Great people watching at the Fair. Very colorful scene. Kids love it. Damn expensive though.

I made my annual trek out to the C-Bar-V Ranch for their graduation ceremony.  It’s always a moving experience. C-Bar-V Ranch is a school for special needs kids.
 

Jackson, WY resident Travis Walker has orchestrated a vortex of artistic energy and eco-activism.  In addition to being a talented artist, he’s become a pioneer for choreographing a community project of passionate and creative people.  Hard work, determination and dedicated volunteers like Tony Birkholz have transformed a dilapidated building on Gregory Lane into the new incarnation of the Teton Art Lab and Factory Studios.

.01: What prompted your relocation to 1255 Gregory Lane?

The Teton Artlab has been on the move since our inception in 2007, and it has been due to …

“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.” – Albert Einstein

A few weeks ago I sat atop a gigantic jumbled pile of granitic boulders amongst an ocean of ever reaching Joshua Trees. I listened to wind rushing over rock and the occasional “cluk-cluk”of a curious raven. All was serene, basking in the warm desert sun, until a series of sonic booms ripped across the surreal landscape.
 
The thudding drone of military helicopters soon followed like a swarm of annoying industrial gnats. …

I published some of my prop wishes for Wyoming and Jackson in the New Year in our Newsmaker issue this week http://planetjh.com/news/A_106896.aspx. Among other things, I’d like to see lodging tax revenue used to promote a Jackson Hole that’s representative of why we love to call this place home, a resolution to the ongoing and polarizing wolf dispute between Wyoming and the Feds, and a body count of zero on Teton Pass this ski season. Here’s one I’d add: that we see a final comp plan before the end of …

[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 …

Juvenile Justice in Wyoming from Marc Homer on Vimeo.

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 …

The Wyoming Constitution has an interesting prohibition in it that states that all supreme court justices and district court judges must retire at the age of 70.  The Wyoming Constitution has effectively written age discrimination directly into the constitution.  We, as a state, have made a statement that a judge is incompetent pass the age of 70.  This, of course, is not true and this attitude toward the Judiciary sets a dangerous precedent for other occupations.
For some reason, we have decided that beyond 70 there is nothing more that that …