Blanding has been the epicenter of anti-Bears Ears National Monument sentiment and a hotbed for vitriol against environmentalists and the federal government promoting public land protections.
A common refrain from that San Juan County community is that “outsiders” are ruining their lives and preventing them from getting good jobs.
Now, unlike its southeastern Utah neighbors of Monticello and Moab, the Blanding City Council has denied a request to allow families taking in foster children to include those kids on their annual passes to use the city’s public swimming pool.
Can’t be giving handouts to foster kids without giving the same benefit to everybody else.