Medicaid Waiver Could Ease Serious Health Disparities On Wind River Reservation
This year, while Wyoming lawmakers were voting down Medicaid Expansion in the state, they also approved a Medicaid Waiver for the state’s two tribes, potentially pumping some $16 million of aid into the reservation’s health system. The health crisis on the Wind River Reservation is now at critical levels, but tripling the amount that the tribe’s receive for health care could help.
Emergency Room Is New Front In War On Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription pill abuse has been making headlines all across the country for years. Here in Wyoming, prescription drug overdoses have more than tripled in the last 15 years. In response, states have cracked down on doctors who over-prescribe and patients who go from doctor to doctor seeking the same prescription. But there’s one place in the hospital where it's been harder to stop pill seeking patients: the Emergency Room. As Wyoming Public Radio’s Miles Bryan reports, several Wyoming hospitals have recently developed ER programs to try and distinguish between who needs drugs, and who doesn’t.
Douglas Students Train For Trucking Jobs
Life after high school looks a bit different for every Wyoming graduate. Some are set on college or a career. Others are more worried about making money this summer. In an effort to prepare students who are less interested in academic options, one high school started a program that trains some seniors to be commercial truckers. Wyoming Public Radio’s Aaron Schrank reports.
Wyoming Feels Emotional Aftershocks Of Nepal Earthquake
Last month’s earthquake in Nepal dealt a devastating blow to the small country. Almost 8-thousand people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed. Nepal is thousands of miles away from Wyoming, but emotional aftershocks are being felt in towns like Laramie and Jackson.
California, Wyoming Energy Futures Increasingly Linked
The energy futures of Wyoming and California are becoming increasingly intertwined. Late last month, California Governor Jerry Brown announced that he’s speeding up the state’s transition to renewable energy, with a goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030. Just days later, a major transmission project to carry Wyoming wind power to California received its final environmental review.
Delegation Reacts To Plans To Modernize The Energy Infrastructure
The Obama administration has released the first part of its Quadrennial Energy Review. Matt Laslo has the story from Washington on the report that says it’s time to modernize the nation’s energy infrastructure.
UW Gets Ready To Look At 125 Years Of Wyoming History
In July, Wyoming will celebrate its 125th birthday. Next month a major conference will look at the state’s top historical moments. Called Our Place In The West And Beyond: Wyoming at 125, a number of historians, experts, and citizens will come to the University of Wyoming on June 11th. Tamsen Hirth is President of the State Historical Society. She says it will be a jam-packed conference.
Colorado Gay Men's Choruses To Honor Harvey Milk
On May 10th, the Wyoming premiere of I Am Harvey Milk debuts in Laramie. Created by composer Andrew Lippa, it’s part theater, part choral piece, and it all tells the story of Harvey Milk, the first gay and out non-incumbent politician in the U.S. He was assassinated in 1978, just months after taking office as a city supervisor in San Francisco. James Knapp is the artistic director of the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus, and Out Loud, Colorado Springs Men’s Chorus, the two groups performing the piece. He joined Wyoming Public Radio’s Caroline Ballard to talk a little about the show.
Susan Marsh Reads From "A Hunger For High Country"
Susan Marsh is an award-winning writer living in Jackson, Wyoming. She worked for the U.S. Forest Service for over thirty years, including as staff for the BTNF from 1988-2010. With degrees in geology and landscape architecture and a lifelong interest in creative writing, she has combined her interests into a body of work that explores the relationship of humans to wild country. Her most recent book is titled A Hunger for High Country.
