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This comes from the CIFF's Alan O'Hashi: The Cheyenne International Film Festival is honoring Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Daniel Junge on Saturday, May 19. The full evening event is selling out, but CIFF is offering tickets for the films, interview and questions and answers with Daniel Junge. The films include “One Day” which is Daniel’s latest short film followed by the Oscar-...
Hummingbird Minds - 3:43 p.m. - 4 clicks 
All tickets are FREE for the May 17 Cheyenne International Film Festival screening of “Bully” at the Frontier 9 Theater. Thanks to the Wyoming Humanities Council for underwriting the program including discussions before and after the film. Doors open at 6:00pm – movie at 6:30 pm. There is no cost for tickets, but are required for admission to keep a seat count. There may be “Rush” ticket...
Hummingbird Minds - 3:43 p.m. - 4 clicks
From a Wyoming Democratic Party press release: Cheyenne Fire Fighter Joe Fender has announced his plan to seek the Democratic nomination for the House District 7 seat in the Wyoming Legislature. Fender, a fifteen-year veteran of the fire service, is a lieutenant with the Cheyenne Fire & Rescue Department. “I have dedicated nearly my entire adult life as a public servant, so...
Hummingbird Minds - Sat 8:48 p.m. - 13 clicks
Cheyenne's Rodger McDaniel explores how the Twelve Steps can help progressives maintain their sanity during the upcoming presidential battle. Go to... Blowing in the Wyoming Wind: Are we addicted to negative politics? : According to a recent analysis, 70% of presidential campaign commercials run so far have been negative. It will only get worse. ... My favorite parts: With one-te...
Hummingbird Minds - Sat 8:11 p.m. - 11 clicks
In 1851, the United States called a treaty council at Fort Laramie, Wyoming which was attended by 8,000 - 12,000 Indians from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshone, Crow, Assiniboine, Arikara, Gros Ventre, Mandan, and Hidatsa tribes. The purpose of the council and of the resulting treaty was to establish peace between the United States and the tribes, including a promise to protect Indians from Europe...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Thu 8:26 a.m. - 16 clicks
Common Cause has a full list of ALEC's Corporate Members (via AlterNet). Couldn't find the names of any Wyoming corporate members, but there are very few major corporations based in WY. The list shows that Cloud Peak Energy is located in Colorado. But that's not what it says on the CPE web site: Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE:CLD) is headquartered in Wyoming and is...
Hummingbird Minds - May 6 - 4 clicks
The Cheyenne International Film Festival program for 2012 is completed. The CIFF May 17-20 is highlighted by Cheyenne native Daniel Junge and his Oscar-winning documentary “Saving Face." He’ll be on hand and in person at a reception taking place on the Mezzanine of the Plains Hotel on Saturday, May 19. The screening takes place across the street at 1615 Lincoln. Saturday is full and s...
Hummingbird Minds - May 6 - 3 clicks
Blame "Old Hickory" A sordid tale, but one that needs to be told, and will be this week at the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne: The Indian Removal Act, an unpopular and controversial part of the settlement of the American West, will be the focus of this month’s Wyoming State Museum lecture series presentation on Tuesday, May 8, at 7 p.m. Dr. Robert Munkres, of Estes...
Hummingbird Minds - May 5 - 4 clicks
Ten Sleep, Wyoming's "trailer park troubadour" Jalan Crossland will perform in concert on Wednesday, May 16, 7 p.m., at the Historic Plains Hotel ballroom in Cheyenne. Tickets are $10, $5 for students. Sponsored by the Cheyenne Guitar Society. FMI: http://cheyenneguitarsociety.com/ Jalan's on stage this week at the Better Angels Songwriters Festival in Key West.. Ja...
