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  • Legislature considers municipal power generation

    Chris Bacon, Cody Enterprise|Oct 31, 2024

    The Wyoming Tribune Eagle recently reported on a bill before the Legislature’s Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions Committee that would allow Wyoming municipalities to build and operate power plants, which could become another source of revenue. It remains obscure while in committee but will come before the full legislature in 2025, likely bringing with it some controversy. “I asked the legislature to study giving us the authority to do this,” Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne told the Enterprise. He credited the original idea...

  • Eating crow

    Chris Bacon, Editor|Aug 15, 2024

    EAT CROW: to admit that one was wrong or accept that one has been defeated (Merriam Webster) Chicago Cubs 3rd baseman Robin Ventura charged the mound on an elder statesman of baseball, 46-year-old pitcher Nolan Ryan, on August 4, 1993. That lopsided fight can still be viewed on YouTube, and has millions of views. Nolan Ryan, 20 years older than Ventura, clearly teaches the young man a very public lesson in respecting his elders. With Ventura in a headlock Ryan’s powerful pitching arm landed six or seven unanswered blows before Rangers c...