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Struggling Ely taxpayers confront city leaders

Echos of Strong Towns right here from Ely Mayor Roger Skraba (emphasis mine):

“My community is dying. I don’t like to say that. But it’s a fact,” he said. “And is it my job to bring it back? Yeah. Hell, I’m trying to keep it sustained right now. I used to think I wanted to grow it, but I just want to keep it. What we did this year is try to stabilize this community, physically stabilize it, just to stop it from falling apart.”

I bet we’ll hear a lot more stories like this in the months and years to come.