Wyoming Tribune-Eagle back issues from March 1998:
DEPENDS ON HOW IT'S WORDED
Mar 01, 1998; ... It was just one of those mornings. The wind was howling for thethird straight day, Wyoming lost a big game at Las Vegas --basketball that is -- and then the article in the Denver Post. The story had that by now familiar bleat. It said that the wholeregion is improving, except ...
Letters to the Editor
Mar 02, 1998 ... Working for the good of the entire family I was appalled by the article on the front page of the Tribune-Eagle today (Feb. 21) regarding the Wyoming Supreme Court upholdingthe ruling of child abuse and endangerment in the case of the childwho was forced to do dishes and ...
IRAQ DEAL
Mar 02, 1998; ... Reasons for concern remains Unless there is an unknown lurking in the details, the agreementreached between the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan andIraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has averted, at least for now, a U.S.attack that might have resulted in a substantial toll ...
WEA KICKS OFF 'READ ACROSS WYOMING'
Mar 02, 1998; ... Turning children into lifelong readers is a major goal of theprogram. CHEYENNE - Today, teachers, public officials, parents andstudents across Wyoming will be participating in Read AcrossWyoming.The program, sponsored by the Wyoming Education Association,is part of the National ...
YOUTH ARRESTS ON RISE
Mar 02, 1998; ... CHEYENNE - An increasing number of juvenile offenders is atroubling trend in Wyoming, said Steve Miller, deputy director ofthe Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation."That's a realconcern," he said. "Youth offenders are more involved in serious violent crime orfelony crime ...
WEEK CELEBRATES NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCAITON
Mar 02, 1998; ... CHEYENNE - Newspapers are becoming an integral part of many localclassrooms through the Newspapers in Education program.The programis provided by the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle to 112 classrooms throughsponsorship by local businesses, organizations and private citizens.NIE began in the spring ...
COWGIRLS OPEN TOURNEY TODAY
Mar 02, 1998; ... LARAMIE -- Ten points. According to University of Wyoming women's coach Chad Lavin,that's all that separated his 10-16 Cowgirls from a 16-10 regular-season finish. He'd also like those points and then some for his team's WesternAthletic Conference Tournament opener today ...
UTAH THE TEAM TO BEAT IN WAC TOURNEY
Mar 02, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Twelve teams, one dream. It's the Western Athletic Conference men's basketball tournamentand it's what March Madness is all about. It'll be hard, though, to top the madness of the WAC Tournament ayear ago when former Utah All-American Keith Van Horn hit a pair ...
TENNIS TIPS
Mar 02, 1998; ... Most players know that in order to play good doubles they need toget in the net as quickly as possible. When serving, it is usually pretty easy to rush the net as youare starting the point and can run in. The problem comes in after the serve and the return of that servewhen ...
LOCALS POST GOOD TIMES IN GILLETTE
Mar 02, 1998; ... GILLETTE -- There were no team championships at the GilletteInvitational on Saturday. So why go? "It's mainly a big, huge meet just to go for times (to qualifyfor the state meet," Cheyenne Central boys swimming coach DaveBroyles said. In fact, with nearly 30 teams ...
JOURNEY TO GIRLS STATE INVOLVESFASHION, CLOSEUP ON GOVERNING
Mar 02, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Marisol Torres thinks she's doing something special.As a participant in Girls State, she's one of the few girls ofMexican descent who takes part in that organization. "A lot ofpeople have negative image of Mexican girls," she said Sundaystanding in a group of her friends. The ...
RETIRED TEACHERS REMAIN ACTIVE
Mar 02, 1998; ... CHEYENNE - As its name suggests, there are only two requirementsto join the Laramie County Retired Teachers Association. Membersmust have been involved in education and must be retired. Althoughmost members are retired teachers, the group also includes peoplewho worked for the state or ...
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GET AHEAD WITH COLLEGE ED
Mar 02, 1998; ... CHEYENNE - High school students who want to get a jump on theirhigher education can do so without ever leaving the comforting hallsof their school. Concurrent enrollment allows high school studentsto receive credit for certain classes through Laramie CountyCommunity College. Students in ...
CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT DEPENDS ON ASSESSMENT
Mar 02, 1998; ... CHEYENNE - On the surface, concurrent enrollment may look like agood solution to fostering non-stop education, but it may not alwaysbe a good thing, said Rich Stewart, LCCC Faculty Senate president.Some LCCC faculty members critical of the program cite concerns likematurity levels of ...
ICY WINDS GOING ON FOREVER?
Mar 03, 1998; ... Even friends with a lot more physical resilience than I havebegun to look on recent days with major unhappiness.It takes maybefive seconds when the chill factor here is 15 or more degrees belowzero for icy fingers to penetrate whatever clothing you've hopedmight stave off hypothermia for ...
ALL BIG FOR THE POKES
Mar 03, 1998; ... Thoughts along the way: I guess I'm not such a rabid booster forall the WAC tournaments, and I have an affinity toward holdingeverything in Las Vegas, but it would be interesting someday to seethe attendance figures during the past few years. In a very minuscule survey, to say the ...
WOMAN KILLED IN BLIZZARD COLLISION
Mar 03, 1998 ... MANVILLE -- Anne Wilcox, 44, was killed Saturday when the ChevyBlazer in which she was a passenger collided with a truck tractor onUS 18-20, two miles west of Manville.The truck tractor was driven byRobert Stuerke, 60, of Berthoud, Colo, heading westbound in ...
STATELY STORIES
Mar 03, 1998; ... Alta Vista elementary third-graders Brittany Weaver, left, andJessica Tjaden laugh while reading Dr. Seuss's ABC's with SenatePresident Bob Grieve Monday morning in Senate ...
COMMUNITY ROUNDUP
Mar 03, 1998 ... KERSEY, Colo. -- The Cheyenne Nightmare sixth-grade boysbasketball team beat the Fort Collins Junior Impalas 52-24 in thechampionship game of the 10th Annual Kersey Youth BasketballTournament on Sunday. The team posted a 4-0 record in ...
NETDAY TOWN MEETING PLANNED
Mar 04, 1998 ... CHEYENNE -- Seventeen Wyoming locations will host a NetDayCompressed Video Town Meeting from 7-9 p.m. today. In Cheyenne the location is at the Emerson Building, Room 101;and in Laramie, the University of Wyoming, Beta House.The purpose ofthe meeting is to provide information about ...
NATO EXPANSION
Mar 04, 1998; ... Senate has opportunity to strengthen alliance The U.S. Senate next week is expected to vote on admittingHungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization in 1999.The NATO expansion vote presents the U.S.Senate, including Wyoming's two Republican ...
CHEYENNE WOMAN FREEZES TO DEATH
Mar 04, 1998; ... RAWLINS -- A Cheyenne woman froze to death last week while tryingto get out of the Sierra Madre Mountains ahead of a winterstorm.Carbon County Sheriff Jerry Colson said, "A winter storm thatpassed through the area (last) week claimed the life of Cheyenneresident 63-year-old Mary ...
BOPU WARNS OF FLOODING POTENTIAL
Mar 04, 1998 ... CHEYENNE -- The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities is notifyinghomeowners and landowners adjacent to Crow Creek downstream of thespillways of Granite and Crystal Reservoirs west of Cheyenne thatwater may flow over the spillways this spring creating floodingconditions in some areas.BOPU ...
HEALTH CARE CHOICES
Mar 03, 1998; ... Time to mend afractured tax policy Almost everyone has heard a horror story about someone in Wyomingwho has had health-care decisions made by insurance companyaccountants rather than by trusted family doctors.Mothers andnewborns forced to leave hospitals the day after delivery ....
PERSHING PROJECT COSTS DETAILED
Mar 03, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Information compiled by city officials show that asof Jan. 16, the city has paid nearly $4.4 million for the latestphase of the Pershing Boulevard Reconstruction project. According tothe city's breakdown, the Central pond/park portion cost $1.6million, or 37 percent of the ...
SENATORS ADD TO TAX
Mar 03, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Another tax intended for public schools emerged Mon-day as the Senate voted to add 2 cents to a proposed 5-cent gasolinetax increase.House Bill 14 would raise the state's 9 cent per gallonfuel tax to 14 cents and bring in about $29 million a year for theDepartment of ...
