The new Teton County housing department is looking for feedback with an online survey. It’s commendable, but a bit late in the game to be wondering, “Why do voters keep saying no to our funding?” Why? Two reasons. Voters want good management, accountability, results, efficiency—the kinds of things corporations have to abide by or they go out of business. And, […]
Our electeds are doing it the hard way. Truly. Bailing out an overflowing bathtub with a Dixie cup, without first turning off the faucet, is really tough. Tackling the valley’s housing issues needs to be more than piecemeal, Band-Aided stabs in the dark. Here’s how things are progressing in town. Planners are busy approving 13 spaces carved out of a […]
Politicians are in a tough spot. Those that preached ‘housing-now’ must now decide—will they follow ‘the will of the people’ or not? Voters just said NO for a second time. They don’t want to pay additional taxes for public housing or START busses. Last November voters said no to the extra one cent tax for housing and transportation. Politicians put […]
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 […]
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. […]
