Snow King has a place in our hearts. It’s the ski area Wyoming grew up with—the first in the state and the hill many locals learned to ski on. But we can’t be over emotional. Too often, the new and very wealthy billionaire owners have ‘cried-poor’ and demanded new entitlements. At times, they’ve threatened to shut down the lifts if […]
Creating new roads is no more a solution to traffic congestion than building new homes is a fix for the housing crisis. It’s simply not so. In communities like ours, new roads invite new traffic. And new housing invites more outside people to move in instead of providing opportunity for those already here and struggling. In Jackson Hole: If you […]
Town Council deserves credit. They’re finally dealing with runaway commercial growth, the root cause of our housing problem, the real cause of local overcrowding and discontent. It has been a year since town and county elected officials discussed raising our low and ineffectual commercial mitigation rates up to 100%. So instead of housing just a few of the seasonal jobs […]
A local business owner recently set us straight. “I’m not pro-growth,” he insisted. “I don’t want any more second homes. I just want workforce housing.” As if that didn’t count. But population growth is mostly due to workforce housing, which is a product of job creation due to commercial expansion. Here is the Other Side of the Story for April […]
