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Jackson aggressively addresses its housing crisis; lawmakers see how this applies to state
CHEYENNE — County and city officials insisted on Thursday that the issue of affordable housing can only be regulated at the local level. A running joke during the Legislature’s Regulation Reduction Task Force meeting in Jackson was that Teton County was its own state. Jackson resident Taylor Phillips said he was on a fishing trip when he told a person he encountered where he lived. The person told him, “Oh, you ought to move to Wyoming one day.”
Great Wyoming land rush spurs conservation push
JACKSON — Bob Budd shook his head when the truck in front of him flicked on its turn signal. “Here’s one of the problems with all this influx of traffic,” he said, half in jest, half serious. “Nobody ever used to use a blinker because you knew whose car it was, and you knew they were going to turn. Now you’ve got to have a damn blinker.”
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