I’m taking the North Dakota property all day every day. No desire to live in Vail. But that’s fine, Laramie might not be everyone’s cup of tea. Laramie isn’t going to magically become something that it’s not and it should embrace its identity.
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Because a college kid would never smoke pot if it was illegal? The world needs more potheads like we need another pandemic. Thank god my kid is looking at the institution, recreational ops. (mtn biking, hunting, fishing, climbing, skiing/snowboarding, etc.), D-1 sports, and quality of life vs. the availability of recreational drugs. To each is own though, no judgment by me.
Glanced at it, I would bet any amount of money that it was written by someone who did not graduate from UW.Restoring Confidence in the University of Wyoming
Conservatives have been frustrated with the direction of higher education for decades. Yet conservative responses like protecting free speech and ending racial preferences have not kept the higher education machine from veering ever leftward.
You guys should probably critique that. I probably don't care enough to spend time fact checking it, lol.
Then you and I are in violent agreement. I would much rather invest in making UW attractive as an institution - one that is growing and not shrinking, one that is filled with the brightest and best, one that innovates and takes risks, one that contributes to the growth of the state's economy and active retention of our kids (at least giving them the option to stay if they want), one where politicians don't meddle and is so involved in the fabric of the state that no legislator or governor would dare diminish or hamstring it. When you have that sort of juggernaut, the money for athletics and other stuff will come.
Well stated.
Restoring Confidence in the University of Wyoming
Conservatives have been frustrated with the direction of higher education for decades. Yet conservative responses like protecting free speech and ending racial preferences have not kept the higher education machine from veering ever leftward.
You guys should probably critique that. I probably don't care enough to spend time fact checking it, lol.
The Claremont institute is a conservative think tank. Nothing in this is surprising, coming from that point of view.
Conservatism currently and will likely always hold the purse strings at UW. This pub is likely guiding or at least being considered in Cheyenne.
I am very willing to pay taxes for this. I was even before I adopted my son and was childless.
Here's the deal, nothing is free and, in this vein, there is a base cost of operating government, which is only increasing (costs of roads, infrastructure, services, health care, education). As oil and gas, coal and other traditional revenues that support the general fund decline, we face growing budget deficits over the next 10 years (not immediate, but in time). Add cuts and the likely need to backfill local governments (to just fund the standard stuff), we are facing either a sales tax (on the order of over 20%, based on what the analysis of a similar effort in NE demonstrated) or an income tax - but likely both. A sales tax above 8% will devastate a Wyoming main street that is already tenuously hanging on - especially along the borders of the state. We cannot cover the bill with investment income only and cutting budgets may yield some gain against the deficit but is not a magic bullet to save us.
