Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Fellow Provo Pulsians!

I am the same Timsierramist who earlier asked about apartments in the Provo area. Much to some of your dismay, I have chosen King Henry Apts for my dwelling most of the school year, with a small gap in July to stay at the Sparks II apartments (I get out of the military in late June and King Henry doesn't accept Fall tenants until late August).

Anyways, that's neither here nor there, on to the question of this post.

Before I start I will confess that economics is not a field that has offered me much interest, but with our current economic environment where we have financial firms that are “Too Big to Fail” I have to take another look and ask myself is a Bank or other financial firm that is too big to let fail, too big to let exist?

Back when I was in High School it seemed that it was explained to me that we had laws that prevented these types of super firms from forming. I remember that back during the Great Depression that government did things like “Trust Busting” and braking up monopolies.

One law that was put in place during the Great Depression was known as the Banking Act of 1933 though commonly called the Second Glass-Steagall Act or just Glass-Steagall Act. This act provided a separation of bank types according to there business, and it prevented a commercial bank from merging with an investment bank, or with an insurance firm.

Hi, if you haven't heard, one of the city council members resigned in order to serve a mission.

There is 1 year left in their 4 year term and the remaining 6 members of the city council have to appoint a replacement by Jan. 20th!

There are 17 candidates!

Check out video of the 3 minute presentations that each of them gave before the council on Thursday:
http://provocitizens.net/video

Email or call them too to find more info about each or any of them.

Then email the council at council1@provo.utah.gov to let them know who they should vote for.

This definitely matters because the city council members control things like parking, booting/towing, and zoning which affects how many people can live in homes. Don't get me started about zoning!

Anyway, will you please cast your "vote" by emailing them your pick?!

Even eight years after returning to the United States, the view of Jerusalem’s Old City from the top of the Mount of Olives remained vivid in author Erin Tolman’s mind, as did the sound of gunfire and sirens which marked the beginning of the Second Intifada in September 2000. Unable to let the memories remain only in her journal, Tolman wrote a series of thirty-eight vignettes describing her semester as a student at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies and titled the collection A View of Jerusalem.

A View of Jerusalem begins on September 29, 2000 when Palestinian rioters and Israeli police clashed in the Old City and sparked a brutal conflict which lasted for years. While Tolman and the other 175 students at the Jerusalem Center remained safe during the following two months, their study abroad experience changed dramatically at that point.

This Saturday BYU and the U throw it down in, perhaps, the biggest game of the year.

Just what is ridding on this game? Everything!

1. The University of Utah needs a win to go to conference.
2. If BYU wins they break the U's winning streak.
3. TCU beat BYU, and the U beat TCU. If BYU beats the U, the inadvertently pull up from their game with TCU.
4. BYU and the U are rivals!
5. Amid everything, BYU has managed to beat the U the past two years.

So, now I ask, who is going to win? Come on people, I wanna hear what everyone has to say.

Who will win this Saturday?

I've scouted out housing during my "College Tour 2008" trip here in Provo, Utah. And i've come to only 2 apartments I want to live at but can't decide between.

The Branbury & The King Henry Apartments.

I really like the river and forest next to Branbury but the cool clubhouse and "guarunteed" social life at King Henry can't be missed either. Both are about the same distance from BYU.

King Henry is more expensive but includes some utilities while Branbury is cheaper but makes you pay all you pay all your own.

SO I leave it up to you to help me decide. Which should I choose and why? Please help!

Tomorrow is the big day, the end of a very long election. (At least is seemed long for me because I was involved in it).

I was looking at the news today and came across an article titled, The morning after: Half of us will be disappointed. It's true, there will be many disappointed fans tomorrow. This article got me thinking.

My advice to you readers is to support our new president tomorrow, even if he wasn't your #1 choice. I think this is something everyone should decided to do now.I think being patriotic is about having different thoughts and ideas, and supporting the president. Lets do it, lets agree to disagree and then get things done!