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1 week ago | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Episode39_GovernorGaslight.mp3 We take you off the page to discuss Governor Mark Gordon's motives in cutting Weston County Clerk Becky Hadlock loose without any consequences for mishandling the 2024 general election.
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1 month ago | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker We go off the page with a seasoned veteran of Wyoming politics and government to discuss the new political climate that exists in the nation and the world, and how that is being reflected in Weston County and Newcastle. Tracy Hunt served as Weston County Attorney, Weston County Coroner and Weston County Commissioner on the local level, and also had experience in state government as a Game and Fish Commissioner appointed by the governor.
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1 month ago | 
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By Bob Bonnar, Alexis Barker and Sonja Karp Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Episode37_WeatherPermitting.mp3 NLJ Sports Editor Sonja Karp takes us off the page this week to bring us up to speed on the spring sports season in northeast Wyoming — where the weather always seems to be a factor in how and when Dogie student-athletes can perform.
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2 months ago | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Episode36_StoreNoMore.mp3 We go off the page this week to take a look at the rural business climate, and explain why we are closing our own retail office supply store and fully committing our resources to our media and marketing business to better serve the businesses, organizations and individuals in our community and region.
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2 months ago | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Episode34_UncivilServants.mp3 We go off the page this week to take a deeper look at the legislative session that just concluded, and talk about how the media picked sides and exaggerated the impacts of legislative action and fed the fear of the public — instead of doing the hard work of informing them of the potential for positive outcomes from some of the measures.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Episode32_INXS - 1:31:25, 4.02 PM.mp3 This week we take you off the page to reveal the amount of time local governments are spending behind closed doors, and who is advising them to do so. We also share our perspective on a wild couple of weeks in the legislature, and the effect the Freedom Caucus' shock and awe campaign has had on some of those local governments.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. TopofMain30.mp3 This week we take you off the page to tell you the stories behind the story on the city's utility rate hike, and give you the information you need to decide who should — and shouldn't — get a bad rap for the size of the lump of coal in your Christmas stockings this year.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker The newspaper made the news again this week - and for all of the right reasons from our perspective. Find out the story behind the story on the thousand votes that were unaccounted for on election night in Weston County — and learn what lengths the News Letter Journal, the Secretary of the State and the Weston County Republican Party Chair had to go to in order to ensure that everybody's vote was counted in a state legislative race.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
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By Bob Bonnar and Alexis Barker Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Top of Main - Episode 28.mp3 Alexis returns to the show to help Bob take you off the page and into a really deep dive into the controversy surrounding the legislative vacancies that were declared — and then filled — in a bold move by a group of concerned citizens and a trio of Weston County Commissioners.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
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By Bob Bonnar, Kim Dean and Walter Sprague Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Episode 27 — Licking Our Wounds.mp3 You win some and you lose some, and in the aftermath of most elections voters are generally forced to accept that reality — and so are newspapers. But that doesn't necessarily mean it is a grim reality, and there may be reason to accept the reality of this election with guarded optimism.
