If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, count us as blushing. Town officials, desperate to win over votes to raise taxes and flat out of original ideas, simply copied SHJH’s SPET Scorecard and made their own “corrections.” We try to inform citizens and TOJ, along with Central Wyoming College a couple of weeks ago, merely taking our informative ads […]
If left to their own devices, the well-intentioned folks running the town and county have shown they are incapable of slowing, or even recognizing, the out-of-control growth path we are on. Worse, if given the funds, they appear more than eager to rush hurtling toward a future filled with more aggressive development. It’s a future that routinely arrives sooner than […]
Didn’t we just do this in November? Politicians asked for a tax for housing and transportation. We said, “No thanks.” Here they come again. Big taxes, big spending, big growth.
If left to their own devices, the well-intentioned folks running the town and county have shown they are incapable of slowing, or even recognizing, the out-of-control growth path we are on. Worse, if given the funds, they appear more than eager to rush hurtling toward Jackson Hole’s Brave New World. It’s a future that former News&Guide columnist Todd Wilkinson said […]
Take a quick glance at the 2017 SPET proposals. One thing jumps out. START Bus has three of the 10 asks, tying up nearly half the record-setting $68.6M in projects on the ballot. At $30,130,000, this would be the total SPET ballot in most years. And it’s hardly surprising. This agency has been burning money for more than a decade. […]
Local government’s pro-growth agenda has consequences the community deserves to know about. Too often, the end result of town and county decisions read like shiny, happy quotes in the newspaper. Left to tell their own story, we’ve seen politicians proudly state how they’re solving our housing and transportation issues by buying more houses and more buses with our tax money. […]
SHJH START stop Big, bad bus: START needs to stop Take a quick glance at the 2017 SPET proposals. One thing jumps out. START Bus has three of the 10 asks, tying up nearly half the record-setting $68.6M in projects on the ballot. At $30,130,000, this would be the total SPET ballot in most years. And it’s hardly surprising. This […]
Two letters to the editor in today’s (April 12) News&Guide were encouraging. One from Laurie Genzer contemplates the notion we might be at carrying capacity now: Maxed out Is local government really looking out for us? Our roadways are maxed out; our sewage plant is getting there; we’ve got benzene in our water, yet government is quiet, unconcerned. Their focus […]
Just one side of the story, too often that’s all you get with the News&Guide. Housing and growth are big issues. We’ve met with the editor and owner. We’ve asked for ‘balanced reporting’ where both the pluses and minuses are presented. But the paper has a hard time getting beyond the pro-growth agenda. Uncovering the problems of growth may be […]
In the immortal words of former county commissioner Hank Phibbs, “You shouldn’t sacrifice the things we love about this valley—conservation, wildlife, open space—on the altar of affordable housing.” What a statement. The need for housing in Jackson Hole is real. Most all of us have been there. But should government be spending your money building homes for some who may […]
