Charles Trentelman

Browning Arms Museum Acquires Prototype Winchester

charlestrentelman.blogspot.com — The prototype Winchester rifle Union Station's Browning Arms Museum just acquired actually looks too good to be this valuable. How valuable? I was asked not to be specific -- anonymous donors chipped in to buy it. But we can say: A lot. Union Station had to bid for it at auction.

Union Station a Marathon Zoo

charlestrentelman.blogspot.com — Came down to Union Station to do a little quiet writing and found the place mobbed with preparations for Saturday's Ogden Marathon. There's a helicopter parked in the fountain plaza. What else can you say? Whirlybird Helicopters is doing a deal with United Way for a fundraiser, plus advertising Father's Day special flights.

Benghazi E-Mails Put White House on the Defensive

nytimes.com — WASHINGTON - A long-simmering dispute over the White House's account of the deadly assault on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, flared up on Friday, with a disclosure of e-mails that show the White House was more deeply involved in revising talking points about the attack than officials have previously acknowledged.

How to be Humbled by a 9-Year-Old

charlestrentelman.blogspot.com — Boy, talk about feeling small. Not for any really serious reason. This is not false humility talking. I mean, the rest of us really did deserve the honors -- we're talking lifetimes of work and involvement, careers dedicated to helping the community. But there's this thing about relativity.

Newspaper failing? Maybe your newsroom sucks ...

charlestrentelman.blogspot.com — A couple of years ago Dilbert ran a comic where Dilbert is telling the pointy haired boss "I know these cubicles have always sucked the life out of me, but lately it seems to be getting worse." In the second frame the boss is talking to a demon sitting at a control panel with lots of vacuum hoses leading this way and that.

Hidden treasures at Union Station?

charlestrentelman.blogspot.com — Saw a bunch of guys in orange shirts hauling a pile of scrap lumber out of the old Laundry Building south of Union Station, so I wandered over to check it out. The men in shirts, guests of the Weber County Correctional Facility, were doing community work, helping clean out the entrance to the building, really a long drive-in loading dock area on its north end.

Calling beans on a liberal latte stereotype

charlestrentelman.blogspot.com — Someone on Facebook who is of a right-wing bent recently said he enjoyed pissing off "latte liberals," which made me wonder, "when did drinking a latte make you a liberal?" And what do conservatives do -- mash their coffee beans with their gun butts and boil the shards?

Hidden treasures at Union Station?

charlestrentelman.blogspot.com — Saw a bunch of guys in orange shirts hauling a pile of scrap lumber out of the old Laundry Building south of Union Station, so I wandered over to check it out. The men in shirts, guests of the Weber County Correctional Facility, were doing community work, helping clean out the entrance to the building, really a long drive-in loading dock area on its north end.

Out & About: Dark Horse's edgy 'Assassins' worth trip to SLC

go.standard.net — Audiences still have a chance to catch the second leg of Dark Horse Company Theatre's outstanding production of the musical "Assassins."The comp...

Issues slowing former LDS bishop's hearings in Ogden fraud case

standard.net — OGDEN - An active defense appears in the making for a man charged with bilking investors who were members of his church congregation. Chad Bennett Reid, 57, is charged with three counts of securities fraud and one count of racketeering, or engaging in a pattern of unlawful activity.