In our opinion: Remembering Gary Ott

Former Salt Lake County recorder Gary Ott should be remembered for his years of dedicated and competent public service, not for the controversy that defined his final years, when he showed signs of dementia while seemingly being propped up by his closest aides.Ott served as the county’s elected recorder from 2001 until August, when, hampered by health problems, he resigned as part of an agreement negotiated between his next of kin and county officials.Generally speaking, people enter publi