Garden City Telegram
The expansion of the current .25% County General Purpose sales tax will be on the Aug. 3 ballot.
The Finney County Commission approved a resolution to include a question of whether or not voters approve of extending the .25% sales tax at the Commission s regular meeting Monday.
The sales tax began in 1997 and has been extended several times since, most recently in 2014.
The Commission previously discussed the extension at their March 15 meeting.
Robert Reece, Finney County Administrator, said revenue from the sales tax is used to offset the county s property tax mill levy.
About half of the sales tax revenue generated in Finney County comes from those who live outside of the county, Reece said. Just over $1 million is generated for the county with the sales tax, Garden City generates about the same and Holcomb generates about $85,000.
Eight sentenced after convictions related to Wyoming meth conspiracy
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The investigation in the case began around 2019 when the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) started to receive intelligence that Raymond Arthur Carnahan was allegedly distributing methamphetamine in the Gillette area.
“DCI Agents learned Carnahan’s source of supply was in either Colorado or Arizona,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming said in the release. “Based on this intelligence, agents determined Carnahan would travel to Denver, Colorado, or Phoenix, Arizona, to meet with his methamphetamine source. Carnahan would then bring the methamphetamine back to Gillette, Wyoming, for distribution.”
Garden City Telegram
Unauthorized dumping has been occurring in Towns Riverview South, and the Finney County Commission discussed the dumping at its regular meeting Tuesday.
No action was taken on the issue, other than agreement to look into solving the problem.
Roger Calkins, Finney County Public Works director, said the location of the dumping has been involved in the countywide spring and fall cleanup events.
During the cleanup events, citizens can dump their trash at designated locations throughout the county and then county workers haul the trash away, Calkins said. After the last fall cleanup event, people have continued to dump at the site throughout the year.
Childcare projects were discussed at the Wednesday board meeting of the Finney County Economic Development Corporation.
Board member Bob Kreutzer expressed concern over funding for the commitment FCEDC made to Empirical Food in regard to child care.
Kreutzer said they thought they were going to be able to solve a lot of the problem with SPARK funding but haven t received any for the child care project. That Empirical thing is going to mean a significant amount of impact on Finney County and Garden City and all surrounding area, he said. If we can t fulfill what we ve committed and this thing fails, I don t know where we ever talk to any other major corporation that s going to come to town.
ABC Religion & Ethics
Hugh Breakey
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Mon 22 Mar 2021, 12:49pm
Given its importance for the stability and wellbeing of our common life, it is worrying that political legitimacy should have found itself under sustained attack on two fronts in 2020. (traffic analyzer / iStock / Getty Images)
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When it comes to some of the profound challenges that were posed by 2020 like the COVID-19 pandemic solutions seem to be on the horizon. But for others, their true consequences may be only beginning to appear.
This is perhaps no more apparent than in the assault on political legitimacy. In 2020, political legitimacy was threatened by forces from opposite ends of the political spectrum: cancel culture on the left, and conspiracy theories on the right. Each poses a serious threat, because a collapse in political legitimacy means people think the normal rules don’t apply anymore, making the world a more difficult and potentially even dangerous place for all of us.