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By Eric Pool

3/10/2024

The County Commissioners have raised the property taxes by 13% since 2020. The County Property tax request has gone from .490...

By Eric Pool

July 3, 2023

Since the inception of our group and the subsequent growth and expansion, we have always strived for transparency and...

As always, we strive to bring information to the taxpaying citizens and public of our great county. Today we are having conversations around participation...

By Eric Pool

Updated 3/13/2024

Back in January 2023 we discussed the use of lodging tax dollars; how they were collected, what they support, and how...

By Eric Pool

Updated 3/24

The inheritance tax was instituted in 1901 and was originally designated to "permanently maintain county roads". That designation...

By Eric Pool

Updated July 20, 2023

We have unwavering support for our law enforcement all over the country, and it is no different for our local law...

In November the voters renewed the 1/2 cent sales tax for road and infrastructure improvements. The city made a list of projects and roads to be included...

By Eric Pool

July 20, 2023

The preamble to the constitution begins with: We the People. The intentions of our founding fathers was for the people to...

By Eric Pool

Updated July 20, 2023

By now many of us have gotten the "yellow card" again. Tis the season. Our assessor is feverishly trying to redo...

By Eric Pool

Updated June 23, 2023

On April 26th, Governor Pillen signed into law permitless carry LB 77 (known as Constitutional Carry) in the...

All of us have probably from time to time worked with someone who is just not pulling their weight at work rarely or sporadically. The person used to...

LB 256 (2018) was passed by the Nebraska Legislature and sign by the then governor on March 21, 2018. The intent of the bill is to address vacant buildings...

Not that Wild Turkey, the other one. Yes, spring is almost here after a long winter. Wild turkey season (the bird) is here. Although turkey populations...

It's that time again when the city releases the full audit of the last year's fiscal activities and financial status. This audit is posted on the city...

Last year we posted an article asking everyone to name two things that could make Sidney better. We got some great ideas and we are looking to use some...

Back in September when we attended the LB644 meeting, we were told property taxes had to increase because of fuel cost increases and "in case we had a...

We were talking a bit ago about how we are progressing on the Bring Back Sidney and the Cheyenne Observer pages. David Jansen and I were discussing BBS,...

Do you play golf? Well, obviously somebody enjoys golf ALOT here in Sidney. In reviewing the city budget the other day we reviewed the cost for the maintenance...

We just came across a news clip at News Channel Nebraska that we wanted to share with everyone. The US DOT just announced 0 million in grants for the...

We pulled the audit from the city Website for 2021 fiscal year and reviewed it. In this review we asked several questions around what we read. First there...

We learned this week through an article in the North Platte telegraph of Steve Erdman's proposed bill (LB28), which would freeze the property owner's...