It is widely discussed in Wyoming that men make more money than women, otherwise known as the Gender Wage Gap.  The primary issue is that the higher paying jobs in Wyoming are usually male dominated, such as oil/gas roughneck, miner, truck driver, etc.  Many in the state have been working to bring more women into these fields that have been male dominated.  The Western Wyoming Community College has a great training program for working in the gas fields and thus getting into those higher paying jobs.

Below is a story that …

The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Mineral, Business, and Economic Development Committee met in the Jackson Town Hall over the last two days discussing a myriad of issues.  One topic discussed was the repeated problem of exceeding ozone pollution levels in Sublette County in the winter time.  Two winters ago was a real problem.  Last winter was not as bad.
John Cora, the Director of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, gave a report on what the state has done to try and bring the levels of ozone down.  The oil and gas …

As many of you know, Teton County hauls their solid waste (garbage) to the Sublette County Landfill.  One of the main reasons is that the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) requires that a landfill cannot impact groundwater.  In Teton County it is hard to find a suitable location that does not affect groundwater.  Thus the old landfill south of town was closed and now a transfer station sits there.
The State of Wyoming has been grappling with the issue of landfills impacting ground water for many years.  The Federal EPA …

“It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I’m wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right… Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”

-Frank Zappa
The 8th anniversary of 9/11 has come and gone and not a murmur about re-opening investigations into the over whelming evidence indicating it was an intentionally planned attack against our own people, by our own government. It is therefore important to realize that a …

Sherry Daigle, the Teton County Clerk, has this great photo up in her office of an aerial view of the town of Jackson in the 1960′s.  Actually she has numerous photos of Jackson in her office from the 1960′s and 70′s.  This is the Jackson that she remembers growing up in and sometimes when she is describing a  location in town, she uses landmarks that no longer exist.  I lamented to her one day that my old Jackson Hole High School had been torn down to make room for Colter …