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13 COVER STORY THE FOILIES 2017 Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency.
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4 ON THE GROUND
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6 DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
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March 15-21, 2017 By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey After what has seemed like an especially long winter, a little more sunshine and high temperatures getting up near 50-degrees will cause anyone to get a little spring fever. Spring will officially begin this next Monday with the Vernal Equinox. Set your alarm to be there for the first minute of the new season, as it occurs precisely at 4:29 a.m. on March 20th, 2017. We are also at that point where we have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night.
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The long-term average low temperatures this week are still in the mid-teens, indicating that cold starts to the day are still possible. With new snow on the ground and a clear night, achieving a low that is lower than average is also quite possible. The coldest temperature recorded in Jackson in mid-March was 25-degrees below zero on March 16th, 1955. Conversely, the warmest overnight low temperature this week was 44-degrees on March 19th, 2004.
After being conditioned to colder than normal temperatures back in December and January, average high temperatures in the lower 40’s becomes tee-shirt weather on a sunny day. High temperatures in the 50’s will cause folks to ditch their skis and get out the bikes. Record high temperatures in the 60’s, like we have had here in mid-March, might cause us to declare that summer is here. The hottest temperature during this week was 66-degrees, that also occurred on March 16th, back in 1994.
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Marching With Suspicion Was the Native Nations Rise March just a PR move? BY MAX MOGREN
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housands of Native Americans and allies took part in the Native Nations Rise March in Washington, D.C. on Friday. Approximately 8,000 people marched that morning despite it being cold, wet and blustery; weather that seemed to signal something about the march itself, some would later conclude. Conditions in D.C. that week were eerily reminiscent of what we experienced in North Dakota leading up to the eviction and destruction of the Water Protectors’s main encampment: several unseasonably warm and sunny days followed by an abrupt, severe drop in temperature and a rain/snow mix on the day of the big event. The march began at the Army Corps of Engineers Building and made stops at Trump International Hotel and the White House. It ended with a pizza party at a temporary teepee encampment on the lawn near the Washington Memorial obelisk. Several musicians performed including Talib Kweli, Tabu (a Native member of The Black Eyed Peas), and Prolific the Rapper, a Lakota man from South Dakota whose hit song “Black Snakes” has become an anthem of the Water Protector Movement. Prolific the Rapper is currently facing up to seven years in jail for charges stemming from flying a small drone “in a threatening manner”” near North Dakota law enforcement. Dozens of Indigenous and non-Native speakers addressed the crowd during the march and throughout several days of events leading up to it. Most
were received respectfully and in solidarity with the assembled crowd. The only speaker I witnessed who was met with widespread animosity was Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Dave Archimbault Jr., who appeared briefly on stage near the White House. Archimbault’s short speech attempted to link him with the wishes of Native youth, but it was interrupted by hecklers and punctuated with boos. Archimbault has been a polarizing figure for the movement since early December when he infamously declared victory and told the Water Protectors to go home. His words were repeated by the mainstream media as justification for clearing out the encampments. By mid-December the Standing Rock Tribal Council—led by Archimbault—officially withdrew support for the encampments though their website still accepts donations for a Dakota Access Pipeline Fund. It is not clear where that money goes, but it certainly isn’t going to the camps that the Tribal Council voted unanimously to evict on January 22. Archimbault has been accused of misappropriating funds intended for the encampments and even of accepting bribes to derail efforts to stop DAPL. Under Archimbault’s leadership several prayer encampments of private land, well above the floodplain within the Standing Rock Reservation, were evicted shortly after the main camp was destroyed on February 23. Water Protectors fled main camp to Sacred Stone and Black Hoop camps on the rez only to be evicted again by BIA acting on orders from the Standing Rock Tribal Council. On Wednesday, March 8—while most Water Protectors were headed to D.C.—BIA, on orders from the Standing Rock Tribal Council, bulldozed the school and kitchen buildings at Sacred Stone Camp. These buildings were on private land, built up to code, and arguably ranked among the nicest structures of any kind near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Sacred Stone Camp was the first of several camps built on and around the Standing Rock Reservation
to peacefully oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. Landowner and camp founder Ladonna Brave Bull Ballard welcomed a permanent settlement on her land overlooking the Missouri River, but the Tribal Council shut it down against the wishes of Ballard and other camp organizers. “We have been betrayed by Standing Rock Tribal Council,” wrote Ballard in a Facebook post February 2, when law enforcement showed up unannounced at her door to assess conditions and the future of the camp. Ballard was not available for comment at the Native Nations Rise March but maintains an active presence on her personal Facebook page and the Sacred Stone Camp page. Wyomingites Tahnee Redwing, Big Wind Lott, and Little Wind Lott from the Wind River Reservation made the journey to D.C. to attend the March. “It felt good to see all the people supporting us, but it seemed like a huge distraction,” said 20-year-old Little Wind. “It was all a big show, and now the show’s over. Everyone goes home thinking we accomplished something here, but it was just a march. DAPL Dave helped set this up, and it feels like a set up.” Other Water Protectors echoed Little Wind’s sentiments, saying long-term encampments are a more affordable and effective means of raising real awareness through civil disobedience versus traveling cross-country to an expensive city to take part in a permitted march. Some Water Protectors I spoke with worried that their possessions at Standing Rock would be bulldozed and taken to the landfill before they got back. Some, including the Lott siblings, spent every dollar they had getting to D.C. to take part in the march. This spring the Lott siblings hope to visit anti-pipeline encampments around America to share lessons learned during their time at Standing Rock. So far they have raised almost $500 through their “Rezpect Our Water Tour” GoFundMe campaign, approximately enough gas money to drive from Riverton, Wyoming, to D.C. and back. PJH
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Red Menace or Redneck? Digging into Russia, race, and Jeff Sessions.
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ashington these days has the paranoid atmosphere of a John Le Carré novel, with whispers of shady Russian connections lingering in the air like stale cigarette smoke and old tweets. Existential dread is the dominant mood—not only the dread of nuclear annihilation, but also of continuing to exist under a regime so topsy-turvy it makes imagining what will happen tomorrow impossible. Everyone is overwhelmed, simultaneously addicted to the constant upswell of scandal and false hope of normalcy. We’ve all become spies. I’ll admit I don’t know what to make of all of this Russia shit. Obviously the Trump people keep lying about it and should be investigated. But I’m not going to go full Louise Mensch or anything either. Mensch, who was a conservative in the British Parliament, is among the most prominent Wolverines who think Putin murdered Andrew Breitbart and that a group of North Carolina hackers are behind Anthony Weiner’s sexts. Mensch has made some solid points—reporting on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretap at Trump Tower before the election—but seems misguided in her belief that, any day now, “Trump is going down for obstruction of justice and it’s beautiful.” I mean, it would be beautiful. I momentarily succumbed to the dream-like logic of thinking something had to give a couple weeks ago when Jeff Sessions announced a press conference to discuss the revelation that he had lied about two meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. And, for the briefest moment, everything I know gave way to the absurdity that press conferences matter and Sessions might actually tell the truth. So I decided to race across town to hear what he had to say. Problem was, I had weed in my pocket and though it is legal in the District—for now—it is not legal on federal property, and Sessions is the one person in the country who still has a major hard-on for arresting people with pot. Fuck it, I thought, as I hopped the train and raced downtown. I can stash it in a bush or something. I dashed up out of the metro station and started running the few blocks toward the Department of Justice building, with the live-stream of the conference primed on my phone. Before I could get there, Sessions started talking.
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At least I didn’t have to worry about the weed. I stood outside, right across from Trump International Hotel and watched Sessions on my phone. And somehow that moment—watching on my device as a man likely lied about lying, across from the president’s hotel with something that is neither legal nor illegal in my pocket,—seemed to embody all the contradictions of our world. “I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign. And the idea that I was part of a ‘continuing exchange of information’ during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government is totally false,” Sessions said. After a few moments of this, I needed to smoke some of the weed and so retired to an undisclosed location. Sessions’s Alabama accent, which sounds so familiar to me from growing up in the South, lingered in my mind. His red neck is at least as concerning as his connections with the red menace. Sessions has made a career of stoking fear, and his policies amount to a war on black and brown people. “Inner city crime,” “terrorism,” “drugs,” and “immigration” are all code words that allow him to attack African Americans, Muslims, and Latinx people. His Justice Department will likely ignore the epidemic of African Americans killed by police, and he is against consent decrees, legal agreements between DOJ and local police departments with patterns and practices of abuse or constitutional violations, intended to curb the unchecked power of local cops. “I think there is concern that good police officers and good departments can be sued by the Department of Justice when you just have individuals within a department that have done wrong,” Sessions said in early January. “These lawsuits undermine the respect for police officers and create an impression that the entire department is not doing their work consistent with fidelity to law and fairness.” In Baltimore—where the last consent decree under Obama’s DOJ was negotiated—on the day after Sessions’ press conference seven officers were indicted on federal racketeering charges after a long-running investigation. As if to disprove Sessions’s claim that “you just have individuals” doing wrong, a few
days later, the Baltimore police commissioner dissolved the entire plainclothes intelligence division of the department. “During the course of our investigation, we received a large number of anecdotes specifically identifying plainclothes officers ... as particularly aggressive and unrestrained,” the DOJ report on policing in the city read, fueling the commissioner’s decision to eliminate this division. The civil rights division of DOJ has also typically investigated voter suppression. But given the Trump regime’s false claims of voter fraud, the division is more likely to turn its resources to trying to keep people from voting. Sessions has already dropped an objection to voting rights restrictions in Texas. When civil rights leaders met with him on March 7 and laid out their position on voting rights and police reform, according to Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Sessions “listened respectfully and said that I was ‘articulate.’” Sativa and Sessions are a bad combo. I needed a drink. At an Irish pub near the Capitol, I ended up on a stool beside Thomas Perez, the former Secretary of Labor and the newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee. Perez had also served twice as assistant attorney general. So I figured I’d ask him about Sessions. “I think he should resign,” Perez said, beer in hand. “I think he’s unfit to serve. I worked for the Justice Department three different tours of duty, and, as Jeff Sessions said in 1999 in the Bill Clinton impeachment hearing, ‘No one is above the law.’” He walked away. I took a swig of beer. “Isn’t it pretty to think so,” I muttered to myself. 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. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, focusing on ethics and tyranny, and became a reporter in an attempt to live like Socrates. Send tips to democracyincrisiscolumn@gmail.com
Path to the Past Photographer Bradley Boner’s book is a visual marvel that stirs important discussion. BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature
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had been waiting months for Bradley Boner’s book to arrive, after making a contribution to his successful request for funding via Kickstarter a while back. When Yellowstone National Park: Through the Lens of Time, finally landed in our living room last week, I was more than pleasantly surprised. The book has spurred a lot of thinking about the rate of change in Greater Yellowstone’s landscapes; not so much about natural landmarks which weather the elements well and are the primary objects of Boner’s fascination. Rather, change associated with how record numbers of people now are swarming the national parks during high tourist season, inundating front country areas both inside and outside of Yellowstone and Grand Teton, and being accompanied by a rapidly expanding ex-urban footprint as people move here from other regions. Last Friday I gave a talk, based upon data from demographers, on what the future could look like in Greater Yellowstone 25 and 50 years hence. It was delivered at the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative’s 2017 wildlife symposium held at the Center for the Arts (where I was most impressed by the other speakers at the well-attended event). While the pace and scale of landscape transformation occurring in Greater Yellowstone’s human-built environment is among the swiftest in rural America,
