts of House Bill 292 and keep the good parts. That means removing the section of the bill that would eliminate the schools’ March election date and then reestablishing the priority for sales tax collections to go toward long term infrastructure projects and local governments before property tax reductions. 

“We can’t do it in a way that leaves our schools unable to function and in a way that shuts down highway projects,” Rubel said. 

Ruble said property tax reduction is her top priority and the issue she hears about most often from her constituents. 

“I know people in their eagerness for property tax relief are so desperate that they are ready to take absolutely anything,” Rubel said “We are eager to deliver them help. But first we do need to make sure that we don’t do serious damage along the way.” 

Efforts to reach House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, were unsuccessful on Monday.

Property tax reduction was a top priority Idahoans identified in a recent Boise State University public policy survey, and the issue has been a major focal point during the 2023 legislative session. Little called for property tax reductions in his Jan. 9 State of the State address  and still supports addressing the issue this session.

“Idaho stands apart from every other state because we focus on making taxes fair, simple, predictable, and competitive,” Little added. “House Bill 292 is not a simple bill. House Bill 292 is a hodgepodge of policy items intermingled with property tax relief.”

The Idaho School Boards Association issued a statement Monday saying it supports Little’s veto.

“We applaud the governor for vetoing HB 292, a property tax relief bill that removes the March election – which serves as the most critical election date for school districts who rely on supplemental levies to maintain their operations,” the statement read. “We want to be crystal clear: ISBA supports property tax relief to homeowners – but removing the March election date was not a necessary component of the relief proposed under HB 292. We urge the House & Senate to sustain the veto and work together quickly to bring a bill back that keeps the March election date intact and eases the other concerns related to transportation funding.”

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The Idaho Education Association also issued a statement in support of Little’s veto on Monday. The association said it will continue to push for and support property tax reduction proposals that do not affect school elections and finances. 

“The state of Idaho’s refusal to properly fund public schools from state coffers makes bond and levy elections critical for public school districts across the state,” the statement read. “By eliminating the March school election date, the most important on the calendar for the passing of school bonds and levies, this legislation risks destabilizing public school finances and puts children’s learning at risk.”

Idaho House will be able to attempt to override Gov. Little’s veto

Little’s veto arrives late in the 2023 legislative session, which Republican legislative leaders had tried unsuccessfully to wrap up by Friday.

A supermajority of members of the Idaho Legislature voted to pass House Bill 292 earlier this month. The Idaho House of Representatives voted 63-7 to pass the property tax bill on March 14, and the Idaho Senate followed suit with a 32-3 vote on March 20.

Legislators may attempt to override the veto, which would take a two-thirds majority of the members present in each legislative chamber. Because the property tax bill was a House bill, the Idaho House will get the first chance to respond to the veto. If all 70 members of the Idaho House are present, it would take 47 votes to override Little’s veto.

The Idaho House was at recess on Monday when Little vetoed the bill and is scheduled to reconvene at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise. 

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Meanwhile, the Idaho Senate worked quickly to move a replacement bill forward Monday afternoon. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Winder, R-Boise, completely rewrote House Bill 198, a different, unrelated bill, in an attempt to bring forward what he called “a clean” version of the property bill Little vetoed. Winder said the rewritten, or amended, bill provides a cash transfer for property tax relief and does not eliminate the March school election date. 

Winder described the amended bill as “a true radiator cap,” a term of legislative jargon that means the bill was completely overhauled. The term is meant to evoke removing a radiator cap from one car and placing a completely different vehicle underneath it. The amended bill is going to be renamed House Bill 198A, but the latest version of the bill was not yet publicly posted on the Idaho Legislature’s website as of late Monday afternoon. 

Less than two hours after the bill was amended, the Idaho Senate voted 32-3 to pass House Bill 198A after several senators’ complaints that they had not had enough time to read the bill or meet with their constituents about it.

House Bill 198A goes next to the Idaho House for consideration.

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Little vetoes property tax overhaul, setting up potential political showdown - Idaho EdNews

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In a surprising end-of-session plot twist, Gov. Brad Little has vetoed a property tax relief bill that passed the Legislature only last week.

The complicated House Bill 292 carried far-reaching implications for schools. It would have directed $100 million to schools to use for property tax relief — such as paying down bonds and levies.

However, HB 292 also would have eliminated the standalone March school elections, and the date school districts most often use to run bond issues and levies. Less than two weeks ago, schools across Idaho sought $1 billion in ballot measures, although most big-ticket requests failed.

The March election factored heavily into the governor’s veto.

“House Bill 292 removes the very election most used by school districts that rely on supplemental levies to keep up with record growth and maintain schools for Idaho families, thereby removing local control,” Little said in a veto message, delivered Monday. “I do not find it reasonable to permanently eliminate an election date that has become important to so many families and local schools.”

The March school election wasn’t the only reason for the governor’s veto. State officials say HB 292 would have put $400 million in transportation projects on hold, since the state would no longer be able to use sales tax monies as a bonding tool.

The veto sets up an immediate political showdown, as the 2023 Legislature returns for its 12th and perhaps final week in session.

HB 292 passed both houses with bipartisan and veto-proof support — 63-7 in the House, and 32-3 in the Senate.

Republicans will caucus Tuesday, when the House comes back into session, said House Speaker Mike Moyle, a co-sponsor of HB 292. But Moyle said he expects the House to try to override Little’s veto.

