Daily news roundup, Jan. 31, 2008
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Feb 1, 2008 Posted by Bill Luckett
The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., reports that Sen. Mike Enzi’s low fundraising numbers and the Senate GOP leadership’s repeated snubs of his bid for a coveted seat on the powerful Finance Committee have fueled speculation that the senator may leave Congress, although some Republicans say he is raising just enough money to run a race:
Enzi keeps GOP guessing about November
Another day, another Republican running for U.S. House. This one’s name is Mark Gordon:
Buffalo rancher bids for house
The Laramie Boomerang makes a foray into covering presidential politics by sending a reporter to Denver to cover Barack Obama’s rally there:
Gov. Freudenthal opposes a plan sponsored by the Joint Education Committee to impose a statewide property tax to fund community colleges, saying rising home values are already making property taxes quite difficult for some to pay:
Governor opposes statewide tax for community colleges
The governor on Wednesday said it's absurd and disingenuous for the federal government to pull the plug on FutureGen, the proposed Illinois power plant that had been touted as a way to research how to generate electricity from coal without any air emissions:
Freudenthal slams feds on pullout issue
Wyoming Public Radio reports that the University of Wyoming joins a dozen other schools in the state and 16,000 groups across the country today hosting events to discuss climate change:
Climate change awareness event at 13 Wyo schools
Just days after Bridger-Teton National Forest officials announced the start of a new environmental analysis for 44,700 acres in the Wyoming Range, an energy company has proposed a plan to drill on part of the contested land. Officials with Stanley Energy of Denver have proposed 181 wells on roughly 29,000 acres west of Merna in the Horse Creek and Beaver Creek drainages:
Company proposes drilling in Wyoming Range
The Federal Reserve’s relatively dramatic one-and-a-quarter-point decrease in the federal funds rate over the past week is good news for those of us with a lot of debt, but not so much for those of us with money market accounts and CDs:
Rate cut helps some, hurts others
Of nearly 300 elk trapped this week at the Fall Creek feedground in western Wyoming, almost 10 percent were found to have brucellosis:
Twenty elk test positive for disease
The Casper Star-Tribune continues “poll week” with one of the most pressing issues of our times:
Poll: Don’t allow police to stop unbuckled drivers
The Green River Star reports that, with an ordinance calling for employees of sexually explicit businesses to be licensed by the City of Rock Springs next month, some Green River residents wonder if such an ordinance is needed locally to prevent potential employees who can't get licenses in Rock Springs from flocking to Green River:
Green River not likely to draft sexually-oriented business rules
The Cody Enterprise has these two stories on Sylvan Pass avalanche mitigation:
Park closes, reopens Sylvan Pass