The Jordan School District, in retrospect, would have been better off just trying to grab one or two stars.
Voters last week couldn’t have been clearer if they had stormed schools with pitchforks. They liked the proposed $495 million bond issue about as much as Utahns liked Michael Jordan’s last-second shots in the NBA finals of ’97 and ’98.
They defeated it, 67-33 percent. Even Democrats do better in some parts of this state.
One state over, residents of Colorado defeated Amendment 66 by a similar margin, despite a campaign of more than $10 million by school advocates. That one would have taken $1 billion more per year out of the economy for a variety of