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10 COVER STORY SINGLE MOMMY SOLITUDE How Wyoming’s refusal to expand Medicaid is hurting struggling moms.

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he average precipitation in Jackson in April is 1.14 inches, about the same as what we average in the month of February. That includes whatever we get for snow that is melted down to contribute to that total. The average snowfall in April is just 4 inches, which is 10 inches less than we average in February. So, one could conclude that more of our precipitation is in the form of rain in April than it is during February.

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Historic average low temperatures are now out of the teens, like they were last week, and up into the lower 20’s this week. Not bad, and in relative terms that might seem warm, considering average lows of the past three months. Record low temperatures this time of year are now all above zero, and this week’s coldest temperature in the record books was recorded on April 8th, 1953 when we dipped down to 4-degrees, above zero.

“Hot” is also always a relative term, depending on what you might be referring to. When referencing temperatures in Jackson in the springtime, anything over 50 would look good to most of us. For other things, anything under 50 might be more like it. Our average temperature this week is almost at 50-degrees, and record highs are something that would feel quite hot right now, 74-degrees is as hot as we have seen in town during this week, that happened April 12th, 1988.

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Bern Baby Bern Why Democrats should support Bernie Sanders during Saturday’s caucus.

BY PETE MULDOON

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eton County Democrats will hold their presidential preference caucus at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Senior Center, and the buzz on the street is that it will be a well-attended event.

The big question for Democrats, of course, is whether the party will nominate Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Six months ago, this wasn’t a question at all. Clinton’s nomination was a foregone conclusion; the Democratic Party establishment was united behind her, and it was assumed that no challenger would be able to overcome the Clinton machine and the enormous amounts of money it had collected from the political donor class.

But these aren’t ordinary times. For those who have long wondered when Americans would finally rebel against rule by one party with two names, the answer is suddenly clear.

While the Right has responded by rejecting any remnants of conservative ideology in favor of a man who retweets Mussolini quotes, the Left has rallied around Bernie Sanders, a candidate who, while holding relatively mainstream policy positions still seems revolutionary if for no other reason than the fact that his campaign isn’t financed by corporate America.

This of course makes him a threat to the establishment in exactly the same way as Donald Trump. The wealthy elite of the United States is accustomed to getting its way. For decades, it’s been impossible to win the presidency without its financial support. They will often donate money to the nominees of both parties—preferring a Republican win, but

Teton County Democrats are expecting an unprecedented turnout for the Democratic caucus Saturday at the Senior Center. Some attribute this to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ rising popularity throughout the valley. knowing a Democrat like Clinton isn’t going to do much to change the status quo. And as the status quo is making the elite extremely wealthy at the expense of everyone else, this obviously works out fine for them.

If you get your news from cable TV, you might think that there are prodigious differences between the two major parties. But that’s only because no one is reporting on the areas where the parties agree, or rather, where the parties’ elites agree.

If you were told that a politician supported the Iraq War, the Wall Street bailout, the Patriot Act, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the death penalty, the Keystone Pipeline, a border fence, and offshore drilling—while opposing same sex marriage until 2013, and currently opposing expanding Social Security, single payer health care, closing Guantanamo, and raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour—you might assume that politician is a Republican candidate. If you then discovered Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley were among that politician’s top career campaign contributors, in addition to learning that politician had served on the board of Wal-Mart, you’d probably be sure of it.

No, that is the resume of Hillary Clinton—the preferred candidate of virtually the entire Democratic establishment.

For years Democrats have been told that neoliberal, center-right status quo politicians are the only Democrats we can nominate for president because we can’t risk losing a presidential election to a Republican. So Dems nominated Walter Mondale, who lost, and Michael Dukakis, who lost, and Al Gore, who lost, and John Kerry, who lost. It’s hardly a foolproof plan.

But suddenly the electability issue isn’t really an issue anymore…if it ever was one. What polling exists shows Sanders as a stronger candidate against Trump than Clinton.

Sanders has the highest favorability rating among all candidates, while Clinton’s favorability ratings are terrible.

In this election year, being the establishment candidate

is an oppressive liability, and it’s going to hurt Clinton. She’s disliked by Independents and hated by Republicans who might otherwise recoil from Trump, or who will vote for any anti-establishment candidate who can form coherent sentences. Rightly or not, she’ll be dogged by rumors of imminent indictments over the email scandal, and Trump will have a field day with her over the $153 million dollars in speaking fees she and Bill Clinton raked in from clients like Goldman Sachs. She’s widely viewed as dishonest and corrupt, and this is the wrong election year to get slapped with that label.

But we have a better choice in Bernie Sanders. He’s the rarest of politicians; one who has consistently stuck to his principles throughout his career. Unlike Clinton, he’s viewed as honest. He’s a Democratic Socialist, and now Americans have finally discovered that isn’t a problem. No one thinks Bernie Sanders is corrupt.

And Sanders’ message clearly resonates. He rails against inequality, both social and economic. He has been a consistent advocate for social justice. And unlike any other candidate left in this election, he’s been consistently saying the same things for decades, even when they weren’t convenient.

The appeal of this sort of candidate in this kind of political environment can’t be overestimated.

In an election year in which people are rebelling en masse against the establishment, corruption, money in politics and the status quo, you’d have a very difficult time constructing a better candidate than Bernie Sanders. Maybe you’d give him a little more name recognition, but that’s about it.

Bernie Sanders isn’t perfect. But he’s a decent, honest man who is more than qualified to be president. He’s a more electable candidate than Clinton. And he represents the interests of average Democratic voters far better than Clinton does. He deserves the support of Teton County Democrats. PJH

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Lawyers, Guns and Money Teton County braces for battle on several land use fronts.

BY JAKE NICHOLS

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ost county employees are off to various tropical climes for spring break like many residents. A little sun, a little battery recharge—and boy are they gonna need it.

When county staffers return they will find a valley under attack. Battle lines have been drawn by developers and land owners seeking to challenge law and order. An old familiar land developer is back with a new neighborhood proposal, and he’s brought his lawyers. Another persistent harrier is testing the limits again at his posh glampsites, and the gravel pit that just refuses to go away is about to get a lot bigger.

South Park swap dry-gulched After county officials put their Hancocks to a new Comp Plan in 2012 they froze large developments until land development regulations (LDRs) could catch up. The controversial PRD—a discretionary and unwieldy development tool—has been mothballed by moratorium since 2013. When new rural LDRs were adopted on December 22 of last year, county commissioners were satisfied the window of opportunity to utilize the much maligned PRD was too small to fret even though the moratorium had officially lapsed.

No one would or could try to slip a PRD by in the tight time frame between late December and April 1, when the new regs were set to take effect, thought county leaders. They thought wrong. The door that was a crack open was kicked in.

On December 23 a developer came forward with the largest land swap/building proposal the valley has seen in years.

David Quinn, who built hundreds of homes in Melody Ranch, brought forth a plan on behalf of longtime valley ranchers, the Lucas family. Quinn’s firm, Steelhead Partners, LLC, would transfer density from and preserve Lucas farm land in Spring Gulch in exchange for building 206 homes on 203 acres in South Park.

With the clock ticking for project approval before April 1, the developer first sought to save time by circumventing the required environmental analysis (EA) on both properties in play. When that was denied, he lawyered up. Attorneys from Holland & Hart moved quickly from carrot to stick, claiming the county was doing everything they could to derail the project with onerous speed bumps.

“The county’s process is not rationally related to any legitimate goals. The frontloading of all of these requirements is merely a barrier and drag on any person seeking to develop property in the rural zone—the vast majority of the county,” attorney Matt Kim-Miller wrote in one of two separate appeals to the county. “Teton County’s requirements, timing and application of its rules constitute a moratorium. The context of the PRD development option makes this de facto moratorium; one that is prohibited under Wyoming law.”

Any major development in South Park faces an uphill challenge. Under the new LDRs, South Park is classified as district 10, zoned for agricultural uses. Quinn challenges that

notion citing the county’s desire to transfer housing density into complete neighborhoods. The five contiguous 35-acre parcels in South Park slated for development are surrounded by existing neighborhoods, Quinn claims. Opponents like Richard Bloom and Franz Camenzind say that may be true but the land in question provides an open space buffer and is crucial habitat for several native wildlife species.

Before commissioners on merit can debate the project, the developer’s biggest hurdle is the EA. Both sides agree the process is costly and time-consuming. It will take an estimated 14 weeks and some $89K to complete a study. Quinn’s lawyers first appealed, arguing the South Park property didn’t need it. Then they claimed an older EA done by Biota Research and Consulting was sufficient. Now, Holland & Hart lawyers are claiming the entire process—requiring an EA be performed before the county will even consider an application sketch plan—is capricious and unfair.

“They are challenging almost every aspect in our environmental process,” Bloom said. “They were really depending on getting that EA exemption. That was naïve thinking. They are just lashing out on all sorts of things now.”

The county assigns approved environmental consultants to developers on a rotation system. Quinn was hoping for Biota but got Pioneer Environmental Services. Kim-Miller claims Biota should have been next up in the rotation but they were pulled either because of a conflict of interest or a result of Biota’s recent falling out with the county after their research for the natural resource overlay of the new LDRs was called into question.

“The county’s consultants rotation requirement does nothing more than spread work among a very limited group of private parties who materially differ based on experience, skill, efficiency and cost,” Kim-Miller wrote in the appeal document. “This requirement is not rationally related to any proper governmental purpose.”

Development details What Quinn is proposing south of town is 206 potential units on five parcels along South Park Loop, just south of and across the road from 3 Creek. The project would include 149 market rate homes—Quinn says they will not be high end units but more mid-range “Rafter J-type price bracket houses”—and at least 57 affordable units with the potential for even more, according to Quinn.

“I’ve lived here since I was 7 years old and I’ve never seen such a housing crisis. You gotta do something,” Quinn said. “I just want the opportunity for the electeds and the community to have this dialogue about what they want to see there. Every day in the newspaper you see people getting booted out of their homes. You won’t have a town in five years if we continue on this trend.”

Quinn has a history of delivering. His Melody Ranch development, where he served as GM and president, put more than 400 houses on the ground including at least 160 affordable or attainable units.

“I don’t know of any other project that has contributed that many units to the community,” he said.

His latest proposal will preserve open space in Spring Gulch by building some 22 market rate homes there on 27 40-acre parcels owned by Rod and Joyce Lucas—considerably less than the one per 35-acre regulations currently zoned in that area, according to Quinn.

Former county planner Jeff Daugherty, who has been unofficially consulting for Quinn, says the deal looks like a win-win to him.

“With the Lucas project I see an opportunity to preserve 750 acres in an iconic view shed and crucial migration

“I’ve lived here since I was 7 years old and I’ve never seen such a housing crisis. You gotta do something...”

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The bulk of the 27 parcels in Spring Gulch slated for conservation. Existing easements are in green.

corridor that would also connect two conservation easements currently in place. In trade, we get 60 deed-restricted units right out of the gate, with the rest being attainable by members of our middle class workforce community, which any local real estate agent will tell you is where 45 percent of our market demand is,” Daugherty said. “What’s really frustrating is the valley’s largest land owners—families like the Lucases, the Gills, the Lockharts—have been incredible stewards for the longest time and they are being hit the hardest.”

Kim-Miller agreed. “You are looking at a century of family legacy here. [The Lucases] are the last ones to look at a PRD and they are being punished for that.”

Litigious leaning

Opponents of the South Park development accuse the developer of strong-arming county officials with the threat of lawsuit. Proponents of large housing projects like Quinn’s say electeds are talking a good game with the public, claiming they are actively looking for ways to put housing on the ground, yet they hide behind a planning department that has made housing projects virtually impossible.

“The county has done the right thing every step of the way.

All this stuff has been well vetted. They put themselves in this timeline bind by submitting an application at the last minute because any earlier and they would have tipped their hand, and the board of commissioners would have reinstated the moratorium on the PRD,” Bloom said. “I think they knew this would be trouble from the beginning. They walked into talks with their lawyers from day one. That’s usually done to intimidate. But you are not going to intimidate Erin [Weisman], Keith [Gingery], and Tyler [Sinclair]. My worry is the county has limited resources. They won’t be able to keep up. I mean, how far is [Holland & Hart] willing to go—District Court, State Supreme Court?”

Kim-Miller said he considers this case to be more than Steelhead versus the county. It would be a case of first impression and the first real challenge to the county’s Comp Plan and new LDRs. “This is not going to be a one- or two-week process. This will go on for a long while. We are committed to it.”

Jamie’s crying If the county’s legal team isn’t already up to their eyeballs in billable hours with the Holland & Hart filings, Jamie Mackay will make sure they get little sleep in the months ahead. Mackay, who once challenged county regs when he began parking Recreational Park Trailers (RPT) in his Fireside campground on Teton Village Road, is pushing the envelope again.

Mackay has been aggressively advertising the sale of 23 units at his campground under a tenant-in-common-ownership structure. Local lawyer Peter Moyer immediately cried foul, firing off a letter to deputy county attorney Gingery stating the arrangement was a smokescreen for a fractional ownership plan and therefore against land regulations.

Gingery, in turn, sic’d compliance officer Jennifer Anderson on Mackay. She wrote him a letter stating: “…[I] n response to numerous complaints regarding your tenancy-in-common … staff’s decision is you are in violation of the Teton County LDRs. Each of the campsites and RPT units located at the campground shall be owned by the same

entity that owns the campground. No fractional ownership, timeshares or memberships of campsites or RPT units is permitted.”

Daugherty butted heads with Mackay in the past over nebulous definitions regarding whether RPTs were glorified tents or permanent structures. It was a win for Mackay who proceeded to load the Fireside and Buffalo Valley resorts he owns with dozens of them. Daugherty says Mackay’s intent to now sell each of them is once again treading grey area.

“Jamie has selected an interesting question here. As long as the use doesn’t change, and it appears it is not here, then the county would have no policing powers over ownership,” Daugherty said. “It is not clear to what extent the county can regulate ownership if the use of the campground remains unchanged.”

Mackay said in a statement, “The tenant-in-common sales will not affect the use of the resorts at all. We have the right to transfer ownership interests, just as anyone else would have the right to own their own business jointly with their spouse, or with their parents, uncles, or friends,” he said. “The

county’s zoning regulations do not restrict this, and, frankly, cannot restrict this.”

Courting headaches The county has a poor track record of fighting legal challenges. In fact, they are 0-4 in recent litigation by most observations. Having to fight both Quinn and Mackay on land use issues will be daunting enough, but now an additional old wound is festering once again.

Roger Seherr-Thoss bested county legal eagles after a State Supreme Court ruling in June 2014 overturned regulations on the size of his gravel pit business in South Park. Seherr-Thoss recently applied for a permit that would increase the size of his mining operation from 15 acres to 334. Melody Ranch homeowners, which include Bloom, have been at odds with noise and air quality issues regarding the business, but it appears there is little the county can do, outside of appealing to state DEQ officials, to limit what the high court ruled as grandfathered privileges. PJH

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By JAKE NICHOLS

COLIN SAMUELS

Death after a decade The skiing community celebrated the 10-year anniversary of a local legend’s death in France this week. Doug Coombs fell to his death while trying to reach aspiring mountain guide Chad VanderHam, who’d fallen while descending the Couloir de Polichinelle in La Grave, France, April 3, 2006.

Backcountry Magazine ran a lengthy piece on Coombs, chronicling the Jackson Hole alpinist’s life after he moved to France with his family in 1996. Photographer Colin Samuels offered several shots of Coombs traversing his way down some of La Grave’s toughest descents.

Coombs was known for his height and strength, the article read, but Samuels said it was Coombs’ lankiness that defined his style. “The term ‘sinewy’ comes to mind when describing his physique,” Samuels told Backcountry, “which allowed Doug to put on constant display of power, grace, speed and cat-like reflexes.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Harvesting accolades coast to coast The voluminous New York Times Sunday edition on March 27 included a feature on Jackson’s newly opened Vertical Harvest. The Business Day article’s headline, “A Ski Town Greenhouse Takes Local Produce to Another Level,” was pure brilliance. The lede was also dead on: “The Wyoming soil, iced over for eight months of the year, is not particularly hospitable to heirloom tomatoes, baby basil or lettuce plants.”

Claire Martin penned the story which included little new to the local informed. Hydroponic farming methods will allow VH to produce an estimated 100,000 pounds of fresh produce a year from the three-story, 4,500-square-foot downtown greenhouse clinging to the south wall of the town parking garage.

The project is eight years in the making, prompting COO Penny McBride to call it, “patient capital.” McBride and project architect Nona Yehia described to the Times just how arduous it was getting to the March grand opening. “We had to prove it was a feasible idea that would have enough community impact for the town to essentially lease us the land for free,” CEO Yehia said.

“Vertical Harvest wasn’t an easy sell to some Jackson residents,” Martin wrote. “When Ms. Yehia and Ms. McBride first pitched their idea to the town, which owns the land and the building that Vertical Harvest occupies, they were competing against other proposals. These included a dog park and affordable housing units.”

An SF (San Francisco] Gate story on VH also added: “…[T]here’s also an angle where two plucky, youngish women won over a cranky old Tea Party guy who initially poo-poo’d the idea.”

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THEM ON US

An April 1, no-joke press release announcing the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival’s featured artist made the rounds early this week. Colorado artist Edward Aldrich, 26, was tapped by JHFAF to headline the annual event happening in Jackson, Sept. 7 through 18.

Aldrich’s 64-inch by 52-inch oil painting “Greeting the Dawn,” which portrays bison roaming beneath the Tetons on an early Wyoming morning, will grace official posters and be auctioned on the Town Square on Sept. 17.

Soda Springs sledneck bags three titles Soda Spring’s sledder Tanner Meyers came, saw, and conquered at the World Championship Snowmobile Hill Climb on Easter weekend in Jackson. The Idaho State Journal featured the 18-year-old’s domination as he took top honors in three divisions.

“This is the biggest race of the year,” Meyers said. “(The) sponsors and vendors are watching.”

Meyers rides for Polaris. He was one of only four ‘bilers to make it over the top of Snow King on the day he raced.

Airport tightens security Authorities at the Jackson Hole Airport say they are tightening security there in light of the recent bombing in Brussels.

The measure also comes at a time when numerous spring breakers are hoping to leave their wheels in the airport parking lot, some for weeks.

Allen Best’s Mountain Town News in Colorado’s Summit Daily included word from the airport director Jim Elwood, who said the Brussel’s attack occurred outside the terminal where Jackson’s security measures have been noticeably lax, especially at curbside.

While the local airport does not use TSA personnel, they do adhere to policies like the latest that strongly suggests a crackdown on unattended vehicles in loading and unloading zones.

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Bill Bailey (a former nine-year employee of the water-irrigation network near Grand Junction, Colorado) was awarded unemployment benefits in December for being wrongfully fired. The company claimed Bailey was insubordinate and that any complaints he had were merely because he is “too sensitive” to workplace “fun” and unable to “forgive and forget” his supervisors’ team-building spirit. According to an administrative law judge, the “fun” included, among other things, detonating unannounced, ear-splitting PVC “potato guns” (using golf balls and other items) on the job and Bailey’s boss’s placing his own feces in a bag inside Bailey’s lunch pail.

(At one point in the hearing, during the boss’s mirthful, carefree descriptions of the “fun,” the judge felt the need to advise him of his Fifth Amendment right.) (Following the judge’s decision, Bailey’s two supervisors resigned.)

Questionable Judgments

The Agony and Tediousness of “Peeling”: The Canadian supermarket chain Sobeys has recently been selling pre-cut avocado halves, sealed in plastic packages. Said a spokesman, the product “eliminates the guesswork … if you are not familiar with peeling and seeding a fresh avocado.” Also, recently, Whole Foods began selling peeled mandarin oranges, sealed in “recyclable” plastic, at $5.99 a pound (but withdrew the product in March, with an apology and promise to sell the oranges only in their “natural packaging: the peel”).

The Continuing Crisis

The Most “Florida” Story: State officials have notified retired pro wrestler Mary Thorn of Lakeland that, according to the law, her pet alligator (“Rambo”), age 15, having grown to 6 feet in length, may no longer be kept at home unless she provides at least 2 1/2 acres of roaming space. She made a public plea in March, warning that confiscating Rambo would kill him, as he is super- sensitive to sunlight (having been raised inside her home) and must wear clothes and sunscreen when outside (though Thorn pointed out that he is “potty-trained” and wags his tail when needing to answer nature’s call). (At press time, the investigation of Rambo was still ongoing.)

n The Most “Canada” Story: Ms. Philicity Lafrenier, 25, was charged with several break-and-enter and theft crimes in March in Prince George, British Columbia, after leading police on a half-mile chase as she made her getaway on an ice floe on the Nechako River. When police caught up, she attempted to dispose of items she had stolen (even though still on the ice) by burning them in a small fire, but an officer and a police dog jumped in the water to subdue her.)

New World Order

In March, Foreign Policy magazine noted that someone had created a “hot male migrants” account on the photo-sharing application Instagram: “Someone is going through photos of migrants and refugees, saving ones of men thought of as hot.” (Many of the men, of course, have survived harrowing journeys and even lost friends and family members while fleeing Syria and other wartorn lands. Wrote one Instagram user, of a man who had turned her head, “He’s gorgeous. Am I going to hell for thinking that?”)

