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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Save Historic Jackson Hole would like to remind citizens that you have an opportunity to be heard regarding the latest sales tax hike proposed by government. The special purpose excise tax (SPET) is back. Town and county representatives would like to put several SPET initiatives on a May 2, 2017 special election ballot. The meeting will take place on Monday, January 23 […]
The new online poll in the Jackson Hole News&Guide is asking what you would like to see a possible future SPET go toward. With a general excise tax shot down in November now off the table, a Community Priorities Fund is still in need of actual funding. Will this come from SPET, or would you rather see something else done […]
Remember that promise not increase our sales tax with this November’s proposed additional one penny general sales that town and county officials hope will fund housing and transportation issues? Our leaders are already considering reneging on that because they need money for their bus barn apartment complex in Karns Meadow. The project will house up to 67 government employees in […]
Here’s an oldie but a goody from former state senator John Turner. He wrote this letter to the editor back in February 2016. A fiscal ambush A sneak attack on the voters of Teton County. I feel that is what the recent proposal to increase the general sales tax to fund housing, transportation, and the slide represents. Once enacted, the […]
Judd Grossman, candidate for town council, wrote the following on his Facebook page. We reprint here only because we at Save Historic Jackson Hole have been asking ourselves the same questions. Regarding the Budge Slide, Town needs to do a better job of answering the following questions: Who’s fault is the slide? Do we understand what went wrong and have […]
