When it comes to a community, ‘just say no’ doesn’t work

There’s a pattern playing out across resource-rich communities: towns that once said yes to libraries, rec leagues, and big ideas are now governed by people who inherited what others built—and mistake it for something that just exists. They shout no to diversification, no to new revenue, no to anything that requires reaching. Then they cut budgets and call it responsibility. Christy Mathes with WyoFile names what that really is: not conservatism, but demolition with better branding. And the end result: whether any community can nostalgia its way to survival?

Christy Mathes

WyoFile

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