Hummingbird Minds - May 2 - 2 clicks
Merle The Denver Post says “don't miss these 10 summer concerts.” Colorado's legendary summer weather combined with Coloradans' renowned passion for live music creates a maelstrom of good times. And here are 10 shows we're especially looking forward in the next few months. Some great names on the list. Mana. The Shins. The Denver Ukefest with Jake Shimabukuro, Nellie ...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 30 - 2 clicks
Skull Creek Rim, Adobe Town, Wyoming’s Red Desert. Lupines, Happy Jack Road, Southeast Wyoming Wyoming is a photographer's dream. Check out some of these shots by Laramie's Ken Driese. Ken submitted them to the annual Wyoming Outdoor Council calendar contest. See more: Photo Submissions: Spectacular Red Desert, Laramie Basin, and More ...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 30
I've leafletted a few neighborhoods and made phone calls on behalf of Mary Throne. And I may just do it again, even though I'm not lucky enough to have her as my Rep. This news comes from a WyoDems press release: Representative Mary Throne, House District 11, announced today she intends to seek re-election to the Wyoming House of Representatives. The House Minority Whip is seeking her...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 30
Craig Johnson's latest Walt Longmire mystery debuts May 15. Cheyenne writer Karen Cotton interviewed Ucross, Wyoming, mystery writer Craig Johnson ("The Cold Dish," "Another Man's Moccasins") for a story on her new blog. She got some great quotes. Here's one with Craig describing his ongoing main character, Absoraka County Sheriff Walt Longmire: “I was looking ...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 29 - 2 clicks
Rodger McDaniel writes today about what we've known for awhile -- "ALEC owns your state legislators." Read all about the American Legislative Exchange Council's undue influence on Wyoming lawmaking in Rodger's weekly Wyoming Tribune-Eagle column (if you get the paper), or on his Blowing in the Wyoming Wind blog. Here's a good line: In a technical sense, ALEC doesn't lobby "in any ...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 28
Available for the first time -- the original oil paintings from Forrest King's line, “The Pink Triangle.” Art show and sale at the Rotten Apple Ink, 218 W. 17th St., Cheyenne, on Friday, May 11, 6:30-9 p.m. Complimentary wine and refreshments. Special signed prints will be for sale too, plus other artwork by Forrest King. There will be lots of fine art prints for sale an...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 27 - 2 clicks
Pres. Barack Obama speaks to an SRO crowd right down the road at CU-Boulder earlier this week. From Robert Vernon-Kubichek, director of the Obama campaign in Wyoming: Volunteers here in Wyoming come from all backgrounds, but they all have a couple things in common: a personal stake in this election and a passion for making sure President Obama and other Democrats win th...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 26
Cheyenne International Film Festival presents: “Bully” (2011 TRT: 99 min.) Saturday, May 19, 1-3 p.m., Lincoln Theatre Call2ACTion with the Matthew Shepard Foundation Panel discussion and audience talk-back follows film Directed by Lee Hirsch (USA) This year, over 13 million American kids will be bullied at school, online,...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 25 - 2 clicks
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi will talk about "The Smart Math of Mixed Use Development" on Thursday, April 26, at the Casper City Council Chambers at 6:30 p.m. in City Hall, 200 N. David St. Casper's Downtown Development Authority is co-sponsoring the program. It will compare the value of new development outside of downtown with redevelopment within the city core. Minicozzi did similar studies for C...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 25 - 2 clicks
Great quote from a 2011 Wyofile article on Wyoming novelist Tim Sandlin: “When you think American master of absurdist humor with acute observations about contemporary society, characters to fall in love with, and lines you’ll be quoting to your friend, the first name to spring to mind should be ‘Tim’ (Sandlin), not ‘Tom’ (Robbins),” said Sarah Bird, Austin, Texas, novelist and a ...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 22
Sioux City (IA) Journal devotes Sunday front page to anti-bullying campaign. Neat graphic, gutsy move. A new resource is available locally for parents whose children have been the target of bullying in the Laramie County No. 1 School District. Contact UPLIFT for its bullying ombudsman program at 307-778-8686 or 1-888-875-4383. ...
Hummingbird Minds - Apr 22
I didn't think it would be this close in the state having the third-highest percentage of Mormons in the nation, but while Romney has apparently won Wyoming fairly handily if one simply counts the number of caucus-goers for each candidate, CNN projects that the delegate contest will be much closer. Romney received the votes of 39% of caucus attendees, compared to 33% for Santorum, 20% for ...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 29
Sometimes, you just can't make this up, so I'll quote the beginning of the article: CODY, Wyoming (Reuters) - In a sign of rising consumer confidence prevailing over go-it-alone pessimism in the Cowboy State, Wyoming lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly defeated a "doomsday bill" to help the state prepare for a total collapse of the U.S. government and economy. The bill, rejected on a 30-27 vote by...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 29 - 4 clicks
Where's the aircraft carrier? Ha ha ! On Friday, the Wyoming House of Representatives advanced a bill to set up a task force to prepare for the total economic and political collapse of the United States. Per the bill, the panel would investigate things like food storage options and metals-based currencies, to be implemented in the event of a major catastrophe. Then it goes three steps ...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 27 - 2 clicks
Hurray! The Texas State Congress has finally been out crazied. I know, it's shocking who would have thunk? But it's real, Wyoming has gone over the edge, the crazy has taken them over. I used to think Dick Cheney was nuts just because, well he is. End of story. Nope, turns out I was wrong there's a whole passel of crazy in Wyoming. And guess what? They're running the state! Wyoming House adva...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 27 - 4 clicks
the Wyoming legislature is preparing for a full government meltdown. It is looking into buying aircraft carrier, instituting draft and coining own money. I really wish this was a joke. The full story is in the Casper Star Tribune at trib.com I guess they are afraid of ravening hoards of Californians invading to take away our taxidermy or Nascar memorab...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 25 - 4 clicks
If you live in town as I do, Sundays are generally quiet: anyone with a camper, boat, or motorhome has left town for the cool mountains, lakes, or reservoirs, with ATVs, dirt bikes, or kayaks strapped on anywhere they'll fit. We're a vehicle-heavy culture. Houses are mostly small where I live, and wouldn't even count as garages in one of those episodes on HTV. Even mobile homes will have some ki...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
An excerpt from Chapter 4 in my book Some People Who Wander Are Lost June 10 The RV park is empty except for two motor homes that are staying over and three stragglers like myself. The sun is hot and high, the horizon treeless. “Say, you’ve got Wyoming plates. What’s the road like to Casper?” It’s a little man in a powder blue shirt, double knit pants and a yellow golf...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
Our roundtable session Oct. 29 at the John R. Milton Writers' Conference at the University of South Dakota was entitled, “Snarky Slacktivists or Online Outlaws?: Leftie Bloggers in Red State Wyoming.” Presenters were Michael Shay (me), hummingbirdminds prop.; Jeran Artery, author and editor of Out in Wyoming ; and Meg Lanker-Simons, the power behind Cognitive Dissonance . The fourth member...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
Tar sands and oil-bearing shale lurk under the surface in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, and at least one company has plans to extract them from state-owned lands near Arches National Park. Now the Bureau of Land Management seeks to hold public meetings and solicit public comment on an expanded plan for extraction from federally owned public lands. Urgent to Salt Lake City : the first meeting i...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
Railroaders, electricians, state employees, teachers, construction workers, students, artists, a contingent from Occupy Fort Collins (CO), retirees and at least one minister gathered together for the "We are the 99%" rally today in Cheyenne. ...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
Clean energy proponents and policymakers have recently become interested in so-called “rare earths.” These are 15 elements known as lanthanoids in the periodic table, plus scandium and yttrium; uses include wind turbines and hybrid car batteries . Despite the name, they’re not truly rare. Much ado is being made over the fact that China presently controls 97% of the world’s rare earths, an...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
Interesting report from Reuters : A Reuters investigation has found the house at 2710 Thomes Avenue serves as a little Cayman Island on the Great Plains. It is the headquarters for Wyoming Corporate Services, a business-incorporation specialist that establishes firms which can be used as "shell" companies, paper entities able to hide assets. More than 2000 corporations are registered at tha...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
In April of 2007, I posted a diary in Feminisms, a now-defunct and sorely missed series concerned with women’s issues. The posting was about a friend of mine, Dawn, who after a short lifetime of bad luck and social malady, shot her boyfriend to death and was sentenced to 45 years in the state women’s prison. At the time of the diary I had been out of touch with Dawn for several years and so of c...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
I'm not changing the title. Each diary is new, and I think a set title helps people find a blog - there are so many. "Life" refers to my life, and I doubt if adding "my" would change anything, AND I live in Wyoming. My "paradigm" should you wish to call it that, is based on an integrated p.o.v. That is, I'm not religious or political, therefore those belief systems have much less influence on ...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
two newsworthy votes this week. The Wyoming legislature is 84% republican. First they voted down an anti-abortion bill. Then they voted down a bill banning gay marriage/civil unions. The votes seemed to be expressions of conservatism with a small c. They said they wanted to limit the role of government in two very private parts of people's lives. Visit msnbc.com for breaking n...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
A lot of Kossacks and probably even more people of Wyoming will be unsurprised by the recent findings of the EPA. For those of us here in Oklahoma, it's probably too late, but those of you who live in eastern states where hydraulic fracturing is just getting underway, should sit up and take notice Abrahm Lustgarden for ProPublica reports: A pair of environmental monitoring wells dril...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
An exerpt from Chapter 2 in my book, Some People Who Wander Are Lost. March 18 Elevation 8640; information courtesy of the Wyoming Department of Transportation. I’m driving to Laramie because it’s Saturday morning and I own a new truck. The brief and bouncy storm that bestowed rain on Cheyenne last night dropped snow in the hills twenty miles to the west. The wind picks up the crystals and...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
No freaking way! That stuff does get into the Ground Water -- What about all these heart and flowers PSA's , we've been forced to watch on the TV, promising us how fracking safe, Fracking is? Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Water Supply by Tina Casey, cleantechnica.com -- Nov 13, 2011 The U.S. EPA has just released test results indicating that at least one comm...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
For any who may be reading this series for the first time : this is a thought experiment where I try to see what would happen if the size of the House of Representatives were doubled to 870 members from 435. And yes , I know Republicans have the trifecta. This entire series is theoretical to begin with, gimme a break. Ohhhhhhhhhhhk! La-homa where the wind comes sweeping down the plain! And t...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered the tribe they came to call the Crow hunting in Montana and Wyoming. At this time, the Crow were horse-mounted buffalo hunters with a good understanding of the ecology of the country. However, like m...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
I find this to be a little more fun than generic redistricting: Canada-style, for those who don't know or remember, is a form of redistricting started at Swing State Project modeled after the Canada form of Congressional districts, called ridings. The two big differences are they have names instead of numbers, and are much (much) smaller, at 110,000. So a state that would only get 1 congressiona...
DailyKos (Wyoming) - Feb 6
