Daily news roundup, Dec. 27, 2007
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Dec 27, 2007 Posted by Bill Luckett
Let’s hear it for the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, for Cheyenne’s daily paper is featuring an Associated Press story on the presidential race today. The Iowa caucuses take place Jan. 3, and less than five weeks after that is Super Duper Tuesday, Feb. 5, when more than half the delegates will be selected:
The ninth-largest state in the country (in area) was the ninth-fastest-growing state in the country in 2007 (this info came from my hardcopy of the Casper paper, which for some reason included a sentence that I don’t see in this online version):
Wyoming Public Radio has this related story that says the number of jobs in the minerals industry decreased last month for the first time in four and a half years, but unemployment remains below 3 percent and the number of jobs overall is up:
The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports that a legislative committee is considering legislation to give the state more oversight of efforts to modify the weather to produce more rain and snowfall:
Weather-modification rules might change
The Cody Enterprise tells us that, for the second year in a row, the city has issued a record number of building permits for single-family houses:
City issues record number of single-family housing permits
A couple of opinion pieces from recent editions of the Casper Star-Tribune. First, the editorial board wants Congress to reconsider its decision to give the federal government more, and the states less, of the federal mineral royalties income:
Stealth changes in federal royalties must be fought
Also, the paper praises the state’s agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work together to prevent species from landing on the Endangered Species List:
Wyo will save time, money on endangered species
The Western Watersheds Project claims the U.S. Forest Service failed to consider all of the impacts of livestock grazing in its adoption of a management plan for the 1.1 million-acre Bighorn National Forest, according to a petition filed last week in federal court in Cheyenne. The Boise, Idaho-based group also wants the Wyoming U.S. District Court to review the Forest Service's implementation of the management plans for 32,000 acres of grazing allotments in Piney Creek, Little Piney and Willow Park”