Jenna McMurtry

3 days ago | 891khol.org | Jenna McMurtry

Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). Town and county officials are looking for ways to cut a $31.5 million deficit so the future affordable housing development at 90 Virginian Lane will be accessible to locals. Town councilors and county commissioners opted last week to slash an onsite parking garage, reducing the amount needed by a third. That still leaves about $20 million to find.

3 days ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Jenna McMurtry

When the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) first started cleaning up sites with underground petroleum leaks in 1989, the state agency had a list of 37 contaminated properties in Teton County. That number has since dwindled to four thanks to the state’s remediation efforts, though cleanups are still underway in Jackson. One spot that remains is a brown field at the north end of town on a prominent route to Grand Teton National Park.

6 days ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Hanna Merzbach |Indira Khera |Jeff Victor |Jenna McMurtry

Today on the show, two conservative women started with similar beliefs about abortion. Then they got pregnant, and their beliefs shifted. We hear from a non-profit that tracks federal election spending. They found Wyoming’s D.C. hopefuls get almost all of their campaign funding from out of state. And we’ll join a conversation exploring some of our misguided stereotypes about rural America. Those stories and more...

6 days ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Jenna McMurtry

Since December, Reed Carlman has spent just about every week in the Jackson library poring over paperwork with drop-in visitors. He’s one of three workers for the county’s Community Health Outreach Workers (CHOW) program, which has held drop-in office hours in a study room at the Jackson library weekly since 2021. Each session lasts the better part of two hours, according to Carlman.

6 days ago | 891khol.org | Jenna McMurtry

As to why DEQ has been able to remediate other sites to the agency’s standards much faster, Fernandez said the ground beneath the old Texaco is complicated by its soil makeup. But that’s not the only challenge stalling clean-up efforts at the site. “We have multiple developers coming in, coming up with different plans, and we’re afraid that if we put a system underground, that it will just be torn up when they do construction,” Fernandez said.