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Despite having reported on many elections over my 25-plus years working in the newspaper industry, there is still much I don’t understand about politics, including endorsements. Why do candidates covet endorsements of certain people and organizations? Most recently in the political scene, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination. The mainstream broadcast media keeps saying that all the Republican candidates were coveting this endorsement. Well that brings s...
WORLAND - January is National Radon Action Month, and in Tuesday’s Washakie County Commissioner meeting, Amanda Heinemeyer, RN Nursing Manager at Washakie County Public Health, relayed information about the effects of radon and the fact that Washakie County has higher levels than the national average. According to information provided by Heinemeyer through the Wyoming Department of Health, the average national indoor radon level is 1.3 pCi/L; pCi/L stands for picocurie per liter, and means the “concentration of radon gas is not measured dir...
WORLAND – Legalizing marijuana for medical purposes is a hot topic for debate these days. With a bill this session in the Wyoming StateL, sponsored by State Representative James Byrd, D – Cheyenne and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) petitioning to have a medical marijuana referendum added to the 2016 ballot, the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police (WASCP) have issued a press release to educate the community so an informed decision can be made. “People need to get educated on what’s happeni...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh chiropractor’s obituary is asking people to not vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in lieu of sending flowers. Jason Brown tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he and his brother decided to include the line in their father’s obituary after recalling one published in August for a New Jersey woman: Elaine Fydrych had urged her loved ones not to vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Brown’s father, Jeffrey Cohen, died Sunday at age 70. Brown says his father didn’t request the line in h...
WORLAND – The Washakie Hospital Auxiliary is changing their meeting format this year. The meetings will not have a workshop after, but instead will be having a “brown bag lecture” in which both members and the public are welcome to attend. “Effective in 2016, our meetings will begin at 10:45 a.m. in the Washakie Room at the community center (Worland Community Center Complex). There will be no workshop following the meeting,” Washakie Hospital Auxiliary President Mary L. Minish said. The Washakie Hospital Auxiliary will be sponsoring, along wit...