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On Monday, council approved a $33 million operating budget for the city for 2021. It s a lean budget, Maurer said. It s just been a crazy year with the pandemic. Who would have known last March when everything was shut down where our income tax base would be?
The budget includes money for the hiring of two new police officers, one of whom will be a detective who will work on drug-related crimes. We didn’t fare too badly in 2020, given all of the circumstances that were a headwind against us, Maurer said. The general fund balance at the end of 2020 was a respectable $1,223,000.
In Wyoming, Will Liz Hold The Upper Hand?
The Week That Is: Sadler and Wilkinson talk the fate of Cheney, fractures in GOP and Trump s attempt to turn Wyoming against her
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Mountain Journal founder Todd Wilkinson and MoJoâs national Washington DC correspondent Tom Sadler discuss topical events relating to the nationâs capital city and the public land West. This first exchange focuses on the dust-up between US Rep. Liz Cheney, who has a home in the Greater Yellowstone town of Wilson, Wyoming and those loyal to former President Trump.
TODD WILKINSON: Tom, you ve spent a lot of years in Washington making trips over to Capitol Hill, first as a staffer to a Republican senator and later as a journalist, also as a citizen testifying on conservation policy and in other roles with various hook and bullet [hunting and fishing] organizations. What do you make of an upstart Congressman from Florida, Rep. Matt Gaetz, known for his blatant and documented distortions of truth, f