History
The city is named after the New York Tribune, of which Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York was the editor.
As of January 1, 2009, the City of Tribune and Greeley County have operated as a unified government. The resulting government consists of a five-member commission with two members elected by city residents, two by rural residents, and one at-large. Similar to Wyandotte County, the only other consolidated city-county in the state, part of the county was not included: Horace decided against consolidation.
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“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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