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Building numbers lag
Posted: July 4th, 2009
The town of Jackson issued 14 fewer building permits in June than it did the same month last year.
Hispanics lead growth in county's population
Posted: July 4th, 2009
Teton County's Hispanic population has more than doubled in the last eight years, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
House sitter pleads to larceny, animal cruelty
Posted: July 4th, 2009
A house sitter pleaded no contest to larceny and animal cruelty Wednesday in 9th District Court.
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AMA Links Light Pollution to Cancer, Health Woes
Posted: June 30th, 2009
The American Medical Association this month passed a resolution that recognizes a host of problems with light pollution, including health issues -- such as breast cancer -- that are "associated with human eye exposure to light at night."
The AMA resolution (view it in full here) explains that the increasing amount of light in the world, including streetlight glare and intrusive light that "trespasses" into bedroom windows and homes, is linked to higher rates of cancer and other health woes. It harms wildlife as well, the medical group says.
As the AMA puts it: "Light trespass has been implicated in disruption of the human and animal circadian rhythm, and strongly suspected as an etiology of suppressed melatonin production, depressed immune systems, and increase in cancer rates such as breast cancers." In addition, it "disrupts nocturnal animal activity and results in diminished various animal populations' survival and health," the group says.
Beloved Dino Museum to Close its Doors, Shutting Down the Public
Posted: June 23rd, 2009
Revolution rages in Tehran and the world is transfixed by millions of Iranians demanding free speech. Laramie, Wyoming is light years away from the Islamic world, but amid charges of repression of free speech and totalitarian decisions, a revolt is gaining momentum against the University of Wyoming (UW) trustees -- and its emblematic martyr is Big Al, the Allosaurus.
Facing an $18.3 million budget shortfall, UW decided to close the school's Geological Museum in response to the state of Wyoming's mandated 10 percent budget cuts. The museum will close to the public July 1; its director and assistant are among the people who will lose their jobs as a result.
Big Al -- whose incredibly-preserved bones greet museum visitors -- will become a recluse. Some researchers may be able to see him, but not the public. The same goes for other museum prizes, including one of the only mounted skeletons of an Apatosaurus (or Brontosaurus, as it was formerly called).
Wyoming's National Elk Refuge on Ten Most Imperiled List
Posted: June 22nd, 2009
A grim future is predicted for the 25,000-acre National Elk Refuge in Wyoming unless the sprawling home to elk and bison gets an infusion of new policies and resources, according to a new report from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The group ranks the wildlife sanctuary -- which has one of the largest concentrations of elk in the world -- as one of America's Ten Most Imperiled Refuges.
The refuge was established in 1912 in the wilderness south of Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks in an effort to resuscitate elk herds, which had faced mass starvation after bitterly cold winters and human encroachment, PEER notes. The results have not been good.
Casper Star-Tribune - Wyoming News
Wyoming's online news source.
Wyo effort could help fuel West
Posted: July 3rd, 2009
CHEYENNE -- A public-private effort to research cleaner ways of using Wyoming coal could be key in addressing the growing energy needs of the West, a coal gasification industry official said.
Crash puts brakes on adventure
Posted: July 3rd, 2009
A Michigan couple's dream of seeing their Model T car finish a coast-to-coast race came to a screeching halt in Wyoming this week.
Indian youths gather in N.M.
Posted: July 3rd, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Juanita Toledo knows what it's like to grow up in a household where alcohol was abused, but with the help of a national organization for American Indian youths she has chosen a different path for herself.
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