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Month: November 2021

With workforce shortages top of mind, businesses try new recruitment tactics

By Kristen Czaban The Sheridan Press Via- Wyoming News Exchange SHERIDAN — A barbershop, a gym, a basketball court, an auditorium, no offices and a lot of collaborative work spaces. While the building may sound like something located in Silicon…

Guest Editorial: Greater access will cost more

Courtesy of the Buffalo Bulletin- The Wyoming Wildlife Taskforce is not even a year old, but the draft list of topics it hopes to address is ambitious and no doubt will stir some strong feelings. The task force was convened…

Wyoming now holding more than $100 million belonging to citizens

Nearly $7.5 million added to State’s Unclaimed Property Division since October CHEYENNE – Despite record amounts of payments over the past few years, Wyoming’s Unclaimed Property Division of the State Treasurer’s Office is holding on to more money than ever…

Governor’s Call for Ideas to Make Wyoming Thrive in the Future Brings in Big Proposals

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Earlier this year, after Wyoming received the first installment of funds from the American Rescue Plan, Governor Mark Gordon asked a Strike Team to work on big ideas that would help Wyoming drive towards a future where its…

Transportation Commission awards over $41 million in contracts in November 

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded over $41 million in contracts for eight Wyoming Department of Transportation construction projects during its November 18 business meeting. The commission awarded a bid of over $13.3 million to Avail Valley Construction-WY,…

Industry criticizes plan to tap oil reserves

By Nicole Pollack Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — The federal government will pull oil from the country’s emergency stockpile in an effort to bring down stubbornly high fuel prices, the White House said Tuesday. Over the next…

End in sight for state’s most expensive road project

By Timothy J. Woods Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — After years of construction, which followed nearly two decades of environmental planning and design, the end of the U.S. Highway 89 construction project south of Jackson is…

Interviews

Nov. 24: Chris Lavesque, President & CEO of TerraPower

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Early Childhood Census is available to families with preschool children

◆ The census can be taken December 1 through January 26. Parents with preschool age children from zero to five years old who live within LCSD No. 2 boundaries are being asked by the Early Childhood Coalition, that functions under…