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A UW Survey and Analysis Center poll shows that Wyoming residents favor a variety of solutions to meet U.S. energy needs, with near-unanimous support for renewable energy. Wind power had the support of 97 percent of respondents and solar power, 96 percent. Almost 87 percent favored pumping more oil from existing wells, drilling more offshore wells (74 percent) and opening the Alaskan National Wil...
hummingbirdminds - Mon 11:40 p.m. - 9 clicks 
A brouhaha has arisen on the University of Wyoming campus about the name of the new Cheney International Center. That’s "Cheney" as in "Dick," the UW grad and outgoing V.P. Two students, Fred Vanden Heede and Suzy Pelican, have stoked opposition to the center’s name with letters in UW’s Branding Iron and newspapers across the state. Here’s an excerpt: "For a long time to come, many Wyoming...
hummingbirdminds - Fri 6:44 p.m. - 16 clicks
Wyoming State Government employees are off on Veteran's Day. This year the holiday falls on a Tuesday so some get a four-day weekend. In past years, Chris and I and the kids drove down to Denver's Fort Logan Military Cemetery to put flowers on my grandparents' graves. Florence Green Shay, first lieutenant in the U.S. Army nursing corps during WWI. Raymond Shay, second lieutenant in the Iowa Nation...
hummingbirdminds - Nov 11 - 10 clicks
As if we aren't outnumbered enough in the state legislature. This release comes from Bill Luckett, director of the Wyoming Democratic Party: Democratic state Sen. Rae Lynn Job of Rock Springs resigned her position in the Legislature on Thursday, Nov. 6, requiring the Democratic Party to begin the process of selecting a replacement to fill the vacant seat for the remainder of her term. Sweetwate...
hummingbirdminds - Nov 10 - 9 clicks
Reducing the stigma of mental illness in society will be the focus of a panel discussion Wednesday, Nov. 12, at noon in the University of Wyoming Union Skylight Lounge. Active Minds, a registered student organization, and Psi Chi, the UW Psychology Club, will host "Reducing Mental Illness Stigma." Panel members will include individuals who will share their personal experiences of having mental i...
hummingbirdminds - Nov 10 - 8 clicks
Had to display these photos, which I just received from fellow Dem and Wyoming state legislator Lori Millin. They say a lot about the enthusiasm of the convention in Denver which spilled over into the presidential campaign. That didn't translate into an Obama win in Wyoming -- not this time, anyway. Looking back, wish I would have worn my cowboy outfit. ...
hummingbirdminds - Nov 7 - 10 clicks
An article in today's Casper Star-Tribune notes that 65 percent of Wyoming voters cast their ballots for McCain. That is the largest McCain margin of any state save Oklahoma, which came in at 66 percent. Wyoming voted more red than our redder-than-red Rocky Mountain neighbors Idaho and Utah. In Idaho, McCain got 62 percent of the vote and Obama got 36 percent. In Utah, 63 percent supported McC...
hummingbirdminds - Nov 6 - 13 clicks
When the news about Barack Obama's victory was announced last night, I was in a room filled with Republicans. It was a small room, and there were only three of them, but it seemed as if I was surrounded. J.D. was on the main microphone, Dave was tallying the election results on a legal pad, and Bob sat next to me at the guest mike. Bob was packing, his sidearm jutting ominously from his Cheyenne P...
hummingbirdminds - Nov 5 - 13 clicks
Election Day, the most exciting one I've experienced. I'm out working for Gary Trauner today. If anyone messes with your right to vote, you have lots of options. Your precinct's election judges are there to help. Most judges I've seen in Laramie County know their business. They receive training and get lots of backup. But, if for some odd reason, it's the judge getting in your way, there's also a...
hummingbirdminds - Nov 4 - 10 clicks
On the eve of Tuesday's general election, it appears that a Libertarian may again be poised to play the spoiler's role in 2008. No stranger to running for office, W. David Herbert, of Riverton, ran against Michael Enzi and Kathy Karpan in 1996, competing to fill the seat of retiring Senator Alan Simpson. That means Herbert is also no stranger to defeat. This year, too, Herbert concedes that his...
New West Jackson Hole - Nov 3 - 12 clicks
Sheridan -- The ancient Greeks had a word, καιρ?ς or kairos, which means an era of unique opportunity. It's an unspecified period of time ripe for taking advantage of changing circumstances. Wyoming and the energy-rich West have an opportunity to at least acknowledge such an era: we live in a time where change occurs at an unprecedented speed. Wyoming can either react to this acceleration or be...
New West Jackson Hole - Oct 27 - 12 clicks
Barbara Cubin is winding down a seven-term run in Congress and retiring in January, after surviving a squeaker of an election in 2006 against Teton County Democrat Gary Trauner. With the unpopular Cubin's departure, many expected Wyoming's at-large House seat to revert seamlessly to Republican hands. Ordinarily, the race is pretty much decided in the August Republican primary, an election to pick...
New West Jackson Hole - Oct 23 - 15 clicks
Republican congressional candidate Cynthia Lummis, a devout Lutheran, said that when she was growing up in Cheyenne many of her closest friends were Mormons, and during her college years she twice considered converting, taking all the introductory lessons for membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Locked in a tight race with Jackson Hole Democrat Gary Trauner for Wyoming'...
New West Jackson Hole - Oct 23 - 16 clicks
Charles Pelkey and Reese Jenniges have an in-depth and informative look at what might just shape up to be a major upset in the West next month--Dick Cheney's old House seat might very well flip to a Democrat. I'm going to trust a Wyomingite on a Wyoming race before my own gut feelings anytime, but my observations from a trip there last week confirm for me much of what they report....
New West Jackson Hole - Oct 23 - 14 clicks
It's been 10 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay college student at the University of Wyoming, ran into two young men at a bar in Laramie who robbed him, drove him to the edge of town, tied him to a wooden fence and struck him 18 times in the head with a .357-caliber Magnum handgun before leaving him to die. This weekend National Public Radio looks back on how the murder turned Laramie into "the c...
New West Jackson Hole - Oct 12 - 10 clicks
Boulder-based writer and writing coach Douglas Kurtz recently published his first novel, Mosquito, an action-packed literary thriller set throughout the American West, including stops in Boulder, Moab, Rocky Mountain National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Park, where eco-tour guide protagonist Ben Baxter leads his group in and out of peril. Kurtz grew up i...
New West Jackson Hole - Sep 26 - 10 clicks
The leaves are turning. If you're in Sheridan and it's Thursday, it's time to hie yourself to the Farmers' Market. But Sheridan, luckily, is not alone in offering fresh produce. Wyoming has 27 farmers' markets. They're still small potatoes, so to speak, but they're starting to make a place for themselves among Wyoming's food options. Moreover, farmers' markets have caught the state's attention....
New West Jackson Hole - Sep 26 - 14 clicks
It seems like every week I have some new information to mention about bestselling Colorado writer David Wroblewski, so here's today's tidbit: Rachel Deahl of Publishers Weekly reports: "...48-year-old debut author David Wroblewski has made an unusual request--he's asked would-be producers to pitch their film ideas to him in person so he can choose who's most deserving of the film rights. The unusu...
New West Jackson Hole - Sep 17 - 13 clicks
Casper Star-Tribune U.S. House candidates talk reform in Cheyenne "Under a big tent in front of the stately stone Union Pacific train depot, the candidates for Wyoming's U.S. House seat took part in a forum Friday as the crowd feasted on barbecued ribs...
Wyoming Democratic Party - Sep 6 - 12 clicks
