by Tax Watchdog | Jul 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Rodger Hardy July 22, 2010 City officials are balking at the latest effort to raise more money for UTOPIA. Five cities that are part of the 11-city consortium attempting to bring fiber-optic cable to homes and business have formed a new entity, the Utah Infrastructure...
by Tax Watchdog | Jul 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
July 21, 2010 Recent goings-on in Orem highlight some key points of what government should and should not spend money on. Last week the Utah Taxpayers Association held a rally in Orem to focus on problems it sees in the UTOPIA system and its funding. Meanwhile, the...
by Tax Watchdog | Jul 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Steven Oberbeck July 11, 2010 Plagued by continuing losses and facing an uncertain future, the Utopia fiber-optic system is out to reinvent itself. Operators of the system want Utopia’s 11 member cities to coalesce and launch an entity known as the Utah Infrastructure...
by Tax Watchdog | Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Rebecca Palmer July 13, 2010 About 250 people attended a rally Tuesday evening organized to protest the municipal fiber-optic network UTOPIA. Dozens of families heard from a handful of speakers that UTOPIA, the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency, is...
by Tax Watchdog | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
June 21, 2010 The Utah Taxpayers Association continues to take aim at the pile of tax dollars being pledged to UTOPIA, a fiber optic network the association views as being in direct competition with private Internet service providers. But UTOPIA officials, who say...
by Tax Watchdog | May 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
City employees met this week to discuss ways they could save money in the 2011 fiscal year. Payson, like other cities across the Wasatch Front, is belt tightening because of reduced revenues, primarily from a decrease in sales tax. Employees met with their department...
