Wyoming Stories
Caitlin Tan
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Wyoming Public Media
Very few know about Wyoming’s biggest export and how it’s produced. And yet, there’s a mini-underground world below the desert of Green River. Wyoming Public Radio brings you an audio tour of trona mining.
Hanna Merzbach
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Wyoming Public Media
‘I saw Job Corps as the light’: Students worry losing the program could throw their lives off course
Jordan Uplinger
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Wyoming Public Media
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Eastern Shoshone tribal member Jason Baldes said closing the office could hurt wildlife on the reservation and would violate the government’s trust responsibility to tribes. -
Wyoming healthcare stakeholders are expecting a double whammy if changes proposed by Congress to Medicaid and the healthcare Marketplace are enacted. They predict 20,000 Wyomingites could lose coverage. Plus, hospitals and nursing homes' financial capacity will fall. -
The more than 2,000-acre site plans to feature a variety of shooting sports and a massive event center. The project is still figuring out driving access, agreements between the local government board operating it and state agencies, raising funds and potential wildlife mitigation.
Podcast spotlight.
HumaNature
Where the River Mends Bridget Crocker is a world-class whitewater rafting guide and author of the book "The River's Daughter." Bridget also grew up in an abusive household and suffered from severe trauma and PTSD. Through it all, she always had her special relationship with the river- something that would bring her the courage and resilience to persevere no matter what.
The Modern West
Back in the 1930’s, a trading post swapped Northern Arapaho artifacts for food and other basic necessities. Decades later, a descendent opened boxes in a storage room of the Episcopal Church in Laramie, Wyoming. There, she found a photo of her grandfather, Chief Yellow Calf.
“And so I talked to my grandfather, and I said, 'Grandfather, is there something that I'm supposed to do here? Show me. Guide me.'”
80 years later, the church has finally returned the artifacts to the tribe. We attend the ceremony.
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