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 The budget was signed this morning by the Governor.  Some highpoints of the budget that Rep. Gingery worked on and made sure that they passed
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$2.5 million into the Wildlife Trust Fund
$2 million into the Cultural Trust Fund
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$685,000 for telepsychiatry — Rep. Gingery serves as the Co Chair of the Select Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse and worked to get this provision in the budget.  Many communities do not have psychiatrists and by allowing patients to access psychiatrists through teleconference will expand patient care and reduce costs considerably.
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There are some hundred billion galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars… ten billion trillion.  In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet?
-Carl Sagan

There is no greater “drug free” reality shift then experiencing your first UFO sighting.  Mine was back in 2003.  A reassuring voice was sensed inside my head that calmly said “go outside, go outside” and so I did.  It was in the evening an hour or so after …

Representative Colin Simpson, the Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives has been working for years for improvements to our health care system.  Below is a letter that he sent out earlier today describing some of the bills that he is working on.
As this budget session continues, there are two bills I’d like to highlight that may be acted upon this week by the Wyoming House of Representatives. During these tough economic times we need to reduce costs for hard-working Wyomingites - so they can afford health coverage - and …

[reprinted from  an 11/7 edition of the JH Weekly, letters to the editor]

“Where’s the 757 in these 9/11 photos?  Anyone, anyone, anyone…”

When the empirical Dark Lords of the Bush and Bin Laden regimes began choreographing 9/11 they failed to foresee a fateful flaw in their sinister plans to wage their soul-less, profit driven war.  This would be the emergence of the Internet and a cultural phenomenon called Youtube.com.

The reptilian Republicans assumed that their “shock and awe” strategies would sweep panic and fear over the American people, while the blaringly obvious …

The Wyoming Legislature is trying an experiment today in allowing testimony before a standing legislative committee by videoconference.  Usually, in order to testify in support or opposition to a bill before the legislature you have to travel all the way to Cheyenne and appear in person.  The legislature has set up one committee room (Room 302 for those familiar with the Capitol Building) with monitors and cameras.  People who wish to testify will be able to go to a videoconference site in their hometown and testify from their own town.�
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CONTACT: Wendy K. Madsen, Legislative Information Officer or Anthony Sara, Associate Legislative Information Officer TO REACH: (307) 777-7881
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VIDEO CONFERENCING AVAILABLE THURSDAY FOR PUBLIC DURING CONSIDERATION OF TWO HOUSE BILLS
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CHEYENNE -  Representative Keith Gingery, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has announced that the Committee will be holding public hearings on the following legislation: HB38 (Driving under the influence - amendments) and HB61 (Legal services funding). HB 38 will be taken up on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.  HB 61 will be taken …

Monday, February 8, 2010— the first day of the Wyoming Legislature’s Budget Session.  The primary purpose of the session is to set the budget for the next 2 years.  The new budget year begins on July 1, 2010 and runs through June 30, 2012, so we refer to the budget as the 11-12 budget, even though part of it is in 10.  This morning there is a reception at the Wyoming Supreme Court.  I chair the House Judiciary Committee, so I will attend that reception, since many of the requests …

“It’s true we’ll make a brighter day, just you and me” -Michael Jackson

The industry of health care has become a more powerful force then our government is able to manage. The business behind medicine overwhelms any real chance for Change. Hope has been lost.

It’s time we come to terms with of our corrupt and incestuous government where far too many politicians are merely pirates for corporate profiteering. Expecting improvements in health care from DC is delusional. Just ask your doctor and watch them nod their head in dismay.

It …

Every year the Association of Brewers has their annual beer festival in Denver, the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). Thanks to the recession, this year’s event had the biggest attendance in its 28-year history (in America alcohol is the only legal part of the triple threat = sex, drugs and alcohol.) Over 500 breweries were in the Denver Convention Center serving up a total of 2,200 beers in 1oz pours. This event gives brewers a chance to show off their latest and greatest creations. Breweries can submit …

Some passages that I found interesting in Sarah Palin’s new book “Going Rogue”.   Some are just trivial that just caught my attention.
 

Sarah Palin is supposed to give her first State of the State address as Governor.  It is supposed to occur on January 15 and then she is flying to Georgia to be with her son graduating from boot camp.  The Senate President doesn’t like her, so the Senate President moves the time of the State of the State address so she won’t be able to make it to …