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| Cheyenne-We in Wyoming congratulate ourselves for having a “citizen Legislature,” entitling us to claim moral and practical superiority over nearly year-round sessions in other states. Our term suggests a legislative body that draws its members from regular folks who remember the regular folks who elect them for these short, manageable sessio | | MORE... | |  |
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The old Top Hat Motel sign broods
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Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal has high praise for the Senate and House leadership, who put carbon capture and sequestration bills on the fast track during a budget year. He spoke Monday in an exclusive interview with WyoFile.com.
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We’re careening through the deep green Galway countryside, the year is | | MORE... | | |
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After passage in the House, a campaign finance bill is on the verge of passage in the Senate, after a Senate committee dramatically raised the amounts of money that could be contributed to Wyoming’s elected legislators and state officials.
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According to the Wyoming Secretary of State’s elections office, the Democratic and Libertarian parties have gained numbers since January 10, compared to today, February 26. At the same time, the Wyoming Republican Party and unaffiliated voters lost some voters.
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(UPDATE: The number of Obama campaign offices has expanded to four, with the addition of offices in Casper and Rock Springs.The Obama campaign will host phone banks an | | MORE... | | |
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(Courtesy of NRCS/USDA)
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The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign will open offices in Cheyenne and Casper on Wednesday, under the leadership of Wyoming State Director Jon Lipshutz, a veteran of Clinton campaigns in Iow | | MORE... | | |
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(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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(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 | | MORE... | | |
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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 | | MORE... | | |
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| 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 | | MORE... | | |
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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 | | MORE... | | |
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SHERIDAN - I am a recycling fool, but recently I’ve been pondering the petro-wisdom of schlepping a flattened tuna fish can from Sheridan to Portland.
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The Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee ran out of time Friday to discuss Senate File 46, providing for the management of coal-bed methane waters.
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A recent report by State Geologist Ronald Surdam and seven co-authors has recommended a moratorium on coal-bed methane (CBM) development in the western reaches of the Powder River Basin.
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 General Electric Energy signed a letter of intent today with the University of Wyoming, to build a $100 million advanced coal gasification | | MORE... | | |
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The debate over carbon sequestration at the 2008 Wyoming State Legislature is fairly restrained – solons say they are simply laying the uncontroversial groundwork for the day, not too far off, when energy producers nationwide will have to keep the CO2 from burning fossil fuels out of the atmosphe | | MORE... | | |
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| “We’re doing just fine,” was the pronouncement by Gov. Dave Freudenthal in a recent interview on Wyoming Public Television, concerning our revenue picture entering the 2008 legislative budget session.
It’s not the picture awash in surplus revenue we’ve had the previous three budget sessions. But everyone agrees there is money to cover the | | MORE... | | |
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 CHEYENNE -- At the behest of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, the Joint Ag Committee has approved a bill that would ban the Wyoming Game & Fish Department from holding federal grazing permits.
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How low can the federal government go with grazing fees?
Rock-bottom, according to both the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management in separate announcements last week. And according to a conservation group, it costs more to feed a hamster | | MORE... | | |
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 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 | | MORE... | | |
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Brodie -
Brodie Farquhar has been covering the West for over 30 years, working in Colorado, Arizona, Kansas, Washington, South Dakota and now Wyoming since 2000. more... | | |
Brodie -
Brodie Farquhar
has been covering the West for over 30 years, working in Colorado, Arizona, Kansas,
Washington, South Dakota and now Wyoming since 2000. He was a member of the first
Scripps Fellowship for Environmental Journalism class at the University of Michigan,
where he earned a master's degree in natural resource policy. He's also worked stints
in public relations for the Colorado School of Mines, The Nature Conservancy, Crested
Butte Mountain Resort and most briefly for Wyoming Democratic candidate Gary Trauner.
Brodie lives in Casper with wife Sharon, daughters Katie and Sarah, while son Eric
is stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan as a captain in the U.S. Air Force.
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Marguerite -
Marguerite Herman, 57, moved to Wyoming 28 years ago as the first ever person to transfer to the Cheyenne office of The Associated Press. (You were supposed to train here and move away.) more... | | | Wyoming’s No-Frills Legislature - It's Cheap, but is it a Good Thing? | | There's Money Enough | |
Marguerite -
Marguerite Herman, 57, moved to Wyoming 28 years ago as the first ever person to transfer to
the Cheyenne office of The Associated Press. (You were supposed to train here and move away.)
She grew up in an Air Force family, moving every year, and is still a little surprised to find
herself so stationary. She has a BA from (The) Colorado College, MAT from University of
Chicago and MA in journalism from the University of South Carolina.
