SHJH meets with Tea Party
Save Historic Jackson Hole will have coffee with the Jackson Hole Tea Party Wednesday, May 10. We will discuss SPET results and areas where the two organizations are aligned.
SPET results
Voters prudently chose to spend $34M in tax money to support six of the 10 propositions on the SPET ballot. 5,983 total votes cast 13,173 registered voters South Highway 89 PASS 63%-37% #1 Purchase of START buses FAIL 42%-58% #2 Parks and Rec housing PASS 55%-45% #3 CWC PASS 54%-46% #4 Sidewalks PASS 51%-49% #5 Rec Center maintenance PASS […]
Mimicked, copied, flattered
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 […]
Whose future?
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 […]
Say No Again
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.
Whose future are we headed toward?
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 […]
START should 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 agency has been burning money for more than a decade. […]
Unintended Consequences
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. […]
Big, bad bus: START should stop
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 […]
Reactions to SPET’s pro-growth agenda
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 […]
