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- Foreign Medical School Has Hopes Of Hanging Its Shingle on U.S. Soil
Ross University, medical school in Caribbean island nation of Dominica, wants to open branch in Casper, Wyoming; plan has been embraced by Gov Jim Geringer and local business leaders; it has stalled amid fears that permitting foreign medical school to operate in US would lead to proliferation of unlicensed and unregulated schools; map; photos
- Google data centers snub Africa, Oz, and anything near Wyoming
A Swedish web-site monitoring company has published a worldwide map of Google's data centers. And people love looking at it. Today, as reported by just about every tech-happy news source on the web, the official Pingdom blog got all graphical with a new
- TransCanada proposes pipeline for U.S. Rockies gas
TransCanada, its country's biggest pipeline operator, said the proposed Pathfinder line would ship 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day about 500 miles from Wyoming to its Northern Border pipeline in the Midwest by 2010. The line, the latest in a series
- Promise to return US flags
Queenstown police have tracked down one of two men who stole two American flags flying at half mast in Wyoming for a soldier killed in Iraq. New Zealand police joined American authorities in searching for the two British tourists. A spokesperson says one
- RNC Fights Over 2012
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RealClearPolitics.com - SANTA ANA PUEBLO, New Mexico -- As Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan and other top officials urged committee members to focus on electing John McCain in November, Republican chairmen from key states are already looking forward to the 2012 nominating contest, battling over a plan that would advantage smaller states while keeping larger states in rotating pods in the contest's later months.
The party's rules committee, on Wednesday, passed an amended version of what is known as the "Ohio Plan," which would allow smaller states to hold presidential nominating contests before a rotating group of larger states, loosely grouped based on their electoral votes. Those twenty-three smaller states, including Iowa and New Hampshire, would be permitted to hold earlier nominating contests, while twenty-seven larger states would be divided into three groups, organized loosely by electoral votes.
Backers of Ohio's proposal say the new scheme would force candidates to prove that they can run both retail campaigns and a big media-driven operation. Ohio GOP chair Bob Bennett, who spear-headed the plan, said the system as it is now rewards "the candidate who can raise the most money the earliest." "The concept is, do you believe in retail politics or don't you," he said. Allowing smaller states to go first will limit the impact of money, at least somewhat, giving a smaller state's candidate the chance to compete with the big fish. "You ought to be able to elect a candidate from Maine, or Kansas, or Wyoming," Bennett said.
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Introduction
Wyoming became the United States forty-fourth state on July 10, 1890. The state's largest city and capital is Cheyenne. Wyoming was named by combining two Indian words meaning "at the big flats". The Equality State was the first state to give women the right to vote. Yellowstone was the first National Park, and Devil's Tower was the first National Monument. Wyoming is the least populated state in the country, but in size it is one of the larger states raking 9th with 97,105 square miles.
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AP - There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.
AP - Vacationers will have fewer places to pitch their tents this summer in Colorado and Wyoming, and they can place the blame on bugs.
AP - Tony Saunders stalked his prey for 35 miles by snowmobile through western Wyoming's Hoback Basin, finally reaching a clearing where he took out a .270-caliber rifle and shot the wolf twice from 30 yards away.
AP - The struggle to keep soaring medical costs in check is feeding an increase in state programs that collect unused prescription drugs to give away to the uninsured and poor.
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