COWGIRLS BOUNCED FROM WAC TOURNEY
Mar 03, 1998; ... LAS VEGAS -- This time, there was a different attitudesurrounding the University of Wyoming women's basketball team. But that didn't mean the same old aggravating end result was anyeasier to take. The Cowgirls on Monday afternoon suffered their eighth straightWestern Athletic ...
PET CREMATORIUM PROPOSAL TABLED BY PLANNING COMMISSION
Mar 03, 1998; ... The Animal Shelter currently puts euthanized animals in thelandfill. CHEYENNE -- On Monday, the Cheyenne-Laramie County RegionalPlanning Commission tabled a request to amend an ordinance to allowpet crematories in areas zoned for light industrial use. Animal Shelter officials ...
COWBOYS HOPE FOR MILESTONE WIN TONIGHT
Mar 03, 1998; ... LAS VEGAS -- They've compiled the program's best regular-seasonrecord in a decade. They're the program's first team to finish above .500 in WesternAthletic Conference play in 10 years. They're the surprise of the 1997-98 WAC season and their first-year head coach has earned ...
SAVING FOR COLLEGE A FAMILY AFFAIR
Mar 04, 1998; ... A package of IRAs and tax credits can help ease the burden ofpaying for higher education. CHEYENNE -- Saving for college became a little easier forfamilies with the passage of the 1997 tax reform package.Provisionsin the new law give families several new options to save ...
DELL RANGE, RIDGE REQUEST APPROVED BY COMMITTEE
Mar 04, 1998 ... CHEYENNE -- At Monday's Cheyenne Public Services Committeemeeting, city elected officials: Voted 2-0 to recommend approvingan annexation request for property located on the ...
EDUCATION BILL SIGNED ON 'FAITH'
Mar 04, 1998; ... The Legislature must still decide how to pay for the law approvedby the governor. CHEYENNE -- Gov. Jim Geringer signed the primary educationfinance reform bill into law Tuesday "as an act of good faith" thatthe Legislature will find a way to fund the measure.Senate File 54,which ...
GROUP SEEKS TAX SOLUTIONS
Mar 04, 1998; ... Public opinion on the tax structure reform is needed at committeemeetings being held across the state. CHEYENNE -- Chambers of Commerce in Wyoming and their membersneed to get more involved in Tax Reform 2000, said the executivedirector of the Wyoming Taxpayers Association."How ...
RANCHERS, SPORTMEN AT ODDS OVER LANDS
Mar 04, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Tensions between sportsmen and ranchers surfacedTuesday during a statewide video conference as Gov. Jim Geringer andother officials attempt to heal rifts over management of the state's3.6 million acres of trust lands. "In other states, they charge forusing state lands," ...
PRISON FUNDING WINS FIRST BATTLE
Mar 04, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Senators gave preliminary approval to a plan to sellbonds to pay for a new prison in Rawlins despite a Laramie Countysenator's warning that the proposal begins a dangerous trend towarddeficit spending.House Bill 54 would authorize the top five electedofficials on the State ...
WAC TEAMS FACE NCAA STRUGGLE
Mar 04, 1998; ... LAS VEGAS -- The Western Athletic Conference isn't hurting forNCAA Tournament candidates. But will it be for actual bids? WAC Commissioner Karl Benson isn't about to make like a member ofthe NCAA Tournament Selection Committee. Benson said Tuesday at the WAC Tournament ...
CSU: FAMILIAR FOE, THE SAME RESULT
Mar 04, 1998; ... LAS VEGAS -- It was tough enough for Colorado State to sufferthrough last season's first-round WAC Tournament upset loss toSouthern Methodist. But on an otherwise picture perfect Tuesday afternoon at theThomas & Mack Center, the Rams had to relive the nightmare again. In ...
CHANGES BREATHE EXCITEMENT INTO TEACHING
Mar 04, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Change is good or bad, depending on who you talk to -- especially when it refers to switching elementary school teachingassignments. Some elementary school principals are switchingteachers from one grade to another beginning next year. Those infavor of the changes say it ...
PINE BLUFFS READY TO SHOW IT BELONGS
Mar 04, 1998; ... PINE BLUFFS -- There are some people who would look at the PineBluffs High School boys basketball team and ask, "Why are these guysgoing to the state tournament?" The Hornets' response: We're going, pal. Deal with it. "We're there. We earned the right to get there and we've ...
