The Astonishing Disappearing Gondola, Part II

By Curmudgeon

Moments ago, I wandered over to the Ogden-Weber Chamber of Commerce home page to make my weekly visit, to click on the Gondola icon, and be whisked again to the Chamber's page endorsing sale of the Mt. Ogden Parklands for a real estate development to raise part of the money for Mayor Godfrey to build his flatland gondola from downtown to WSU --- the same proposal the mayor, wallowing in scary election polling results, has himself abandoned and announced to have been not feasible in the first place. In fact, the Mayor now thinks the plan he once touted as something as important to Ogden's future as the joining of the railroads at Promontory Summit was to its past is such an awful idea, that he pledged to set the city's lawyers to finding a way to legally prevent him from going back on his promise not to sell the parklands. [Note to me: must remember that the Mayor's new event as important to Ogden's future as the joining of the rails is the arrival of ski and outdoors industries in Ogden. I wonder what it will be the morning after the election?]

So, over to the Ogden-Weber Chamber homepage I went. But the gondola link had disappeared! Gone! Kaput! Nowhere to be seen! Nary a trace! Sacre bleu! What could have happened?

Did the Gondola Grinch that magically removed any mention of gondolas from the Mayor's recent self-congratulatory speech at Amer Sports' big opening bash strike again? Did Gondola Grinch hackers penetrate the Chamber's website and remove the gondola link in the dark of night?

Or perhaps there's a simpler explanation. Perhaps Mr. Hardman, Chamber President and CEO, finally returned the Mayor's phone calls and was instructed that this gondola thing is polling very badly for Hizzonah, and will the Chamber for god's sake take the damn gondola link down now!

I know which one I'm betting happened.