She is wife to attorney George Powers and mother to Rosemary, Charlotte and Tom. Her abiding interests include
breastfeeding, knitting, good government, education, maternal-child health, New Mexican
chili and politics - especially politics.
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Jason -
Jason Marsden has served as executive director of Wyoming Conservation Voters and the WCV Education Fund since September 2001. He was born in a small farming town in southern Minnesota but got to Sheridan in time to finish elementary school, graduating from Sheridan High in 1990 and Harvard College, with a degree in English, in 1994. more... | | | Postbellum: Legislative War on the West Recedes | |
Jason -
Jason Marsden has served as executive director of Wyoming
Conservation Voters and the WCV Education Fund since September 2001. He was born in a small
farming town in southern Minnesota but got to Sheridan in time to finish elementary school,
graduating from Sheridan High in 1990 and Harvard College, with a degree in English, in 1994.
He served as field director for the Wyoming Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign in 1994
before starting a seven-year career as a Casper Star-Tribune reporter, covering government,
the environment, the energy industry and the state's congressional delegation.
Jason won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 8 Environmental Achievement Award
in 1998 for his coverage of the litigation and eventual cleanup of Casper's former Amoco
Refinery site, and has twice been honored by the Wyoming Wildlife Federation.
He serves on the boards of directors of the Equality State Policy Council, the Wyoming Chapter of the
Sierra Club and the Alliance for Historic Wyoming. In his remaining free time he studies
Dutch, spoils his two cats and pursues domestic tranquility with his partner of 10 years,
Guy Padgett, the two-term Casper city councilman and former mayor.
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Sam W. -
WyoFile economics writer Samuel Western has spent 25 years exploring the west. He's been a correspondent for the Economist of London since 1985, but his stories have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, E-Magazine, and High Country News. more... | | | Speculators hit Jeffrey City again | | Recycling in the land of long haulage | |
Sam W. -
WyoFile economics writer Samuel Western has spent 25 years
exploring the west. He's been a correspondent for the Economist of London since 1985, but his
stories have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, E-Magazine,
and High Country News. He's a contributing author to two books, The Next West, and Wild and
Fair (due out in March 2008). He's the author of Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River:
Wyoming's Search for its Soul, and A Random Census of Souls (due out December 2008).
Western specializes in economic history, ethical issues, and examining the human aspect of
shifting demographics.
Western lives in Sheridan with his black lab, Finn. His two children, Sally and Cyrus, are
away at school. His interests include literature of the land (from Virgil to Houseman to Heaney),
history all sorts, music, and cooking. He is a licensed Wyoming hunting guide.
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Deb D. -
Deb Donahue is a lawyer and a wildlife biologist. A member of the University of Wyoming College of Law faculty since 1992, she teaches Environmental Law, Public Lands, Indian Law, and Native American Natural Resources Law. more... | | | Some cautionary notes about CO2 sequestration | |
Deb D. -
Deb Donahue is a lawyer and a wildlife biologist. A member of the
University of Wyoming College of Law faculty since 1992, she teaches Environmental Law, Public
Lands, Indian Law, and Native American Natural Resources Law. She spent 2002 on sabbatical in
New Zealand, studying biodiversity conservation policy. Donahue served as executive director
of the Wyoming Outdoor Council in 1983-85. She has worked for federal land management agencies,
the mining industry, law firms, a federal judge, and conservation organizations, including the
National Wildlife Federation in Alaska.
She is author of The Western Range Revisited: Removing
Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity (1999). In 2000 she was honored
as the Wyoming Wildlife Federation's Natural Resources Conservationist of the Year. In 2000
she was honored as the Wyoming Wildlife Federation's Natural Resources Conservationist of the
Year.
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Geoffry -
Geoffrey O'Gara is an author and television producer based in Wyoming. His books include A Long Road Home (Houghton-Mifflin), about his travels with the 1930s WPA guides; What You See in Clear Water (Knopf), about the battle between Indians and whites over control of water in the West; and a number of travel guides. more... | | | Singing the cowboy songs, aye, yi, yi! | |
Geoffry -
Geoffrey O'Gara is an author and television producer based in
Wyoming. His books include A Long Road Home (Houghton-Mifflin), about his travels with the
1930s WPA guides; What You See in Clear Water (Knopf), about the battle between Indians and
whites over control of water in the West; and a number travel guides. He has written,
produced, and hosted programs for Wyoming Public Television since 1991. He has worked as
editor of High Country News, a bureau chief for the Casper Star-Tribune, and a freelance
writer for publications ranging from the New York Times to National Geographic Traveler.
Under pressure, O'Gara will confess that he is originally from California. He moved to Wyoming
in 1979 from Washington, D.C., and has lived in Lander since then. He has three semi-grown
children with his spouse, Berthenia Crocker.
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