Add Wendover Gas to the long list of businesses in Wendover that were forced to leave, sell out or go bankrupt not because a bad business plan but because their owners ran afoul of the Peppermill.
It is a sad story repeated more times than we care to count and we hope that conditions will change just enough to make it the last one. We have our hopes but still we doubt it.
If it does not strike one as fundamentally unfair and bordering on the obscene then one does not have a heart.
Here is a woman who put her heart and soul into a dream only to have it slowly squeezed lifeless.
Yes Wendover’s largest employer has a right to spend its money where it wants, but come on does it have to be so nasty about it?
Of course the worst betrayal was not from the financial giants on the hill, but the moral midgets in city hall.
With smiles on their faces and cheerful greetings they broke her heart and her spirit.
We would say shame on them but if the last ten years or so taught us anything we have learned they have no shame.
Our city council lost us a tax payer but on the bright side it will add even more employees to an already bloated over pensioned payroll.
First up they will probably create a new department head with a six figure salary to manage the new city asset.
Then they will have to staff it and pay salaries, pensions, health care that are much more generous than the private sector and will probably eat through all the profits that little company can generate.
Of course we will be told that the city is actually running it better than Nancy Green ever did.
They won’t be able to prove it, but we will be told it nevertheless.
This is an election year and with it comes the golden opportunity to throw the bums out. We do have our hopes but still we doubt it.
We only asked of every voters before they cast a ballot to drive through town start and take a gander at every closed and shuttered place of business that was once run by a former friend or neighbor or even an acquaintance.
A city of 5,000 residents should have more than 74 local businesses much more.
Ask yourself why? Better yet ask Nancy Green or Steve Weinstein or any of the dozens of dreamers who have long since left Wendover without their dreams.