and likely to rapidly accelerate (with climate change potentially spurring even more inward migration), Boner’s book is a stunning reminder of what’s at stake. Boner, a staffer at the News&Guide, follows in a long line of photographers who have distinguished themselves in Greater Yellowstone. Beginning with pioneering shooters like Civil War veteran William Henry Jackson in 1871, photography has played an important role in advancing conservation of the region, sometimes making visible things that often go unseen or unappreciated. Together with the romantic and exaggerated paintings of Thomas Moran, Jackson’s images helped convince Congress to set aside Yellowstone as the first national park in the world in March of 1872. Like Boner and Jackson, many photographers have descended upon the ecosystem, including Ansel Adams and an esteemed fold of mostly nature-oriented lenspeople. I could offer a list of notable camera artisans, especially were it to include recent transplants doing work for National Geographic and photojournalists who have served on the staffs of local newspapers. Among them all, however, Boner deserves high praise for innovatively reinterpreting scenes courted by a personal hero. The idea behind his project was simple: revisit locations where W.H. Jackson made many of his historic photographs, take comparison shots and allow the contrasts between then and now to serve as muses for reflection. As the eminent historian Robert Righter, a parttime resident of Moose, notes in his foreword, the book highlights the difference between how landmarks are faring outside protected areas like the national parks versus those found within them. “Jackson’s record scenes along the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley in 1871 give an idea of a pristine country. One hundred and forty years later,
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In the final week of winter it feels as if spring has sprung. Valley snow banks for the first time in months are shrinking and when freezing temperatures are present supportable crusts cover the deep snowpack. Above freezing temperatures, sunshine, wind and rain can all form surface crusts. These crusts enable both skiers and animals to easily cruise through the mountains. Last week we had another epic storm with almost 30 inches of snowfall at 8,000 feet and more at higher elevations. During this storm the winds were strong out of the southwest and west. For six days leeward slopes were rapidly loaded and on the final days of the cycle natural avalanches occurred. Around March 9 or 10, Endless Couloir in Granite
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buildings and roads—the artifices of human occupation—dot the landscape, intruding on our sense of the bucolic. But we are quick to note that Paradise valley is not inside the boundaries of the park,” Righter wrote. “By contrast,” he added, “there appears to be minimal change in a great deal of the photographs taken within Yellowstone’s borders. This will come as a happy revelation, for we environmental historians are, in the main, declensionists—believing that the world is ‘going to hell in a handbasket’ and we humans are the reason. Some of the Jackson/Boner comparisons tell us that change is not endemic and that a ‘climax’ ecology is possible as long as we humans keep out of the way.” Boner notes that the book contains all but one of the 109 8-by-10 photographs Jackson produced in Paradise Valley, Montana and Yellowstone in 1871. Not only is Boner a damned fine photographer, it turns out he is a decent writer and storyteller, who treats us to how photography came to Yellowstone and why and how he retraced Jackson’s path. The sweetest visual rewards come with Jackson’s black and white nature portraits, made via the collodion wet-plate process, placed side by side against Boner’s own color counterpoints. As intriguing as the seeming impermanence of mountains, waterfalls, and canyons, Yellowstone’s famed geyser fields and travertine terraces have shape-shifted over the last century, some going dormant and in other places the life forces of the Yellowstone geologic hotspot giving rise to new features. Boner’s book is a rich contribution to the canon of Yellowstone books, which deserve a place in your library and makes for a handsome addition to the coffee table. He deserves our congratulations and praise. PJH
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THE BUZZ Essentially Needed When it comes to housing, should the community redefine its definition of “essential workers”? BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt
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ina Collado has lived in the same apartment since she moved to Jackson from Puerto Rico four years ago with her two dogs. She’s worked for Jackson nonprofits for as long. Each year, her rent has increased $50 to $75 a month. Her rent has gotten so expensive, she said, that she has decided to leave her current home “without any idea of what I’m going to be able to find.” She hopes to find a home for her and her boyfriend to move into together. But on their incomes, with two dogs, the hunt is proving near impossible. “I don’t know whether we’re gonna be able to stay here or not,” Collado said. Trish Herasme, meanwhile, just moved to Victor, Idaho, from Virginia, but not before spending hundreds of dollars in classified ads looking for housing in Jackson. Herasme works at the post office on Maple Way. She transferred in September, but she looked for housing in Jackson for a year before finally settling on a place in Victor with two roommates. Her income is decent, she said, but not decent enough to afford a place close to where she works. “I don’t want to put all that money into housing,” she said. “I just can’t.” Local advocate Mary Erickson said that conversations about the housing crisis often exclude Jackson’s most vulnerable but also most critical communities. She noted that the first subjects in affordable housing discussions are “essential” or “critical” workers: teachers, doctors, first responders, etc. People like Collado, when she worked for El Puente. “That is critical, there’s no question about that,” Erickson said. “But there’s also sort of the engine of our economy—our service workers. We don’t talk and think about that community as essential, and they really are.” “The people keeping the community alive is the working class,” Herasme agreed, “and they’re the ones who have to suffer and struggle.” Collado works at Teton Literacy Center and at Teton Free Clinic. Her boyfriend is a caretaker for the Clear Creek group. Collado says that for them, it’s a matter of surviving, or building a life. “This town doesn’t permit you to grow in it. You can live here, and make ends meet,” she said, but saving money and building a home feel out of reach. Collado was once considered a “critical service provider” when she worked for El Puente translating emergent medical crises for the Latino community. Now, she’s just another nonprofit employee.
Attitude shift Christine Walker is a real estate consultant who focuses on workforce housing, and was director of the Teton County Housing Authority for 10 years. Jackson’s housing struggles, she says, are not actually all that unique, but they are diverse, which makes a uniform solution impossible. For one, she said, local wages have failed to keep up with the cost of housing. “There’s a disconnect between what somebody can afford to pay, and what housing costs can develop,” she said. In Jackson especially, Land Development Regulations drive development construction and therefore add value to housing projects. Part of the solution, Walker said, must include a shift in what the community is comfortable with. To really make a dent in housing a community workforce, housing units “have to be denser than what we’re accustomed to or comfortable with.” Erickson says there must also be more attention given to rental units. “Home ownership is a great dream,” she said, “but I don’t think we owe home ownership to anybody.” Business owner Joe Rice agrees. “Believe it or not, everybody doesn’t want to own a home,” he said. “They just want a place to live.” Rice, Walker and developer John Shelton are working together to build such a place. Rice is the owner of Blue Collar Restaurant group, and says that as a business owner it is his responsibility to help his workforce find housing. “If you’re going to build a business here, part of your plan better be where you’re going to keep your employees,” he said. “It’s not rocket science.” Rice is working on approval for a development that would build 90 apartment units on West Broadway, on the plot of land between Staples and the pawn shop. “It’s an ideal location for height and increased density,” Walker said. The unit would have no direct neighbors, with Flat Creek buffering one side, the pawn shop and the highway buffering the others. Rice is planning the development with his employees in mind, but the apartments would be available to anybody that needs them, he said. “I’m a big proponent of the blue collar worker,” Rice said. “I’m a blue collar guy.” As a business owner, Rice says he does whatever it takes to ensure that his employees have a place to live, be it raising their pay or just fronting housing costs when needed. To him, it’s a win-win situation. If his employees can’t make it to work due to road closures, his business suffers.
Public vs. private Rice says that in order to address the housing crisis, the private sector must be allowed to contribute. “I’m a big proponent of the private sector taking care of themselves,” he said. “I’m not a big proponent of tax dollars going into housing.” For one thing, he said, tax-funded housing projects move slowly, and are tied up in regulations. “The town has to incentivize [private sector housing] with fewer regulations so we can build these
apartments for the workforce that is so badly needed,” Rice said. “If they’re going to solve the problem, or at least put a dent in it, they’ve got to let the private sector do what they do.” But there are obvious concerns that without the proper regulation, there’s nothing stopping private housing developments from evolving from rental units into condominiums. Rice argues that such concerns are not rooted enough in the present. “I can’t tell you what’s going to happen in 10 years,” he said. “Let’s worry about now, about taking care of people.” Rice observed that private sector housing projects will lower housing costs across the board. “It’s a supply and demand issue,” he said. “When there’s not enough supply, prices go up. The more supply is on the ground, the cheaper things are going to be.” However, Erickson sees it a little differently. In her mind, public money for public housing needs to focus on the community’s most vulnerable populations. The private industry, she said, can figure out how to house the middle class. Tying housing too tightly to employment, she said, also poses huge risks. “Especially at that service level, people are a little bit more mobile,” she said. If housing is too dependent on employment status, losing or changing jobs could also mean losing housing. “We have to be careful about tying too much of housing stock to specific jobs,” Erickson said. Still, she says Rice’s project is a step in the right direction. It focuses on the people who, in her mind, need it most. It’s also a smart business model for Rice to invest in his employees. Walker has worked in both the public and the private sector, and says that both have their place. Each entity works to serve a different niche. In Jackson, Walker identified a spectrum of different “segments,” from low-income workers who service Jackson’s most critical amenities, to “critical service providers” like snow plow drivers and Lower Valley Energy workers, who she observed were particularly critical this winter, to nurses and teachers. “They’re all looking for a different product type,” Walker said. “It’s nice to have different entities working to build those little niches.” Walker says her partnership with Rice is both unique and hopeful “in that you have a locally respected businessman who has partnered with an individual with vast experience with multi-family units around the country, and is willing to do this forfeiting maximum profits. That’s rare.” As for Collado, she and her boyfriend hope for a future in Jackson, and Herasme is still looking for a place closer to where she works. But experience suggests it won’t be easy. “Every year I’m losing friends because housing isn’t available,” Collado said. “I understand that people need to make a living, but it honestly makes the people who really fight hard to make Jackson a home, it makes it really hard to stay.” Housing, Walker said, is a “lofty goal,” and finding a solution is going to require community-wide participation. “It takes a community to build one,” Walker said. PJH
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THE BUZZ 2 Defeated Drivers At least two lodged semis have closed Teton Pass in the last two weeks and irked commuters want change. BY SARAH ROSS
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t has been a frustrating winter for those who travel Teton Pass often. Commuters have faced multiple road closures due to dangerous conditions, avalanches, and at least twice in the last two weeks— lodged semi trucks. Though the pass is closed to trailer traffic until April 15, there have been frequent violations this winter. Stephanie Harsha, communications specialist for WYDOT, reports that as of February 24, Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched 79 times for violations of the restriction. Troopers were able to find and take enforcement actions on 32 of those. These numbers include all trailers being pulled, not just semi truck traffic. However, a weigh-in-motion scale has been installed on the Idaho side of the pass to weigh and track heavy vehicles. Wyoming Highway Patrol’s Lt. Matt Brackin said a “substantial” number of semis have been notated by the scale, but did not have an exact number.
Major disruptions These violations have had a huge impact on those who commute from Teton Valley to Jackson. Jessica Flammang, who happens to contribute to PJH, commutes to Wyoming for multiple jobs, as does almost everyone she knows. She’s lived in the area for 11 years and moved to Driggs for more affordable housing two years ago. She’s never seen a winter like this. “I can’t even count how many closures. I’ve been stuck in Jackson four or five of those times … it’s incredibly inconvenient and expensive.” Commuters, many of whom make up Jackson’s workforce, have had to make adjustments as the potential for a closure hangs over their heads. Flammang says that she knows people who usually leave Idaho at 5:30 a.m. who have been leaving by 3:30 or 4 a.m., allowing time to drive Pine Creek Pass if need be. “These are people who are driving to do minimum wage jobs.” Many who commute are often already struggling to find affordable housing and a living wage. “It’s like the housing problem compounded and now we’re facing a transportation crisis as a result of the housing crisis,” Flammang said. She says overweight traffic on the pass not only endangers people’s livelihoods, but also their lives. “They’re risking the lives of commuters in their cars ... and I’ve also seen skiers and snowboarders almost run off the road, people who’ve been hitching for 30 or 40 years.” The issue, Flammang maintains, should be addressed through an increased police presence on
both sides of the pass and a change in the penalties. “I would like to see the fine increase to something exorbitant, like 10 grand. That’s how a lot of people feel.”
Mitigating disaster Increased police presence has begun as of last week. A March 11 press release issued by Lt. Dave Wagener stated that, “The Wyoming Highway Patrol has taken steps to decrease the continued disregard of the trailer and overweight restrictions on Teton Pass … for the remainder of the seasonal closure. Multiple violations of these restrictions have led to unnecessary crashes, closures of the pass, and stranded motorists who were on the highway legally this winter.” Flammang’s second wish, for higher fines, is more complicated. Overweight vehicles are in violation of statute 24-1-109, which forbids willfully failing to observe signs stating closures and restrictions (there are multiple signs warning of Teton Pass’s restrictions, some beginning as far as 50 miles away). The penalty is up to a $750 fine or 30 days in jail. Though many agree this is not a sufficient deterrent, the only way the fine can be raised is at the state level. Trailer drivers are violating a general road closure rule, which covers every road in the state. Therefore, the fine is the same whether a vehicle disobeys a sign on Teton Pass or I-80. “To physically pull out Teton Pass and write a statute for that would be difficult … to increase the fine on the pass, it would have to happen statewide,” Brackin explained. As Harsha noted, “The Wyoming legislature would either have to change the state statute or create a new one.”
