All posts tagged "feature"
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FEATURE: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?In the pre-dawn hours of a frigid November morning, Heather Hart’s* grandfather awoke to discover another bloody carcass in his pasture. Wolves had devoured a dependable four-year-old cow that he affectionately called Sadie, the night before. And...
- Posted February 15, 2018
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Fear the Reefer: As the nation’s cannabis laws become more rational, Wyoming is bucking the trend.It wasn’t much pot — there was only about $40 worth of the premium strain “Girl Scout Cookies” stowed in the center console of Gabby’s* car as she crossed the state line from Colorado into Laramie in...
- Posted February 7, 2018
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Feature: The Bomb That Went Off Twice, part 3The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower. Now, it’s poisoning the nation’s water and soil. By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica.org In early 2000, the EPA issued its most substantial demands in a third order, laying out...
- Posted February 1, 2018
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The Bomb That Went Off Twice, Part 1The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower. Now, it’s poisoning the nation’s water and soil. By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica It was a secret wartime project, with a code name and an urgent mission: develop a...
- Posted January 17, 2018
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Polarizing Polar Bears: Unmasking a proxy war strategy by online climate change denialistsIn early December, a video of a dying, emaciated polar bear, foraging for food on an iceless land, went viral on social media. The video garnered millions of views on Facebook and YouTube. For most, it was...
- Posted January 10, 2018
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Prepper Paranoia or Pragmatism? Inside Wyoming’s underground survivalist movement“Watch your step. It’s steep on the way down.” There’s something unnerving about climbing down a set of narrow stairs and into a metal pod buried on a rural plot of Wyoming ranch land — bad things...
- Posted December 13, 2017
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You’re Fired: Enough is enough; it’s time to reclaim our democracy and impeach TrumpEarlier this year, Pete Muldoon, the newly elected mayor of Jackson, made national headlines for removing the portraits of Donald Trump and Mike Pence from the entrance of town hall. He replaced the portraits with a photo...
- Posted November 8, 2017
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Crime and Toking in Wyoming: How Wyo’s arcane cannabis laws could spell the end for a notorious 81-year-old mobsterThe traffic stop that took place around noon on September 24 should have been routine. The car with Georgia license plates was only traveling about 10 miles over — 85 in a 75, and then down to...
- Posted November 1, 2017
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Weird Wyo: From UFOs to mystery sounds and strange formations, Wyoming is a planet all its ownThe seasoned truck driver was heading east along I-25 at approximately 2:30 a.m. on October 19 when it happened. Even with Casper a mere 15 minutes to the east, he knew he was smack dab in the...
- Posted October 25, 2017
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PODCAST: Talk of the Planet “Black Bars & White Ceilings”This week on ‘Talk of the Planet’ host Brennan Hussey sat down with Natosha Hoduski to discuss her recent feature article entitled, “Black Bars & White Ceilings: Andrew Johnson, despite his innocence and exoneration, struggles to find...
- Posted September 2, 2017