Wyoming Political Blogwire

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• Utah Lands New Spy Center; Idaho Doesn't Come Close to Needed Infrastructure

  —NewWest.Net Headlines

  Fueled by $180 million in federal stimulus money, the National Security Agency will build a one-million square foot data center outside of Salt Lake City. According to the Salt Lake Tribune: Hoping to protect its top-secret operations by decentralizing its massive computer hubs, the National Security Agency will build a 1-million-square-foot [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
  

• Caring Deeply: Zanzibar Husband, Montana Wife, Aim to Dig a Well in Africa

  —NewWest.Net Headlines

  Clean water. For Missoula residents Said and Sara Hemed, it would be a dream come true if they could finish digging a well in Said's native Zanzibar village so people there could have water to drink and use for washing -- without having to walk a mile to a water' [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 4:05pm EDT
  

• Democrats Make Historic Gains in West

  —NewWest.Net Headlines

  For the first time in a century, the mountain West has more Democratic senators, and more Democratic congress members, than Republicans. That's part of a shift across the region and the nation, say a pair of Stanford University professors, that has the Republican Party in crisis. There is no silver bullet [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:40am EDT
  

• What Could Make the Wolf Even More Controversial?

  —NewWest.Net Headlines

  Anything wolf makes big headlines--and, it seems, is never old news. For fourteen years since conservationists and the federal government brought the wolf back to the northern Rockies (plus several years leading up to the reintroduction), anything and everything about the Big Dog has been, to say the least, controversial. But something [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:48am EDT