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The new multi-use pathway in Grand Teton National Park is scheduled to make its debut this Saturday, May 23.

Washington, D.C. - The Wyoming delegation, Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and Representative Cynthia Lummis, all R-Wyo., reiterated their commitment to ensure that a proposal from President Obama to eliminate all future payments to certified states from the Abandoned Mine Land fund does not become the law of the land.

Cheyenne - Gov. Dave Freudenthal expressed his "unequivocal opposition" to-day to a proposed federal bill known as the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.

Making clear that they didn't agree with it and aren't sure how they'll pay for it, members of the North Mankato City Council consented Monday to a federal demand that the city undertake a potentially costly study of its levee and flood wall along the Minnesota River.

The vote will probably come tomorrow on the omnibus bill that includes both the protection of the Wyoming Range from oil and gas development and the designation of the Snake River as wild and scenic.

Washington, D.C. - The Wyoming delegation, Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso and Representative Cynthia Lummis, all R-Wyo., are upset to see an item in President Obama's budget request that would eliminate all future payments to states from the Abandoned Mine Land fund if the state has been doing what it promised to do.

The levee system protecting Mankato and North Mankato is due for a study, on the cities' dime, to ensure it still protects against a 100-year flood.

Sen. Thomas Coburn, R-Okla., or Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., as he usually styles himself, is truly a taxpayers' hero.

His latest achievement strikes a taxpayer-giveaway the very description of which probably is the closest to humor anything in the monstrous 'stimulus' package contains.

Greetings from the Bozeman Watch Co., recently featured with an 'Oops in Advertising' tagline.

Upheaval in the Republican Party is widespread - and its effects are reaching deep into the very fabric of life on Capitol Hill.

Only one state has the distinction of having an all-Republican delegation, and it shouldn't come as a surprise.

The Senate confirmation process is often viewed in terms of gladiatorial combat: Is the nomination in trouble? Will the opposing party get a scalp? A rousing confirmation battle can be fun to watch - as, no ...

In an unusual weekend session, the Senate cleared a procedural hurdle Sunday, January 11 toward passing an omnibus bill that would designate large tracts of new wilderness nationwide.

January 12, 2009 A bill that includes protections for the Snake River watershed and Wyoming Range is expected to get a vote in the Senate later this week after advancing Sunday.

In theory, any of Wyoming's three presidential electors will have a chance to grab headlines by casting a vote for Barack Obama on Monday.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. Because of his actions, we will most likely be spared having to fight a monstrous land bill that included Wilderness designations such as the ...