Bright Ideas

North Carolina State University scientists, in a “proof of concept” study published in March, claim they have found a promising alternative for eliminating certain infections—even when no known antibiotic will work.

The solution, the researchers write, is to genetically modify maggots (which are well-known to feed naturally off of infected tissue) to gobble up the infections and release, as “waste,” human growth hormone (as they showed in the study could be done with a strain of green bottle fly maggots). n Felicia Burl, 33, who crashed her car (killing her passenger) after running a red light, fled on foot and later tried to foil DNA evidence against her to avoid charges. While in lockup, Burl, with a 29-conviction rap sheet, knew a mouth swab was upcoming and tried to contaminate it by—as police later learned—having two other women spit into her mouth just before the test.

She was convicted anyway, and a court in Stamford, Connecticut, is expected to order a 10-year sentence at Burl’s next hearing.

Least Competent Criminals

Massachusetts state troopers initially found a few drug items in a search of the vehicle of Carrie Tutsock, 24, at a traffic stop in March along Interstate 91 near Hatfield, Massachusetts, but Tutsock and her two companions proceeded to worsen the situation. The troopers seemed satisfied with finding three drug pipes, a couple of syringes and several baggies of drugs, and began to write their report as a “possession” case, but en route to the state police barracks, a trooper said he overheard one suspect whisper to another, “I don’t think they found all the stuff in the car.” The police searched it again and this time found three digital scales with white residue, along with another 230 baggies of heroin, and the charges were upped to “intent to distribute.”

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“Wall of Sound,” Updated: Police, finally armed with a warrant after months of neighbors’ complaints about loud music, raided Michael Baker’s small one-bedroom apartment in Croydon, England, in March and confiscated 34 loudspeakers that allegedly Baker had been using at high volume at “all hours.” After entering the home with the aid of a locksmith, police left Baker with only a CD player and a pair of earphones.

n Nicholas Ragin finally got his conviction overturned in March, but it took 10 years before the U.S. Court of Appeals declared that his “right to counsel” had been violated because his lawyer slept during various parts of Ragin’s conspiracy and racketeering trial. (His sentence had 20 more years to run.) One juror later recalled that lawyer Nikita Mackey slept “almost every day, morning and evening” for “30 minutes at least.”

Once, according to court documents, after the trial judge called Mackey’s name loudly, only belatedly getting a response, Mackey “jumped up and sort of looked around and was licking his lips … and looked sort of confused and looked around the room.” (The prosecutor said she intends to retry Ragin.)

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n The Most “Georgia” Story: David Presley (of Walton County, about 40 miles from Atlanta), 32, for some reason attempted to blow up his riding lawn mower in March—by placing three pounds of the chemical mixture Tannerite in it and then shooting the mower with a semiautomatic rifle. Although he was standing 30 yards away, shrapnel still hit him, severing his leg just below the knee.

Can’t Possibly Be True

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Single Mommy Solitude How Wyoming’s refusal to expand Medicaid is hurting struggling moms.

BY JESSICA L. FLAMMANG

yduce is only four weeks old. His dark blue eyes light up a room, and he loves to cuddle. With a roof over his head and a crib to sleep in, he is unaware that he and his mother are homeless, or that they will lose their health insurance in two weeks.

In Teton County, one of the richest counties in the U.S., legislators have refused to expand federal Medicaid coverage to struggling young women like Tyduce’s mom, Rachel Osburn. So local organizations like the Good Samaritan Mission Housing and Homeless Shelter, where Osburn lives, must step in.

Osburn, 22, says her employer does not provide paid maternity, and the state of Wyoming will not offer financial assistance beyond food stamps and six weeks of “pregnancy Medicaid.” As the first single mother at GSM’s Women’s Shelter, Osborn says she can’t afford to pay rent and daycare.

But Osburn’s plight is a common one for lowincome mothers here. Moms who are one step away from homelessness in a state where lawmakers continue to wage a battle over Medicaid expansion.

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food, transportation, housing. It’s appalling to me that some people think low-income workers could ‘work harder’ or ‘manage their money better.’ The people [that think that] have never been poor.”

Local services save the day Georgia Ligori, administrator of the Good Samaritan Mission and program director of the Women’s Shelter, is hopeful for women thanks to the community resources available to help them.

She lauds the local churches, the Department of Family Services, CLIMB Wyoming, and the GSM’s efforts to help women access food, work and daycare.

Nonetheless, the former social worker and licensed counselor laments the number of women in need. “How do we help our young mothers succeed?” she wondered. “There are limited resources, limited facilities and limited availability.

These women are stuck.”

Osburn, for instance, lost her home after Tyduce’s father had to stop working. The monthly rent was higher than she could afford alone, along with other bills.

Dr. Bruce Hayse has been serving low-income people in Teton County for 30 years, and has sat on the board of St. John’s Hospital for eight years. He agreed, “I see a lot of women who are struggling; so many single mothers. You can’t survive in Jackson without a job. The minute you

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Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1869. Women could also serve on juries and hold public office positions. Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first female governor of Wyoming in 1924.

Since then “equality” has been dubbed the state’s motto. In fact, the state seal itself—”Equal Rights”— symbolizes the political status women have always been privy to in Wyoming.

But as young moms look for help navigating a tangled socioeconomic web, it seems Wyoming is losing its bragging rights as the Equality State.

Lawmakers in Wyoming continue to deny Medicaid expansion—one of the main tenets of the Affordable Care Act—a move that largely keeps benefits to single and low-income mothers out of reach.

Consequently, local public assistance programs shoulder the burden of aiding women and lowincome earners.

Medicaid mainly covers children. The next largest group is those with developmental disabilities and, finally, pregnant women. Under the existing system, the federal government pays 50 percent of health costs. Under expansion, the feds would assume 90 percent of costs. People must make less than $16,000 annually, to qualify. The federal poverty line for a household of three is $19,530.

In February, the Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 against expanding health care coverage to more than 17,600 uninsured Wyomingites.

Key Wyoming legislators on both sides of the issue, including opponent Senator Leland Christensen, R-Alta, and proponent Rep. Andy Schwartz, D-Jackson, say that the primary reasons for continued legislative opposition are two things: A lack of confidence that the federal government will honor its commitment to cover 90 percent of the cost, and a general concern that folks who would be covered under Medicaid expansion may not be working to their fullest abilities.

Thirty-two states, including Washington D.C.,

have opted to expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. In 2015, that’s about $27,720 for a family of three. According to the Urban Institute Research Center, “Medicaid expansion will reduce state and local costs for hospital care for the uninsured by sharply reducing the number of people without health insurance. In 2008, state and local governments shouldered $10.6 billion, or nearly 20 percent, of the cost of caring for uninsured people in hospitals.”

Urban Institute Researcher John Holahan explained how states benefit from Medicaid expansion. “By shrinking the number of uninsured people and having the federal government pick up the overwhelming bulk of the tab, the Medicaid expansion will ease cost pressures on states stemming from uncompensated hospital care, mental health care, and other health care services,” he wrote in a recent study. “There are a number of states that have state-funded programs that will no longer be necessary, and virtually every state and localities within those states make payments for uncompensated care to support the uninsured. A lot of that can go away and those savings would offset any new state spending on Medicaid.”

Schwartz acknowledges that many low-income people around the state would stand to benefit from Medicaid expansion. However, Christensen, along with Sen. Dan Dockstader, R-Afton, and Rep. Marti Halverson, R-Etna, have voted against it, and the measure has been stalled until the next legislative session in January 2017.

Christensen argues Medicaid is a damaged system. “It’s hard for me to vote to increase something that is broken,” he said. “If we take on Medicaid expansion and the federal government can’t pay their side, education and roads could be cut. By constitution we must maintain a balanced budget. We are looking at cuts in service statewide.”

Christensen added that many doctors have to cap their intake on Medicaid patients due to low reimbursements from the system; private insurance pays doctors more.

But Democratic lawmakers like Schwartz disagree. “Medicaid is not broken,” he said. “It functions.

It does what it is supposed to do, fairly well. Medicaid goes to people who genuinely need it.”

Indeed, Wyoming residents like Osburn have depended on it for the delivery of their newborn children.

“It is a matter of circumstance,” Schwartz continued. “Some people are not able to make enough to afford insurance because everything else costs money too—

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Rising before the sun, Hayse works long hours to meet the needs of the uninsured and those who can’t cover medical costs. “The American insurance system was built after WWII on the basis that everyone would get insurance through their jobs,” he said. “This model no longer works. If we want to have a fair and just society where people can function to their full capacity, we must acknowledge this fact. It hurts people and it hurts society for people to remain unable to obtain the medical care that they need.”

Hayse says there is no excuse for turning down Medicaid. The state’s arguments, he maintains, are feeble. “Their opinions and decisions don’t amount to any rational reason.The state is quite willing to fund highways,” he said. “You have to wonder what goes on in the minds of the people willing to deny medical care to individuals.”

Ligori agrees. “Wyoming Medicaid and lack of funding seems to be the biggest issue and biggest stumbling block for women,” she said.

Enter CLIMB Wyoming, a statewide nonprofit program focused on giving low-income single mothers life skills and job placement to move them out of poverty and reach self-sufficiency. The program serves women from Teton, Sublette and Lincoln counties. Some women commute from Pinedale and Afton to participate.

Many low-income mothers in Wyoming hope to secure better-paying jobs to cover the high cost of daycare. They must make the painstaking choice between full-time work soon after childbirth, or begin the CLIMB program for six to nine months before they can work full-time again.

Tyduce’s father is working to resolve legal matters and unable to help with his son’s care. Osburn is on every waiting list in town for daycare, even though she knows she cannot pay for services, which average around $70 a day. Additionally, her work hours conflict with regular daycare schedules. This is a conundrum for Osburn and other single mothers.

Osburn will return to work before Tyduce turns five weeks old. She hopes to qualify for health coverage following her upcoming job performance review. This is

a sharp contrast to the days of living in her car after she lost her Idaho home. During those times, Osburn says all she and Tyduce’s father had were “the clothes on our backs and what was in the cooler.”

Upon Osburn’s return to the workforce, however, she won’t be able to participate in the CLIMB program, though she has enrolled. Osburn must hold down a fulltime job to maintain residency at the Mission. But fulltime work disqualifies her from the CLIMB program.

For Osburn’s son, Tyduce, the deck is stacked against him. Forty-two percent of children born to low wage parents remain at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder as adults, according to statistics compiled by CLIMB. Tyduce’s mother is among the 62 percent of employed single mothers in Wyoming who work in low-paying jobs with no benefits.

According to the Census Bureau, in 2014 22 percent of all working families were headed by females; 39 percent of low-income working families were single mom households.

Karen*, another valley resident, is a mother of seven who was able to use Medicaid when a terminal illness threatened her life. Like Osburn, she says the key obstacles she faces are housing and finding full-time work with benefits in Teton County.

“When I was pregnant and high risk, Medicaid was a lifeline,” Karen said. She has lived in the shelter, used food stamps, and happens to be a cancer survivor. She also started her own soap business, and graduated from Teton County’s CLIMB program, largely possible because she was self-employed. She hit a point where she wanted benefits, and the costs of her soap business were going up. “I knew I had to change something,” she said.

Karen received Medicaid when she was diagnosed with cancer. “It was such a whirlwind,” she explained.

Echoing Osburn’s sentiments, she said, “I wouldn’t have gotten any coverage without Medicaid. I had to have surgery and radiation. How could I have paid for that?” Karen is currently receiving insurance through the Affordable Care Act. “Single moms often face many barriers, and possess minimal resources that could support them pulling their

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family out of poverty,” said Laura Conrad, CLIMB’s local program director. CLIMB seeks to break the cycle of generational poverty. Karen is one of the women who has benefitted from the program.

Osburn is no stranger to the other obstacles Conrad references either. She has another daughter who lives with relatives outside the state. Until she has her own home and a higher income, she cannot provide for her daughter on her own. Osburn’s efforts to resolve several legal matters have also left her trapped. She has to choose where to spend her hard-earned dollars—on legal fees, on housing, or on her children.

Hayse agrees with the necessity for expansion for many more women like Osburn and Karen. “I’d like to see Medicaid coverage for single and low-income mothers,” he said. “It’s a real travesty. The money is there to provide adequate medical care. The state is forbidding it for no good reason. They have a bad attitude toward low-income people in Wyoming.”

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Osburn looks forward to returning to work. She says she loves the people she works with and enjoys her work environment. She feels far more “at home and peaceful in Jackson” than she felt in her hometown of Blackfoot, Idaho. While she is content with her newfound community and surrogate family at the Mission, she would love to have a home and health insurance. “But it all comes down to money,” she said.

Women striving to increase their wages often find themselves at a standstill, much like the Wyoming legislature’s halt to approve Medicaid expansion. “If you are making just a fraction above what you need, you are disqualified for health care,” Ligori said. “This is frustrating for people who are trying to get their lives in order. I would like to see increased funding for the Wyoming Medicaid program because too many people fall through the cracks.”

Expanding Medicaid in Wyoming could take some weight off many public assistance programs currently aiding women and low-income earners—folks who have nowhere else to turn. Programs like the Department of

of Wyoming hospitals outside of Teton County.

“Hospitals are in jeopardy of closing,” he said. “They have working cash for less than a month, and [the Wyoming] legislature has had to appropriate money for hospitals.”

Wyoming Governor Matt Mead echoed this concern in his 2015 State of the State speech: “The fact is, the Wyoming Hospital Association reports $200 million in uncompensated care. If small hospitals close, our rural towns will suffer tremendous loss and opportunity for the future.”

The situation hits hardest for low-income, uninsured mothers like Osburn and Karen who can’t find a way out of the maze. According to the Wyoming Medicaid Expansion Report issued in 2012, “The uninsured truly in poverty will most likely remain uninsured without the expansion of Medicaid.” If expanded to adults under the 138 percent federal poverty level, it “would permit the working uninsured to access health care coverage.”

Christensen, however, defends fiscal conservatism concerning health coverage. “Due to significant increases in unemployment, there isn’t enough money in Wyoming savings to address some of the medical challenges around the state,” he said.

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“Everyone deserves health care and mental health, especially people who are struggling. It helps the community when everyone is covered,” Karen said. “Medicaid takes care of this. If people are going through a hard time, they are going to be better in the community with access to medical services.”

Schwartz echoed Karen’s sentiment. “If we can provide better access, we will have a healthier population that is more productive in the workforce.

And if they are getting proper health care at the proper time, it will mean less cost for hospitals,” he said.

Medicaid expansion could also serve as preventive care for low-income and uninsured Wyomingites who are uncertain how to approach their health needs when short-term coverage, such as Osburn’s pregnancy Medicaid, runs out. The CHNA states, “The uninsured may defer care because they are worried about payments; these delays in care may lead to more severe chronic conditions.”

For Tyduce and his mom, leaning on the Mission as Osburn works as much as she can, is all they can do right now. “I don’t know what the future holds for us,” Osburn admitted. “It’s hectic trying to jump through one hoop after another and ending up in a rut.”

Nonetheless, Osburn remains optimistic. “It’s a challenge every day, but ultimately we will get through it all. My son gives me hope.” PJH *Name has been changed.

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Family Services/Workforce Services Community Safety Network, Teton County Public Health and Victim Services, Community Resource Center, WIC, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Turning Point.

The Healthy Teton County (HTC) initiative, a partnership between St. John’s Hospital and Teton County Public Health, developed the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) in 2015. The study surveyed 1,200 individuals and more than 40 human services organizations across Teton County.

One of the key issues identified in the report is that “the primary health need of the uninsured population in Teton County is access to health services.”

“Insurance is not accessible in this state unless you have substantial income,” Hayse lamented.

“We will see more of this as the Wyoming economy continues to go downhill. There will be a lot of stress placed on hospitals in the future.”

At St. John’s, the administrative team is committed to aid those who can’t afford to pay their bills. “The largest pool of money goes to help people,” Hayse explained. “We are all in unity as far as our desire to put people first. It’s a community hospital; this has been a longstanding effort. That’s a real credit to the board and the administrator Louis Hochheiser.”

In 2014, the hospital used a portion of the $3.67 million in county property tax revenues it received to provide care for struggling folks in the community.

SJMC also plans to increase routine preventive screenings and boost immunization rates for those over the age of 65.

However, Schwartz is worried about the future

CREATIVE PEAKS Hidden in the Light Teton Artlab artist in residence meets the mountains and skies of his dreams.

BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

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Even when he was a student painting people in pubs, light intrigued him. That continued when he became a professional painter focusing on landscapes.

Light gives drama, but also gives work a spiritual quality, too, Naughton said. People have a sophisticated and strong relationship with light, he hopes his work reveals something of that.

“Because of the way I work I believe that paint has its own way of communicating the nature of light, a bit like a secret language and my job is to try and keep discovering that rather than knowing everything I can within my control,” he said. “It’s an exciting way to work, but can be frustrating too at times.”

He hopes viewers are somehow overwhelmed by his work, that they find something personal and universal in his paintings, while also feeling that sense of mystery and surprise Naughton feels while he paints.

While in Jackson, Naughton wants to explore the area, but also learn from other artists. He hopes to fully experience the place, draw inspiration and create new work. He’ll be in residency at Teton Artlab through April. An open studio has not yet been scheduled, but will likely be held near the end of the month.

This is the second year Artlab hosts a different artist working in Jackson each month. It’s the result of a residency program Walker began cultivating in 2009. Two hundred and fifty artists applied from all over the world this year.

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Artist James Naughton’s interest in Thomas Moran influenced his work and catalyzed his journey to Jackson.

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ore than 140 years ago Thomas Moran joined the Hayden Expedition, one of the first government organized exploration parties of what would become Yellowstone National Park. Moran’s paintings and sketches of the massive waterfalls and spouting geysers influenced Congress to create the world’s first national park.

It also, more than 100 years later, caught the eye of James Naughton, then a student at Leeds University in England.

The work reminded Naughton of the artist J.M.W. Turner, who had influenced Naughton’s paintings. But Moran’s work captured American subjects that appealed to his boyhood dreams of big adventure. He then learned Moran was born in his same hometown of Bolton, England, and his fascination grew.

Naughton’s interest in Moran’s work led him to Jackson, where this month he’ll work as Teton Artlab’s artist in residence, painting some of the same scenes Moran

immortalized decades before.

“We both seem drawn to the drama of light in the landscape and his work gave me a great deal of confidence in using bold colors for the first time when I decided to try and paint professionally,” Naughton explained. “As time went on, the influence of Moran gave way to my desire to create a vision which I felt was more unique to me. So now my work is derived from experiences of the landscape but I am not recording facts in the same way as Moran, so I’d say the way the paint moves plays a bigger part in what I eventually produce.”

Naughton’s work stood out in a competitive applicant pool. The classical styled paintings immediately reminded Travis Walker, executive director of the Teton Artlab, of Moran and Albert Bierstadt.

Naughton’s dramatic sense of lighting also catches a viewer’s eye. “He’s really good at God rays and that kind of aesthetic,” Walker said. “But he does it in a way that isn’t hyper real, but very painterly.” Using a wet brush, Naughton’s careful strokes are discernible in the finished painting.

Naughton wanted to come and learn in the same area Moran painted. The time in Jackson will allow him to explore the area and paint it.

Immersing himself in the landscape and fully experiencing it are important artistic tools for Naughton. He then uses the painting process as a memory trigger for a sense of place.

“So initially, I have no idea what will emerge,” he said.

Lighting is a central and defining part of his work.

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WEDNESDAY APR. 6

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n Kettlebells 8:00am, Teton Recreation Center, n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 218 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free n Cribbage 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n ACT Prep Course 6:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Movie Night: “Chinatown” 6:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium A, Free, 307-733-2164 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Monoprint Class 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $35.00 - $42.00, 307-733-6379 n Intro to Illustrator 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00, 307733-6379 n Gardening with Al Young 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-3545522 n Humanists of Jackson Hole Exploratory Meeting 6:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer Community Room, Free n BOGDOG 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Portrait Drawing, Painting, Mark Making 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00 - $15.00, 307-733-6379 n Strollercize 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 10:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Free Tax Preparation: Drop-Off Service 10:30am, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n ZipLocal Chamber Appreciation Day 2:00pm, Movieworks Cinema 4, Free n Wine Tasting 4:00pm, The Liquor Store & Wine Loft, Free, 307-733-4466 n Che Zuro 4:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Murder Mystery Dinner 5:30pm, Senior Center ofJackson Hole, $30.00 - $40.00, 307-733-7300 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-699-8300 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-7338833 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 307-413-4779 n Lauren Conrad & Pat Chadwick 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Laff Staff Improv Comedy 8:00pm, Center for the Arts, $12.00, 307-733-4900 n Quenby & the West of Wayland Band 9:30pm, Virginian Saloon, 307739-9891

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MUSIC BOX

Grassed Out Locals, Cheap Wax and Country Lauren Conrad and Patrick Chadwick team up, KHOL unloads 25-cent vinyl/CDs, Quenby goes West of Wayland.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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ocal gigging musicians often work multiple jobs and are in more than one project, so when the off-season arrives, it habitually means more time to collaborate, work on new songs, or start the new band that’s been

Lauren Conrad and Patrick Chadwick take over the Silver Dollar Friday and Saturday for a fresh collaboration. a back-burner idea since the snow began to fall. Though Lauren Conrad (of Shark Week) and Patrick Chadwick (of The Flannel Attractions) have been collaborating for a few years now, their weekend lineup of Matt Herron (fiddle) and Tim Farris (mandolin) from One Ton Pig, along with Rob Sidle (bass), is uncharted territory.

“I started singing with Pat when I filled in on some Flannel Attractions shows,” Conrad explained. “He’s got a full voice that is easy to harmonize with, which is really fun.”

A native of Elk Rapids, Michigan, Conrad moved to Jackson 11 years ago. While she always enjoyed singing, she didn’t start vocalizing in public until she was in her 20s. She came out of her shell about four years ago at the Jackson Hole Hootenanny.

“I thought, ‘I know I can learn a song on the guitar and get up there and sing it.’ Once I did that, I couldn’t put the guitar down,” she said. “I started going to Targhee Music Camp every summer and that was very influential on my approach to improvisation and playing leads.”

She founded the bluegrass duo Shark Week with banjoist Jessie Lestitian, and began playing the local gig circuit

utilizing those flatpicking skills she’d studied at Targhee.

Shark Week’s motto is “a couple chicks gettin’ their kicks on bluegrass licks.” The stage experience was a camp in and of itself. “[Playing live] has been huge for me,” said Conrad, who plans to record songs this summer. “Singing into a mic and hearing yourself in monitor is really telling and fun. It’s given me confidence and inspired me to get better and write new songs. I also started to learn mandolin and banjo.”

Chadwick was highlighted in the March 23 edition of this column for the release of his debut EP, Soul of Mine, which encompasses an indie-folk flavor garnished with soul-pop, alt-country and more intricate arrangements than his time with The Flannel Attractions.

The repertoire of this thrown-together quintet will blend original music from Chadwick and Conrad matched with covers ranging from traditional bluegrass to The Band and vintage blues a la Otis Redding.

Lauren Conrad and Patrick Chadwick, 7:30 to 11 p.m.

Friday and Saturday in the Silver Dollar Showroom. Free.

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THURSDAY BOGDOG (Town Square Tavern) FRIDAY Lauren Conrad & Patrick Chadwick Quintet (Silver Dollar), Pam Drews Phillips Trio (The Granary)

Montana country outfit Quenby Iandiorio and West of Wayland Band bring Sugarland sensibilities to the Virg this weekend.

25-cent gems Jackson Hole’s Community Radio station, 89.1 FM, KHOL, will be unloading more than a thousand CDs as well as some vinyl records for just 25 cents this Sunday. The gathering will also feature discounted beer from Roadhouse Brewing and yard games on the back lawn of the Center for the Arts. This is a good chance for new and renewing members that contributed to the last fundraising drive to stop by and grab their membership gifts, too.

KHOL’s Vinyl/CD 25-Cent Sale, 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Center for the Arts lobby/lawn. Free. 891KHOL.org.

Bozeman country Quenby Iandiorio and her West of Wayland Band have been traveling from Bozeman, Mont., to play in Jackson quite regularly over the last few years. She blends Sugarland-style country with classic Waylon and Willie-style country, fueled

by the drive of The Allman Brothers band. Working as a set costumer in L.A. during the late ‘90s, Iandiorio managed to network and sign licensing deals for her music. Those credits include the 2013 film “Doonby,” and the television series “Deep in the Heart.” She released her only album in 2009 called Long Time Comin’.

Quenby & The West of Wayland Band, 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

Friday and Saturday at the Virginian Saloon. Free. 739-9891.

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SATURDAY Lauren Conrad & Patrick Chadwick Quintet (Silver Dollar), Quenby & the West of Wayland Band (Virginian) SUNDAY Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach) TUESDAY One Ton Pig (Silver Dollar)

Aaron Davis is a decade-long writer of Music Box, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

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n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n GTK9 Avalanche Dog Fundraiser 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, 307-353-2300 n Adult Oil Painting 10:00am, The Local Galleria, $25.00, 208-2700883 n Strollercize 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-733-5056 n 16th Annual Cardboard Box Derby 10:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, $10.00, 307353-2300 n Free Tax Preparation: Drop-Off Service 10:30am, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-733-2164 n Raptor Encounters 2:00pm, Teton Raptor Center, $10.00 - $12.00, 307-203-2551 n Che Zuro 4:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-3532300 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307734-1535 n Lauren Conrad & Pat Chadwick 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-7323939 n Laff Staff Improv Comedy 8:00pm, Center for the Arts, $12.00, 307-7334900 n Quenby & the West of Wayland Band 9:30pm, Virginian Saloon, 307)-739-9891

SUNDAY APR. 10

n Spring Cleaning 25 cent CD and Record sale 2:00pm, Center for the Arts Lobby, Free, 307733-4030 n Quickbooks II 4:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $40.00, 307-733-7425 n Taize 6:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-733-2603 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407

MONDAY APR. 11

n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Kindercreations 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $85.00 - $102.00, 307-733-6379 n Little Hands, Little Feet 11:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $85.00 - $102.00, 307-733-6379 n Story Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n Maker Monday’s 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-787-2201

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SATURDAY APR. 9

On the Mend Mentality How to stay calm while rehabbing in a mountain athlete’s mecca.

BY BREE BUCKLEY @BreeBuckley

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he dreaded ACL tear is the bane of athletes everywhere. Becoming a fixture of the sidelines, surrendering the ability to sit cross-legged for tedious therapy, and learning to regain flexion, extension, and explosive movements can blow your upcoming nine months to pieces. It’ll shatter your confidence. It’ll deprive you of your identity. And it’ll leave you twiddling your thumbs in endless boredom.

Jacksonites joke that blowing your knee brings you one step closer to earning the sought after true local status. “There are those in this town who’ve blown their knee, and those who will, so congratulations on joining the clan of those who have,” my surgeon joked as he wheeled me into the operating room. Congratulations? You have got to be kidding me. As if I elected for myself a nine-month recovery and $20,000 surgical bill as a rite of passage. But after scoffing at his attempt to comfort me, I realized he had a point. I was not alone in my recovery and

Top: Post-op and just so pretty. Left: Kate Sullivan knows that no bag of ice is too big for knee rehab lounging. Right: The author gets high without the aid of painkillers. if there is ever a place to gain sympathy or advice after surgery, this is it.

So, town of Jackson, hear me when I say that an injury is more than a dagger through your spirit. It’s a chance to relearn, reevaluate, and revamp your routine. I’ve had two knee surgeries in two years, so what have I learned through my months of hobbling, fear of frozen parking lots, and scar tissue?

Well, you’ll feel pathetic, but it will get better. The first month of recovery is demoralizing; you can’t carry a cup of water by yourself, grocery shopping becomes your nemesis, and for many, driving is out of the question. I moped in my own self-pity until an expecting mother joked that we were in the same boat, except that as she continued to get more pregnant over the next nine months, I would continue to feel better.

This “ah-ha” moment completely shifted my perspective on being a fallen soldier for the winter. She was right: My pain would decrease, I would be able to walk again, and then I’d be able to come back stronger, more motivated, and with a greater body awareness than ever.

I have even expanded my circle of friends. My physical therapist is my new bestie. Three days a week, you will look forward to that person encouraging you that, yes, you really can walk downstairs without gripping onto the banister for dear life, or that pushing through the pain of extending your knee is, in fact, beneficial. They’re legally required to listen to your Oxycontin

induced rants and while your friends spend the day making figure-8s down Cody Peak, your PT is anxiously waiting to welcome you into her office.

This is a good time to focus on the little things you’ve been avoiding. With each surgery, the optimistic angel on my shoulder reminds me that I want to learn a second language and find a way to better the world.

But honestly, when I wasn’t rehabbing or working, I was just flat-out tired. Two surgeries have flown by and I haven’t learned a new sentence in Spanish, revamped my Swahili, or run for president. But what I have done is hammer through the tedious tasks that I avoided when I was able to run through the mountains. If you have health insurance (which I pray that you do), take advantage of your already-met deductible and visit a new doctor every Monday. Dermatologist?

Check. An hour here and there is what you’ll have for extra time, so find small goals to accomplish rather than taking on a new full-time job.

And for my last two cents, I will say that regaining quad strength doesn’t mean your ACL is fully healed; I went a year without knowing I had a torn ACL because my strong legs masked my injury. So remember, patience is a virtue (it is never, ever worth taking a risk or flying out of the gates too early) and fanny packs are always in style.

PJH

WELL, THAT HAPPENED

Fresh Eyes When exploring a foreign land helps you to see your own home in a new light.

BY CADY COX

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Well, This Happened!

ANDREW MUNZ

Cady Cox and Kyle Fleming don traditional Icelandic aprons at the Hildibrand Hotel kitchen in Neskaupstaður, Iceland. the Brew Master at the Roadhouse Brewing Company. After how busy Jackson winters have become, a quiet retreat to an isolated fjord town, plus a chance to explore Iceland, sounded great to us.

The drive through the high white mountain passes from Egilsstadir to Neskaupstadur, on Iceland’s far-east coast, was incredible. We were very lucky to arrive on a clear and sunny day, a fact we came to truly appreciate a couple days later. The fjords are epic, each one rising straight out of the ocean and folding in and out along the sea. The fjord towns are tiny and quaint, and smell like fish and moss.

Neskaupstadur is a small town, balanced along one sleek end of its fjord with massive, sharp mountains rising up behind it. Our arrival at Andy’s hotel was warm and welcoming as we met all his coworkers from all over the world.

We took a walk to the Easter Cave, an overhang of cliffs covered in huge icicles right on the sea.

The waves crashing over the black rocks invigorated all of us and the sunset on our walk back to the hotel was calm and beautiful.

“Welcome to Neskaupstadur! Now get to work,” was one of the many jokes we heard as Andy’s coworkers passed us dirty dishes in the kitchen the next morning. Here, you earn your keep and whether that’s discussing brewery details for hours, doing dishes for the restaurant, or even catering an event for

40 Icelandic government officials, we were happy to take part.

After a long day of work, we headed to the pool. It’s a simple, outdoor public pool sandwiched between the streets of the town with incredible views of the fjord and mountains.

It is full of plump Icelandic children and old Icelandic men, living out their casual lives in this tiny town in the middle of nowhere.

To reiterate, Iceland is undoubtedly a land of extremes. And although the people here live very calm, gentle existences, the power of nature and its unpredictability are never out of their minds. Just yesterday our plans to drive to another town were thwarted by an insane Arctic snowstorm that forced us to return back to our town.

As I sit here overlooking the fjord at sunset I am humbled by all that surrounds me. I am grateful for adventures, and I am grateful for friends that help you push your car out of the snow.

Tonight is our last night in Neskaupstadur, and it’s looking like the storm has relinquished; the clouds have cleared just in time to display the northern lights above us.

If you think you have Jackson figured out, I recommend coming to Iceland—specifically the East Fjords. Robbed of familiarity, your idea of mountain life will be challenged and your sense of adventure, rebooted. PJH

“Welcome to Neskaupstadur!

Now get to work.”

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Iceland is an incredible place, full of extremes and attractive, easy-going people.

Rocky cliffs, grey oceans, snowy peaks, bubbling hot pools, hipster city life—it seemed the perfect escape for my husband Kyle and I this spring break. We were originally invited to come by Mr. Munz himself. The hotel he works for in Neskaupstadur is opening a brewery and they wanted an expert on brewing to come give them some advice, recipes, tips, etc. Andy invited us because Kyle is

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ormally, the ever-talented Andrew Munz writes this column and I’m sure his loyal following and avid Iceland buffs enjoy it immensely. But this week, we thought it’d be fun to mix things up and offer a different perspective.

As Andy and I sit on his couch in Neskaupstadur, recalling our adventures over the last couple days and leafing through my Iceland travel journal, he thought it would be nice to offer a new perspective on the Iceland experience this week. So here it is, a different Jackson Hole local’s take on Iceland and adventures in the Eastern Fjords.

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n Beginning Throwing Hustle 6:00pm, Ceramics Studio, $225.00 - $270.00, 307-733-6379 n Beginning Painting: Acrylic 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00 - $156.00, 307-733-6379

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n Grant Writing Workshop 8:30am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, $20.00, 307-739-1026 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 118 n Toddler Time 11:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Bubble Play 11:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n MELT at Dancers’ Workshop 12:10pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307733-5056 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 1:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Excel Introduction 3:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-733-2164 n Afterschool Monthly Workshops - All Sessions 3:30pm, Borshell Children’s Studio, $180.00 $216.00, 307-733-6379 n Workforce Safety/Violence Training 5:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 307-256-1431 n Meet & Make 5:30pm, Jackson Hole Real Estate Associates, $5.00, 804-380-6728 n Jackson Hole Bird & Nature Club: Owls - A Cultural Narrative 6:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium B, Free, 307-203-2551 n Intro to Illustrator 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00, 307-733-6379 n Drawing 101 6:00pm, Drawing, Painting + Printmaking Studio, $130.00 - $156.00, 307-733-6379 n Language Exchange 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Driggs, Free, 208-354-5522 n Hip Hop at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-7323939

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CINEMA Demolished Expectations ‘Demolition’ self-destructs with disingenuous moments.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

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here comes a moment in some movies—a moment that any real movie-lover hopes never to have—that I will refer to henceforth as The Moment of Nope. It can be large or small, early or late, part of a performance or part of the plot, but it’s hard to miss when it happens. In short, it’s a moment when a story simply loses you, irretrievably, so that you’re never able to reconnect with what’s happening on that screen.

Authenticity vanishes, and all you’re left with as a viewer is a big, “Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. NOPE.” Any one of a dozen individual culprits could be tabbed as “Demolition’s” Moment of Nope; it’s a script so steeped in writerly contrivance that its cumulative emotional honesty could be contained in a tweet. But the most obvious point would be the one that sets the major portion of the plot in motion. It occurs when Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal)—a New York investment banker whose wife has just died in a car accident— responds to his bag of M&Ms getting stuck in a hospital vending machine by writing several letters of complaint to the vending-machine company, and including in those letters the story of his marriage.

Nope. Just a large, economy-size package of nope.

Such moments are, of course, quintessential “your mileage may vary” situations. “Demolition” is, at its core, a tale of unprocessed grief, one that sends Davis on an increasingly erratic course that causes his father-in-law/boss (Chris Cooper) great agitation. Some people out there—screenwriter Bryan Sipe apparently among them—would find it plausible that someone as emotionally stunted as Davis might take to an anonymous missive like this as a way to communicate to someone that he isn’t feeling what a person is supposed to feel when their wife dies.

Jake Gyllenhaal as the bemused character Davis Mitchell in ‘Demolition.’

But the larger problem is that the letters serve mostly as a plot device to connect Davis with Karen Moreno (Naomi Watts), the customer-service representative at the vending machine company. She is touched, “Sleepless in Seattle” style, by the awareness that this wounded guy is out there, and she secretly begins stalking him. This easily could serve as another Moment of Nope, especially since “Demolition” offers next to no information about Karen’s life to explain this behavior— nor her frequent marijuana usage, nor her subsequent insistence that her friendship with Davis must remain chaste—except that she’s raising a troubled teen (Judah Lewis) as a single mother. Hey, sometimes a girl just has to pull on a knit cap and follow a stranger through the streets of Manhattan.

The bottom line is that pretty much nothing any of the characters in “Demolition” do represent actual human behavior in a way that might make the story resonate.

Gyllenhaal’s performance feels lost in all the increasingly ridiculous things Davis does as he wanders through his not-exactly-grieving: He impulsively asks the workers at a construction site to let him help demolish a house they’re working on; he bounces conspicuously around the city to the beat of the music on his headphones; he takes Karen’s son out into the woods and lets the kid shoot at him while he wears a Kevlar vest. “Everything has become a metaphor,” Davis writes at one

TRY THESE Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Tom Hanks Meg Ryan Rated PG-13

Love Liza (2002) Philip Seymour Hoffman Kathy Bates Rated R

point, but it winds up feeling like a screenwriter’s desperate attempt to justify a story that is nothing but metaphor, without a single genuine-seeming emotion amid all the “nope.”

The insufferability meter leaps into the red as “Demolition” heads towards its climax, including director Jean-Marc Vallée’s (“Dallas Buyers Club”) operatic staging of a crisis event that feels exploitative and unearned.

It’s certainly an artistic challenge to try to convey someone not feeling something, but “Demolition" responds to that challenge simply by having its characters do stuff, any stuff— like plowing a backhoe through a living room wall—even if it’s only tenuously connected to the way you’ve ever seen any person you’ve ever known react to anything. The roles are showy, so actors love to play them. The audience, meanwhile, is stuck waiting around for the inevitable epiphanies, or whatever will happen that might get Davis finally to feel. Nearly two hours is a long time to wait for some hope, especially after a narrative so full of nope.

DEMOLITION B.5 Jake Gyllenhaal Naomi Watts Chris Cooper Rated R

Moonlight Mile (2002) Jake Gyllenhaal Dustin Hoffman Rated PG-13

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Matthew McConaughey Jared Leto Rated R

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n Cinda Williams Chima: Flamecaster Fri The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, Free n Cowgirls Fri, Sat, Sat Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $40.00 - $62.00 n Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Fri, Sat, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 7:30pm, $17.00 - $23.00 n Kingdom of Heaven Fri, Sat, Sat, Sun Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $20.00 n Kwame Alexander: Booked Fri Viridian Center, 8030 South 1825 West, West Jordan, 7:00pm, Free n MARCUS Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 9:30pm, $15.00 n Paul Crow: Here Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n Seussical The Musical Fri, Sat Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 7:30pm, $10.00 n Stupid Fing Bird Fri, Sat, Sun, Sun Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $15.00 - $42.00 n Downtown Winter Market Sat Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City, 10:00am n Mae Daye’s School for Girls Sat Club Jam, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm, $5.00 - $50.00

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n Ballet West: Beauty and The Beast Fri, Sat, Sat Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, 7:00pm n The Nijinsky Revolution Fri - Sat Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $19.00 - $87.00 n Paul Crow: Here Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n Peter and the Starcatcher Fri, Sat, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 7:30pm, $30.00, 801-984-9000

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n Live Critter Feeding Fri Utah State University, 1400 Old Main Hill, Logan, 4:00pm n Local Music Set Fri - Sat A Bar Named Sue, 3928 E Highland Dr, Salt Lake City, 10:00pm n Minecraft Mania Fri South Jordan Library, 10673 S Redwood Rd, South Jordan, 6:30pm n Music & Movement Fri West Valley City Library, 2880 W 3650 S, West Valley City, 10:15am n Napalm Death / Melvins + Melt Banana Fri The Urban Lounge, 241 S 500 E, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $23.00 - $25.00 n The Night Spin Collective Fri Area 51, 451 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $5.00 - $7.00 n No Girls Allowed Fri Whitmore Library, 2197 E Fort Union Blvd, Salt Lake City, 4:30pm n Odysseo by Cavalia Fri - Sun South Town Mall, 10450 S. State St., Sandy, $40.00 - $110.00, 801-990-1158 n ONE80 GAY FRIDAY’S Fri ONE80, 180 W. 400 S., Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $7.00 $15.00, 801-688-8401 n Open Lab Fri Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 12:00pm n OUT LOUD opening reception and panel Fri Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, 6:30pm, Free n Painting What Matters Most Fri Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave, Park City, 3:30pm n Park City Follies Fri - Sun Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St, Park City n Paul Crow: Here Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n Peery’s Egyptian Theater presents “Rumba Libre Fri Peerys Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, 7:30pm, $13.50 - $15.00 n Peter and the Starcatcher Fri, Sat, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 7:30pm, $30.00, 801-984-9000 n Peter Pan at Main Performance Hall Fri - Sat Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, 7:00pm n The Pillowman Fri - Sat Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S 900 W, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $15.00 n Remember Mom Fri - Sat Columbus Library, 2530 S 500 E, South Salt Lake, 10:00am n Remington & Weasel Fri, Sat, Sun Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $20.00 n Retro Lounge Club Night Fri - Sat Maxwell’s, 357 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, 10:00pm n Siobhan Vivian | The Last Boy and Girl in the World Fri The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, Free n St. John’s Annual Art Gala 2016 Fri Publik Coffee Roasters, 975 West Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm n Star Trek - The Ultimate Voyage Fri Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Cir, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm

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n Bradley Hales Clark Plein-Air Landscapes Fri Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 9:00am n Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950 Fri - Sat Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo n Brewskis Fri - Sat Brewskis, 244 Historic 25th Street, Ogden, 10:00pm n Brian Posehn Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat Wiseguys Downtown, 194 South 400 W., Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $20.00 n BYU Athletics: Baseball vs. Gonzaga Fri, Sat Miller Park, 1 University Hill, Provo, 6:00pm n Connie Borup/Don Athay Fri - Sat Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Cuentos Fri Provo Library, 550 N University Ave., Provo, 10:30am n David Maestas: Peaceful Chaos Fri - Sat UTah Artist Hands, 163 E. Broadway, Salt Lake City, Free, 801-355-0206 n Dueling Pianos Fri - Sat The Tavernacle, 201 E 300 S, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm n The Foreigner at Brinton Black Box Fri Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, 7:30pm n Fred Hersch Fri Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 7:30pm n Free Live Animal Show - Adaptations Fri Bean Life Science Museum, , East Phillips Lane, Provo, 7:30pm n Geckos Live!

Fri - Sun Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, $9.00 - $12.00 n Growing West: Exploring Art & Agriculture Fri - Sat Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, 650 North 1100 East, Logan, 10:00am, Free n Here, There and Everywhere: Places and Spaces Fri - Sun Springville Museum of Art, 126 E 400 S, Springville, Free n History of Photography: Recent Work by Laurel Caryn Fri Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, Free, 801-245-7272 n Ian Booth: Kazakhstan: Tselina/Building the Virgin Lands Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n I’m a Barbie Girl in a Barbie World: Dolls from the Collection of Betsy Contreras Fri - Sat Day-Riverside Branch, 1575 W 1000 N, Salt Lake City, Free n Ivanhoe Knight Fever Fri, Sat, Sat The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $16.00 n Jay Whittaker Fri - Sat Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 8:00pm, $12.00 n Kehinde Wiley: Smile Fri - Sat Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, Free n Kvelertak, Torche, Wild Throne - In The Venue 21+ Fri In the Venue, 219 S 600 W, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm n Laughing Stock Improv Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, 10:00pm, $8.00 - $16.00 n Levi Jackson: Middle | Nowhere Fri - Sun Springville Museum of Art, 126 E 400 S, Springville, Free

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Chalk, Rocks and Roederer The soil and sizzle of Roederer Champagne.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

L

ouis Roederer has long been among my very favorite Champagne houses.

So, when presented with an opportunity to enjoy a personal tasting and tour of Roederer’s Champagnes and caves during a recent visit to France, I jumped at the chance.

Tour any Champagne house in France and you’re going to learn a lot about chalk.

Nothing is more important to producing great Champagne than chalk. That might seem surprising, since chalky wine doesn’t seem to fit Champagne’s elegant image. But it’s actually chalk that is largely responsible for producing such elegance.

The Champagne region is a challenging

one for wine growers. Given its austere conditions, no one in their right mind would attempt to grow wine grape in Champagne today, had it not already been done for hundreds of years. The soil is lime-rich chalk, and the Champagne region is a cold, northern climate—not exactly Napa.

However, that cold, wet climate and chalky soil means that grape vines have to work extra hard to survive and grow deep to reach the water that seeps into the white, chalky soil. That soil retains water quite well, and the whiteness of the chalk absorbs and reflects sunlight, which helps the vines.

During periods of too much rain, the chalk allows for good drainage. So, against all odds, the three varietals used in Champagne— Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier— manage to thrive in Champagne’s hostile environment.

Louis Roederer Champagne is a unique house insofar as it is one of the few that are still family operated. Dating back to 1833 when the original Louis Roederer was at the helm, Roederer is now managed by Frédéric Rouzaud, who represents the seventh generation of the Roederer family lineage.

Roederer is also distinctive in that it owns 240 hectares of vineyards, which satisfies about 70 percent of its grape needs. By contrast, most Champagne houses own little land of their own, and purchase grapes from various growers. In addition, more than 30

IMBIBE percent of Roederer’s vineyards are now managed biodynamically, a rarity in Champagne to say the least.

With the exception of its Brut Premier NV and Carte Blanche, all Roederer Champagnes are single vintages. This, too, is somewhat rare. When wine writers and Champagne enthusiasts talk about a Champagne house’s “style,” they are speaking about non-vintage Champagnes. This is because whether you’re drinking Möet & Chandon Imperial Brut, Louis Roederer Brut Premier, Veuve Clicquot Brut or any other nonvintage Champagne, it is these non-vintage wines that define the house style. Since non-vintage Champagne is produced on a yearly basis (as opposed to vintage years, which are sporadic), it’s important that the style—flavor, texture, aromas, color, etc.—be consistent from one year to the next.

Vintage Champagnes can vary tremendously from one vintage to the next, but non-vintage Champagnes must represent a distinguishable house style, year in and year out.

Roederer Brut Premier

($59) is beautifully balanced and seductive, a rich and complex non-vintage wine that serves well as an apéritif and would also pair with light fish or poultry dishes. Roederer Blanc De Blancs 2008 ($90) is made solely from Chardonnay from grand cru vineyards. It’s slightly sweet, but with distinct chalky minerality of the Côte des Blancs region. Hazelnuts, almonds and white peach notes lend to this wonderful wine’s finesse.

I’ve probably drank more Roederer Vintage Rosé Champagne ($80) than any other. I simply love it. Vinified on oak, the wine is a wild ride of red berries, floral aromas, cocoa, brioche and underlying minerality from the 35 percent Chardonnay grapes used.

And, what can I say about Roederer’s gastronomic prestige cuvee, Cristal 2006 ($230), except that I doubt I’ll get to enjoy it again until my next visit to Louis Roederer! PJH

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KIM’S CORNER Best ski food in the area! Korean and American style, from breakfast sandwiches, burgers, chicken tenders, Philly cheese steaks to rice bowls and noodles. Something for everyone!

Open Tuesday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. At base of Snow King between the ski patrol room and the ice rink. 100 E. Snow King Ave. Order ahead (307) 200-6544, facebook. com/Kimscornercafe.

THAI ME UP Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm.

Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. 307-733-0005.

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Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am.

Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm.

Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

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Trio is located just off the town square in downtown Jackson, and is owned & operated by local chefs with a passion for good food.

Our menu features contemporary American dishes inspired by classic bistro cuisine. Daily specials feature wild game, fish and meats.

Enjoy a glass of wine at the bar in front of the wood-burning oven and watch the chefs perform in the open kitchen.

Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square.

Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, drinks or dinner.

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THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite for 38 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb.

Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30-6:00pm. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Closed Tuesdays through the off season. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.

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Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., dinner nightly at 5 p.m., and happy hour daily 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh.com.

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A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Eleanor’s is a primo brunch spot on Sunday afternoons. Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings.

Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

FULL STEAM SUBS The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

LOCAL Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square.

Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am.

Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY

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LOTUS CAFE Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and glutenfree choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner. 145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

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SWEETWATER Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner for over 36 years with deliciously affordable comfort food.

Extensive local and regional beer list. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. features blackened trout salad, elk melt, wild west chili and vegetarian specialties. Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. including potato-crusted trout, 16 ounce ribeye, vegan and wild game. Reservations welcome. (307) 7333553. sweetwaterjackson.com.

TRIO Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations.

(307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Handtossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

PINKY G’S The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.- Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts.

Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

PIZZERIA CALDERA Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

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84 Cedar Rapids campus 85 Marsh duck 86 Hindu deity 87 Salentina Peninsula country 88 Bowl over 89 Judge’s decree 93 Three-syllable foot 95 FDR successor 96 Erode 97 “Kung Fu” actor Philip 99 Gets one’s feet wet 100 Bombards with e-junk 102 Yucatán native 104 Billion-year span 105 Takes in, say 107 Weapon in a scabbard 110 Nutmeg State team 114 Kingdom 115 It has a November kickoff 118 Kunta __ of “Roots” 119 Ritzy retreat 120 “Oy vey!”

121 Figure of interest?

122 Blue 123 Great __ Mountains 124 Orgs. that donate to runners 125 Do some cleaning

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82 Harper’s Weekly caricaturist 83 Bawling, for crying out loud: Abbr.

88 Don Quixote, for one 90 “Gosh!”

91 Brand with a paw print in its logo 92 “The rumor is ... ” 94 Got up 98 “Very funny!”

101 Hit with hail, say 103 Museum pieces 104 Twisty turns ... and the “quad” in each of this puzzle’s eight longest answers 105 Torah holders 106 Luke’s twin 107 Thin strip of wood 108 Woody’s son 109 Take for a ride 111 “Semper Fi” org.

112 Biblical name meaning “hairy” 113 They’re often pickled 115 Walgreens rival 116 Hiking guide 117 Ping-Pong need

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10 Clumsy type 20 Electrical system 30 New York MTA-owned commuter line 40 Patsy 50 Treasure map units 60 “__ Enchanted”: 2004 film 70 Aunt in P.G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves” stories 80 Prof’s aides 90 Ristorante rice dish 10 Play times?

11 Trim 12 Peridot and garnet 13 Claim subject to debate 14 “Aha!”

15 Relative of -let 16 Pond hopper 20 Instagram fodder 21 Wells Fargo product 23 Pain usually pluralized 24 UV-blocker rating syst.

28 Gospel singer Winans 31 Takes out 32 St. Clare’s town 33 Tiny biting fly 34 Like most people 35 Great Sioux War of 1876 event 36 Sponge made from a vine fruit 38 Regarding 39 Highway noise barrier 40 Score after deuce 42 Vacancy sign 43 Pizzeria chain, familiarly 45 Brit. military award 47 Loop on the range 48 Get-together 51 What a Sphynx cat lacks 55 “Don’t look at me!”

56 53-Across locale, to natives 57 Cardinal cap letters 60 Flea market deal 63 Reporter’s source 65 Bio info 67 Borden spokescow 68 Tour de France downtime 70 __ directed 71 Lousy sausages?

72 “Ditto” 74 Altar up above 75 87-Across fashion center 77 Stir 78 Places for cots 79 Sign of a recent bite 81 Hacker’s cry

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10 Check some figures?

50 Mulching material 90 Hot spot 14 It leaves trails 17 Song often sung in Italian 18 Tiny tank plant 19 Brain freeze-causing drinks 20 Photo subject for NASA’s New Horizons 22 “Forever” purchase 25 Broad-leaved ornamental 26 Desert climate feature 27 Blog updates 28 Like easier-to-swallow pills 29 “__ Miniver” 30 Strain to lift 32 Humana rival 33 Chinese gambling mecca 36 Sloppy, as security 37 Sauce with a kick 41 “The Simpsons” disco guy 44 “Suits me fine!”

46 Government meeting for delicate subjects 49 Storage medium 50 Bulgarian capital 52 Enterprise counselor 53 Capital with a Viking Ship Museum 54 Prohibition era gun 55 Simple to use, in adspeak 58 Reminders on cards 59 “Feliz año nuevo” time 61 “You __ right!”

62 Champion 64 Like Gen. Powell 66 More painful 69 __ year 70 WWII Navy vessel named for the 29th state 73 Ocular sign of mischief 76 On the ball 79 Puerto Rico, por ejemplo 80 Corporate uncertainty

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Past Life Recall Children are uniquely able to tap into past life experiences.

T

hink about the following actual real life situations: Your three-year-old is sitting on your lap and says to you, “You know, I had another mother right before you.” How might you understand this statement, and how might you respond?

Your four-year-old son is obsessed with drawing WWII bombers and can name them. You Google the names and discover they are correct. How does he know this, and how might you respond?

A friend gifts you with a coffee table book about the Titanic and your five-year-old opens to a page of photos of the ship’s staterooms exclaiming, “That was my cabin!” Your response is…?

The examples above are real. They are from the children of clients and friends. The childrens’ comments imply that the kids are spontaneously bringing in memories from past lives. Over my many years exploring the probability of reincarnation, I have discovered a striking correlation between past life events and current life fears, skills, talents and even physical similarities.

Later in this article I will suggest some helpful ways to respond if your child—as in the examples above—demonstrates a talent, a phobia, knowledge/information they are too young to have learned in this life.

Thousands of verified cases There are thousands upon thousands of carefully researched, documented and thoroughly verified cases of children between the ages of two and seven years old who experience spontaneous, past life recall and can recognize people, places, names and events from a previous incarnation.

Why so young?

The turn-around from a previous life can take as little as a year or as long as centuries, depending on the timing and other requirements of the soul. The consciousness of very young children between two and four years old has not yet “locked into” the time/space of their here-and-now current life. Therefore youngest children move fluidly between perceptions in non-linear time where past life memories reside, and being able to anchor/orient fully into where they are right now.

There are always exceptions, but by the time children enter school they are usually sufficiently socialized, so the awareness of other lives and other dimensions of reality fades. This is often “helped” along when adults assume their young children simply have active imaginations, and the adults dismiss or discourage things that don’t make sense.

Scientific research Ian Stevenson, MD, is one of a number of highly credentialed contemporary researchers who have published many books and scientific papers on past life recall in children. Stevenson was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School for 40 years, and became internationally recognized for his research into reincarnation by discovering evidence suggesting that memories, talents and physical injuries can be transferred from one lifetime to another.

One example of a documented case At three years old, a boy in Thailand was talking about a recent past life with great feeling and intensity. The child was claiming he was a teacher; he was often speaking of his previous wife and twin babies, naming the village where he used to live, and letting his current family know that in his last life he was shot in the head and killed riding his bike to his teaching job.

To test the veracity of all this, the research team took the little boy to that nearby village and to the child’s former house. The three-year-old greeted by name his now-elderly parents from his recent past life. He also named his now-adult twin daughters, along with other startling, accurate details. The final revelation in his case was that researchers found two birthmarks on this little boy’s head corresponding precisely to the location of the entry and exit points where he was shot to death in his previous life.

Helpful ways to respond to your child • • • •

Suspend judgment and assume your child is telling the truth.

Lovingly encourage them to tell you more about what happened.

Confirm that what they are describing is real, and it is not happening now. Explain that it was a different life, and you believe them.

Feeling safe, being believed and encouraged to talk about what the child recalls (especially if it includes a traumatic event) is cathartic for the child and will usually release anything from the past life, which might have otherwise limited the child in this life. Even documented medical healings have occurred as the result of clearing a child’s past life trauma.

A gift within Your children will be so blessed and ahead of the game in life if you are able to validate the knowledge in their souls. The wisdom in the soul is intact in all of us right from the get-go, even if we cannot access it. If you need more information and support working with your children, look online for credible professionals in the fields of past life recall, near death experiences, out of body awareness, and psychic gifts. Or ask me, and I can recommend both books and people who are competent resources. PJH

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ast week’s Jackson Hole News and Guide carried an advertisement by the Wyoming Wildlife Alliance. The ad quoted a report by a federal bear expert predicting a $10 million annual loss to the area’s economy if roadside bears become less visible.

This seemed an interesting claim. First of all, what exactly is a federal bear expert?

Is a federal bear expert any more expert than a non-federal bear expert? How exactly does a roadside bear become less visible unless it leaves the roadside, in which case it is no longer a roadside bear? What does “become less visible” mean anyway—a 60 percent chance of seeing a bear instead of a 70 percent chance?

And most important of all, are federal bear experts knowable about the branch of macroeconomic theory relating to roadside bear visibility? (The economic effect of roadside bear visibility was examined by John Maynard Keynes who, in a 1935 paper, stated aggregate bear visibility determined the overall level of economic activity, and that inadequate aggregate bear visibility could lead to prolonged periods of high unemployment.)

I was curious about the methodology used to arrive at the $10 million figure, so per my request, the Wyoming Wildlife Alliance kindly sent me a copy of the report.

Wow! Doctorate level calculations based on estimates, subjective guesses and theoretical surmise intermixed with prose so dry it makes the Sahara seem like a swamp.

Economists would love it! The study stated the $10 million tourism loss would be “without the potential” of seeing roadside bears.

“Without the potential” is in no way the same as “become less visible.”

Plainly, liberal- and conservative-based political organizations love to twist facts.

The outcry on Obama’s war on coal led by Leland Christensen and Liz Cheney, among others, provides a similar example. Is there a war on coal? Perhaps. Chesapeake Energy, one of the biggest natural gas drilling companies in the U.S., financed the American Clean Skies Foundation and donated millions to the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign.

Unfortunately for Wyoming coal, new drilling techniques have made natural gas plentiful. It is cheaper and cleaner than coal.

It is easily transported. Gas power plants turn off and on quicker than coal-fired ones, making them more compatible with the hitand-miss power generated by renewables like solar and wind. The boom in natural gas production is the real culprit behind the war on coal. Christensen and Cheney know that but raging against the liberal in the White House has a better polling effect than blaming the economic advantages of natural gas, or focusing on new options for Wyoming’s economic growth. Our state may get left behind like a whalebone corset in the casual, active wear Patagonia section of Skinny Skis; but at least our politicians can point fingers and blame!

As a columnist, I am expected to be creative with the truth and not allow outdated Victorian values about integrity interfere with a good story. Maybe I should enter the liberal nonprofit world or run in the GOP primary. PJH

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is regarded as one of the greats, in the same league as Picasso and Kandinsky. Even in his eighties, he was still creating marvels that one critic said seemed “to come from the springtime of the world.” As unique as his work was, he was happy to acknowledge the fact that he thrived on the influence of other artists. And yet he also treasured the primal power of his innocence. He trusted his childlike wonder. “You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté,” he said. “It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”

These are good, sweet thoughts for you to keep in mind right now, Aries.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus-born Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was among history’s greatest logicians. His mastery of rational thought enabled him to exert a major influence on scientific thinking in the 20th century. Yet he also had an irrational fear of being poisoned, which made him avoid food unless his wife cooked it. One of the morals of his story is that reason and delusion may get all mixed up in the same location. Sound analysis and crazy superstition can get so tangled they’re hard to unravel. The coming week will be an excellent time to meditate on how this phenomenon might be at work in you. You now have an extraordinary power to figure out which is which, and then take steps to banish the crazy, superstitious, fearful stuff.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) For a time, pioneer physicist Albert Einstein served as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. On one occasion, a student complained to him, “The questions on this year’s exam are the same as last year’s.”

Einstein agreed that they were, then added, “but this year all the answers are different.” I’m seeing a similar situation in your life, Gemini. For you, too, the questions on this year’s final exam are virtually identical to last year’s final exam—and yet every one of the answers has changed.

Enjoy the riddle.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your personal oracle for the coming weeks is a fable from 2,600 years ago. It was originally written by the Greek storyteller Aesop, and later translated by Joseph Jacobs.

As the tale begins, a dog has discovered a hunk of raw meat lying on the ground. He’s clenching his treasure in his mouth as he scurries home to enjoy it in peace. On the way, he trots along a wooden plank that crosses a rapidly-flowing stream. Gazing down, he sees his reflection in the water below. What? He imagines it’s another dog with another slab of meat. He tries to snatch away this bonus treat, but in doing so, drops his own meat. It falls into the stream and is whisked away. The moral of the fable: “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In his poem “The Snowmass Cycle,” Stephen Dunn declares that everyone “should experience the double fire, of what he wants and shouldn’t have.” I foresee a rich opportunity coming up for you to do just that, Scorpio.

And yes, I do regard it as rich, even marvelous, despite the fact that it may initially evoke some intense poignance. Be glad for this crisp revelation about a strong longing whose fulfillment would be no damned good for you!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “When I look at my life I realize that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgment but failures of feeling.” Writer Jeanette Winterson said that, and I’m passing it on to you at the exact moment you need to hear it. Right now, you are brave enough and strong enough to deal with the possibility that maybe you’re not doing all you can to cultivate maximum emotional intelligence. You are primed to take action and make big changes if you discover that you’re not feeling as much as you can about the important things in your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Psychotherapist Jennifer Welwood says that sadness is often at the root of anger. Feelings of loss and disappointment and heartache are the more primary emotions, and rage is a reflexive response to them. But sadness often makes us feel vulnerable, while rage gives us at least the illusion of being strong, and so most of us prefer the latter. But Welwood suggests that tuning in to the sadness almost always leads to a more expansive understanding of your predicament; and it often provides the opportunity for a more profound self-transformation. I invite you to apply these meditations to your own life, Capricorn.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “The causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky said that in his novel The Idiot, and now I’m passing it on to you just in the nick of time. In the coming weeks, it’s especially important for you to not oversimplify your assessments of what motivates people—both those you respect and those you don’t fully trust. For your own sake, you can’t afford to naively assume either the best or the worst about anyone.

If you hope to further your own agendas, your nuanced empathy must be turned up all the way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Believing love is work is certainly better than believing it’s effortless, ceaseless bliss,” says author Eric LeMay. That’s advice I hope you’ll keep close at hand in the coming weeks, Pisces. The time will be right for you to exert tremendous effort in behalf of everything you love dearly—to sweat and struggle and strain as you create higher, deeper versions of your most essential relationships. Please remember this, though: The hard labor you engage in should be fueled by your ingenuity and your creative imagination. Play and experiment and enjoy yourself as you sweat and struggle and strain!

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “If literally every action a human can perform was an Olympic sport,” Reddit.com asked its users, “which events would you win medals in?” A man named Hajimotto said his champion-level skill was daydreaming. “I can zone out and fantasize for hours at a time,” he testified. “This is helpful when I am waiting in line.” You Virgos are not typically Olympic-class daydreamers, but I encourage you to increase your skills in the coming weeks. It’ll be a

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In his book Strange Medicine, Nathan Belofsky tells us about unusual healing practices of the past. In ancient Egypt, for example, the solution for a toothache was to have a dead mouse shoved down one’s throat. If someone had cataracts, the physician might dribble hot broken glass into their eyes. I think these strategies qualify as being antidotes that were worse than the conditions they were supposed to treat. I caution you against getting sucked into “cures” like those in the coming days. The near future will be a favorable time for you to seek healing, but you must be very discerning as you evaluate the healing agents.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “I never get lost because I don’t know where I am going,” said the Japanese poet known as Ikkyū. I stop short of endorsing this perspective for full-time, long-term use, but I think it suits you fine for right now. According to my astrological projections, you can gather the exact lessons you need simply by wandering around playfully, driven by cheerful curiosity about the sparkly sights—and not too concerned with what they mean. P.S. Don’t worry if the map you’re consulting doesn’t seem to match the territory you’re exploring.

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