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Monday, December 31, 2007

Dems host "Caucus Party" Jan. 3

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Nicole Novotny, communications director for the Laramie County Democrats, sent this reminder: On January 3, 2008, the Laramie County Democra...
Sunday, December 30, 2007

Wyoming Year in Review: 2007

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While it’s tough to predict the coming year, it’s easy to crack wise about events of the previous 365-or-so days. Esquire Magazine once cor...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Herds of Boomers choosing Wyoming

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I am pleased to report that my nefarious plan is working. When I moved to Cheyenne in 1991 to work at the Wyoming Arts Council, I pledged to...
Friday, December 28, 2007

DCCC gives boost to Trauner campaign

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Mcjoan on Daily Kos posted this on Dec. 20 about Gary Trauner’s new visibility (and viability) in the 2008 race for Wyoming’s lone U.S. Hou...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Act Blue! Contribute to Trauner!

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Blue Majority has endorsed Gary Trauner for Congress. The site bills itself this way: We may have re-taken Congress, but our work is by no ...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Wandering in the wilderness since 1968

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This comes from Jim Wallis's Dec. 19 column, "My Prayer for 2008," at Sojourners Online: 1968 was the turning point when every...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

WDP offers daily news roundup on blog

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Bill Luckett, the Wyoming Democratic Party's PIO, has been compiling a daily news roundup on the party's blog. To check it out, go t...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Wyoming's Cheney featured on Time's "Magazine Cover of the Year"

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As did so many smart-asses of my generation, I devoured each issue of National Lampoon when it hit the newsstands. All those great humor wr...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Arthur C. Clarke wants "to be remembered as a writer"

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"Sometimes I am asked how I would like to be remembered," said Arthur C. Clarke at his 90th birthday Sunday in Colombo, Sri Lanka....

Wyo. Democratic Party responds to Millin

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The Wyoming Democratic Party web site offers several links to stories about State Chair John Millin's letter to the editor last week in...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Regarding Millin's Denver Post comments

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Here are my comments to a recent letter to the editor by Wyoming Democratic Party Chair John Millin which appeared in the Denver Post . His...

Calls to impeach WYO's "favorite son"

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Democrat.com carried news on Friday about a call by Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida to impeach V.P. Dick Cheney, the quiet young man who grew ...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

A fine mishegoss you got us into

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In Wednesday’s New York Times , Maureen Dowd writes about a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute by Iraq War architect Douglas...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Bush's "hoodoo science" on global warming

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Ronald Reagan believed in voodoo economics. This president believes in voodoo science (maybe that's hoodoo science). Or maybe he just be...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Coal-powered projects snuffed in WYO

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Casper Star-Tribune energy reporter Dustin Bleizeffer reports this in today’s issue: Two coal-based power projects planned for southwest Wy...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Home from Iraq for Christmas

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Our plane was late. Good thing for the eight Air Force guys who showed up right before the regular boarding time. Some were in desert camouf...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

How do we build a Wyoming we want?

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Governor Dave Freudenthal will convene a conference called "Building the Wyoming We Want" on Jan. 10-11 at Casper College's Kr...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Even in Wyo., King Coal may lose crown

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Bill Sniffin's column in today's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle is the second of his I've read that addresses coal's precarious futu...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Journalists: Iraq more dangerous than ever

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From the Project for Excellence in Journalism: In a new PEJ survey, journalists reporting from Iraq say the conditions are the most dangerou...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Adobe Town could get stronger protection

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On Wednesday, the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council decided to back stronger protection for an area known as Adobe Town in southwest Wyo...
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