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 […]
When you head to the polls May 2 (earlier for absentee voters) please consider the following: More START Buses for $6,500,000 If the town and county had unlimited money (sometimes it seems that’s exactly how they operate) they would not solve our traffic woes with buses. They could buy 1 or 1,000 new buses. They still need someone to […]
Wow, did Kent Fiske every hit it on the head with his letter to the editor in the March 22 weekly News&Guide. Fiske captures a lot of what Save Historic Jackson Hole has been saying recently. As we head to the polls May 2 for a special SPET election, let’s all think long and hard about what projects deserve our hard-earned […]
We enjoyed the common sense of Dick Aurelio regarding START Bus. This Guest Shot was printed March 1, 2017. O P I N I O N Look at numbers before funding START While a firm believer in public transportation, and in particular improving service to Victor, Driggs and Alpine to ease the housing shortage and reduce traffic in town, I […]
Only Paul Vogelheim, a Republican, expressed a desire to rein in spending as elected officials jacked up SPET with 10 ballot items totaling nearly $70,000,000. Read more about it: https://pitchengine.com/buckrail/2017/02/28/set-in-stone-spet-ballot-finalizedfinally/002519140303561538498