“I’m pretty sure they’ll want to,” Moyle told Idaho Education News Monday afternoon.

While Little urged the Legislature to start over — saying, in his veto message, “Let’s get property tax done right this session” — any rewrite would almost certainly delay the adjournment of the 2023 legislative session.

And any negotiations would take place while lawmakers work through several other unresolved issues. None of the K-12 budget bills have passed the House or the Senate. And the House still has to take up a bill to implement one of Little’s top legislative priorities — “Idaho Launch,” a proposal to provide incentives for high school graduates looking to attend community college or pursue workforce training.

It’s not immediately clear how the veto — and any late-session negotiations on property tax relief — would affect the fate of any other bills still sitting on the Legislature’s docket.

“I think all of them get impacted now,” Moyle said. “I think that you will have a bunch of people that are upset that worked hard on (HB 292).”

Reactions — and the education implications

Education groups were quick to applaud Little’s veto — and specifically his move to preserve the March election date. And they urged lawmakers to rework HB 292 and provide the property tax relief the bill had promised.

“Public school districts rely on supplemental levies to maintain their operations and losing this March date creates issues with budgeting for the next school year,” Idaho Association of School Administrators Executive Director Andrew Grover said. “Removal of the March date in this legislation was not a necessary component of property tax relief in HB 292.”

“We urge the House and Senate to sustain the veto and work together quickly to bring a bill back that keeps the March election date intact and eases the other concerns related to transportation funding,” the Idaho School Boards Association said in a statement.

“Providing property tax relief and maintaining — or even expanding — school district funding tools are not mutually exclusive concepts,” Idaho Education Association President Layne McInelly said. “IEA members encourage the Idaho Legislature to pass property tax relief that does not undermine the ability of local communities to support their public schools.”

“School districts across Idaho rely on this date to pass supplemental levies that provide crucial operating funds to make up for the funding they don’t receive from the Legislature,” Idaho Business for Education President Rod Gramer said.

But on Monday, Moyle said removing the March election was an important component of HB 292.

“How can school districts honestly look at their patrons and ask for running a supplemental (levy) in March when they don’t even know what the Legislature’s going to give them?” he said. “That’s not even honest. … It’s gaming the system.”

Audio: House Speaker Mike Moyle reacts to Monday’s veto.

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Is the end near? With lawmakers hoping to adjourn the 2023 legislative session by the end of the week, several education issues remain on the to-do list.

The program, one of Gov. Brad Little’s top education priorities, would allow high school graduates to receive up to $8,000 to attend community college, pursue a career-technical education certificate or complete workforce training.

Sponsors pulled the $12 million-a-year pilot bill from the House Education Committee’s agenda. The abrupt move could also bring the Legislature’s protracted debate over school choice to a grinding halt.

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Little progress made on energy efficiency in UK homes, report finds - The Guardian

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Ministers have made negligible progress in improving the energy efficiency of the UK’s homes even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has underscored the need to cut the reliance on gas for home heating, according to the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).

The independent infrastructure tsars’ annual report warned that the progress towards improving the UK’s infrastructure “stuttered further” last year, despite the need for increased investment to meet its economic and climate goals.

The report took aim at the government’s record on insulating the UK’s draughty housing stock and the sluggish take-up of electric heat pumps to help cut emissions from home heating, even as the UK’s reliance on gas cost the economy billions due to Europe’s energy crisis.

Sir John Armitt, the chair of the NIC, said there was “a significant gap between long-term ambition and current performance”, which required “a change of gear in infrastructure policy”.

“This means fewer low-stakes incremental changes and instead placing some bigger strategic bets, backed by public funding where necessary – after all, the risk of delay in addressing climate change is now greater than the risk of over-correction,” Armitt said.

Despite a government ambition for at least 600,000 heat pumps to be installed each year by 2028, only 55,000 were fitted in 2021, while 1.5m gas boilers were fitted. The NIC blamed insufficient government funding and the absence of key policies for the lack of progress and urged the government to develop a concrete plan.

The UK remains too reliant on natural gas, which is “a high-cost, high-carbon and insecure source of energy”, the NIC said.

“In 2022, the sharp rise in gas prices prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine increased the cost of energy and jeopardised security of supply. The government is now directly subsidising the energy consumption of households and businesses, setting prices for the average household at £2,500 per year between October 2022 and June 2023,” the report said.

The government’s efforts to decarbonise the transport sector has also stalled, according to the report. Ministers expected 300,000 public electric vehicle charge points to be in place by 2030 but only 37,000 have been installed, the report said.

The report noted some positive progress in the government’s rollout of gigabit broadband and the UK’s rising renewable electricity generation. It also praised its efforts in continuing to implement further devolution and in developing plans to increase water supply.

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However, in other areas the government is not delivering fast enough. Armitt said a “further year of prevarication risks losing momentum on critical areas like achieving the statutory net zero target. Rarely has the need for speed been more evident”.

The NIC report comes as ministers prepare to present an “energy security day” on Thursday. The revamped net zero strategy will be presented from the UK’s oil and gas capital, Aberdeen, in a clear signal of the government’s intention to boost the fossil fuel industry while cutting key green measures.

A government spokesperson said: “We are committed to achieving our net zero goals and are spending £12.6bn this decade to cut national energy consumption by 15%. Delivering high-quality infrastructure is the foundation of our future growth and we have maintained our total investment at record levels over the next five years.”

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