Daily news roundup, Jan. 23, 2008
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Jan 24, 2008 Posted by Bill Luckett
Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day (or “Equality Day” in Wyoming), and here’s an AP piece on the annual march in Cheyenne:
Gov. Dave Freudenthal has recommended to the JAC that Wyoming spend the first round of money it stands to receive from the federal Abandoned Mine Lands program on research into clean coal technology and to build a road to a planned coal plant in Carbon County:
In case there was still anyone out there who thought this administration gave the slightest hoot about the environment, the Jackson Hole News & Guide reports otherwise:
Opposition reacts to losing forest planners
The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle reports that a state economist says that new employment figures suggest that a major downturn in Wyoming's economy remains unlikely even as investors nationwide remain nervous about the possibility of a recession:
Wyoming economy stable despite national turmoil
The Green River Star tells us that the citizens’ petition to hold a referendum on the city’s recently-passed and more-recently-amended smoking ban has been determined by the city attorney not to be valid:
Some people in Fremont County wonder where the money will come from to pay to implement the newly drafted regulations for managing wolves in Wyoming, once they've been removed from the federal Endangered Species:
Lander crowd wonders how Game and Fish will pay for delisting wolf
Meanwhile, some in Sweetwater County are focusing on a different aspect of this wolf delisting issue:
A legislative panel Tuesday threw its support behind a bill that would allow Wyoming courts to consider new DNA evidence in old criminal cases:
These stories examine Medicaid’s Healthy Together! program:
Program saves millions, helps Medicaid patients
Medicaid program’s successes take teamwork
Here’s the Casper paper’s report on the workers’ compensation forum from Monday:
Advocates rap workers’ compensation program
While I was away, I had some time online on Friday, and I managed to pick up these stories (ALL from the Casper Star-Tribune):
Friday:
Here’s a day-one story on the Joint Revenue Committee’s look at the governor’s property tax proposal:
Panel questions property tax plan
Construction crews have been forced off of several sections of a natural gas liquids pipeline across southern Wyoming due to wintering big game animals:
This Gary Trauner fellow would make a pretty good congressman:
Trauner will get national Dem dollars
From the state legislative beat:
Panel wants study of helium taxation
More from the Legislature:
Thursday:
I guess constituents of a lame-duck congresswoman don’t deserve to be informed quite like they do when the congresswoman is running for reelection:
Cubin mailing costs fall below average
The juvenile jury system in Wyoming is the subject of these two pieces:
Bill raises constitutional questions
A look at changes in wolf management: