January, 2010

Mile 126.7 – Running into the sun

July 2009 Map

Mile 122.1 – Give Me Shelter

July 15, 2009 – It was reported today that congressman Jim Matheson is Utah’s first “campaign millionaire” in this election cycle. According disclosures filed today with the Federal Election Commission, Matheson’s campaign has 1.02 million dollars in the bank. Senator Bob Bennett’s campaign has the second largest coffers at 933 thousand dollars. The 2010 elections are still 16 months away.  It was also reported today that Utah is ranked fifth in the nation in home foreclosures with one in sixty nine homes being in foreclosure.

Mile 118.4 – “This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”  – Plato

July 14 – A report released yesterday which was prepared by Jim Wood director of Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Utah declared that “in terms of economic performance, 2009 will be the single worst year in Utah’s post-World War II economic history.” Wood is also reported as saying that “Most troublesome is the increased weakness of Utah’s job market” and “from 2008 to 2010 Utah is projected to lose 70,000 jobs. This level of job loss is unprecedented.”

Meanwhile GM filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today stating that Rick Wagoner the ousted CEO of General Motors will retire Aug 1 with a pension and benefit package valued at more than 10 million dollars. Wagoner, who is 56 years old, has been the CEO of GM since 2003; during which time GM has lost over 85 billion dollars.

July 2009 Map

Mile 111.7 – “There is a train that leaves the station heading for your destination,
but the price you pay to nowhere has increased a dollar more.”

-        Robert Plant

July 10 – It was announced yesterday that a month long crackdown in June by US Marshals made more than 35,000 arrests of violent fugitives residing in the U.S. This is the greatest number of arrests made in the five-year annual roundup known as Operation Falcon.

July 2009 Map