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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Terri Rhodes of the Disability Management Employer Coalition about people with long COVID and the benefits of keeping them in the workforce.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Terri Rhodes of the Disability Management Employer Coalition about people with long COVID and the benefits of keeping them in the workforce.
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When Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Soulati Shepherd founded the performance collective Alphabet Rockers, the longtime friends wanted to inspire children to make social change. Hip hop seemed the perfect medium.
"When you look at hip hop, it's an invitation to be exactly who you are," said McGaw. "There's also a lot of wordplay, so it's absolutely a root of fun conversation, expression, bravado, listening, all these things that teachers are trying to create."
But Shepherd said they quickly realized something was missing. "What was driving into us is that we had to do it with — versus for — kids," he said.
So they added three of them: Kali de Jesus, Tommy Shepherd III and Maya Fleming, all now teenagers. It worked. The Oakland, California-based collective went on to earn two Grammy Award nominations in the Best Children's Music Album category for their infectiously groovy and smart songs that appeal to kids and adults alike.
Now they've dropped a new album, "The Movement," which showcases upbeat tracks about restorative justice, Juneteenth, and how to create community by having each others' backs.
"Every time they release a new video or tune, we play it for our staff, because it's so uplifting," said Christy Estrovitz, youth services manager for the San Francisco Public Library, which has hosted the Rockers many times over the past decade. "They have intergenerational appeal."
On a recent Wednesday afternoon after school, the collective was in their Oakland studio, and the teenagers were throwing verses back and forth.
"I'm just loving the riffing," said 13-year-old Rockers' member Maya. She joined the group after her dance teacher suggested she check it out. Like all three teenagers, she sings on — and wrote songs for — the new album. "Just doing whatever comes to mind that goes with the song."
Her colleague Tommy III, 14, is the son of Shepherd and has been around the group his entire life; you can see him in early Rockers videos when he was a toddler. He said he joined the group in kindergarten because it felt right.
"It wasn't like I was like automatically in the group just because he was my dad," Tommy III said.
Kali, 13, joined the band in kindergarten, too; he and Tommy III are best friends. "Dang! I've known him longer than half my life!" Kali said.
The two boys enjoy shooting hoops and goofing off outside the studio during breaks. But they have a serious side; the songs they contributed to the new album take an unflinching look at systems of oppression.
"I want to inspire kids to be whatever they want to be in the world without having to think about, 'I don't wanna be like a lawyer because I feel like that's only for white people,' or something like that," said Tommy III of his song, "The Change Up."
"My song, 'Games,' is about the same thing," said Kali. "It targets everybody. It's really showing up the systems that the government is placing on people in everyday life for what they are."
The third youth member of the group, Maya, said she originally saw herself only as a dancer, but being part of the collective helped her to develop other artistic talents. Recently, she performed her song "Our Turn," about coping with the chaos of life under COVID-19, during the Rockers' recent set at a block party thrown by the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
"The message that they utilize is one that is resonant within the museum," said Leslie Walker, who oversees social justice and scholarly programs there. "How they define hip hop as freedom of culture, freedom of expression, and using it as a means for young people to speak about social issues and social justice."
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The Rockers perform all over the country, but when they're home in the Bay Area, they keep busy with concerts and social justice-focused workshops for kids in libraries and schools.
The San Francisco Public Library's Estrovitz said the teenage members are especially inspiring to her young patrons.
"What's really cool [is] in the past few years, they've really seen their youth performers [become] ambassadors and role models," Estrovitz said. "So now I'm seeing younger children looking up, not just at Tommy and Kaitlin, but at the youth."
The collective is hoping "The Movement" will net them a third Grammy nomination this year in the Best Children's Music Album category — this time, maybe it will even be a win.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Jann Wenner, whose memoir "Like a Rolling Stone" chronicles his life as the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Jann Wenner, whose memoir "Like a Rolling Stone" chronicles his life as the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine.
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Ling Ma on Bliss Montage, her new book of short stories NPR Published September 10, 2022 at 6:04 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Flipboard NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Ling Ma about "Bliss Montage," her new collection of surrealistic short stories. Copyright 2022 NPR
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Anne Garrels left this earth wishing she could go to Ukraine to cover the war, and tell more stories of struggle, courage, and survival. Annie and I handed off the keys to each other in many war zones, including Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. When she died this week, at the age of 71, I thought of the long dinners we'd have before one of us left, filled with small gossip in bombed-out places, and long, restorative belly laughs.
But I want to use this time to hear from Annie.
She became a journalist in the 1970s, when women reporters were often assigned stories about homemaking or candidates' wives, and dismissed with little pet names by male editors and colleagues.
Annie always said she found it an advantage to be a woman journalist, "especially, ironically in societies where women are sequestered," she once wrote. "I can walk both sides of the street, talking the talk with male officials while visiting the women's inner sanctums, which are often off-limits to foreign males."
Her 2017 book Putin Country describes the taxi drivers, teachers and gangsters she met over two decades of visits to Chelyabinsk, Russia - a former Soviet military region near the Ural mountains.
She learned a lot, she wrote, in a women's banya, or bath house, where, she said, "Languorous discussions are interspersed with douses of cold water ... perhaps a beer."
"It's hard to find women who have much good to say about Russian men," she wrote. One woman told Annie, "'While many men took to their couch and bottle, we women forced ourselves to adjust. Someone had to feed the children.'"
Her 2004 book, Naked in Baghdad, tells of her weeks as the only broadcast journalist who remained in the city as U.S. forces bombed the capital.
Because Annie stayed in Baghdad, she got some shopkeepers who stayed up all night to guard against looters to tell her how the U.S. "victory" made them anxious. She wrote:
"'I've never known freedom," thirty-three-year-old Ali al-Abadi says, the tremor in his voice revealing a jumble of mixed emotions. "We want a just government, but we want a just Iraqi government,' he adds. ... They want nothing to do with anyone who has just come back from living in luxury abroad while they themselves have suffered at home."
And because Anne Garrels had shared some of those most dangerous times with them, in place after place around the globe, people would look her in the eye and talk to her.
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Jeff German was known as a thorough and fair investigative reporter, whose killing shocked his colleagues and readers. A Las Vegas-area official was charged for the crime.
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Jeff German was known as a thorough and fair investigative reporter, whose killing shocked his colleagues and readers. A Las Vegas-area official was charged for the crime.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Phil Manzanera, the lead guitarist of Roxy Music, about the influential band's 50th anniversary and upcoming world tour.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Phil Manzanera, the lead guitarist of Roxy Music, about the influential band's 50th anniversary and upcoming world tour.
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Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about Frances Tiafoe's milestone at the U.S. Open and the end of the WBNA season.
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Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about Frances Tiafoe's milestone at the U.S. Open and the end of the WBNA season.
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Former President Trump's lawyers and the Justice Department provided names for a special master to review materials seized at Mar-a-Lago. Both sides differ over how the review should proceed.
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Former President Trump's lawyers and the Justice Department provided names for a special master to review materials seized at Mar-a-Lago. Both sides differ over how the review should proceed.
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With the midterm election two months away, NPR's Scott Simon talks with political analyst and editor Amy Walter about voter sentiment and which races she's watching.
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With the midterm election two months away, NPR's Scott Simon talks with political analyst and editor Amy Walter about voter sentiment and which races she's watching.
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The political ramifications of the court filings for a special master to review government documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Also, signs the economy may work to the Democrats' advantage in November.
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The political ramifications of the court filings for a special master to review government documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Also, signs the economy may work to the Democrats' advantage in November.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Shaub about the role of executive privilege in the legal battle over government documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Shaub teaches law at the University of Kentucky.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Shaub about the role of executive privilege in the legal battle over government documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Shaub teaches law at the University of Kentucky.
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Laramie Hours:
• Open six days a week 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; closed Wednesdays
Centennial Hours:
• Monday-Friday: 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
• Monday 5-7 p.m.
Rock River Hours:
• Wednesday and Friday: Noon–4 p.m.
The events below take place at the Albany County Public Library, 310 S. 8th St. unless otherwise stated. For more information, visit the website acplwy.org, call 307-721-2580 or email info@acplwy.org.
Ongoing:
StoryWalk®: Enjoy a picture book outdoors; start with page 1 outside the front doors. Check back for a new book each week.
Book Clubs: ACPL hosts a wide variety of book clubs that meet virtually, indoors or outdoors (weather permitting). View the book clubs at bookclubs.acplwy.org.
Banned Books Reading Challenge, Aug. 15-Sept. 30: Staff is competing against patrons to see who can read the most banned books. There will be a prize drawing for those who read at least seven books.
MONDAY, SEPT. 12
Cozy Mystery Book Club, 2-3:30 p.m.: A book club for those who like their mysteries light on sex and violence, and particularly enjoy amateur sleuths.
Snack and Study, 3:45-5 p.m.: Study and fill up on some much needed brain fuel with snacks and study space provided free of charge. Open to high school and college students.
Collage Club, 5-5:30 p.m.: Create whatever your heart desires with the tools at hand. Supplies will be provided free of charge. Open to middle and high school students.
TUESDAY, SEPT, 13
Book Babies, 10-11 a.m.: Babies and caretakers are invited for a short story time in the ACPL large meeting room filled with fun, baby-approved bounces, songs, rhymes and early literacy and child development tips. Siblings are also welcome. Guardians must stay with their children during the program.
Breastfeeding Café, 10-11 a.m.: A free, drop-in, informal breastfeeding support group featuring professional lactation support. Meet in the large meeting room to engage with other mothers and pregnant women to support, protect and normalize breastfeeding.
Test Tube Tuesday, 3:45-5 p.m.: Open to elementary and middle school age children to participate in a hands-on, STEM related activity. Guardians must stay with children during the program.
THURSDAY, Sept. 15
Family Storytime, 10-10:30 a.m.: Enjoy stories and a craft in the children’s area. Open to everyone.
ACPL Outreach Delivery, 12-1 p.m.: We will deliver any item the library has to offer to your front door every month. On the first Thursday of the month, we deliver to Regency Retirement Residence, Laramie Senior Housing, Laramie Care Center and private residences.
Free Stress Relief Open House, 12:30-1:30 p.m.: Free ear acupuncture and acupressure. Treatment lasts 30-45 minutes.
YAK!, 3:45-5 p.m.: For teens ages 12-17 in the ACPL large meeting room for crafts, games and more.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 16
Author Talk with Kate Messner, 6-7 p.m.: The New York Times best-selling author known for “Over and Under” and “History Smashers” series will do a reading and Q&A with the audience.
SATURDAY, Sept. 17
Family Storytime, 10:30-11:30 a.m.: Join Ms. Robyn in the ACPL large meeting room for toddler and preschool story time.
Lego Club, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.: Work on your own or with others to create whatever you can imagine. Guardians must stay with younger children during the event. Free for children and teens.
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...DENSE FOG ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY...
* WHAT...Visibility less than one quarter of a mile in dense fog
* WHERE...Central Laramie County.
* WHEN...Until noon MDT today.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
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The Eppson Center provides lifelong support for independent living through programs that enhance senior’s quality of life. The ECS offers low-cost opportunities to improve social integration, creativity, nutrition, and physical well-being.
The Eppson Center is open from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday–Friday, offering lunches in the dining room, transportation services, wellness services and various online and in-person activities.
All day, every day:
Too Fit to Quit (use of gym equipment). If interested, must schedule an orientation with Emma.
Billiards in the pool room, lessons or games.
Free books and puzzles in the pool room.
MONDAY, SEPT. 12
9 a.m.-Noon: Chess
10:30-11:30 a.m.: Fall Prevention Exercise Class
11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Visit with Albany County Public Library in the Lobby
1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Melodees
TUESDAY, SEPT. 13
9-10 a.m.: Line Dancing
10:30-11:30 a.m.: BINGO-cize (Nutrition)
10:30-11:30 a.m.: Musical Exercise with Resistance
1-1:45 p.m.: Bible study with Rich Henderson on Zoom
1-4 p.m.: Laramie Duplicate Bridge
5-6 p.m.: Uechi Ryu Karate
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14
9 a.m.-Noon: Chess
9-10 a.m.: Line Dancing
10:30-11:30 a.m.: Fall Prevention Exercise Class
12:30-2 p.m.: Writer’s Workshop
12:30-3:30 p.m.: Technology help class, contact Emma
THURSDAY, SEPT. 15
9 a.m.-Noon: Foot care by appointment only
10:30-11:30 a.m.: Musical Exercise with Resistance
10:30-11:30 a.m.: BINGO-cize (Nutrition)
12:30-3:45 p.m.: Watercolor Class (studio session)
1-3 p.m.: Biscuits and Jam
1-3:30 p.m.: Mexican Train Dominoes
FRIDAY, SEPT. 16
8:45 a.m.: Seniors on the Go
9-10 a.m.: Line Dancing
9-10 a.m.: Veterans Coffee
9 a.m.-Noon: Chess
10:30-11:30 a.m.: Fall Prevention Exercise Class
SERVICES
Monday-Friday: Meals in the dining room 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Monday-Friday: Home delivered meals. Call 307-745-5116 ext. 20.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
‘Pinocchio’
The good news: Many of these live-action(ish) remakes of classic Disney animated titles have been useless (looking at you “Jungle Book,” “Aladdin,” “Lion King”). This one isn’t. On stunning Italian locations, Robert Zemeckis juggles live-action sequences (mostly, that’s a talk-singing, slightly-too-hyper Tom Hanks as Geppetto) with photo-realistic versions of the supporting characters and a half-animated Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy. It’s old-fashioned but fun. Thursday, Disney+
‘Cars on the Road’
In this new series of shorts, Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) travel cross-country to attend a wedding, a mission that quickly takes a backseat to excursions into parodies of “The Shining” and “Jurassic Park.” The adventures lack the heart of the feature films, not to mention the voice of the late Paul Newman. And the title song is a piece of junk. This franchise appears to have finally run out of gas. Thursday, Disney+
‘Wedding Season’
There’s a mass murder near the beginning of this eight-part series, but trust me: This is a delightful comedy, a throwback to 1980s classics like “Something Wild” and “After Hours” in which bored men find there’s nothing quite as life-affirming as being on the run. Rosa Salazar is a hoot as Katie, the unpredictable femme fatale stringing along Stefan (Gavin Drea), a lovesick innocent who may not be as hapless as he first seems. Thursday, Hulu
‘Back on the Record With Bob Costas’
When James Corden leaves “The Late, Late Show” next year, CBS may want to seriously consider giving the time slot to Costas, who showed that night owls could handle serious talk during his 1988-91 stint as host of NBC’s “Later,” a series that covered a wide range of pop culture subjects. In the meantime, we’ll have to make do with his latest effort. It only airs about four times a year and focuses solely on sports, but Costas always manages to make the conversation be more than X’s and O’s. In the Season 2 premiere, Larry Fitzgerald Jr. joins the always engaging roundtable discussion. 11 p.m. ET Friday, HBO
‘Me Time’
Mark Wahlberg doesn’t get to exhibit his comic talents much but he’s amusing as a screw-up who tempts his pal, a family man played by Kevin Hart, into a weekend of debauchery. It’s not exactly the freshest concept and the movie doesn’t make much of it (or of the great Regina Hall, as Hart’s wife). If you’re a Wahlberg fan, it’s probably worth watching him in “Ted” mode but, otherwise, you’re better off taking some me time yourself. Netflix
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Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Stefani Perdue didn’t know where she was.
It was a small difference of about 10 minutes between when Perdue, 19, answered her phone to let her mother, Michele Gutierrez, know that she was just fine after a session with friends at the skatepark, and when she called her mother back in a state of confusion.
When her mother and stepfather arrived at Brimmer Park, Perdue was wandering in the grass. They called her name, to which she turned and responded that she didn’t know what was going on.
At the hospital, doctors suspected the effects of alcohol poisoning, drug use or head trauma from that night’s session at the skate park.
Today, she’s at Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, in the early stages of learning to move the right side of her body, speak, and eat and drink, a small cap covering the spot in her skull that the neurosurgeons had to cut away.
“Before I knew it, this neurosurgeon was already there at the hospital, and they said they had hurried and got him up there,” Gutierrez said. “He was going in and removing the ‘cap’ part of the skull to relieve the pressure off of her brain to try and clean up some of the blood, because it ruptured.”
Perdue is local Cheyenne skateboarder, who learned of her rare medical condition in late July suddenly and harshly, as most with arteriovenous malformation (AVM) do. After a skateboarding session with her friends, she rose suddenly and walked off.
The cause was an AVM rupture – the hemorrhage of clumped and tangled blood vessels connecting veins and arteries in the brain, resulting in a brain bleed and, in Perdue’s case, a violent stroke. It occurred in the left side of her brain, damaging function on the right side of her body as a result.
She can lift her leg, wiggle her shoulder, but she cannot move her right arm or hand. It took some time before the right side of her throat would respond to swallowing food. They warn her parents of regularly occurring seizures due to the injury.
But she’s getting dressed on her own, showering, chewing chopped food, operating her own wheelchair, and responding with nods to her parents and sometimes even whispering – far beyond what the doctors believed what she would ever do again.
Perdue’s doctors, when speaking with Gutierrez, have already referred to her daughter as a “miracle child,” because when she was first wheeled in to emergency surgery, they predicted she had roughly 48 hours left to live.
“I was in the room with her when she was whispering, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ I just started crying,” Gutierrez said. “Everything she does now – it makes me cry. To go from a perfectly healthy child, to a child that’s probably won’t make it, to now…”
Purdue isn’t expected to be able to step on a skateboard again, but Gutierrez and Purdue’s sister-in-law, Mercedes Garcia, with the help of Cheyenne’s small skateboarding community, are doing what they can to help the situation in a way Perdue would endorse.
Medical bills get pretty high, so the skateboarding community from the surrounding Front Range region is banding together with Shred 4 Stef, a rare and well-planned skateboarding competition open to anyone who’s looking to compete or watch talented skaters throw down.
All funds raised by participants and attendees stopping by vendors during the Sept. 23 event will be donated to Perdue’s family to help alleviate financial pressure. The skateboarding community may be limited, said event organizer Mason Dieters, but it has a roots, one that Cheyenne can acknowledge in a time of need.
“Some of the locals out there that do a lot of competitions (in Fort Collins, Colorado) will be coming up to participate,” Dieters said. “I think that the community that surrounds the music scene here kind of (overshadows) the skateboarding community. There’s not a lot of skaters. But when something happens, it’s really close knit.”
For those unfamiliar with a skateboarding competition, Shred 4 Stef follows a typical format, with different categories of challenges between skaters. Within those categories, there are subcategories.
Street skateboarding entails flat ground tricks, rather than those performed in half-pipes or bowls. Categories unique to the street competition are things like “best grind” or a game of S.K.A.T.E, which follows the same rules as playing a game of H.O.R.S.E in basketball – one skater performs a trick, and the other has to successfully replicate it.
Both categories will contain competitions like “best trick” and “best line.”
Shred 4 Stef organizers enlisted some professional help from a former skate rat, better known locally as City Council member Richard Johnson.
In the ‘90s, Johnson worked as a freelance photographer and writer for Thrasher Magazine, over the decade interacting with some of the biggest names in skateboarding, like Tony Hawk, Ronny Creager, Rob Dyrdek and Bam Margera. He was a major proponent of establishing and developing Brimmer Skatepark and covering whatever skateboarding scene was present at the time on the Front Range.
Originally, Mason wanted Johnson to serve as one of the three judges in the competition.
“I was like, ‘No, I’m really a stickler for tricks,’” Johnson said, laughing. “Back foot toe-drag, front foot toe-drag, I’m a stickler. I don’t want some poor kid’s mom coming up and screaming in my face because he had a back foot toe-drag off a Tre-flip.”
Johnson will, however, announce the entire competition. He also helped the organizers plan the event, given his involvement and experience hosting many local skateboarding competitions in the past.
Cheyenne may not have a big community of skaters, but it’s a community that looks out for one another.
“It’s funny, I don’t even know the person they’re fundraising for,” Johnson said. “When they asked (me to be a part of it), I was like, ‘It’s the skate community. I’ll help out as needed.’”
Ironically, getting attention isn’t exactly Perdue’s style.
Gutierrez recently brought the proposal to Perdue, who, in her limited ability, shook her head “no.” Despite being planned by her friends and fellow skaters in the area, she’s never been interested in drawing attention to herself.
“She just shook her head,” Gutierrez said. “I said, ‘I know you don’t. You don’t like all the attention, but this will help you.’”
Perdue’s only goal is to one day again stand on her skateboard.
“She gets all embarrassed, but I said ‘eventually you’ll get back to skateboarding,’ and she just shook her head really excited,” Gutierrez said. “You will, you’re gonna have to make some adjustments.”
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
Get ready to see some familiar faces on the podium. The 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, airing at 8 p.m. ET Monday on NBC, may have invited some newcomers to the party, but viewers can expect lots of repeat winners.
Host Kenan Thompson will do his best to keep audiences entertained but viewership has decreased steadily in recent years. The reason the Television Academy moved the event to Monday is so it doesn’t have to compete with Sunday football.
However, an Emmy is still TV’s most coveted award, especially now that the Golden Globes’ image has been tarnished. And wins can still provide a boost to a show like “Abbott Elementary.” one of the few network shows to get any attention. Still, the odds aren’t in the freshman’s favor.
Here’s a breakdown of the major races:
Best Comedy
Nominees: “Abbott Elementary,” “Barry,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Hacks,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Ted Lasso,” “What We Do in the Shadows.”
Will and should win: Lots of heavyweights on this list, including two former champs. When it’s close, the odds are with last year’s winner, which happens to be “Lasso.”
Best Actor, Comedy
Nominees: Donald Glover (“Atlanta”), Bill Hader (“Barry”), Nicholas Hoult (“The Great”), Steve Martin (“Murders”), Martin Short (“Murders”), Jason Sudeikis (“Lasso”)
Will win: It’s the battle of the “SNL” stars. Expect Hader to win a third for his role as a conflicted assassin.
Should win: Short more than held his own trading insults with Martin, but he also shined in scenes where he comes to terms with being a personal and professional flop.
Best Actress, Comedy
Nominees: Rachel Brosnahan (“Maisel”), Quinta Brunson (“Abbott”), Kaley Cuoco (“The Flight Attendant”), Elle Fanning (“Great”), Issa Rae (“Insecure”), Jean Smart (“Hacks”)
Will win: Smart turns 71 on Tuesday; expect her to get an early birthday gift. If Brunson or Rae beat the odds, it’ll be only the second time a Black performer has won in this category.
Should win: If Julia-Louis Dreyfus can amass Emmys for delivering breathless zingers, then so should Fanning.
Best Drama
Nominees: “Better Call Saul,” “Euphoria,” “Ozark,” “Severance,” “Squid Game,” “Stranger Things,” “Succession,” “Yellowjackets”
Will win: “Succession” has only won once before; a second seems inevitable.
Should win: “Stranger” is too goofy for stodgy voters but it deserves love for its wide-range appeal and consistency.
Best Actor, Drama
Nominees: Jason Bateman (“Ozark”), Brian Cox (“Succession”), Lee Jung-jae (“Squid Game”), Bob Odenkirk (“Saul”), Adam Scott (“Severance”), Jeremy Strong (“Succession”)
Will win: After five noms for playing Saul Goodman, things could finally break Odenkirk’s way.
Should win: Jung-jae could become the first person of Asian descent to take this category, a great way to honor this international hit.
Best Actress, Drama
Nominees: Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”), Laura Linney (“Ozark”), Melanie Lynskey (“Yellowjackets”), Sandra Oh (“Eve”), Reese Witherspoon (“The Morning Show”), Zendaya (“Euphoria”)
Will win: Zendaya is poised to repeat but don’t be shocked if Linney or Lynskey pulls an upset.
Should win: Oh has been nominated 13 times without a win; it’s time.
Limited Series
Nominees: “Dopesick,” “The Dropout,” “Inventing Anna,” “Pam & Tommy,” “The White Lotus”
Will and should win: “Dopesick” creator Danny Strong previously won in this category for “Game Change.” He’ll do it again.
Best Actor, Limited Series
Nominees: Colin Firth (“The Staircase”), Andrew Garfield (“Under the Banner of Heaven”), Oscar Isaac (“Scenes From a Marriage”), Michael Keaton (“Dopesick”), Himesh Patel (“Station Eleven”), Sebastian Stan (“Pam & Tommy”)
Will and should win: Keaton has never won an Emmy or an Oscar. That’s about to change.
Best Actress, Limited Series
Nominees: Toni Collette (“Staircase”), Julia Garner (“Anna”), Lily James (“Pam”), Sarah Paulson (“Impeachment: American Crime Story”), Margaret Qualley (“Maid”), Amanda Seyfried (“Dropout”)
Will win: Emmy loves a reigning movie star. The closest thing to it this year is Seyfried.
Should win: James went beyond doing a Pamela Anderson impression, giving us one of the most heartbreaking performances of the year.
Competition Program
Nominees: “The Amazing Race,” “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” “Nailed It,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “Top Chef,” “The Voice”
Will win: Ever since this award was created in 2003, four of these nominees have won them every time with “RuPaul” taking it the past four times. Don’t feel like it’s being greedy when it triumphs again. “Race” has 10 of these.
Should win: It’s always nice to see a newcomer break through. Even though “Lizzo” taped part of her series in Minnesota, I’m partial to “Nailed.”
Variety Talk Show
Nominees: “Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”
Will win: This could be Oliver’s category until he decides to retire. He’s won the past six times.
Should win: Meyers’ team deserves recognition. The amount of comedy material they churn out on a nightly basis is extraordinary.
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Jon Bernthal as Julian Kaye, the role originated in the 1980 film version of “American Gigolo.” The new TV series is both somehow a prequel and sequel, if you don’t scrutinize the timeline too carefully. (Justin Lubin/Showtime/TNS)
Early in the first episode of Showtime’s “American Gigolo,” we get a montage: Tanned abs, vintage sports car, a man’s arm around a woman’s waist, his sport coat flung over one shoulder. And sex. Lots of sex. It’s all set to Debbie Harry singing “Call Me,” the song written for and made famous by the original “American Gigolo,” Paul Schrader’s skuzzy Los Angeles crime story overlaid with a glossy sheen from 1980, starring a wardrobe by Giorgio Armani and the guy wearing it: A swaggering Richard Gere.
That montage (which the opening credits mirror in subsequent episodes) is a nod to the mood and visual aesthetics of the original. And yet it all feels so very expected. Boring, even.
But perhaps you’re willing to overlook that because Jon Bernthal is here – in the Gere role – to pique your interest. I have some bad news about that as well. Bernthal isn’t your typical leading man, which has been key to his career-long appeal. His looks suggest not a movie star but a guy from the neighborhood, with a nose that has seen a few fights. There’s a sense of danger – and humor – in the way he carries himself in most roles. Not here.
The character now has a back story: Growing up poor in the California desert with a single mom, the mom eventually sells him off to a sex trafficker. That would be Madame Olga, whose elegant facade and swanky beachfront property (and insistence on keeping everything high-toned by speaking in French) cannot mask her nasty, brutal, exploitative operation. The boy, Johnny, is renamed Julian and that becomes his double identity: Johnny’s the real person inside, Julian is the role he plays when he’s out in the world among people he doesn’t entirely trust. Which is almost everyone.
In the three episodes provided to critics, the timeline moves forward and backward, over and over, between Julian’s past and his present, in a strained attempt to bring a sense of depth to what is ultimately a shallow story. Framed for the gruesome murder of a young woman, he’s been in prison for 15 years. And then one day, he’s abruptly informed by a hardened and dogged cop (Rosie O’Donnell) that whoops, it was a wrongful conviction: You’re a free man.
This premise makes the series somehow both a prequel (the flashbacks to his childhood) and a quasi-sequel (the original ended with him in prison) if you don’t scrutinize the nonsensical timeline too carefully.
Unexpectedly sprung from his prison sentence and adrift in L.A., Julian has few ideas about what to do next, except to find out who set him up – and why. There’s a woman from years back with whom he has a genuine connection, but unlike the Lauren Hutton role in the film (cool and assured – and taken off guard by this man’s allure) the character, as played by Gretchen Mol, has been flattened and re-imagined as a frantic woman trapped in an ominous marriage.
Comparisons are inevitable. I don’t care much for the original movie either, but I appreciate its memorably stylish, gorgeous-ugly cachet. And Gere embodied something elusive, or what Schrader has called a “reptile mysteriousness.” In other roles, Bernthal has displayed his own brand of magnetism and sex appeal, but that’s absent here. Who knows if this is intentional or not. Bernthal’s performance is just there – he’s not vulnerable or cocky enough to pull off either side of this enigmatic character.
“Julian was not as gay as he would be today. At the time, we thought we were being brave, promoting this androgynous male entitlement,” Schrader has said of his film. “Now I look back, and we were being cowardly. It should’ve been much more gay.” The show, however – at least what I’ve seen so far – doesn’t deviate from the movie’s approach. Misogyny, though? Plenty of it.
Behind the scenes on the series, all has not been well. Showrunner David Hollander was let go midway through filming “following an investigation into allegations of misconduct” according to reports.
In his own time, Bernthal is also the host of a podcast. He recently featured a sympathetic conversation with actor Shia LaBeouf in what some might interpret as the latter’s attempt at image rehabilitation ahead of a lawsuit set to go to court in the spring, in which LaBeouf’s ex-girlfriend alleges he inflicted emotional distress and assaulted her.
There’s a dark irony here. “American Gigolo” is largely about abuse. Depending on how you look at it, the show’s star is either earnestly trying to understand why terrible and destructive behaviors happen, or giving a friend a softball interview that centers on LaBeouf’s own pain and troubles over those who he allegedly harmed.
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Detective Daniel Craig returns 'Knives Out 2' teaser trailer
Like knives, the highly anticipated first trailer for "Glass Onion" is finally out.
Netflix released a teaser Thursday for the sequel to writer-director Rian Johnson's Oscar-nominated whodunit "Knives Out." The star-studded ensemble of "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" includes Edward Norton, Madelyn Cline, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Kate Hudson and Janelle Monae.
The only returning cast member, Daniel Craig, has reprised his beloved role as detective Benoit Blanc, who expertly solved the first "Knives Out" mystery with a key assist from Ana de Armas' Marta Cabrera. In the follow-up, Blanc travels to Greece to investigate a whole new band of suspects.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Craig's melodramatic sleuth says with his signature Southern drawl in the preview. "You expected a mystery. You expected a puzzle. But for one person on this island, this is not a game."
The remainder of the sneak peek is a suspenseful flurry of blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments: Craig sipping a drink by the pool, Cline arming herself with a sharp implement, Henwick screaming bloody murder, Hahn shouting 'Holy s—,' Hudson strutting in an orange bikini, Bautista firing a shot into the air and Monae dropping a glass that inevitably shatters on the floor.
"Lock the doors. Stay in your rooms," Craig's Blanc warns the vacationers. "Everyone is in danger."
During the 2019 holiday season, "Knives Out" opened strong at the domestic box office and drew rave reviews from critics for standout performances and a clever plot imbued with sharp social commentary. The next year, the Agatha Christie-esque drama was nominated for original screenplay at the Academy Awards.
In addition to Craig and De Armas, the flagship "Knives Out" film starred Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and the late Christopher Plummer in one of his final roles.
"The basic idea was kind of twofold — or threefold, I guess — a whodunit that turns into a Hitchcock thriller that turns back into a whodunit at the end. That combined with — and spoiler alert — doing the 'Columbo' thing of tipping the 'murderer' early but setting it up in such a way where your sympathies are genuinely with that person," Johnson told the Los Angeles Times in 2019.
"That creates an interesting dynamic where the mechanics of the murder mystery itself become the bad guy of the movie. The fact that the murderer gets caught is the thing that you're dreading."
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Queen Latifah fights Nazis in “End of the Road,” and not even that bit of ridiculousness can save this inept thriller from being one of the year’s most hapless films.
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Queen Latifah fights Nazis in “End of the Road,” and not even that bit of ridiculousness can save this inept thriller from being one of the year’s most hapless films.
Latifah plays Brenda, a mother moving her family from Los Angeles to Houston after the death of her husband. She’s joined by her two children, Cam and Kelly (Shaun Dixon and Mychala Lee) as well as her well meaning screw-up of a little brother, Reggie (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges).
What should be an easy journey – they’ve allowed themselves three days for the 1,500 mile trek – turns into anything but as Brenda and her family are witnesses to a murder and wind up on a wild goose chase with a bag of stolen cash in their possession. And director Millicent Shelton can never quite figure out what kind of movie she’s making, and it ends up as uncooked as meat on a grill that no one bothered to light.
Beau Bridges plays a law official hot on the trail of the mysterious Mr. Cross, a ruthless drug cartel kingpin whose mere name sends shivers up the spines of even the most hardened gangsters. Cross and his goons talk on the phone using voice disguisers that sound like cheap-o devices copped from Spirit Halloween; it’s hard to be scared of someone that sounds like a teenager making a prank call.
After Reggie helps himself to a bag of cash from a crime scene, Brenda just wants to give it back, a transaction that screenwriters Christopher J. Moore and David Loughery hilariously overcomplicate. Twists that are so telegraphed they might as well come with glowing neon signs, nighttime scenes are lit to look like fluorescent carnivals, and Latifah is forced into some truly cringeworthy dialogue (her character is a nurse, so at one point she serves up the official medical declaration, “I know what a dead dude is”).
And yes, in what is one of the least convincing fight sequences this side of “The Equalizer,” Latifah’s character goes toe to toe with a gang of Nazis. It would be the moment that “End of the Road” officially goes off the rails, but that implies it was ever on them to begin with.
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Cheyenne and Laramie County
La Noche de Celebracion
– Sept. 9, 7 p.m. $10. La Noche de Celebración will highlight Hispanic heritage as a kick-off to the weekend-long Cheyenne Hispanic Festival. Cheyenne Civic Center, 2101 O’Neil Ave. 307-637-6363
Comedy Night at The Metropolitan
– Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. $20. Laughter is good for the soul. Get your giggles on at this 90-minute comedy show featuring two awesome comedians. The Metropolitan Downtown, 1701 Carey Ave. 307-432-0022
Cheyenne Farmers Market
– Sept. 10, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
Festival of the Fountain
– Sept. 10, 10-11 a.m. The Cheyenne Historic Preservation Board is celebrating completion of the Airport Fountain restoration project. Airport Fountain, Eighth and Warren avenues. 307-637-6307
Wyoming State Museum Family Day
– Sept. 10, 10 a.m-2 p.m. This month’s theme is “Buzzing Bees.” This Family Day is dedicated to our favorite little pollinators. Learn how bees take nectar and make it into honey, explore the world of beekeeping and find out how to make your garden more pollinator friendly. Wyoming State Museum, 2301 Central Ave. 307-777-7022
Musical Story Time and Instrument Petting Zoo
– Sept. 10, 11 a.m. The CSO Brass Quintet will perform with master storyteller Aaron Sommers. Activities presented in partnership with Delta Kappa Gamma’s Upsilon Chapter and WyoMusic. Paul Smith Children’s Village, Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-778-8561
Hispanic Festival
– Sept. 10, 12-8 p.m. Free. Celebrate Hispanic culture with educational exhibits, games, mariachis, art exhibits, live music, food and craft vendors, piñatas and other kid-friendly activities, food, beer, 50/50 raffle, drawings and a car show. Cheyenne Depot Plaza, 1 Depot Square. 307-275-425
Unbarred Tour of the High Plains Arboretum
– Sept. 10, 1-4 p.m. $25. The Alliance for Historic Wyoming and the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens will host a behind-the-scenes tour of the High Plains Arboretum. See inside the historic head house, greenhouse and lath house, then ride the trolley through the station. High Plains Arboretum at the High Plains Grassland Research Station, 8301 Hildreth Road. 307-637-6349.
Silent Movie Night at the Atlas
– Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. $10. Cheyenne Little Theater Players will host a screening of the silent film “Nosferatu,” with live musical accompaniment by Dave Neimann. Historic Atlas Theatre, 211 W. Lincolnway. 307-638-6543
Poetry Open Mic @ The Hawthorn Tree
– Sept. 11, 1-3 p.m. Free. Each poet gets five minutes to read, but occasionally go two rounds, so bring extra poems. Arrive five minutes early to sign up. The Hawthorn Tree, 112 E. 17th St. 307-369-4446
Guided Play
– Sept. 12, 10-11:45 a.m. The library invites families to come play. Each week, they will feature a different playscape in the Early Literacy Center, along with suggestions of how to engage your child in guided play. This week’s theme is “Block Party.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Cowgirls of the West Luncheon
– Sept. 12, 11:30 a.m. Reserve tickets by Sept. 9. $25. Guest speaker Eva Sue will portray a true story of two New York society girls graduated from Smith College, finding themselves as teachers “roughing it” in the West. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. Call 307-632-2814 for reservations.
Material + Metaphor
– Sept. 12-Oct. 12, library hours. Leah Hardy, the metalsmithing professor at the University of Wyoming, tells intricate sculptural stories using metaphor and a vast array of materials. Enjoy this fascinating exhibit displayed on the first floor in the entrance gallery and elevator display cases. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Start Your Own Business
– Sept. 13, 6-7 p.m. Learn the fundamentals of starting a business in Wyoming. Experts will cover business models and plans, the feasibility of business ideas, legal structure and regulations and the reality of start-up financing. RSVP for this event at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
We Drink and We Know Things
– Sept. 13, 6 p.m. Monthly themed trivia night on the second Tuesday of each month. The theme is kept secret, so gather your team, drink some beers and show us what you know! Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co., 1509 Pioneer Ave. 307-514-5314
Senior Health Fair
– Sept. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. An event featuring food and prizes where people can learn more about local senior health care resources. Primrose Retirement Community, 1530 Dorothy Lane. 307-634-1530
Open Mic Night at Blue Raven
– Sept. 14, 7-10 p.m. A musical open mic night, presented in collaboration with Wyoming Wave Studios. Blue Raven Brewery, 209 E. 18th St. 307-369-1978
Arts in the Parks
– Sept. 15-18, park hours. The Wyoming Arts Council partners with Wyoming State Parks to hold various arts activities in parks across the state. Plein Air in the Parks is an annual event that pairs talented artists with beautiful locations. This painting competition is open to artists of all ages and offers cash awards. Curt Gowdy State Park, 1264 Granite Springs Road. 307-777-7742
Open Jam Night
– Sept. 15, 7 p.m. Free. The Lincoln Theatre is hosting its monthly Open Jam Night. Musicians are encouraged to bring their guitar, bass, etc., and come jam with other local musicians. Backline provided. A full bar will be available for those who just want to come and watch. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
2022 Cheyenne Greek Festival
– Sept. 16-17. A yearly celebration of Greek culture. Cheyenne Frontier Days Exhibit Hall, Eighth Street and Dey Avenue. 307-635-5929
Positive Aging
– Sept. 16, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Join the library for a screening of “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003, rated PG-13), a romantic comedy about an aging womanizer who finds himself falling for the mother of his young girlfriend during a trip to the Hamptons. Starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. There will be a free discussion afterward. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
CFD Hall of Fame Introduction
– Sept. 16, 5 p.m. The Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame showcases individuals, livestock and organizations whose distinctive contributions to Cheyenne Frontier Days have helped grow a dream into the “Daddy of ‘em All.” CFD Headquarters, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-778-7290
Night with the Brewer
– Sept. 16, 6-9 p.m. $40. Black Tooth Brewing Cheyenne is hosting its second Night with the Brewer event. Get to know Head Brewer Thomas Batson with an evening beer tasting, a brewery tour, a Q&A and catered dinner. Black Tooth Brewing Co., 520 W. 19th St. 307-514-0362
Cheyenne Farmers Market
– Sept. 17, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
Wyoming Hereford Ranch Birding Hike
– Sept. 17, 8 a.m. The Cheyenne High Plains Audubon Society is hosting a free two-mile birding hike. Wyoming Hereford Ranch, 1101 Hereford Ranch Road. 307-343-2024
Shred 4 Stef Skateboard Competition
– Sept. 17, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $5. A skateboard competition, with all profits being donated to local skateboarder Stefani Perdue. In late July, she underwent a CT scan that revealed a significant brain bleed, and after surgery spent several weeks on life support. Now in recovery, the goal is to raised $6,000 to help ease the financial burden for Perdue and her family. Brimmer Park, 3056 Windmill Road. masonhdieters307@gmail.com
Heirlooms and Blooms Harvest Market
– Sept. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Join the Botanic Gardens for an expanded indoor/outdoor market. This one-day event will have a variety of regionally made gifts from artists and craftsmen selling home décor, woodworking, art and jewelry, dog treats, baked good, apparel, pottery and more. There will also be food vendors. Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6458
Dogtoberfest
– Sept. 17, 1-6 p.m. A miniature street festival in partnership with the Cheyenne Animal Shelter. There will be beer, costume contests (for pets and people), food trucks and the annual “Running of the Wieners,” aka wiener dog races. Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co., 1509 Pioneer Ave. 307-514-5314
64th Annual Symphony Gala
– Sept. 17, 5 p.m. An evening to kick off the new season. The event includes a cocktail hour, three-course gourmet meal, live entertainment, and silent and live auctions. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W Lincolnway. 307-778-8561
Cheyenne Greenway Cleanup
– Sept. 18, 10 a.m.-noon. Cheyenne Audubon is hosting a Greenway cleanup event. Trash bags and lightweight gloves will be provided. Cleanup will begin in the parking lot near Van Buren Avenue and Laramie Street. Contact Barb Gorges for more information: bgorges4@msn.com
Pinot & Picasso
– Sept. 18, 1-4 p.m. $40. Jam out, drink and eat as you paint. The Louise Event Venue, 110 E. 17th St. 307-220-1474
Guided Play
– Sept. 19, 10-11:45 a.m. The library invites families to come play. Each week, they will feature a different playscape in the Early Literacy Center, along with suggestions of how to engage your child in guided play. This week’s theme is “Big Art.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Snapshots from Wyoming’s Wildernesses with Kirk Miller
– Sept. 20, 7 p.m. Kirk Miller will share photos and stories from his pack trip into Wyoming’s southern Wind River Range, followed by his thoughts for capturing interesting photographs with a cellphone. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. bgorges4@msn.com
Guitar Workshop with Pierre Bensusan
– Sept. 20. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Internationally renowned guitarist Pierre Bensusan will offer a workshop for adult and teen guitar players at any level. While he plays and composes in DADGAD tuning, the workshop will be open to all guitarists, whatever tuning they use. Presented in partnership with Cheyenne Guitar Society. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Guitar Concert with Pierre Bensusan
– Sept. 20, 7-9:15 p.m. French-Algerian acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan has taken his unique sound to all corners of the globe. He is the winner of the Independent Music Award for his triple live album, Encore and the Rose d’Or at the Montreux Festival, for his debut album at age 17 and has been voted Best World Music Guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine Reader’s Poll. Presented in partnership with Cheyenne Guitar Society. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Joe Gato @ Cheyenne Civic Center
– Sept. 22, 7 p.m. Joe Gatto, a stand-up comedian, actor, producer and co-star for the hit TV show “Impractical Jokers,” will give a performance. Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W. 20th St. 307-637-6200
Dueling Pianos at The Metropolitan
– Sept. 23, 7:30-11 p.m. $20. Come laugh and sing along in an evening of musical entertainment directed by your requests. The Metropolitan Downtown, 1701 Carey Ave. 307-432-0022
Brandt Tobler @ The Lincoln
– Sept. 23, 8-11 p.m. $35. Stand-up comedian Brandt Tobler is coming home to Cheyenne for a night of comedy. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
CLTP presents “Little Shop of Horrors”
– Sept. 23-25, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, Oct. 7-9; dinner theater Sept. 24, Oct. 1, 8. Cheyenne Little Theatre Players are putting on a rendition of the Broadway and big-screen hit musical. Historic Atlas Theatre, 211 W. Lincolnway. 307-638-6543
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{p class=”p2”}– Sept. 24, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
Cheyenne Community Appreciation Day
– Sept. 24, 8-9 a.m.; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; 7-9 p.m. The Downtown Development Authority and Visit Cheyenne are showing their appreciation for the community with a day of family friendly events. There will be a rock wall, bouncy house, 20-foot slide, free face painting, free balloon animals, street magic, $5 pony rides (at the 15th Street Stables) and other activities with local law enforcement and military organizations. There will also be Oktoberfest vendors and activities happening at the Depot Plaza, including the Downtown Mini-Golf Tournament. Various locations, downtown Cheyenne. 307-772-7266
Downtown Putt Putt Tournament
– Sept. 24, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. $100 per person. A downtown mini golf tournament that raises money toward the
6th Annual “End of the Trail” Kite Festival
– Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Watch semi-pro kite fliers from the American Kitefliers Association and the Rocky Mountain Kite Association. There will be Large Kites, Stunt Kites, Sport Kites and Single Line Kite Flying. Everyone is encouraged to bring their own kites to fly. Free kites will be given to the first 100 kids age 14 and under. Pine Bluffs Recreation Center, 1200 S. Beech Ave., Pine Bluffs. 307-245-3301
Downtown Cheyenne Oktoberfest
– Sept. 24, noon-8 p.m. This year’s event is taking on a “Hop-toberfest” theme with the combination of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s traditionally hop-forward offerings alongside Prost Brewing’s traditional Germanic lager biers, so no doubt the event will have something for the purists and the modern craft lovers alike. Cheyenne Depot Plaza, 1 Depot Plaza. kdoyle@bisonbev.com
Library Harvest Festival
– Sept. 24, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Children and families. Come join us for our second annual Harvest Festival. There will be fall-inspired games, crafts and treats for the whole family to enjoy. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Black Tooth’s 3rd Annual Oktoberfest
– Sept. 24, noon-11 p.m. A block party with live music, food, games and beer specials. Black Tooth Brewing Co., 520 W. 19th St. 307-514-0362
Guided Play
– Sept. 26, 10-11:45 a.m. The library invites families to come play. Each week they will feature a different playscape in the Early Literacy Center, along with suggestions of how to engage your child in guided play. This week’s theme is “Parachute Play.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Blind Date with a Book: Banned Books Edition
– Sept. 26-Oct. 1, library hours. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. During this week, we will be highlighting historically banned and challenged books. Try out our Blind Date with a Book! Fill out the “rate your date” card and be entered into a drawing for a Barnes & Noble gift card. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main Street. 307-547-2249
High Plains Arboretum with Local Horticulturist Jessica Fries
– Sept. 27, 6-8 p.m. Did you know that Cheyenne was home to one of America’s most important research centers for trees and plants? Hear about this and more cool facts as local author and Children’s Village horticulturist Jessica Friis discusses her book “High Plains Arboretum,” written in collaboration with Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Book Discussion Group
– Sept. 29, 6–7:30 p.m. Transition from summer to fall and join us for a September book group discussion of “Meet Me at the Museum” by Anne Youngson. This novel’s story unfolds through a series of letters written between two strangers who’ve bonded over their mutual obsession with the life and death of Tollund Man, one of Denmark’s famous bog bodies. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Nightmare on 17th Street Haunted House
– Sept. 30-Oct. 31, Fridays and Saturdays from 7-11 p.m. $15 at the door, $10 if in costume. Age 8 and older. The Knights of Pythias annual Nightmare on 17th Street haunted house returns. Halloween will feature a “Blackout Night,” where guests must navigate through the dark with glow sticks. Knights of Pythias Lodge, 312-1/2 W. 17th St. 307-214-0322
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{p class=”p2”}– Oct. 1, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
Wyoming State Museum Family Day
– Oct. 1, 10 a.m-2 p.m. This month’s theme is “Creepy Critters.” Learn all about the weird and creepy animals that live among us. The museum will have something for everyone in the family, from crafts and games to educational talks from museum staff. Plus, you’ll see live insects from the CSU Bug Zoo, meet a University of Wyoming entomologist, and more. Wyoming State Museum, 2301 Central Ave. 307-777-7022
A Sissy in Wyoming
– Oct. 2, 3-5 p.m. Free, reservation required. Inspired by the remarkable life story of Wyoming educator, peace activist and crossdresser Larry “Sissy” Goodwin, a Playwright’s Reading of “A Sissy in Wyoming” will be presented by dramatist and historian Gregory Hinton. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Cheyenne First Friday Artwalk
– Oct. 7, 5 p.m. Free. The Cheyenne Artwalk is a monthly event that highlights a local gallery or studio on the first Friday of every month. This month, look for the mobile ArtHaus unit parked out front of Art @ The Hynds, along with food trucks and live music. Cheyenne Artist Guild, 1701 Morrie Ave. 307-632-2263
All City Children’s Chorus Concert
– Oct. 8, 4 p.m. Free. The opening performance of All City’s 47th season, titled “Air.” Laramie County School District 1 Administration Building Auditorium, 2810 House Ave. 307-771-2275\
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{p class=”p2”}– Oct. 8, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
11th Sankofa Heritage MAAFA Education Conference
– Oct. 8, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Frederick Douglass Dixon, head of the Black Studies Department at the University of Wyoming, reappearing by popular demand, will speak on “Deconstructing the Negro Question in the Age of Rising American Nationalism,” as well as other presenters: Nate Breen: Charter School Premise-Hillsdale College’s Academies; James Peebles: “Notorious Negrophobic Books That Escaped Public Banning.” Laramie County Community College, Union Pacific Room, 1400 East College Drive. 307-635-7094
The Great Cheyenne Bed Race
– Oct. 8, 1-6 p.m. Get yer racin’ beds ready, Wyomingites. The Great Cheyenne Bed Race raises money for a local Wyoming charity through sponsors, raffle prizes and race entry fees. Teams of five racers build a bed on wheels and drag-race to win. Email or message the Blue Raven team to register. Blue Raven Brewery, 209 E. 18th St. 307-369-1978
The Citizen & The Constitution
– Oct. 10, 7 p.m. Free. Constitutional expert David Adler will lead a lively conversation about the Constitution, the Founders’ goals in creating a constitutional republic and the importance of rule of law. The event will include questions and input from local high school students participating in the “We the People” program. The audiences will also have an opportunity to take part in a Q&A session with Adler during the event. Laramie County Community College, 1400 E. College Drive. 307-721-9243
Open Jam Night
– Oct. 13, 7 p.m. Free. The Lincoln Theatre is hosting its monthly Open Jam Night. Musicians are encouraged to bring their guitar, bass, etc., and come jam with other local musicians. Backline provided. A full bar will be available for those who just want to come and watch. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
K. Flay @ The Lincoln
– Oct. 15, 8 p.m. The two-time Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and rapper makes her return to Cheyenne after performing at Edge Fest 2021. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Lunch and Learn
– Oct. 21, noon. Join Maestro William Intriligator and guest pianist Sara Buechner for an informal and entertaining discussion including musical insights about the upcoming concert. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-778-8561
CSO presents “Arabian Nights”
– Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. $10-$50. The Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra opens its 2022-23 season with “Arabian Nights.” The audience will experience Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Plus, pianist Sara Buechner will performs Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W. 20th St. 307-778-8561
Ace Hood @ The Lincoln
– Oct. 22, 8 p.m. The rapper that brought the world “Bugatti” and “Hustle” will give a performance. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Tom Segura @ the Civic Center
– Oct. 27, 7 p.m. One of the biggest names in stand-up comedy. Segura has four Netflix specials under his belt – “Ball Hog” (2020), “Disgraceful” (2018), “Mostly Stories” (2016) and “Completely Normal” (2014). Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W. 20th St. 307-637-6200
Wheel of Fortune Live!
– Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. Starting at $35. A live recreation of the hit game show. Take a spin to solve the puzzles in person. Guests can try out to go on stage and play at every show. Audience members will be randomly selected to win cash and prizes. This is not a broadcast event. Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W. 20th St. 307-637-6200
Ongoing
Cheyenne Artists Guild Art Show
– Through Sept. 30, Wednesday through Friday, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. The theme of this month’s art show is “Sapphire,” which includes local artwork with a blue color scheme. Cheyenne Artists Guild, 1701 Morrie Ave. 307-632-2263
Laramie and Greater Wyoming
LBar7 Benefit & Concert
– Sept. 17, 8:30 p.m.; doors at 7:30 p.m. $10. Kenny Feidler and The Cowboy Killers will be hitting the Cowboy Saloon and Dance Hall for a ticketed show with Tris Munsick, Jordan Smith and Kaden Madden, with all proceeds being donated at the end of the night. Cowboy Saloon & Dance Hall, 108 S. Second St. cowboysaloon@gmail.com
Fort Collins, Colorado
Three Dog Night @ Lincoln Center
– Sept. 12, 6 p.m. Live at The Gardens Summer Concert Series. Stewart Copeland’s “Police Deranged for Orchestra” is a high-energy orchestral evening celebrating the work of former member of “The Police,” Stewart Copeland, and focuses on the rise of his career in music that has spanned over four decades. The Gardens on Spring Creek, 2145 Centre Ave. 970-221-6730
Marc Maron @ Lincoln Center
– Sept. 23, 7 p.m. Marc Maron has four hit stand-up comedy specials, including “More Later” (2015), “Thinky Pain” (2013), “Marc Maron: Too Real” (2017) and 2020’s “End Times Fun,” which was nominated for a 2021 Critics’ Choice Award. The Lincoln Center Performance Hall, 417 W. Magnolia St. 970-221-6730
20th ArtWear Fashion Show
– Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m. The ArtWear Biennial is dedicated to highlighting wearable art. ArtWear’s goal is to present innovative and wearable artwork of the highest quality and provide a forum to explore unique materials and techniques. This event is a fundraiser for The Lincoln Center’s Visual Arts Program. The Lincoln Center Performance Hall, 417 W. Magnolia St. 970-221-6730
Parsons Dance
– Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. $33. Known for its energized, athletic and joyous style, Parsons Dance is internationally renowned for creating and performing contemporary American dance. The Lincoln Center Performance Hall, 417 W. Magnolia St. 970-221-6730
A Culture Preserved (in the Black Experience) Art Show
– Through Oct. 16, museum hours. $5. This exhibit addresses how Black culture and its heritage reflect and shape values, beliefs and aspirations, which define a people’s identity. By bringing together the past and the present, the old meets the new in the Black artistic world. Museum of Art Fort Collins, 201 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, Colorado. 970-482-2787
Greeley, Colorado
”Weird Al” Yankovic @ Union Colony Civic Center
– Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. $52-$89. For only second time in his career, the legendary satirist and five-time Grammy winner will host an intimate evening of non-parody music. Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave., Greeley, Colorado. 970-356-5000
David Brighton’s Space Oddity @ Union Colony Civic Center
– Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m. $28-$53. A journey through David Bowie’s storied career by Brighton and the Space Oddity Band. Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave., Greeley, Colorado. 970-356-5000
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder Fall Festival
– Sept. 16-18, various times. One of the most highly anticipated events in Boulder turns the Pearl Street Ball into a local arts festival, featuring music, food and beer. Downtown Boulder, Pearl Street Mall and 14th Street. 303-449-3774
Melvins @ Fox Theater
– Sept. 16, 8 p.m; doors at 7 p.m. $25-$27.50. The Melvins are one of biggest names to rise out of the Seattle grunge scene. Catch their slow, sludge-metal style in this performance. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, Colorado. 303-447-0095
Marcus Mumford @ Fox Theater
– Sept. 19, 8 p.m. $45-$50. On his first ever solo tour, the founder and lead singer of folk band Mumford and Sons will perform with special guest Danielle Ponder. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, Colorado. 303-447-0095
Anthony Doerr @ Boulder Theater
– Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m.; doors at 5:30 p.m. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “All the Light We Cannot See,” and most recently “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” will hold a book reading. Boulder Theater, 2042 14th St., Boulder, Colorado. 303-786-7030
Street Wise Mural Festival
– Sept 29-Oct. 2. A festival where 39 artists are painting large-scale murals all over town in the span of just a few days. Downtown Boulder, various locations. hello@streetwisearts.org
black midi @ Fox Theatre
– Oct. 3, 8 p.m. $25-$30. Painfully unique experimental/math-rock outfit from London, black midi, is touring their most recent album “Hellfire,” with support from rapper Quelle Chris. Fox Theater, 1135 13th Street, Boulder, Colorado. 303-447-0095
Viagra Boys and shame @ Fox Theatre
– Oct. 7, 8:30 p.m.; doors at 7:30 p.m. $22-$25. Don’t let the name fool you, Viagra Boys are a sextet of classically trained jazz musicians playing off-kilter post-punk rock. shame are on the forefront of the newest wave of post-punk out of London England. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, Colorado. 303-447-0095
Denver
Westword Music Showcase
– Sept. 9-10, 12:15 p.m. A mini festival held in the RiNo district that features a lineup of The Flaming Lips, Saint Motel, Wet Leg, KennyHoopla, Cannons, The Main Squeeze and more across 10 venues. Mission Ballroom Outdoors, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
Meow Wolf Convergiversary
– Sept. 17, 10 a.m.; 21+ night party at 9 p.m. Day party $15, night party $99. A block party celebrating the one year anniversary of Meow Wolf. Meow Wolf Denver, 1338 1st Street, Denver. 866-636-9969
CHVRCHES @ Mission Ballroom
– Sept. 20, 8 p.m. A performance by Scottish indie-pop group CHVRCHES. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
Cigarettes After Sex @ The Ogden
– Sept. 20, 8 p.m. An American dream-pop band known for their etherial instrumentation. Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave, Denver. 303-832-1874
Arlo Parks @ Mission Ballroom
– Sept. 23, 8 p.m. Luscious, expressive vignettes pepper the poetic lyrics of this artist’s indie pop songs. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
Colorado Tattoo Convention & Expo
– Sept. 30-Oct. 1, noon-10 p.m.; Oct. 2, noon-7 p.m. A tattoo festival, fashion show and car show. National Western Expo Hall, 4655 Humboldt Street, Denver. 720-481-5690
Amyl and The Sniffers @ The Ogden
– Oct. 1, 8 p.m. This Melbourne, Australia punk-rock outfit is quickly gaining critical acclaim for their relentless energy and lovable angst. Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. 303-832-1874
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SATURDAY
22nd annual Wyoming Buddy Walk: 9 a.m. to noon, Washington Park band shell.
Wyoming Archaeology Fair: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison and Historic Site. Free and open to the public, the fair will feature activities and educational booths, and the Wind River Dancers will perform traditional indigenous dance styles from 1-2 p.m.
Tailgate party for Wesley Foundation’s 100th anniversary: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tailgate Alley located in the stadium lot next to the indoor practice facility. The student ministry is marking 100 years at the University of Wyoming and First United Methodist. Free lunch picnic.
Summer Market Day at the fairgrounds: 3-6 p.m., beef barn.
SUNDAY
Special worship service for Wesley Foundation: 10 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1215 Gibbon St., followed by a potluck. Special guest Bishop Karen Olivetto will attend and preach. All are invited to reminisce with former Wesley Foundation members and meet the recent generation of the organization.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
TUESDAY
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Laramie City Council and Albany County Commission joint work session: 6 p.m., online only via Zoom, meeting ID 87511883969 and passcode 643546.
Casper Aquifer Protection Draft Plan public comment: 6-8 p.m., in-person at Laramie Municipal Operations Center at 4373 N. 3rd St. and online at Zoom; meeting ID: 81026310903, passcode: 280276.
Albany County Genealogical Society meets: 7 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3311 Hayford Ave. Free to attend and open to all. This month’s program is titled “The Tax Man Cometh — Using Tax Records to Solve Missing Ancestor Dilemmas.”
WEDNESDAY
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Albany County Planning and Zoning Commission meets: 5 p.m., Albany County Courthouse, 525 E. Grand Ave., or via Zoom. For agenda and information on how to participate on Zoom, visit co.albany.wy.us.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
THURSDAY
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
FRIDAY
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Sept. 17
Walk to End Alzheimer’s: 9 a.m., Optimist Park, with music and food following the walk.
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Sept. 18
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
UW Faculty Recital Series free performance: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features Nicole Riner on flute and Chi-Chen Wu on piano.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 19
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Sept. 20
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 21
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 4-6 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 22
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 25
UW Faculty Recital Series presents oboist Jennier Stucki: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. Free to attend.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 26
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Sept. 27
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 28
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Open loom hours at University of Wyoming Art Museum: 3-5 p.m., 2111 Willett Drive. Free to participate.
Sept. 29
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 30
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
UW Music presents Duo Cintemani: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features a critically acclaimed flute-guitar group.
Oct. 2
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 3
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 4
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 5
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Casper Aquifer Protection Draft Plan public comment: 6-8 p.m., in-person at Laramie Municipal Operations Center at 4373 N. 3rd St. and online at Zoom; meeting ID: 85445790677, passcode: 626454.
Oct. 6
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 8
12th annual Kids Pumpkin Walk: Noon to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. A fun family event featuring outdoor activities, indoor games, education, candy, treats and plenty of pumpkins. Cost is $4 for adults, 17 and younger admitted free.
Oct. 9
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 10
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 11
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Oct. 12
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 13
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 16
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. the second Monday of the month via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 17
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 18
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 19
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 20
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 21
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Oct. 22
Laramie Foster Closet Fall Fest: Noon to 5 p.m., Albany County Fairgrounds.
Oct. 23
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 24
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Oct. 25
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 26
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Oct. 27
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Oct. 30
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 31
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Nov. 1
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Nov. 2
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Nov. 3
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
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Terrorist threats thwarted in Saratoga
SARATOGA (WNE) — A suspect was arrested for terrorist threats on Saturday morning in Saratoga.
The suspect had been making threats for several weeks directed at law enforcement and the Saratoga Care Center. Statements had also been made by the suspect that if law enforcement came up to his house, “they’d better bring good ones.”
He also said that if they came into his house, they “wouldn’t like what they found.”
The suspect had also threatened to go to the Saratoga Care Center with the intent to harm. There is a current no trespass order against the suspect barring him from the care center.
Chief Ken Lehr said Friday evening, when Sgt. Tyler Christen was dispatched to the house to confront the suspect about the threats, the suspect wouldn’t answer the door.
Due to the possibility of a trap set for law enforcement, Christen did not try to enter the house using force.
Saturday morning Lehr, accompanied by backup from the Wyoming Highway Patrol, was prepared to apprehend the suspect once he was out of the house. When the suspect exited his house, he entered his vehicle and drove about a block where he was quickly taken into custody by Wyoming Highway Patrol officers.
An incendiary device was discovered inside the house. The Cheyenne Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) unit and Laramie Bomb Squad were on scene to diffuse the device without incident.
The rest of the property was searched and secured. No further incendiary devices were discovered.
90-year-old ticketed for tagging son’s sign
GILLETTE (WNE) — A 90-year-old woman previously accused of hitting her son with a cattle prod and putting honey on his doorknob to “sweeten” him up has been ticketed for allegedly vandalizing signs on his property.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the residence on Marquis Court when a 60-year-old man reported suspecting his mother of spray painting a street sign on his property and stealing a “dead end” sign.
The 90-year-old admitted to spray-painting the street sign but denied stealing the other, said Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds.
She told deputies that she did not like the sign and didn’t want it up on the property they share in two separate residences, “so she spray-painted it,” Reynolds said.
The street sign is valued at about $800. Deputies ticketed the 90-year-old for destruction of property.
This is the third run-in the woman has had with the law this year.
On May 11, the woman was ticketed for destruction of property after putting honey on her son’s door to “sweeten” him up. She admitted to putting honey on the door handle.
Her son reported that she had put honey on his door and threw a yard light into his flower bed. The man said she has been trespassed from most of his property and is only allowed on a small piece of the land.
Three days later, the man called the Sheriff’s Office again, reporting that his mom had hit him and his wife with a cattle prod after the mother was confronted about opening a gate to the property.
She was ticketed for unlawful contact.
Doctor life-flighted, partner charged with strangulation
PINEDALE (WNE) — A local doctor who manages the clinics’ emergency services was life-flighted to an Idaho Falls hospital on Aug. 31 after his spouse allegedly assaulted and strangled him during a domestic dispute.
Stephen “Buck” Wallace, of Daniel, drove his truck at about 7 p.m. to a neighbor’s home where he got out and collapsed, asking someone to call a paramedic, according to an affidavit by Detective Travis Lanning.
Law enforcement and Sublette EMS responded; Wallace said he had been knocked unconscious and strangled twice by his spouse, Nicholas A. Leyva, once with his knee and once with his arms.
Wallace told detectives he went home early from work that day to talk to Leyva about a divorce, and while they were eating pizza in the living room, Leyva allegedly smashed Wallace’s phone and ran it under water. Leyva hit Wallace “with something on the back of the head or neck” and he fell to the floor unconscious, according to Lanning’s affidavit.
While Wallace was on the floor, Leyva allegedly put his foot on his throat so he couldn’t breathe, it said. Leyva then allegedly wrapped his arms around Wallace’s neck until he lost consciousness, the affidavit said. Wallace made his way to the door and left to get help.
Wallace was life-flighted by helicopter to the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center; he was discharged Sept. 3.
On Sept. 2, Leyva was charged with aggravated assault and battery, strangulation of a household member by applying “foot to throat” and strangulation of a household member with “arms around neck,” according to court records.
Leyva was arrested and on Aug. 5, he appeared before Circuit Court Judge Curt Haws, who set bond at $500,000 cash or surety.
As of Thursday, Leyva remained in custody. His Circuit Court preliminary appearance is set for Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 2 p.m.
Bear spray standoff heads to jury trial
JACKSON (WNE) — A jury trial has been scheduled for Oct. 31 for Alvaro Mancia, who was arrested after a Sept. 14, 2021, standoff that began when police said he deployed bear spray on two officers responding to a domestic call.
Mancia has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
He is charged with three felonies: two counts of interfering with a police officer and one of aggravated assault and battery. He has been in Teton County Jail since his arrest with his bail set at $50,000.
Police initially showed up at Mancia’s home to respond to a domestic disturbance. Upon their arrival, the then-24-year-old Jackson resident used bear spray on two officers and barricaded himself in the home, Jackson Police Lt. Russ Ruschill said.
The two officers who were sprayed quickly recovered and returned to the scene, Ruschill said, where a large show of force gathered during the three-hour standoff. The response included one ambulance, one fire truck, two Teton County Sheriff’s Office deputies, 10 police officers and three Wyoming Highway Patrol officers.
At about 7:05 p.m. that night, police entered the home after receiving a court-issued search warrant and apprehended Mancia without incident.
Mancia already faced a two-day trial in April for charges stemming from an Oct. 27, 2021, incident at the jail.
Evidence at trial detailed how a detention officer was conducting a formal headcount on the evening of Oct. 27. Mancia testified that he obstructed the lock on his cell door so at 6:06 p.m. it wouldn’t lock after the officer confirmed his well-being. A video shows that when the officer closed the cell door and turned away, Mancia left his cell and sprinted at her while her back was turned.
The officer turned around and yelled at Mancia, who retreated to his cell. A jury found the 25-year-old guilty of interference with a peace officer and escape from official detention.
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Visit Laramie is welcoming the public to see its new look after a revamp inside and out of its building at 800 S. 3rd St.
The Laramie Area Visitor Center was remodeled to make the space more accommodating for visitors with more visible signage.
Visit Laramie is welcoming the public to see its new look after a revamp inside and out of its building at 800 S. 3rd St.
The Laramie Area Visitor Center was remodeled to make the space more accommodating for visitors with more visible signage.
“We are very excited about the new visitor experience here at the visitor center,” said Visit Laramie Executive Director Scott Larson. “The new location has already led to a 67% increase in foot traffic.”
The facility features an ADA-compliant entrance, bathroom and visitor space to accommodate all types of visitors. The new lobby has space for museum displays, marketing videos and a gift shop.
Outside, a new mural on the north side of the building features images that represent Wyoming and Albany County.
An art wall inside will be available to local artists to bid on to be featured.
The Laramie Area Visitor Center is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The University of Wyoming Art Museum is hosting a series of weekly weaving and fiber creation workshops featuring artist Anne Samat.
In the first couple of sessions, participants worked collectively on a new weaving designed by Samat. The work has been left with the museum and will be finished by the community.
To accomplish this, the museum is holding open loom hours the rest of the month. All are invited to drop by the museum’s education studio at 2111 Willett Drive to contribute to the community weaving. UW teaching artists also well be on hand to facilitate the work.
Upcoming open loom hours are:
For more information, contact UWAM Education and Programs Coordinator Will Bowling at wbowling@uwyo.edu or 307-766-3496.
For more than five years, Laramie Foster Closet and Cody’s Closet has served local children in need, including 533 Albany County School District 1 students helped during the 2021-22 school year.
One of the group’s main fundraisers is Fall Fest, which raises money for the organization to provide shoes, socks, underwear, hygiene items and other necessities.
This year’s event is from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Albany County Fairgrounds, with a goal to raise $10,000.
Along with the festival’s fun activities like cornhole, baking and cooking contests, costume contest, games, crafts and food, Foster Closet and Cody’s Closet are accepting business sponsorships.
For more information, call 561-729-2945 or email laramiefostercloset@gmail.com.
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SHERIDAN — Each year over the Memorial Day and Labor Day holiday weekends, individuals jump off of the cliffs at Sand Turn Interpretive Site and glide slowly down to the ground with a hang glider in the Bighorn Mountains.
Instructor Johann Nield is one of those individuals participating each year. He has been hang gliding since 1978 and conducts classes to train individuals in the sport of hang gliding.
“I encourage people to try it out whether it is a bucket list thing or a lifelong hobby you want to get into,” he said.
Nield starts instructional classes at ground level. Once participants understand and demonstrate basic knowledge of hang gliding and use subtle movements to steer on solid ground, Nield will gradually take them up the mountain, eventually gliding off Sand Turn.
Before traveling to Sand Turn, where there are only five steps to launch off of the mountain successfully, students must be able to take off and land without injury.
Nield compares hang gliding to riding a bicycle, where individuals eventually obtain the muscle memory to do it without thinking. To acquire that muscle memory, Nield recommends his students take three classes before trying it on their own.
Students use equipment such as a hang glider, harness, a quality certified helmet and a parachute, according to Kyle Fedden, who has been hang gliding since 2000.
Most modern hang gliders are stronger than a lot of small aircraft, being able to withstand plus or minus six G-force, which is the loading experienced by the aircraft and the pilot in flight, Fedden said.
While modern hang gliding is a relatively safe sport, the practice has come a long way since its development, when in the late 1940s many deaths were recorded from individuals crafting their own hang glider equipment.
Still, there are factors to consider that might jeopardize one’s safety.
When in the air, there are thermal pockets that are caused by cooling air along with a relatively warm ground. Signs of these pockets include cumulus clouds, where there is high humidity and pressure. These spots create a thermal bubble that, when hit, can cause a hang glider to gain elevation quickly. People who are not used to the turbulence and quick jerks can panic.
On Sand Turn, hang gliders will generally stay in the air for eight to 10 minutes, requiring the ability to control one’s equipment when coming into contact with thermal pockets.
While thermal pockets can cause distress for many, they also allow hang gliders to stay in the air for longer. Fedden has seen people travel for 410 miles just by hitting thermal pockets to stay in the air.
To be able to stay in the air for an extended amount of time, hang gliders will use variometers to help the pilot determine if they are rising or sinking, according to Sara Bowman, who has been a hang glider for 35 years and a part of the U.S. women’s hang gliding team.
Nield said it’s a good stress reliever from everyday life. For him, hang gliding is a way to escape from stressful situations but also gain that adrenaline of jumping off of a mountain.
“No two jumps are the same,” Nield said. “I have not lost the thrill of hang gliding and I have been doing this for a while.”
Nield said he always looks forward to seeing the crowd gather when they see the hang gliders at Sand Turn, and he enjoys talking to the public about his passion.
When he is ready to take on the challenge of jumping, though, he focuses his thoughts on only three things: wind, the glider and himself. Then he proceeds to jump.
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The following calls were included in the Albany County Sheriff’s Office responses:
MONDAY, SEPT. 5
• 1:42 a.m., intersection of N. 3rd St. and E. Harney St., disorderly conduct
• 3:24 a.m., 2700 block of Wyoming Highway 130, possible impaired driving
• 2:40 p.m., Wyoming Highway 230, accident
• 5:43 p.m., 1400 block of E. Sully St., possible domestic disturbance
• 7:28 p.m., Jonathan Quarry Haul Road, emergency
TUESDAY, SEPT. 6
• 10:56 a.m., 3rd Street, possible domestic disturbance
• 3:01 p.m., 1600 block of N. 4th St., possible impaired driving
• 4:40 p.m., Interstate 80, possible possession of controlled substance
• 9:03 p.m., intersection of W. Flint St. and W. Snowy Range Rd., wildlife
• 10:08 p.m., intersection of S. 3rd St. and Interstate 80, possible impaired driving
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7
• 4:15 a.m., intersection of Pahlow Lane and Wyoming Highway 230, accident
• 11:39 a.m., 4900 block of N. 3rd St., assault and battery
• 3:26 p.m., 900 block of U.S. Highway 287, theft/unauthorized use of vehicle
• 7:02 p.m., Yew Way, fire
• 11:14 p.m., 100 block of S. 2nd St., fighting
THURSDAY, SEPT. 8
• 8:32 a.m., 3400 block of Wyoming Highway 130, emergency
• 1:22 p.m., Interstate 80, accident
• 4:28 p.m., 100 block of Indian Springs Rd., vandalism
The following calls were included in the Laramie Police Department responses:
MONDAY, SEPT. 5
• 2:18 p.m., 700 block of E. Flint St., trespassing
• 5:14 p.m., 1300 block of S. 17th St., possible sexual offense
• 5:43 p.m., 1400 block of E. Sully St., possible domestic disturbance
• 7:57 p.m., 1700 block of Venture Dr., burglary
• 8:52 p.m., 2300 block of N. 9th St., possible domestic disturbance
TUESDAY, SEPT. 6
• 5:32 a.m., 600 block of E. Fremont St., criminal entry
• 8:03 a.m., 1600 block of N. 6th St., theft
• 9:12 a.m., 1200 block of Commerce Dr., theft/unauthorized use of vehicle
• 1:08 p.m., 1300 block of E. Harney St., theft/unauthorized use of vehicle
• 2:28 p.m., intersection of S. 5th St. and E. Park Ave., possible domestic disturbance
• 3:01 p.m., 1600 block of N. 4th St., possible impaired driving
• 4:32 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., shoplifting
• 4:40 p.m., Interstate 80, possible possession of controlled substance
• 5:07 p.m., 1500 block of N. 4th St., criminal entry
• 5:35 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., shoplifting
• 7:01 p.m., 500 block of Beaufort St., wildlife
• 7:53 p.m., 3000 block of Willett Dr., accident
• 7:56 p.m., 600 block of S. Spruce St., possible domestic disturbance
• 7:58 p.m., 300 block of W. Shield St., burglary
• 9:15 p.m., 900 block of N. McCue St., animal bite
• 9:53 p.m., 700 block of N. 4th St., emergency
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7
• 12:17 a.m., 600 block of S. Spruce St., possible domestic disturbance
• 2:36 a.m., 1800 block of S. 10th St., possible domestic disturbance
• 2:49 a.m., 200 block of N. 30th St., missing person
• 10:11 a.m., 1000 block of E. Sanders Dr., fraud
• 11:56 a.m., 600 block of S. 25th St., theft
• 2:13 p.m., intersection of N. 15th St. and Reynolds St., possible domestic disturbance
• 11:14 p.m., 100 block of S. 2nd St., fighting
THURSDAY, SEPT. 8
• 1:10 a.m., 500 block of S. 21st St., emergency
• 2:56 a.m., 1700 block of E. Rainbow Ave., emergency
• 7:04 a.m., 1900 block of N. 13th St., emergency
• 8 a.m., 1500 block of N. McCue St., accident
• 8 a.m., 1500 block of N. McCue St., hit and run
• 2:39 p.m., 3600 block of E. Grand Ave., hit and run
• 3:54 p.m., 600 block of N. 15th St., hit and run
• 4:48 p.m., 1400 block of N. 5th St., possible domestic disturbance
• 5:11 p.m., 600 block of Plaza Ct., theft/unauthorized use of vehicle
• 6:41 p.m., 1900 block of E. Grand Ave., emergency
• 11:10 p.m., 3200 block of E. Grand Ave., false ID
• 11:18 p.m., intersection of N. 21st St. and E. Hancock St., hit and run
• 11:25 p.m., 3200 block of E. Grand Ave., liquor violation
• 11:35 p.m., 3200 block of E. Grand Ave., false ID
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PINEDALE — The county’s July $1-million land purchase to expand the Doyle gravel pit on Pole Creek Road — unused since it was permitted more than 15 years ago — came under renewed scrutiny from locals and neighbors who oppose it.
Old Brazill homeowner Dan Jones addressed the Sublette County Board of Commissioners recently about its plan to open the gravel pit at the junction of Highway 191 and Pole Creek Road.
Years ago, the county first bought 25.44 agricultural acres directly adjoining the highway intersection from the Doyle Family and earmarked it as a gravel pit, receiving a “blanket permit” for mining from Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.
Because a gravel pit is an accepted use of ag property, the county was not required to notify neighbors or the general public.
Nothing on the county’s official GIS map identifies the first parcel as a permitted gravel pit.
Its recent purchase for $1 million of another 40.2 agricultural acres from the Doyle Family also happened with little public disclosure, a sentiment shared by two commissioners and citizens.
The newly expanded Doyle Pit property, with irrigation ditches and working hayfields, is adjacent to neighbor Dean Boundy’s ranch and four subdivisions, 200 to 3,000 feet away.
Tuesday, Jones gave commissioners Doug Vickrey, Sam White, chair Joel Bousman, Tom Noble and Dave Stephens the petition signed by 223 residents opposing the Doyle Pit.
When the board approved the recent property purchase, 3-2, Vickrey and Stephens voted against it and Bousman, Noble and White voted in favor. The transaction was basically complete by its Aug. 9 meeting, when more than two dozen residents spoke against it, not realizing the deal was done.
It sparked the petition drive and an attempt to start a dialogue with commissioners about how they proceed.
Tuesday, Stephens reminded Jones and 20 or so citizens present that he’d requested a public hearing before the July purchase; Vickrey also sought an economic analysis and appraisal in advance but the board majority held out against them.
Jones, with Boundy, told commissioners Road & Bridge has done an excellent job throughout the county and offered a brief slideshow with citizen concerns about the Doyle Pit’s impacts on wildlife migration routes, trumpeter swans and “quality of life.”
“We’re not here today to ask you for a vote or decision, just your consideration,” Jones said.
He asked who had visited the Doyle site – three of five said they had.
Boundy encouraged them to take a closer look at the property from his perspective and ask, “If this was my ranch and someone was trying to put a gravel pit next to it? I’m appealing to your sense of fair play.”
Part of the tract extends into his reservoir, Boundy added.
“We want a good open dialogue and good common sense,” he said.
The county has to follow state regulations to mine less than 10-acre increments, Jones said. He referred to Sublette County Comprehensive Plan goals that emphasize citizen-based planning, environment, citizen health and wildlife.
“We ask you to focus on the quality of life for citizens, not just dollars” the county said it saves by mining its own gravel. “We ask the commission to focus on citizens and quality of life.”
The county is working to close its Richardson Pit near the Town of Pinedale offices on South Tyler Avenue – even that operation affects downwind neighbors and Pole Creek Road area homeowners with construction noise and dust from stored gravel piles, they said.
Boundy recommended commissioners visit the Doyle Pit acreage and then visit the Richardson Pit “when it’s running – would you like to live next to that?”
Jones thanked Vickrey and Stephens for voting against the Doyle Pit.
“It shows your consideration,” he said.
Road & Bridge supervisor Billy Pape submitted his Doyle Pit mining plan and maps. The site map shows 14 phases with only one larger than 5 acres. Phase 1 at 3.98 acres, would strip 6,421 cubic yards of topsoil directly by the highway intersection and nearby subdivisions.
Pape has said equipment could be staged now using the current access road. The access road, a quarter-mile from the highway, leads to a flat pasture on top of a deep, steep bank along the highway intersection faced all around with river rock. That would create a berm to block views from the highway and stripped topsoil would create a berm between phases 1 and 14, it shows.
Noble – who said he would rather live next to a gravel pit than a subdivision – explained his familiarity with roads, gravel and construction.
“My question to you and everybody in the room, with ‘dialogue’ do you see a change in your opinion? Are you open minded enough to consider (the gravel pit’s opening)?”
He said he would share his perspectives as long as people opposing the mine keep an open mind.
“The first time you see (county workers), they’ll be stripping the topsoil,” Noble said, and then operating for 30 to 60 days, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., depending on a project’s gravel needs.
Jones asked if commissioners had talked to people living by the “sewer plant gravel pit” – the Richardson Pit on South Tyler Avenue.
Noble said the county would prefer to use that pit up, then open the Doyle Pit; the closed pit could hold a new justice center, for example.
People don’t like change, but the Doyle Pit site plan would take a whole season to get established, he said.
Jones said the currently drawn berm “on one side doesn’t address noise and dust. I can see the (Richardson) pit in the Town of Pinedale from my porch.”
Another reason Noble approved the Doyle purchase, he said, was to own surface and mineral rights without “shared ownership” with federal agencies.
“A reason we bought this pit was to get away from those stipulations,” he said.“Dialogue is pointless unless we can come to an agreement.”
Jones stated he could not represent all of the 223 petitioners’ oppositions.
Boundy asked how long the mine would be used; Noble said “a significant project” could bring a lot of use and on a smaller scale, “noise and dust would be minimal.”
“I’m willing to continue this dialogue with each one of you as long as you’re not hard set,” he said.
Bousman was open to considering options, he said.
Noble said mining would stay “far enough away” from Boundy’s reservoir to not impact the pond.
White said he supported the purchase because it was “adding onto the existing mine … where we own mineral rights.”
Vickrey said he voted against the purchase because it “was fast-tracked, let’s get it done, and we failed to bring in the folks we have here today. Looking at the people here, these conversations need to happen before decisions are made. As a commission, we’ve sort of dropped the ball on that.”
Jones said 40 of 100 people he spoke with “said this was fast-tracked.”
Bousman turned to homeowners for comments.
Sharron Ziegler said she lives up the hill “from this beautiful hayfield” and watches the sun set every day in that field. She would also see the gravel pit every day unless the county dug deeper than planned.
Pat Jones fights dust every day from the Richardson Pit and watches “the dust come in on the wind.”
Anne McNerney asked Noble’s pros and cons, saying that wildlife migrate through that landscape and “wildlife is why we moved here.”
Bruce Kerhagen questioned Noble’s openness “to dialogue.”
“Is this conversation to appease the masses? Where are we at with it? The county’s going to go ahead and develop regardless.”
Pape said he “can’t determine when we’ll go in there. … We still have mining at the Richardson Pit. We’re not going in there tomorrow.”
He would “tread very lightly” into the Doyle Pit, which could be reclaimed later.
“The rumor is going around, the county is going to start up there soon,” Jones said. “We have no intention in 2022 of doing anything there,” Bousman replied.
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Pascale Small is like many parents with kids returning to school for a new academic year.
She wants them to stay safe and secure.
“I have two beautiful children that I want to be able to drop off in the morning and pick up safely in the afternoon,” said Small, who lives in Waldorf, Maryland, about an hour south of Washington D.C.
Her kids are in kindergarten and first grade at Charles County Public Schools.
Also, like many others, Small has her own ideas about how to ensure schools are safe after recent mass shootings in places like Uvalde, Texas, in May.
Small said she hopes school systems have proper technology and security equipment to keep campuses and classrooms safe. That, she said, needs to include installing high-quality camera systems instead of just relying on school resource officers deployed by local police departments..
“Safety needs to be a multifaceted approach and the community should be part of those conversations,” Small said.
Across the country, parents, students, teachers, staff, administrators and others on the frontlines of school are all looking for a safe return to classrooms after a summer dominated by retrospectives on the handling of the Uvalde shooting that left 19 elementary school students and two teachers dead.
The path to get there can diverge greatly, however, depending on locality, and some people are more apprehensive than others about school security and the potential for violence in the coming year.
Layla Hostetler, a 16-year-old junior at Great Mills High School in Maryland, near the confluence of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, said she has confidence in her campus’ security plan.
"I'm not too worried because our security team…does a really good job at stopping fights. Teachers take extra precautions. Fights will start, but they're over in 2 minutes," said Hostetler.
Hostetler’s mother, Ashley, said she favors having armed security on school campuses. Ashely Hostetler also said she wants an assurance that side doors and other access points are fully secured. She pointed to an incident last year in which a former student who was allegedly stalking a female student was able to breach security.
"I want to make sure we have an armed security officer that is trained in the building at all times," Ashley Hostetler said.
Anxiety cycles
Views on posting police officers in schools vary and there are disparate opinions on gun control and outfitting schools with more cameras and other security equipment.
For some, cops, cameras and metal detectors on campuses are welcome as the prospect of mass shootings becomes an anxious staple of contemporary American life.
Others see such measures as amplifying anxiety for students and staff already stressed about returning to school after pandemic shutdowns and remote learning.
Some students, parents and teachers say they’re concerned that school security efforts — including police officers and security guards — may turn campuses into militarized zones.
School security consultants and administrators also see cameras as doing double duty, to surveill students for other behaviors beyond violence and threats. That can sometimes lead to cameras being vandalized or disabled.
Others prefer not to get caught up in the anxiety cycles.
“While I do think about security and the safety of my children, honestly a shooting could happen anywhere and it is not productive to worry,” said Jennie Beltramini, school board president for the Anacortes School District mid-way between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver.
Beltramini said she’d rather focus on the positive.
“We are excited for the school year to begin. Starting a new school year is always full of anticipation and excitement in our house, seeing friends again, starting sports and activities, getting back into routines, and learning is what we focus on,” she said.
That doesn’t mean heading off school violence isn't a priority, she said.
“My family has been personally affected by a school shooting, so I've been engaged in conversation and action around this epidemic for many years,” Beltramini said. “I believe there are many root causes that need to be addressed to make public spaces across the country safer.”
Views on what those root causes are and how to address them can differ greatly across the country, with renewed pushes for gun controls and in other corners a heightened focus on anti-bullying efforts and mental health counseling.
Some conservatives and gun rights advocates have also pushed to arm teachers and other school staff. That faces opposition from teacher unions.
“The people who are in classrooms every day —teachers, school staff and students — don’t want more guns in schools. The answer to gun violence is not more guns; guns are the problem, not the solution,” said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in a recent statement. Weingarten cited an August nationwide poll showing 75% of teachers and staff oppose arming public school employees.
“Educators, parents, administrators, counselors and students want teachers to teach, not engage in a shootout with AR-15s,” Weingarten said.
Fear factor
Beyond the politics and pushes for security solutions, mental health counselors said parents, students and staff need to process their emotions and be more transparent about their concerns.
“It’s normal to have fears. We all have some sort of fears,” said Lorna Wooten, a licensed mental health counselor with Thriveworks counseling services in Orlando.
Wooten has worked with local schools in Florida — including students, teachers and parents as they process the harsh realities of school shootings as well as the returns to classrooms after the COVID-19 shutdowns.
“I just advise the parents to process your own emotions first,” Wooten said.
She said that can help build trust and communication — and encourage kids to talk to parents or school staff about bullying
“I would say talk to the students about their fears,” Wooten said.
Sharon Hoover, a clinical psychologist, professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and co-director of the National Center for School Mental Health, said school districts and police departments too frequently rush to do something to look prepared after a high-profile shooting.
“Unfortunately, that leads to quick reaction investments in products — like bulletproof white boards — marketed to fearful communities,” Hoover said.
That has helped school security grow into a $3.1 billion industry, according to consulting firm Omdia.
Promises of quick responses
Police departments across the country are also trying to ease concerns that the bungled response at Uvalde won’t happen on their watch.
Anacortes Police Chief Dave Floyd said his officers won’t be found waiting outside a school when there is a threat inside.
“Our response for many years now has been to pretty expeditiously get into the school and start addressing those threats,” Floyd said.
Washington state requires school districts to have a shooting response plan that involves law enforcement, and that is updated annually. Schools and police in Anacortes have had a plan in place for over a decade, Floyd said.
“As a parent of two kids in the district, I’m very confident in our response plan,” Floyd said.
Regular practice is also key, he said.
Anacortes police held an active shooter drill at an elementary school in early August, and part of the focus was on single officer response.
New officers practiced what they would do if they were the only one on scene during a threat, Floyd said.
Officers will take an aggressive approach if something happens, Floyd said.
“That means getting into the school as fast as possible and immediately going toward what the threat may be,” he said.
Officers also don’t have to wait for command authorization to act when danger is immediate, Floyd noted.
“Your job is to make those decisions,” he said. “We hire intelligent people here to be able to make those decisions on their own without approval of a command officer. If you see someone that is carrying a gun in a school and they’ve already taken shots…you need to address that.”
When Floyd was a patrol officer, active shooter protocol said to first find a custodian or janitor when something happened because they generally had all the keys to rooms and building entrances. That’s not the most efficient way to gain access during a crisis, he said.
During construction of new high school buildings a couple of years ago, an electronic locking safety system was put into place.
Now, all police officers have a key fob that allows them access to the building at any time, including during a lockdown. The system is tracked by computer and logs who accesses a door and when.
“We can have a lot quicker response to getting in the building,” he said. “We want to eliminate wasting valuable time,” Floyd said.
Floyd said he would like to add another school resource officer in the district. One currently splits his time between the middle and high schools. Ideally, two full-time officers could also spend some time at the elementary schools, he said.
School districts have their own protocols for keeping their buildings safe.
All external school doors stay locked, Anacortes District Superintendent Justin Irish said. Anyone who wants to enter must speak with the front office and sign in.
Anacortes schools also go through a safety drill each month just as they do with other drills including for fires, earthquakes, lockdowns and lockouts.
A district safety committee includes staff members plus the school resource officer provided by the police department.
“Throughout the year we are going to use these policies and procedures with our drills,” Irish said. “We want to make sure this isn’t something that just sits on a shelf.”
Practice, education and discussion mean the policies and procedures are clear and consistent across the district, Irish said.
“Our main thing is making sure we have one document, one routine,” he said.
Irish implemented an easy alert system that connects leaders at each school and the district office with the police and fire departments. An alert goes to the administration immediately, keeping everyone in the loop and communication and instruction clear, Irish said.
Drills with students focus on what they should do in a crisis situation, like staying quiet, locking doors and staying out of sight, Irish said. They do not include any dramatization of violence but can still be scary for students. As part of those, the school resource officer talks about safety and being prepared.
“Our goal is to put a system in place that is predictable,” Irish said. “We want them to be able to exit the building efficiently or lock down efficiently.”
So far, Irish said he hadn’t heard this summer from any parents afraid to send their kids to school.
“I believe we have an amazing set of professionals and with new tools and practice, through routine, I think people’s anxiety will be reduced,” he said.
Jamie Copsey, interim principal at Leonardtown High School in Maryland, is also confident about school safety in the new school year.
"I am very much excited to return to school this year. I am confident in the security measures that [St. Mary's County Public Schools] has in place to keep our students and staff safe." Copsey said.
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While food attainment is an ever-present pressure for those struggling to make ends meet, this month people across the financial spectrum are shifting their focus to food and how to share one of life’s basic necessities with others.
September is Hunger Action Month, a national initiative to encourage communities to donate, volunteer and learn more about food insecurity and what can be done to stop it.
The month couldn’t come at a better time for Wyoming as demand for services from food banks continues to increase and money for COVID-19 pandemic relief programs dries up.
“The need has significantly increased,” said Rachel Bailey, executive director for Food Bank of Wyoming, about an uptick in demand for services over the past few months. “Some agencies are feeding double the number of households across the state.”
Laramie Interfaith has seen an increase in clientele every month this year, said executive director Josh Watanabe. In August, the organization served people from 512 unique households.
While Laramie Soup Kitchen typically had served an average of 82 people day, over the past few months the numbers have reached triple digits. One day this week, the organization reached its record number of visitors at 173. That eclipses the previous record of about 140 seen on a day in May.
“We haven’t had numbers this high throughout the pandemic,” said Laramie Soup Kitchen Executive Director Ted Cramer.
Typically, the organization serves more people in the summer when they are traveling through the city. Only time will tell whether that will be the same this year, Cramer said.
Cramer said that while he doesn’t know much specific information about Soup Kitchen clients, he’s noticed many new faces are local families that visit regularly rather than people who are just passing through.
In Albany County, 11.1% of people have food insecurity and 70% live below the SNAP threshold of 130% poverty, according to Feeding America. The issue disproportionately affects people of color, LGBTQ people and people with a lower socioeconomic status, said University of Wyoming nutrition professor Jill Keith.
On the UW campus those numbers are even higher, with 45% of the campus community experiencing food insecurity in 2020, according to the UW Food Insecurity Taskforce.
Food and health
The definition of food insecurity expands further than merely referring to missing meals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture outlines food security levels that range from “high,” meaning no alterations to the diet are made, to “low” and “very low” food security, which refer to lack of variety or quality in the diet and disrupted food intake.
Food insecurity can create a host of challenges for the body, especially in areas of immune system function, growth, mental health and performance in school, Keith said.
“The only place we really don’t see any health consequences is where people have high food security,” she said.
While poverty and low wages play a role in food insecurity, other factors such as isolation and lack of transportation or nearby grocery stores also have an impact.
Even when people have enough money to buy food or can access it through a food bank, they may need education on how to prepare a meal, Keith said. Some people, especially college students, may not have the appropriate kitchen appliances to prepare healthy meals, so they rely on faster options.
This convenience comes at a cost, as these foods typically contain higher levels of sodium and saturated fats than a home-cooked meal.
The complexity of the issue presents an opportunity for community food groups to think carefully about how they offer services and how best they can fill gaps.
“I think the biggest thing is trying to connect people with resources,” Keith said. “The amazing resources are here, (so we should) think about how we make sure people can access resources.”
Working together
The recent uptick in demand has caused local food banks to get creative with how they seek donations and offer services.
Laramie Soup Kitchen has been working to educate professional catering companies on how to serve food in a way that allows for leftovers to be donated, Cramer said.
Catered events often see last-minute changes to guest lists that result in extra food. By avoiding a self-serve buffet format or even putting to-go boxes out at the end of events, more food from these events can end up in stomachs rather than garbage cans.
“There’s already a ton of food in this town that’s going to waste,” Cramer said. “Give me that.”
At Laramie Soup Kitchen, people can donate food from their homes. The group accepts nearly everything and distributes resources to other local nonprofits when there is a surplus.
There now is a strong need for food donations, especially meat, Cramer said. In addition to donating store-bought meat, people can donate game meat as long as it’s professionally processed.
Monetary donations are another powerful way to help local nonprofits. Laramie Interfaith uses its nonprofit status to buy food at a highly discounted rate, meaning the money stretches farther than it would if an individual bought food for the group.
Food Bank of Wyoming also accepts donations. Throughout Hunger Action Month Powder River Energy Foundation, CoBank and Basin Electric are providing a match of up to $25,000.
Some organizations provide wraparound services for their clients. Laramie Interfaith is now helping people sign up for the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which helps people pay rent and utilities.
“A lot of times a food pantry is the first place someone does come to seek help,” Bailey said. “In our food pantries or in human services organizations across the state they will also offer other services to help individuals in need.”
She explained that these types of programs help address root causes of food insecurity and could help in efforts to “shorten the line” of people who need food assistance.
Keith said one of the most important things nonprofits and community members can do is foster a culture of sharing and support in these spaces.
“Trying to root it in sharing and dignity (is important).” Keith said. “That’s a lot of the reason people might not use community resources, because of stigma and that lack of dignity.”
Leaders at Food Bank of Wyoming also have talked about broadening advocacy work to address some needs that go beyond filling plates.
“I think advocacy is really important right now to help your local state and national legislatures to understand what the need is in Wyoming and how they can support those in need across the state,” Bailey said.
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GILLETTE — As summer comes to an end and kids are back in school, the end of tourism season is nearing. Traditional tourism, that is.
The season for sports tournaments is just beginning.
Just in the past five or six years, sports tourism has grown in Gillette, thanks to the support of the community and local governments. It’s brought visitors and tax revenue into the community during parts of the year that otherwise would be slower.
The summer historically has been the peak season in terms of visitors, with people driving through Campbell County on their way to Yellowstone National Park or Mount Rushmore.
But in recent years, sports tourism has helped the hospitality industry stay busy during those slower months.
Cam-plex tentatively has at least one sports tournament a month from October through March, from wrestling to soccer to basketball, not to mention the Gillette Wild or the Wyoming Mustangs, both of which play their games at Cam-plex.
“Sports tourism brings more value to our community than people realize,” said Jim West, softball coach and tournament organizer.
Kevin Couch, who’s been involved in helping put on tournaments for soccer and basketball, said that while it’s great that Gillette has the ability to host tournaments nearly year round, more work needs to be done if the community wants this to continue and last for decades.
For a community of its size, Gillette is not lacking in sports facilities, Couch said, thanks to support from the city, county and Cam-plex.
The Energy Capital Sports Complex was built in 2015 with four softball fields. In 2020, the city had three multi-use turf fields built out there. The facility’s master plan includes the possibility of additional fields when the time is right.
In 2018, Cam-plex spent $169,000 on a sports floor so that indoor tournaments could be hosted at the Wyoming Center. Three years later, the land board bought 12 basketball hoops for $12,000.
The tournaments that were made possible by these investments have brought thousands of people to Campbell County over the years.
In June, the Razor City Showcase brought 54 teams to Gillette. The Battle for the High Plains had 28 teams, and the Wyoming state tournament had 58 teams. West estimated that each team has 15 players, and each player has at least two people coming to watch them, meaning that a 54-team tournament brings in 2,430 people.
In soccer, the tournaments have grown from 40 teams to 80 to 100-plus teams, Couch said. The Pepsi Cup Indoor Soccer Tournament had 85 teams in 2021. The K2 Technologies Clash soccer tournament had 125 teams earlier this year.
The Pinnacle Bank Shootout brought 97 basketball teams to Cam-plex in February. That tournament will be going into its third year in 2023. And the Thanksgiving Tip-Off Tournament, a youth basketball tournament which in its first year drew 27 teams in 2021. Couch said his goal is to nearly double that and get 50 teams to come this year.
“That’s a more challenging date, but it has a lot of growth potential,” he said.
And this doesn’t include the numerous state high school tournaments and championships that are hosted in Gillette.
Outside of estimates, it can be hard to quantify the impact that sports tourism has on a community. A well-run tournament with a hundred teams can mean at least half a million dollars in revenue for the community, Couch said.
Couch said it’s getting to the point that some of the tournaments are reaching capacity, where they can’t grow much bigger due to space limitations unless the tournament adds more dates to accommodate more teams.
He said the growth in the past five years has been “a little surprising,” but at the same time it makes a lot of sense. When tournaments or teams are looking to come to a community, they have a list of things they’re looking for.
Gillette has the fields, courts and other facilities in place, but some people are looking for additional things, such as hotels, restaurants and even parking, Couch said.
“Our boxes are checked almost all across the board,” he said. “With all those boxes checked, it’s pretty easy to see why they’ve grown so fast.”
The tournament organizers won’t see most of that money. West said that with a softball tournament, “our goal is to break even.”
This weekend, Gillette will host a tournament with teams from Dawson Community College and Miles City Community College, as well as travel softball teams. They’ll play each other and also put on a camp for young softball players.
Tournaments like this one aren’t in those college teams’ budgets, so West said he’s having to pay for them to come here. But it’s more about developing the younger players’ talents to help them down the road.
“Really, at this point for us, there’s no monetary gain, it’s more (about) wanting to provide a service to the kids,” West said.
While the tournaments themselves might not see the windfall, the hotels, restaurants and other businesses in town will, Couch said, adding that he’s heard reports of local businesses doing “record numbers” thanks to tournaments.
Still, Gillette has some work ahead in order to be a smooth, well-oiled machine for years to come, Couch said.
“There’s still a lot of work to be done to make sure we continue to have long-standing, sustainable, quality tournaments every single year,” he said.
Couch said he’s a “big advocate” of the formation of a sports commission, a group of people that would oversee the planning of tournaments and enhance sports tourism efforts in Campbell County.
The sports commission was one thing that came up in the tourism master plan. Gillette already has the Sports Tourism Advisory Team, but a sports commission would take things to a higher level.
As sports tourism grows and the tournaments get bigger, that puts more pressure on these sports clubs, many of which are run by parents who are volunteering their time. And those parents often leave when their kids move on, and they have to be replaced.
With a sports commission, there would be more oversight and less turnover, which should lead to a smoother operation overall.
While each sport is different, there is a blueprint that can be applied to tournaments all across the board, regardless of the sport.
“It’s about creating a model to allow these events to be sustainable,” Couch said.
And that’s where the sports commission comes in. It’s much easier for a commission to pass that information on to the sports clubs, rather than having each group learn things through trial and error.
He foresees a lineup of 10 to 15 tournaments, in a wide variety of sports, spaced out throughout the year so they’re not happening at the same time. Besides soccer, softball, basketball and wrestling, Couch said he’d like to see a large volleyball tournament, a baseball tournament and even a youth track meet.
“Let’s make each one of those the best they can be,” Couch said.
West said there’s opportunities for more unique tournaments as well, such as dodgeball and pickleball.
Most weekends, most people won’t even notice that there’s a sports tournament in town, Couch said, and that’s what makes it “a huge positive impact across the board, but it doesn’t strain our community.”
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| 2022-09-10T12:59:30Z
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BUFFALO — It wasn’t quite the tourism season local business owners expected.
After a record season in Johnson County in 2021 in the wake of COVID-19, flooding in Yellowstone National Park and the park’s subsequent closure threw travel plans into disarray and threatened to derail tourism in the area.
But while business owners said Yellowstone’s brief closure had a definite impact, tourism remained strong.
“I think that there’s been a significant amount of people traveling this year,” said David Stewart, owner of the Historic Occidental Hotel and Blue Gables Motel. “I mean, it’s not a blowout, but it’s definitely been a good season.”
In mid-June, when officials evacuated Yellowstone National Park and shut its gates in the face of massive flooding, local hotels and campgrounds saw a raft of cancellations. Two months on, business owners said walk-in customers have largely made up for those cancellations, though not entirely.
Stewart said that the Occidental — a “destination” stop that often attracts repeat visitors — was able to carry on largely as normal, while Blue Gables saw a decrease from the previous year.
Likewise, traffic at the Deer Park Campground has been down compared with last year, said Ann Kavanagh, the campground’s owner.
“We did lose a lot of previous reservations for that period, because people were running scared and afraid they wouldn’t be able to get in somewhere else,” Kavanagh said.
The story was the same across the state, where hotel room demand was down 10% and hotel revenue was down almost 18%, according to the Wyoming Office of Tourism.
“This large decrease in June correlates with the drop in visitation to Yellowstone caused by the flooding,” wrote Piper Singer Cunningham, communications manager for the tourism office, in an email to the Bulletin.
Yellowstone was expecting a banner year with 150th anniversary events planned throughout the summer. The 150th anniversary came on the heels of a record year in 2021, when almost 4.9 million people visited.
Buffalo is a popular stop between the Black Hills and Yellowstone and often sees visitors heading in that direction.
But in June of this year — the month of the flooding — Yellowstone’s visitation fell by 43% compared with June 2021. By July, most of the park was open, yet the number of visitors fell by half, from almost 1.3 million in 2021 to about 650,000 in 2022.
That hasn’t necessarily led to the downfall of local tourism, though.
“We don’t even hear about Yellowstone now, and the people coming in now, most of them aren’t even concerned because they weren’t planning to go there anyway,” Kavanagh said. “There’s a lot of Wyoming that people come to see that doesn’t involve Yellowstone.”
While this summer still felt busy — especially with the COVID- 19 summer of 2020 still fresh in people’s minds — sales were noticeably down at the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum, said Sylvia Bruner, the museum’s director.
In July, the museum store made $9,076 in sales. That’s more than in July 2020, when the store made $8,255, but almost $2,000 less than the 2021 banner year, as well as $1,000 less than 2019, before the pandemic.
Bruner attributed the decline to Yellowstone’s closure and said she’d heard from other attractions in the area that their sales were similarly affected.
“I suspect it’s a pretty broad effect for tourism in general, but it’s definitely a bummer,” she said.
One bright spot was the northern border’s reopening.
Passage into and out of Canada was severely restricted during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but travel has begun to pick up again. Business owners reported an abnormally large number of Canadians visiting Buffalo this summer.
Montana’s border crossings registered more than 170,000 people traveling into the U.S. from Canada in June and July of this year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. That’s compared to fewer than 20,000 in June and July of 2021.
Longmire Day’s in-person return was also a shot in the arm for local tourism.
Jennifer McCormick, executive director of the Longmire Foundation, previously told the Bulletin that around 2,000 people traveled to Buffalo to enjoy the annual celebration of the Longmire book series and television series, the first time since 2019 the event wasn’t virtual.
Business owners said they appreciated that extra business.
“Anytime you have an event like that, it makes a difference,” Stewart said. “I’m thankful for the Longmire crowd that comes.”
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| 2022-09-10T12:59:32Z
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Park County commissioners are opposing a proposal to rename Squaw Teats — a pair of peaks in the county’s very southeastern corner — as Crow Woman Buttes.
CASPER — More than 40 Wyoming places now have new names, after a federal effort to remove a slur aimed at Indigenous women from federal landmarks.
The term “squaw” has historically been used, often derogatorily, as an ethnic and sexist slur. The Department of the Interior, under the leadership of Laguna Pueblo member Secretary Deb Haaland, issued an order last year calling for more than 650 public places in the United States that use the term to be renamed.
The department also replaced the term with “sq———” in official communications.
“I feel a deep obligation to use my platform to ensure that our public lands and waters are accessible and welcoming. That starts with removing racist and derogatory names that have graced federal locations for far too long,” Haaland said in a statement Thursday.
Haaland is the first Indigenous person to serve in a cabinet position in the U.S.
Forty-one places in Wyoming now have new names. About a third of those are creeks, including the waterway west of Casper that has now been dubbed Platte Creek, for the river it empties into.
A Carbon County canyon with the offensive name is now known as Continental Divide Canyon. The site known as “Sq——— Teats” outside Meeteetse is now Crow Woman Buttes.
Several new site names in Wyoming also borrow terms from Indigenous languages, such as Kuchunteka’a Toyavi for a peak in Park County, Pannaite Naokwaide for a well-traveled creek in the Bridger-Teton National Forest and Tuka Naa’iya Po’I Hunu’u for a canyon in Teton County.
The new names will go into effect immediately, according to a statement from the department Thursday.
Haaland’s order created a task force that included representatives from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and other federal agencies. Local naming boards were able to make recommendations, but most of the renaming happened on the federal level.
Tribal governments of “nearly” 70 tribes also participated in nation-to-nation consultations, resulting in “several hundred” recommendations for new names, Thursday’s statement said.
Many of the new names come from nearby landmarks, including mountains, streams or springs.
A full list of names changed under this order, as well as a map with each location, is available on the U.S. Geographical Survey website.
Before the Interior’s order, just one federal place with the derogatory term in its name — a lake in Yellowstone National Park — had been changed in Wyoming, to Indian Pond in 1981.
In June, a Yellowstone peak named after an Army lieutenant who led a massacre of Native Americans was renamed to First Peoples Mountain, after an unanimous vote by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
“Names that still use derogatory terms are an embarrassing legacy of this country’s colonialist and racist past,” said John Echohawk, executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, in a statement following Haaland’s announcement. “It is well-past time for us, as a nation, to move forward, beyond these derogatory terms, and show Native people — and all people — equal respect.”
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| 2022-09-10T12:59:39Z
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Fifteen years ago this week I lost my son.
I never use that word — “lost”. I hate it. I have always said he passed as if passing into a new life on the other side, passing into heaven or passing through the white light explained where he went.
The term “lost” made me feel like I would forever be searching for him, that there would be a chance he would return, rejoin my life and tell stories of his adventures. When someone is lost there is always the hope that they will be found.
Death doesn’t work that way.
Grieving a child is an endless process; a roller coaster of heart-stopping drops and endless climbing. We climb to be strong enough to walk through life with the outward look of normality while covering the permanent inner change of our DNA. And we are changed. Every tiny molecule of our DNA is changed.
I remember a conversation with my older son after the funeral when he said, “Mom, what will it be like when he has been gone 10 years? What if we forget him?”
My response was, “Oh honey, 10 years is a long time away. And we will never forget him!”
Well, that marker came and went and here we are at 15 years. Sentiments like “getting over it,” “being done” or “forgetting” do not relate to my grief. If that were true, wouldn’t 15 years be long enough?
Fifteen years ago this week my son passed, but he isn’t lost. He sits with me when I write and stands with me when I speak. He giggles through the twinkle in his daughter’s eyes and belly laughs with us when we share stories of him. I can feel his baby hand wrap around my finger as I rocked him and hear his cries in the night. He comes back to me when I drive his truck and he sings along when Bob Dylan is played on the radio.
He would be 37 now, but he is not. My memories flash from his movements in my belly as I carried him to seeing him the last time when he was 22. Forever 22, as people say when talking about a loved one who has passed.
I remember my 22-year-old son with clarity as if he were sitting in front of me as I type this. His beard, his smile, his crooked baseball cap and his laugh. I remember how it felt to be hugged by him while the bristles of his beard brushed against my face.
For 15 years I have searched these memories. I have closed my eyes as I held his guitar to hear him sing as he played it. I have opened plastic bins to unfold and refold his favorite clothes, holding them tightly to my face in hopes of smelling a faint scent of him. I have driven his truck to feel his hands on mine as together we hold the steering wheel.
These memories don’t wear out and are never used up.
Fifteen years ago this week my son passed. Fifteen years is a long time, but not long enough to get over it, be done with grief or forget him. The reality is that I loved him from his first movements in my belly and I will grieve for him until the day I pass into a new life, into heaven or walk into the white light to join him.
When I do, I am sure he will say, “Mom, I never left you and now your grieving ends. It has been long enough.”
Pennie’s Life Lesson: When your loved one dies, they are never lost. They are always with you.
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| 2022-09-10T12:59:45Z
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After most Americans watched the twin towers fall on Sept. 11, 2001 — then again and yet again — as the terrorist attacks were replayed before our eyes, we experienced a kind of communal PTSD.
As a country, we were afraid that the nightmares would never go away. As long as we hold onto this fear the attack will not go away.
Since tragedy lasts for a long time in our memories, it seems important to learn how we can change our post-traumatic stress into compassion.
If we look at politics, it seems that fear is a motivator. If we call someone the “enemy,” then we have to prepare to fight. But if we see a higher power, then we can look more clearly at our feelings, including fear.
On 9/11, we all learned the shock of death. As the news unfolded, we became more afraid—afraid of flying, afraid of foreigners, afraid there would never be a normal day.
And that’s where the stress of post-trauma haunts us.
But we have another choice—to look at our fear and transform its shadow into doing the best we can to reach out in thoughts and deeds of hope. We can create active compassion from soul-wrenching memory.
You see, it is suffering that can inspire the depth of our humanity. We can see others as like us and want to help.
Such is the gift of a mother who was traumatized by 9/11. This New Yorker, Lauren Thompson, was terrified by the attacks in her hometown, but she wanted her son to feel safe again. So she took her fear and discovered strength beneath the tragedy.
She looked at 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Sri Lankan tsunami and the violence in East Timor, then created a way to show her child, in her words, “that while bad things happen, the world is nonetheless a good place to be.”
Even years removed from these events, Lauren’s compassion can still transform our fear. She writes from true survival stories:
Hope is remembering you are not alone.
Hope is a candle flame in the dark.
Hope is the glistening when the storm has passed.
Hope is finding happiness in simple things.
Hope is knowing that you are loved, and knowing you love others.
Maybe the tragedy on Highway 287 can give us hope for 9/11 in how creative people take the agonizing memories and transform them so compassion can find its way.
Even during COVID, we can find a way to see beyond our fears, and perhaps have mercy on those who are blinded by them.
Each trauma, whether physical or mental, offers a possibility to see things through new eyes, to see a way forward, even if it is dim.
And each trauma offers us a way to recognize not just our suffering, but the common hope of our humanity.
The Rev. Dr. Sally Palmer, a retired instructor at the University of Wyoming and pastor of nearly 50 years, is a leader in contemplative prayer and the Wyoming Interfaith Network.
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| 2022-09-10T12:59:51Z
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As statewide primaries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election.
This decision-making process is fraught with difficulties, especially for inexperienced voters.
Voters must navigate angry, emotion-laden conversations about politics when trying to sort out whom to vote for. Americans are more likely than ever to view politics in moral terms, meaning their political conversations sometimes feel like epic battles between good and evil.
But political conversations are also shaped by, obviously, what Americans know – and, less obviously, what they think they know – about politics.
In recent research, I studied how Americans’ perceptions of their own political knowledge shape their political attitudes. My results show that many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do.
Knowledge deficit, confidence surplus
Over the past five years, I have studied the phenomenon of what I call “political overconfidence.” My work, in tandem with other researchers’ studies, reveals the ways it thwarts democratic politics.
Political overconfidence can make people more defensive of factually wrong beliefs about politics. It also causes Americans to underestimate the political skill of their peers. And those who believe themselves to be political experts often dismiss the guidance of real experts.
Political overconfidence also interacts with political partisanship, making partisans less willing to listen to peers across the aisle.
The result is a breakdown in the ability to learn from one another about political issues and events.
A ‘reality check’ experiment
In my most recent study on the subject, I tried to find out what would happen when politically overconfident people found out they were mistaken about political facts.
To do this, I recruited a sample of Americans to participate in a survey experiment via the Lucid recruitment platform. In the experiment, some respondents were shown a series of statements that taught them to avoid common political falsehoods. For instance, one statement explained that while many people believe that Social Security will soon run out of money, the reality is less dire than it seems.
My hypothesis was that most people would learn from the statements, and become more wary of repeating common political falsehoods. However, as I have found in my previous studies, a problem quickly emerged.
The problem
First, I asked respondents a series of basic questions about American politics. This quiz included topics like which party controls the House of Representatives – the Democrats – and who the current Secretary of Energy is – Jennifer Granholm. Then, I asked them how well they thought they did on the quiz.
Many respondents who believed they were top performers were actually among those who scored the worst. Much akin to the results of a famous study by Dunning and Kruger, the poorest performers did not generally realize that they lagged behind their peers.
Of the 1,209 people who participated, around 70% were overconfident about their knowledge of politics. But this basic pattern was not the most worrying part of the results.
The overconfident respondents failed to change their attitudes in response to my warnings about political falsehoods. My investigation showed that they did read the statements, and could report details about what they said. But their attitudes toward falsehoods remained inflexible, likely because they – wrongly – considered themselves political experts.
But if I could make overconfident respondents more humble, would they actually take my warnings about political falsehoods to heart?
Poor self-assessment
My experiment sought to examine what happens when overconfident people are told their political knowledge is lacking. To do this, I randomly assigned respondents to receive one of three experimental treatments after taking the political knowledge quiz. These were as follows:
- Respondents received statements teaching them to avoid political falsehoods.
- Respondents did not receive the statements.
- Respondents received both the statements and a “reality check” treatment. The reality check showed how respondents fared on the political quiz they took at the beginning of the survey. Along with their raw score, the report showed how respondents ranked among 1,000 of their peers.
For example, respondents who thought they had aced the quiz might have learned that they got one out of five questions right, and that they scored worse than 82% of their peers. For many overconfident respondents, this “reality check” treatment brought them down to earth. They reported much less overconfidence on average when I followed up with them.
Finally, I asked all the respondents in the study to report their levels of skepticism toward five statements. These statements are all common political falsehoods. One statement, for example, asserted that violent crime had risen over the prior decade – it hadn’t. Another claimed the U.S. spent 18% of the federal budget on foreign aid – the real number was less than 1%.
I expected most respondents who had received my cautionary statements to become more skeptical of these misinformed statements. On average, they did. But did overconfident respondents learn this lesson too?
Reality check: Mission accomplished
The results of the study showed that overconfident respondents began to take political falsehoods seriously only if they had experienced my “reality check” treatment first.
While overconfident respondents in other conditions showed no reaction, the humbling nature of the “reality check,” when they realized how wrong they had been, led overconfident participants in that condition to revise their beliefs. They increased their skepticism of political falsehoods by a statistically significant margin.
Overall, this “reality check” experiment was a success. But it reveals that outside of the experiment, political overconfidence stands in the way of many Americans’ ability to accurately perceive political reality.
The problem of political overconfidence
What, if anything, can be done about the widespread phenomenon of political overconfidence?
While my research cannot determine whether political overconfidence is increasing over time, it makes intuitive sense that this problem would be growing in importance in an era of online political discourse. In the online realm, it is often difficult to appraise the credibility of anonymous users. This means that false claims are easily spread by uninformed people who merely sound confident.
To combat this problem, social media companies and opinion leaders could seek ways to promote discourse that emphasizes humility and self-correction. Because confident, mistaken self-expression can easily drown out more credible voices in the online realm, social media apps could consider promoting humility by reminding posters to reconsider the “stance,” or assertiveness, of their posts.
While this may seem far-fetched, recent developments show that small nudges can lead to powerful shifts in social media users’ online behavior.
For example, Twitter’s recent inclusion of a pop-up message that asks would-be posters of news articles to “read before tweeting” caused users to rethink their willingness to share potentially misleading content.
A gentle reminder to avoid posting bold claims without evidence is just one possible way that social media companies could encourage good online behavior. With another election season soon upon us, such a corrective is urgently needed.
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Who’s using the culture war to distract from the economy now?
Democrats have long believed — going back at least to the famous 2005 Thomas Frank book, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” — that Republicans cynically deploy cultural issues to divert attention from kitchen-table concerns.
If only Democrats, they told themselves, could convince voters that their agenda is the true populism opposed to the GOP’s faux culture-based populism, the spell would be lifted, and the public eagerly embrace higher corporate tax rates and “Medicare for All.”
This was always a fantasy, and sure enough, Democrats are regaining their footing in the midterms with a completely opposite approach.
Over the last couple of months, the party has set about to out-culture war the Republicans, using a different set of issues. As Republicans around the country desperately try to keep the focus on the ultimate kitchen-table concern, inflation, Democrats insist on talking about one of the most contentious issues in American politics, abortion.
Back in July, I was dismissive of the idea that Dobbs would have a major impact on the midterms, but it has clearly made a difference.
Republicans outside the deepest red areas have been in full-blown retreat, trying to avoid the topic or recalibrating on the fly.
It’s not just abortion. Democrats have portrayed Dobbs as a threat to a suite of “right to privacy” issues, from contraceptives to interracial marriage and gay marriage.
Even Biden’s focus on Trump has a cultural element. The case against his predecessor is swathed in the rhetoric of the defense of democracy, when Trump is the biggest cultural lightning rod in the country. For both his supporters and opponents, what is most important about Trump is that he stands for a cluster of values. Depending on who you ask, he represents a defense of the nation or xenophobia, anti-elitism or anti-intellectualism, protean strength or a threat to the rules, authenticity or an untutored demagogy.
Cultural issues have never inherently been a vulnerability for Democrats. It has always depended.
They are at their strongest when they can portray their positions as the logical extensions of individual autonomy and choice, as they do with abortion and gay marriage.
They are at their weakest when their positions conflict with strongly held community values like patriotism and lawfulness, reflect the priorities of a small, out-of-touch elite (for example, the push for the adoption of the term “Latinx”), or take on a hectoring tone.
The last couple of months should underline the legitimacy of culture-war politics, if there was ever any doubt. Appeals to such issues are not just a Republican plot.
Cultural issues are especially powerful because they involve a clash of values and elemental questions of who we are as a people. They are inherently “divisive” — people are deeply dug in and emotionally committed on both sides, which is what makes them cultural issues in the first place. And they almost always involve identifying an internal threat from which an embattled constituency has to be defended — in this case, purportedly, a runaway Supreme Court and extremist Republicans who want to trample the rights of women.
It’s not as though Republicans don’t have cultural issues of their own in this campaign, especially the border, crime, and trans-radicalism.
It’s the economy that they overwhelmingly want to focus on, though. It still looms, as it always does, incredibly large.
But Republicans, as Democrats have proved over the years, can’t simply talk or wish their way past cultural pitfalls for their party. The need to establish a compromise position on abortion that they feel confident defending and avoid, to the extent they can, falling into the trap of litigating Trump’s myriad ongoing controversies.
It may provide some measure satisfaction to complain about the other side using cultural issues to their advantage, but it’s much better to have an effective answer.
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| 2022-09-10T12:59:59Z
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I live along the most dangerous highway in the United States, U.S. Highway 287. In order to shop, I must drive 30 to 40 minutes north or south, sharing the road with cars, pickups, trucks and RVs.
From Ft. Collins, the road threads its way through the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, climbing 3,000 feet before cresting the Cheyenne Divide and crossing the historic Overland Trail on the historic Laramie plains.
Especially when I have my 1-year-old grandson in the car, I drive defensively, checking the rear-view mirror for upcoming speeding vehicles, scanning ahead for wobbly trucks or ambitious over-takers.
My risk lies in being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Most fatal accidents along this stretch of highway stem from drivers unfamiliar with the twists and turns inherent in mountain driving. Or else, alone in their speeding car, they fall asleep. That happens a lot too.
But the 60-mile view to the north from atop Pumpkin Vine is suddenly captivating, mesmerizing and distracting. Plus, after 30 miles of on-again, off-again reception, you suddenly have internet.
Trucks especially gain speed rolling off that summit. The wide-open divided four-lane highway seems heavenly. And there might be a few heavenly bodies about; perhaps the spirits of the 2001 University of Wyoming cross-country team waiting to wake up after encountering a drunk driver.
But the long sweep of the brand-new road is exhilarating, and I understand why folks love to speed along. The five minutes they save by maxing out their speed along the few straightaways may be the price of their — or my — life. Because when the highway abruptly narrows back to two-lane, the speed, or lust for it, does not go away.
Every day, limestone-loaded double tractor-trailers turn left across these two lanes of traffic and slowly accelerate on their way to delivering tons of impure limestone to feed cement plants in neighboring Colorado. Forty-five daily trips these drivers make. Compromising their appointed rounds in the name of safety would make them late.
Long lines of frustrated drivers lead to dangerous passing attempts if the loaded semis pull out in front of oncoming traffic. The reckless sometimes try to pass several vehicles at a time around curves and before hidden vales. Sometimes they do not make it.
I hit the shoulder regularly, leaning on my horn. If they knew a four-lane was ahead, they might wait. But they do not.
Add to this the obsession with driving as fast as possible, and you have an accident waiting to happen.
Every time I venture out on the highway, I see evidence of vehicles traveling at high rates of speed and forced to take emergency action. They leave yards-long skid marks as they brake and veer to avoid an oncoming obstacle. Damaged guard rails, road signs and mile markers attest to the frequent violence.
If I set my cruise control at 70 mph, I present a moving hazard as cars pass me like I am standing still.
I know this road like the back of my hand, having driven it weekly for 40 years. I know where the road dips down, following the undulating grassy hills of the southern Laramie Basin, hills that once nourished herds of bison as they wandered the plains. I know which undulations can conceal a semitrailer.
The recently repainted center striping on the highway confirms my knowledge; a solid yellow line warns drivers not to pass here. But these signals are not heeded by those in a hurry. Choosing to believe their own eyes, when an oncoming vehicle appears magically before them, they panic. And if I happen to be driving in the vicinity, I am in immediate danger.
I am reminded daily of a crash adjacent to my ranch. At the Leazenby Lake turnoff, Highway 287 suddenly tacks 35 degrees to the north to cut across the high ground that flanks the Harney Creek.
Construction flaggers were standing in my driveway, stopping the northbound traffic. The line had backed up as far as the kink in the road, past the Vista Grande turnoff.
An inattentive trucker, not noticing the kink or the tail lights of the sedan stopped dead on the highway, plowed directly into the car, instantly killing the elderly couple who, minutes before, had obediently slowed and stopped at the end of the line. The trucker’s 100-yard skid marks angling onto the soft shoulder are still visible and remind me daily of the dangers of inattention.
This stretch of highway is infamous. Just last year, a 22-year-old from Aurora died when he hit the Harney Creek bridge guardrail at a high rate of speed. Two were killed and several injured just 8 miles down the road at Spring Lakes road when a texting southbound driver failed to notice someone turning left on his way home.
Annually, at least one — and as many as nine — perish on this road. And in fact, patrol cars on both sides of the border are on duty, especially during summer weekend holidays.
But most of the time the maniacs prevail, endangering everyone on the road. Speed kills, especially on this highway.
Most of the drivers in the summer are tourists, unfamiliar with the sudden weather conditions that can arise out of a clear blue sky. I have seen evidence of more than one trailer overturned, caught by a sudden gust of wind exceeding 70 mph.
The shoulder bears the scar of a large rectangular piece of steel plowing up the roadside vegetation. Air conditioner unit covers, tarps, mattresses, coolers and tie-down straps commonly litter the shoulder. As metropolitan Fort Collins and even little Laramie grows, highway patrol officers have increasing miles of secondary roads to patrol.
Why not take advantage of 21st-century technology and institute a photo speed surveillance system along this dangerous strip of federal highway?
After visiting Australia a few years ago driving a rented car, I was served by mail with a speeding ticket six months later. The cost was $325 U.S. for doing 35 kph in a 25 kph zone. I had been warned about the speed cameras but had not noticed them.
Consider my confusion upon opening this summons. Needless to say, I paid the bill and have since rented cars in Australia free from the onus of an unpaid fine.
Wyoming has more than 1,500 miles of heavily-traveled federal highways. At any one time, a majority of the vehicles on those roads are speeding. Imagine thousands of dollars rolling in daily as a photo speed control system goes online. Just the signs stating the presence of this safety system will make a difference. Eventually, word will get around, and the truckers and cars will slow as the fines come rolling in.
I am not sure about the payback and how long it will take. But how many more innocent passengers will have to die on the road, mangled by tons of hurtling steel, before we wake up and do something?
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It plays out every night on TV: Republicans show they have no limits when it comes to attempts to destroy our democracy.
They weaseled into our highest court and weaken our U.S. Senate using the filibuster. They use gerrymandering as a weapon. Republicans, not votes, will decide who wins future elections in many states.
They attack emails, but find it OK to steal thousands of classified documents belonging to the American people, perhaps to be offered for sale from Florida to the highest bidder. How many have already been sold? (What’s worse than a lawyer? Answer, two lawyers and an intimidated judge!)
Why is this? Because the party destroying democracy knows the party defending democracy is nothing but milquetoast. Today’s Republicans know democracy is its own worst enemy. (Nothing new there.)
Our traitors were not always Republican. Traitors are happy to wear whatever hat fits on a given day. In 1875, that hat was a Democratic one when they convinced the North that they would treat blacks fairly with respect, but then proceeded to intimidate and kill a race of people for another 100 years. Even worse, they got away with it!
Then Southern Democrats traded their old Democratic hats for nice new Republican hats when on July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act outlawing all segregation.
Surprise! Guess who welcomed them with open arms? Remember, Trump was a Democratic long before becoming a Republican.
Why do we now let a traitor undermine our democracy daily, avoiding the jail where he belongs? Was Jan. 6, 2021, just the beginning of the end?
We are heading toward an election in November that may be the biggest nightmare this country has ever seen, and then comes the election in 2024. Will your vote no longer matter? Will those be our final elections? Do we now know the date our democracy will be officially dead?
Where is a leader who can save our democracy? Where is our Lincoln? I'm much too old to wait for our justice!
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I have had the privilege to make many trips to Washington, D.C., to advocate on behalf of important public policy issues such as the humanities and our public lands. Among the most substantive and enjoyable of my visits have been those with Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
What always impressed me was that she took the time to study up on the issues and was always prepared. It was clear she was a serious and intelligent stateswoman who loved debating public policy issues on their merits, within the framework of our democratic institutions and traditions, and rooted in our fealty as Americans to the Constitution and to the rule of law.
Now she finds herself running for re-election to the seat she has so honorably filled against a former supporter who has decided to place her personal ambition over principle. She's chosen to cynically ride along with the tragic headwinds of irrationality, authoritarianism and violent insurrection that are threatening our republic instead of mustering the character and fortitude to stand against them as Ms. Cheney has.
If there ever has been a time to set aside the blind partisan loyalty our nation’s founders distrusted in the name of preserving the nation they pledged their “lives … fortunes and … sacred honor” to create and preserve, it is now.
The choice has never been more stark and the stakes have never been more high.
We are big enough in our small state to look beyond our differences, see when our democratic values are at stake and come together to do what’s right.
I urge all of my fellow Wyomingites, be you Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Constitution Party members or independents to cast your vote for Liz Cheney on Aug. 16.
If you are at all hesitant because you feel you don’t have much in common with her on public policy issues, I can guarantee you that what you do have in common with her is far more important because you and she both want to continue to have these policy debates within a constitutional democratic republic, whereas Harriet Hageman does not.
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CHEYENNE – East and South triad trustee candidates in Laramie County School District 1 said they are ready to bring their constituents’ voices to the table.
Five out of the six candidates running in Area 1 and Area 2 told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle their plans this week, if elected, and expressed their passion for the elected, unpaid position. There are three areas for candidates to specifically run and campaign within their boundaries, as well as an LCSD1 at-large race. The four eventual winners will join the local school board in January.
This is the first time seats have been allocated to specific geographic areas within the school district, as opposed to all of them being at-large, which candidates in the South triad said was especially important to them.
“I am running as a south-sider for life. I believe wholeheartedly that with the south side and the triad, there’s a large disparity at the district level, and even the treatment of the south side and its schools,” said Shelly Downham, parent and trustee candidate in Area 1. “I want to represent South triad issues, real issues, and not just political stances.”
Twenty candidates filed before the filing period ended on Aug. 29 for the four seats available, and five candidates have already dropped out. Michelle Tonacchio, Peter Zip III and Diane Beffert withdrew from the Area 3 race, where incumbent LCSD1 Trustee Christy Klaassen is running. Lilia Olejnik and Kathy Russell dropped out of the LCSD1 at-large race.
Social media posts from Facebook revealed that Tonacchio withdrew from the race in Area 3 to try to keep from splitting votes for conservative candidates in the Central triad. She posted on Facebook in the “Moms for Liberty – Laramie County, WY” group, asking for advice about backing out of the race to make sure candidate Todd Reynolds was defeated, because Klaassen had no plans to.
“I’m curious everyone’s thoughts on whether they can’t stand another term with her, or if it wouldn’t be the end of the world if she was the ‘conservative’ candidate for Central,” Tonacchio wrote regarding Klaassen, before eventually withdrawing on Tuesday.
Area 1
Candidates in LCSD1 Area 1 will not have to face an incumbent, unlike those in Areas 2 and 3. Downham, Susan Edgerton and Joseph Ramirez are all new contenders for a seat on the school board.
Downham, 46, has been a Cheyenne resident since 2002, and an advocate for representation of specific areas on the school board for more than six years. She told the WTE she played an instrumental part in the change by starting a petition, presenting to the school board and attending meetings that led to the change.
Her involvement in LCSD1 goes beyond advocacy, though. She said she has been involved at every level a parent can be for the past two decades, from volunteering with teachers, staff and coaches to fundraising for schools. She has three children who have gone through South triad schools, and she said her goals include uniting the triads and promoting equality.
A priority if she were elected is to address the district’s boundary waivers policy. She said it is negatively affecting the south, because kids leave instead of staying and building a positive environment. Downham said it has caused issues among students and families, and “we’re too small of a town to have those feelings going around.”
She also wants to find a balance for parents and teachers between making choices for their student’s education and being able to trust that educators have students’ best interests at heart. She said the culture has shifted regarding believing teachers and respecting what they taught, and there has to be a middle ground.
Ramirez, 70, is another passionate advocate for representation in the South triad. Although he has lived in Cheyenne his entire life and worked for state education and labor agencies, he has spent the last 25 years in the South triad. He ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for a seat in the Wyoming Legislature, and managed campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s.
His inspiration for running in the Area 1 race came from an incident at McCormick Junior High in 2018. He said there were students who were creating a racist and homophobic environment, and he believes there are still similar issues ongoing in the district that he hopes to alleviate. Ramirez also shared his concerns about book banning and negative attitudes toward teachers.
“I still hear stories of bullying and harassment against both of those groups (LGBTQ+ and students of color), plus students with disabilities,” he said. “We’ve got to cut that off at the neck. No way can we have that kind of disrespect for any students. All students need to be treated with respect and dignity.”
He noted that he plans to provide all his information in both Spanish and English, because he said there is a large number of Spanish speakers who deserve to understand. He said students shouldn’t be put in a position where they need to be translators for their guardians, because it doesn’t promote a good learning environment.
“That’s part of the thing that I’m going to be doing is trying to reach out to that group and let them know that they have a bilingual voice for the seat,” he said.
The third candidate in the Area 1 race is Edgerton, 57, who has been included in a “vote conservative” campaign on social media. She has joined arms with trustee candidates Hank Bailey, Brooke Humphrey and Klaassen, and has spoken out at LCSD1 meetings in the past in attempts to change the library book checkout policy and remove a masking requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Edgerton came to Cheyenne in 2001 with her family due to the military, and they decided to put down roots. She said her children have graduated from schools in LCSD1. Her background is in early childhood development, and she has worked both as a licensed day-care provider and in military child development centers.
Her key platform components are promoting strong academic basics, support for teachers in the classroom through parent involvement, equal opportunity and transparency. She is an advocate for making sure students are graduation-ready, but in a way that prepares them for adulthood, such as teaching personal finance and knowing how to rent an apartment.
Edgerton said she has pride for the South triad, and she wants to provide the best representation as someone who understands constituents’ needs and concerns. She said she has been unhappy in recent years with stakeholder speech being stifled.
“I want to make sure that everyone gets to participate, that everyone has a voice,” she said.
Area 2
Brooke Humphrey and Maurina Venturelli are challengers to incumbent Rich Wiederspahn in the LCSD1 Area 2 race. Wiederspahn didn’t respond to the WTE’s interview inquiries.
The youngest candidate campaigning in Area 2 is Humphrey, who is a 26-year-old mom that was born and raised in Cheyenne. She left southeast Wyoming for a few years to pursue ministry training in California and abroad, before returning home to start a business with her husband. Her kids aren’t old enough to attend public school yet, but she said she wants to help bring about change in the school district before they are enroll.
“Cheyenne, it’s our home, it’s where our kids will grow up, and I’m just trying to invest in the community,” she said. “Part of how I feel I’m supposed to do that is on the school board.”
Humphrey said she wants to focus on protecting parents’ rights, ensuring LCSD1 is a place that teachers can be proud to work in, promoting transparency and getting back to the basics of education. She said it is important that children are supported in their physical, emotional and intellectual development.
“It’s extremely important for us to be keeping the money closest to the students, and that is in our classrooms,” she said. “Whether it’s making sure that our buildings are sufficient and are comfortable for teachers and students, or making sure that our teachers have enough finances and resources to prep their classroom for the year and for their students – we can move resources from upper admin, down into the classrooms with the students, to better educate our kids.”
Her criticisms of the board in recent years are based on the decision to quit funding elementary school sports, taking away the parents’ right to choose whether to mask their student and changing the public comment policy at trustees meetings. She said trustees need to make more decisions that are best for students in the district.
Venturelli, 40, is a newer resident in Cheyenne, but she said her roots in Montana give her an understanding of the region. She was also influenced by her mother, who was a history teacher until retirement and taught her the impact an educator can have on a child. It was one of the reasons she was inspired to run after she started attending school board meetings in 2020.
She also decided to campaign for a seat in Area 2 because she wants to have a better relationship with students and administrators, encourage the development of a modern public education to meet the needs of all kids and bring a unique style of leadership to the board. Venturelli said she hopes to create a student council and build less invasive mental health programs in the district.
“When I talk to kids, in particular to high school kids, their issues are so far from what the adults are talking about. It’s really incredible,” she said. “We don’t give them enough credit. These kids are smart, and they know what interferes with their learning and what doesn’t. And, as adults, we are completely disconnected from that.”
The general election takes place on Nov. 8. Absentee and early in-person voting begins Sept. 23.
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25.
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Quarter Auction to support local first responders
What: Simply Heroes, a local nonprofit organization, will hold a Quarter Auction to help support first responders.
When: Sunday, Sept. 11; doors open at 1:30 p.m., auction starts at 2.
Where: Cheyenne Shrine Club, 224 E. Iowa St.
Cost: Tickets/bidding paddles are $5 each or three for $10.
More information: There will be food and drinks available for purchase at the event, as well as a 50/50 raffle.
Simply Heroes is an organization that helps support law enforcement, firefighters, first responders and their families with grants, donations and scholarships.
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CHEYENNE – Tents lined a dusty trail dotted with dry scrub, amid an otherwise green backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Music, cowbells and cheering could be heard periodically during the late summer morning last month near Leadville, Colorado.
Under one of the tents were three children, either sitting in folding chairs or walking around, anxious to see their mother, Mickey Sanderson, ride past them on a mountain bike. Another child was slung over the back of Mickey’s husband, Mitchell Sanderson, who carried the 7-year-old boy, Raylan, in a backpack carrier.
The three other children – 15-year-old Jaydon, 12-year-old Krystina and 5-year-old Wyatt – held signs the family made, featuring phrases like “100% No Less” and “MTB Queen is Mommy.”
When Mickey Sanderson eventually arrived at the tent, positioned near the 40-mile cutoff of the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race, it was on foot. She burst into tears when she saw her children, who quickly surrounded her. She melted into their embraces and cried.
It wasn’t quite the ending she’d hoped for: Sanderson’s goal was to finish the race, which would have meant completing just over 100 miles in central Colorado’s mountainous terrain.
Instead, she missed the race’s cutoff time, measured at the 40-mile mark.
But Sanderson’s tears, she would later tell her family, had as much to do with the relief of seeing their faces.
“I was sad that I didn’t make it, but I really just wanted to hug my kids. That’s pretty much all I thought about for the last probably 10 miles. I just ... I wanted to see my kids,” she said on race day, which was Aug. 13.
Her thoughts even drifted to Raylan. He was probably hot, she said, and if she didn’t make the cutoff time to continue the race, they could get him out of the sun.
Her children were quick to try and comfort her, and to offer their encouragement.
“There’s always next year,” said Jaydon, then 14. “And the year after that.”
Even through disappointment, Mickey Sanderson was pragmatic about the race. She opened what she joked was a “celebratory” can of Cherry Pepsi.
“What happened was I wasn’t fast enough,” she told her family. “40 miles is still 40 miles, right?”
“You didn’t die,” Jaydon said.
“I did not die,” Mickey echoed.
Mickey’s four children, whom she shares with Mitchell, seem to be at the heart of everything the 33-year-old does. If not for Raylan, Mickey likely would not have been in Leadville at all.
Raylan was diagnosed in 2017 with SYNGAP1-related neurodevelopmental disorder, which is often shortened colloquially to SYNGAP1.
However, “SYNGAP1 is not the name of a medical condition, but rather is the name of the gene that is affected,” according to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which conducts research and offers treatments for the genetic disorder. “When a disorder is traced back to a pathogenic variant in the SYNGAP1 gene, it is called a SYNGAP1-related disorder.”
A “mutation” in the SYNGAP1 gene can “cause a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders that can include childhood-onset epilepsy, developmental delays, movement disorders and features of autism spectrum disorder. The symptoms a child experiences and the severity of the disorder can vary widely,” the CHOP website continues.
Just over 1,000 people have been diagnosed with a SYNGAP1-related disorder. Experts say this is a significant undercount, because so much is still being learned about SYNGAP1-related disorders, and individuals must undergo genetic testing to be diagnosed.
Because of the complications caused by this genetic mutation, Raylan is nonverbal and has developmental delays, decreased muscle tone and mobility issues, and intractable epilepsy, meaning his seizures can’t be completely controlled by medication.
Mickey Sanderson began competing in mountain bike races to raise awareness of her son’s condition, and to raise money for an international nonprofit dedicated to SYNGAP1 research.
Leadville, called the “race across the sky,” is considered by many to be one of the most difficult mountain bike races in the country, if not the world. Its elevation begins at 10,152 feet and reaches 12,424 feet at its highest, according to cyclingnews.com.
Sanderson has only been racing on a mountain bike since July 2021. Since then, she’s competed in numerous races. It’s a key way for her to not only cope with the stress of parenting – and parenting a special-needs child – but also to spread awareness about the disorder and help raise money for research.
“I’m not a doctor, I’m not a physical therapist. But I know how to ride a bike,” Sanderson said. “So, whatever your talents are, whatever God’s given you to use, that’s what you use. … It was an opportunity to teach my kids that there’s always something worth fighting for, no matter how big or how small.”
This year, having not had a qualifying time at a previous race, Sanderson was chosen to participate in Leadville through its lottery.
It was the first race her husband and children had been able to attend. Sanderson made T-shirts for her family to wear at the race that said “Ride for Raylan” on the front, and “Support Crew” on the back. The family then tie-dyed the shirts in blue, green and purple, the colors that represent SYNGAP1.
Her next race will be the Austin Rattler on Nov. 5 in Texas. Depending on her time, she could qualify at that race for Leadville 2023.
A difficult diagnosis
Getting to the point of diagnosis for Raylan was a difficult process in itself.
Raylan was about 9 months old when Sanderson began realizing her son wasn’t hitting milestones: not sitting up, not rolling over. He began attending occupational therapy soon after.
The next thing she noticed was his mobility – that he seemed to have very low muscle tone, making him “floppy.”
After Raylan learned to walk, Sanderson began noticing that he was having seizures. She estimates he was having around 100 seizures each day at 2 years old. At about 2-1/2, he was also diagnosed with developmental delay with autism. But Sanderson “wasn’t getting the answers” about his seizures, and doctors continued to change Raylan’s medicine.
Then, after seeking a second opinion at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Raylan had an extended EEG, which found he was having “constant” seizure activity, Sanderson said.
This experience came after a long period of being told by doctors and loved ones alike that her son wasn’t having seizures at all, or that Sanderson wasn’t seeing what she thought she was seeing.
“For, like, three years, everyone thought Mom was crazy,” Sanderson said. “I kept telling everyone, ‘He’s having seizures, he’s having seizures. I know he’s having seizures.’”
Following the EEG, Raylan was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy, and the family was encouraged to have a genetic testing panel done.
“I realized at that moment that, no matter how many people made me feel like I was crazy, that I would never stop advocating for him, because he does not have a voice,” Sanderson said. “And if I don’t give him one, and I let other people take it away from him, that’s not a quality of life for anybody.”
Through that panel, Raylan was diagnosed with SYNGAP1-related disorder at about 3 years old.
Dr. Jillian McKee is an epilepsy neurogenetics fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In an interview with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, she explained that before children with SYNGAP1-related disorders begin have seizures, their families often notice developmental delays and autism spectrum disorder-like symptoms, along with that “floppiness” when a child is a baby, like Sanderson noticed early on in Raylan’s life.
In September 2020, the boy underwent a corpus callosotomy, which is a surgery that separates the two hemispheres of the brain and can help reduce the severity of seizures. Since the procedure, Sanderson said Raylan’s atonic, or drop, seizures have been rare.
Before his diagnosis, being the only person who seemed to see Raylan’s medical struggles was “super isolating,” she said.
With a diagnosis came some answers, a potential way forward, and eventually a community of parents whose children also had been diagnosed with this genetic disorder.
In many ways, though, finally putting a name to Raylan’s challenges was just the beginning of what would be a long road.
“When I got that diagnosis for him, I feel like I broke all over again,” Sanderson said, becoming emotional. “Like, I didn’t know what I was supposed to do next.”
What she did next was try to find a community, connecting with other families who’d received the same diagnosis.
She also made it part of her mission to spread the word about SYNGAP1-related disorders, so that if other families noticed signs and symptoms in their children, they might seek out the genetic testing necessary to detect the disorder.
Mountain biking has become a big piece of this awareness building for Sanderson.
“It is such a loving community – it is a community that’s, like, everybody has a life story, and they want to listen to it,” she said. “So I started to ride, and I just kind of talk about my son.”
This has helped her connect with others out on the trail, including those who also have loved ones with genetic disorders.
Researchers say people with SYNGAP1-related disorders make up about 1-2% of those with intellectual disabilities, making this type of mutation a relatively common genetic cause of intellectual disability.
Sanderson isn’t aware of another person in Wyoming that’s been diagnosed with a SYNGAP1-related disorder, although, statistically, there could be anywhere from 20 to 50 people in the state who have it and may not know it, said Dr. Ingo Helbig, a pediatric neurologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
At the time of his diagnosis in October 2017, Sanderson said Raylan was around number 500 of those diagnosed internationally. That number is now close to 1,100.
Biking for research
The Sanderson family has been stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base for 10 of the 13 years Mitchell Sanderson has been in the military: from 2009 to 2012, and again from 2015 to the present.
Because of Mitchell’s job, he’s away from the house about half of the month. During these times, it’s even more essential that Mickey and the kids are “a team,” as she calls them.
As a largely stay-at-home mom, riding a bike and training for races are the main way Sanderson said she takes mental health breaks and is able to take time for herself, whether that’s at the base gym or out on a trail.
She said she’s always been into biking, even racing BMX as a kid, but she couldn’t get her family into it. Then, in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began affecting Wyoming.
“I was like, ‘I am sick of these kids being in the house,’” she said.
Sanderson’s two older children had bikes, but Sanderson said she couldn’t figure out how to bike with Raylan, who, because of his condition, doesn’t have the muscle tone to hold himself up on a bike. She put him in a sling on her back until she found a bike trailer, which she said will hold the boy until he’s 100 pounds.
Then, earlier this summer, Raylan received an adaptive bike from Make-A-Wish Wyoming. Sanderson, who has worked as a bike mechanic at Rock On Wheels, requested that she be able to build the bike.
It was after the family began biking together in 2020 – first on the greenway, and then on trails at Curt Gowdy State Park – that Sanderson had an epiphany: she absolutely loved biking.
She began signing up for races in early 2021, starting with the fat bike Chubby Chaser race near Laramie that March. When she arrived home from that race, she signed up for Sunrise to Sunset, a bike race in Winter Park, Colorado, where competitors ride as many miles as they can in 12 hours.
She then participated in a slew of bike rides, all leading up to her first mountain bike race in July 2021.
She eventually began using the phrase “Ride for Raylan” and #RideforRaylan on social media.
“I didn’t really have a way to raise funds with it yet, because I just wanted to use it to bring awareness, and then I reached out to” the SynGAP Research Fund, she said. She currently uses the website syngap.fund/Raylan to raise money.
Mike Graglia is the managing director of the organization, which he founded with his wife, Ashley Evans. Like Raylan, their son, Tony, has a SYNGAP1-related disorder.
Tony, now 8, was 4 years old when he was diagnosed. After discovering “no one was really investing in science specifically” for SYNGAP1, the couple created the research fund with the goal of developing drugs and genetic therapies “that can improve our kids’ function so that the rest of their lives is less traumatic.”
“The current future for these kids is they get harder and harder, and they get on more and more meds, they end up in institutions, families get exhausted – I mean, these kids are a ton of work,” Graglia said. “We love our son, we all love our kids, so we created the fund as a way for Mickey and ourselves and other parents to do whatever they could to improve the future for our kids.”
Graglia said there are a number of parents of children with SYNGAP1-related disorders who run or cycle or mountain bike and encourage others to donate to the research fund as they train.
Having a child receive such a life-altering diagnosis can be extremely difficult for parents, Graglia said. They may initially feel very sad, or feel as though there’s no hope.
“By giving them something to do, by encouraging them to raise funds, you can channel that energy,” he said. “You can point people toward the better future.”
Sanderson uses the Facebook page Ride for Raylan to keep friends, family and supporters updated on her mountain bike training and races, as well as how Raylan is doing.
In the run-up to Leadville, she raised $2,064.
Treating SYNGAP1
Raylan currently takes three different medications for epilepsy, one for low motility in his bowels, and one for dysautonomia, or dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary body functions like heart rate, breathing and digestion. He takes each of these twice a day.
Outside of medication, Raylan gets physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and vision therapy, which helps with damage to his brain-eye communication caused by his large number of seizures. He also sees a neurologist regularly. With so many individuals on his care team, he sees someone at Children’s Hospital Colorado at least once each month, Sanderson said.
“Right now, there is no targeted therapy for (SYNGAP1-related disorders) specifically that’s currently available,” said McKee. “Our strategy for helping these patients is mainly to target what symptoms they present with. … We do know some medications tend to be more effective, so we can target our therapies that way, but it’s somewhat nonspecific at this point, with no targeted treatment that specifically affects the SynGAP protein. Hopefully, in the future, that is coming, but not available currently.”
Helbig added that there is still a lot to understand about SYNGAP1-related disorders and how they affect the people who have them.
Still, Raylan is a happy, relatively social kid. He’s observant – he noticed his shadow at an earlier age than Sanderson’s other children, she said, laughing when he saw it move where he moved.
He loves being outside in nature, is mesmerized by water, and, of course, loves to ride his bike.
Shortly after finishing her 40-mile ride in the Rockies last month, Sanderson asked her husband to put Raylan’s carrier onto her back.
At one point, she walked over to stand alongside the trail, pointing out to her son the riders who quickly blew past the tents.
“Look, Ray Ray,” she said excitedly, gesturing at the people who excitedly rode their bikes – just like her, and just like Raylan.
Hannah Black is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s criminal justice reporter. She can be reached at hblack@wyomingnews.com or 307-633-3128. Follow her on Twitter at @hannahcblack.
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CHEYENNE — Two local men were arrested last week for allegedly voting while ineligible because of prior felony convictions.
David L. Hakala, 45, and Brandon J. Toth, 40, both of Cheyenne, are accused of voting illegally in the November 2020 general election. Their rights to vote had not been restored following felony convictions, according to court documents.
Toth was arrested Sept. 1 by the Cheyenne Police Department after an officer pulled him over for not having a working license plate light, according to jail records. His arraignment is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Sept. 23 in Laramie County Circuit Court.
Hakala was arrested Sept. 2 by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office. It’s unclear how Hakala came into contact with law enforcement, but his arrest location was listed in jail records as the Laramie County Governmental Complex, 309 W. 20th St. His arraignment is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Sept. 21 in circuit court.
Each had a warrant for his arrest issued on Aug. 10.
Both were charged under Wyoming statute 22-26-106(a)(i), according to Laramie County jail records. The statute describes “false voting” as “voting, or offering to vote, when not a qualified elector entitled to vote at the election.”
The charge is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $200. If the offense is “committed with the knowledge of not being a qualified elector entitled to vote at the election or in that precinct,” a person could face up to one year in jail, a maximum fine of $5,000 or both.
A second or subsequent offense is punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of $10,000 or both.
The charges were filed following an investigation by Detective Michael Young with the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office, according to court documents. Young was investigating “individuals who were convicted of felonies and had registered and voted” within Laramie County.
The state law says: “The county sheriff shall investigate acts of false voting at the request of a county clerk who has reasonable cause to believe that a person has committed false voting. After an investigation and a finding that the allegation has merit, the county sheriff shall refer the matter to the district attorney for prosecution in the appropriate courts of this state.”
Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee could not be reached for comment.
Hakala was convicted in 2000 for unlawful manufacture or delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, schedule I, II or III drugs. He was apparently flagged in the WyoReg system as a convicted felon.
Toth had been convicted of multiple felonies in the past two decades. In 2006, he was convicted for unlawful manufacture or delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, narcotic schedule I or II drugs. He was convicted in 2011 for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, his third offense of that nature. In 2013 and 2017, he was convicted of unlawful possession of schedule I or II narcotics. He was also, at some point, convicted of violating his probation.
Toth “did not have a violent felony and thought he could vote,” a probable cause affidavit says. He also “said he was not aware of Wyoming law and thought his rights were restored.”
Both men apparently left a section of the voter registration form blank where they should have checked that they were not a convicted felon, were a convicted felon, but had their voting rights restored, or were a convicted felon whose voting rights had not been restored.
Detective Young said in affidavits that neither Hakala nor Toth had petitioned the Wyoming Department of Corrections and Wyoming Parole Board to have their rights restored. Toth is “not eligible for restoration of voter rights due to multiple felony convictions,” Young wrote.
State statute 7-13-105 outlines the restoration process. First-time nonviolent felons will “automatically have their right to vote restored if they completed their supervision or were discharged from an institution on or after” Jan. 1, 2010, according to the state Department of Corrections website. Those who finished their sentences before Jan. 1, 2010, must apply for restoration. An application form and further instructions are also available on the DOC website.
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CHEYENNE – All is well at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, even with the departure of its longtime director, Tina Worthman, and horticultural supervisor, Nettie Hardie.
Worthman’s departure comes as a result of her intention to spend more time with her family as she relocates to “farm life” in Nebraska, a recent press release from the Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens said.
Hardy, on the other hand, will continue her career as a horticulturalist in her home state of Alabama.
Currently, Paul Smith Children’s Village Manager Aaron Sommers is serving as interim director. With a 13-year tenure at the Botanic Gardens, this is a responsibility he has assumed time and time again.
However, he has no intention of becoming the full-time director. If he did, he said that he would have done it by now.
“I’ve been at the Botanic Gardens for 13-and-a-half years, and my heart remains at the forefront of the Children’s Village,” he said. “I look forward to having a fresh perspective, under a new leadership, to continue to grow the Botanic Gardens into the future that I know is bright for it, to continue the quality of its programs and beauty to the community.”
Though the staff is experiencing vacancy in two crucial roles, there’s no concern that the Gardens is decreasing its operations. Luckily, the “dormant season” for the Botanic Gardens is coming up, meaning daily responsibility for outdoor maintenance is reduced.
In other words, things will carry on as scheduled. The majority of the focus has turned to the city, where Jason Sanchez, head of the Cheyenne Community Recreation and Events Department, is part of the team interviewing for a new director.
“We’re trying to be methodical in the selection process, be very intense with our interview questions and pick the best candidate,” Sanchez said.
Worthman’s and Hardie’s departures come free of personal disputes between them and the city. In fact, Worthman, who has yet to leave for Nebraska, is attending a private event at the Botanic Gardens today.
As for her time as director, Worthman is leaving the role optimistic that she’s established a culture that will benefit the Gardens for years to come. She is particularly proud of the arts and culture that the “Jewel of Cheyenne” was able to provide to the community.
“I’m really proud of what was accomplished in the time that I was the director,” Worthman said. “I feel like Nettie and I were a good team, and I think that we have set some ways and standards of what we wanted the direction to be.
“I’m sure that however the future goes for the Gardens, everything will go really well. We appreciate all the support of the community.”
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_.
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Each year, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Americans celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month as a time to recognize the many contributions, diverse cultures and extensive histories of the American Latino community.
More Hispanics than ever before are seizing the opportunity to create new businesses, which improve their cities and neighborhoods. Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and own and operate more than 350,000 businesses nationwide, employing over 3 million people and counting.
Both President Biden and SBA Administrator Isabella Castilla Guzman – the highest-ranking Latina in the president’s Cabinet – have made strengthening our Hispanic-owned small businesses a priority over the last 18 months. The COVID-19 pandemic is the leading cause of business failure over the last two years. This is especially true for those businesses owned by communities of color, women and veterans. On his first day in office, the president took decisive action, in partnership with Congress, to implement programs and policies that bolstered millions of struggling small businesses and giving them a fighting chance to survive and thrive post-pandemic.
Almost immediately, the president signed the American Rescue Plan, which helped millions of main street small businesses with continued financial aid, targeting smaller, minority-owned firms in underserved communities. Hispanic-owned businesses were some of the most severely hurt by the various lockdowns of communities at the height of the pandemic. The ARP directly invested in our hardest-hit small businesses to ensure they could safely reopen – and remain open.
The ARP also bolstered the Paycheck Protection Program with an additional $7.25 billion in funding to support small businesses and nonprofits that were previously excluded, such as businesses owned by women, veterans and minorities. This plan also launched the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which targeted restaurants and other hard-hit food establishments, and the Shuttered Venue Operator Grant program.
In November 2021, the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law, which created enormous opportunities for minority businesses to gain access to over $1.2 trillion in federal, state and local government contracts on a variety of projects nationwide. A large percentage of Hispanic-owned businesses are in the construction and service industries, which will directly benefit from this comprehensive bill. This bill will fortify entrepreneurship, innovation and domestic supply chains, and, in the process, strengthen our democracy by creating equitable pathways to the American dream.
Finally, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 makes urgent investments that will bring down costs, level the playing field, and open historic opportunities for America’s 33 million small businesses and innovative startups – especially those businesses owned by minorities, women and veterans. This law not only tackles inflation and powers America’s transition to safer, cleaner energy, it also shrinks the budget deficit and – most importantly – drives down health care and energy costs for small businesses and their employees.
Lower costs mean small businesses can focus on doing what they do best: creating jobs, developing talent, innovating and opening doors of growth and opportunity across all our communities – including selling more American-made goods and services to the world’s largest buyer: the U.S. government.
The president’s policies over the last 18 months have had a positive effect on Hispanic-owned small businesses. National Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to applaud the accomplishments and fortitude of our Hispanic communities and celebrate the American dream of small business ownership.
For more information on SBA’s programs and services, please visit www.sba.gov and remember to follow us on Twitter @SBArockymtn.
Aikta Marcoulier is the SBA’s Region 8 administrator, based in Denver. She oversees the agency’s programs and services in Colorado, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
Aikta Marcoulier is the SBA’s Region 8 administrator, based in Denver. She oversees the agency’s programs and services in Colorado, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
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What a difference a week makes! Our beloved Pokes won the special teams and defensive parts of the game and beat Tulsa in overtime. Judy and I went and enjoyed a perfect game day in Laramie. My Nebraska Cornhuskers also won a tough one against North Dakota. As I write this, I’m sitting at my kitchen table, watching Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills play Thursday night football, and he is playing brilliantly! All is well.
The Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Charles Brown Jr. has challenged his members to think outside the box to meet the challenges of future potential adversaries. One person taking the challenge is Capt. Dan Hochhalter, commander of the 243rd Air Traffic Control. He runs our air traffic control squadron for our Air National Guard. He envisions the need for our military to capture islands rapidly, using our air operations. He has trained his air traffic controllers to protect airports and begin over-air operations in a very short time.
Last Friday, they demonstrated this new concept by flying Blackhawk helicopters from Camp Guernsey and capturing our airport tower, seizing the airstrip and starting air operations within minutes. I enjoyed observing his team’s professionalism and understanding the need for this concept in today’s world. Great job, Dan, and your Red-Tailed Hawks!
We have talked about our housing needs for a long time now. We had a company from Fargo, North Dakota visit and fall in love with Cheyenne. I found out about their visit and asked the Realtor to set up a meeting so I could sell Cheyenne and answer any questions they might have. We got a chance to Zoom on Tuesday, and I am so encouraged by the way these folks see our city. They love our downtown area and the beautiful buildings we are still blessed to have. They also loved the local restaurants they visited. The best part is they are interested in making investments in Cheyenne and helping us solve our housing crisis.
Can you believe we now have over 45 miles of greenway in our beautiful capital city? Thanks to our voters, who have helped us build this system, since 1991. I recently received a letter from a couple living in an RV who are driving across America. They said our greenway ranks up there with any they have ridden.
Tuesday, we got to cut the ribbon on another section of the Greenway. Taking Carey Avenue into Lions Park, you will see the new pathway connecting the avenues to Kennedy and over to Central Avenue. I walked the area, and I must say, what a nice addition to our system. Big shout out to the Greenway Technical Review Committee and Jeannie Vetter, our parks planner, who has this exceptional vision and makes it all come true.
Many companies have tried to solve the puzzle of renovating the Hynds Building and have not been able to piece the deal together. I believe it will take everyone working together to see the Hynds and hole successfully redeveloped. We took steps on that path this week with a meeting attended by Betsey Hale from Cheyenne LEADS and a developer wanting to make the project happen. We brainstormed funding sources, timelines and partners that could join this endeavor. I pledged the city’s support and feel like the economy has reached a point where this project just might get done. I feel like our downtown is like a supermodel who smiles and is missing their front teeth. Our dream team must work together to make this project happen.
It is surprising how much the city’s processes are involved in the building industry here in Cheyenne and in most cities. Planning, engineering, forestry, BOPU and our building department are just a few that have some kind of regulatory input in the building processes. I met with reps from the Southeast Wyoming Builders Association to talk about our involvement and ways we can be more supportive.
Time is money, and any delays cost the builders both. We have a good team, and that was recognized by the association, but any organization can improve, and they had ideas for ways we can do just that. My biggest question is how do they define good customer service in this industry, and how can our team work to meet that standard? I love our team and appreciate the industry working so hard to build our housing industry.
Tim Sheppard runs the Wyoming Veterans Commission, and he stopped by to share what the commission does to advocate for veterans’ issues. I think the big takeaway for me was how many veterans are not taking full advantage of the benefits they have earned. Therefore, it has become Tim’s mission to find and help them! He also shared their efforts on veteran homelessness, suicide, hunger initiatives, employment opportunities and so much more. If you know a vet that could use help, please reach out to Tim and the commission.
There is a change in the number and quality of businesses looking to expand in Cheyenne. LEADS reports they have been getting one or two calls a day from quality companies looking for places to house their businesses. One common need for all these companies seems to be power and water. We met and learned from Black Hills Energy and our BOPU team what their capacities are so we can better communicate with potential new businesses.
Black Hills shared that in the past 10 years, their electric load has more than doubled. It takes a lot of investments to provide this much growth in such a short period. I was so happy to hear that providing electricity should not be a detriment to our ability to grow. With good timelines and commitments, they can provide whatever we need.
However, water is harder to provide, since you just can’t manufacture more of it. That said, we do have a water issue. Our challenge is the growth has been unexpected in many areas where it is now occurring. That means the infrastructure might be undersized for the water and sewer loads that new industries might require.
Anything can be fixed with time, money and good partners. We have great utility partners, and I appreciate their willingness to work collaboratively to diversify our economy.
Forty-two years and six days is a very long time. Randy Hickman has worked that long for the city of Cheyenne, in our street and alley department. For the last few years, he has been the head of the department. He is the gentleman who showed me how to fix potholes, and let me tell you, that was a day of hard work. He officially retired on the 8th day of this month, so I stopped by to thank him and congratulate him on a great career. You can tell his crew loved him and he them. Randy, wishing you a well-deserved retirement. Hope the hunting and family time keeps you happy and busy.
I will apologize in advance to all of you who are subjected to having to look at pictures of my beautiful new grandson. My heart is full!!!
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Breaking News: “Wyoming ranks first in the nation for the percentage of federal student loan borrowers whose debt will be completely eliminated by a new federal loan forgiveness initiative.”
Thirty-seven percent of Wyomingites with student debt will have a zero balance under President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive those loans. That’s a win for these families, but another reason for partisanship among others.
Do you know who is unhappy that so many of their constituents had this noose removed from their necks? Here’s a hint. Not one ever lifted a finger to do anything about college education costs, though all were in positions to do so.
The loudest critics of President Biden’s decision to finally do something are members of the Republican “see nothing, say nothing, hear nothing caucus.”
Sen. John Barrasso said, “This decision is a boon for Biden’s wealthy supporters. The Biden administration is selling out working families to appease the far-left wing of the Democrat party.”
Who is Barrasso talking about? There can’t be many of Biden’s “wealthy supporters” among Wyoming beneficiaries of loan forgiveness. None are among the “far-left wing of the Democratic Party.” It’s as though John doesn’t know much about his constituents and has no idea how their lives just got better.
Never was heard a discouraging word from Barrasso or Lummis about Donald Trump’s loan forgiveness program. It helped only one person, Donald Trump. It’s called “filing for bankruptcy,” an option available to billionaires, but not struggling Wyoming folks with burdensome student loans.
Then there’s Gov. Mark Gordon. He has no record of attempting to solve the problem, but is loaded with criticism of the one who has. Gordon calls loan forgiveness a “government handout.” I must have missed it when he criticized government handouts to several Republican officials under the Payroll Protection Program during COVID or the ag subsidies many of them pocket.
Wyoming legislators piled on. Keep in mind, these people meet annually and debate their priorities. They spend a lot of time on abortion and critical race theory, defeating new revenue proposals and ignoring education funding. Never once have they debated how to bring college education expenses under control.
When Joe Biden offers a program, these Republicans are suddenly experts on the matter. State Sen. Brian Boner thinks we should drive kids in a different direction. Instead of the academic education they seek, he wants government to encourage “more technical skills.” He says we can reduce college costs by pushing more kids into the military.
Boner wants student loans to be treated like every other loan. He’d limit help to borrowers with considerable financial resources, current income and collateral to provide repayment assurance. Boner’s idea would succeed only at widening the income gap between haves and have-nots and preventing low-income kids from going to college.
Rep. Landon Brown says debtors should just get a scholarship. A student of whose life Brown knows nothing says sarcastically, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Brown is proud Wyoming student debt is 20% below national average. Yet there’s this inconvenient fact: “Wyoming ranks first in the nation for the percentage of federal student loan borrowers whose debt will be completely eliminated” under Biden’s plan.
Other Republicans call Biden’s plan “discriminatory” and “inflationary.” These same people rely on federal COVID relief and infrastructure dollars to balance Wyoming’s budget. They are heirs of Wyoming legislators who, during the Great Depression, ignored human suffering, while eagerly accepting ag and business subsidies.
It’s the same old song. If it helps farmers, ranchers or mining companies, Wyoming politicians are all in. If it helps people, it is bad policy by definition. Ergo, the death of Medicaid expansion and criticism of student debt forgiveness.
Rid of student debt, these Wyoming families can now afford a new car or a new home or save a few dollars for the future. Who do they have to thank? According to Barrasso, it’s the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Send your “thank-you” note to “Brandon-Got-er-Done,” 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., 20500.
Rodger McDaniel lives in Laramie and is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne. Email: rmc81448@gmail.com.
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On my very first day in London 25 years ago, the tragic news broke that Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris. The enormous public outpouring that followed showed how the monarchy is so often a focal point for the conversation about what it means to be British.
The death of Queen Elizabeth II is not wholly unexpected or tragic. But a quarter-century later, I’m more alive to its significance in my adopted country. Like so many of the major events she took part in during seven decades on the throne, her succession was meticulously prepared and will no doubt be flawlessly executed. And yet, as anyone who has lost a family member knows, no one is ever really prepared.
That applies on a grand scale here. From the moment the prime minister is told “London Bridge is down,” a whole series of plans is activated. The country will talk of little else for days ahead. But neither the royal family nor the country knows what it will be like to have a different monarch at the helm, or in what ways her passing will spark a period of wider change.
You can’t visit Britain without noticing you are in a kingdom. Stamps and paper currency bear the Queen’s portrait. Countless pubs are called The Queen’s Head or The Queen’s Arms; there’s the Royal Opera House, the Royal Borough of Kensington and so many other Royal places. Some 8,000 streets have the name Queen, King, Royal, Jubilee or some synonym. A Royal Warrant bestows a special cache on favored businesses and charities.
Even so, my younger self couldn’t grasp how one person with all that inherited wealth could come to embody a nation’s view of itself. For an American, it all sits oddly apart from modern notions of democracy. The hereditary principle was always anathema to the American sense of meritocracy (though the irony now is that so much wealth and opportunity in the U.S. is indeed inherited). So was the idea of a head of state who is also head of church.
And yet by the time this summer’s Jubilee celebrations rolled around, there I was, lump in throat, snapping a video of my TV as the queen stepped onto the balcony at Buckingham Palace in that perfectly choreographed set-piece appearance with her closest family members in a neat row. I WhatsApped the clip to family in the U.S.
“Queen looks pleased. Crowd truly happy to be there,” my octogenarian mother wrote. “Hard for me as an American to understand.”
I get it. Americans have different reactions to the monarchy. It’s easy to be enchanted and entertained; harder to feel real attachment. They can get just as wrapped up in the glitz of royal weddings or escape into the drama of royal bust-ups and scandal, of course. One study even found that more Americans were excited about the Jubilee than Brits.
But they can also find the fuss bewildering or even offensive. “Why should we celebrate the fact that one person has ruled without interruption for 70 years? And is a constitutional monarchy truly compatible with our democratic ideals?” wrote Steven Porter in USA Today about the Jubilee fuss.
Becoming British has meant working toward an understanding of things that come automatically for the native-born. The other lesson I gleaned from my early days living in the U.K. was that while the queen’s role is largely ceremonial, there is no neat dividing line between palace and politics. The queen may stay out of politics, but as the former U.S. ambassador to Britain, Raymond Seitz, a keen observer of Britain, wrote, “when that little arch of reservation rises on the royal brow, a silent shudder runs through Whitehall.” (Will the rather bushier brow of Charles get the same notice, I wonder.)
After Diana’s death, a young, new prime minister made a statement that perfectly captured the public mood, crowning her “the people’s princess.” Tony Blair’s popularity hit 93%, considered a record of a democratic politician. The Queen, by many accounts following his lead, opened up, too, showing a monarchy that could adapt to a changing time.
The great British essayist Walter Bagehot warned that the light should not be allowed in on this rich tapestry of convention and ceremony. The trick of the monarchy is its mystique; its distance from ordinary people serves to bring elected government closer to them. The monarch’s role, he said, could be vaguely defined as “to warn, to encourage, to be consulted.” That kind of nuance, like the rule of law in the absence of a written constitution, may feel uncomfortable to the non-Brit.
What makes this succession so poignant, and its effect so unpredictable, is the combination of the former queen’s personal brand and the historic moment that Britain finds itself in. She may have inherited a crown, but the global admiration was earned. This arose from her relentless service (even blessing a new prime minister 48 hours earlier) but also the values she lived by – decency, duty, spiritual devotion, love of nature, loyalty to family and country.
Hers is an impossible act to follow for Charles, her heir and now king. He is happily remarried to Camilla, the woman who was at the heart of his marriage breakup with Diana. Those wounds at least have healed, but his family is still reeling from the very public falling out of his two sons, William and Harry, and the shame of his brother Andrew’s association with Jeffrey Epstein. With the queen gone, it will be on Charles to create a sense of stability and continuity, but just stopping the sense of decay would be a start. The scrutiny will be intense.
The queen’s death represents a moment of vulnerability, but also opportunity. Although support for the monarchy is strong overall in Britain, with about 62% of Britons in favor, it’s weakest among young people; only a third of 18- to 24-year-olds see the point. “If the monarchy is to thrive, it must keep telling a story that engages people,” wrote the historian Alex von Tunzelmann in April. “This does not mean it should modernize. Its appeal may lie in reiterating that sense of tradition, benevolence and duty that the Queen has channeled so well.”
The royal succession will also be a test, perhaps in some ways a defining one, of another new prime minister, Liz Truss, whose handling of the response will be broadcast around the world. Days of remembrances and outpourings will dwarf talk of the country’s energy crisis, the flailing National Health Service, the war in Ukraine and pretty much all other news. But only temporarily. The queen leaves the world at a time when Britain’s fourth straight Conservative government is redefining its role in the world after Brexit, trying to hold a fraying union together and confronting the biggest economic crunch since the financial crisis. The pound, as if asking the question, is at its lowest level since 1985.
Some 2.5 billion people around the world watched Diana’s funeral. I suspect many more will follow this changing of the guard, whether they fully understand the implications or, like me after all these years later, are still piecing it together.
Therese Raphael is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering health care and British politics. Previously, she was editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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Breaking News: “Wyoming ranks first in the nation for the percentage of federal student loan borrowers whose debt will be completely eliminated by a new federal loan forgiveness initiative.”
Thirty-seven percent of Wyomingites with student debt will have a zero balance under President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive those loans. That’s a win for these families, but another reason for partisanship among others.
Do you know who is unhappy that so many of their constituents had this noose removed from their necks? Here’s a hint. Not one ever lifted a finger to do anything about college education costs, though all were in positions to do so.
The loudest critics of President Biden’s decision to finally do something are members of the Republican “see nothing, say nothing, hear nothing caucus.”
Sen. John Barrasso said, “This decision is a boon for Biden’s wealthy supporters. The Biden administration is selling out working families to appease the far-left wing of the Democrat party.”
Who is Barrasso talking about? There can’t be many of Biden’s “wealthy supporters” among Wyoming beneficiaries of loan forgiveness. None are among the “far-left wing of the Democratic Party.” It’s as though John doesn’t know much about his constituents and has no idea how their lives just got better.
Never was heard a discouraging word from Barrasso or Lummis about Donald Trump’s loan forgiveness program. It helped only one person, Donald Trump. It’s called “filing for bankruptcy,” an option available to billionaires, but not struggling Wyoming folks with burdensome student loans.
Then there’s Gov. Mark Gordon. He has no record of attempting to solve the problem, but is loaded with criticism of the one who has. Gordon calls loan forgiveness a “government handout.” I must have missed it when he criticized government handouts to several Republican officials under the Payroll Protection Program during COVID or the ag subsidies many of them pocket.
Wyoming legislators piled on. Keep in mind, these people meet annually and debate their priorities. They spend a lot of time on abortion and critical race theory, defeating new revenue proposals and ignoring education funding. Never once have they debated how to bring college education expenses under control.
When Joe Biden offers a program, these Republicans are suddenly experts on the matter. State Sen. Brian Boner thinks we should drive kids in a different direction. Instead of the academic education they seek, he wants government to encourage “more technical skills.” He says we can reduce college costs by pushing more kids into the military.
Boner wants student loans to be treated like every other loan. He’d limit help to borrowers with considerable financial resources, current income and collateral to provide repayment assurance. Boner’s idea would succeed only at widening the income gap between haves and have-nots and preventing low-income kids from going to college.
Rep. Landon Brown says debtors should just get a scholarship. A student of whose life Brown knows nothing says sarcastically, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Brown is proud Wyoming student debt is 20% below national average. Yet there’s this inconvenient fact: “Wyoming ranks first in the nation for the percentage of federal student loan borrowers whose debt will be completely eliminated” under Biden’s plan.
Other Republicans call Biden’s plan “discriminatory” and “inflationary.” These same people rely on federal COVID relief and infrastructure dollars to balance Wyoming’s budget. They are heirs of Wyoming legislators who, during the Great Depression, ignored human suffering, while eagerly accepting ag and business subsidies.
It’s the same old song. If it helps farmers, ranchers or mining companies, Wyoming politicians are all in. If it helps people, it is bad policy by definition. Ergo, the death of Medicaid expansion and criticism of student debt forgiveness.
Rid of student debt, these Wyoming families can now afford a new car or a new home or save a few dollars for the future. Who do they have to thank? According to Barrasso, it’s the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Send your “thank-you” note to “Brandon-Got-er-Done,” 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., 20500.
Rodger McDaniel lives in Laramie and is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne. Email: rmc81448@gmail.com.
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It is almost incomprehensible how convincingly news channels can and do promote fake news. These channels persuade their viewers with their disinformation. S. Michael Melia’s Sept. 3 letter to the editor provides a good example of this. Mr. Melia’s letter is full of half-truths, misinformation and disinformation.
Since I am limited to 350 words, I decided to take one of his accusations and debunk it. According to Mr. Melia, “Hillary’s Benghazi disaster … resulted in Ambassador Steven’s death.” I will debunk this belief.
The Benghazi investigation included Hillary Clinton testifying for 11 hours. It ultimately produced an 800-page report. This investigation cost us taxpayers $7 million. The report was not able to place the blame on Hillary, but it did show that there were “failures in the Defense Department and in the intelligence community that led to Benghazi and led to the Americans there not being protected …” (Lisa Desjardins in a PBS interview after reviewing the 800-page document).
Trey Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina at the time, headed the investigation. Upon the release of the document, he tried to claim that it was not politically motivated against Hillary Clinton. But two fellow representatives previously admitted otherwise.
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., “let it slip that the committee aimed to sink Clinton's poll numbers. His gaffe reverberated across Capitol Hill and was a major factor in McCarthy's abrupt decision to drop out of the race to replace outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.” Also, Richard Hanna, R-New York, said, “This may not be politically correct, but I think that there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people and an individual, Hillary Clinton.” (Both quotes from huffpost.com)
During this period, it was a known fact that Clinton wanted to run for president. The hopes were that this investigation, trying to lay blame on her, would ruin her chances of being elected.
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| 2022-09-10T13:01:31Z
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Even as Wyoming stands on the verge of electing someone who questions the integrity of the state’s elections process to lead it, we think it’s time to shift the conversation.
After all, here in the Equality State, former President Donald Trump easily won our three electoral votes by the widest margin of victory in the country. He received more than 68% of the votes cast in 2016, and nearly 70% in 2020.
So how is it possible that state Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, and others still question the integrity of Wyoming’s elections process? If stuffing the absentee ballot drop boxes was a legitimate concern here, wouldn’t Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden have made more of a dent in those numbers?
And why are some residents wasting the time of staff at the Laramie County Clerk’s Office by asking for voter rolls that contain private information and clearly aren’t public records?
Of course, those are rhetorical questions, because we already know the answer: certain media talking heads continue to stir the pot called “The Big Lie,” and many Americans – including many in Wyoming – continue to believe it, despite all evidence to the contrary.
But we have to wonder whether Mr. Gray and some of his fellow elected officials question the legitimacy of their own victories. Do they believe the process is so corrupt at this point that none of the results can be trusted?
Of course not. If they or the people they support win, the election was fair. If they lose, there must be something wrong with the process, right? It can’t be because the majority of voters had grown tired of their political posturing and were seeking someone who might actually get something done that would make their lives better.
The question we have to answer in 2022 is how much longer we want to live in the past. Are we going to continue to let the 2020 election divide us to the point of complete stagnation or, worse yet, our democracy collapses entirely?
We think it’s time to move on, and we’re pretty sure most Wyoming residents feel the same way. So, let’s turn our attention to addressing a bigger concern related to our elections, and that’s voter participation. It’s true that last month’s primary saw more than 63% of the state’s 287,014 registered voters cast ballots. The related good news is that voter registration is the highest it’s ever been.
Yet, we still have a long way to go in order to be satisfied. According to the Wyoming Election Division of the Secretary of State’s Office, the state’s voting age population this year is 446,379, which means the turnout among that group was 40.8% for this year’s primary. That’s higher than it’s been since 1994, but we don’t think anyone should be happy with significantly less than half of those eligible to vote deciding who should represent all of us.
The percentages do increase when we shift our attention to November. In 2020, 62.6% of the voting age population cast ballots. Still, just 60% of those old enough to vote were registered to do so. Only two years – 2012 and 2016 – saw a lower percentage signed up to participate.
Which is why we support some fundamental changes to our election process that – unlike the unnecessary meddling proposed by Rep. Gray – might actually encourage more people to make their voices heard at the polls.
The first is an open primary. As Wyoming residents clearly showed on Aug. 16, they are willing to cross party lines to vote for a particular candidate. With the hotly contested U.S. House race between incumbent Liz Cheney and challenger Harriet Hageman on the Republican ballot, 172,047 of the 182,232 who cast ballots – 94.4% – voted GOP. Only 8,201 cast a Democratic Party ballot (4.5%), while 1,984 (less than 1.1%) voted nonpartisan, which means many Democrats changed their party affiliation to vote for Ms. Cheney.
In an open primary, this would have been unnecessary. According to the nonpartisan group FairVote, in an open primary, “voters of any affiliation may vote in the primary of any party. ... In many open primary states, voters do not indicate partisan affiliation when they register to vote.”
This possibility was discussed briefly at an Aug. 25 meeting of the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee in Casper. Also on the agenda that day was ranked-choice voting.
Again, according to FairVote: “RCV ... allows voters the option to rank candidates in order of preference: one, two, three, and so forth. If your vote cannot help your top choice win, your vote counts for your next choice.
“If a candidate receives more than half of the first choices in races where voters elect one winner, that candidate wins, just like in a single-choice election. However, if there is no majority winner after counting first choices, the race is decided by an ‘instant runoff.’ The candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and voters who picked that candidate as ‘Number 1’ will have their votes count for their next choice. This process continues until there’s a majority winner or a candidate won with more than half of the vote.”
On the surface, this system seems more complex and harder to understand, but it actually means your vote counts even more than it does currently (which is quite a lot in a state as sparsely populated as Wyoming).
Other things that could be done to increase voter participation include:
Implementing automatic voter registration, either based on birthdate or when someone obtains a driver’s license;
Allowing online voter registration, along with a verification process;
Making more absentee ballot drop boxes available, not fewer;
Making Election Day a national holiday or moving it to Saturday; and
Strengthening civic education in public schools.
We all know there’s no single way to get more people to vote. But if those who say they’re concerned about election integrity are really interested in making sure qualified residents cast ballots, it’s time for them to prove it by supporting some of the recommendations above.
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Frank Eathorne, Wyoming Republican Party chairman, looks on during the Republican National Committee winter meeting Feb. 4 in Salt Lake City. Associated Press File
Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Buchanan. Image courtesy of Wyoming Secretary of State Office via its Facebook page.
Frank Eathorne, Wyoming Republican Party chairman, looks on during the Republican National Committee winter meeting Feb. 4 in Salt Lake City. Associated Press File
CHEYENNE — Key leaders of the Wyoming Republican Party have asked the outgoing secretary of state, Ed Buchanan, to stay in the job longer than he intended. Buchanan responded that he is sticking with his plan to leave the office on Sept. 15 and become a state judge on Sept. 19.
GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne and other Wyoming party leaders wrote Buchanan to ask him to remain in his current post through the Nov. 8 general election. As things have stood, Buchanan plans to leave this month. This is so that he can begin a job he was appointed to in July by Gov. Mark Gordon, in Goshen County as a district court judge in the state’s Eighth Judicial District.
Buchanan’s term, should he decide to remain for all of it, would last through the election and into early next year. In a recent interview with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Buchanan expressed confidence in the state’s election process, even without him running the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office.
Wyoming Republican leaders do not appear to agree with this sentiment, however. They worry that having a new secretary of state for only a short time, before the next permanent one would take over after the general election, could affect the office.
In its letter dated Friday, the political party asked Buchanan to “remain in office until after the general election process is complete.” Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper, has won the GOP primary to become the next secretary of state and is generally expected to also prevail on Nov. 8.
Leaving in mid-September, as Buchanan plans, “may be setting your appointed successor up to fail,” wrote Eathorne and colleagues Nina Webber and Corey Steinmetz, who are both Wyoming Republican Party national committee people, in their letter. Any replacement “would not take office until 4 weeks before election day and does not know your team members,” the letter said. “It is difficult to imagine who would want to assume the role on such short notice.”
“I am flattered to have the Party request me to stay on through the general election,” Buchanan responded via an emailed statement. “However, it is Wyoming’s 23 county clerks and the Secretary of State staff that do the heavy lifting for elections. Upon my departure, it will be business as usual in the Secretary of State’s Office throughout the general election and through the end of the year.”
Buchanan has apparently not started the official clock for a replacement to be named. On Tuesday morning, Gov. Gordon’s spokesperson wrote in an email to the WTE that the governor “has not yet received a letter of resignation from the Secretary.”
In their letter, the Wyoming GOP leaders noted that when Gordon picked Buchanan to be a judge, the governor “knew you held one of the most important jobs in the State. That is often the case with filling any position – the best candidates have a job they must wrap up.” Eathorne and the others said that “the courts will manage if you need to remain in your current role until general election canvassing is complete.”
Once Buchanan officially declares his intent to resign, the Wyoming GOP must solicit interest in the position, then forward three names to Gordon, who will pick one to fill the position on an interim basis.
{span class=”print_trim”}The online version of the story has been corrected to reflect the accurate spelling of the last name of Nina Webber, who is a national committeewoman of the Wyoming Republican Party.
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IMPACT 307 has expanded into Carbon County and is launching the first Carbon County Start-Up Challenge.
IMPACT 307 is a business development program of the University of Wyoming. It’s a nonprofit business incubator system that provides startup and early stage companies with the expertise, networks and tools necessary for the development of successful businesses. It is administered by UW’s Office of Research and Economic Development.
Applications for the CCSC are open and run through Oct. 9. To register, visit uwyo.startuptree.co.
The CCSC is a platform for entrepreneurs to put their ideas to the test while receiving invaluable business coaching and startup support, all free of charge. The CCSC is open to innovative and scalable early stage businesses, as well as early-stage businesses that will propel significant growth in Wyoming’s economic ecosystem.
The competition will identify winning finalists who will receive a portion of a seed fund now in development.
Finalists will be selected through the application and interview process. Once selected, finalists will receive business counseling and support to help develop their business models and pitches.
At Pitch Night, scheduled April 19, 2023, finalists will present their ideas in front of a panel of judges. Winners will receive seed money and continued support to advance their idea and plan.
The CCSC is supported through UW’s IMPACT 307, Western Wyoming Community College, the Business Innovation Hub of Carbon County, the Wyoming Innovation Partnership and numerous local community partners.
Meghan Kerley, IMPACT 307 business counselor for Carbon County, will be the point of contact for entrepreneurs. In her role, Kerley uses analytical and enterprise skills from years of extensive fieldwork and research in archaeology and biology to help entrepreneurs find solutions.
Kerley encourages people to contact her, even if they are at the very beginning stages of an idea. She can provide guidance or refer the entrepreneur through every step of the process.
For more information about IMPACT Carbon County and its services, email Kerley at mkerley@uwyo.edu.
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POWELL — Two hunt areas south of Powell have been listed as special chronic wasting disease (CWD) focus areas.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is looking for samples from deer hunters harvesting mule and white-tailed deer from areas 124 and 165 in the Greybull River Valley.
CWD is a fatal disease that affects ungulates, like deer, elk and moose, by attacking their central nervous system.
The prevalence of the disease in the two hunt areas is about 45%, according to department officials.
Wildlife biologists are in their third year of targeting the Greybull River herd and hope to have at least 200 samples volunteered by local hunters. The samples of lymph nodes will help the department better understand how it affects the health of the state’s deer and elk populations, said wildlife disease biologist Eric Maichak.
“If we can get enough samples, we’re able to focus our resources and get an estimate of prevalence within a short timeframe,” he said in a recent interview.
Hunter-submitted lymph node samples are crucial to managing the disease in wildlife herds, the department said in a press release.
“Game and Fish is requesting samples from herds we’ve not addressed in a while,” said Hank Edwards, Game and Fish wildlife health laboratory supervisor.
For the 2022 season, six deer Hunt Areas (59, 60, 64, 65, 157 and 171) are mandatory for samples. The closest mandatory sample areas to Powell are 157 and 171, which include Riverton and areas north and west of the city.
The department has tracked the distribution and prevalence of CWD since 1997. The disease has been making a slow march across the state for the past 50 years. It has been detected in 34 of 37 mule deer herds and 15 of 36 elk herds in Wyoming.
The department is constantly updating the state map to list new hunt areas where the disease has been found.
Last year, the department added Hunt Area 109 (west of Powell) to the list and has already added Hunt Area 143 (in Sublette County) this year.
There are very few hunt areas in the state where the disease hasn’t been found.
In the Shoshone River herd unit, testing has found 35% of adult mule deer bucks have been infected with the disease.
Bucks generally have higher rates of infection due to their larger ranges and higher contact rates with other deer.
White-tailed deer have a higher rate of infection than mule deer, while elk have a much lower prevalence for the disease, around 2%, Maichak said.
There is no known treatment, but testing is quickly improving, said Dr. Samantha Allen, the state’s wildlife veterinarian.
A promising new test called RT-QuIC uses nanoparticles of gold to help achieve fast results but has yet to be approved by the Federal Drug Administration.
Surveillance has also improved understanding of how deer might catch the disease environmentally. The department has taken more than a million photographs using automated scout cameras of deer at 49 separate salt licks and seven water sites. The analysis of the photos may give a clue to the disease spread by saliva, feces, close contact or prions shed in the environment as the disease takes its course and after death.
Typically, an infected deer can live between two to four years seemingly unaffected. It looks emaciated, drools and appears to be unaware of its surroundings in the short, final stage of the disease.
New testing techniques take time and cost money, Allen told commissioners in April. “Agencies need to really consider budget and staffing issues with increased testing for CWD,” she said.
Maichak hopes hunters will learn to remove lymph nodes to streamline the testing process. There’s a how-to video on the department’s CWD information website, and biologists and game wardens are happy to demonstrate the process when asked.
It is targeting bucks for the research, but the department is happy to test any sample hunters submit.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control has reported, to date, there is no strong evidence for the occurrence of CWD in people and it is not known if people can get infected with CWD prions.
“Hunters must consider many factors when determining whether to eat meat from deer and elk harvested from areas with CWD, including the level of risk they are willing to accept,” the CDC said in a recent publication.
Submitting a sample in the Powell area is easy, Maichak said.
Samples can be submitted at the convenient check stations during the any-deer season or through Northwest College’s biology department, which has been collaborating with Game and Fish in an effort to test a higher percentage of hunters’ harvests while at the same time giving students real world experience.
“We think it’s important that students get real, authentic hands-on experience,” said NWC Associate Professor of Biology Eric Atkinson when the college began the program.
“We’ve talked about this for years. Now there’s pressure to get at least 200 samples,” he said.
To submit a sample at NWC, call 307-754-6018 or the Cody Region Wyoming Game and Fish Department headquarters at 307-527-7125.
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The Wind River Dancers return to the Archeology Fair this year, giving a performance from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the even being held at the Wyoming Terriorial Prison State Historical Site.
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The Hide Working exhibit is one of many presentations at this year’s Archeology Fair. The event is this Saturday at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historical Site.
The Wind River Dancers return to the Archeology Fair this year, giving a performance from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the even being held at the Wyoming Terriorial Prison State Historical Site.
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The Hide Working exhibit is one of many presentations at this year’s Archeology Fair. The event is this Saturday at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historical Site.
There’s a chance to smash rocks, dig in the dirt, form pots out of mud and throw pointy sticks through the air. It’s the perfect opportunity for anyone who likes to get a little dirty and try their hand at new things.
Or maybe listening to music and watching others perform is more your cup of tea. No matter your preference, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Archeology Fair.
The Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie comes alive Saturday with a step back in time to both historic and prehistoric times. The fair is put on by the Office of the Wyoming State Archeologist and the State Historic Preservation Office, along with numerous other state and federal agencies.
It runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site and is free and open to the public.
Amanda Castaneda, Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month coordinator at the State Historic Preservation Office, said there is plenty for the family to enjoy throughout the day.
“The Archaeology Fair is an exciting event that allows people of all ages to connect with and learn about various aspects of Wyoming history,” Castaneda said. “This is the biggest public event that we put on as part of Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month and has become a much-beloved annual celebration that is both educational and fun.”
While many of the booths are hands-on, others are more show-and-tell such as one featuring Billy Probert demonstrating traditional 19th century blacksmithing.
Casteneda said one of the new activities this year is yucca processing. Yucca is a stiff succulent prairie plant sometimes referred to as Spanish bayonet. Participants work with yucca leaves to extract its fiber and make cordage.
Also new this year are performances by the Twaynes, a father-son group that will play throughout the event. This fiddle-guitar duo plays a wide range of music from country, classical, Cajun and wild instrumentals.
“We also have an animal hide working demonstration that is very cool,” Casteneda said. “Visitors will get to see the process of working on animal hides, including the scraping, smoking and tanning of the hides.
“Also returning this year are the Wind River Dancers. It has been several years since they have been at the fair so we are thrilled to have them back to share their cultural traditions. They perform a variety of Indigenous dance traditions from 1 to 2 p.m.”
A popular activity every year is atlatl throwing. An atlatl looks like a very long arrow or spear attached to a stick. The stick has a notch or hook and the arrow or spear is placed in the notch. The thrower brings both the stick and spear to eye level, aiming at the target. Then, for the throw, the arm snaps forward to release the spear, but not the stick.
The result is that arrow or spear goes much faster and farther than if it thrown with a bare hand.
Whether it’s throwing an atlatl, digging in the dirt, listening to music or watching Native American traditional dance, the Archeology Fair really has something for everyone.
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EVANSTON — “During COVID, when my two children were attending school online, I began to realize just how much of an impact technology has on children,” Dr. Lisa Strohman said at the beginning of her recent presentation at Davis Middle School. “I’m not against technology — I use it — but there is appropriate use and there is inappropriate use.”
Dr. Strohman was invited by Uinta County School District No. 1 and its Project AWARE Program to give a presentation titled “Parenting in a Tech Addicted World” first to middle and high school students during the day, and then to parents and family during the evening.
Strohman is a clinical psychologist who established Digital Citizen Academy to proactively prevent and educate students, educators and parents on the issues resulting from technology use.
She currently has a private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, and lives in Kave Creek, Arizona.
While in graduate school, Strohman worked with the FBI Honors Internship Program and eventually practiced law for a time before deciding that psychology was her strongest calling. Her area of specialty in psychology is to work with tweens, teens and adults who are suffering the adverse effects of technology overuse.
Strohman is the author of two books: “Unplug: Raising Kids in a Technology Addicted World” and, more recently, “Digital Distress: Growing Up Online” co-authored with Melissa J. Westendorf.
“We used to have a more stable environment influencing our children, family, school, church,” Strohman said, “and then 10 years ago, technology boomed and our kids are now being influenced by strangers.”
As an example of the effects of tech on family relationships, Strohman showed a video that demonstrated some negatives of technology use. The video showed a family sitting down to dinner and the mother asking the children to talk about their day at school. The father is on his cellphone but pretends to be listening by responding to the children’s comments, however inappropriately. At one point the teenage daughter, who is frustrated with her father’s responses, responds to his question about what she plans to do that evening by stating she is going to go to the basement to cook up some meth. The father’s response is that he thinks that is nice; it is evident he hasn’t listened to a word the daughter said.
Strohman said her presentation included a review of information on technology, learning the psychology behind the concerns and providing steps parents can take to protect their children from the negative effects of tech overuse.
“A lot has changed as to what we call addiction in today’s world,” Strohman said. “Studies show that teens today spend an average of 14 hours a day on tech. Children are gaining access to all kinds of technology at a much younger age — the average age for getting a first tech device is 7. Juveniles today have never known a world without tech.”
She then read current statistics regarding the negative use of tech and the results on children.
Statistics from 2021 show a 51% increase in suicide and self-harm among teens; one in six teens self-harm. Suicide is the leading cause of death for adolescents, she said, adding that 80% of children under the age of 18 are exposed to cyberbullying and shaming messages. Self-harm and the reporting of suicidal thoughts have increased by 225% in elementary and middle schools, and tech addiction contributes to a limited capacity for self-regulation.
“In my 20 years’ experience as a psychologist,” Strohman said, “I’ve discovered that kids just want to be noticed. They have a lot of anxiety about what to do with their feelings and when they self-harm; after the initial pain, they say they get a ‘runner’s high.’ That adrenalin rush can lead to more self harm.”
Strohman’s presentation showed a mass of social media sites and when she asked the young people in the audience how many knew a majority of the sites, most of them raised their hands.
Strohman then asked how many ever read the terms of service of any of the sites — no one raised their hand.
“There is no such thing as a secret app,” Strohman said. “All of these sites are shared and when you put something on one site, they have the right to share with anyone and can do whatever they want with the information. All sites can be used unsafely and can also be used safely.”
Strohman went over a paragraph in the “terms of service” from one of the social media sites which stated that the site can sell, share, change or do anything they want with the information placed on the site. As long as the person is 13 years of age, she said, the industry has automatic access to everything.
Strohman said she lists her two children’s ages as younger than they are on sites they use, so they are better protected, listing them as younger than 13 on tech sites.
TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, she said, and an interesting fact is that children in China are not allowed on TikTok.
She said the U.S. is more lenient regarding rules on technology than any other country.
Children under the age of 13 are not allowed access to SnapChat, and Strohman said it is the social media platform that traffickers use the most to find victims.
“An interesting fact about (Mark) Zuckerberg, who started Facebook, is that 10 years ago, he manipulated emotions on Facebook just to see if he could,” Strohman said. “Addiction is by design; it is intended; that is how these sites make money.”
Brain studies done with an MRI show the brain is damaged by overuse of tech, Strohman explained.
In teens with internet addiction, there is decreased functional brain connectivity and microstructure abnormalities. Studies show that tech addiction actually changes the brain.
An audience member asked at what age a child should get his or her own cell phone.
Strohman said that, in her opinion, a child should not receive a personal cell phone before reaching the eighth grade, and it should be monitored.
“The issue is that elementary students need to learn choices, and parents and teachers need to talk to them about this information,” Strohman said. “Ask your child about what is happening at school; monitor their tech time and what they are watching; search your own sites and your family sites at least once a month and clean off unwanted information. Have on-going conversations with your children about technology use.”
Strohman pointed to a triangle on a projector screen.
“Resilience is the triangle of well-being,” she said. “Resilience is the important connection between the mind, the brain and relationships that fosters well-being.”
At the earlier meeting with middle school and high school students, Strohman covered many of the same facts and warned them of the terms of service of social media sites.
She began by sharing her own personal history of an unstable home life, surviving bouts of homelessness, abuse and neglect. Strohman said her grandmother was the stable influence in her life and encouraged her to pursue education to better her life.
When she asked the teens how many had friends who had shared a personal photo, nearly all raised their hands and, when she asked how many read the terms of service on sites, they all responded with “no.”
“I understand why teens post things online,” Strohman said. “They don’t want to be left out; they may send something to their boyfriend because they don’t want to lose the relationship; or they are pressured into doing it by friends.”
Strohman talked about the dangers of human trafficking sites, child pornography and child sexual abuse materials online and then showed a video of a true story of a young girl who had shared a very personal photo of herself with her boyfriend who, in turn, shared it with his friends and it went viral. The young woman tried to get it removed to no avail and eventually was bullied, became depressed and took her own life.
“Just remember, whatever you post becomes your digital footprint,” Strohman said. “Remember, human relationships are not Hollywood TikTok; reality is hard. Talk to counselors and your parents before posting anything online. The past is behind you, learn from it. The future is ahead — prepare for it. The present is here — live it. This is your future.”
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CASPER — At least one industry group will appeal last week’s court order upholding the federal government’s right to postpone oil and gas leasing until it finishes evaluating the sales’ environmental impacts.
U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl of Wyoming ruled Friday that the Department of the Interior legally delayed the federal oil and gas lease sale scheduled for the first quarter of 2021 “over concerns that the associated Environmental Assessments” — a requirement under the National Environmental Policy Act — “did not satisfy recent court caselaw.”
In the narrow decision, Skavdahl focused on delineating the authority afforded to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by the landmark environmental law and dismissed attempts by the oil and gas industry to contest broader agency actions.
He pointed to several cases in which judges found BLM environmental analysis inadequate and directed the agency to reconsider its offerings retroactively. That includes a trio of lawsuits, primarily over climate change, that sent the BLM back to the drawing board for almost 4 million already leased acres in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
The agency said the Trump-era review of the prospective leases — which underwent another year of study before some went to auction this June — didn’t meet those heightened standards. Skavdahl found its action justified.
“The court reaffirmed that BLM has broad leeway to postpone lease sales in order to make sure that it considers the environmental impacts of leasing. And that’s a really critical recognition because BLM’s job is to protect the public interest, including protecting the environment,” said Michael Freeman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain office.
Earthjustice joined the lawsuit, alongside the Western Environmental Law Center, to defend the federal government’s actions on behalf of 21 environmental groups.
The Western Energy Alliance plans to appeal Friday’s decision “based on the misapplication” of the National Environmental Policy Act, said Aaron Johnson, the trade group’s vice president for public affairs, in a Monday email to the Star-Tribune.
Its president, Kathleen Sgamma, said in a written statement that the ruling “essentially gives the government a get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to the environmental analysis required for any lease sales,” adding that if Interior Department says it’s not done, “it doesn’t have to hold sales.”
The Petroleum Association of Wyoming, the other industry challenger involved in the lawsuit, has not yet decided whether to appeal.
Nor has the State of Wyoming — the only plaintiff with complaints deemed legitimate by the judge.
Before he ruled on the two sides’ arguments, Skavdahl had to figure out what, exactly, the case was about. That part of his decision ended up disqualifying the industry groups from the lawsuit and undermining similar points made by attorneys representing Wyoming.
The day President Joe Biden took office, he signed an executive order directing the secretary of the Interior to “place a temporary moratorium” on the implementation of the federal oil and gas leasing program.
A second executive order signed a week later added that the secretary should “pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters pending completion of a comprehensive review and reconsideration of Federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices.”
Western Energy Alliance sued over the leasing pause on the same day the second order was signed — more than a month before Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was confirmed by Congress and before she had a chance to act on Biden’s order.
“What industry actually challenged was an indefinite and program-wide pause on the entire federal oil and gas leasing program, and that’s something that never happened,” said Melissa Hornbein, an attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center.
Skavdahl determined that because there had been no agency action at the time of the filing, Western Energy Alliance and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, which joined later, had presented him with nothing to rule on.
“Had the secretary issued such an order, would we be in a different position? Certainly,” Hornbein said. “And it’s not clear to me how that litigation would have played out. That is not the question that Judge Skavdahl answered.”
The decision came as a disappointment — and a fresh source of worry — to Wyoming’s oil and gas industry.
“If the agency never makes the decision, then we have no recourse,” said Ryan McConnaughey, vice president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “In an administration that’s goal is to delay or halt production, all they have to do is just put something in this limbo, and not actually make a decision, and then we’re just stuck.”
Though Skavdahl upheld the Interior Department’s discretion, it’s too early to be sure what the BLM will do in response to the decision, Hornbein said.
But she emphasized the specificity and narrow focus of Skavdahl’s decision.
“I think that it’s inappropriate to characterize it as, like, just a carte blanche for the government to indefinitely defer all sales until the end of time,” Hornbein said. “I don’t think that would fly.”
The State of Wyoming filed a separate lawsuit in March, opposing not only the leasing pause (which still had not been enacted), but the federal government’s postponement of the first-quarter oil and gas lease sale: It is required under the Mineral Leasing Act to hold quarterly lease sales in every state “where eligible lands are available.”
Though the federal government also pushed back the second-quarter sale, Skavdahl only considered that first-quarter delay — the lone action actually taken by the Interior Department ahead of the state’s finding.
The language of the Mineral Leasing Act prmpted intense debate over the difference between eligibility and availability during a hearing before Skavdahl in May.
While Mark Barron, an attorney for Western Energy Alliance, argued that it’s the federal government’s job to complete its environmental analysis on time, Freeman, from Earthjustice, told Skavdahl that the agency was trying to comply with “a complicated set of rules … that were designed to protect the public interest.”
Skavdahl concluded, to the oil and gas industry’s dismay, that National Environmental Policy Act standards must be met before federal lands can be considered both eligible and available for leasing.
According to the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, the National Environmental Policy Act is being wielded by environmental groups to harm the industry, and Skavdahl’s decision affords the federal government even more flexibility to obstruct oil and gas development.
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State and federal authorities overseeing oil and gas operations in Wyoming anticipate millions in federal funding to clean up wells, pipelines, pads and other related facilities left “orphaned” or otherwise un-remediated by operators.
There are more than 2,307 orphaned well sites in Wyoming, according to state and federal estimates.
The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees facilities on state and private lands, lists 1,307 well sites in its orphaned well program and is set to receive $25 million from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees facilities that tap federal minerals in Wyoming, estimates more than 1,000 orphaned wells in the state. The federal agency will tap into $250 million set aside for federal orphaned well remediation nationwide.
“Orphaned wells are a legacy that we must address, as they can release methane, pollute groundwater, and pose a hazard to people and wildlife alike,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said in a press release.
For its part, Wyoming BLM estimates the cleanup work on federal wells in the state will create or sustain up to 300 industry-related jobs. Meantime, the WOGCC expects the federal funds to clean up state and private facilities will support what’s already a robust orphan-well-remediation program. The state has cleaned up more than 4,713 orphaned well sites since 2014, according to the agency. Of those, 186 were converted to water wells for nearby ranchers.
The federal push to clean up more orphaned wells is long overdue and will benefit landowners and others who suffer the environmental risks, according to advocacy groups. But, they say, the cost of clean up shouldn’t fall to American taxpayers.
“The people who drill the wells and profit from them are responsible for cleaning them up,” Powder River Basin Resource Council and the Western Organization of Resource Councils board member Bob LeResche said. The federal government is “doing something good for the environment and surface owners, but they’re doing it with taxpayer money, which is just wrong.”
When it comes to holding operators responsible for cleanup, the state has generally done a better job than the BLM, LeResche said. Of the $32 million the state has spent to remediate orphaned wells since 1997, $21 million was covered by bonds posted by operators, according to the WOGCC. The rest of the expense was covered by a conservation tax applied to all oil and gas operators in the state.
The BLM, however, still allows for a nationwide “blanket bond” of $150,000, just a fraction of actual remediation costs for many operators. The federal agency is also slow to add wells that are known to be inactive to its orphaned well list, LeResche said, sometimes waiting more than six years to pursue responsible parties.
The Powder River Basin Resource Council and others are pushing the BLM to revise its bonding rules to increase dollar amounts and speed up the timeline for remediation work, LeResche said.
Coal-bed methane gas wells, primarily in northeast Wyoming, make up most of the orphaned wells in Wyoming, according to state officials. The industry tanked beginning in 2010, mostly due to low natural gas prices and the proliferation of hydraulic fracking that redirected the industry to shale gas plays outside the state.
For a 20-year period before the coal-bed methane boom, the state had documented 500 orphaned wells. After the coal-bed methane bust, it documented 6,020 orphaned wells, according to the state. The CBM bust and the string of bankruptcies that followed added pressure on state officials to revise Wyoming’s bonding and reclamation rules.
The BLM needs to do the same, LeResche said, otherwise continuing to use federal taxpayer dollars “is bailing out the culprits who were leaving these wells unreclaimed and unplugged.”
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Wyoming public schools were criticized by charter school advocates at a State Loan and Investment Board meeting Tuesday.
The SLIB is considering applications from proposed charter schools in Chugwater, Mills and Cheyenne, and heard presentations and public comment for two. Applicants for Cheyenne Classical Academy can make their case at the next meeting Sept. 14 as the panel weighs which charter schools to approve before the 2023-24 school year.
Wyoming has five charter schools located in Riverton, Laramie and Cheyenne.
Legislation passed in 2021 makes it possible for the board to allow a charter school to become an independent public school within the district where it’s located. Previously, only local school boards such authority.
In trying to convince Gov. Mark Gordon, outgoing Secretary of State Ed Buchanan, State Auditor Kristi Racines, State Treasurer Curt Meier and outgoing Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder to use their new power, many said charter schools were a necessary alternative.
Student performance
The Legislature’s Joint Education Committee co-Chairman Sen. Charles Scott, R-Casper, said he was concerned with low WY-TOPP reading test scores. He said such scores are a matter of school management and community expectations.
Scott is a supporter of Wyoming Classical Academy that would be built in Mills. It plans to incorporate the Hillsdale College K-12 classical curriculum, emphasizing financial literacy, character development and civic responsibility.
Scott said he thinks “having competition for students, which is competition for dollars, the way our funding formula works, will help persuade our districts to pay attention to this key metric and make them realize that they can do better.” For students in large, underperforming districts, parents can take them out of public schools. Scott said it will take a while for the state to turn around the public education system.
“I don’t think the problem is the teachers,” he said. “The number of teachers we’ve got, you’re going to have very good ones and a few poor ones in the nature of human institutions. But I think, by and large, it’s a local management problem.”
Legislators and parents weren’t the only critics of WY-TOPP performance. Natrona County School District 1 Trustee Clark Jensen has served on that board for eight years, and said he is disappointed with how schools are performing compared to state standards. He is a supporter of the Wyoming Classical Academy because he said the public schools aren’t making enough progress.
“I believe they’ll set the standard. They’ll set the bar in reading and math and science and many other areas,” Jensen said. “One of the things they’re going to do is teach the heritage in a way that’s needed greatly. I’m concerned that many of our students don’t have an understanding of the great nation that they live in, they apologize for where we’re at, and don’t appreciate the Constitution.”
He said this will not be the case with the charter school. He noted he will not be running again for office as a Natrona County school trustee, but he may join the Wyoming Classical Academy’s board.
Culture
Charter school advocates back parental choice, because of what many described as a desire for a different school “culture.”
In the case of the Chugwater application, proponents said they were receiving a large amount of community support, and they don’t want to convert the public school to a charter. There are only around 30 students attending the school in Chugwater, and its superintendent questioned whether this would shut down the school altogether if “95% of the students verbally committed” to attending the upstart.
Jerah Nix, founding board member for Prairie View Community School in Chugwater, said the reason such allies didn’t want to convert the small public school was because of the culture. She said it’s very hard to change it, as well as the model used in public education.
Her school would implement project-based learning and place-based education. There would be a focus on internships, community service projects, and residents educating students about their experiences. It is not associated with the Hillsdale College curriculum.
Charter school advocate Russ Donley seeks to have the environment he’s seen at a Hillsdale College charter school in Golden, Colorado. He said there is a respect for teachers and parents that starts in grade school.
“It’s a culture of virtue, a culture of goodness,” he said. “The kids are taught you don’t lie, cheat or steal. There are no locks on their lockers – none. You see happy kids.”
A parent and board member of the Wyoming Classical Academy said her son struggled with reading and writing. Sena Selby said by the end of fourth grade, he wasn’t capitalizing letters at the start of his sentences or putting periods at the end. she sees hope in the charter school model, aimed at “exceeding current performance averages, combined with the school culture to inspire children to pursue educational excellence.”
“The classical model offers a proven successful, teacher-directed curriculum in a culture that supports parents, teachers, students and staff,” she said.
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CHEYENNE — Wyoming lawmakers expect to navigate constitutional roadblocks on the path to creating a statewide school choice program.
Members of the Legislature’s Joint Education Committee heard the prohibitions and education obligations laid out in the Wyoming Constitution on Thursday as part of their meeting at the state Capitol. Legislative Service Office Operations Administrator Tania Hytrek told members of the committee that these could leave the state at risk of litigation if a school choice program were developed, and she presented relevant case law from other parts of the country.
Hytrek said it is a complicated issue due to the state’s unique 40-year history of school finance litigation, and the fact that the Legislature has not previously undertaken the act of creating a school choice program. There are different options, such as voucher programs, education savings account programs, individual tuition tax credits and public charters that could be considered.
“There are policy choices that the Legislature can make to minimize some of these risks – tying the educational standards to those required by public schools is one. Another may be setting aside funds that are not School Foundation Program dollars,” she said. “But what we cannot answer is if and when such a program were challenged, what the outcome would be under Article 3, Section 36 and Article 16, Section 6, nor do we know the outcome under the lengthy school finance history.”
Public funds and obligations
Regarding the expenditure of public funds, there are four specific sections that Hytrek said are relevant to the discussion of school choice programs.
According to Article 1, Section 19 of the Wyoming Constitution, “No money of the state shall ever be given or appropriated to any sectarian or religious society or institution.”
Article 3, Section 36 outlines that, “No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, corporation or community not under the absolute control of the state, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution or association.”
There are also guidelines in Article 7, Section 8 that provisions have to be made by general law for the “equitable allocation of such income among all school districts in the state.” No appropriation can be made to any district or school that has not been maintained for at least three months, and no part of any public school fund can be used for an educational institution at any level that is controlled by a church or religious organization.
Hytrek noted that “the state or any county, township, town, school district or any other political subdivision” can’t loan, give credits or make a donation to any “individual, association or corporation, except for the necessary support of the poor.”
These don’t speak to the constitutional education obligations that have been set as the standard in the Campbell County school district cases, as well as Washakie County School District #1 v. Herschler. Hytrek said there may be arguments made that the Legislature hadn’t met its obligation to provide a uniform system of public instruction, or funds were being taken away from public schools.
“I would raise three basic issues in this realm,” she said. “The first is with adequacy and equity of funding, the second is fulfillment of the basket of educational goods and services, and the third is the impact on Wyoming’s public school finance system.”
Among the legal requirements that Hytrek presented, Rep. Cathy Connolly, D-Laramie, had her own concerns. She said she had dealt with stakeholders in the past who wanted to create charter schools that didn’t include special-education students or had extracurricular activities during the school hours that parents had to pay for. She said private schools having rules and regulations about who they admit or exclude could violate the Constitution.
“Any school that takes public money is obligated to educate all children equally and equitably,” she said.
School choice defense
Two national school choice advocates came before the Education Committee to show avenues to create a school choice program that works for Wyoming, as well as relevant case law if it resulted in litigation.
Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at the American Federation For Children, said the state has an open field when it comes to enacting different types of school choice programs. He recommended pulling funding from the general fund or another appropriation not for public schools, or funding the program privately through a tax credit scholarship, or a tax credit funded education savings account program.
“Nineteen states expanded or enacted school choice programs that allow the funding to follow the child to a private school in 2021,” he said. “And in 2022, just a couple of months ago, Arizona passed the biggest school choice victory in U.S. history. Every single family, regardless of income, will be able to take their children’s state-funded education dollars to the education providers that they’re choosing.”
Sen. Bo Biteman, R-Ranchester, asked whether these states faced legal battles after passing the legislation. Other legislators were doubtful if they could take action considering the extensive constitutional requirements, public education being guaranteed as a fundamental right and the funding systems in place connected to the mineral extraction industry.
DeAngelis said it was more likely than not that the states that enacted a program faced litigation because “teachers unions, in order to protect the status quo, will use every lever they can to try to trap kids in their schools, even if families want an exit option.”
However, he said the school choice movement has been successful at the Supreme Court level, and it is a friendly environment.
In Carson v. Makin, the court held that Maine’s exclusion of religious options from the state’s high school “tuitioning program” was a violation of the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, and took away a parent’s choice to select a religious school for their student. Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue also held that states can’t prohibit families from selecting religious-affiliated schools in school choice programs.
EdChoice attorney Leslie Heiner, who has been involved with school choice litigation for the last 20 years, also saw an opportunity for Wyoming to take action.
She said the U.S. Constitution is supreme, and the two recent school choice cases declared that state constitutions that have provisions that are discriminatory against religious people or religious entities “are repugnant to the U.S. Constitution, and they cannot stand.” She also provided examples of other states that have been successful in providing equity and equality, as well as the right to choose an education institution.
“Each state is unique, there’s no question about it. But the one thing I’ve learned after all these years is that the school choice programs can be structured in a way that meets your constitutional obligations,” she said. “So yes, Wyoming has nuance, but it’s not fatal.”
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Beginning Sept. 19, Saratoga Lake will be off-limits as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department disperses rotenone in the lake to address an illegal yellow perch introduction in the lake.
Saratoga Lake Public Access Area will be closed beginning Sept. 19 for a planned rotenone project to address an illegal yellow perch introduction in Saratoga Lake.
The Saratoga Campground will have limited camping spaces available during the closure, but campers will not have access to the lake during the project. The rotenone project will kill all fish the Lake in an effort to remove the yellow perch.
Weather permitting, the PAA closure will begin Sept. 19 and remain closed for seven days after dead fish are cleaned up. It may take several weeks for the rotenone to degrade, and recreationalists and animals should stay out of the water during this period.
Fisheries biologists will test the water and reopen the lake when it is safe to do so. While the PAA may reopen, the lake will remain closed until the water is clear of rotenone. Warning signs will remain around the lake until the rotenone is gone.
Rotenone is a natural product derived from the roots of certain members of the bean family from South America. It has been successfully used by fish managers for decades to remove undesirable fish species in many places.
The presence of yellow perch in Saratoga Lake poses a risk to the fishery and the North Platte River drainage, according to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The fish are likely to disperse downstream to other waters in the watershed — including Seminoe, Pathfinder, Alcova and Gray Reef reservoirs and the Sweetwater and Medicine Bow rivers — where they could damage the sport fisheries and native fish species.
Anglers are reminded it is illegal to move live fish from one body of water into another in Wyoming. Penalties for illegally stocking fish could be up to $10,000.
For more information, contact the Laramie Game and Fish office at 307-745-4046.
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ROCK SPRINGS – The biker community made a young man’s dream come true Sunday morning.
Motorcyclists from all over joined together to give Rock Springs resident Vincent Johnson, an 18-year-old with cerebral palsy, a ride that he will never forget.
For several years, it was Johnson’s dream to go on a motorcycle ride.
In order to make that dream happen, though, he needed to ride in a sidecar. His grandmother Susan Nay began reaching out, making calls and posting on Facebook in search of one so her grandson can fulfill his dream.
In May, she got in touch with Jay Weisgerber, a man from Alliance, Nebraska, who just so happened to have a sidecar. Weisgerber was living in Rapid City, South Dakota, at the time and was ready to make the trip.
Johnson’s health wasn’t doing well then, however, so the ride had to be postponed.
Weisgerber created a Facebook page called Vincent’s Ride and began posting on the Sweetwater Classifieds page to recruit local bikers to join him in making Johnson’s dream come true.
On Saturday, Sept. 3, Weisgerber, along with his dog and girlfriend, traveled 405 miles to give Johnson a quick ride around town.
“I didn’t even care if anybody else showed up. I was on a mission. I was dead set on giving this young man Vincent a ride,” Weisgerber said.
“People who want to donate ask, ‘Do you have a 501c3?’ and I say, ‘No. This has nothing to do with money.’ I’ve had people offer me money, pay my way, offer to pay for my motel and I had three different people who I have never met offer to let me stay at their house last night with my dog and my girlfriend. That’s how these people are coming together.”
“I’ve been a biker my whole life and it doesn’t surprise me a bit because that’s the way the biker community is.”
Nearly 60 bikers and members of the Sweetwater County community showed up to Johnson’s house Sunday morning, gifting him with an autographed helmet and t-shirt that was donated by Flaming Gorge Harley Davidson. Motorcycle clubs such as Bad Lands Bandits and Fallen Saints Red Desert, as well as the American Legion Riders, joined in on the ride.
“When people think of the bikers in our community, people have a negative thought of what being a biker is. This is the turnout you can get on a three-day weekend. All the organizational stuff goes away when it comes to this because we have a purpose and a focus,” said Grant Yaklich, vice director and chaplain of the American Legion Riders.
“The man who brought his sidecar here, Jay, he came here from Alliance, Nebraska. He’s a school bus driver and he has taken his three-day weekend to come to Rock Springs to do this for this young man because this is what his wish is. This is what his dream is.
“It doesn’t matter who you ride with, what you ride or how you ride, this is about the community and this is a great representation of what the biker community in this area stand for.”
Upon the bikers’ arrival, Nay was nearly brought to tears by the love and support her grandson had received.
“I am just overwhelmed,” said Nay after seeing the amount of people who showed up for her grandson’s wish. “I am very excited for Vincent and I think this is a fantastic thing these people are doing. He likes to try different things and he’s been talking about this one for several years now.
“I’m going to cry.”
When seeing the look on Johnson’s face when the bikers showed up to his house, Rep. Marshall Burt of House District 39, who is also a member of the Fallen Saints Red Desert Motorcycle Club, said, “This is what it’s all about.
“What a lot of people don’t realize, as bikers, we might have a bad perception because we wear a lot of leather and we may look a little standoffish, but bikers, in their nature, are very charitable individuals and as a group,” Burt said.
“There are a lot of events that happen throughout the year that bikers will show up to, donate a lot of their money. Being able to get together with fellow riders and enjoy the beautiful day to give back to the community is really what we focus on.
“That’s our goal. We always want to give back to the community.”
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Average gas prices drop another 7.6 cents a gallon
Average gasoline prices in Wyoming have fallen 7.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.85 per gallon Tuesday, according to GasBuddy.com’s survey of 494 stations in Wyoming.
Prices in Wyoming are 36.9 cents per gallon lower than a month ago, and stand 31.1 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 2 cents in the last week and stands at $5.02 per gallon.
According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Wyoming was priced at $3.13 per gallon Monday, while the most expensive was $4.96, a difference of $1.83 per gallon.
The national average price of gasoline has fallen 7.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.75 per gallon Tuesday. The national average is down 29.5 cents per gallon from a month ago, and stands 57.6 cents per gallon higher than a year ago, according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million weekly price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.
Old West Museum to hold Hall of Fame ceremony
Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum will induct a group of eight distinguished groups and individuals during the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
The induction will occur on Friday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m. at the Event Center at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Headquarters Building. Admission includes both the ceremony and a prime rib dinner.
The list of inductees is as follows: Father Joseph C. Geders; E. Dean “Doc” Schroeder; Cheyenne Frontier Days Dandies; Roger Schreiner; Rick Keslar; the Establishing HEELs; Billy Evans Hunting Horse and The Southern Plains Intertribal Indian Dance Group; and Capt. William Lewis Pitcher.
Tickets for the event are $75 for museum non-members, $50 for members and $800 for a table with guaranteed seating. Parking for the event will be available in the B-Lot of Frontier Park.
To but tickets, visit oldwestmuseum.org/event-details/2022-cfd-hall-of-fame.
STDs an increasing concern in Wyoming
With sexually transmitted infections an increasing concern across the state, the Wyoming Department of Health is encouraging prevention strategies and testing for residents.
Comparing 2021 reported cases with those from 2020 shows Wyoming experienced a 23.6% increase in chlamydia cases, a 33.5% increase in gonorrhea cases and a 35.5% increase in syphilis cases. To date in 2022, statewide, there have been approximately 982 cases of chlamydia, 175 cases of gonorrhea and 35 cases of syphilis reported.
The most commonly diagnosed STI in Wyoming is chlamydia. Of the 2021 chlamydia infections reported in Wyoming, 24% occurred in 15- to 19-year-olds, 41% in 20- to 24-year-olds and 27% in 25- to 34-year-olds.
Dr. Alexia Harrist, state health officer and state epidemiologist with WDH, said the increased rates are unfortunate. “If left untreated, these infections can cause long-term pelvic or abdominal pain, an increased risk of getting HIV, infertility, pregnancy complications, stillbirth and infant death,” she said.
Harrist noted overall STI testing was down in 2020 and 2021 compared to previous years, resulting in potentially undiagnosed and untreated STIs in Wyoming.
WDH offers detailed STI information, free condom resources, low or no-cost testing, at-home testing options and STI treatment through the www.KnoWyo.org website.
WDH encourages registration for suicide prevention symposium
The Wyoming Department of Health is inviting teachers, law enforcement representatives, clinicians, loss survivors, community members and other stakeholders to attend the 2022 Wyoming Suicide Prevention Symposium in Cheyenne later this month.
The free two-day event begins at 8 a.m. Sept. 26 at Little America Hotel and Resort in Cheyenne.
“Unfortunately, Wyoming consistently has had one of the nation’s highest suicide rates,” said Cathy Hoover, Injury and Violence Prevention Program manager with the WDH, in a news release on Tuesday. “While the numbers are attention-getting and sobering, we know these numbers aren’t just statistics. They represent loved ones, teachers, co-workers, friends and children. It is nearly impossible to find someone in Wyoming who hasn’t been affected by suicide.”
Hoover said the symposium is an opportunity to examine what can be done to better help communities in the fight against suicide. The two-day agenda will allow attendees to discuss current trends, substance use, suicide loss and the future of prevention.
Planned topics include veteran suicide, destigmatization, transforming loss into action and suicidal ideation, with presentations from experts across Wyoming and the U.S. Free suicide prevention training, known as Question Persuade Refer, or QPR, will be available. Information will also be available about the new 988 suicide and crisis lifeline number.
Registration and more information can be found at visitcheyenne.regfox.com/2022-wyoming-suicide-prevention-symposium.
Anyone needing special accommodations to attend the symposium is asked to contact the Injury and Violence Prevention Program at 307-777-2923 seven days prior to the meeting to describe their needs.
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of harming themselves, please call 911. If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, call the U.S. national suicide prevention lifeline at 988 or text “WYO” to 741-741 for the crisis text line.
Three more in Wyoming die from COVID-19
Three more Wyoming residents have died from the COVID-19 coronavirus, bringing the state’s pandemic death toll to 1,884.
The Wyoming Department of Health reported Tuesday that all three of the newly reported deaths happened in August. They included:
• An older adult Sheridan County man, who had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
• An older adult Sublette County man, who was hospitalized and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
• An older adult Weston County man, who was a resident of a long-term care facility and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
State, VA partner to connect veterans with resources
Veterans in rural areas can participate in a new pilot program to help connect them with telehealth and mental health resources they’re entitled to.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and state of Wyoming have posted flyers at rest areas across the state to help reach veterans while traveling. The flyers share information about telehealth options available for veterans, locations of the closest VA facilities and the number for the Veterans Crisis Line.
Wyoming collaborated with VA as an early adopter of the program because of its status as the least populated state. The Cowboy State also maintains nearly 7,000 miles of highways, which makes the 33 rest areas across the state key points to connect with locals and visitors.
Rural health care is often limited because of various challenges with funding, care requirements and expansive geography, the VA says in a press release. The campaign will help connect Veterans with VA resources and maintain their continuity of care within the VA health care system.
For more information, visit telehealth.va.gov.
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GREYBULL — A Burlington High School graduate has created an app that aims to provide rural youth the mentorship they need to thrive.
The app, called Positivity Outward, empowers middle school, high school and college students to choose from 45 different mentors from 14 different states and three countries to help them in tasks such as filling out job applications and applying to college, exploring career directions, developing life skills and even navigating mental health challenges.
“We have more mentors signing up every week,” founder Zariah Tolman said. “What’s very unique about our program is that students choose their own mentors and are encouraged to have relationships with multiple mentors, so they have the support they need for all of their goals.”
Tolman, a Montana State University neuroscience and business graduate and current doctorate student at the University of California Riverside, is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit behind the app.
She said the idea for it comes from her own life experience growing up in the 50-person town of Otto.
The first time she felt anxious and depressed was in eighth grade, she said, but she didn’t know how to reach out, feeling isolated in her rural community and school. Tolman said that struggle developed into a severe mental illness in college.
“That’s why we went the route of peer mentorship. I didn’t always feel like I had a lot of friends in high school or had a lot of places where I could ask questions and open up. That persisted in college. I was really resistant to getting help,” Tolman said. “It took a close relationship with multiple people over a long period of time, who paid attention, knew I wasn’t OK and made sure I was getting the guidance I needed.”
Mentorship made the difference in her life, Tolman said.
With the guidance of multiple peers who mentored her, she was able to get the help she needed to overcome her own challenges.
“I don’t ever have to put on a mask or a face,” Tolman said. “I get to be who I am with them. They help me grow and achieve the goals that are important to me.”
She hopes with Positivity Outward, students who feel isolated can find mentorship far sooner than she did.
The app is just coming out of the pilot stages right now, but among the limited students that have used Positivity Outward, there are already stories of success, Tolman said.
Tolman shared the story of a student she mentored herself who sought her help in managing depression.
“He said that he finally had the motivation to get through school and that he felt balanced,” Tolman said. “He was able to talk with me about information that was difficult to find with others.”
Another student, Tolman said, was able to connect with multiple mentors in helping find direction after high school.
“She didn’t know who she was or what her purpose was,” Tolman said. “She was able to build relationships with five different mentors who took their time exploring before finding what they wanted to do, and it provided a lot of clarity for her.”
Each mentor is listed on the website alongside the topics they feel they are most able to address, allowing students to choose the mentor who can most directly give them guidance in the areas they need assistance in, Tolman said. There are also mentors available for several religious beliefs. Mentors are typically college-aged students and professionals at the beginning of their careers, Tolman said, and range across several different locations and career paths.
All mentors complete an application, interview, criminal and sex offender background check, receive QPR (question, persuade and refer) training for suicide prevention and take part in a three-hour training covering 11 different modules.
The mentors are not mental health professionals, Tolman said, but are able to connect mentees with professional help if needed while sharing their own perspective.
“They’re only speaking of their own experience. They’re not giving any medical advice,” Tolman said. “They’re sharing what has worked for them. We want to provide an open space for all kinds of conversations.”
The app is designed to give students control in how they use it.
“Each mentor makes their own schedule and mentees can access them as they need to within that schedule,” Tolman said. “They can use it a little bit or they can use it a lot. It’s meant to meet their needs.”
The app is funded through multiple grants; therefore, there is no charge for students to sign up and connect with the mentors.
Positivity Outward is currently only available through the website, positivityoutward.org, but Tolman said the organization is in the process of creating a mobile version that will be available through the Apple app store and Google Play store soon.
Middle or high school students interested in participating can sign up at positivityoutward.org/mentee.
“We want this to be an ongoing program, and we are reall hopeful that students who can benefit from this in Lovell, Basin, Burlington, Greybull and other rural communities in the area will sign up,” Tolman said.
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Oh golly, there’s so much news lately that I can hardly keep up.
Let’s have a look around:
DID YOUR HEAR about the 80-year-old woman in Washington state who stepped out of the shower at her local gym and there was a guy standing there, in all his naked male plumage? She knew right away he was a guy, regardless of his preferred pronouns. (You can tell.)
She complained to management. And as a result she was advised not to come back to the gym since she was so intolerant. The problem was hers, according to the gym — not his — even though she was a longtime member.
This might not work in this age of so many dang gender identities, but I’m reminded of the age old response when confronted by some guy displaying plumage: “Wow, I’ve never seen one that small!”
Might work.
CABIN SEASON is getting short in southern Wyoming, and my essential role of poking the campfire and counting hummingbirds is coming to an end.
This was a good year for rain (no fire ban in my neck of beautiful Carbon County), the mosquitoes disappeared a few weeks early and there were lots of hummingbirds (I spotted as many as 12 at my feeders in mid-August). The flies, however, were horrible. Still are.
We’ve got a couple of those guns for shooting flies with salt, one at home, another at the cabin. But we’ve spotted a design flaw. After a few years, the salt reservoir (notice I’m not calling it a “clip” or a “magazine” to keep the gun experts off my back) starts to leak, leaving salt all over the place and you have to keep throwing it over your left shoulder for good luck.
Shooting Boone and Crockett-sized flies with salt is fun (I know a guy who hates guns who nevertheless loves shooting flies), but a healthy swat with a traditional swatter relieves stress and lets the surviving flies know you mean business.
I prefer the swatter. If I could find a military-grade fly swatter, I’d buy one.
PRESIDENT ‘Hey You Kids, Get Off My Lawn!’ was angrier and more crotchety than usual in his speech to the nation last week, calling people like us “MAGA people.” (Oh no! You want to make America great? Well, shame on you!)
The week before that, our semi-president called us “semi-fascists.” And he keeps saying we don’t believe in democracy.
(I believe in democracy. You’re the deep state denizens who told Facebook what they couldn’t say about the president’s nutty son before the election.)
My father used to say, “The empty wagon makes the most noise.”
True.
THE MOST CREATIVE name I’ve been called in recent years is a “degraded specimen” over, as I recall, reluctance to go hook, line and sinker with the COVID-19 vaccine craze.
The president once said they were “losing patience” with us. (Hey, I’ve had plenty of vaccines, just not these latest ones. Ever had a cholera shot, Mr. President? I have! Two, in fact. Hold onto your hat!) And a local columnist said we should be shunned.
You don’t hear so much of this intolerance lately, as the people who hectored and shunned us so vehemently seem to keep getting COVID despite their precious vaccines and swell boosters. And some of them die, putting into question the “milder case” argument.
Meanwhile, those of us who had COVID and got natural immunity seem to be doing much better. (How about that, Bullwinkle?)
So anyway, I think “degraded specimen” takes the cake for bullying intolerance. Sounds kind of “final solution” to me.
I NOTICE THAT those we-know-better-than-the-voters people now want to find someone to run against Chuck Gray in the General Election. Failing that, they want to change the duties of the secretary of state to keep Gray from having anything to do with elections.
Let me finish with this. If you think you know better than the voters of Wyoming (which didn’t work out too well for Liz Cheney), well, let me paraphrase comedian Jeff Foxworthy: Then you may be a RINO!
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John Fetterman has been in elected politics for nearly 20 years, and last spring was on the cusp of taking the Democratic nomination in a very winnable Pennsylvania senate race, the political opportunity of a lifetime.
Then, he suffered a stroke. He won the nomination anyway — while in the hospital and on the same day he had a roughly three-hour operation to implant a defibrillator.
For Fetterman to have experienced a life-threatening, debilitating health event as he closed in on achieving a long-held ambition — he’d run and lost in a senate primary in 2016 — was a terrible misfortune. Everyone of good will should wish him a full and rapid recovery, and years of good health ahead.
He is not fully recovered, though. There is no doubt that his health status is an entirely legitimate issue and should be fully litigated before Pennsylvania voters choose between Fetterman and his Republican opponent, the TV doctor Mehmet Oz.
Fetterman, a former mayor and the current lieutenant governor whose left-wing politics, mountainous size and sartorial informality have made him a media sensation, has been scarce on the campaign trail. In a brief rally in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago, he at times painfully lost his way trying to deliver his riffs.
The meandering isn’t his fault, of course — it’s a symptom of his condition. Fetterman still has trouble speaking, and has used closed captioning to help understand what media interviewers are saying to him over Zoom.
This is such a concern because talking (and listening) constitutes much of the job of a U.S. senator, whether in committee hearings, on the Senate floor, in media interviews or with constituents. If his condition is anything like it is today, Fetterman would have trouble operating effectively in the senate.
Oz has been pestering Fetterman to agree to debates, which are a pretty good proxy for the kind of performance that a senator has to be routinely capable of. Oz has agreed to five invitations from various media outlets, and Fetterman none.
His reluctance to agree to what are standard events in any high-profile campaign, and quite valuable ones for voters, is telling. It doesn’t mean the Oz campaign has to be witless and cruel about it. One of the sarcastic concessions it made to Fetterman in the back-and-forth about debating was to say it’d be happy to “pay for any additional medical personnel he might need to have on standby.”
Lines like that have allowed Fetterman to play the victim, even though his campaign, in lieu of its candidate being out on the trail, has relied heavily on mockery of Oz on social media.
The debate over debates is beginning to have an impact. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just editorialized, “Voters have a right to know whether their prospective senator can do the job — including handling the give-and-take of a vigorous debate.”
Indeed, Fetterman should have to show and not tell. It is a universal law of politics that elected officials and candidates who are ailing lie about their health, or at the very least shade the truth. Fetterman didn’t tell anyone he had been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation in 2017, and he and his team initially minimized the severity of his stroke and have been overly optimistic about his recovery.
Fetterman’s campaign was going to test the proposition if Bernie Sanders-style progressivism becomes more appealing when the vessel is a 6-foot-8 man with a shaved head and goatee who habitually wears hoodies — he looks more like a stevedore than a senator.
The Pennsylvania race would be much more edifying if it were a debate about the underlying issues, including Fetterman’s fashionable anti-incarceration views. First, though, it has to be established that the Democrat can debate. That he’s in this position at all isn’t fair, but he can’t sidestep elemental questions about his fitness to serve.
Rich Lowryis a syndicated columnist. Follow him on Twitter @RichLowry.
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In 1947, in the context of changing attitudes about race and a historic shift in federal policy on the practice of segregation in housing, punctuated by President Harry S. Truman’s spirited attack on discrimination in America, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in Shelley v. Kraemer that rendered racial covenants unenforceable.
In a 6-0 opinion authored by Chief Justice Fred Vinson, the court destroyed the most efficient and systematic tool for maintaining Jim Crow traditions and denying racial minorities from accessing decent housing.
Shelley marked a dramatic turning point in American law. Racial covenants had been upheld by the Supreme Court in Corrigan v. Buckley (1926), and were, therefore, widely enforced in northern states as a means of promoting segregation in housing. The practice contributed significantly to an acute housing shortage for Black Americans in the years following World War II.
While covenants had been upheld by the court, the justices had refused to entertain a crucial question: Is judicial enforcement of racial covenants in fact a form of state action, and thus a violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment? In the years after Corrigan, the question had been repeatedly submitted to the court, but each time, the justices declined the opportunity to consider the question.
Shelley v. Kraemer arose out of the enforcement of a racial covenant. J.D. Shelley and his wife, Ethel, had saved money to buy a home in a tree-shaded, predominately white neighborhood in St. Louis. The Shelleys and their neighbors got along fine. Life was good. However, the Kraemers, who lived 10 blocks away, were not friendly with the Shelleys. They hired a process server, who delivered a summons informing the Shelleys that the deed to their home included a covenant, recorded in 1911, which barred ownership or occupancy on their block by “people of the Negro or Mongolian Race.”
The Shelleys sued, and prevailed, in a state Missouri trial court, but the ruling was reversed by the Missouri Supreme Court, creating grounds for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Shelleys’ appeal became one of four cases, collectively formed as the “Restrictive Covenant Cases,” brought by the NAACP, under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, then chief counsel for the organization and later a Supreme Court justice. Less than a week after the appeal was filed at the end of June 1947, the Truman White House announced a bold, new policy on civil rights in America.
Upon learning of a series of lynchings of Black Americans, in addition to a flood tide of hate literature and other acts of racism, President Truman created a civil rights commission and delivered a thunderbolt in an address to the 38th annual conference of the NAACP in front of the Lincoln Memorial. “The extension of civil rights today means not the protection of the people against the government, but protection of the people by the government.” Truman’s speech electrified civil rights and civil liberties groups, which successfully pressed for governmental denunciation of racial covenants.
For the first time, the Justice Department submitted an amicus brief in a case in which only private citizens were litigants. The State Department argued in a brief that the nation was being widely criticized abroad for its widespread practice of racial discrimination.
As chief justice, Vinson exercised his authority to write the court’s opinion. Three justices – Robert H. Jackson, Stanley Reed and Wiley Rutledge – recused themselves from the case, presumably because they owned or occupied homes that were the subject of a racial covenant, which would have constituted a serious conflict.
Vinson wrote a narrow, but powerful opinion. “These are not cases, as had been suggested, in which the states have merely abstained from action, leaving private individuals free to impose such discriminations as they see fit. Rather,” he wrote, “these are cases in which the states have made available to such individuals the full coercive power of government to deny on grounds of race, or color, the enjoyment of property rights in premises in which they are willing and able to acquire and which the grantors are willing to sell.”
Shelley represented a historic victory for Black Americans. As of that moment in America, Blacks enjoyed the right to buy any home they could afford. The Equal Protection Clause had been vindicated. And Ethel Shelley couldn’t have been happier as she shared news with her family that they could keep their house.
“My little soul is overjoyed,” she said. “I’ll tell the Lord of my thankfulness.”
David Adler, Ph.D., is a noted author who lectures nationally and internationally on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and presidential power. Adler can be reached at david.adler@alturasinstitute.com.
David Adler, Ph.D., is a noted author who lectures nationally and internationally on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and presidential power. Adler can be reached at david.adler@alturasinstitute.com.
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Jadyn Adams, who covers Northern Colorado for the Greeley Tribune, weighs in on what Wyoming can expect this weekend against the Bears.
1. One of the things Wyoming has had problems with in recent years is putting away FCS teams. What's going to be Northern Colorado's key to keeping this one close?
Limiting penalties. They had more than 500 yards of offense in their first game against Houston Baptist, but they lost, and those penalties were a killer. 105 yards (in penalties) is crazy. That's a whole football field, and then some. If they can really lock in, then they have a shot. But we'll see.
2. The Bears have two talented quarterbacks, and both were highly-touted high school recruits at one time. What does the quarterback situation look like, and how do you see them using that position on Saturday?
The official story is Dylan (McCaffrey) is currently day-to-day with an injury. They won't give details, but I think Jacob Sirmon is the guy you need to go to. He had some mistakes, but some of that was not having enough help. A lot of freshmen are on the O-line. But at least to me, they looked more cohesive when he was leading the charge.
Also, in terms of health, if you want Dylan later in the season and you feel confident in his leadership and what he's going to be able to do, I think you sit him out. It's a game that matters, but when you're going for the Big Sky championship, it doesn't count.
3. Who are some other names to watch who could make an impact this weekend?
Absolutely Trevis Graham. He's the grad transfer at wide receiver, and he made some great catches last weekend. Things just seem to be flowing with him on the field. Elijah Dotson is a great running back. He came from Sacramento State, and he had some good runs. If Sirmon is the guy they go to, I would also say Alec Pell is a guy to watch out for. He had 68 yards on eight catches, the longest one was 23 yards.
Those are probably the guys (to watch) on offense. For defense, I want to say David Hoage, but he's going to be out for who knows how long – if not the season. At this point I'm uncertain. I need some more time to see the defense. There needs to be some guys that step up, and I didn't quite see that on Saturday.
4. On defense, what would you say is the strength of that group?
(Linebacker) Vincent King had a couple of good tackles. He had a big sack. If he can get going, he's someone who could impress. (Defensive lineman) Nick Norris had some good tackles, I just think it's getting everyone on the same page. Last year, they did a great job defensively. It depended on the game, but overall, they had a good season. I was relatively impressed, at least in comparison to past years.
It's just getting on the same page. There were missed assignments, there were some communication issues, and cleaning up that small stuff will take them a long way.
5. Outside of the penalties, what were some of the things that gave them trouble against Houston Baptist?
Houston Baptist came in really wanting to win. They were aggressive and they were physical, for better or worse. I know there were some controversial calls, but they really wanted to win. (HBU coach) Vic Shealy said after the game that he wasn't particularly impressed with his guys. He said there were mistakes on their side, but they were really eager. Ismail Mahdi, their tailback, was impressive. He made some really great plays.
I think they just caused disruption, and when you have those communication issues, and you have guys just making little mistakes, if you can take advantage of those, you go a long way and you win the game. That's what they did. Then forced fumbles shifted everything. They took advantage, and I was impressed.
6. What's your prediction for what we're going to see on Saturday?
I think they will have hopefully learned their lesson coming into this weekend. The offense surprised me, so I'm going to say 35-27 in favor of Wyoming. I don't know that UNC is strong enough to beat them, not after their double-overtime win last weekend. But I also think UNC is good enough to give them a run for their money, if they actually get everything together.
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In California, a historic heat wave has exposed yet again what big idiots the politicians in Sacramento are.
To prevent daily rolling blackouts in Beverly Hills like the ones they have in places like Ghana, Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked us to not use electricity between 4 and 9 p.m.
The idea is to conserve power – and to prop up the electric grid that Newsom and his environmentalist comrades have been dismantling and neglecting for decades with their harmful green energy policies.
Having to conserve electricity is just the latest form of torture California’s Democrat rulers have inflicted on its 40 million citizens.
We already don’t have enough electricity to run our air conditioners when the temperature soars into triple digits, as it usually does each September.
I can’t imagine what life will be like here in 2035.
That’s when Newsom’s latest bad idea becomes law, and all new cars and passenger trucks that are sold in the state from then on will have to be electric.
Right now, there are about 30 million registered motor vehicles in California that burn fossil fuels. About 14 million are cars. About 560,000 of those are pure electric vehicles.
Electric cars über alles sounds great.
It sounds like a simple, doable and environmentally virtuous way to save the planet from climate change by killing off our dirty gasoline-powered transportation system.
But in the real world, unless the state allows more nuclear and oil-and-gas-powered power plants to be built, there simply won’t be enough energy in California by 2035 to charge tens of millions of lithium batteries every day.
You remember lithium batteries? Those are the little ones the airlines tell you not to put in your checked luggage because they like to burst into flames now and then.
Well, a Tesla lithium battery weighs about 1,000 pounds – which is why you have to recharge them outside and not in the garage attached to your house.
But let’s forget about the lucky folks who can still afford to own a house and a Tesla in California. What about people who live in an apartment complex with 200 or 300 units?
Where are their Volt charging stations going to be placed? They’ll have to be outside. On the street. Where the homeless camps often are.
Another major problem with electric cars in the real world will occur when freeways are closed for hours by wildfires, as they occasionally are in California.
Or when a blizzard in the mountains shuts down the interstate and strands thousands of motorists with slowly dying batteries.
Or when a hurricane forces a million people to quickly evacuate by electric car from New Orleans.
By 2035, many things will change, of course.
Other foolish states – mostly Blue ones – will also outlaw new gas-powered cars.
But the price of electric vehicles will come down. Charging stations will pop up everywhere. Innovation will happen with batteries that will give electric cars greater range.
And batteries, which today are made from lithium that comes from mines that tear deep dirty holes in the skin of Mother Earth, will be made in the U.S., not China. And maybe they will be replaced with something cleaner and better that doesn’t employ slave labor.
Before he resigns, perhaps Joe Biden might even buy every American with a driver’s license a free charging station or give them a $10,000 down payment to make up for the high cost of electric vehicles.
“Save the planet, America, buy an electric vehicle – whether you like it or not.”
That doesn’t sound very nice to me, so if Gov. Newsom doesn’t mind, I think I’ll pass.
As long as his climate police and the Great Almighty let me, I’m going to continue driving my Ford F-150 Raptor with a smile on my face, love in my heart and the AC cranked up as high as it will go.
Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to reagan@caglecartoons.com and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.
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CHEYENNE – Cheyenne East topped Thunder Basin 104-80 during a quadrangular Friday at the East Natatorium. Cheyenne Central downed Kelly Walsh, 105-78.
Central junior Izzy DeLay won both the 200-yard freestyle (2 minutes, 5.47 seconds) and the 100 butterfly (1:03.36). The Lady Indians also won the 200 freestyle relay (1:45.80) and 400 free relay (3:54.18). The names of the members on those teams were not available Friday night.
Central senior Brinkley Lewis won 1-meter diving with a score of 241.10 points. Sydney Gough placed second in the 50-yard freestyle (27.37 seconds) and 100 breaststroke (1:15.00).
Junior Emily Meares touched the wall second in the 200 individual medley (2:22.91).
East got a win in the 50 free from junior Sydni Sawyer (26.62). She also took second in the 100 free (58.03). Senior Shannon Bailey won the 100 breaststroke (1:14.97).
South splits duals at home
CHEYENNE – The Cheyenne Central girls swimming and diving team bested Natrona County (110-56), but lost to Douglas (106-71) during a quadrangular on Friday.
Hanna Fisher won the 100-yard backstroke (1 minutes, 10.24 seconds) and was fourth in the 50 freestyle (28.15 seconds). Paula Musslick won the 100 breaststroke (1:19.61).
Keely Henderson placed second in both the 200 individual medley (2:36.94) and 100 back (1:16.07).
Fisher, Musslick, Janaeh Brown and Elsie Gilliland finished second in the 200 medley relay (2:06.70). Brown, Henderson, Fisher and Musslick were runners-up in the 400 free relay (4:18.64).
Henderson, Gilliland, Bailey Halsey and Ella Newman were second in the 200 free relay (2:08.41). Brown placed second in the 500 free (6:43.50).
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CHEYENNE – Senior wide receiver Dom Kaszas caught five passes for 108 yards and returned a pair of punts for touchdowns to help No. 1-ranked Cheyenne East to a 52-42 victory over third-ranked Thunder Basin on Friday in Gillette.
Kaszas had punt return touchdowns of 50 and 80 yards during the first quarter to put East up 14-0.
“He’s getting comfortable with what we’re doing, and he’s making plays,” East coach Chad Goff said. “Those special teams touchdowns he had aren’t anything we’re doing to free him up. They’re all him.”
Junior quarterback Cam Hayes completed 16 of 32 passes for 235 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 58 yards and two touchdowns.
“The offense really started rolling and the offensive line got the running game going,” Goff added. “The defense played good all night and (Thunder Basin’s) offense is good and made plays. Our offense finally got over that edge.”
Nathan Mirich posted seven tackles (four solo) and grabbed an interception for East (3-0). Kaszas also had an interception, as did Garet Schlabs. Schlabs had seven tackles (five solo) and four pass breakups.
Kelly Walsh 17 Cheyenne South 7
CHEYENNE – The Trojans scored all their points over the final three quarters.
Kadon Boyce got Kelly Walsh (1-2) on the scoreboard with a 25-yard field goal with 6 minutes, 34 seconds remaining in the second quarter. Senior quarterback Gibson Sasser pushed the lead to 10-0 on a six-yard touchdown run with 3:32 to play in the half.
Gibson connected with Vance Broadway for a 20-yard touchdown to open the fourth quarter for a 17-0 advantage.
Senior quarterback Isaiah Hernandez found classmate Robert Pountney for a 36-yard touchdown with 5:55 to play.
The Bison (0-3) blocked a punt in the second quarter and recovered a pair of punts during the fourth quarter.
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LARAMIE — Not a lot went right for the Laramie High football team on its first road trip of the season.
The Plainsmen traveled north Friday to take on the defending state champions Sheridan at Homer Scott Field, and the Broncs cruised to a 55-6 victory for their 18th straight win against Laramie.
The Broncs, playing their homecoming game, took advantage of optimal field position after a variety of LHS mishaps, and capped all but the first drive with a touchdown for 27 first quarter points and 21 more in the second to enact a running clock to start the second half with a 48-0 halftime lead.
“Clearly, and no doubt, they are a powerhouse and you saw that in every way, shape and form this evening,” Laramie coach Paul Ronga said during the KOWB radio postgame show. “As a result of that, it happened quick, fast and early. It began with the rain and the torrential downpour, where we lost the ball I think two or three times in our first several possessions. It just snowballed from there and we were never able to recover.”
The Plainsmen (0-3) stopped Sheridan on its first possession for a punt, but the Broncs scored touchdowns on their next seven possessions, which started in Laramie territory.
Sheridan was first sparked by a 54-yard punt return by junior Dane Steel. Senior Colson Coon capped the drive with a 3-yard touchdown run. It was the first of his three first-half rushing touchdowns. He later added touchdown runs from 23 yards and 1 yard.
During the ensuing kickoff the ball was stymied by a strong wind that accompanied the quick, passing deluge. The Plainsmen were not in position to recover the ball, and Sheridan got to it first to have the ball at the Laramie 28-yard line. Sheridan senior quarterback Cael Gilbertson cashed in with a 2-yard touchdown run and also a 2-point conversion run to make up for a missed point-after kick by Coon.
Gilbertson also had two touchdown passes in the first half, the first going to senior receiver Mathew Ketner on a wideout screen for 41 yards; the second to Steel for 25 yards.
Also scoring for Sheridan in the first half was junior Terran Grooms with a 19-yard touchdown run.
Sheridan (3-0) had 183 yards of offense in the first half, and 160 punt-return yards to enable the Broncs to have short fields to work with. Laramie had 15 yards of total offense.
The Plainsmen got on the scoreboard with 8:05 on the clock in the third quarter when senior receiver Adrien Calderon caught a pass from junior quarterback Ben Malone on a slant route. Calderon outran the defense for 55 yards into the end zone.
On Sheridan’s next possession junior defensive end Tyler Ennist earned Laramie’s first sack of the season for a loss of 10 yards to force a punt and give the Plainsmen the ball in Sheridan territory for its best field position of the game to that point. But Malone was later intercepted on third down by Karson Chase.
Chase then had a 24-yard run on offense early in the fourth quarter on a 13-play drive that ended with a 1-yard push into the end zone by junior Malachi Bandy-Schmidt.
After playing the first two games at home, the Plainsmen will go on the road for the second straight time next Friday at Cheyenne East.
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CHEYENNE – Cheyenne Central and Natrona County met for the 109th time Friday, with both teams looking to pick up their second win of the season.
Natrona’s rushing attack proved too strong for Central, accounting for 367 yards on the way to a 14-10 win.
“That was a great high school football game, we just came up on the wrong end.” Central coach Mike Apodaca said. “I’m proud of my kids and thought they played hard. We are going to be all right.”
It took both teams a while to really get going. Despite two consecutive trips inside the Central 5-yard line, Natrona came away empty. They finally scored on their third drive of the game on a seven-yard run by Mason Weickum.
Central responded on its first drive after the Weickum touchdown. After two 14-yard completions, Keagan Bartlett punched the ball in from two yards out to tie the game at 7-7.
Both teams had chances with less than three minutes remaining in the first half to break the tie, but neither were able to come away with points. Central went three-and-out to give Natrona the ball back with under two minutes to go, but Natrona missed a field goal as time expired.
Central came out of the intermission and locked down the Natrona rushing attack. The Indians did not give up a rush of over 10 yards in the third quarter, and forced Natrona into three straight punts.
“We just adjusted our tackling,” Bartlett said. “They ran over us, and went for what felt like 20 more yards. We got told to go for legs and finish the tackles.”
Central took its first lead of the game at the 7:22 mark of the third quarter on the back of a 32-yard field goal by Brock Pedersen.
Natrona put together an 88-yard drive late in the fourth quarter to go up 14-10. Wyatt Powell, who had been shut down in the third quarter, capped off the drive with a 12-yard rush.
“Credit to them, they took it to us on that last drive,” Apodaca said. “We just couldn’t get off the field.”
After Central was forced to punt on the ensuing drive, Powell and the Natrona rushing attack picked up three first downs to ice the game.
Natrona dominated the line of scrimmage all night against Central. The team picked up 367 yards on the ground, while only allowing Central 71 yards on 23.
Powell led the way for the Mustangs, rushing for 234 yards on 35 carries. He also had six runs of more than 15 yards. Most of his yards came in the first half, where he rushed for 175 yards on 19 carries.
While Central’s running game couldn’t get much going, its passing attack had a solid night. Bartlett, who normally beats teams with his legs, completed 18 of 35 passes for 183 yards.
“The arm feels good,” Bartlett said. “They were running cover three, which opens more guys up.”
He also carried the ball 11 times for 47 of the team’s 71 yards on the ground and scored the team’s lone touchdown.
Both teams entered the game turning the ball over a combined 13 times. Friday night was a much cleaner game, with both teams only turning the ball over once. Powell had a pass intercepted in the end zone on the Mustangs’ second drive of the game. Late in the third quarter, Richard Prescott fumbled the ball after a 23-yard reception.
Penalties, on the other hand, were plentiful. Natrona picked up 12 penalties for 95 yards, and Central racked up eight penalties for 85 yards. The backbreaker came on third down of Natrona’s game-winning drive that would have forced the Mustangs to punt.
Central (1-2) will be on the road next week against Laramie. Natrona (2-1) will return to Casper to take on cross-town rival Kelly Walsh.
NATRONA COUNTY 14, CHEYENNE CENTRAL 10
Natrona County…… 0 7 0 7 – 14
Cheyenne Central…… 0 7 3 0 – 10
SCORING SUMMARY
Second Quarter
NC: Weickum, 7 yard run (Potter kick), 6:56
CC: Bartlett, 2 yard run (Pedersen kick), 3:01
Third Quarter
CC: Pederson, 36 yard kick, 7:22
Fourth Quarter
CC: Powell, 12 yard run (Potter kick), 6:53
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing
Natrona County: Powell 35-234, Weickum 14-79, Spencer, 9-54, McClintlock 1-2. Cheyenne Central: Bartlett 11-47, Lobatos 4-32, Fernandez 1-3, King 5-24, Reisdorfer 1-2.
Passing
Natrona County: Powell 8-18-1 67. Cheyenne Central: Bartlett 18-35 183.
Receiving
Natrona County: McClintlock 3-28, Longo 2-15, Potter 1-7, Weickum 1-11. Cheyenne Central: Whitworth 5-45, Prescott 4-33, Talich 3-43, .
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LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming volleyball team split a pair of matches to open the Winthrop Tournament on Friday.
The Cowgirls were swept in the opener by Delaware, 25-15, 25-11, 25-14, but they rallied in their second match to take down Davidson in four sets, 27-25, 20-25, 25-15, 25-14.
Wyoming (2-6) won an extended first set against Davidson, scoring the final two points to take an early lead. After leading for the majority of the opening set, Davidson controlled the second set to even the score at 1-1.
The Cowgirls found their rhythm in the third set, rattling off a 11-0 run after trailing 15-14. Five attack errors from the Wildcats helped out UW, with Kayla Mazzocca delivering a pair of service aces. The Cowgirls recorded nine aces in the match, while Davidson had just three. Mazzocca finished with a career-high five aces.
Wyoming closed out the win with a dominant fourth set. After falling behind 1-0, the Cowgirls built a pair of 11-point leads.
UW hit .235, while the Wildcats hit just .135. The Cowgirls also had an 11-7 edge in team blocks. KC McMahon and Corin Carruth led the way with 12 kills each, with McMahon hitting .393 and Carruth tying for the team lead with 13 digs. This was the second double-double of the season for Carruth.
Tierney Barlow and Kasia Partyka both recorded a season-best six blocks, while Mazzocca and McMahon added four and three, respectively. Hailey Zuroske had 13 digs and two assists, with Partyka posting 34 assists.
McMahon led Wyoming in the loss against Delaware with six kills. She also tied with Mazzocca with a team-high three blocks. Carruth and Naya Shimé added five kills each. Partyka led the way with 15 assists, while Zuroske had a team-best 11 digs.
Delaware hit .383 for the match, while UW was held to a season-low .085 mark. The Blue Hens also had 11 service aces, while Skylar Erickson had the Cowgirls’ lone ace in the contest. Delaware also out-blocked the Cowgirls 8-5.
Wyoming will close out the tournament today against host Winthrop at 9 a.m.
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LARAMIE – Unlike last season, when the University of Wyoming returned four offensive linemen with at least 20 starts with the program, the O-line was a bit of an unknown heading into 2022.
In just two games, this source of uncertainty has transformed into arguably the Cowboys’ greatest strength.
With three new starters – redshirt freshman Emmanuel Pregnon, sophomore Nofoafia Tulafono and junior Zach Watts – on the interior line complimenting a pair of returning starters in tackles Frank Crum and Eric Abojei, UW has yet to allow a sack through its first two tests of the fall. Redshirt freshman Jack Walsh has also been a key contributor, playing a combined 75 offensive snaps over the past two weeks.
“(There are) a lot of new faces, and I’ve been pleased,” Cowboys coach Craig Bohl said. “On the offensive line, we haven’t given up a sack in two games, and there haven’t been a lot of missed assignments.”
Added Crum: “No sacks through two games is a huge accomplishment. We have these young guys – (Tulafono), Zach Watts, Jack Walsh and Emmanuel – and for those guys to go in there and have 100% protection grades (is great). Obviously, technique isn’t going to be 100%, but to keep the quarterback clean is our job, and to have 100% on that is huge.”
The running game took a slight step back after a decent showing in the season opener, going from 5.9 yards per carry at Illinois to 3.9 yards per carry last Saturday against Tulsa.
Crum acknowledges that “3.9 yards per carry as an average is not the standard that we hold here at Wyoming.” However, he still sees traits from newer pieces on the offensive line that he believes translate well to the Pokes’ run-heavy attack.
Even during last week’s struggles, Crum saw positive signs in terms of their comfort within their new roles.
“These guys finish,” Crum said. “We like to ground and pound here a little bit, so you have to have guys who are willing to be a little nasty. At Illinois, I think it showed a lack of experience with those guys, but they got comfortable in the college football setting, and I think it showed last Saturday. Those guys were more comfortable in the spotlight, for sure.”
Early-down success
UW’s passing attack made significant progress last week after a forgettable showing in the season opener, with junior quarterback Andrew Peasley earning Mountain West offensive player of the week honors after throwing for 256 yards and two touchdowns with no turnovers on 66.7% passing.
The Cowboys’ willingness to throw on early downs played a significant role in this success. Peasley was 16 of 20 for 222 yards on first and second down, with his 48- and 51-yard touchdown passes both coming on first down.
Rocky start
UW’s next opponent will be looking to rebound after a rough start to 2022.
Northern Colorado lost 46-34 to perennial FCS bottom-dweller Houston Baptist in last week’s opener. There were some positive signs for the Bears, who gained 543 yards of total offense, with 425 yards through the air. However, 105 yards of penalties were too much to overcome, as HBU surpassed 300 yards passing and 200 yards rushing.
Changing odds
Betting lines have yet to be released for Saturday’s contest, but there have been some notable changes in terms of Mountain West futures odds now that each team in the conference has played at least one game.
Fresno State – which opened at +230 on DraftKings, the second-lowest odds in the MW at the time – is now the clear-cut favorite to win the league at +150. Utah State and UW have seen their odds double since this summer, going from +900 to +1800 and +4000 to +8000, respectively, following early-season losses. UNLV, meanwhile, has made the biggest jump, going from +10000 to +4000.
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Chief Justice John Roberts defends legitimacy of court
DENVER (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said Friday he was concerned that lately some critics of the court’s controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name.
“If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs.
Roberts described the last year as an unusual and difficult one, pointing to the public not be allowed inside the court, closed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, as one hardship. He also said it was “gut wrenching” to drive into the Supreme Court that was surrounded by barricades every day.
The barriers were installed in May when protests erupted outside the court and outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices after there was an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion indicating the justices were planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which provided women constitutional protections for abortion for nearly 50 years. The barriers are gone and the public will be allowed back inside when the court’s new session begins in October but an investigation ordered by Roberts into the leak continues.
Speaking at the same conference Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch said it is “terribly important” to identify the leaker and said he is expecting a report on the progress of the investigation, “I hope soon.”
Gorsuch condemned the leak, as have other justices who have addressed it publicly.
“Improper efforts to influence judicial decision-making, from whatever side, from whomever, are a threat to the judicial decision-making process,” Gorsuch said. Reporters from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg attended the talk.
The leaked draft was largely incorporated into Justice Samuel Alito’s final opinion in June that overturned Roe v. Wade in a case upholding Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks. The ruling paved the way for severe abortion restrictions or bans in nearly half of U.S. states.
In June’s ruling, Roberts, appointed to the court in 2005 by former President George W. Bush, voted to uphold Mississippi’s law but he did not join the conservative justices in also overturning Roe v. Wade, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to end a pregnancy. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to uphold the state law, saying he would take “a more measured course.”
Roberts has spoken out repeatedly about the importance of the judiciary’s independence and to rebut perceptions of the court as a political institution not much different than Congress or the presidency.
Opinion polls since the leak and the release of the final abortion decision, though, have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and confidence in the institution.
When asked what the public might not know about how the court work, Roberts emphasized the collegiality among the justices and the court’s tradition of shaking hands before starting conferences or taking the bench. After the justices might disagree about a decision, everyone eats together in the court’s dining room where they talk about everything but work, he said. He said it’s not borne out of “fake affection” but a respect that comes from the push and pull of explaining ideas and listening to the responses to them.
“We have a common calling and we act like it,” he said.
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Proposal to add more beneficiaries comes as Army veteran accepts milestone 300th home
NORTHLAKE, Texas, Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Building Homes for Heroes, a nonprofit that for 16 years has provided mortgage-free homes to military veterans, announced today it is seeking to expand the nationwide program to police, firefighters and other emergency first responders.
The move to expand its mission to support first responders - a decision unveiled the day before the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks - came as the organization marked a milestone 300th home, gifted to Army veteran Jonathan Merchant. He had just returned from service in Bosnia when he suffered a quadriplegic spinal cord injury in a car accident.
Merchant, an Army specialist stationed at Texas' Fort Hood, has not let that 1999 crash define him. Doctors told him if he survived, he could not expect to be self-sufficient and would have a limited life. Instead, he regained some feeling in his arms, becoming a competitive cyclist, swimmer and triathlete.
He was the first quadriplegic to finish the half ironman distance in a race sponsored by Challenged Athletes Foundation and he regularly takes part in similar events. A certified life coach, he now seeks to inspire others facing adversity.
Building Homes for Heroes founder, businessman Andy Pujol, said the courage and sacrifice of veterans is inspirational – as has been the work and dedication to community by emergency first responders. Adding that group to the program reflects the organization's commitment to honoring those who serve their country.
The organization, incorporated in New York, filed its plans to expand the home program with the state attorney general's Charities Bureau. While Building Homes for Heroes cannot currently accept donations to benefit first responders, it expects to receive state approval soon, allowing fundraising for the new program by the end of the year.
"Our goal will always still be to gift, modify and construct one home, every 11 days, on average," Pujol said. "That will never change. But our organization was founded with the goal of supporting our heroes who sacrificed so much to defend our freedom. That relates to not only our nation's veterans, but also our heroic police officers, firefighters and other emergency first responders who proudly don their uniform and risk all to keep us safe."
Next year, Building Homes for Heroes hopes to gift its 343rd home around Sept. 11, 2023, in honor of the 343 members of the New York City Fire Department who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
At Saturday's ceremony, Merchant, 45, and his wife, Stephanie received an ADA-modified, four-bedroom, three-bathroom home constructed by award-winning Texas homebuilder Highland Homes in partnership with Hillwood, a Perot company.
Situated in Pecan Square, a Hillwood Communities development in Northlake, it is the second home in the Building Homes for Heroes' campaign, for the fifth consecutive year, to gift, modify and construct 11 homes in 11 weeks, marking the anniversary of Sept. 11 and Veterans Day.
"This unbelievable gift is more than just a home," Merchant said. "It's the freedom financially to start a family, physically to be able to grow our family. It's the key to making dreams in our heart come to fulfillment and doing for us something we couldn't do on our own."
Merchant retired from the Army after three years of service. He received many honors, including the Army Achievement Medal, NATO Medal, Hero of the Liberation Award, the Basic Training Badge and the Expert Infantry Badge.
After the ceremony, a celebration is scheduled within Pecan Square for the entire community in recognition of Building Homes for Heroes' 300th home. Pujol, Perot and other dignitaries will be in attendance.
Building Homes for Heroes
Building Homes for Heroes builds and gifts mortgage-free homes, and completes home modifications, for veterans and their families, and provides further services along their road to recovery to help them live a promising and fulfilling life ahead. The organization said 95.19% of every dollar donated in 2021 went directly to its mission, the 10th straight year reaching a program rating of at least 93%. It also received a perfect 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for six straight years, including a 100% in transparency and accountability. See www.buildinghomesforheroes.org.
Hillwood
Hillwood, a Perot company, is a premier commercial and residential real estate developer, investor and advisor of properties throughout North America and Europe. With a diverse portfolio of properties and home to many of the world's leading companies, Hillwood is committed to bringing long-term value to our customers, partners and the communities we serve. Through its Communities division, Hillwood has delivered nearly 40,000 single-family lots in 103 master-planned communities across 13 states. These communities continue to raise the bar in terms of quality, innovation, and the unmistakable sense of community that sets each property apart. See www.hillwoodcommunities.com
Highland Homes
Founded in 1985, Highland Homes is an employee-owned company that builds nearly 4,000 homes across Texas each year and is among the largest and most trusted single-family new home builders in the country. A commitment to excellence has earned the company many industry awards, including consistent high rankings by J.D. Power and Associates. See highlandhomes.com
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- Lemzoparlimab combined with AZA showed encouraging clinical response in higher-risk MDS patients
- For patients received initial dose over 3 months, the ORR is 80.6% and for patients received initial dose over 6 months the ORR is 86.7%, CR rate 40%
- Lemzoparlimab does not require priming dosing with no unexpected safety signals in combination therapy with AZA
- For subjects achieving CR, remaining gene mutation frequency such as TP53, TET2 and RUNX1 were significantly decreased
- A randomized Phase 3 trial in higher-risk MDS is planned
GAITHERSBURG, Md. and SHANGHAI, Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- I-Mab (the "Company") (Nasdaq: IMAB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel biologics, today announces encouraging data from its Phase 2 clinical trial (NCT04202003) of lemzoparlimab (also known as TJC4) in combination with azacitidine (AZA) in patients with newly diagnosed higher risk myelodysplastic syndrome (HR-MDS), presented in an oral presentation on September 10 at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2022.
The open-labeled Phase 2 clinical trial is designed to investigate the efficacy and safety of lemzoparlimab in combination with AZA in patients with newly diagnosed HR-MDS. A total of 53 patients were enrolled as of March 31, 2022, receiving lemzoparlimab at a weekly dose of 30 mg/kg intravenously (IV) and AZA at 75 mg/m2 subcutaneously (SC) on Days 1–7 in a 28-day cycle.
Top-line data showed that for patients who began treatments 6 months or longer prior to the analysis (n=15), the overall response rate (ORR) and complete response rate (CRR) was 86.7% and 40% respectively. For patients who began treatment 4 months or longer prior to the analysis (n=29), the ORR and CRR was 86.2% and 31% respectively. While the study enrolled more patients with worse baseline conditions due to underlying disease (74% of patients had grade ≥3 anemia and 51% of patients had grade ≥3 thrombocytopenia), the results showed that lemzoparlimab combined with AZA was well-tolerated and the safety profile was consistent with AZA monotherapy.
Decreased red blood cells, measured as hemoglobin, and decreased platelets are major causes of morbidity for patients with HR-MDS and the median hemoglobin and platelet levels for patients on study increased in response to treatment. Of the 29 patients who were dependent upon blood transfusions at baseline, 9 patients (31%) became transfusion independent at the time of analysis. Furthermore, the majority of CR patients showed reduction in variant allele frequency (VAF) of MDS-related gene mutation including TP53, TET2 and RUNX1, with 56% achieving minimal residual disease negativity (≤10-4) by flow cytometry. These data are consistent with the anti-leukemic activities and expected drug safety of lemzoparlimab.
"Without the need of priming dose, the latest Phase 2 data show clinically meaningful efficacy of lemzoparlimab treatment in combination with AZA among patients with newly diagnosed HR-MDS," said Prof. Zhijian Xiao, Professor at Institute of Hematology and Blood Disease Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and leading principal investigator of the study. "The results are encouraging and provide further clinical validation to the promise of lemzoparlimab as a potential best-in-class CD47 antibody, especially for patients with HR-MDS or who are unfit for intensive therapy."
"The clinical activity seen with lemzoparlimab in combination with AZA thus far, in addition to the favorable safety profile, continues to show promise in this difficult-to-treat patient population," said Prof. Chunkang Chang, Director of Hematology Department of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, and leading principal investigator of the study. "Lemzoparlimab represents a potentially important novel treatment option for patients with HR-MDS as well as many other hematological malignancies. We're very enthusiastic about the results to date and look forward to advancing the trial and broadening its application into other malignancies."
"We are excited about the topline data of lemzoparlimab in HR-MDS selected for proffered oral presentation at ESMO Congress 2022," said Dr. Andrew Zhu, President of I-Mab. "The Phase 2 clinical data demonstrated a good safety profile, along with promising efficacy, and underscored I-Mab's commitment to bring transformational therapies to patients in need. These results warrant our focused efforts to advance lemzoparlimab towards initiation of a Phase 3 registrational trial."
The Company is on track to initiate a Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with MDS in China.
About CD47 and Lemzoparlimab
CD47 is a cell surface protein over-expressed in a wide variety of cancers and can act to protect tumors by delivering a "don't eat me" signal to otherwise tumor-engulfing macrophages. CD47 antibody blocks this signal and enables macrophages to attack tumor cells. However, development of CD47 antibody as a cancer therapy has been hampered by its hematologic side effects, such as severe anemia, caused by natural binding of CD47 antibody to red blood cells. Scientists at I-Mab discovered a novel CD47 antibody, lemzoparlimab, that is designed to target tumor cells while exerting a minimal untoward effect on red blood cells.
Multiple clinical studies of lemzoparlimab are ongoing to explore indications in treating patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), acute myelocytic leukemia (AML), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), and advanced solid tumors in combination with chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors.
About I-Mab
I-Mab (Nasdaq: IMAB) is a dynamic, global biotech company exclusively focused on discovery, development and soon, commercialization of novel or highly differentiated biologics in the therapeutic areas of immuno-oncology and autoimmune diseases. The Company's mission is to bring transformational medicines to patients around the world through innovation. I-Mab's innovative pipeline of more than 10 clinical and pre-clinical stage drug candidates is driven by the Company's Fast-to-Proof-of-Concept and Fast-to-Market development strategies through internal R&D and global partnerships and commercial partnerships. I-Mab has established its global footprint in Shanghai (headquarters), Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Lishui and Hong Kong in China, and Maryland and San Diego in the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.i-mabbiopharma.com and follow I-Mab on LinkedIn, Twitter, and WeChat.
I-Mab Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws, including statements regarding data from the lemzoparlimab clinical studies, the potential implications of clinical data for patients, and I-Mab's advancement of, and anticipated clinical development, regulatory milestones, and commercialization of lemzoparlimab. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including but not limited to I-Mab's ability to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of its drug candidates; the clinical results for its drug candidates, which may not support further development or NDA/BLA approval; the content and timing of decisions made by the relevant regulatory authorities regarding regulatory approval of I-Mab's drug candidates; I-Mab's ability to achieve commercial success for its drug candidates, if approved; I-Mab's ability to obtain and maintain protection of intellectual property for its technology and drugs; I-Mab's reliance on third parties to conduct drug development, manufacturing and other services; I-Mab's limited operating history and I-Mab's ability to obtain additional funding for operations and to complete the development and commercialization of its drug candidates; and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's clinical development, commercial and other operations, as well as those risks more fully discussed in the "Risk Factors" section in I-Mab's most recent annual report on Form 20-F, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in I-Mab's subsequent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to I-Mab, and I-Mab undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month, KAY Jewelers® is proud to support Breast Cancer Alliance (BCA), by donating $20 for each piece of jewelry sold from their limited-edition Pink Lab-Created Opal styles during the month of October. These new styles, which are launching in September, and are created solely to support Breast Cancer efforts, will include a beautiful necklace, ring and earrings all featuring a Pink Lab-Created Opal with 10K Rose Gold.
"KAY is proud to be partnering with Breast Cancer Alliance once again. This impressive charity not only does research and community outreach, but they also provide important surgical fellowships that change lives. Having personally been impacted by this, it gives me great pride to have KAY assist them in this important fight," said Stephanie Lawler, VP of Merchandising for KAY Jewelers, Zales and Peoples.
Since its founding in 1996, Breast Cancer Alliance has committed to improving survival rates and quality of life for those impacted by breast cancer through better prevention, early detection, treatment, and cure. In that pursuit, BCA has become one of the most prominent breast cancer foundations in the US.
"We are honored to be partnering with KAY Jewelers again this year and are so appreciative of their continued support. It is partnerships like these that enable Breast Cancer Alliance to further its impact, funding critical, innovative, and life-saving grants which save lives and improve outcomes in breast cancer," noted Yonni Wattenmaker, BCA Executive Director.
These specially curated Pink Lab-Created Opal styles are available through October 31 while supplies last on Kay.com as well as in KAY stores nationwide. Each piece retails for $249.99. For more information, please visit www.Kay.com.
Breast Cancer Alliance is one of the largest private non-corporate breast cancer organizations in the U.S. Breast Cancer Alliance has awarded over $32 million in grants supporting its mission to improve survival rates and quality of life for those impacted by breast cancer through better prevention, early detection, treatment, and cure. To promote these goals, the organization invests in innovative research, breast surgery fellowships, regional education, dignified support and screening for the uninsured and underserved.
For information about BCA visit: https://breastcanceralliance.org
For over 100 years, KAY Jewelers has helped millions of people express love and celebrate life's most meaningful moments. Operated by Signet Jewelers Ltd., KAY Jewelers is America's #1 jewelry retailer and the world's largest retailer of diamond jewelry. For additional information on KAY Jewelers visit www.Kay.com.
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Significantly more patients with moderate/severe symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis at baseline improved to mild/no symptoms at week 24 after treatment with LYR-210 (7500μg) compared to control
The three cardinal symptoms composite score shown to correlate with the well-established SNOT-22 scores at week 24 in the LANTERN study
WATERTOWN, Mass., Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LYRA) (the Company or Lyra), a clinical-stage therapeutics company leveraging its proprietary XTreo™ platform to enable precise, sustained, and local delivery of medications to the ear, nose and throat (ENT) passages and other diseased tissues, announced that new LYR-210 data analyses from the Phase 2 LANTERN study will be presented today at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Rhinologic Society (ARS) in Philadelphia.
The additional results from the previously-reported Phase 2 LANTERN study showed that LYR-210 (7500μg) significantly improved symptom severity from baseline of 3 cardinal symptoms (3CS) of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) – nasal blockage, nasal discharge, and facial pain/pressure – when assessed in a responder analysis as individual and composite symptom scores at week 24. Compared to control, significantly higher proportions of LYR-210-treated subjects improved from moderate or severe at baseline to mild or none at week 24 in nasal blockage, nasal discharge, and facial pain/pressure (p<0.05). Consistent with other reported data from the LANTERN study, LYR-210 demonstrated a dose-dependent response in the 3CS severity analysis.
"This new LANTERN data provides additional evidence of the potential for LYR‑210 to offer meaningful improvement of patients' CRS symptoms and quality of life," said Brent A. Senior, MD, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and chair of the data monitoring committee for the LANTERN study who will present the LYR-210 data at ARS. "The data supports the use of the 3 cardinal symptoms (3CS) score for assessing CRS patients' symptoms, augmenting the assessment tools available in addition to SNOT-22 to guide the treatment of CRS. Consistently across all measures, LYR-210 achieved significant improvement in symptom severity and shows promise as a potential new treatment option for CRS patients who still experience debilitating symptoms with current treatment approaches."
A second oral presentation for LYR-210 at the ARS meeting will highlight the correlation between the 3CS composite scores and Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22) scores. The data show that the clinical changes in CRS patients measured in the 3CS composite score strongly and significantly correlate with the change in SNOT-22 total score, based on data evaluated at week 24 in the LANTERN study. Both assessments, 3CS and SNOT-22, provide critical information on a patient's response to treatment and the impact CRS has on quality of life.
"We are enthusiastic to share these results for LYR-210 with the ENT treatment community at the ARS meeting. LYR-210 is the first product candidate designed to provide six months of therapy with a single treatment for CRS patients," said Richard Nieman, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Lyra Therapeutics. "We continue to advance LYR-210 in the ongoing ENLIGHTEN Phase 3 program as a potential new treatment for patients."
The presentations of the data announced today are available on Lyra's website.
About LANTERN Phase 2 Study
Surgically naïve adults with moderate-to-severe CRS who failed previous medical management enrolled in a multicenter, randomized (1:1:1), controlled LANTERN study. Patients received either bilateral administration of LYR-210 (2500µg) (n=23) or LYR-210 (7500µg) (n=21), or sham-procedure control (n=23). Both LYR-210 doses were safe and well-tolerated over the 24-week treatment period. LYR-210 (7500µg)-treated subjects demonstrated rapid, durable, dose-dependent, global symptom improvement, over 6 months from a single administration.
About LYR-210
LYR-210 is an investigational product candidate that utilizes Lyra's proprietary XTreoTM platform to enable six months of local, intra-nasal, anti-inflammatory therapy from a single treatment for CRS. LYR-210 is designed as a non-invasive alternative to sinus surgery for the millions of CRS patients who have failed medical management. LYR-210 is a bioresorbable polymeric matrix designed to be administered in a brief in-office procedure and is intended to deliver up to six months of continuous mometasone furoate (MF) drug therapy to the sinonasal passages. In the LANTERN Phase 2 study, LYR-210 (7500μg) demonstrated clinically meaningful, rapid, durable, dose-dependent symptom improvement over 24 weeks compared with control, based on composite Cardinal Symptoms (CS) scores and Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22). These results were supported in the Phase 2 LANTERN 6-month post treatment evaluation which showed a durable response in about 50% of treated CRS patients six months post LYR-210 removal. A pharmacokinetic (PK) study showed that MF blood levels were constant over the 56-day treatment period, confirming that LYR-210 delivers a steady daily dose of MF with accompanying rapid symptom relief during this time period. There are approximately 14 million patients with CRS in the US, approximately four million of whom fail current standard of care medical management.
About Chronic Rhinosinusitis (CRS)
CRS is a highly prevalent inflammatory disease of the paranasal sinuses which leads to debilitating symptoms and significant morbidities and is the fifth most common condition in people under 65. Cardinal symptoms include nasal obstruction and congestion, facial pain and pressure, nasal discharge, and olfactory loss. The prevalence of CRS in the U.S. is estimated to be 14 million, with 8 million treated annually using medical management including topical steroid sprays and oral steroids. Roughly half of those treated fail and seek alternative medical intervention. While ENT physicians perform approximately 400,000 surgeries annually for CRS, 65% of patients have recurrent symptoms and 100% require ongoing medical management. Additionally, many patients are surgery unwilling as the current procedures are invasive, not curative, and often require long recovery times.
About Lyra Therapeutics
Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage therapeutics company leveraging its proprietary XTreo™ platform to enable precise, sustained, local delivery of medications to diseased tissues not accessible with conventional therapeutic approaches. Lyra's XTreo™ platform is comprised of a biocompatible mesh scaffold, an engineered elastomeric matrix and a versatile polymer-drug complex. The Company's current pipeline of therapeutics target tissues deep in the ear, nose and throat passages and are designed to deliver continuous drug therapy for up to six months following a single non-invasive, in-office administration. Lyra has two product candidates in late-stage development for CRS, a highly prevalent inflammatory disease of the paranasal sinuses which leads to debilitating symptoms and significant morbidities: LYR-210, for surgically naïve patients, is being evaluated in the ENLIGHTEN Phase 3 clinical program, and LYR-220, for patients who have recurrent symptoms despite surgery, is being evaluated in the BEACON Phase 2 clinical trial. These two product candidates are designed to treat the estimated four million CRS patients in the U.S. that fail medical management each year. For more information, please visit lyratherapeutics.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the date and details of the presentations at ARS, our pipeline of product candidates, the success of the XTreo™ platform, and the success and efficacy of LYR-210. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the fact that the Company has incurred significant losses since inception and expects to incur additional losses for the foreseeable future; the Company's need for additional funding, which may not be available; the Company's limited operating history; the fact that the Company has no approved products; the fact that the Company's product candidates are in various stages of development; or the fact that the Company may not be successful in its efforts to identify and successfully commercialize its product candidates; the fact that clinical trials required for the Company's product candidates are expensive and time-consuming, and their outcome is uncertain; the fact that the FDA may not conclude that certain of the Company's product candidates satisfy the requirements for the Section 505(b)(2) regulatory approval pathway; the Company's inability to obtain required regulatory approvals; effects of recently enacted and future legislation; the possibility of system failures or security breaches; effects of significant competition; the fact that the successful commercialization of the Company's product candidates will depend in part on the extent to which governmental authorities and health insurers establish coverage, adequate reimbursement levels and pricing policies; failure to achieve market acceptance; product liability lawsuits; the fact that the Company relies on third parties for the manufacture of materials for its research programs, pre-clinical studies and clinical trials; the Company's reliance on third parties to conduct its preclinical studies and clinical trials; the Company's inability to succeed in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships; the Company's reliance on certain suppliers critical to its production; failure to obtain and maintain or adequately protect the Company's intellectual property rights; failure to retain key personnel or to recruit qualified personnel; difficulties in managing the Company's growth; effects of natural disasters, terrorism and wars (including the developing conflict between Ukraine and Russia); the fact that the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 could adversely impact the Company's business and operations, including the Company's clinical trials; the fact that the price of the Company's common stock may be volatile and fluctuate substantially; significant costs and required management time as a result of operating as a public Company and any securities class action litigation. These and other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 9, 2022 and its other filings with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While the Company may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it disclaims any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause its views to change.
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Location now open; grand opening celebration on September 17
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the opening of its first Trulieve-branded dispensary in Tucson. Located at 4659 E. 22nd St., the new dispensary is now open, with ongoing hours of 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
"We are excited to add a third location in Tucson, the state's second largest market," said Trulieve Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers. "We look forward to expanding our reach to serve the community with our high quality products and customer centric approach to cannabis."
Grand opening festivities on Saturday, Sept. 17 will include partner giveaways, deals, DJs, food trucks, and specials and discounts. The new location will offer a wide variety of popular products including Trulieve brands such as Alchemy, Avenue, Co2lors, loveli, Modern Flower, Muse, and Roll One. Customers can also choose from a broad assortment of products from partner brands including Alien Labs, Connected, and El Blunto.
Trulieve entered the Arizona market in October 2021 as part of its acquisition of Harvest Health & Recreation, Arizona's largest cannabis retailer. Over the course of the next year, existing Harvest locations will be rebranded to Trulieve. Harvest and Trulieve-affiliated dispensaries in Arizona are located in Avondale, Casa Grande, Chandler, Cottonwood, Glendale, Guadalupe, Lake Havasu, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, and Tucson.
For more information on store activations and locations in Arizona, please visit www.trulieve.com/dispensaries/arizona.
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., with established hubs in the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest, anchored by leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
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At the 2022 U.S. Open tennis tournament, which wraps up this weekend in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., technology has won: game, set, match.
Human line judges at the tournament have been entirely replaced by optical technology to determine whether balls are ruled in or out. Immediately after impact, a recorded voice shouts out the call: "FAULT!" for a wayward serve; "OUT!" for a ball that lands long or wide in a rally.
Gone are player challenges to questionable calls. No more furious players spewing venom at umpires for a ruling that went against them.
By replacing human line judges with the optical system called Hawk-Eye Live, "we're providing the players a fairer playing field with a lot more integrity, a much higher accuracy call," says Sean Cary, who oversees officiating for the United States Tennis Association (USTA), which runs the U.S. Open.
In the past, Cary says, when a player challenged a line judge's call and it was reviewed through the Hawk-Eye tracking system, the human turned out to be correct about 75% of the time.
Now, Cary tells NPR, "the automated line calling system is right pretty much 100% of the time."
Put another way: "We are millimeter accurate in terms of our line calling," says Benjamin Figueiredo, director of tennis at Hawk-Eye Innovations.
Some players say Hawk-Eye is not foolproof, and does occasionally make erroneous calls. But most seem to support the shift.
"It's pretty tough to argue with a computer. You always lose that battle," says professional tennis player Noah Rubin, who competed at the U.S. Open from 2013-2019 at the junior and men's levels and was the 2014 Wimbledon junior boys' champion. Automated line calling, he says, "takes away that anxiety of, 'I really hope the line judge or chair umpire doesn't mess this one up.' "
Hawk-Eye Live uses 12 cameras to track the path of the ball through space.
"No sensors. No lasers," says the company's Figueiredo. "It's all through optical tracking. ... The entire system is calibrated to the court. And the cameras essentially identify the X, Y, Z position at any given point."
When the ball lands out, he says, "we're automatically triggering the noises that you hear on court through the P.A. system... to call 'fault' or 'out' calls in the same way that you're used to a line judge doing that."
The U.S. Open's pivot to Hawk-Eye Live came in 2020, at the early peak of the COVID pandemic. To minimize the risk of infection spread, the tournament eliminated nearly all line judges, instead using Hawk-Eye Live on all but the two main courts. Tournament officials thought the system worked so well that now they use it exclusively.
With the switch to automation, about 250 line judges lost their jobs at the U.S. Open. But some of their voices live on: the recorded calls heard during play include the voices of line judges who went into a studio inside Arthur Ashe Stadium and, essentially, recorded their swan songs.
There are a variety of officials' voices in the database, male and female, calling plays with a range of dynamics and urgency.
"The thing that I think is really cool," says the USTA's Cary, "is that we've been able to program the system to know that if the ball is way out, it's going to be a softer out call. But if it's a really close one, like it would be with a live line umpire, they generally yell at the top of their voices to make sure everyone hears it."
Just like a baseball umpire, they're selling the call.
"Yes," agrees Cary. "Selling the call is a great way of explaining it."
Fewer people means a 'cleaner' court
Along with greater accuracy, Cary says there's another advantage to replacing line judges with automation. Now, with nine fewer people on the court, he says, "we're providing a much cleaner court for our broadcast partners and our sponsorship partners."
In other words, the TV networks and corporate sponsors are happier because the screen has less clutter – though Cary balks at that word: "I mean," he says, "clutter's not necessarily a nice word to call human beings."
The absence of line judges, however welcome, still strikes player Noah Rubin as visually odd.
"I'm usually not a tennis traditionalist," he says, "but there's something about having those line judges dressed up in the back of the court making the calls. There's definitely something missing there. It looks pretty empty on the courts."
But, he adds, "I think this is where sports have to get to. There's too much on the line to be decided by a missed call, by human error."
Other tournaments besides the U.S. Open have turned exclusively to Hawk-Eye Live instead of human line judges — including the Australian Open. There, the prerecorded voices making calls have included front-line workers who responded to both the COVID pandemic and wildfires, and the Aussie actress Rebel Wilson, who's a passionate tennis fan.
Last year, Hawk-Eye Innovation's Figueiredo caused a stir when he told the Sydney Morning Herald that his company had held discussions about replacing the "fault" and "out" calls with the names of sponsors shouted out instead.
"It's quite interesting," he said at the time. "You could have 'Ralph Lauren' being shouted out. That might wind a few people up after a while. It's certainly a possibility, yeah."
Asked about that prospect by NPR, Figueiredo responds cagily.
"Um ... there have been historical discussions that have been had," he says. "It's — um, it's not something that at the minute I guess anyone's particularly — well, has followed up on at the moment. ... It has previously been talked about. I guess I'd rather not go into details."
As for the U.S. Open, the USTA's Sean Cary predicts that automated line calling is here to stay: "Because we're providing a a fairer and more even contest to the players, with a higher level of integrity," he says, "it would be very difficult for us to move backwards now."
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This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, official judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest Abbi Jacobson and panelists Luke Burbank, Faith Salie and Paula Poundstone. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
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A new horror movie featuring Winnie the Pooh prompted us to explore what's happened to some other works of art that ended up in the public domain.
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A new horror movie featuring Winnie the Pooh prompted us to explore what's happened to some other works of art that ended up in the public domain.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Tara Haskins, health director at the healthcare-focused nonprofit AgriSafe, about a new suicide prevention hotline aimed to help agricultural workers.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Tara Haskins, health director at the healthcare-focused nonprofit AgriSafe, about a new suicide prevention hotline aimed to help agricultural workers.
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Sweltering heat isn't the only problem this weekend in California. A tropical storm is bringing flooding to the southern half of the state. And wildfires are making the air quality bad.
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Sweltering heat isn't the only problem this weekend in California. A tropical storm is bringing flooding to the southern half of the state. And wildfires are making the air quality bad.
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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.
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Charles is formally declared the British monarch at a ceremony today in London, as the nation continues to mourn his mother after 70 years as queen.
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Charles is formally declared the British monarch at a ceremony today in London, as the nation continues to mourn his mother after 70 years as queen.
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"I didn't get a picture of her. I was so mesmerized."
When I stood on the street outside Westminster Abbey in 2011, wedged into a crowd watching the arrivals and departures at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, smartphones and digital cameras were everywhere. People held them up to take pictures of nothing, of everything. Of the horses, the carriages, the other people, and the waving Will and Kate pennants. They struggled to get their cameras positioned so they weren't blocked by other people's cameras. Were they tall enough, could they bend enough, could they reach far enough to get the shot?
But the gray-haired woman near me who had been handing out snacks and chattering excitedly the entire time missed the photo she wanted the most: She didn't get a shot of the queen passing by in her carriage. And it wasn't because she wasn't ready. It wasn't because she wasn't looking.
A little shocked and a little dejected, she admitted it was simply that she was "mesmerized."
The most important caveat about the royalty-adjacent emotions I saw that day is that of course this is not how all Londoners or all English people — let alone all of Queen Elizabeth's subjects — felt about her. But it is the way a particular slice of the population reacted to her. It felt kind of similar in sheer magnitude to the way some Americans are about celebrities they admire, like actors and musicians. But there's a degree of tradition associated with this reverence, and a degree of formality and distance, that isn't like the devotion to Beyoncé or Chris Evans or whomever. You don't see the queen dancing on TikTok or selling a new activewear line on Instagram.
For many, Elizabeth was the monarchy
The United States really doesn't have anything like it, which is perhaps why some Londoners will grouse about how Americans are more impressed by and more obsessed with the British royal family than British people are. After all, Americans aren't burdened with the costs and political problems and the other pains of maintaining a monarchy; they get to look at princes and princesses in real life much like they would on television — as an aesthetic and a story. That's part of why the positioning of Queen Elizabeth II in pop culture is such a big part of how Americans saw her.
Elizabeth II became queen in 1952, almost 20 years before I was born. She wasn't just queen for all my life; she had been queen since my parents were teenagers. By the time I became pop-culture aware, Queen Elizabeth II was the British monarchy. There are fewer and fewer living memories anymore of the monarchy before her, without her. How popular culture engaged with her was a huge part of how it engaged with the entire idea of a queen — an English queen or any other one.
How popular culture engaged with her was a huge part of how it engaged with the entire idea of a queen — an English queen or any other one.
Elizabeth herself, in cultural representations both American and not, was a figure who could be stern or kind, tragic or comic, opaque or transparent. Much of The Crown has been devoted to unwinding her life to explore her humanity, how the woman she was from the moment of her startlingly young ascent to power informed the monarch she was. That's why the portrayal of her has been handed off from actress to actress, from Claire Foy to Olivia Colman to Imelda Staunton.
But there were other portrayals, too. In The Queen, Helen Mirren played her as a woman so preoccupied with protecting her family and the institution of the monarchy, and so removed from her subjects, that she couldn't initially understand the public response Princess Diana's death would draw. Mirren's portrayal, for which she won an Oscar, was both sympathetic and damning. It posited that Elizabeth was, through her training and the sense of duty that defined her life, simply unprepared for the depth of feeling she encountered, and surrounded by no one who could help her navigate it. Her only help comes from Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), who in the film is her savior precisely because he learned to pursue popularity outside the monarchy.
The focus on palace intrigue in most of these constructed images of her meant, among other things, that they rarely considered her from the point of view of ordinary people inside England, let alone, for instance, those harmed by the monarchy's long history of colonization. Reactions to the news of her death underscored how strikingly different her story may look if she's seen less as the head of a family touched by tragedy and more as the figure who still represented what had been the British Empire.
Elizabeth, in relation to Diana
In Pablo Larraín's Spencer, Elizabeth was a forbidding presence hanging over the entire film who broke through with cryptic words of wisdom for Kristen Stewart's Diana, but only in a single scene. For the most part, she is silent, foreboding, the embodiment of the institution Diana fears, in which she feels trapped.
In fact, the popular vision of Diana had such gravitational pull that it changed the shape of Elizabeth's own cultural orbit, even long after Diana herself was gone. Magazines, newspapers, television — they were all obsessed with Diana, from her emergence to her wedding to her divorce and her death. Ever since, the British monarchy has often been portrayed through lenses that focus on how it treated and damaged and misunderstood Diana: The Queen, The Crown, Spencer, even the recent Diana: The Musical, in which Elizabeth is a tragicomic grandmother whose fixation on duty overwhelms a basically kind nature, to Diana's great detriment.
As much as the real Elizabeth might have hoped to move on from that preoccupation, it has echoed in the stories of Diana's sons, and in their agony over the manner of her death. Over time, the two princes took two different paths, and their proximity to or their distance from popular culture shows it: There is William, who will presumably become king, who has remained largely on the path of distance and formality that his father and grandmother set for him. Then there is Harry, who has not.
Over and over, film and television have seen Elizabeth as, in some manner, Diana's antagonist, regardless of how true that was or was not.
Harry, who has hung out with James Corden, who married an American actress, who has been candid about mental health and his strained relationships with some members of his family in a conversation with Oprah — one of the few women whose influence on popular culture in the last 30 years can rival his mother's. And so now, much of the pop-culture interest in Elizabeth centers on her interactions with Harry and Meghan. Over and over, film and television have seen Elizabeth as, in some manner, Diana's antagonist, regardless of how true that was or was not.
For his part, Harry has seemingly tried to separate his grandmother as such person from "the firm," the institution of the monarchy that operates alongside her. But nevertheless, Diana's embrace of a public image that included dancing and fashion and being friends with Elton John had a profound effect on the pop-culture portrayal of Elizabeth herself — and certainly on portrayals of Prince Charles. She might otherwise have remained a figure of some remoteness, without a contemporary story hook to drive a film like The Queen or a series like The Crown.
It's perhaps ironic that pop culture will always be a profoundly incomplete way to view someone like Elizabeth, whose 1953 coronation the BBC calls "the event that did more than any other to make television a mainstream medium." Television may have brought her into people's homes in a new way, but the media would struggle to capture her for decades, though it never stopped trying. Pop culture may not have ever quite gotten the shot, but always, it was mesmerized.
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