by Tax Watchdog | Sep 30, 2009 | In the News
September 29, 2009 Mathew LaPlante The ice age is coming to Utah’s Hogle Zoo. The Salt Lake County Council on Tuesday determined that Hogle had met the conditions for a $33 million bond to be issued for improvements to the state’s largest animal park...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 29, 2009 | In the News
September 29, 2009 Mathew LaPlante The Hogle Zoo was sitting on a gold mine. Salt Lake County voters had offered the aging animal park $33 million for improvements — if the zoo could come up with $11 million on its own. Zoo officials made no secret of their...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 23, 2009 | In the News
September 22, 2009 Matthew LaPlante A $2.5 million contribution — which lifted Hogle Zoo over a fundraising threshold to access tens of millions in public cash — came from the zoo’s recently hired concessionaire. In spite of some members’...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 22, 2009 | In the News
September 21, 2009 Matthew LaPlante Hogle Zoo officials will tell the Salt Lake County Council this afternoon that the park has passed the threshold of private donations necessary to unlock a $33 million county bond approved by voters in November. But the council...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 16, 2009 | In the News
September 9, 2009 Aaron Falk The Utah Taxpayers Association offered a rare endorsement of a Salt Lake City bond Wednesday, throwing its support behind the $125 million plan for a new public-safety complex in the heart of the capital city. “The easiest word we...
by Tax Watchdog | Sep 16, 2009 | In the News
September 9, 2009 Derek Jensen As a mantra, the Utah Taxpayers Association’s “n-o” suddenly seems negotiable. It was strange-bedfellows time Wednesday as association President Howard Stephenson stood shoulder to shoulder with Mayor Ralph Becker in...
