Daily news roundup, March 18, 2008
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Mar 18, 2008 Posted by Bill Luckett
Spring calls, and I listen. As such, I’m taking a road trip over the next five days with my lovely wife to see where the birds go for the winter and to see where the defending National League champion Colorado Rockies go for spring training. Sadly, this means that there will be no more news roundups until next Monday. In the meantime, here’s what’s cookin’ for today.
Starting with John “100 years war” McCain, whose um, “interesting” election strategy is to continue down the Bush Administration’s path of one of this nation’s worst foreign policy debacles (justified by 935 false statements). Lame-duck Rep. Barbara Cubin hits the campaign trail, begging Republicans to support the GOP nominee-apparent, according to this Associated Press piece:
Cubin urges Republicans to support McCain
I can’t remember if I had this one in yesterday’s news roundup or not. As Gov. Freudenthal puts it, “Be it my old libertarian or populist bones, I simply cannot encourage more money from fewer people in the political process”:
Governor vetoes campaign finance bill
The Casper Star-Tribune’s series on workers’ compensation continues today with another worker’s story:
Along with this piece: Workers and attorneys allege that Wyoming's workers' compensation program seems to have an unspoken policy to put off or deny claims and medical bills until the injured person has met a nearly impossible burden of proof. But not everyone agrees the system is stacked against the worker:
Rising energy costs have been cited as one factor pushing the nation toward recession, but those same increases are keeping some state economies strong (like Wyoming’s!):
Energy, farm states avoid worst of recession
Wyoming investment officials said Monday they were keeping a close eye on volatile financial markets, but public investment funds, covering everything from retirement plans to college scholarships, would not be affected by the sudden sale of Bear Stearns:
State government watches investments
After more than a decade, new energy leases will be offered for sale next month in the controversial Jack Morrow Hills area of southwest Wyoming:
Bad news for grazers today. Elk continue to suffer paralysis in a snow-covered meadow near Rawlins, dropping to the ground, alert, but powerless to ever get up again, while roughly one out of four bison in Yellowstone National Park has been captured, sent to slaughter or otherwise killed this winter:
From Wyoming Public Radio, state healthcare leaders are considering applying to a federal program that would pay doctors to use electronic records:
Doctors consider electronic records program
The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports that Yellowstone National Park officials say preliminary counts of snowmobiles stayed steady while snow coach use rose slightly this past winter:
The Laramie Boomerang reports that after two weeks of advertising, the city of Laramie is still looking for applicants to fill the Ward 7 vacancy:
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Re: Daily news roundup, March 18, 2008
Mar 23, 2008 | Kimberly Holloway | hollowaywyo@peoplepc.comWow, no one contributes to the blog besides our media liason? Oh well. I will be happy to add a "post" as the kids are calling it these days. May I remind you that the Obama campaign has also insinuated that a Clinton White House would be "more of the same" policies as the Bush Administration? He has also continuously criticized her judgment on the war in Iraq, despite his admission of not knowing exactly what he would have done had he actually been in the Congress at the time. And he insinuated that her leadership would be "more of the same," despite his enlistment of the likes of Gov. Bill Bradley to do the dirty work for him; 'where are her tax records and schedules as First Lady?' Now I will be the first one to support Obama's "former" pastor, Reverend Wright's surmons as the honest truth, excepting the government AIDS conspiracy (I think I'll defer to the scientists on this one). He spoke truth to power as did Geraldine Ferraro and both were dismissed as cranks for their observations of American mythology. Keep on keeping on Reverend Wright! And Ms. Ferraro! Senator Clinton lost Natrona County by 7 votes. Seven! If our state had a modern primary as opposed to an antiquated "convention/caucus" I am willing to bet, she could have won. And a special Shout Out to Joan Bangen in Natrona County, who helped with the tally and also pointed out that the uncommitted voters were higher than the difference between Clinton and Obama, so he did not automatically get the extra delegate. So, we had a tie in Natrona County with 21 each and an uncommitted delegate to the state convention. In your face Obama supporters! Senator Clinton is by far the more qualified candidate and voter in Natrona County obviously believe in her. Although our Chairman has supported her opponent, I believe she should win the nomination with Obama as her VP. The best of both worlds. He may be the "Tiger Woods" of politics, but she is the "Annika Sorenson" who is challenging the boys at the top and will win. Insurgent candidate be damned, it's OUR time! Kimberly Holloway "downscale" or "downskilled" or whatever the hell David Gregory called women like me, and married mother of two boys and two girls, and wants to see the ULTIMATE change in the people's house, A Woman!