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September 23, 2009

New Johnson County Land Wars

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118 years after that famous massacre, the county again finds itself in the middle of a fight. It’s a quieter battle this time, waged in courts and county offices…

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September 16, 2009

Feds Gone Wild

Feds Gone Wild, Part I

Part I
Part II
Part III

From James Watt to Cynthia Lummis: The Inside Story of the Department of Interior Oil and Gas Royalty Scandal and Its Wyoming Roots.
Part One: The Wyoming Stage
By Laton McCartney and Rone Tempest
On a cold, blustery January 28, 2009, the newly appointed Secretary of the Interior of the United [...]

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September 16, 2009

Feds Gone Wild, Part III: RIP, RIK? New Bill Would Kill Industry’s Darling

For more than a decade, West Virginia Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall watched powerlessly as the Bush administration and a Republican Congressional majority made Royalty in Kind the main method of collecting oil and gas royalties on federal lands.

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September 1, 2009

Feds Gone Wild Part II: A True Story

When President Bill Clinton signed the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and Fairness Act of 1996 into law in Jackson Hole, his Washington, D.C.-based Minerals Management Service director, Cynthia Quarterman, came out to attend the August ceremony.

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July 29, 2009

Should Wyoming Rethink Investments? Despite Recession, Time May Be Right

Are Wyoming’s leaders being too conservative with the billions of dollars in our permanent funds?

It sounds like a crazy question to be asking today, as the country muddles through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. But at a time when stocks and other assets remain cheap, at least one investment expert in the state believes Wyoming has the opportunity to “buy low” and structure its portfolio in a way that more closely mirrors what nearly all other managers of endowment-type funds are doing.

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January 12, 2008

One in Nine: Wyoming's Mormons – LDS Voters Bolster Wyoming's Conservatism, But Does Wyoming Have a "Mormon Vote?"

When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints showed its political might this fall by intervening in the California vote on Proposition 8, an initiative banning gay marriage, Mormons all over the country poured at least $20 million and countless hours of volunteer work into the successful effort.
The church also showed its political limitations [...]

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