Cheney voters choose trust and lift the levy lid

Cheney residents bucked a couple of trends this past November.

In this era of anti-tax, distrust of government, residents who bothered to vote in the Nov. 3 general election voted to place their trust in what local government officials were saying and promising and cast their ballots to tax themselves more to fund public safety needs. That’s why the Cheney levy lid lift issue is one of this year’s No. 1 stories in the Cheney Free Press’s Top-10 Stories of 2015.

Cheney police and fire department officials have long been telling residents and council members that property tax revenues coming int...