BURNS GIRLS WILL TAKE STATE FOES SERIOUSLY
Mar 04, 1998; ... BURNS -- Don't expect the Burns High School girls basketball teamto underestimate anybody at this year's Class 2A state basketballtournament. Why not? Because they did it last year, and left Casper Collegein tears after losing to Dubois in the first round. Amber Gray, the ...
AZTECS WORK OT TO OUST COWBOYS
Mar 04, 1998; ... LAS VEGAS -- The Wyoming Cowboys found themselves battling amirror image Tuesday night as they opened WAC Tournament playagainst San Diego State.Short on numbers and on talent, the underdogAztecs entered the tourney as the sixth and final seed from thePacific Division, a team forced to ...
COWBOYS GARNER MORE POSTESASON BASKETBALL HONORS
Mar 04, 1998; ... LAS VEGAS -- The postseason honors kept rolling in Tuesday forWyoming. In the WAC media awards, compiled by the Fresno Bee, UW's LarryShyatt was named the Mountain Division Coach of the Year, seniorswingman Jeron Roberts was named to the All-Mountain Division teamand senior guard ...
Letters
Mar 04, 1998 ... Civic concert bandis not homeless Contrary to what Mr. Tanner stated in his letter "Sounds of musicare fading fast," WT-E, 2/27/98, the Cheyenne Civic Concert Band isnot homeless nor will it be out of business any time soon. Therewill be concerts in the park this summer, and other ...
Correction
Mar 04, 1998 ... John Wilcox was killed in Saturday's accident on US 18-20. Anarticle on PAGE A3 of ...
Letters to the editor
Mar 03, 1998 ... WT-E coverage alerted bill's supporters I wish to thank you for the opinion page and general newsreporting on HB 126, the tobacco tax.Thanks to your help, thehearing before the House Revenue Committee was attended by 50 or 60citizens, the overwhelming majority attending into the ...
CAPITAL GAINS TAX CHANGES BENEFIT LOWER BRACKER
Mar 03, 1998; ... The tax rate dropped to 10 percent for investors in the 15percent income tax bracket. CHEYENNE -- Changes to thefederal tax law lowered long-termcapital gains rates, opening investment opportunities to morepeople. Investors must report any capital gains -- a profit fromselling ...
WE SALUTE ... LAVETA ROHWEDER
Mar 03, 1998; ... PINE BLUFFS -- In small towns there are very few secrets.So whenyou ask for a name of an outstanding volunteer, it may take secondsonly to come up with the name of LaVeta Rohweder. After that name comes a long list of the activities she'sinvolved with: lay leader and lay speaker ...
CITY FALLS SHORT ON INFORMATION REQUEST
Mar 03, 1998; ... Letters from the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle requesting Pershingproject information have gone unanswered. CHEYENNE -- After three and a half months and several requests,city of Cheyenne officials have failed to comply completely with aWyoming Open Records Act request by the Wyoming ...
CITY CONSIDERS NAMING FIELD AFTER GONZALES
Mar 03, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Today, Dolores "Coke" Gonzales turns 85. By nextweek, he'll know whether city elected officials have decided to namea softball field in Martin Luther King Park in his honor. "I justknow he'll be thrilled," said Dolores Sanchez, Gonzales's daughter.Spearheading the naming ...
RED-HOT SORENSEN BURNS LADY VIKINGS
Mar 03, 1998; ... TORRINGTON -- Albin High School sophomore April Sorensen verynearly beat Guernsey all by herself Saturday morning. Sorensen, the Lady Wildcats leading scorer this season, scored 27points, nearly matching her season average in the first half, asAlbin beat the Lady Vikings 48-33 in ...
PINNING DOWN A CHAMPIONSHIP
Mar 03, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- After he won the Class 4A state title at 215 poundslast Saturday at the Wyoming State Wrestling Championships inCasper, Cheyenne Central senior Robert Clay wasn't sure what to say. "Words can't describe this feeling," Clay saidafter he beatSheridan's Allen Price 5-3 in ...
CHEYENNE PROFITS FROM DIA TRAFFIC
Mar 03, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Cheyenne profits from growing numbers ofinternational tourists.The Cheyenne Area Convention and VisitorsBureau reported 5 percent of the visitors to Cheyenne are foreign." The international market is one in which we would like to grow,"said Darren Rudloff, executive ...
EUROPEANS LOVE THE WEST
Mar 03, 1998; ... Movies like "City Slickers" help boost interest in guest ranchand Wild West adventure vacations. CHEYENNE -- Not all Europeantourists stampede to the Jackson Hole area to see the Grand Tetons.Some indulge in a western fantasy by staying at guest ranchesthroughout Wyoming.Rocky Mountain ...
HOUSE HEARS PUBLIC; PASSES ON LOBBYIST DISCLOSURE BILL
Mar 03, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- A bill requiring lobbyists to disclose expendituresof $50 or more passed the House on third reading Monday. House Bill22, which had only six no votes, deals with lobbyists who spend morethan $500 annually trying to influence politicians. It now heads tothe Senate for debate ....
COLUMN NOTED IN AMORY BOOK
Mar 05, 1998; ... Three or four weeks ago, Pat Fenn, who works here as an inserter,stopped me as I walked through the mechanical part of the newspaperbuilding to tell me she had been reading a book by Cleveland Amoryand that I was mentioned in it.Strange, I thought, why?She said itwas something I wrote ...
T-BIRDS AIM FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
Mar 05, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Sometimes nothing fuels a team like a bitter loss. The Cheyenne East boys basketball team's most recent game wasSaturday's 51-40 loss to Cheyenne Central, and that may make theThunderbirds an especially dangerous opponent in this week's Class4A South Regional ...
GETTING OVER THE HUMP AT WYOMING
Mar 05, 1998; ... What is it this past sports season with the Wyoming Cowboys? Itis as though someone is ordaining it. It's a weird Peter'sPrincipal. The Cowboys can't win the big one. In football, only one morevictory in the stretch would have brought some postseason glory andmoney. Larry ...
BEING AWARE
Mar 05, 1998; ... Alyse Rogers, 8, and Lynn Achter, executive director of theGovernor's Planning Council, look at photographs of Gov. JimGeringer before ...
ACT NOW TO AVOID HEFTY ESTATE TAXES
Mar 05, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- The new tax law eases some of the financial burden onheirs by increasing the amount exempt from estate taxes. The 1997Taxpayer Relief Act gradually raises the exemption on propertytransferred after death from $600,000 to $1 million for each personover the next 10 years ....
Clarification
Mar 04, 1998 ... The winning artwork from the Women's Civic League of CheyenneYouth Art contest for kids in grades 1-6 from Laramie County SchoolDistrict 2 ...
Basketball/High School, Tournament
Mar 04, 1998 ... Teams to beat Lusk (17-3) has won a state championship every even-numbered yearthis decade. It's doubtful they'll be challenged in the first round. Tongue River (18-2) has a tough first-round opponent in WyomingIndian. Teams to watch Wyoming Indian (17-4) was ...
ENGINEERS SEEK NEW SELECTION POLICY
Mar 04, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- If local professional engineers could change anythingabout the City of Cheyenne's procedure for seeking engineeringconsulting services, what would they change?Nearly everything.Whilenot all engineers agree completely, a number of them listed concernsfor the city engineering ...
STUDENTS SHOP FOR CAREERS WITH SUPPORT OF BUSINESSES
Mar 04, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Local CEOs, business owners, company presidents,business professionals and military officials spent most of Tuesdaymorning sitting in the multi-purpose room at Laramie CountyCommunity College. They sat in folding chairs and waited for localhigh school students to ask them for ...
STATE BUSINESS, ENVIRONMENT HANG IN BALANCE
Mar 04, 1998; ... CHEYENNE -- Although often bickered over at the national arena,environmental politics can trickle down and affect Wyoming'seconomy. Too often environmentalists try to protect the environmentat the expense of the state's industries, argued the majority of thespeakers at a Business Day at ...
TULSA HOLDS OFF DETERMINED BYU
Mar 04, 1998; ... BYU took the surprise route to the WAC Tournament and once theCougars got here, they didn't want to leave. Third-seeded Tulsa (19-11) led for all but a couple minutes ofthe game but never could put away the feisty, sixth-seeded Cougars(9-21) whose hustle-fuelled late-game rally ...