Our View: Budget cuts hurt locals as well

It’s easy to read news coming from Cheyenne about state budget cuts or staff reductions in Casper as issues being far removed from Green River.

They’re not and the recent closure of SW-WRAP is proof of that. The organization, which underwent a reorganization under a new CEO last year, closed after several grants supporting programs administered through SW-WRAP were cut or awarded elsewhere. As a result, the Green River-based organization which once boasted offices in multiple states, is now defunct.

The real tragedy of the closure isn’t the jobs lost as a result of budget cuts, its th...