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VOLUME 15 | ISSUE 4 | FEBRUARY 1-7, 2017

12 COVER STORY MOMENTS VS. MOVEMENTS What a new crop of valley activists can learn from people in the trenches.

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4 EDITOR’S NOTE

20 MUSIC BOX

6 DEMOCRACY

IN CRISIS

22 CREATIVE PEAKS

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8 THE BUZZ

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Clarifitcation: The Laramie Ivinson Mansion, mentioned in the January 3 cover story, “Melting Pot of the West,” was not paid for by sugarcane wealth. It was paid for from the proceeds of Edward Ivinson’s five-decade long banking career.

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There is not much difference in the average temperatures between the last week of January and the first week of February.

Average low temperatures are still in the single digits this week. The record low temperatures in town are also reminiscent of January record lows. The coldest temperature ever recorded during this first week of February was 44-degrees below zero. That happened on February 1st, 1956.

Hot is always a relative term, and in early February the hottest we have ever experienced in Jackson is an afternoon high temperature of 54-degrees. That happened back on February 4th, 1963. Two years ago, on February 7th, 2015 the afternoon high temperature hit 52-degrees, which was another hot start to a February. Curiously, I don’t think the rodents are tuned into the heat as much as they are the cloud cover. Which also makes no sense.

NORMAL HIGH 29 NORMAL LOW 5 RECORD HIGH IN 1963 54 RECORD LOW IN 1956 -44

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A favorite celebration for any weatherperson is, of course, Groundhog’s Day. Thursday, February 2nd is the day that rodents around the country will peek outside to have a look at their shadow, or not. Legend has it, if they see their shadow, we get six more weeks of winter, if not, then spring will arrive early.

Makes little sense, but the real reason we celebrate February 2nd is that it marks the halfway point of the winter season. According to the calendar, we still have six more weeks of the winter season to go.

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EDITOR’S NOTE Foreign Compassion

BY ROBYN VINCENT @NomadicHeart

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hen he was 10 years old, my father emigrated to the U.S. with his family from Tel Kaif, Iraq—among the seven countries included in President Trump’s immigration ban enacted Friday that halted this country’s refugee program and resulted in the detainment of green card holders in airports across the nation.

I watched with horror from my computer screen as chaos unfolded on Saturday thanks to this “shock event”— defined by Boston College history professor Heather Richardson as an event designed specifically to divide people, those who might otherwise band together in the future to resist an even less palatable circumstance coming down the pipeline.

One of the pawns in Trump’s and Stephen Bannon’s game was an Iraqi interpreter—among more than 100 other people—who had worked for the US military for 10 years in war torn Iraq.

Though he possessed a special immigrant visa, Hameed Khalid Darweesh was met with handcuffs when he arrived to JFK airport Friday night.

After reading this news, I slammed my laptop shut and called my father.

“Tell me what it was like to come to this country as an immigrant.” The words shocked me as they came out of

my mouth. I realized that, in all these years I had never asked my father such an important question about his life.

Indeed, growing up, I didn’t have many serious discussions with my dad concerning his childhood in Iraq. I think that’s because he always thought himself as American first, Iraqi second.

“Being an immigrant, you soon realize that you are being embraced by a country that will ultimately be your salvation, so you embrace the country right back,” he told me. “Most every member of my family felt like they were true Americans.

“And suddenly, we had these luxuries—running water, electricity, heat.”

But while his life may have been more comfortable, warmer, my dad didn’t speak the language, which meant that at his new American school he was sent back to the third grade. (He was supposed to be in sixth grade.) For him, this was a particular hardship.

“In the village [of Tel Kaif] I was considered smart and I did plenty of extracurricular activities,” my father told me.

“But when I came here, it was like I couldn’t speak; I couldn’t communicate with anyone.”

To learn English, he said other students who took pity on my father offered him lessons; he had no formal instruction. In the meantime, he latched onto numbers. “Math is a universal thing, so I focused on that and tried to compete with other students,” my dad explained.

Teachers took note. In three months, school administrators moved him to the sixth grade, but that feeling of wanting to belong, to compete among his

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peers and feel like an equal never left my father.

At 13, while going to school, my dad began working at a grocery store to help support his family. “We all worked, everyone in my family, all of the kids,” he told me. His father, a teacher in Iraq, also found himself working at a grocery store in the US. My dad juggled full-time work throughout his college career while he double majored in economics and accounting, and he continued to work during his first year in law school. This worried his instructors who warned him that he was reading at a 10th grade level.

So he buried himself deeper in his books.

In 1967, my father graduated in the top 10 percent of his class and soon started his own law firm, specializing in medical malpractice and personal injury.

Years later, married to my mother and with three children, one evening my father sat warily in front of a television screen watching flashes of light illuminate a black sky. The United States had invaded Iraq and my father, from his American television, was watching his old country being bombed in the night by the country he loved. He decided he had to do something.

In the middle of a 45-year civil litigation career (he is still practicing today at 75), my father launched the nonprofit, Victims of War (VOW). He abandoned his practice for three years to gather and deliver aid to people suffering in Iraq, where the American government had imposed sanctions on the country that prevented civilians from receiving medicine and food during a time of war.

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Last week, days after the snow fell, strong northerly winds transported the light density snow. These winds stiffened the snow forming wind slabs on a variety of aspects. The light density snow and slabs covered many snow surfaces like crusts, faceted snow, and loose snow.

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clears skies formed new snow surfaces like sun crusts and surface hoar. Now all this spatial variability will be buried as our snow depths grow.

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He rallied the southeastern Michigan Arab community around the cause and lobbied state and federal lawmakers.

He traveled to countries like South Africa and Jordan where he negotiated cheap medicines that he could import to Iraq. Every time he returned there, he said the people thanked him profusely.

“Iraqi people loved Americans,” my dad remembered. “You didn’t hear one negative thing.”

Today, he attributes his lifelong work as a counselor and advocate, that has included pro bono work for people ranging from single mothers to my friends, to the experience of being an immigrant in America.

“I use my law practice to help people … when the need arose, I [started VOW] and helped the community as a leader and felt lucky to go back to Iraq and do whatever I could to help people there, too.”

“When you’re an immigrant in America,” my father continued, “it changes you forever. Compassion is one of the things that grabs you and never lets go.”

So Mr. President, in a time when you discount or dehumanize that which doesn’t agree with your narrative—the paper of record, The New York Times, is “fake news”; Sen. Chuck Schumer cried “fake tears” Monday night as he spoke about your immigration ban outside the Supreme Court to protesters—I suspect my father’s America might seem fake to you too. Yet there is no more an authentic American experience than that of an immigrant who embraces his home and enriches his community, but never forgets where he came from. PJH

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK Dispatch From Chios LUDEK STAVINOHA

When the darkest times bring people to the light.

BY NATOSHA HODUSKI @Nattie_11

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The soggy ‘homes’ at Souda refugee camp.

while Adeen vomited, trying to get him to drink capfuls of water. He sought translators to help explain why Adeen wasn’t healing. He pressured doctors and brought Thomas and me to the hospital, so that we could show Adeen he wasn’t alone.

I remember sitting beside that Moroccan boy petting his hair while he slept because he was too weak to stay awake. Diyaa’s hurried, broken English became comforting background noise as he confronted the doctors again and again. He would fight for this complete stranger until the end.

After eight days, Adeen could muster eating a croissant without vomiting.

Within the hour he was released from the hospital.

Since Adeen was far too weak to live in the frigid camp, Diyaa took him to the Chiostown jail, where he stayed with him overnight. “At least here it is warm and Adeen has a bed,” Diyaa explained to us later that day.

There was a time I wanted to ask Diyaa why he had done it. Why he had helped the Moroccan boy. Why he had practically adopted Riad and fought so damn hard for him when it seemed impossible. Why he sought out people in need and tried to make sure they were fed and clothed. Why he sacrificed so much for those he hardly knew, who could offer him nothing.

But if I have learned anything on the shores of Chios, it is that compassion is not a departure from human nature. It should never be seen as colossal.

What Chios has taught me is that compassion, empathy, and sacrifice— they are the standard. Anything less than that is a betrayal of our humanity.

It is a betrayal of our truest selves. So at the end of my time in Chios, I would like to thank those who are humane. Those who choose not to betray their truest selves, even when there is nothing to gain, even when it hurts. PJH SEND COMMENTS TO EDITOR@PLANETJH.COM

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come back tomorrow.”

Ensuring Riad did not die became Diyaa’s purpose. That he got his asylum acceptance. That he could eventually make it to Germany where Riad’s wife and two daughters still wait for him. After weeks, we were finally able to help them find a pro bono lawyer who was able to speed along Riad’s departure. And when that life-preserving first step was granted, Riad left. So Diyaa found a new person in need to spend his days helping.

Seeking out people who need help, who need advice, who are being forgotten, Diyaa hopes if he spends his time taking care of other people, he won’t have time to stop and realize no one is taking care of him. He lives in a plastic 8- by 12-foot shed with six other men.

He uses UNHCR blankets for a bed. The heater in his container is on a timer, and when it kicks off, the cracked plastic shed chills in minutes. He has no choice in what he eats, what he wears, when his asylum will be reviewed, where he will be in two weeks or even a year. His future is not his own. Souda is essentially a prison built out of desperation and fear. And still he chooses to love people as much as he can.

Diyaa took care of a complete stranger who had an emergency case of appendicitis the week before last. Getting your appendix out in the United States is essentially an outpatient procedure.

In Greece, in a tiny island hospital poorly equipped for emergencies, when Adeen the lonely Moroccan required the emergency procedure, it became life threatening. Adeen did nothing but lay in bed, feebly weak, after the procedure; he couldn’t eat or drink anything for more than a week. Every time he tried to eat, he would throw up. He was constantly in pain. His skin grew grey and he shed pound after pound off of his already malnourished frame.

As he withered away, Diyaa visited him every day in the hospital changing his clothes and holding his bedpan

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y visa expired and I have officially been kicked out of Greece. I cannot return for 82 days. Now I find myself in Turkey and I love everything about it, except for the fact that I spend most of my time staring at Chios. I think if I get out of the port city of Cesme my heart will stop breaking. If I can’t see Souda, four miles across the channel, maybe I can spend five minutes not thinking about it.

This was supposed to be a break after more than three months of crisis relief work at Souda refugee camp, but all I do every day on the Turkish coast is stare at the hills of Chios, floating distantly on the horizon. Tapping my pen against small cups of Turkish coffee that are so hot and hard to swallow, I let the coffee get cold and muddy as I scribble words that aren’t anywhere close to how I feel.

I hate that I left them there. But I trust in human resilience and human compassion, because I have had the honor of being brought, per force, to the evidence of its existence countless times. In the worst conditions, on the hardest, coldest days, there will always be people who stand, firmly grounded, in their humanity. People like Diyaa.

A 42-year-old refugee at Souda, Diyaa quickly became one of the contacts my friend Thomas Hinkel and I used in the camp to ensure that approximately 1,000 refugees were receiving the essential goods they needed.

“This man—he needs a neck brace,” Diyaa would advise. “This boy—a coat.

This woman—diapers for her baby. We all need shoes.”

Diyaa clicks through his list with a smile, sometimes a joke. His best friend Riad recently made it to Athens, largely due to Diyaa’s efforts. Riad has a health condition that will, in the very near future, probably kill him if it is not addressed. Before the transfer, Diyaa and Riad were waiting in front of the Vial Camp for processing–sometimes four or even five hours every day for weeks. Each time they were told, “The special cases worker is on vacation,

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Communication Control Trump and his team are waging a war on facts through message manipulation.

BY BAYNARD WOODS

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resident Trump’s temporary appointees laying the groundwork for taking over and remaking federal agencies refer to themselves as “beachheads” or “beachhead teams,” a military term for the point of invasion.

Politico reports there were approximately 520 members of such teams when Trump took the oath of office. In any presidential transition, there will be tensions between career civil servants and political appointees pushing a new president’s agenda. But according to experts on the matter, this administration’s use of the term may exacerbate those relations.

The term was used offhandedly in 2000 by Bush’s incoming press secretary, Ari Fleischer. It was central to the language of Romney’s 2012 transition plan, which was provided to the Trump team. But its use here seems systematic, making many within various federal agencies feel they are in battle.

“The language of war being used suggests that cooperation is not the primary philosophy dictating this transition period,” said professor Heath Brown, who studies presidential transitions at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “If the operating philosophy is one of combat rather than cooperation, then we’re in for some trouble with how these agencies are going to function on a day-to-day basis.”

Because the Trump team threw out Chris Christie’s transition plans and “started from scratch on election day, [there is] a larger level of chaos in the past for an already chaotic process,” Brown explained.

Given the fact that Trump was a reality TV star, it is not surprising that communications is the main focus of these beachhead teams. “[Trump’s people] want to control message in a lot of different ways, and

for that reason I think they have made that a priority,” Brown said. “The Trump transition team devoted a lot more staff resources to communications than transition teams in the past. … In the past, communications just hasn’t been a first priority.”

In 2009, Obama only had two communications people on his 13-member senior transition staff. In contrast, at least 10 of 23 staffers in Trump’s transition team served some communications function, Brown said.

In the process, they may well be changing what “communications” means—from informing the public, or even spinning the message, to something more like outright propaganda.

Democracy in Crisis uncovered a 1996 Cornell Daily Sun article about thenCNN analyst Kellyanne Conway that shows she has been thinking about media and manipulation for at least 20 years. The story paraphrases Conway (née Fitzpatrick) speaking to student groups about “manipulative media and political jargon.” In the talk, she also criticized people for “following what is decided by a few elite.”

A section of article subtitled “Questions of Reality” notes, “In a generation where television and internet images ‘bombard our senses,’ it is essential, according to Fitzpatrick, to realize that the soundbytes or visuals prepared by the evening news editors do not represent reality.”

Conway, the article noted, “applauded [Bill Clinton’s] ability to use the media to his advantage.”

While this shows that Conway’s obsession with controlling the media narrative is not new, it also underlines how she and her boss are pushing the standard spin of 90s-era Washington into the full-blown denial of reality in the age of Trump.

During the Trump campaign, Politifact found that only 4 percent of his claims could be considered entirely truthful. Some, including President Obama, naively thought the power of the presidency would curb, rather than increase, Trump’s tendency to lie. But thus far truths remain merely occasional, almost accidental.

After the inauguration on Jan. 20, in the first “unofficial” press conference of the new administration, press secretary Sean Spicer stood in front of reporters

and repeatedly lied to the press about things that didn’t matter. It was pointless from any standard political meansends perspective. (Baltimore City Paper did a great job putting together the actual numbers.)

Later, in his first “official” press conference, Spicer said, “sometimes we can disagree with the facts.”

Between Spicer’s two statements, on the Sunday talk shows, Conway baptized Trump-speak with a succinct name: “alternative facts.” She also threatened to “rethink our relationship” with NBC if Meet the Press host Chuck Todd persisted in saying Spicer had lied.

A couple days later, Trump advisor and Lenin wannabe Stephen Bannon called the press the “opposition party,” which, he said, should “keep its mouth shut.” Almost immediately after this, Trump gave Bannon a spot on the National Security Council.

The attacks on the press, however, are only part of a larger attack on facts themselves—attacks beginning, appropriately, with the communications-obsessed beachheads now inside federal agencies.

Trump ordered the EPA to freeze all of its grants, to take down the climate change section of its website (though the administration later backed down on plans to remove content), and to cease all communications with the press.

Then, according to an email obtained

by BuzzFeed News, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research division prohibited employees, including scientists, from communicating or sharing information with the public. The USDA later lifted the gag order, saying that it was released “without Departmental direction” and was not sent at the request of the Trump administration.

The Trump team also censored the Badlands National Park Twitter feed,

deleting tweets mentioning climate change. In response, people claiming to be rangers created a Twitter account for the AltUsNatParkService, which tweeted that it was activated “in a time of war and censorship to ensure fact-based education.”

But information about climate change is not the only thing at risk— data, science, and research are being suppressed. And Trump’s congressional allies are all too happy to play along.

Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar introduced bills this week that say “no federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing.”

This racist bill, which would help maintain the kind of segregation affecting cities like Milwaukee, Baltimore, and St. Louis, could still die in committee, but it aligns with Trump’s allout war on facts. Deprived of access to facts, citizens are incapable of making decisions. This is an essential feature of tyranny.

As an air of war prevails in Washington, using the term beachhead may in fact be among the small minority of things the Trump team is honest about. PJH Baynard Woods is editor at large for Baltimore City Paper. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

He is the author of the book Coffin Point: The Strange Cases of Ed McTeer, Witchdoctor Sheriff, about a white sheriff who used hoodoo to govern a largely black county for 37 years. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, focusing on ethics and tyranny and became a reporter in an attempt to live like Socrates.

Holding Power Accountable Members of the media must not forget the American public is relying on them.

BY TODD WILKINSON

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Together, the Cheneys claimed the Obama administration wrecked the American economy when the Great Recession, which nearly caused global economic collapse, began on the former vice president’s watch. They said Obama didn’t respect the intelligence community and made America’s national security weaker when 9/11, the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, was carried out early in Cheney’s administration. And though they lambasted Obama for allegedly being soft on arch-enemy Russia and Vladimir Putin, the Cheneys have been conspicuously silent about Trump’s obsequious tone with Putin, refusal to stridently condemn Russian hacking and Trump’s pillorying of our own intelligence agencies.

Had the roles been reversed, had Obama behaved as Trump has, had the Russians been involved in trying to swing the election for Clinton, there can be no doubt the Cheneys would be calling him (Obama) and her (Clinton) traitors. Yes, the press exists to illuminate hypocrisy and as readers of this column know, it has been a New West staple. If you are going to zing fibs, prepare to be zung by fact checking.

A great rigorous source for fact checking is factcheck.org, devoted to calling out all politicians and other public officials. Here, you will find as much scrutiny aimed at the manure spreading of Democrats as Republicans.

Even Obama, who was raked relentlessly over the coals by the press, wasn’t bitter and never threw a petulant tantrum whenever the press quoted Republicans, including the new President, who cast him as a radical, Kenyan-born communist.

Again, here is how Obama interpreted the role of the media: “…you’re supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power and make sure that we are accountable to the people who sent us here.”

This rule should apply to all governors, state legislators, county commissioners, city council people and members of Congress. In Jackson Hole, it certainly applies to Cheney, the latter-day resident of Wilson who claims to call the state and this valley home.

If members of the media are unwilling to ask tough questions or worse, if they pull punches because they’re too afraid to incur the wrath of their subjects, then they and their newspapers are in the wrong business. Their readers and the public interest deserve better.

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nd now the curtain has risen in Washington D.C.: Act 1 on the stage of what some are calling America’s new Theater of the Absurd.

No matter what one makes of Donald Trump, he is the new president. There is no turning back for him or the country.

I, and most of my professional colleagues, refuse to accept the assessment that we must now reconcile ourselves to living in a post-fact, post-truth age. Unless it is challenged and resisted by the media it will indeed become a fait accompli.

The perpetrators of such nonsense are, after all, people who either believe facts and truth don’t matter or they have agendas as hired guns to ensure facts and truth do not factor in how our democracy operates.

The tradition of the free press is that it does not cotton to attempted intimidation meted out by a sitting president.

I give Trump’s media advisor Kellyanne Conway credit; seldom have we witnessed a public relations flack so deft in the art of deflection. And if one wants an example of how her spite for legitimate scrutiny should be handled head on, check out her endorsement of “alternative facts” and the Trump Administration declaring a discerning media an enemy of America.

Scrutiny of the president or any politician or entity that influences the public interest is not about partisanship. In the case of Trump and his advisors, it is a response to unprecedented attacks on the media, an apparent callous indifference to conflicts of interest guarded against in the Constitution, attempts to shut down ethics panels, the weakening of environmental laws based on false

premises, the proposed selling of public lands, and the appearance, at least, of crony capitalism.

If you want to know how the press is expected to behave, then hear it from the chief executive of our country after eight years of service. Obama told the press corps this two days before Trump’s inaugural: “...Even when you complained about my long answers, I just want you to know that the only reason they were long is because you asked six-part questions. But I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not of course mean that I’ve enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that’s the point of this relationship.”

“You’re not supposed to be sycophants,” Obama continued. “You’re supposed to be skeptics, you’re supposed to ask me tough questions. You’re not supposed to be complimentary, but you’re supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power and make sure that we are accountable to the people who sent us here.” “...I’ve spent a lot of time in my farewell address talking about the state of our democracy. It goes without saying that essential to that is a free press. That is part of how this place, this country, this grand experiment in self-government has to work. It doesn’t work if we don’t have a well-informed citizenry, and you are the conduit through which they receive information about what is taking place in the halls of power. “…So America needs you and democracy needs you. We need you to establish a baseline of facts and evidence that we can use as a starting point for the kind of reasoned and informed debates that ultimately lead to progress.

So my hope is that you will continue with the same tenacity that you showed us to do the hard work of getting to the bottom of stories and getting them right and to push those of us in power to be the best version of ourselves.”

Tenacity with fact- and truth-checking is vital and in this space in weeks and months to come, I, as someone who has been penning this column for 28 years, direct you to a person who represents a north star.

I steer you to a column by the late great Mike Royko hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He wrote what needed to be said; Royko

never sought to win a popularity contest.

During my days as a violent crime reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago, where Royko had been an alumnus, he was a hero to all of us in the newsroom for calling out abuses of power and standing up to the mightiest.

Although some on the political right portrayed Royko as a journalist with a liberal bias, he became a thorn in the side of longstanding Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, calling out Daley’s arrogant legacy of corruption.

Royko’s agenda wasn’t partisan; neither is mine. It just so happens, however, that in the interior rural West, especially in a so-called red state like Wyoming, one party singularly dominates policy discussions and there is no such thing as a loyal political opposition, at least one that carries any weight. Except in Teton County and scattered pockets, Democrats seem more rare than wolverines and almost irrelevant.

As British historian Lord Acton once proclaimed, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In Wyoming, across most of this state, the GOP wields absolute power and some consider it a problem because nowhere in the public discourse is the veracity of ideological assertions—such as, denial of human-caused climate change— being rigorously challenged.

With the recent transition of power in Washington, with the executive and legislative branches of the federal government now in the hands of the GOP, and with the judicial branch now completing the Republican Party’s trifecta, much is at stake for the public-landsrich American West.

I don’t mean to pick on Wyoming’s new lone Congresswoman Liz Cheney. Really I don’t, for my scrutiny of her is not personal. But her rhetoric for the last eight years, and that of her father, as oragious critics of the Obama Administration, has often strained credulity.

Seldom has the Wyoming media fact-checked what the Cheneys say against the record of reality. In this valley, there is a member of Congress and a former U.S. vice president who claims it as a home base, and the media establishment almost behaves as if they are invisible. They are national figures spouting off nearly every week on issues of interest and importance to people here and across the country. It is incumbent that local media not give them a free pass; accountability isn’t optional; when you are a public figure trying to influence the future of the world, you invite examination.

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THE BUZZ Legislative Update The bills that suffered quick death and the ones you should be watching.

BY JESSICA SELL CHAMBERS @jessellechambers

Public lands transfer amendment A major victory for public lands supporters was the death of Senate Joint Resolution 3 that would have paved the way for a transfer of federal public lands to the state.

“I am not sure we would have had the votes to get the constitutional amendment through,” said Senate President Eli Babout-R, Riverton. “This is a tough [legislative] session concerning the budget and schools … we have a lot of other issues on the table that we need to concentrate on. It was a good process to get everyone’s input, but it is not the time so I killed the bill.”

Supporters of the bill claimed they were trying to protect public lands, not privatize them, and to improve their management. But opponents noted the bill contained no specific language prohibiting the state’s ability to sell off land, and they warned the lands would end up in the hand of oil and gas companies.

Discrimination and voter ID bills House Bill 135, the Government Discrimination Act, known to opponents as the LGBTQ Discrimination Act, was also withdrawn last week by its primary sponsor, Rep. Cheri Steinmetz (R-Lingle) after 56 representatives voted in favor of withdrawing it.

The bill would have protected the “religious freedoms” of emoloyees of state and local governments by allowing them to deny services to LGBTQ people.

Sabrina King, policy director for

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ast week in Cheyenne, three very important and controversial bills were withdrawn from the Wyoming Legislature, likely due to the outpouring of dissent from residents across Wyoming. Take notes, because citizens have a lot to weigh in on as other controversial bills remain, and new bills have been introduced.

Wyoming’s ACLU, attributed the bill’s demise to opposition throughout the state. “People were upset, and vocal … you saw that from all corners—not only the LGBTQ community but also faith leaders, business owners and many organizations,” King told PJH last week.

“I think it is really telling and hopefully a lesson learned for lawmakers.”

The second bill withdrawn in the House was a voter ID bill, HB167, requiring that people present photo identification when they visit the polls.

According to Propublica, 36 states have enacted some form of a voter ID law, which basically puts undue burdens on less advantaged voters, decreasing their turnout, and growing the divide between them and white voters. Citing an analysis by Nate Silver, Propublica estimates voter ID laws could decrease voter turnout anywhere between 0.8 and 2.4 percent, which doesn’t sound like a lot, until you look at the electoral landscape of some elections.

Legislating doctors, women, and a red herring Wyoming’s House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee advanced three of four abortion bills on Monday, all with a vote six-to-three for those that passed. House Bills 116, 182, and 250 will change a number of state health care statutes.

House Bill 116, an abortion amendment, updates the definition of “viability” understood by the Supreme Court as when a fetus can possibly survive outside of the mother—24 weeks gestation, as agreed upon by doctors—to include the contentious issue of when a fetus can feel pain. Rep. Marti Halverson-R (HD 22) was a co-sponsor of the bill.

She describes her position on abortion on martihalverson.com: “I am pro-life with one exception: if a fertilized egg is lodged in the fallopian tube, it must be removed.”

The issue of “fetal pain” has become a legislative battleground for anti-choice groups, much to the chagrin of doctors and pro-choice advocates alike.

Proponents of the fetal pain argument suggest it’s at 20 weeks that a fetus can feel pain and therefore abortion should be cut off at that point. However, doctors, researchers, and scientists believe it’s around 27 weeks—much later than the large majority of abortions are even performed. They argue legislation like this violates patient-doctor privacy rights.

The organization Women for Women says neither of the two abortion providers in Wyoming offers abortions after 12 weeks.

Another area for anti-choice activists to seemingly waste legislative time and money is over the prevention of organizations profiting from the sale of fetal tissue, which is against federal law. Investigations across the country into whether the practice was occurring repeatedly revealed there was no violation of the law.

A second aim of HB 116 is the prohibition of the sale or transfer of any “aborted child” or fetal cells or tissue for experimentation, a fear that seems to be based on misinformation. A staged video that purportedly showed Planned Parenthood staff engaging in the sale of body parts was debunked. According to NPR, countless investigations revealed no such practice, a grand jury in Texas actually indicted two of the video’s makers.

Similarly, House Bill 250, which

also passed through committee, would establish the knowing purchase or sale of body parts or tissues as a felony offense in addition to raising fines and penalties for misreporting or failing to report on abortion forms.

House Bill 182 also passed through committee yesterday. It would require physicians to “inform the pregnant woman that she has a right to view an active ultrasound of the unborn child and hear the heartbeat of the unborn child if the heartbeat is audible.” The measure contains exemptions for cases of medical emergency.

Legislators ultimately did not vote on HB 132 at the request of the bill’s sponsor Campbell County Rep. Scott Clem-R, who felt the bill’s aims were covered in other statutes. The bill sought to place a requirement on doctors to report abortions in order to compile a public report, with penalties for doctors who refuse or fail to report.

To put all of these bills into perspective, according to the Guttmacher Center for Population Research Innovation and Dissemination, abortions hit an all time low, declining 14 percent between 2011 and 2014, the latest year for which there is data (14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age). Of the 926,000 abortions performed nationwide in 2014, there were 120 in Wyoming, representing 0.0 percent (0.0001) of all abortions in the US. Even lower, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fewer than 20 women had abortions in Wyoming in 2013, the latest year for which it has data.

Election bills According to the Brennan Center for

Justice at New York University’s School of Law, systematic voter suppression is a far greater issue than voter fraud.

Wyoming legislators have three bills in motion to eliminate voter suppression, make voting easier, and encouraging voter participation.

House Bill 75, Automatic Restoration of the right to vote, sponsored by Reps.

James Byrd-D, Eric Barlow-R, Stan Blake-D and Charles Pelkey-D and Senator Ogden Driskill-R, stipulates that non-violent felons who, under current law must wait five years to have their voting rights reinstated, would merely need to finish their sentence in order to vote again.

Phoebe Stoner, executive director of the Equality State Policy Center, said the current process to restore voting rights for non-violent felons is arduous and ultimately preventative. “A consequence of how it is now is these voters are being suppressed and we think this will help address that,” she said.

With a focus on absentee voters, HB 68 and HB 46, both unglamorous but worthy, seek to make absentee voting easier by establishing a postmark as a means of determining ballot validity (HB 68) and enabling residents to register as permanent absentee voters (HB 46).

Tax & Revenue bills

Last week legislators proposed a 55-page omnibus education bill that would cut five days off of the school year, freeze spending on transportation and special education, reduce salaries of top school district administrators,

Two bills supporting the right to carry concealed weapons with a permit passed in the House Judiciary Committee last week. HB 136 allows for guns on college campuses, with a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

HB 137 allows guns in government meetings, including in the Legislature.

Questions have been raised over whether the second law would apply to school board meetings that take place on school property while school is in session, which is why the Wyoming School Board Association opposes the bill.

It is unclear how far either of these bills will go in Cheyenne, and maybe that’s why they are passing under the radars of many.

TCSD’s Reynolds said the district has yet to discuss this issue. “We don’t currently allow firearms on school property and there hasn’t been any interest in requesting that.” But, she said, if there was a change in state law, the district would reassess, though student safety would guide all actions.

Stoner encourages citizens to engage with the legislative process both to support and to oppose bills. It’s amazing to see the buzz in Cheyenne right now, she added. With so many people taking notice and wanting to do something Stoner said things can happen fast.

“Change in Wyoming is actually really tangible.” PJH

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As the state of Wyoming faces significant budget shortfalls due to sluggish revenue in the energy sector, many believe established sources of revenue should not be tampered with.

An oil and gas industry stimulus, HB 172 gives a severance tax-exemption on any new production of crude oil and natural gas produced from new wells drilled in the next five years. Supporters wish to stimulate the economy and create jobs, however, opponents disagree with this method. “Research shows that it’s money from the state that creates jobs, and not the elimination of taxation,” Stoner said. “And, if we want to live in a Wyoming with good schools, roads, and such, giving tax breaks to industry hurts us.”

A similar bill, HB 104, a severance tax on coal, died in House Revenue Committee on January 20, possibly saving $27 million dollars in state revenue.

and halve funding for instructional facilitators in order to avert a significant education budget shortfall. The proposal is in its infancy and will likely see many revisions before surfacing from the legislature.

Teton County School District’s Charlotte Reynolds says depending upon what passes, the district could see any number of impacts ranging from transportation changes, to higher caseloads for special education teachers, to the number of professional development days for teachers.

“Allowing districts to make the decisions on how and where to cut would be best,” she said. “It would be a little bit easier to make the cuts than to have them prescribed.”

Reynolds said the district has been in contact with the delegation in Cheyenne and there are trustees lobbying there now.

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THE BUZZ 2 National Park Limbo NPS faces a murky future under new administration.

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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resident Trump’s recent hiring freeze on the National Park Service is concerning to people across the nation. And in Jackson, a gateway community to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks that relies heavily on park visitation for its economic vitality, there could be major ramifications.

Spokespeople from Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks said that all new administrations require an adjustment period, so it is hard to predict the possible outcomes of this one. Specifically, it is too soon to say exactly what the hiring freeze will mean for Wyoming’s national parks, said Denise Germann, GTNP spokesperson. She says the park is working with both the Office of Budget Management and the Office of Personnel Management to see that they have sufficient staffing for the peak season.

Inquiries for more information were directed toward both offices, but neither the OBM nor the OPM responded to email requests for comment.

Still, the question at large seems not to be “if” the federal hiring freeze will impact national parks, but how much. Amid all the uncertainty, the number of open positions at NPS is telling. There are 437 fulltime NPS jobs posted on USAJobs.gov. GTNP has 11 full-time job openings, for everything from park ranger to fire dispatcher to wildland firefighter to trail crew. These listings do not include the hundreds of seasonal employees required to keep the park operating smoothly during the summer season. Germann estimated 230 for Grand Teton alone.

It’s a simple equation, explained Jonathan Schechter, economist and executive director of the Charture Institute.

Increased demand plus decreased resources multiplied by a “self-defeating” government equals a “recipe for a very bad situation.”

Indeed, Yellowstone and Grand Teton have seen record-breaking seasons year after year. They need the staff and the funding to keep up with the millions of visitors that come through.

On top of that, they need adequate full-time support to keep up with maintenance and infrastructure.

Yellowstone is particularly behind in that department. According to the Deferred Maintenance by State Park report released by NPS in 2014, Yellowstone had $633 million worth of repairs in 2013.

Compounding that, Schechter says, is employees’ low morale that comes from being overworked and under-supported.

“People are running the government who actively ... make a point of bragging how much they hate

government,” he said. “And they put them in charge of the henhouse. It’s bound to be discouraging.”

Schechter says there is no way to predict the concrete impact the new administration will have on the parks’ health, but when you put “foxes in charge of hen houses ... you can reasonably predict a bad outcome.”

The impact of park visitation on Jackson’s economy is hard to understate. Tourism to Grand Teton alone generated more than $500,000 in revenue to “gateway communities” in 2015, according to to the National Park Service’s report on “Economic Contributions to Communities.”

Yellowstone generated $600,000, but that revenue is distributed through gateway communities in Montana as well as Wyoming.

If national parks must raise their entry fees to compensate for lack of resources, Schechter says that might not bode well for tourism economies. As energy prices dive and energy revenues decline, efforts to boost tourism increase.

Without the resources to support it, that’s like “pouring gasoline over a fire,” Schechter said.

There is also a predictably national risk involved in restricting federal resources. Former GTNP spokeswoman Joan Anzelmo observed that interior agencies like NPS and BLM staff more than just a local workforce. Many of their employees are among the first to respond to natural disasters or national emergencies.

Paramedics, firefighters and law enforcement officers within these agencies are occasionally called to duty for emergencies well outside their jurisdiction.

“When you begin to gut those agencies,” Anzelmo said, “you don’t have any bench waiting to help.

Military is wonderful, but you need a civilian workforce scattered throughout the U.S. … You can’t gut it to dysfunction and expect it to rise in a national emergency.”

The crux of the issue seems to be that the future of national parks is uncertain, but it is even more difficult to predict without access to knowledge.

An apparent gag order on a handful of federal agencies, NPS among them, further obstructs what the public understands about the new administration. While Anzelmo acknowledged there are always things to work through during an administration transition, she says she is wary of the power and scope of this particular adjustment period.

Anzelmo worked for the National Park Service for 35 years, from President Ford’s administration through Obama’s second term. It is reasonable, she said, for incoming administrations to “press pause” on things while they get a sense of the inner workings of each agency.

For example, Anzelmo said it is expected for issues that are “highly sensitive” to “run through a chain of command instead of a standard news release.”

It would be irregular, however, for public agencies to fail to provide “day-to-day public information” like road closures, avalanche danger and weather predictions.

So far, social media accounts for Yellowstone

and Grand Teton national parks and Bridger Teton National Forest seem uninhibited. GTNP is still posting alerts on its website, and BTNF continues to release locally relevant news releases on its website, though attempts to reach a representative were unsuccessful.

Anzelmo hopes such information remains available. “It does not bode well for this administration,” she said, “if there is going to be any intent to suppress [information]. It makes no sense whatsoever. You can’t deny facts.”

Concerned members of NPS have already positioned themselves at the head of the resistance.

Reports that NPS tweets about climate change had been deleted and Twitter accounts silenced were followed by the creation of “alternative” NPS accounts—along with alternative NASA, Forest Service, EPA and others—intent on continuing the discussion about climate change. Badlands National Parks was first to respond on their own Twitter account, but soon a group of 59 “rogue” park employees from nine different national parks created “Alt National Park Service” on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

“We formed to ensure the protection of the environment for future generations to come,” their Facebook page reads. “We were forced into a media blackout, hiring freeze, policy changes, and possible reduction in funding. We are here to stand up and speak out against the current administration. We all refuse to be silenced while we watch everything we love crumble.”

Yellowstone is among the parks represented, but PJH’s attempts to reach Yellowstone’s rogue employee were unsuccessful.

Over the weekend, director of the Association of National Park Rangers Jon Jarvis released a statement on Facebook decrying the Trump administration’s “unsuccessful” attempts to “suppress the National Park Service.”

“The NPS is the steward of America’s most important places and the narrator of our most powerful stories, told authentically, accurately, and built upon scientific and scholarly research,” the statement reads.

“These are not policy issues,” it continues. “They are facts about our nation, it is how we learn and strive to achieve the ideals of our founding documents. To talk about these facts is core to the mission of the NPS. During the Centennial of the National Park Service, we hosted over 300 million visitors (now that is huge) to the National Parks and most came away inspired, patriotic and ready to speak on behalf of the values we hold most dear. The new Administration would be wise to figure out how to support the National Park Service, its extraordinary employees and their millions of fans.”

Schechter agreed. “It doesn’t augur for America’s ‘best idea’ if we’re entering into an era of alternative facts.” PJH

“We all refuse to be silenced while we watch everything we love crumble.”

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THE BUZZ 3 Preventing Prevention Lawmakers argue that funding for substance abuse and suicide prevention organization is expendable.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

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good swift kick—that’s what Rep. Tom Walters-R, Natrona, said the leading prevention organization in the state needs, in the form of a 40-percent budget cut.

At issue is funding for Prevention Management Organization of Wyoming (PMO-Wyoming), a five-year-old nonprofit that manages and supports substance abuse and suicide prevention in all 23 Wyoming counties.

“The program has not improved one single bit,” Walters told his colleagues during the January 20 meeting of the Joint Appropriations Committee.

What the numbers indicate

Strides in the valley

Matt Stech and Jake Richins of Teton County’s PMO-Wyoming.

the second leading cause of death in the state for people between the ages of 10 to 34.

Teton County’s success with gunlock distribution has been a model for other communities in the state, according to Hotle.

In addition to suicide prevention PMO-Teton County has enacted myriad efforts to combat substance abuse. PMO staff members educate professionals, health care providers, business leaders, parents, educators, and students about the risks of substance abuse and community approaches to reduce the risk. Its staffers have worked with law enforcement to provide free responsible beverage server training and has worked on ordinances to prevent community alcohol problems.

Unfair target?

PMO’s prevention strategies are facing a major hit if the new budget proposed by the Joint Appropriations Committee passes the Wyoming Legislature, which it is expected to do.

The budget would cut $2.1 million from the state prevention budget—40 percent of the budget for alcohol and substance abuse, tobacco prevention and suicide prevention. Opponents like Walters are unconvinced by PMO’s success rates, and feel the organization is not effective. He said he wants the organization to use its funding more wisely.

“They’re proving that they just want more time and they’re not getting it done,” Walters said during a January 18 Joint Appropriations Committee meeting. He added that taking $2.1 million of the state’s general funds out of PMO’s budget would “make them use their own funds differently, and we can take

our own funds and do something more productive.”

Rep. Andy Schwartz-D, Jackson, who sits on the Joint Appropriations Committee, thinks PMO is a valuable program and doesn’t support a budget cut. “It’s not what I would like to see happen,” he said.

Now that the budget has been drawn up, Schwartz says putting money back in would be difficult, but not impossible.

The budget will go to the full legislature this week. Schwartz said the budget can be amended, and that he would not be surprised to see an amendment to replace prevention dollars. “When the supplemental budget comes to the floor of the House any member can introduce an amendment to add money back in,” he said. “I am not currently aware of anyone proposing to do so. I am not sure if it could pass, but it could make for an interesting debate.”

Sen. Dan Dockstader-R, Afton, who also sits on the Joint Appropriations Committee, said it all comes down to the across-the-board cuts the state faces because of low energy sector revenues.

“We have been tasked to make cuts with all agencies and all programs,” he said.

“However, the process is not over and some funding could return through the reading and amendment process.”

Hotle says the dramatic cuts unfairly target his organization. “We’re not saying we shouldn’t shoulder any of the burden—we have and we will,” he said.

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PMO-Teton County is a young organization. It got its start in January 2015 with a staff of two community prevention specialists. In 24 short months, the organization has trained more than 400 people in the county in suicide prevention strategies, and has distributed more than 5,000 gunlocks, which are thought to prevent suicide in homes with firearms.

The dramatic success with gunlock distribution highlights the impact of the small-but-mighty organization and what’s at stake if its budget is halved.

Not only has the program distributed an amount of gun locks equal to nearly one-fifth of Teton County’s population, it has engaged community organizations and local retailers in becoming advocates for gun violence reduction, from Teton County Library to Parks and Recreation and retailers such as the Boot Barn.

“It gets us out in the community,” said Matt Stech, PMO-Teton County community prevention specialist. “It gives different people a sense of ownership. They are advocates for gun safety.”

Gunlocks are one of a number of “means reduction” strategies recommended to reduce suicide rates.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health’s Means Matter Campaign, when lethal means are made less available or less deadly, suicide rates by that method decline, and frequently suicide rates overall decline.

While firearm owners are not more suicidal than non-firearm owners, their suicide attempts are more likely to be fatal because of a gun’s lethality.

According to the American Foundation for Suicide prevention, in 2015, firearms were the leading cause of suicide in the nation, used in almost 50 percent of suicides. In Wyoming, where gun ownership is high, the rate of suicides by firearm jumps to 66 percent.

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While suicide numbers are trending upward nationally—according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1999 to 2014, the suicide rate in the US increased 24 percent—Wyoming’s suicide rates have remained static over the last 15 years.

Though the state’s suicide rate is almost double the national average, the fact that Wyoming’s rates haven’t increased means prevention efforts are working, said Keith Hotle, chief executive officer of PMO-Wyoming.

“When looking at the number of people trained in suicide prevention over the past five years—almost 45,000—and the percentage of those trained who are using the skills they have learned to help people in crisis—44 percent—it is clear that our coordinated statewide efforts to stem the tide of suicides are having an impact,” he said.

Hotle said these results have gotten the attention of other states, and that Wyoming’s approach to suicide prevention is considered “the gold standard” in the nation.

“What we’ve accomplished in Wyoming in suicide prevention has

never been done before in any other state.”

PMO-Wyoming has also had results in other prevention areas. Youth 30-day smoking rates have declined from 22 percent in 2009 to 15.7 percent in 2015.

Adult smoking rates dropped from 23 percent in 2011 to 19 percent in 2015.

Meanwhile youth binge drinking plummeted from 28 percent in 2008 to 19.5 percent in 2014.

MOMENTS vs.

MOVEMENTS

What a new crop of valley activists can learn from people in the trenches.

THE WOMEN’S MARCH ON JACKSON

COLE BUCKHART

By Sarah Ross

SUSTAINING MOMENTUM

THE WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON.

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t the time, Erica MacDonald didn’t know what she was a part of.

Shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of strangers, she stood at a Washington D.C. street corner for hours on January 21, squinting blocks away at the speakers on stage five. A little enclave formed around her. They talked about why they’d come to the Women’s March on Washington, organized to protest the agenda of President Trump. They participated in chants like, “Black lives matter,” “Trans lives matter,” and “No more hate, no more fear, immigrants are welcome here.”

It wasn’t until days later when she saw an aerial photo that MacDonald realized she’d been one of almost 500,000 people. The photo shows marchers congesting every corner for miles.

A more expansive photo would have captured millions of demonstrators across the country, including Jackson Hole, where more than 1,000 people marched the same day.

Marchers across the country joined for many reasons. One middle-aged woman near MacDonald said political protest was new to her. The only thing she could articulate was that since the election, something “just didn’t feel right.”

MacDonald, 30, who lived in Jackson for four years and is now a graduate student studying political science at University of Connecticut, relates to that feeling. After the election, she was shocked and scared: “I felt a shift and a reorienting of my goals and priorities.” She began to think about how to resist the normalization of Trump’s rhetoric, which she calls misogynistic, racist, and transphobic. She arrived the day of the inauguration to a city that felt “militarized with … miles and miles of barricades.” Locals told her they’d never seen an inauguration so secured. The march the next day, however, had an entirely different feeling, MacDonald said.

She was bolstered by the positivity, solidarity, and the conversations about everything from transphobia to critical race theory that arose on the packed streets.

The months since the election have served as an introduction to political activism for many.

In Jackson, some feel a new urgency to take advantage of the march’s momentum and organize in opposition to regressive state and national legislation. As local, statewide, and national groups consider how to move forward, some are looking to those whose lives and work have been informed by resisting injustice. PJH sat down with folks who offer different wisdom on this, from a civil resistance expert to a Wyomingite who has championed progressive values for decades, and an activist who helps women of color resist injustice. These people demonstrate what resistance looks like on every level, from the nation and the state to the body.

Like MacDonald, Jackson residents Heidi Bellardo, Julia Jackson, and sisters Christie and Katherine Koriakin didn’t realize exactly what they were a part of when they publically launched the group JH ACTivate one day after the women’s march in Jackson.

JH ACTivate, now with more than 200 members, is an online space using a Facebook group as its platform, to inform and empower

people on political action in response to regressive policies, Christie explained. Their hope is to make information about local, state, and national policy accessible, and to provide concrete ways to engage with the issues. The national activist group Indivisible guides the group with lists of action items and suggestions for events. On Monday the group held its first event, where people made postcards to send lawmakers outlining the issues and legislation that matter to them.

Since the presidential election, the women have been meeting in private to discuss their fears. “I felt so out of control,” Jackson said.

Katherine agreed. As a woman, she said all the fundamental rights and progress she took for granted suddenly appeared fragile.

Immediately after the group went public, 25 people joined. Now, one look at the page signals overwhelming participation. Each day members post dozens of action-oriented messages, urging others to call representatives, sign petitions, or read articles about proposed legislation, political happenings, etc.

For the average person, it can be daunting to engage with political issues on any level. This is a struggle Christie can relate to. She had never called a representative before this election.

Already, she has followed the instruction of posts on the page, become informed about several important statewide issues, and made calls to lawmakers. “Everyday people who don’t have time to devote their whole lives or careers to politics … need to know who to call and what to say,” she said.

Building on the momentum of the Women’s March will mean making it easy for people to engage. Elisa Stephens, one of the organizers of Jackson’s march, believes it will be critical “to figure out how to be most effective in the least amount of time.

“We need to give people the tools and confidence to make the change they want … how can we give people the ability to use five minutes powerfully?”

Local march organizers have already begun participating in nationwide conference calls with other organizers to discuss exactly that question.

Stephens says tapping into people’s passion right now will be critical in the engagement process, too. “It’s so personal now, and we’re all uncomfortable … there is a threat to minorities, women, and the environment.” A psychiatric nurse and new mom, Stephens says she’s never felt so fearful about the future of people’s most fundamental rights.

INJUSTICE AND FEAR

Keenan Montgomery is no stranger to fear management. As a descendant of slaves, he says surviving injustice has always “been a part of my life, my parents’ lives, my grandparents’ lives … it’s woven so deeply in the fabric of the nation that it was part of my life before I was even born.” Now, however, “Trump’s reign has the potential to affect the happiness of liberal white people as well … and it has come as a shock to those who haven’t always been subject to that feeling,” he said.

Montgomery, a 24-year-old graduate of University of Wyoming, is a musician in LA and assistant director of Afros and Ass Whoopins, a

HOW TO MOVE FORWARD

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THE MARCHES SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT MANY DO NOT HAVE FAITH THAT THEIR GOVERNMENT WILL REPRESENT THEM.

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It was many committed organizers and activists who brought an end to Jim Crow, and who can serve as examples to those today struggling against the threats posed by Trump’s administration.

Erica Chenoweth is a professor and associate dean for research at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. (She also happens to be performing a global head count on the women’s marches along with two colleagues.) As an expert on civil resistance and nonviolent action, her research demonstrates the efficacy of civil disobedience, and points to the importance of this moment in which so many are eager to engage. Participation, Chenoweth says, is key to the success of nonviolent movements, and part of what makes the women’s marches so historic. “The capacity for mass mobilization has been expressed … the marches send a clear message that many do not have faith that their government will represent them,” Chenoweth told PJH. In a 2013 Ted talk in Boulder, Colorado, Chenoweth summarized what she learned from gathering research on all major nonviolent and violent overthrows of governments since 1900.

Her data demonstrated nonviolent movements were more than twice as likely to succeed than violent ones. Democratic institutions were also more likely to be sustained, and countries were less likely to fall back into civil war after power shifts.

Even more striking is that her research showed no campaign failed when it garnered committed participation from 3.5 percent of the population. In the United States, that would mean 11 million people, about 3.5 times more than the amount that participated in the post-inauguration marches. Chenoweth found that movements that relied on nonviolent tactics garnered four times the amount of participation. They were also more likely to include participants of different ages, races, socioeconomic statuses, and abilities. The power of mass protest, Chenoweth explained, is in its visibility; it can draw in the risk averse.

Civil resistance, or disobedience, refers to actions, from sit-ins to boycotts to protests, whose methods are not violent or do not threaten violence. Still, when activists make demands that are contentious or controversial, they often face violence. Continued resistance against the new administration may begin to pose higher risks, Chenoweth said. “All movements eventually have to look at and manage the threat of violence in reaction … but there have been many successful movements even in the face of brutal opposition.”

Activists for the Civil Rights Movement faced intense violence, for example. Protesters today demanding a lift on Trump’s immigration ban recalls a time that traveling safely and freely within the country was dependent on skin color.

In the early 1960s, groups of black and white activists rode interstate buses into the South to normalize the integration of transportation vehicles and facilities after the Supreme Court illegalized desegregation. They were often arrested, attacked, or abandoned in the middle of nowhere.

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musical comedy about the relationship between African Americans and the police. To him, the presidential election represents another affront to the humanity and rights of his community. “As we all should know by now, the United States was not built with the intention of benefiting people of color … these problems have had an enormous impact over the course of multiple generations.”

In The Black West, a documentary about the experiences of African American students at University of Wyoming, Montgomery describes some of the racism he endured while in the state. Once, while crossing a Laramie street with a friend, a group of white men stopped their truck in the middle of the road and threw a rope tied like a noose out the window calling, “here n*ggy n*ggy n*ggy” as they laughed.

People’s reactions to Montgomery ranged from violent to ignorant—one fellow student, herself mixed race, admitted to him that when she first met him, her reaction was fear.

To be African American in his grandparents’ time was to be victim to the codification of racism in the form of Jim Crow laws, which legalized segregation, and discriminatory housing, lending, and voting laws. Today, to be African American is to be under threat from an unequal criminal justice system. The NAACP reports that black Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites, and often receive much longer sentences. Black prisoners serve almost as much time for drug offenses as white prisoners for violent ones. People of color are also disproportionately victim to extrajudicial force. Mapping Police Violence reports that in 2015 unarmed black people were killed by police at five times the rate of unarmed white people.

Disproportionate impacts on non-white people both here and abroad are likely to continue under Trump’s administration. As reported by The New York Times, Trump has already made decisions that will most harm people of color, including an executive order to halt federal funding to cities that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials.

Trump has called for the immediate construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico, and has signed an executive order to ban all refugees and people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Syria from entering the country for 90 days, and Syrian refugees indefinitely. His order also affected green card holders, who are permanent lawful residents. The ban specifically targets Muslim people.

In the wake of his decision, more than 100 travelers were detained at major airports across the country. After quick action from ACLU lawyers, several federal judges granted temporary stays for people with visas, ruling part of the ban unconstitutional.

Meanwhile, in response to Trump’s ban, protests erupted at airports and in cities across the country this weekend, from Portland and Los Angeles to Denver, Salt Lake City, Austin, Washington, D.C., Boston and New York City.

A crowd at JFK airport swelled from less than 50 people in the afternoon to thousands of protesters by the evening.

In one memorable event, a group of the Freedom Riders faced brutal retaliation for their nonviolent actions in Anniston, Alabama, when a mob of Ku Klux Klan members surrounded their bus holding chains, whips, and clubs. According to an NPR piece remembering the event, the mob beat the Freedom Riders, requiring some be hospitalized. Eventually, a rioter threw burning rags onto the bus, setting it alight. Klan members screamed to let the passengers burn to death. Every Freedom Rider survived, but barely. They fled the smoke-choked bus to be surrounded by the mob as well as a crowd of white onlookers. Local police refused to help.

One 12-year-old girl came to their aid, giving them water as they recovered from the flames.

Because of her actions, she and her family were ostracized and run out of town.

Chenoweth’s research found that in order to be successful, a movement will eventually have to include those from the oppressor class, a goal that seems virtually impossible when considering the extreme opposition to groups like the Freedom Riders. As Chenoweth explains, nonviolent movements seek to expand the level of participation to the extent that those on the oppressor side recognize themselves in the activists, and begin to question their own allegiances. The importance of this was demonstrated in the successful 2000 revolts in Serbia, which peacefully overthrew former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, after censorship and human rights violations.

Hundreds of thousands arrived from all over the country, including rural areas, to voice dissent.

As protesters marched in Belgrade, some of the security forces, many of whom were from rural regions, recognized friends and family members in the crowds. They refused orders to shoot; they didn’t want to harm their own.

In Wyoming, a deeply conservative and unpopulated state built on long-lasting interpersonal relationships, anti-Trump and proTrump constituents interact every day. The key to inciting change in places like the “Equality State,” Chenoweth says, is incredibly high participation: “The fewer the people, the more people have to show up.”

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ARE YOU TOUGH OR SOFT?

Showing up is something Jane Ifland, 67, has done for decades. As a resident of Natrona County, where 70 percent of the vote went to Trump, she’s worked with organizations like the Casper NAACP, Planned Parenthood and the League of Women Voters. Most recently, she organized Casper’s women’s march, which was attended by about 750 people. Throughout the day, she heard many participants say, “I thought I was the only one who felt this way.” She hopes large, public actions will continue and lead to what she calls the normalization of progressive thought within the state. “We suffer from there being one party whose influence is so great,” she said.

More diversity represented within the state and the electorate would benefit everybody.

“Balance works better,” she emphasized.

When Ifland moved to Wyoming in 1980, she intuitively felt some of what Chenoweth’s research points to: “I saw the small numbers, and I felt that it was quite possible that a genuine revolution for justice could come out of

Wyoming, and I still do.”

Fighting for justice is something that has been an important part of Ifland’s identity since she was a young girl. She attended her first protest at 12 years old, alongside her mother, who was an active member of a group that combated redlining, a discriminatory practice in which landlords and homeowners would not rent or sell property to people of color.

Ifland now works against injustice in many forms, but she also knows its sting personally as someone who lived through a time when she was barely accepted in her workplace, and couldn’t get a credit card as a single woman.

In 1976, when she was in her mid-20s, Ifland got her first professional job selling radio advertising in Milwaukee for a large media company. As far as she knows, she was the first woman to have that job, and the first to be promoted from it to a higher position. In a virtually all male field, Ifland remembers that, “people didn’t know what to do with me, and I didn’t know what to do with me.”

Every day at lunch, Ifland faced an internal battle—should she eat with the traffic department, all of whom were women? Would doing so be putting herself in a secretarial role? Instead, after weeks of eating alone, she invited herself out to lunch with colleagues, all of whom were men, some of whom were less than welcoming. The first time she took a client out to lunch, he chose a place where a lingerie show happened during the meal. “His very clear purpose was to humiliate me,” Ifland said.

That was not the only moment of humiliation Ifland recalled. Once, the general manager of a TV Station reached out and stroked Ifland’s cheek, and said with surprise, “Oh, it’s soft!”

It was a sad moment, Ifland said. Because she was successful, he assumed she was hard, cold. “Women had to choose between being tough or soft.”

By the time Ifland left her job five years later, some of the sexism she experienced already seemed from another era: of the six people on her sales team, which had once been entirely male, five were women. So much progress has been made in Ifland’s life, and it gives her hope that change can be sustained even in trying times: “It’s easy to get trapped in what is going on now, but it was a lot worse back then.”

Today, she now finds herself again warning against complacency. “I think we presumed the rights we enjoy were fixed and didn’t need to be fought for. Now, it is abundantly clear that there will be many fights ahead, from racial justice to reproductive liberty,” she said. “These struggles have already begun, and they will not cease.

“It heartens me to watch the resistance coalesce,” she said.

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People who’ve been part of resistance movements have always had to find a sense of self-worth and community in unsanctioned ways, outside of what is accepted and defined by oppressive forces. “America isn’t going to love me ... so, I need to find and rebuild intimacy and trust on the interpersonal level,” Dalychia Saah said.

Saah, 25, is the daughter of Liberian immigrants. She was raised in Houston, Texas, and now lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up

a black woman in America was a lesson in not feeling enough—white enough, thin enough, pretty enough. “Society didn’t reflect me … so I tried to be white on some level. I thought I could achieve some level of whiteness if I lost weight, if I changed somehow. What you learn is there’s nothing you can do to be white, so you find affirmation in other places, fight those voices that say you’re not worth it.”

Now, as an Afro-sexologist, Saah devotes her time to helping others, particularly women of color, find affirmation and liberation in a culture that continues to invalidate, dismiss, and threaten non-white people. To be black is often to fear for oneself and community at all times. Like Montgomery, Saah has never felt free from the threat of violence: “Growing up black in America, you don’t even know how your body is taking everything on, all the racism and violence … you feel it all the time; you’re tense, paranoid, depressed.”

After a lifetime of internalizing fear, Saah calls it a radical act to love oneself, to affirm that “you are deserving of love and pleasure and success,” she said. “Black bodies have been used and exploited, and reclaiming the body is an act of resistance.”

This need for reclamation became abundantly clear to Saah after the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.

Demonstrations flared after a police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, and again when a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson.

In response to protests, police implemented curfews and deployed riot squads. Brown’s death, and the police’s reaction to protesters, became emblematic of the relationship between African American civilians and the police. Before and after Brown’s death, there were many cases across the country of unarmed black men and women subjected to extrajudicial force by police.

For Saah, being in Ferguson took a toll. In those moments of grief and imminent danger, everything felt like an attack. “It was a warlike environment, I became very defensive, very hardened … it was hard to know who was

the enemy,” she said. “You end up defending yourself against everything, even your lover, your community.”

It was unclear, she says, where the war began and ended, where safety could be found.

In the wake of Ferguson, Saah began to think about what it would mean to engage in “resistance through black joy,” to heal and find safety through relationships, connection, and intimacy.

Saah speaks to the need for people who are facing danger and oppression, who’ve lived “with tense shoulders and a stiff body forever … to release through the body, put your body at ease, to affirm your need for love and comfort.”

In the groups she’s led, Saah has found that many people of color can identify what they don’t want—police violence, sexual violence—but that it is harder to imagine what they do want. Her work moves people from just “picturing life without harm” to considering what liberation looks and feels like based on pleasure, not fear.

Black people in America, Saah said, “exist on a line between life and death.” In that space of constant fear, many are “pushed to existential crisis, toward the true meaning of life ... we’ve been forced to figure out who we are, to create and recreate ourselves … it’s not something I would trade. Until you truly have heartbreak you can’t truly experience joy.”

Resistance, Saah says, happens within individuals, relationships, and communities.

This ethic that can be expanded to movements for social change, said Rosemary Lytle, the president of the Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming NAACP State Conference. She has organized as a journalist and a community leader for more than 20 years, and always felt that power resides with those who aren’t given formal authority. This is particularly evident now when many cannot identify with the person in the highest office in the land.

Those who feel disenfranchised are seeking guidance in new places, and will experience a kind of reorienting of power, she

said. “We’ll find it where we always should have found it ... with indigenous people, with activists who have led nourishing movements for generations, we’ll find it with elders.”

This moment might be one of recreating and redefining meaning, a constant process that can be both painful and exciting.

As Saah noted, “Breaking down outside systems means breaking down systems within self … to believe that we can rebuild with trust and love.”

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All of these activists agree that moving forward is going to require reckoning and accountability. Chenoweth says some people in minorities communities are frustrated that white allies are just now showing up, after months and years of countless protests against issues predominantly affecting people of color, to police brutality to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Ifland also acknowledged that budding activists have to commit to fighting against all injustices, and supporting organizations that have been in the fight for a long time. Right now, she’s struggling to get people to commit to attending a NAACP banquet on February 11.

“It’s really important that we understand who are our allies are,” she said. “The most meaningful sign I saw at the march read, ‘We better be at the next Black Lives Matter march.’ It’s not enough to work for just your own justice.”

NAACP’s Lytle echoed Ifland. She says her motivation to keep fighting comes from knowing that ultimately, fates are connected.

What does she want budding activists to know? That they are a part of something, even when they don’t quite know what it is yet. She pictures her town, region, nation, like a body: “We must respond to injustice, even in the places we don’t live, because at some point we are all going to be breathing the same molecules in the air. I have parts of me that are in Wyoming, and I should care about those cells.” PJH

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MUSIC BOX Get Funked Up Six bands, including Galactic, to hijack valley dance floors this week.

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adies and gents, funk week has arrived.

Headlined by quintessential funk veterans Galactic on Tuesday at the Knotty Pine, area venues are jam-packed with wah-wah pedals, psychedelic delays, punchy horns and synthesizers in support of that pulsing groove that transfixes so many freakers-by-the-speakers.

Also on tap is Baltimore’s Pigeons Playing Ping Pong with local staple Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons; the Colorado onslaught of Amoramora; The Magic Beans with Cycles; and up-and-coming locals Freda Felcher.

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is among the few bands in the jam genre that’s not opposed to infusing humor in their lyrics and image. “Burning Up My Time,” from the band’s 2015 release Pleasure, is a piece of this light-hearted spirit, be it slightly head-scratching: “Everybody’s talking about the war but we don’t know what we’re fighting for/If you look up you’ll see that your mangos ain’t a priority.” They’re a jovial bunch of dudes in 70s garb bringing “end-of-the-world” enthusiasm and loving every minute of it.

Locally grown funksters Sneaky Pete and the Secret Weapons share this co-bill for good reason—they’ve been crushing it. The quintet has a groovy new fulllength, Dojo, and they encompass a rare touring mentality beyond Jackson, where the band’s hard earned local following of Weaponeers always seem to rally. If you haven’t visited with the Weapons in a bit, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the musicality.

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The very serious Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

the Secret Weapons, 9 p.m. Thursday, February 2 at the Pink Garter Theatre. $12. PinkGarterTheatre.com, 307-733-1500.

Fuzzed-out uke Listening to the onset of Jake Shimabukuro’s 2016 release Nashville Sessions, you might think for a moment you were still listening to the hard-hitting electro-pyschedelia of the aforementioned funk bands. Critics and purists do not always welcome a mid-career album that steps this far out of the box with open arms, though exploring different textures and themes is an inquisitive artist’s journey.

Fuzzed-out Zeppelin rocking, guitar-like 70s rock-fusion, and saturated reverb on a plugged-in ukulele are not new to Shimabukuro’s fans in the live setting. But Nashville Sessions is a progressive rock

snapshot that comes off as more in-the-moment than his high-fidelity acoustic musings, such as 2007’s In My Life.

Drummer Evan Hutchings and his regular touring bassist Nolan Verner joined him for the sessions, and you’re likely to get a nice dose of this jammy material.

Verner will join Shimabukuro for this show.

Jake Shimabukuro, Friday at the Center Theater. $44. JHCenterForTheArts.org, 307-733-4900.

Support a station with soul

If diversity in music is important to you, you likely already listen to the non-commercial format that is embraced by Jackson Hole Community Radio KHOL 89.1 FM. To maintain this style of radio service with fewer ads, the station runs a membership drive twice a year. The winter drive runs February 7 to 13.

WEDNESDAY The Met Live in HD: Romeo & Juliette (Center Theater), PTO & Stackhouse (Mangy Moose) THURSDAY Pigeons Playing Ping Pong with Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons (Pink Garter Theatre) FRIDAY Jake Shimabukuro (Center Theater), Freda Felcher (Moose Hockey), Gleewood (Silver Dollar), Chanman Roots Band (Trap Bar)

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“We get around 75 percent of our operating budget from these two drives, with the majority of the rest coming from underwriting, which is our version of advertising, and Old Bill’s,” explained station manager Zach Zimmerman. “We get zero state or federal funding. Especially in the current media climate, we are proud to be completely independent and locally supported.” Zimmerman also pointed to a brimming on-air schedule and the variety of programming the station offers on a weekly basis.

The station’s last drive raised a record $56 thousand.

This was, in part, because of the popular Dean Ween Group/Meat Puppets show along with the fact that there are more people involved as volunteer DJs and program creators than ever before, including more than 60 volunteers. Another membership appreciation party is in the works, likely for May. Donor thank

you rewards vary based on donation level and include a raffle ticket to win a Franco Custom Snowshape snowboard, KHOL beanies, hoodies, baseball hats, and more, along with tons of goodies donated by local businesses. Check out the revamped website 891khol. org/membership for more details.

For 2017, Zimmerman hopes to hear KHOL in even more places. “One thing I am looking to do is start a ‘Listen local first’ campaign, especially targeting local businesses,” Zimmerman said. “Locals and visitors alike come to Jackson for a unique experience, so why not make the radio that you hear in businesses across the valley reflect the community?” PJH Aaron Davis is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

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MONDAY JH Hootenanny (Dornan’s)

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n Open Studio: Portrait Model 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Snowboard Steep & Deep Camp 9:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, 307-733-2292 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Feathered Fridays 12:00pm, Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center, Free, 307-201-5433 n Brain Works 3:00pm, St. John’s Medical Center, $300.00, 307-739-7493

SUNDAY Major Zephyr (Mangy Moose), Hof Polka Band (Alpenhof)

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SATURDAY Amoramora (Mangy Moose), The Magic Beans with Cycles (Town Square Tavern), Screen Door Porch EP Release (Knotty Pine)

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n The Center Presents An Evening with Jake Shimabukuro 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $42.00, 307-7334900 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 844-9967827 n Gleewood 7:30pm, Silver Dollar, Free, 307-732-3939 n Amoramora 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-7333886 n The Boys are Back in Town: 3 DJ’s from Florida 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-7331500

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4

n Citrus Fest at Jackson Whole Grocer 7:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Winter Trails Day 9:00am, Trails around, Free, 307-733-4534 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Collage 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $60.00, 307-733-6379 n Teton Valley Winter Farmers’ Market 10:00am, MD Nursery, Free, 208-354-8816 n Grand National Powder 8’s 10:30am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, 307-733-2292 n Canyon Kids 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-3532300 n Amoramora 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, $5.00, 307-733-4913 n Après Ski and Art 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Moose Hockey Game 7:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-201-1633 n Gleewood 7:30pm, Silver Dollar, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Magic Bean & Cycles 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, 307-733-3886 n Screen Door Porch 9:00pm, Knotty Pine, Free, 208-787-2866 n Amoramora 9:30pm, Mangy Moose, $5.00, 307-733-4913 n Live Music w/ The Minor Keys 10:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-7331500

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5

n Citrus Fest at Jackson Whole Grocer 7:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450

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CREATIVE PEAKS Geometric Genius Textile designer takes nature-inspired creations to the next level.

BY MEG DALY

T

here’s something about a design

by Lisa Walker. Perhaps it’s the simple concepts, the hand-drawn patterns inspired by nature, the touches of whimsy. Her textiles beckon to be touched, and the fabrics she uses— bamboo, denim, waxed canvas— reward the hand with natural, appealing textures. If you’ve visited Workshop, Persephone, Aspen’s Market, Picnic, Vertical Harvest, or Skipping Stones, you’ve likely encountered her elegant yet casual tea towels, napkins, baby blankets and scarves.

The evolution of her business, Lisa Walker Handmade, has been as organic as the bamboo she uses in her scarves and blankets. She started four years ago, designing upcycled textiles she sewed herself, making clutches and tote bags. The next year she advanced her production to use only her own textiles printed with her hand-drawn geometric designs. The business has expanded every year since, taking on bigger projects, like a 17-foot denim table runner for a wedding this summer, as well as a hand-beaded print of a hand-drawn, geometrically styled owl that is part of the Aesop’s Fables exhibit at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. “I’ve never had a clear business model and plan,” she said. “I started with the tea towels and then ... scarves.

It’s just grown from there.”

Her “Teton” design, featured on several sizes of scarves, takes its cue from the classic outline of the iconic mountain range, but takes its own direction with an offbeat mirror of the mountains, reflecting down the fabric in varying shades and prisms.

A more abstract design like “Tribal” features a netting of triangles and crosshatches, all hand-drawn then printed in white ink on denim napkins, placemats and table runners. Still, another design for a scarf is simply a field of stars.

The designs are a nod toward minimalism and Scandinavian design, but yet singularly unique, conveying

a modern interpretation of the rugged elements of Wyoming.

“I’m so inspired by this place and all it has to offer,” Walker said. “It may not be the best place to start a production based business [because of lack of printing resources], but this business wouldn’t have happened without my inspiration that I pull from this place.”

Walker works out of her home, which she shares with her husband, painter and Teton Artlab founder Travis Walker, and their two young sons. She says having her studio in her home is the only way she can run her own business and be a full-time mom. Walker has a large table set up for working on designs and sewing, and several bookcases repurposed as shelving for her stock of fabric and finished pieces.

“I can work at all times, day or night, and I work a lot,” she said. “My kids are here, and I can stop and we can go play.

I’ve had the privilege to be with them for those fundamental years. I think it’s great for them to see how my business happens. They are kind of invested in it because it happens in their space.”

For Walker, parenting has also led to artistic breakthroughs. Two summers ago she was packing for a family trip to Moab and grabbed a large square of bamboo cloth that was earmarked to become a baby blanket. Instead, it became a light blanket for the boys, a picnic blanket, and even a scarf to keep her warm on cool desert nights. When she returned from their trip, she started making “blanket scarves” which have been scooped up avidly by customers.

“The blanket scarf is super functional,” she said. “You can wear it and use it 800 ways.”

Walker trained as a graphic designer, and earned her BFA in graphic design from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. She and Travis moved to the valley in 2002. She worked at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort for several years in its marketing department and at Alpinist

magazine. In addition, she has a steady pool of freelance clients needing anything from website design and branding to a simple business card.

But like other designers, she has seen the bottom drop out of the design field.

The advent of cheap, online design work has hit freelance designers hard.

Walker realized things were really dire when she found herself applying for design jobs that paid less than she paid her babysitter.

“Experienced designers are not worth as much as we used to be,” Walker said. “As we gain experience we are becoming worth less because of the advancement of online resources.

There’s so much that goes into design that people don’t always understand or attach a value to.”

Specializing in textile design has been a fulfilling answer for Walker, even if she’s not yet making a lot of money. As with many creative businesses, Walker is still figuring out how to maximize profit without losing quality of materials or the hand-made process.

“What I’m doing now feeds a creative thing for me,” she said. “I like it because it combines a lot of skills. I design the photo shoots and the website.”

Now, Walker says she finds herself at a crossroads after her printer left the valley. In order to make her bigger pieces, like the blanket scarf or pillowcases, she needs to work with a specialized screen printer. She can’t send the larger work off to a print shop elsewhere, as she does for smaller pieces like napkins and tea towels. Her overall production will be changing in the next year in ways she is not quite sure about. But she’s undaunted.

“Even though I don’t know exactly what’s coming for the next year, I see this as the beginning,” she said. “I have so much more that I want to do.” PJH For more, check LisaWalkerHandmade.com

Jackson Hole, WY

8th / Wednesday

9th / Thursday

10th / Friday

10th / Friday

An Evening with Violinist Benjamin Beilman & Pianist Andrew Tyson

Chamber Music with Festival Musicians

A Piano Recital with Lise de la Salle

GTMF Presents: Portland Cello Project

7PM | St. John’s Episcopal Church FREE; NO TICKET REQUIRED

7PM | Center for the Arts TICKETS $25

Perception to Pleasure: Musical Processing in the Brain with Dr. Zatorre

7PM | Center for the Arts TICKETS $25

12PM | Teton County Library FREE; TICKET REQUIRED

7PM | Center for the Arts TICKETS $25

Student Tickets are Free | Day-Of Rush Tickets Available

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Contact the Center for the Arts Box Office to redeem

Tickets for select events may also be purchased at the Center for the Arts Box Office | 265 South Cache Street Featured Artwork by Jason Rohlf at Diehl Gallery

TICKETS

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n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n First Sundays 10:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Major Zephyr 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307733-4913 n Wine Tasting on a Budget 4:00pm, Dornans, $10.00, 307-7332415 n Super Bowl Party 4:30pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307733-3316 n The Magic Bean & Cycles 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, 307733-3886

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6

n Citrus Fest at Jackson Whole Grocer 7:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Perpetual Painting 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $160.00, 307-733-6379 n Digital Photography 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, 307-7337425 n Create with Me: Ages 2 & 3 with caregiver 9:15am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $75.00 - $90.00, 307-7336379 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Kindercreations Ages 3-5 10:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $80.00 - $96.00,

307-733-6379 n Foreign Policy Series 12:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n B.O.G.D.O.G - Band On Glen Down on Glen 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307733-4913 n After School Kidzart Club: Grade K-2 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $165.00 - $198.00, 307-7336379 n Handbuilding Plus!

3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 - $180.00, 307-7336379 n Studio Sampler 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $264.00 - $316.00, 307-7336379 n Chance Meetings 5:00pm, The Rose, Free n Estate Planning 5:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $190.00, 307-733-7425 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307-7332415 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307733-3316 n Printmaking 101 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $200.00 - $240.00, 307-7336379 n SheJumps Wax & Wine in Teton Village 6:00pm, Nomad Sports, $15.00 n Foreign Policy Series 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Bob Marley Birthday Bash 8:00pm, Stagecoach Bar, Free, 307-690-3339

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

n Citrus Fest at Jackson Whole Grocer 7:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n 89.1 KHOL Winter Membership Drive 8:00am, The Center, 307-733-5465 n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-7332164 n White Lightning Open Mic Night 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Brain Works 3:00pm, St. John’s Medical Center, $300.00, 307-739-7493 n Community Mental Health Meetings 3:00pm, Ordway Auditorium, Teton County Library, Free, 307-739-7516 n Intro Photography 3:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $140.00 - $168.00, 307-7336379 n The Maw Band 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307733-4913 n Hand and Wheel 3:45pm, Ceramics Studio, $180.00 $216.00, 307-733-6379 n Winter Wonderland - Ice Skating on Town Square 4:00pm, Town Square, $0.00 $8.00, 307-733-3932

n 2017 Special Olympics WInter Games 5:00pm, Various Locations, 307235-3062 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Lightroom Basics 5:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $140.00 - $168.00, 307-7336379 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307733-3316 n Handbuilding Clay 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $184.00 - $220.00, 307-7336379 n THE RESILIENCE GYM: Mental training for stress, pain, and illness 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $25.00, 307-733-7425 n An Evening with Violinist Benjamin Beilman and Pianist Andrew Tyson 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $25.00, 307-733-3050 n B.O.G.D.O.G. 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n SIRIUSXM Jam On presents: Galactic Winter Tour 10:00pm, Knotty Pine, $40.00, 208-787-2866

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MILL IRON RANCH VALENTINE’S WEEKEND SPECIAL SAT. FEBRUARY 11TH & TUE. FEBRUARY 14TH Guests will enjoy a horse-drawn sleigh ride, views of the native wildlife & picturesque mountains before sitting down in the lodge with one of Chancey’s Special T-Bone Steaks plus sides.

Afterward, enjoy BARN DANCING to live music of local band HOG ISLAND RAMBLERS.

SLEIGH RIDE, DINNER & MUSIC: $160 per couple DINNER AND MUSIC: $110 per couple Gratuity not included.

Call for reservations and information

(307)733-6390

Chocolate Covered Strawberries • Cash Bar • Happy Hour 4-6pm • Open Nightly

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Smoky Sips Potent potions, from wine and whiskey to mezcal.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

R

ecently, a friend of mine asked if I’d ever tried a “smoky” wine.

He recounted ordering a bottle of zinfandel in a restaurant and said he was “tormented as to whether or not I was drinking smoke or wine.”

The wine in question was California’s Predator Zinfandel Old Vine ($15.98), produced in Lodi. The answer is yes, I have tried smoky wines, along with smoky spirits. One of the former I’ve tasted (and enjoyed) is the aforementioned Predator Zinfandel.

As with most things in life, smoke and oak in wines and other beverages ought to be used judiciously and in moderation. There’s nothing wrong with smoky flavors and aromas—often called “cigar box” or “tobacco”—but if it tastes like someone dumped a tablespoon of Liquid Smoke into your glass,

that’s clearly a wine that is heavy-handed and unbalanced.

On the other hand, there are libations that are intended to be subtly smoky, “subtle” being the operative term. For example, pinotage from South Africa is a somewhat acquired taste for many. It often has smoky, gamey flavors that lots of folks describe as bacon-like.

Not surprisingly, these and other smoky wines tend to pair well with grilled, barbecued and smoked meats and fish.

Smoke is also a characteristic of many sought-after syrah-based wines from the Northern Rhône Valley in France.

It’s a typical component of red wines like Crozes, Côte-Rôtie, Cornas, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and the like. The same is true of some Australian shiraz.

One of my favorite smoky Aussie treats is d’Arenberg McLaren Vale Footbolt Shiraz ($14.95). Other smoky and cigar box wines I’ve enjoyed include Italian Nebbiolos and Barolos, some Spanish reds from Rioja and Argentine malbec. However, if you’re finding smoke in varietals like cabernet sauvignon or pinot noir, it’s probably due to spoilage from Brettanomyces (“Brett”) yeast.

IMBIBE Certain grapes, like pinotage and syrah/shiraz, tend to become smoky naturally with age. But toasted and oaky wine barrels used for aging also contribute to accompanying flavors in wine. Sources of smoke include toasted wine barrels, but also sometimes the soil itself. Oak-aged red wines often have what wine writers refer to as a “smoky-sweet finish.” It should be a good thing: subtle and not overpowering.

Certain spirits can taste and smell smoky, as well. Peat that is dried and smoked imparts the smoke flavors that connoisseurs love in their Scotch whiskies. Think Laphroaig 10 Year Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky ($49.99), which offers sweet peat smoke in unison with the briny sea air of Islay.

Mexican mezcal, too, is typically quite smoky. It’s made by cooking the piñas (hearts) of agave plants for around three days in pits heated with hot rocks. It’s

that underground roasting that lends the smoky flavors. Cheap mezcal often tastes overwhelmingly smoky and out of balance. However, first-rate brands such as Wahaka Mezcal Joven Espadin ($31.99) offer fruity flavors followed by smoke and black pepper. It’s a mezcal worthy of sipping all alone, just like a fine Scotch whisky.

Woody flavors in white wine can most often be traced to oak. If you’ll permit me a bit of chemistry: phenols in oak barrels interact with wine to produce vanilla flavors, along with cream, spice, caramel and smoke. There’s also a new trend where some renegade winemakers are employing used American whiskey barrels— which are charred on the inside to take the harshness out of raw whiskey—to age wine. By contrast, wine barrels are usually toasted to add the flavors mentioned previously (vanilla, cream, etc.). I think it goes without saying that wine aged in charred whiskey barrels are likely to be smoke bombs. PJH

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Lunch 11:30am Monday-Saturday Dinner 5:30pm Nightly

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.

Dinner Nightly at 5:30pm

HAPPY HOUR Daily 4-6:00pm

45 S. Glenwood

307.201.1717 | LOCALJH.COM ON THE TOWN SQUARE

Available for private events & catering For reservations please call 734-8038

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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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Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom and pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves!

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine.

Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

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.

Two- fer Tuesday is back !

Two-for-one 12” pies all day. Dine-in or Carry-out.

(LIMIT 6 PIES PER CARRYOUT ORDER, PLEASE.)

11am - 9:30pm daily 20 W. Broadway 307.201.1472

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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

www.mangymoose.com

CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF

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.

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 5:306:0pm, Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant. com.

FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT PIZZAS, PASTAS & MORE HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS

CAFE GENEVIEVE

FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED OFFERINGS

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

TAKE OUT AVAILABLE Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

ELEANOR’S

Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. 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.

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LOCAL & DOMESTIC STEAKS SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK @ 5:30 TILL 10 JHCOWBOYSTEAKHOUSE.COM 307-733-4790

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 locallysourced 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.

LOTUS CAFE

Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free 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. 140 N. Cache, (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.

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

Jackson’s first Speakeasy Steakhouse. The Million Dollar Cowboy Steakhouse is a hidden gem located below the world famous Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Our menu offers guests the best in American steakhouse cuisine. Top quality chops and steaks sourced from local farms, imported Japanese Wagyu beef, and house-cured meats and sausages. Accentuated with a variety of thoughtful side dishes, innovative appetizers, creative vegetarian items, and decadent desserts, a meal at this landmark location is sure to be a memorable one. Reservations are highly recommended.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing. 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) 7348038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO EARLY BIRD SPECIAL

20%OFF ENTIRE BILL

Good between 5:30-6pm • Open nightly at 5:30pm Please mention ad for discount.

733-3912 160 N. Millward

Make your reservation online at bluelionrestaurant.com

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

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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 Large Specialty Pizza ADD: Wings (8 pc)

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Medium Pizza (1 topping) Stuffed Cheesy Bread

for an extra $5.99/each

(307) 733-0330 520 S. Hwy. 89 • Jackson, WY

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Hand-tossed, 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 microbrews 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.

SWEETS

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DOMINO’S PIZZA

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Meeteetse Chocolatier brings their unique blend of European style chocolates paired with “Wyomingesque” flavors. Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit, Sage, Huckleberry and Sarsaparilla lead off a decadent collection of truffles, Belgian chocolates and hand made caramel. Sample Single Origin and Organic chocolates at our Tasting Station. Open Weekends, 265 W. Broadway. 307-413-8296. meeteetsechocolatier.com

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On a Lighter Note

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hat is the simplest, cost-free, in your control and proven way to instantly upgrade your health, your mood and the well-being of others? Smiling.

We all know when we are happy our natural response is to smile. It turns out the opposite is also true. Science has demonstrated that even when we are not feeling happy and choose to smile, even forcing a real smile, even a tiny upturn at the corner of your mouth, even faking it— this also dissolves stress and adds happiness. It is very hard to entertain negative thoughts while smiling. So, put on a happy face.

Smile biochemistry Smiling activates the release of feel good biochemistry, including endorphins, dopamine and serotonin. These neurotransmitters help by relaxing the body, lowering blood pressure, slowing the heart rate, relieving pain and elevating your mood. Smiling also activates the immune system, making the combination of all these benefits a dose of feeling good on all levels.

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Flashing a smile also makes us appear more attractive to others. In research studies, subjects consistently rate the faces of smiling people as better looking. And people treat smiling people differently. When you smile others view you as safe, reliable, sincere, and approachable.

Smiling is contagious When you see a smiling face it turns out you actually feel rewarded. Why? We already know it is pleasant and welcoming, but studies reveal that seeing an attractive smiling face activates the orbitofrontal cortex, the region in the brain that processes sensory rewards. Maybe this explains why most people like observing and interacting with babies and little kids: we are giving and receiving smiles. In addition, we unconsciously tend to mimic the facial expressions of others. Therefore, when you are smiling at someone, it’s likely they can’t help but return the smile. Or at least it takes a conscious effort to intercept the brain’s signals to smile back.

The big picture It has been said that if enough people in this world were laughing, smiling and happy for one full day, it would dispel negativity from the Earth. This could be a worthy global social media experiment.

At the very least, the next time you look in the mirror smile at your own image. Your grin will override any negative self-talk, you will enjoy a measurable uplift, and you can pass on the good vibes to others. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant.

Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

WELLNESS COMMUNITY

These businesses provide health or wellness services for the Jackson Hole community and its visitors.

DEEP TISSUE • SPORTS MASSAGE • THAI MASSAGE MYOFASCIAL RELEASE CUPPING

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Professional and Individualized Treatments • Sports/Ortho Rehab • Neck and Back Rehab • Rehabilitative Pilates • Incontinence Training • Pelvic Pain Rehab • Lymphedema Treatments Norene Christensen PT, DSc, OCS, CLT Rebekah Donley PT, DPT, CPI Mark Schultheis PT, CSCS Kim Armington PTA, CPI No physician referral required.

(307) 733-5577•1090 S Hwy 89

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REDNECK PERSPECTIVE SATIRE

Hog Island Adopts Alternative Reality For all MEETING AGENDAS AND MINUTES WEEKLY CALENDAR JOB OPENINGS SOLICITATIONS FOR BIDS PUBLIC NOTICES AND OTHER VALUABLE INFORMATION

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TetonWyo.org The public meeting agendas and minutes for the Board of County Commissioners and Planning Commission can also be found in the Public Notices section of the JH News and Guide.

RABBIT ROW REPAIR WE SERVICE THEM ALL …

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BY CLYDE THORNHILL

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ean Spicer, press secretary to the new Hog Island Mayor Ndogo Uume, announced that the mayor is planning a gala party to celebrate his favorite team’s victory in the Super Bowl.

“The Dallas Cowboys are going to kick ass!” he exclaimed. “We expect them to win by at least a touchdown.

They would win by more if it wasn’t for cheating by immigrants, liberals and the New England Patriots.”

Spicer went on to claim that Uume’s Super Bowl party would be, “the largest ever in the trailer park.”

News of the party was met with ridicule throughout the trailer court.

Nobody in Wyoming likes the Dallas Cowboys except Congressperson Liz Cheney. And she only likes them because she gets the Dallas Cowboys confused with the Wyoming Cowboys.

“Laramie, Dallas, whatever,” she said. “I have Washington D.C. power brunches and Fox News interviews; I don’t have time to worry about geography!”

Later that week during an interview with the Hog Island Bacon and Gun Digest, Uume’s political adviser Kellyanne Conway was informed by this “reporter” that Dallas got beat by the Green Bay Packers in the divisional playoff round and it is ridiculous to assume they could win the Super Bowl since they were not playing in the Super Bowl.

I explained to Conway that it’s important to note that no one in the trailer court likes the Dallas Cowboys, except perhaps latté sippers, sushi suckers and other closet degenerates.

And further, it is impossible to know that Uume’s party was the largest ever since it hadn’t happened yet and, in this trailer court, NASCAR events usually outdraw football two-to-one.

Conway snarled. “Your job is not to call things ridiculous that are said

by our press secretary and our mayor.

That’s why we feel compelled to go out and clear the air and put alternative facts out there. Uume is a Dallas Cowboys fan and we have complete confidence the Dallas Cowboys will bring home another Super Bowl trophy, just like they have the last five years!”

Later that day, Uume, sensing the disbelief in the trailer park, announced free Bud Lite and deep-fat-friedbreaded bacon wrapped sausage for all Dallas fans. Suddenly the trailer park was filled with people dressed in Dez Bryant jerseys and taking bets on the over/under and point spread with Dallas being a 10-point favorite.

When TV promotions for the game suggested the Super Bowl would pit Atlanta, not Dallas, against New England, Uume denounced the lying liberal press. An all Dallas Cowboys fan march was organized and 10 people showed up carrying signs demanding equality for those who believed Dallas was in the Super Bowl. Uume gave an amazing, wonderful, homerun speech to the crowd, which according to his official estimation was 50,000 strong.

He said he’s proud his convictions would not be swayed by reality.

“This administration will not be influenced by facts… well maybe alternative facts when they align with my amazing self-image,” he said to “thunderous” applause. PJH

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ALUMINUM FOIL & PIE PLATES

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Special Items Collected At The Recycling Center

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ELECTRONICS: TV’s, Computers, etc.

BATTERIES: Alkaline, lithium, rechargeable BOOKS: Hard & softcover & phone books TEXTILES: Clothing, linen, etc.

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EGG CARTONS

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