Daily news roundup, Feb. 11, 2008
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Feb 11, 2008 Posted by Bill Luckett
Welcome to Day One of the 2008 Wyoming Legislature! Either late today or early tomorrow, I hope to post a blog entry on the state party Website with a more in-depth look at the Legislature. I’ll let you know when that’s up. For now, first up is this Associated Press article on Gov. Freudenthal’s State of the State Address to legislators this morning:
Freudenthal emphasizes strength of state’s position
The Casper Star-Tribune has created a Web page devoted to legislative coverage. For time’s sake, I won’t list all of the stories on it today, but they have several articles from their Sunday legislative preview on that site for your perusal. Here’s the link to their legislative news page:
Wyoming State Legislature 2008
The paper also offers this editorial advice for state lawmakers:
Some helpful dos and don’ts for our legislature
In addition, here is a story on health care bills prepared so far:
Health panel looks to Legislature
And a look at two bills that Gov. Freudenthal and Secretary of State Max Maxfield strongly support:
Big guns target business fraud bills
Wyoming Public Radio has a couple pieces on the legislative issue of property tax relief:
Wyoming Taxpayers Association opposes across-the-board property tax breaks
The Gillette News-Record previews a bill sponsored by Rep. Erin Mercer, R-Gillette:
Local representative seeks tougher DUI law
Joan Barron’s column this week looks at the U.S. House race and the Wyoming women’s legislative caucus:
The Gillette paper has a piece on U.S. House candidate Mark Gordon:
Candidate: GOP must get back to its roots
Wyoming coal might not need a FuturGen-type of project to slide its coal under California's greenhouse gas emissions standard. There are plenty of companies busily working at capturing carbon from coal, according to Rob Hurless, energy policy advisor to Gov. Dave Freudenthal:
U.S. Sen. John Barrasso has introduced a bill aimed at spurring research and development of technology to remove excess greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and permanently sequester them:
Barrasso introduces bill on climate change
Cheyenne’s newspaper, the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, unfortunately does not make its legislative preview available online. The do have this story, though, on the National Guard:
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has begun emergency elk feeding north of Jackson, in an attempt to keep potentially diseased elk away from a horse herd and a nearby cattle operation:
The Gillette News-Record’s story du jour on Campbell County’s growth explosion:
The Jackson paper reports that county planners should decide today on the future of a proposed 500-unit development in South Park:
When state government mandated that every entity operating a landfill craft a 20-year plan, no one seemed to anticipate such a high level of cooperation among communities:
Regional landfills prove popular
Among the challenges facing the Green River Police Department is a staff of 43 people working in a space designed for about 25: