November 2007 - Posts
The Wyoming Environmental Quality Council (EQC) designated Adobe Town in southwestern Wyoming as "very rare or uncommon". The implications of that designation is that it protects the area from surface mining. Getting the area designated by the Federal
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I presently serve on the Judiciary Committee and we had our third meeting on Tuesday for the Carbon Sequestration Bills. Carbon Sequestration is where you take the CO2 that comes out of a coal fired power plant and instead of venting the CO2 into the
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I was in Cheyenne earlier this week putting the final touches on my homestead exemption bill that I will introduce in the Legislative Session in February. Someone asked me the other day at the post office what programs are currently in place for property
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I spent part of Thanksgiving reading Mark Penn's new book Microtrends. Mark Penn is the individual that came up with the term "soccer moms" in the 1996 election. What is more interesting is not just that he was able to identify a specific group of voters
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http://www.trib.com/articles/2007/11/21/news/wyoming/edd15742e9362cc68725739a00016f21.txt Above is the link to the article in the Casper Star this morning on State Representative Dan Zwonitzer running for Congress to replace Congresswoman Cubin. State
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I was so disappointed to read in the paper today that Richard Anderson is leaving after 5 years as the editor of the Planet Jackson Hole. He was a great editor and made the Planet Jackson Hole into such a great newspaper. Richard will be sorely missed,
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http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/interim/Jud/bills.HTM The Judiciary Committee will be meeting on Tuesday next week to take up 3 bills that deal with carbon sequestration. As many of know from reading previous postings, this is an important issue to me
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Congresswoman Barbara Cubin announced on Saturday at the Republican State Central Committee meeting that she will not be running again for election in 2008. She has been in for the last 14 years. Congresswoman Cubin has been under pressure from her fellow
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