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Core areas could save sage grouse in Wyoming
02/25/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
 
(Courtesy of NRCS/USDA)
   CHEYENNE - Maps developed by a state sage grouse task force indicate that 16 percent of the state̵
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The Rooster Crows
Rooster Crows about Nonexistent Tax Breaks
02/25/2008
wyoming legislature wyoming legislature   Rooster listens for the phones in the Wyoming legislators' offices, and they're not ringing about cutting property taxes. Maybe this is because legislators don't have phones, but
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Column - Culture
Singing the cowboy songs, aye, yi, yi!
02/25/2008
By Geoffry O'Gara
Ian Tyson
 
   We’re careening through the deep green Galway countryside, the year is
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Column - Law
Some cautionary notes about CO2 sequestration
02/24/2008
By Deb Donahue
(Correction: The initial release of this column contained an error - that 18,000 people had died in the gas incident in Africa. The actual number was closer to 1,800.) 
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ARAMIE - Twenty years ago a huge MORE...
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County clerks report new registration activity, from a little to a lot
02/22/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
(Editor’s note: The following is not an exhaustive or comprehensive survey, but a series of snapshots from around the state. Many county clerks were not available for comment, because they were traveling home from state legislative meetings and training in Cheyenne, earlier this week. Other county clerk employees were busy dealing w
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The Rooster Crows
Miss Manners says mind your high-tech manners
02/22/2008
wyoming legislature    A tech-savvy Legislature needs to remember some rules of etiquette and proper legislative behavior. The Senate Rules Committee wants to unplug the chamber just a little – no phones on the floor or in the gallery and only legislative use of the Internet on the state-issu
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The Rooster Crows
Pinstriped suits haunt Legislature
02/22/2008
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    Remembering that Exxon purchased Mobil a few years back for $81 billion, a piddling $5 million couldn’t matter that much to the corporate behemoth, right? Yet there they were in the Capitol Wednesday, an army of energy industry lobbyists, led by ExxonMobil’s
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Senate approves all but one key CBM water management amendment
02/22/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
   CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Senate extensively revised a coal-bed methane water management bill on Thursday, but not the thorniest issue within the bill – whether natural runoff and CBM water are both considered by the State Engineer when calculating channel capacity of ephemeral st
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Industrial Siting Council skeptical about fate of Two Elk power plant
02/21/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
    GLENROCK - Members of the Department of Environmental Quality's Industrial Siting Council on Tuesday grilled a spokesman for the Two Elk power plant near Gillette about the long-delayed project's viability and set a hearing in April to consider a Sierra Club petition to revo
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Obama opens two Wyoming campaign offices
02/20/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
(UPDATE: The number of Obama campaign offices has expanded to four, with the addition of offices in Casper and Rock Springs. Meanwhile the campaign has run afoul of making illegal, automated telephone calls and eigh
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CBM water dispute heads for Senate floor
02/20/2008
By Brodie Farquhar
   CHEYENNE - “No one is going to like this bill,” predicted Senator Grant Larson, R-Jackson, chairman of the Senate Minerals, Business and Economic Committee, and speaking of Senate Fil
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Special Project
Showdown at Glenrock: Brad Enzi rides to rescue Two Elk Power Plant
02/12/2008
By Rone Tempest
wyoming politics   After years of construction inactivity and several false starts, some wags in Wyoming’s coal rich Powder River Basin began to refer to the proposed billion dollar Two Elk power plant project 40 miles so
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