Changing the laws Now that the legislative session has closed for the year, committees have been assigned interim topics to address. According to Sen. Leland Christensen–R, Alta, the topic of pass regulations has not been directly brought up or assigned. However, one of the topics for the judiciary committee is “bonds and forfeitures having to do with traffic … which might be the opportunity to address [the pass] too.” Christensen and other legislators have previously worked with WYDOT to install safety runway ramps and signs. Now, there’s been a push to work with mapping services, like Google Maps, to include information about Teton Pass’s restrictions. Ultimately, Christensen says, it’s up to the driver. “At the end of the day, people who are determined to ignore the law still do that regardless.” Dave Schofield, who works at Evans Construction and is a member of the Wyoming Truckers Association and the Governor’s Transportation Safety Coalition, believes the emphasis should be on prevention and education rather than on regulations. “You’ve got to be real careful about when you try to restrict interstate commerce, or put rules on it that apply only to your state. ... If each state had their own regulation, interstate commerce would basically come to a halt.” According to Schofield, the primary problems are that drivers are unprepared for mountain roads
and that financial pressures encourage dangerous decisions. Though the weight limit for vehicles on Teton Pass is 60,000 pounds, Schofield says he’s seen trucks as heavy as 130,000 drive safely “because the driver knows how to travel the pass. I’ve seen drivers go down not even touching the brake.” Drivers coming from, say, Florida may not be prepared to handle steep grades. “Some drivers have never even driven in the mountains … I think the majority of them do not understand what they’re getting into.” This lack of experience is dangerous for all, but, as Schofield puts it, “there is no cost effective way to educate all those long haul trucks that may come into Wyoming.”
Punishment vs. prevention
Unprepared drivers may end up at Teton Pass because their GPS leads them there. Though the most sophisticated GPS systems for trucks, around $500, include information about all closures and regulations, companies usually install more crude systems, about $99, that don’t include those alerts. Once a driver who has been advised either by dispatch or GPS to cross the pass sees the signs, they face a difficult decision. “Every time a truck has to turn around, it’s expensive,” Schofield said. “Drivers are certainly under internal and external pressure to be as efficient as they can be.” Penalizing after the fact is not as effective as prevention, Schofield said. Along with WYDOT, the Governor’s Transportation Safety Coalition is taking measures to cut the problem off at the source. They are attempting to identify trucks’ loading points so that while they’re getting stocked, drivers are informed of mountain pass regulations. Then, even if dispatch or GPS tells a driver to take the pass, they will know not to. “This will significantly cut down on the issue.” The coalition is also working to add more signs and a truck arrester. But people like Flammang believe it is unlikely anything but harsher penalties will address the problem. Recently, while commuting, she noticed a double-decked semi truck carrying cars about to cross the pass. “I … pulled up next to them to get them to roll down the window to alert them of the restriction and they wouldn’t. I think they knew they were in trailer violation, and they were embarrassed.” This occurred two days after a jack-knifed semi closed the pass. Everyone agrees that the issue is urgent, but Flammang has seen the toll first hand. This winter, many people have been living a kind of half-life: “The anger problem is just rising when we don’t see anyone doing anything … it’s a giant waste of energy. Whenever there’s downtime, a lot of the conversation is just focused on these issues … this community has so many committed, inspirational activists and workers who are having their energy diverted when they could be involved with work, activism, community.” PJH
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Marylee White and Michael Yin were elected chair and vice chair of the Teton County Democrats on Saturday.
Chair Ana Cuprill was in attendance, and spoke briefly of her campaign for re-election. Her rival candidate from Pinedale, Kendra Cross, also spoke. Cuprill sounded a hopeful note regarding the party’s efforts in the state. “We only lost one seat in the legislature,” she said, citing other states where larger numbers of state legislative seats went from blue to red in the 2016 election. “We didn’t do so badly, considering.” After the meeting, Cuprill told PJH about her plans for the state party’s future. “I am working to make Wyoming an example of resistance among our surrounding red states. I’ve created a coalition of the Democratic leadership in Montana, Idaho, Utah, and North and South Dakota to create a ‘voting block’ or voice in the Democratic National Committee,” she said. Because of Jackson’s historically “blue” status, Cuprill said Teton County could become a launching point for Democratic activism across the state. She said her first act, if re-elected, would be to organize an activist conference in Jackson. “Folks who are organizing outside of the traditional party structure and the party need to work in concert,” Cuprill said. “We are all working to protect the same values and to recruit and elect candidates who will protect those values.” One such non-party-affiliated activist is Chrissy Koriakin, 31, of the young grassroots activism outfit JH Activate. She talked briefly at the meeting about her group’s effort to organize progressive activists in the valley. Recently this included the February 24 town hall meeting, which garnered more than 200 citizens to Teton County Library despite the absence of invited lawmakers—Sens. Barrasso and Enzi and Rep. Cheney. “If there’s a silver lining to the bad and ugly,” Koriakin said, “it’s this new group of activists that are stepping up.” PJH
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Dean, another newbie to the political scene, said this was her first elected position. Last year, she too was an organizer for Chambers’s campaign. Dean said she is inspired by the energy she sees pouring into the Democratic Party. “I want you to look at us in the party leadership as your support system,” she told the crowd. Leaders also discussed the Dems’s local victories and their larger concerns. “We have plenty of reason to be motivated and mobilized,” said outgoing party chair Luther Propst, referring jokingly to “the Putin, er, Trump regime.” “I have serious questions about Trump’s ability to serve as president,” Propst told the crowd. “And I am troubled by a Republican Party that puts loyalty to party above loyalty to country.” Propst pointed to gains close to home. He cited the demise of a bill in the Wyoming Legislature that would have paved the way for privatizing public lands. He also noted strong local Democratic candidates, including Greg Epstein’s successful bid for county commissioner, leading the polls with 6,214 votes in the November election. State house Reps. Andy Schwartz and Mike Gierau were also in attendance to report on legislative happenings. Gierau said the highlight of his year was sponsoring a bill that would support education for immigrants with “cloudy” immigration status. Though the bill was denied a hearing in the House, Gierau said he was able to attach similar language in an amendment to another education bill, and that the issue got at least a bit of discussion in the house before it was shot down. The legislature, Gierau said, is “partisan as hell.” Jackson Town Councilman Jim Stanford and County Commissioner Greg Epstein also spoke, encouraging people to vote in the upcoming May SPET election, when residents can vote to tax themselves to pay for projects like a new senior living center, affordable housing and a maintenance facility for buses and snowplows. The 10-item ballot will ask voters to consider nearly $70 million of proposals. Finally the floor was open for comment from special guests and the audience. Wyoming Democratic
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he line stretched out the door at the Senior Center Saturday as a mix of longtime Democrats and new faces filed in for a meeting of the Teton County Democratic Party. More than 100 people attended the meeting, where six officers were unanimously elected. Attendees and new leaders are emblematic of an increasingly politically engaged local populace that spans several generations. Seasoned Dem Marylee White, 60, was elected chair and Michael Yin, 31, secured vice chair. Director of InterConnections 21, Shelby Read, 34, was elected treasurer, and Andree Dean, 26, a staffer at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, was voted secretary. Previous party officers Mike Welch, a consultant, and Lauren Dickey, of Friends of Pathways, were elected state committeeman and committeewoman. A common theme of the meeting was encouraging Democrats to get engaged in local and state politics, from activism efforts to running for office. Explaining why she wanted to run for treasurer, Read told the audience, “I want to be involved. It’s my duty and responsibility to jump in.” White, the executive director of the Old Wilson Schoolhouse, spoke about her commitment to Democratic ideals. Emboldened by her recent campaign for House District 22, in which she lost to incumbent Marti Halverson by 785 votes, White told the crowd, “We can do better than we’ve been doing. It’s been a depressing year for Dems, but I see you here today and it is hard to be sad. We have to work together and stand up for truth in the face of Republican misinformation.” The energized, activist tone of candidate speeches continued with Yin, a mobil software engineer who said he wants to “turn Wyoming blue.” “I’d like to see increased active party membership,” Yin said. “It needs to happen across the board. I want to build coalitions to make the county party bigger.” An organizer for the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016, Yin cut his teeth in politics last year, also getting out the vote for Hillary Clinton when she became the Democratic presidential candidate. Locally, he was part of the door-to-door campaign in support of the 1 percent sales tax and campaign manager for Jessica Sell Chambers when she ran for town council. After the meeting, Yin spoke of being heartened by the turnout. “There is a lot of energy of people wanting to make a difference. Before, they thought things were going fine. Now they know they have to get going and do something, which I think will portend well for the party in the future.”
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In February, two teams of South Korean researchers announced cancer-fighting breakthroughs—by taking lessons from how two of medicine’s most vexing, destructive organisms (diarrhea-causing salmonella bacteria and the rabies virus) can access often-unconquerable cancer cells. In journal articles, biologist Jung-joon Min of Chonnam National University described how his team “weaponized” a cancer-fighting invader cell with salmonella to stir up more-robust immune responses, and nanoparticle expert Yu Seok Youn’s Sungkyunkwan University team coated immunizing cells with the rabies protein (since the rabies virus is remarkably successful at invading healthy cells) to reach brain tumors.
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Gemma Badley was convicted in England’s Teesside Magistrates’ Court in February of impersonating British psychic Sally Morgan on Facebook, selling her “readings” as if they were Morgan’s. (To keep this straight: Badley is the illegal con artist, Morgan the legal one.) n Michigan is an “open carry” state, and any adult not otherwise disqualified under state law may “pack heat” in public (except in a few designated zones). In February, an overly earnest Second Amendment fan, James Baker, 24 (accompanied by pal Brandon Vreeland, 40), believed the law was an invitation to walk into the Dearborn police station in full body armor and ski mask, with a semi-automatic pistol and a sawed-off rifle (and have Vreeland photograph officers’ reactions). (Yes, both were arrested.)
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n Wells Fargo Bank famously admitted last year that employees (pressured by a company incentive program) had fraudulently opened new accounts for about 2 million existing customers by forging their signatures. In an early lawsuit by a victim of the fraud (who had seven fraudulent accounts opened), the bank argued (and a court agreed!) that the lawsuit had to be handled by arbitration instead of a court of law because the customer had, in the original Wells Fargo contract (that dense, fine-print one he actually signed), agreed to arbitration for “all” disputes. A February Wells Fargo statement to Consumerist.com claimed that customers’ forgoing legal rights was actually for their own benefit, in that “arbitration” is faster and less expensive.
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Ex-Colombo family mobster and accused hitman “Tommy Shots” Gioeli, 64, recently filed a federal court lawsuit over a 2013 injury at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City. He fell and broke a kneecap while playing ping-pong (allegedly because of water on the floor), awaiting sentencing for conspiracy to commit murder. The New York Post also noted that the “portly” Gioeli, who was later sentenced to 18 years, was quite a sight at trial, carrying his “man purse” each day.
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French artist Abraham Poincheval told reporters in February that in his upcoming “performance,” he will entomb himself for a week in a limestone boulder at a Paris museum and then, at the conclusion, sit on a dozen bird eggs until they hatch—”an inner journey,” he said, “to find out what the world is.” (He apparently failed to learn that from previous efforts, such as the two weeks he spent inside a stuffed bear or his time on the Rhone River inside a giant corked bottle.) He told reporters the super-snug tomb has been thoroughly accessorized, providing for breathing,
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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “bioacoustic research” team recently reported recording and listening to about 2 million underwater sounds made over a four-month period by various species of dolphins (“whistles,” echolocation “clicks,” and “burst pulses”) and can, they believe, distinguish the sounds to match them to a particular dolphin species (among the five most prevalent)—with 84 percent accuracy. The team built a computer algorithm to also make estimating dolphin populations much easier.
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Oklahoma state Rep. Justin Humphrey, justifying his proposed bill to require a woman seeking an abortion to first identify the father, told a reporter in February that the father’s permission is crucial because, after all, the woman is basically a “host” who “invited that (fetus) in.” n After the North Dakota House of Representatives voted yet again in January to retain the state’s Sunday-closing “blue laws,” Rep. Bernie Satrom explained to a reporter: “Spending time with your wife, your husband, making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed” is better than going shopping.
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The ex-wife of Deputy Sheriff Corey King of Washington County, Georgia (largest town: Sandersville, pop. 5,900), filed a federal lawsuit in January against King after he arrested her for the “crime” of making a snarky comment about him on Facebook (about his failure to bring the couple’s children their medicine). King allegedly conspired with a friendly local magistrate on the arrest, and though the prosecutor refused the case, King warned the ex-wife that he would still re-arrest her if she made “the mistake of going to Facebook with your little (excrement) … to fuss about.”
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In a first-person profile for the Chicago Tribune in February, marketing consultant Peter Bender, 28, recalled how he worked to maximize his knowledge of the products of company client Hanes—and not just the flagship Hanes underwear but its Playtex and Maidenform brands. In an “empathy” exercise, Bender wore bras for three days (a sports bra, an underwire and a lacy one)—fitted at size 34A (or “less than A,” he said). “These things are difficult,” he wrote on a company blog. “The lacy one,” especially, was “itchy.”
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“Fecal transplants” (replacing a sick person’s gut bacteria with those of a healthier one) are now almost routine treatments for patients with violent abdominal attacks of C. diff bacteria, but University of California researcher Chris Callewaert says the concept also works for people with particularly stinky armpits. Testing identical twins (one odoriferous, the other not), the researcher, controlling for diet and other variables, “cured” the smelly one by swabbing his pit daily with the sweat of the better-smelling twin. The Callewaert team told a recent conference that they were working on a more “general” brew of bacteria that might help out anyone with sour armpits. Thanks this week to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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The Make America Opaque Again Award President Donald Trump A commitment to public transparency should start at the top. But from the beginning of his campaign, President Trump has instead committed to opacity by refusing to release his tax returns, citing concerns about an ongoing IRS audit. Now that he’s been elected, Trump’s critics, ethics experts, and even some allies have called on him to release his tax returns and prove that he has eliminated potential conflicts of interest and sufficiently distanced himself from the businesses in his name that stand to make more money now that he’s in office. But the Trump administration has not changed its stance. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, the American public should be outraged that we now have the first sitting president since the 1970s to avoid such a baseline transparency tradition.
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At the same time, this is also par for the course. As award-winning investigative reporter Shane Bauer recently posted on Twitter: “I’ve been stonewalled by the government throughout my journalistic career. I’m seriously baffled by people acting like this is brand new.” For the third year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presents “The Foilies,” our anti-awards identifying the times when access to information has been stymied or when government agencies have responded in the most absurd ways to records requests. Think of it as the Golden Raspberries but for government transparency, where the bad actors are actually going off script to deny the public the right to understand what business is being conducted on their behalf. To compile these awards, EFF solicited nominations from around the country and scoured through news stories and the #FOIAFriday Twitter threads to find the worst, the silliest, and the most ridiculous responses to request for public information.
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thick fog is rolling in over Sunshine Week (March 12-18), the annual event when government transparency advocates raise awareness about the importance of access to public records. We are entering an age when officials at the highest levels seek to discredit critical reporting with “alternative facts,” “fake news” slurs, and selective access to press conferences—while making their own claims without providing much in the way to substantiate them. But no matter how much the pundits claim we’re entering a “post-truth” era, it is crucial we defend the idea of proof. Proof is in the bureaucratic paper trails. Proof is in the accounting ledgers, the legal memos, the audits, and the police reports. Proof is in the data. When it comes to government actions, that proof is often obtained by leveraging laws like the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records laws—except when government officials seek to ignore the rules to suppress evidence.
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for an hour, and charged with a misdemeanor for “remaining after being forbidden.” What’s worse is that Nakamoto was summoned to appear before the “Mayor’s Court,” a judicial proceeding conducted by the very same mayor Nakamoto was investigating. Nakamoto lawyered up and the charges were dropped two months later. “If anything, my arrest showed that if they’ll do that to me, and I have the medium to broadcast and let people know what’s happening to me, think about how they’re treating any citizen in that town,” Nakamoto said.
The Arts and Crafts Award Public Health Agency of Canada
Arts & Crafts Award The Hypocrisy Award Former Indiana Governor—and current Vice President—Mike Pence Vice President Mike Pence cared a lot about transparency and accountability in 2016, especially when it came to email. A campaign appearance couldn’t go by without Pence or his running mate criticizing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. In fact, the Foilies honored Clinton last year for her homebrewed email approach. But Pence seemed much less bothered by those transparency and accountability concerns when he used a private AOL email address to conduct official business as Indiana’s governor. The Indianapolis Star reported in February that Pence used the account to communicate “with top advisors on topics ranging from security gates at the governor’s residence to the state’s response to terror attacks across the globe.” That means that critical homeland security information was kept in an account likely less secure than government accounts (his account was reportedly hacked too), and Pence’s communications were shielded from government records requirements.
The Frogmarch Award Town of White Castle, Louisiana The only thing that could’ve made reporter Chris Nakamoto’s public records request in the small town of White Castle, Louisiana, a more absurd misadventure is if he’d brought Harold and Kumar along with him. As Chief Investigator for WBRZ in Baton Rouge, Nakamoto filed records requests regarding the White Castle mayor’s salary. But when he turned up with a camera crew at city hall in March 2016 to demand missing documents, he was escorted out in handcuffs, locked in a holding cell
Journalists are used to receiving documents covered with cross-outs and huge black boxes. But in May 2016, Associated Press reporters encountered a unique form of redaction from Public Health Agency of Canada when seeking records related to the Ebola outbreak. As journalist Raphael Satter wrote in a letter complaining to the agency: “It appears that PHAC staff botched their attempt to redact the documents, using bits of tape and loose pieces of paper to cover information which they tried to withhold. By the time it came into my hands much of the tape had worn off and the taped pieces had been torn.” Even the wryest transparency advocates were amused when Satter wrote about the redaction art project on Twitter, but the incident did have more serious implications. At least three Sierra Leonean medical patients had their personal information exposed. Lifting up the tape also revealed how the agency redacted information that the reporters believed should’ve been public, such as email signatures. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said it would investigate, but Satter says he hasn’t heard anything back for 10 months.
In May 2016 Clarke published a short essay on Facebook titled, “When Journalism Becomes an Obsession.” Clarke claimed that after he rejected Bice’s request for an interview, Bice retaliated with a series of public records requests, ignoring the fact that these requests are both routine and are often reporter’s only recourse when an official refuses to answer questions. “This lazy man’s way of putting together newspaper columns uses tax-paid, government employees as pseudo-interns to help him gather information to write stories,” Clarke wrote. Memo to Clarke: requesting and reviewing public records is tedious and time-consuming, and certainly not the way to score an easy scoop. If anything, ranting on Facebook, then issuing one-sentence news releases about those Facebook posts, are the lazy man’s way of being accountable to your constituents.
The Longhand Award Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz
A local citizen in Portland, Ore. filed a records request to find out everyone that City Commissioner Amanda Fritz had blocked or muted from her Twitter account. This should’ve been easy. However, Fritz decided to go the long way, scribbling down each and every handle on a sheet of paper. She then rescanned that list in, and sent it back to the requester. The records did show that Fritz had decided to hush accounts that were trying to affect public policy, such as @DoBetterPDX, which focuses on local efforts to help homeless people, and anonymous self-described urban activist @jegjehPDX. Here’s a tip for officials who receive similar requests: all you need to do is go to your “Settings and Privacy” page, select the “Muted accounts” or “Blocked accounts” tab, and then click “export your list.”
The Whoa There, Cowboy Award Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke rose to prominence in 2016 as one of then-candidate Donald Trump’s top surrogates, prone to making inflammatory remarks about the Black Lives Matter movement, such as calling them a hate group and linking them to ISIS. But the press has also been a regular target. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel political watchdog columnist Daniel Bice filed a series of records requests with the sheriff’s office, demanding everything from calendars, to details about an NRA-funded trip to Israel, to records related to a series of jail deaths. So far, Clarke has been extremely slow to release this information, while being extremely quick to smear the reporter on the sheriff’s official Facebook page. Clarke frequently refers to the publication as the “Urinal Sentinel” and has diagnosed Bice with “Sheriff Clarke Derangement Syndrome.” “I deal with open records requests with local governments and police departments, I do it at the city, county, and state level,” Bice said. “He’s by far the worst for responding to public records.”
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“You wouldn’t know who owned this project.” After pushing back, BuzzFeed was able to get certain sections unredacted, including evidence that Trump’s three children—Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric—all received a 7.425 percent stake through their LLCs, seemingly without injecting any money of their own.
The Fake News Award Santa Maria Police Department
Wrong Address Award The Wrong Address Award U.S. Department of Justice America Rising PAC, a conservative opposition research committee, has been filing FOIA requests on a number of issues, usually targeting Democrats. Following Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing, the PAC sent a FOIA to the Attorney General seeking emails referencing the death. But America Rising never received a response acknowledging the DOJ received the request. That’s because the DOJ sent it to a random federal inmate serving time on child pornography charges. The offender, however, was nice enough to forward the message to the PAC with a note railing against the “malicious incompetence” of the Obama administration.
The Redaction of Interest Award General Services Administration
The Stupid Meter Award Elster Solutions, Landis+Gyr, Ericsson In May 2016 several smart meter companies sued transparency website MuckRock and one of its users, Phil Mocek, in a failed attempt to permanently remove documents from the website that they claimed contained trade secrets. Some of the companies initially obtained a court order requiring MuckRock to take down public records posted to the site that the City of Seattle had already released to the requester. But in their rush to censor MuckRock and its user, the companies overlooked one small detail: the First Amendment. The Constitution plainly protected MuckRock’s ability to publish public records one of its users lawfully obtained from the City of Seattle, regardless of whether they contained trade secrets. A judge quickly agreed, ruling that the initial order was unconstitutional and allowing the documents to be reposted on MuckRock. The case and several others filed against MuckRock and its user later settled or were dismissed outright. The documents continue to be hosted on MuckRock for all to see. But, uh, great job guys!
The Undermining Openness Award U.S. Department of Justice Documents released in 2016 in response to a FOIA lawsuit by the Freedom of the Press Foundation show that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly lobbied Congress in 2014 to kill a FOIA reform bill that had unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives 410-0. But the secret axing of an overwhelmingly popular transparency bill wasn’t even the most odious aspect of DOJ’s behavior. In talking points disclosed via the lawsuit, DOJ strongly opposed codifying a “presumption of openness,” a provision that would assume by default that every government record should be disclosed to the public
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The Least Productive Beta Testing Award Federal Bureau of Investigation The FBI spent most of 2016 doing what might be charitably described as beta testing a proprietary online FOIA portal that went live in March. But beta testing is probably a misnomer because it implies that the site actually im-
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One of the threads that reporters have tried to unravel through the Trump campaign is how the prolific businessman would separate himself from his financial interests, especially regarding his 30-year contract with the federal government to build a Trump International Hotel at the location of the federally owned Old Post Office in D.C., a paper airplane’s flight from the White House. BuzzFeed filed a FOIA request with the General Services Administration for a copy of the contract. What they received was a highly redacted document that raised more questions than it answered, including what role Trump’s family plays in the project. “The American taxpayer would have no clue who was getting the lease to the building,” said reporter Aram Roston, who was investigating how Trump failed to uphold promises made when he put in a proposal for the project.
In 2015, the Santa Maria Police Department in California joined many other agencies in using the online service Nixle to distribute public information in lieu of press releases. The agency told citizens to sign up for “trustworthy information.” Less than a year later, police broke that trust. The Santa Maria Police posted to its Nixle account a report that two individuals had been arrested and deported, which was promptly picked up the local press. Months later, court documents revealed that it had all been a lie to ostensibly help the individuals—who had been targeted for murder by a rival gang—escape the city. Police were fiercely unapologetic. The agency has yet to remove the offending alert from Nixle or offer any kind of addendum, a direct violation of Nixle’s terms of service, which prohibits the transmission of “fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading communications” through the service.
proved after its initial rollout. The FBI’s year of “beta testing” included initially proposing a requirement that requesters submit a copy of their photo ID before submitting a request via the portal and also imposed “operating hours” and limited the number of requests an individual could file per day. Yet even after the FBI walked back from those proposals, the site appears designed to frustrate the public’s ability to make the premiere federal law enforcement agency more transparent. The portal limits the types of requests that can be filed digitally to people seeking information about themselves or others. Requesters cannot use the site to request information about FBI operations or activities, otherwise known as the bread and butter of FOIA requests. Oh, and the portal’s webform is capped at 3,000 characters, so brevity is very much appreciated! Worse, now that the portal is online, the FBI has stopped accepting FOIA requests via email, meaning fax and snail mail are now supposed to be the primary (and frustratingly slow) means of sending requests to the FBI. It almost seems like the FBI is affirmatively trying to make it hard to submit FOIA requests.
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unless an agency could show that its release could result in foreseeable harm. DOJ’s argument: “The proposed amendment is unacceptably damaging to the proper administration of FOIA and of the government as a whole,” which is bureaucratese for something like “What unhinged transparency nut came up with this crazy presumption of openness idea anyway?” That would be Obama, whose FOIA guidance on his first day in office back in 2009 was the blueprint for the presumption of openness language included in the bill. Perhaps DOJ thought it had to save Obama from himself? DOJ’s fearmongering won out and the bill died. Two years later, Congress eventually passed a much weaker FOIA reform bill, but it did include the presumption of openness DOJ had previously fought against. We’re still waiting for the “government as a whole” to collapse.
The Outrageous Fee Award Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services When public agencies get requests for digital data, officials can usually simply submit a query straight to the relevant database. But not in Missouri apparently, where officials must use handcrafted, shadegrown database queries by public records artisans. At least, that’s the only explanation we can come up with for why the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services estimated that it would take roughly 35,000 hours and $1.5 million to respond to an exceedingly simple request for state birth and death data. Nonprofit Reclaim the Records, whose name pretty eloquently sums up its mission, believed that a simple database query combined with copy and paste was all that was needed to fulfill its request. Missouri officials begged to differ, estimating that it would take them the equivalent of a person working around the clock for more than four years to compile the list by hand. Although the fee estimate is not the highest the Foilies has ever seen—that honor goes to the Pentagon for its $660 million estimate in response to a MuckRock user’s FOIA request last year—Missouri’s estimate was outrageous. Stranger still, the agency later revised their estimated costs down to $5,000 without any real explanation. Reclaim the Records tried negotiating further with officials, but to no avail, as officials ultimately said they could not fulfill the request. Reclaim the Records has since filed a lawsuit for the data.
that Louisiana’s public records law requires that a living, breathing human make a request, not a corporate entity such as IND. Make no mistake: there is no dispute that an actual human filed the request, which sought records relating to a bizarre news conference in which the marshal allegedly used his public office to make baseless allegations against a political opponent. Instead, the dispute centers on a legal formalism of whether IND can sue on its own behalf, rather than suing under the name of the reporter. The marshal’s seemingly ridiculous argument does have some basis in the text of the statute, which defines a requester as a person who is at least 18 years old. That said, it’s an incredibly cynical argument, putting the letter well over the spirit of the law in what appears to be a well-documented effort by the marshal to violate the law and block public access. We hope the learned Louisiana appellate judges see through this blatant attempt to short-circuit the public records law.
The Lethal Redaction Award States of Texas and Arizona BuzzFeed Reporters Chris McDaniel and Tasneem Nashrulla have been on a quest to find out where states like Texas and Arizona are obtaining drugs used in lethal injection, as some pharmaceutical suppliers have decided not to participate in the capital punishment machine. But these states are fighting to keep the names of their new suppliers secret, refusing to release anything identifying the companies in response to BuzzFeed’s FOIA requests. At the crux of the investigation is whether the states attempted to obtain the drugs illegally from India. At least one shipment is currently being detained by the FDA. The reason for transparency is obvious if one looks only at one previously botched purchase the reporters uncovered: Tex-
as had tried to source pentobarbital from an Indian company called Provizer Pharma, run by five 20-year-olds. Indian authorities raided their offices for allegedly selling psychotropic drugs and opioids before the order could be fulfilled.
The Poor Note-taker Award Secretary of the Massachusetts Commonwealth
Updates to Massachusetts’ public records laws were set to take effect in January 2016, with Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin tasked with promulgating new regulations to clear up the vague language of the law. But Galvin didn’t exactly take his duty seriously. Instead he crafted a regulation allowing his office to dodge requirements that public records appeals be handled in a timely fashion. But no regulation could take affect without public hearing. So he went through the motions and dispatched an underling to sit at a table and wait out the public comment – but didn’t keep any kind of record of what was said. A close-up captured by a Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism reporter showed a pen lying on a blank pad of paper. Asked by a reporter about the lack of notes, the underling said, “I was just here to conduct this hearing. That’s all I can say.” PJH
The Foilies were compiled by EFF investigative researcher Dave Maass, Frank Stanton, legal fellow Aaron Mackey, and policy analyst Kate Tummarello. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that defends civil liberties at the crossroads of technology and the law. Read more about EFF and how to support its work at eff.org.
The Dehumanization Award New Orleans City Marshall Public officials often dehumanize the news media to score cheap points, but can the same ploy work when fighting public records requests? That’s the issue in a very strange case between the IND, a Lafayette media outlet, and a city marshal. After the marshal lost his bid to keep records secret in the trial court, he appealed on the grounds that IND had no right to bring the lawsuit in the first place. The marshal, who faced fines, community service, and house arrest for failing to turn over records, argues
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SHREDtalk, 7 p.m. Wednesday at Walk Festival Hall As part of pro-rider Rob Kingwill’s annual PowWow, the SHREDTalk sessions explore snowboarding on a deeper level. This year’s speakers include Chris Pappas, Wade McKoy and a short roundtable panel discussion by the snowboard shapers of the PowWow.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Intermediate Throwing 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $154.00 $184.00, 307-733-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n JD High Country Outfitters Brown Bag Fly Tying 11:00am, JD High Country Outfitters, Free, 307-733-3270
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n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free, n Strengthening Democracy--Liberty Day Lunch Panel 12:00pm, Teton County Library--Auditorium A, Free, 307-733-2164 n See You Helles Beer Release 12:00pm, Snake River Brewing, Free, 307-739-2337 n Growing Through Grief 1:00pm, St. John’s Medical Center, 307-739-7483 n Beginning Drawing 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $145.00 $174.00, 307-733-6379 n After School Monthly Workshops 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $180.00 $216.00, 307-733-6379 n Stackhouse 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n “He Named Me Malala” Screening 4:30pm, Ordway Auditorium, Teton County Library, Free, 307-699-3940 n Après Ski and Art 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905
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n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Digital Photography 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, 307733-7425 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-7335771 n Get the Facts on SPET 11:30am, Center for the Arts Lobby, Free, 307-733-7425 n Get Your Taxes Done For Free 3:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n PTO 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Open Studio: Figure Model 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316
n “From Villain to Hero: China’s Role in the Illegal Ivory Trade” 6:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Free n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n The Bo & Joe Sexy Show 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886
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MUSIC BOX
Rendezvous Revelry Samantha Fish & Jamestown Revival on Town Square, Zac Brown & Iration at the Village. BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch
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truly remarkable snow season in Jackson Hole leads us to March Radness, the 2017 Jackson Hole Rendezvous Spring Festival. While it may seem like Groundhog Day to many locals with threetime Grammy winners Zac Brown Band as the controversial repeat headliner, there’s enough talent in town this week to find your scene. Three special outdoor stages built under the tram, in Teton Village lot, and on Town Square are where the festival action will be concentrated, with club and theater shows to boot. Blues ripper Samantha Fish and Americana/ pop-rockers Jamestown Revival on the Town Square
Samantha Fish (left) and Zac Brown Band
Stage this Friday are setting up to be the local’s stash. Within six months of forming Jamestown Revival’s songwriter/bandleader pair, Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance were featured in Rolling Stone for the magazine’s cover contest. Clay and Chance’s harmonic chemistry cannot be taught, and that blend is the characteristic that makes their back porch folk-inspired rock sound so sweet and inviting. The duo plays keys and guitars, travelling as a five-piece band with bass, drums and electric guitar. They will be supporting their late 2016 album The Education of a Wondering Man. Taking its name from acclaimed Western novelist Louis L’Amour’s memoir, the album has climbed to No. 12 on the Americana Music Chart. The set is catchy Western soul-pop, good stuff. As for Friday headliner Fish, a newcomer to Jackson Hole, a straight-up blues-rock power trio is her game, and she brings it home with tenacity. A Kansas City native, Fish spent much of her teen years playing drums and sneaking into watering holes to study the blues, eventually switching to guitar and never looking back. She’s done her homework from source legends Son House, Skip James, and especially the
hill country tradition a la R.L. Burnside. That passion led her to working with Luther Dickenson of North Mississippi Allstars, who produced her 2015 release, Wild Heart. This Friday she releases a fourth album, Chills & Fever, which is a smattering of classics and shouldhave-been hit songs from the 60s/70s that were recorded with Midwest punk/blues band The Detroit Cobras. But this new foray into rocking R&B with a bigger band including horns and keys will not likely be the focus of this trio set. It came as a surprise to Fish that she’d be performing outside, so she’s got other things on her mind. “It’s outside? Oh, damn, no, I’ve never done that (laughs),” Fish told PJH. “So how does that work? I’m curious now. Do they have heat lamps on stage? Should I brink a giant coat?” Adrenaline alone will keep her warm. Fish plays a lot of slide, often times on a four-string cigar box guitar tuned to open G, and it is gritty goodness. During our conversation, she noted Keith Richards (who redefined open G tuning), Johnny Winter, Bonnie Raitt, Derek Trucks and Elmore James as influences on her slide playing.
THURSDAY Yonder Mountain String Band with The Lil’ Smokies (Pink Garter)
Iration
Iration, a reggae-influenced alt-rock band that is Hawaiian-bred and Santa Barbara-grown, will open the show. Two of the band’s albums peaked at No. 1 on Billboard’s Reggae Albums Chart and Iration is currently supporting its first acoustic album of previously recorded material. Zac Brown Band with Iration, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18 in Teton Village. $40. JacksonHole.com.
Rendezvous extras Downtown will be hopping this week. The unofficial kick-off to Rendezvous will be this Thursday featuring a rapid fire bluegrass bill of Yonder Mountain String Band with The Lil’ Smokies at the Pink Garter Theatre. Yonder has a big following in the Hole, though it’s The Lil’ Smokies that may steal the show. And if you have anything left in the tank after the weekend, don’t miss The Infamous Stringdusters with The Ghost of Paul Revere at the Pink Garter on Tuesday. Again, the Stringdusters are popular for good reason and a household name, but don’t sleep on another quality opener in The Ghost of Paul Revere, digging into foot-stompin’ holler-folk that brings to mind Old Crow Medicine Show. A smattering of St. Patty’s Day events should also be on your radar this Friday—Sneaky Pete at Town Square Tavern, Slip n’ the Jigs at the Silver Dollar, Snake River Brew Pub. Crush the slush! PJH
FRIDAY Jamestown Revival & Samantha Fish (Rendezvous on Town Square), Slip n’ the Jigs (Silver Dollar), Miller Sisters & Friends (Mangy Moose), Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons (Town Square Tavern) SATURDAY Zac Brown Band with Iration (Rendezvous in Teton Village lot), Slip n’ the Jigs (Silver Dollar), The Hooligans (Trap Bar) SUNDAY Chanman Roots Band (Under the Tram), DJ VerTOnE (Casper Restaurant), The Grant Farm (Town Square Tavern) MONDAY JH Hootenanny (Dornan’s) TUESDAY The Infamous Stringdusters with The Ghost of Paul Revere (Pink Garter)
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“I have a love hate relationship with that thing [cigar box guitar],” Fish said. “It’s such a goofy little guitar but I love the way it sounds. I’ve had a bunch of them made for me but still like the sound of the first one that I bought. It has such a killer, deep, guttural sound.” Even for legends of the genre like Buddy Guy, a career in the blues can be a tough career path. For Fish, the raw, unfettered sound of the blues has been a calling for the 28-year-old, and there’s always another stepping stone to reach. “To be able to come up with anything new or unique is really hard. Every song has been written. Every chord has been played,” Fish said. “I landed on the trio format out of necessity and I wasn’t a very good guitar player back then. Since I couldn’t afford another guitar player, I just figured that I needed to get better. It took a long time. And now I see myself touring and recording for as long as I can. I’d love to venture out in the business side of the music industry and help people start their careers.” Rendezvous Fest presents Samantha Fish with Jamestown Revival, 5 p.m. Friday, March 17 on Town Square, free. For more about transportation options and concert logistics, visit JacksonHole.com. Saturday’s show in Teton Village will draw a huge crowd from the region. In case you missed it last year, the eight-piece Zac Brown Band is a country industry juggernaut, venturing well outside that scope with surprise material such as Metallica and Queen.
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Right to Learn Film screening and art project empower young women and expand their perspectives on the world. BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1
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hen Bridget Murphy started her capstone internship at Interconnections 21 (IC21) this school year, she was excited to help with the screening of He Named Me Malala. The film follows the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, a 19-yearold Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012. Her offense? Advocating that girls have the right to go to school just like their male classmates. Murphy, a senior at Jackson Hole High School, devised a way to deepen the impact of the film on young female viewers. Talking with IC21 director Shelby Read, Murphy decided she would work with the 30 middle-school girls in the Girls Actively Participating (GAP!) program. She scoured the Malala Fund website and found pictures of murals created by people around the world in honor of Malala’s call for equal education for girls and boys. “I fell in love with the idea of using art to demonstrate knowledge and understanding,” Murphy said. Murphy conducted her workshop with the GAP! girls earlier this month. After giving a brief presentation about Malala and threats to girls’ education internationally, she gave them several options for creative expression. She offered prompts such as, “Write a letter to Malala describing what your education means to you,” or “Write a poem about the importance of education,” or “What is something you are strongly passionate about in school?” The girls responded in a variety of mediums. “I was beyond impressed by their levels of creativity and how their minds interpreted the information I had just presented to them,” Murphy said. GAP! director Jessica Yeomans said
JHHS senior Bridget Murphy opens the eyes of local middle school girls with her capstone project.
that Murphy served as a role model to the younger girls. “By having Bridget present her capstone project to the girls, they could witness what one senior’s competence and confidence looks like.” Now the middle school girls share Murphy’s knowledge about what it means to have access to education. Murphy’s personal interest in Malala’s story came from reading the autobiography, I Am Malala. “Growing up, Malala worked extremely hard and loved to go to school to compete with her classmates for top honors,” Murphy explained. “She was so passionate about being educated that even after her father was threatened and the Taliban forbade [girls’] education in her valley, she and her friends found ways to go to school.” Murphy contrasted Malala’s educational challenges with her own. “I used to complain about the stressful amounts of homework I had every night.” But after reading Malala’s book and researching education across the world, Murphy’s perspective changed. “I realized that my problems of being in school were something that millions of kids would dream of having. I became cognizant of the safe, encouraging, and beneficial space that school is.”
Everyday bravery He Named Me Malala is an Emmynominated film by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) that takes viewers inside Malala’s life, her close relationship with her father, and her
impassioned speeches on the rights of girls to attend school. Reviewer Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian, “The film is incidentally valuable in showing that her campaigning identity did not begin with being shot, like some comic-book superheroine.” Indeed, Yeomans says that one of the powerful aspects of Malala’s story is that she insists that she is just a normal girl and that her bravery is not extraordinary. “Malala knows what she values in life, and couldn’t imagine a world where she didn’t live those values everyday,” Yeomans said. “She has inspired the world to stay true to themselves and be a little braver each day.” Murphy said working with the GAP! girls was her way of sharing with others her own realization about how fortunate she is to live in a country that values education as a fundamental right. “I had asked some of the middle school girls before I started my presentation if they liked and appreciated school and many said ‘No,’” Murphy reported. “But by the end of our day, after being exposed to the heart-rending struggles that girls their age face every day around the world, those answers changed to ‘Yes.’” IC21’s Read explained: “Part of why IC21 is in engaged in the kind of work we do is because of our geographical isolation. It’s critical that we bring stories, people, art, and ideas from around the world into our community.” PJH IC21 and GAP! present He Named Me Malala, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16 at Teton County Library.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 17
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n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 844-996-7827 n St. Patrick’s Day Party with Slip ‘n’ The Jigs 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n I Can Ski Forever: An Original Musical by Andrew Munz 7:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $30.00, 307-733-1500 n Erin and The Project 9:00pm, Mangy Moose, $5.00, 307-733-4913 n Brother Wolf 9:00pm, Knotty Pine, $5.00, 208-787-2866 n Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons 9:30pm, Town Square Tavern, $10.00 - $15.00, 307-733-3886
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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, 307-7336398 n Growing Food in Jackson Hole 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $75.00, 307-733-7425 n Wax Carving & Silver Casting 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $154.00, 307733-6379 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n Teton Valley Winter Farmers’ Market 10:00am, MD Nursery, Free, 208-354-8816 n 3D Paper Sculpture & Pulp Casting 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $99.00 $118.00, 307-33-6379 n 4 Essential Elements for the Landscape 2:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00 $156.00, 307-733-6379 n The Hooligans 4:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Après Ski and Art 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905
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n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Open Studio: Portrait Model 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Immigrant Legal Services Meeting 9:00am, St John’s Church, Free, 307-733-2603
n Inderdenominational Worship Service at Rendezvous Lodge 9:30am, Rendezvous Lodge, Top of Bridger Gondola, Free, 307-733-2292 n Sleigh Rides 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, $15.00 - $21.00, 307-733-0277 n $5 St. Patty’s Day Lunch at Jackson Whole Grocer 11:00am, Jackson Whole Grocer, $5.00, 307-733-0450 n St. Patrick’s Day Party 11:00am, Snake River Brewing, Free, 307-739-2337 n Feathered Fridays 12:00pm, Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center, Free, 307-201-5433 n Screen Door Porch 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n St. Patrick’s Day Apres with The Miller Sisters and Friends 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7334466 n FREE Friday Tasting at Jackson Whole Grocer 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-7330450 n St. Patrick’s Day Party 4:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Après Ski and Art 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905 n Jackson Hole Rendezvous Spring Festival presented by Bud Light & 4JH 5:00pm, Jackson Town Square, Free, 307-733-2292 n Immigrant Legal Services Meeting 5:30pm, St John’s Church, Free, 307-733-2603 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n 3D Paper Sculpture & Pulp Casting 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $99.00 $118.00, 307-33-6379 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307733-8833
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n March Art Walk 5:00pm, Various Jackson Hole Galleries, Free n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Bacchus & Brushes 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00, 307733-6379 n Glaze Chemistry 101: A Guide To Creating Custom Glazes and Firing Kilns 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $184.00 $220.00, 307-733-6379 n Advanced Papermaking 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $132.00 $158.00, 307-733-6379 n One Night Seminars on Fly Fishing 6:30pm, JD High Country Outfitters, 307-733-3270 n Sustainability Series 6:30pm, Spark JH, Free, 303483-8207 n Apple Technology Class 6:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $175.00, 307-733-7425 n Jackson Hole Communty Band 2017 Rehearsals 7:00pm, Centre for the Arts, Free, 307-200-9463 n Jackson Hole Fly Fishing Film Tour 2017 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $15.00 - $20.00, 307-7334900 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Yonder Mountain String Band 8:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $25.00 - $40.00, 307-7331500
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DON’T MISS
Truth in Comedy The satirically on point trilogy I Can Ski Forever returns this weekend to debut No. 3. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt
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f you haven’t yet heard of I Can Ski Forever, you’re probably new in town. But that’s OK—the locally famous show is not only for you, it’s about you. “No one has ever mapped out what it looks like to move [to Jackson],” said writer and director Andrew Munz. I Can Ski Forever 3 attempts to do just that. The third iteration of the original musical is the biggest yet. The show has grown from a series of comedy sketches into a full-length production complete with 13 original songs, professional choreography, and a plot audience members are sure to recognize. The idea behind the first I Can Ski Forever started with an observation: “The Jackson Hole I live in today is not the Jackson Hole I grew up in,” said Munz, who moved to Jackson at the age of 7 in 1994. For Munz, as a kid growing up in a working-class family, life in Jackson was actually pretty boring. So he was surprised to move back as a young adult and find a community of newcomers who saw Jackson as “God’s gift to the world.” Munz wrote his observations into a series of sketches, and the response was massive. “There’s truth in comedy,” he said. Indeed, much of the show’s success depends on the audience’s ability to laugh at jokes written at their expense. Munz wants people to feel a little uncomfortable, but also to recognize their own experience manifested on stage. “It’s so much fun to perform for an audience where the play is written for them,” said Liliana Frandsen, who plays the lead, Kelly.
Familiar situations Ski Forever 3 follows the young protagonist Kelly, an “indecisive but passionate” Jackson transplant with big plans to go to grad school and get out of Jackson, Frandsen explained.
But then she meets Ben, a new Georgia transplant. The two develop a relationship. Though there is “something hindering Ben’s ability to commit,” Munz said. The more immersed in local culture he gets, the more noncommittal Ben becomes. He skis, he drinks, he shirks responsibility. Only the occasional voicemail from one of his parents in Georgia clues the audience into the darker side of Ben’s life. Other recognizable characters include professional snowboarder Jonah Mills, a local legend who grew up in Jackson and now sees his face all over town, and a group of “cougars,” who talk philanthropy over brunch and try desperately not to expose the imperfections in their lives. That duality, Munz says, is one of the show’s major themes. The characters, as with the community Munz has observed, all work hard to maintain a public persona that allows no room for negativity, only skiing and partying. “But they’re all struggling,” Munz said. “They all have issues, personal stuff that chips away at this perfect identity.” Comedy is not without criticism. In fact, it is often the most effective tool. The show is riddled with “scattered criticisms of Jackson reality,” Munz said—like how noncommittal locals like Ben behave in a community they don’t totally see as their own. “Everyone’s always thinking they’re about to leave,” Munz said. “Always participating, but not contributing.” But that’s also what makes Jackson so unique, and the show so popular. “Everybody wants to be a local,” Munz said. “Jackson embraces people constantly. Everyone wants to feel worthy of being here.” Munz doesn’t think the show would be possible if things weren’t constantly changing. In his real life, he has seen innumerable friends and coworkers come and go. Frandsen, the show’s star, moved to Jackson from Southern California in 2013, and now lives in Los Angeles. Her story and her character’s are not all that different. But the characters aren’t based on any specific person. Instead, Munz identified common threads and generalizations about the community around him, and gave them names like Ben and Kelly. Suddenly, he had written characters that felt “really real.” “It’s an alternative universe,” Munz said, “yet it’s so relatable.” Munz is proud of the show’s ability to effectively break down the fourth wall between
the audience and the fictional characters on stage. During previous shows, there was almost no distinction. Audience members and cast members alike wore flannel shirts and beanies, and joked about such attire. Everyone was in on the joke. However, the distinction between audience and cast member will be slightly more pronounced this year, as the plot unfolds in a series of song and dance. Local choreographer Francesca Romo choreographed the show, and was careful to provide professional choreography while staying true to Jackson’s character. Munz wrote the lyrics and melodies to all 13 original songs, and Riley Burbank composed the music. Songs range from heartfelt ballots, to theatrical dance numbers about powder days.
The people want to ski... forever
Community support for Ski Forever spans beyond the laughs. Munz funded the show through a Kickstarter campaign that almost fell through. He was $3,500 short of his $15,000 goal the night before the campaign ended. But then “we had an anonymous donor show up like a fairy godmother,” he said. A majority of the donors were local, and it is “really comforting to know that this show is locally funded and that funding is going right back into the community.” By the same token, however, Munz said “trying to get free-wheeling Jackson folks” to give money for an event so far in the future was a huge challenge. Munz says he would have done a show without the money from Kickstarter, but it would not be the fulllength production it has become. The $15,000 was just enough to secure a stage for four nights and to cover some initial production costs. Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing crowdsourcing campaign, and Munz went to bed the night before it ended “utterly defeated.” “You can imagine how odd it was when I woke at 7 a.m. to an email from Kickstarter congratulating our successful campaign,” he said.
I Can Ski Forever 3, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 17 and 18, and March 24 and 25 at the Pink Garter Theatre. Arrive early—late arrivals will not be permitted into the show. There’s also a bar at the theater, which makes this show 21 and older. PJH
n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Jackson Hole Rendezvous Spring Festival presented by Bud Light & 4JH 6:30pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $40.00, 307733-2292 n I Can Ski Forever: An Original Musical by Andrew Munz 7:30pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $30.00, 307-733-1500 n Backwoods Dreamers Concert 8:00pm, Dornans, $12.00, 307-733-2415 n Uncle Stack and The Attack 9:00pm, Mangy Moose, $10.00, 307-733-4913 n The Bush Pilots 9:30pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886
SUNDAY, MARCH 19
n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Conception/Perception to Realization 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $495.00, 307733-6379 n Digital Photography 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, 307733-7425 n Create with Me: Ages 2 & 3 with caregiver 9:15am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $75.00 $90.00, 307-733-6379 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 Silent Space 12:15pm, St. John’s Church, Free, 307-733-2603 n B.O.G.D.O.G - Band On Glen Down on Glen 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n After School Kidzart Club: Grade K-2 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $165.00 $198.00, 307-733-6379 n Handbuilding Plus! 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $150.00 $180.00, 307-733-6379 n Studio Sampler 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $264.00 $316.00, 307-733-6379 n Processes of Life Drawing 5:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $95.00, 307733-6379 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Foreign Policy Series 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164
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n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-7336398 n Conception/Perception to Realization 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $495.00, 307733-6379 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n White Lightning Open Mic Night 3:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n The Maw Band 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n POP UP: Art FUNdamentals 3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $70.00 $84.00, 307-733-6379 n Hand and Wheel 3:45pm, Ceramics Studio, $180.00 - $216.00, 307-7336379 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Processes of Life Drawing 5:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $95.00, 307733-6379 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Screenwriting 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $175.00, 307733-6379 n Art N Soul 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $88.00 $105.00, 307-733-6379 n Apple Technology Class 6:30pm, CWC-Jackson, $175.00, 307-733-7425 n Jackson PFLAG Meeting 7:00pm, St. John’s Church, Free, 307-733-8349 n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Infamous Stringdusters: The Laws Of Gravity Tour 8:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, $22.00 - $25.00, 307-733-1500
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n Marmot Coombs Classic 9:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Free, 307733-2292 n Wax Carving & Silver Casting 9:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $154.00, 307733-6379 n 3D Paper Sculpture & Pulp Casting 10:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $99.00 $118.00, 307-33-6379 n Quilting - Circles 12:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00, 307-733-7425 n Music Under the Tram with Chanman Roots Band 2:00pm, Teton Village, Free, 307-733-2292 n Major Zephyr 3:30pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Stores, Free, 307-733-3316 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Rock Creek 7:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Grant Farm 9:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886
MONDAY, MARCH 20
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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS
Virtuous Vino Wineries and winemakers that give back. BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1
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any wineries earmark a portion of their sales proceeds to worthy charities, from pet rescue organizations to those working with military veterans. There are far too many to exhaustively list here, but these are a few of my favorite wineries that also give back to their communities. Sonoma’s Rodney Strong Vineyards has made significant donations throughout the years to the United Way and to food banks throughout the country. Proprietor Tom Klein and the Rodney Strong team also support CORE (Children of Restaurant Employees), which provides support to children and families of restaurant employees who are experiencing or are afflicted by
life-altering circumstances. Their lush Chalk Hill Chardonnay ($18.95), made in consultation with renowned winemaker David Ramey, would make an excellent addition to your table. Another good value chardonnay is Chateau La Paws ($10.99). La Paws is a spin-off of Rosenblum Cellars, created by “The King of Zin,” Kent Rosenblum. Winemaker Rosenblum is also a veterinarian and Chateau La Paws supports no-kill animal rescue organizations such as Long Island, New York’s North Shore Animal League, where I adopted my cat, Rufus. Murphy-Goode “Homefront” Red ($12) is a big syrah and merlot blend that was created to benefit Operation Homefront: 50 cents from each bottle sold goes to provide assistance to families of military service members and wounded vets. Also benefiting the unmet needs of military men, women and families is Purple Heart Wines, which last year helped more than 19,000 veterans with programs to help cope with post-traumatic stress, offer educational scholarships, provide service dogs and more via the winery’s Purple Heart Foundation.
IMBIBE Bruce R. Cohn is the Doobie Brothers’ longtime manager and founder of B.R. Cohn Winery. Not surprisingly, live music is a weekly event at the Sonoma winery, and every year Cohn hosts a charity weekend featuring a celebrity golf tournament, auction and concert with performers like Willie Nelson, Little Feat and Dave Mason. The bulk of the money raised goes to local Sonoma charities, but also to causes such as Hurricane Katrina Relief and the National Veterans Foundation. B.R. Cohn Silver Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 ($24.99) is a rich, complex cabernet that would make a terrific gift for your favorite wine lover. Another music industry phenom—Dave Matthews— created Dreaming Tree Wines with winemaker Sean McKenzie. The wines are produced sustainably and, to date, Matthews and McKenzie have donated $500,000 to environmental organizations such as The
Wilderness Society and Living Lands & Waters. Dreaming Tree Crush ($15.99) is an appealing red blend with soft tannins that pairs well with barbecue and bahn mi. Located in the heart of Napa Valley, OneHope Winery is committed to making the world a better place. The results from nonprofit organizations they’ve impacted include more than 1 million meals provided, 52,621 trees planted, 2,792 clinical breast cancer trials funded, 13,605 animals adopted, 927 veterans aided and much, much more. For further information, visit OneHopeWine. com. And on the web, Benef itWines.com is “America’s Charity Wine Shop,” with more than 500 charity partners to choose from and causes ranging from pet-related and wildlife organizations to health-based, community, veterans and religious charities. Now, let’s raise a glass to giving! PJH
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.
Lunch 11:30am Monday-Saturday Dinner 5:30pm Nightly
HAPPY HOUR Daily 4-6:00pm
307.201.1717 | LOCALJH.COM ON THE TOWN SQUARE
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ASIAN & CHINESE EARLY BIRD SPECIAL
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Good between 5:30-6pm • Open nightly at 5:30pm Please mention ad for discount.
733-3912 160 N. Millward
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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.
CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF
Large Specialty Pizza ADD: Wings (8 pc)
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(307) 733-0330 520 S. Hwy. 89 • Jackson, WY
THE BLUE LION
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Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am. Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm. Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.
AT THE
CAFE GENEVIEVE
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.
ELEANOR’S
FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT PIZZAS, PASTAS & MORE FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED OFFERINGS 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
FULL STEAM SUBS
The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.
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HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS
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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A Jackson Hole favorite for 38 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30-6:0pm, Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.
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
Two- fer Tuesday is back !
Two-for-one 12” pies all day. Dine-in or Carry-out. (LIMIT 6 PIES PER CARRYOUT ORDER, PLEASE.)
MANGY MOOSE
11am - 9:30pm daily 20 W. Broadway 307.201.1472
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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 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
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.
MOE’S BBQ
Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival. Moe’s Original Bar B Que offers award-winning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp MoeBoy sandwich. Additionally, a daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily from recipes passed down for generations. With a kitchen that stays open late, the restaurant features a menu that fits any budget. While the setting is family-friendly, there is a full premium bar offering a lively bar scene complete with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery for any size group for parties, business lunches, reunions, weddings and other special events is also be available.
MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE THE LOCALS
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LOCAL & DOMESTIC STEAKS SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK @ 5:30 TILL 10 JHCOWBOYSTEAKHOUSE.COM 307-733-4790
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) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.
ITALIAN CALICO
A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.
MEXICAN EL ABUELITO
Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.
PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA
Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Handtossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.
PINKY G’S
The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special. Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.- Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts. Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.
PIZZERIA CALDERA
Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the
freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
BY ROB BREZSNY
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Would you like some free healing that’s in alignment with cosmic rhythms? Try this experiment. Imagine that you’re planning to write your autobiography. Create an outline that has six chapters. Each of the first three chapters will be about a past experience that helped make you who you are. In each of the last three chapters, you will describe a desirable event that you want to create in the future. I also encourage you to come up with a boisterous title for your tale. Don’t settle for My Life So Far or The Story of My Journey. Make it idiosyncratic and colorful, perhaps even outlandish, like Piscean author Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. ARIES (March 21-April 19) The more unselfish and compassionate you are in the coming weeks, the more likely it is you will get exactly what you need. Here are four ways that can be true: 1. If you’re kind to people, they will want to be kind to you in return. 2. Taking good care of others will bolster their ability to take good care of you. 3. If you’re less obsessed with I-me-mine, you will magically dissolve psychic blocks that have prevented certain folks from giving you all they are inclined to give you. 4. Attending to others’ healing will teach you valuable lessons in how to heal yourself—and how to get the healing you yearn for from others. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I hope you will consider buying yourself some early birthday presents. The celebration is weeks away, but you need some prodding, instigative energy now. It’s crucial that you bring a dose of the starting-fresh spirit into the ripening projects you’re working on. Your mood might get overly cautious and serious unless you infuse it with the spunk of an excited beginner. Of course only you know what gifts would provide you with the best impetus, but here are suggestions to stimulate your imagination: a young cactus; a jack-in-the-box; a rock with the word “sprout” written on
it; a decorated marble egg; a fox mask; a Photoshopped image of you flying through the air like a superhero. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Many Geminis verbalize profusely and acrobatically. They enjoy turning their thoughts into speech, and love to keep social situations lively with the power of their agile tongues. Aquarians and Sagittarians may rival your tribe for the title of The Zodiac’s Best Bullshitters, but I think you’re in the top spot. Having heaped that praise on you, however, I must note that your words don’t always have as much influence as they have entertainment value. You sometimes impress people more than you impact them. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, that could change. I suspect your fluency will carry a lot of clout. Your communication skills could sway the course of local history.
Go to RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes. Audio horoscopes also available by phone at 877-873-4888 or 900-950-7700. experiment with in the coming days. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You know that forbidden fruit you’ve had your eyes on? Maybe it isn’t so forbidden any more. It could even be evolving toward a state where it will be both freely available and downright healthy for you to pluck. But there’s also a possibility that it’s simply a little less risky than it was before. And it may never become a fully viable option. So here’s my advice: Don’t grab and bite into that forbidden fruit yet. Keep monitoring the situation. Be especially attentive to the following questions: Do you crave the forbidden fruit because it would help you flee a dilemma you haven’t mustered the courage to escape from? Or because it would truly be good for you to partake of the forbidden fruit?
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your world is more spacious than it has been in a long time. Congrats! I love the way you have been pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and into the wilder frontier. For your next trick, here’s my suggestion: Anticipate the parts of you that may be inclined to close down again when you don’t feel as brave and free as you do now. Then gently clamp open those very parts. If you calm your fears before they break out, maybe they won’t break out at all.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I expect you will get more than your usual share of both sweetness and tartness in the coming days. Sometimes one or the other will be the predominant mode, but on occasion they will converge to deliver a complex brew of WOW!-meets-WTF! Imagine chunks of sour apples in your vanilla fudge ripple ice cream. Given this state of affairs, there’s no good reason for you to be blandly kind or boringly polite. Use a saucy attitude to convey your thoughtfulness. Be as provocative as you are tender. Don’t just be nice—be impishly and subversively nice.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I like rowdy, extravagant longing as much as anyone. I enjoy being possessed by a heedless greed for too much of everything that feels rapturous: delectable food, mysterious sex, engrossing information, liberating intoxication, and surprising conversations that keep me guessing and improvising for hours. But I am also a devotee of simple, sweet longing … pure, watchful, patient longing … open-hearted longing that brims with innocence and curiosity and is driven as much by the urge to bless as to be blessed. That’s the kind I recommend you explore and
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “I want to gather your darkness in my hands, to cup it like water and drink.” So says Jane Hirshfield in her poem “To Drink.” I bet she was addressing a Scorpio. Does any other sign of the zodiac possess a sweet darkness that’s as delicious and gratifying as yours? Yes, it’s true that you also harbor an unappetizing pocket of darkness, just like everyone else. But that sweet kind—the ambrosial, enigmatic, exhilarating stuff—is not only safe to imbibe, but can also be downright healing. In the coming days, I hope you’ll share it generously with worthy recipients.
L.A.TIMES “BIG APPETITE” By Cheri Kedrowski & Victor Barocas
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2017
ACROSS
78 1921 Valentino role 79 Breastbones 81 Not let go of 83 __ Moines 85 Jackie’s designer 86 Tobacco plug 88 Record, in a way 89 Mystery author Grafton 91 Distinctive flavor 93 Like details you’d rather be spared 94 In the stars 95 Line that might not calm down Richard III? 99 Tool for Cinderella 100 Remove from the box 101 The __: Horace works 102 Small detail 106 1958 hit that won the first Song of the Year Grammy 107 Song that inspired this puzzle 110 Puts up 111 Level 112 Humor that evokes winces 113 Myrtle or hazel 114 Thing to do 115 Postulates 116 Joint for jumping 117 Large septet
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) EVERY relationship has problems. No exceptions. In the beginning, all may be calm and bright, but eventually cracks will appear. Here’s the corollary to that rule: EVERY partner is imperfect. Regardless of how cool, kind, attractive, or smart they may seem in the early stages, they will eventually unveil their unique flaws and troubles. Does this mean that all togetherness is doomed? That it’s forever impossible to create satisfying unions? The answer is HELL, NO!—especially if you keep the following principles in mind: Choose a partner whose problems are: 1. interesting; 2. tolerable; 3. useful in prodding you to grow; 4. all of the above.
15 Middle of England? 16 Threw in 20 Housekeeping concern 21 Sicilian province or its capital 23 Maui music makers 24 Combine 28 Port-au-Prince pal 30 Pink-slip 31 “That’s enough!” 32 Poses 33 Middle X, in a game 34 Roman wings 35 Hall of Fame WNBA star __ Leslie 36 Ones seeking change 40 Books with legends 41 Warehouse job 42 Savings plan letters 44 European peak 46 “This comes __ surprise” 47 Leave in the garage 48 Kept down 50 Sitcom with the episode “Stable for Three” 51 Lead singer on “The Joshua Tree” 52 Not a copy: Abbr. 54 Green Hornet’s driver 55 Trick ending? 57 First book of the New Testament 59 Feudal peasant 61 Pickup artists? 62 Bountiful locale 63 Left the ground 64 Advantage 65 Turkish coin 66 Corp. raider’s ploy 67 Cad 72 Devastating 2008 hurricane 73 Comic strip mother of Hamlet and Honi 74 “You __”: Lionel Richie hit
75 Launches 76 Departure notice? 77 Emulated Arachne 80 Word with musical or muscle 82 Reel partner 84 With 92-Down, Monopoly prop. bordering the Electric Company 86 Russian Civil War fighter 87 Maximilian I’s realm: Abbr. 89 Chihuahua neighbor 90 Ben and Sam 92 See 84-Down 93 Gathered steam 94 Affectionate 95 Bed cover 96 Playwright Moss 97 Baklava sweetener 98 Glade targets 99 “The Wrong Sort of Bees” author 102 Seconds 103 Shipping deduction 104 Planning session input 105 Positive words 107 “__ Not Easy Being Green” 108 Soul seller 109 Nantes negative
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1 Surrey neighbor 2 Fox’s fabled flattery victim 3 Italian sparkler 4 Burger successor 5 Shocking 6 Kitchen extension? 7 Bump-log link 8 Snugly situated 9 Muslim spirit 10 Make anew, as a trench 11 Downed 12 Lang. of Luther 13 Pretend 14 Ab __: from the start
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Born in the African nation of Burkina Faso, Malidoma Somé is a teacher who writes books and offers workshops to Westerners interested in the spiritual traditions of his tribe. In his native Dagaare language, his first name means “he who befriends the stranger/enemy.” I propose that we make you an honorary “Malidoma” for the next three weeks. It will be a favorable time to forge connections, broker truces, and initiate collaborations with influences you have previous considered foreign or alien.
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1 Plymouth Reliant, e.g. 5 Spanish cathedral city 9 Yawner 13 Flakes in geology class 17 Language that gave us “bard” 18 Magazine founder Eric 19 Graceful leap 20 Wasn’t plumb 22 Practice good web courtesy? 25 With merchandise, say, as payments 26 Snack cake that can be deepfried 27 Author Morrison 28 Bening of “The Kids Are All Right” 29 Proof-ending abbr. 30 Description of the start of some Road Runner cartoons? 33 Foot bone 36 Graceful leap 37 Clarifying words 38 Non-discriminatory hiring abbr. 39 Et __ 40 Cruised through 41 Cool play area, maybe 43 “Erie Canal” mule 45 Frequent mother-and-child painter 47 Last verb in the Gettysburg Address 49 Bar game 53 Nibbles on Friskies? 56 Supreme Roman 58 Pamplona’s kingdom 59 ’70s extremist gp. 60 Boast opener 61 Warning for a snoopy Snoopy? 68 Scads 69 Chilean pronoun 70 Cellphone setting 71 Rock band member 73 Treatment for a milk hangover?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Saturn has been in your sign steadily since September 2015, and will continue to be there until December 2017. Some traditional astrologers might say you are in a phase of downsizing and self-restraint. They’d encourage you to be extra strict and serious and dutiful. To them, the ringed planet is an exacting task-master. There are some grains of truth in this perspective, but I like to emphasize a different tack. I say that if you cooperate with the rigors of Saturn, you’ll be inspired to become more focused and decisive and disciplined as you shed any flighty or reckless tendencies you might have. Yes, Saturn can be adversarial if you ignore its commands to be faithful to your best dreams. But if you respond gamely, it will be your staunch ally.
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Thawing out Knowledge “I think we are a species with amnesia; that we’ve lost the record of our story going back thousands of years before so-called history began.”– Graham Hancock
Antarctica There is a combination of discovery and disclosure happening right now suggesting a whole new and unexpected part of the planet and human history is preserved under the ice in Antarctica. Clues to what was and what is under the current ice covering Antarctica have been around for thousands of years. And more emerging information is poised to re-write what we know about the earth and about our human history.
Cycles of total freeze and total melt Evidence from current Antarctic core samples points to the fact that the ice has frozen and completely melted away many times over the millennia. The last time the area was ice-free would have been 12,000 years ago before the last ice age, and human civilizations could have lived there in the then warmer climate.
Two ancient maps There are at least two existing ancient maps, both from the 1500s, which show Antarctica ice-free, hundreds of years before the continent was discovered, let alone mapped from the air and ground with modern technology. One map found in Turkey is called the Piri Reis map, admittedly sourced by its cartographer from even more ancient maps. The other uncannily accurate map is the Oronteus Fineus map, also showing an ice-free Antarctica with no ice-cap.
Legends Legends speak of pyramids in the Antarctic, and of the lost civilization of Atlantis being covered not just under water, but encased in ice. Other persistent accounts speak of a very advanced ancient civilization on Antarctica, which ended when it completely refroze with the last ice age. About 2,400 years ago Plato wrote of the lost Atlantean civilization, adding that it was founded by people who were half-god and half-human. Recent claims assert the original inhabitants of Antarctica may indeed have been half-human and half-extra-terrestrial.
Admiral Byrd In the mid-1900s Admiral Byrd made two expeditions to Antarctica in which he reported flying into the south pole and discovering another earth within the earth, with green valleys, mountains, vegetation and strange large animals. He authored several books on these anomalous discoveries, noting that Antarctica is not what we think.
In the news: pyramids under the ice According to more than one source, pyramids have been discovered in the Antarctic. Google Earth photos can be found on the web. One news article on Scienceray. com reports that a team of eight explorers from America and Europe claim to have found evidence of three manmade pyramids “peaking” through the melting ice. The title of another article is, “NASA Images Reveal Traces of Ancient Human Settlement Underneath 2.3 km of Ice.”
Witnesses and whistleblowers Secret Space Program whistleblower, Corey Goode, has recently revealed startling information about Antarctica. His disclosures include claims that Antarctica was an extraterrestrial refugee colony established roughly 60,000 years ago. Those original people had elongated skulls and were 12 to 16 feet tall. To increase their chances of survival in our atmosphere, they created hybrids with local humans, and they and their hybrids ruled the world. Further, he indicates there have been decades of secret archaeological digs in Antarctica, in which anti-gravity craft, humanoid bodies, and technologies more advanced than ours have been found. Note: There are ancient Egyptian, Sumerian texts, along with Old Testament references describing a time when there were giants on the earth who interbred with humans, suggesting these were not mythical accounts, but accurate records of pre-history events.
How do you react? There appear to be connecting dots linking extra-terrestrials, lost civilizations, ET technology, military bases and a portal to a world within our world under Antarctica. This information is potentially as belief busting as it is mind-boggling, and is therefore a perfect opportunity to try on our reactions to clues and revelations that may seem to us as astounding as when people first learned the world was not flat. If you are curious to learn more, and come to your own conclusions, you might seek out some of the half dozen best-selling books written by eye witnesses from civilian, military and corporate sectors who are sharing their knowledge and personal experiences about Antarctica and other highly classified projects. 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
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og Island Mayor Ndogo Uume’s appointment for principal of the new Hog Island School was approved by the Hog Island Town Council today. “Betsy Ya-vol greatly supported me in the election campaign and she is tremendously qualified to serve as principal,” Uume stated. Campaign finance reports show that Ms. Ya-vol donated beer and pretzels to Uume’s campaign events, and in one instance provided bacon wrapped bagels in an attempt to appeal to Hog Island’s small but growing population of bon vivants. Opponents of Ms. Ya-vol’s appointment pointed to her lack of experience, her inability to answer simple questions about public education, as well as ongoing rumors that she drinks Coors instead of Bud Lite, drives a Ford not a Chevy, and dips Skoal instead of Copenhagen. Uume chided the press for focusing on the negative instead of Ms. Ya-vol’s positive traits. Ms. Ya-vol, Uume declared, is “tremendously committed to sponsoring real science in schools,” touting her membership in the International Flat Earth Society as proof. “The International Flat Earth Society is dedicated to science, not liberal propaganda,” Uume explained. “They’re terrifically involved in exposing the truth about stuff.” “What about gravity and the theory of general relativity?” A reporter from the Hog Island Daily Bacon asked the mayor, showing off his 12th grade education. “Doesn’t the warping of space-time prove Earth is a sphere?” (Sphere, for those of you living in Hoback Junction, means shaped like a beer belly.) “Gravity was invented by a Jew trying to steal the Nobel Prize,” Uume said. “Things just naturally fall to the ground.” When the reporter suggested that his
comments regarding the Nobel Prize might be construed as anti-Semitic, Uume defended himself. “I am the least terrifically non-anti-Semitic of anybody in the world. I even eat kosher dills with my Rueben sandwiches; however, I don’t borrow money from Jews. They always expect to be repaid.” “What about Columbus and Magellan?” the reporter persisted. “Didn’t their voyages prove the Earth is round?” “That’s last year’s fake news,” Uume ragged. “Something The New York Times or CNN would report. You need to watch Breitbart and Fox for real news, like the truth about my popularity ratings—they are amazing and terrific, a record high, more than Muldoon’s. Ms. Ya-vol aggressively defended flat earth theory at her confirmation hearings. When shown satellite photos portraying the Earth as a sphere, (there’s that word again) Ms. Ya-vol scoffed. “It is generally agreed that there are no actual satellites but pseudolites put there by the liberal elite to fool us, and there is an incredible amount of proof to debunk photo shopped pictures from space. Astronauts have been tremendously bribed and hugely threatened by climate change radicals and others whose liberal agenda include brain washing children not only about the ridiculous round Earth theory, which is tremendously disproven, but the whole Earth around the sun conspiracy.” Uume’s Hog Island supporters applauded Ms. Ya-vol’s appointment. “Hopefully this means we get more beer and pretzels,” one exclaimed. PJH
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