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The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower.

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The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower.

Now, it’s poisoning the nation’s water and soil.

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This week began with only three inches of snow on the ground in town. Last January the snow depth during this same week reached 26 inches, on January 25th, 2017. If you average last year and this year, you get 14.5 inches, which is very close to the average snow-depth for this last week in January, of 14 inches. This January has only had a few mornings with below zero temps. Last January counted up 20 days with low temps below zero.

The average low temperature this week is right around 5-degrees. The record low temperature this week is minus 44-degrees.

That record cold day occurred back on January 25th, 1949. All of the other record low temperatures for this week are in the minus 30-degree range. As a matter of fact, it has been almost 40 years since Jackson has experienced a 40-degree below zero day in January. Last time it was 40-below in January was in 1979.

The average high temperature this week is 29-degrees. The record high temperature this week occurred over 60 years ago, when it got up to a balmy 55-degrees in town, on January 29th, 1955. Most of the record highs this week date back even further than that, to the early 1900’s. These are all records that still stand today. In more modern times, it got up to 48-degrees on January 24th, 2004, a record high for that date.

NORMAL HIGH 29 NORMAL LOW 5 RECORD HIGH IN 1955 55 RECORD LOW IN 1949 -44

THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.5 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.9 inches (1969) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 19 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 56 inches (1969)

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FROM OUR READERS No Moto Our community pathways are often referred to as “the bike path” although most of the users are pedestrians. They are the most at risk from the decision to allow electric motor-bikes (E-bikes)on the pathways.

“NO MOTOR VEHICLES”is the most prominent sign on our non-motorized paths for good reasons.

The infrastructure of Teton County is devoted primarily to motor vehicles. Our inadequate road system is so congested as to be unsafe for the non-motorized public.The only motorized vehicle envisioned in the design and construction of our pathways was a wheelchair. To accommodate two-way 20+mph traffic in addition to current usage will require widening, straightening, serious control and signage, lane marking and enforcement.

Electric motor-bikes are limited to one horsepower, which is four to five times the output of one human. Electric motor-bikes are also limited to 20mph without pedaling, and have top speeds of 25-55mph. Compare this to the average walking speed, 2-4mph or the average bicycling speed of 9-12mph. These limits are unenforceable and social conscience doesn’t always work.

Electric motor-bikes are not bicycles and cannot be used practically as one.

Electric motor-bikes are not appropriate for use on pathways where motors are prohibited.

The Joint Powers Board should actively solicit input from ALL pathways users and revisit their decision before

spring. Also at issue are other electric powered devices such as skateboards, one-wheels, hover boards and Segways, none of which have mechanical braking systems.

Keith Benefiel, Wilson

Baseless accusations: Shut it down?

Good morning. Your federal government is shut down. Trump said he thought that would be good. We will see if the portions of his base who rely on federal programs would agree. Military families, for one, will find services often unavailable. The Republicans control all three branches of the federal government and still manage to fail to keep limping along, sending millions of workers into uncharted territory, with 66 of 130 federal agencies completely without any plan and no instructions to the masses of working Americans so employed.

I wonder who were Hillary Clinton’s base and who voted for her? Most people I know voted for her but out of a desperate attempt to keep Trump out of the White House. We were never her base and in fact many of us would be demonstrating against many of her policies, especially her demonstrated foreign policies, had she won the Electoral College vote as well as the vote she did win, the popular vote.

Clinton, for your next book, how about these working titles: How to Win the Most American Votes and Still Lose the Election, or, simply, WTF? Where are the Trump voters who similarly cast a vote for him primarily

to keep Clinton out of office? In other words, where are the Trump voters who have a conscience, who want an America that is more fair and less violent?

Or are his voters almost all racist sexist xenophobic white nationalists? While Trump’s approval ratings are the lowest of the last seven presidents, he steadily has at least a third of Americans backing him no matter what. He could slaughter millions and maintain their approval, apparently.

I would hate to think that. Trump is easily the most vile person in my lifetime to occupy the White House and considering Richard Nixon, that is quite an assessment. Nixon reserved most of his profane references to others for his private (or erstwhile private, before his own maladaptive recordings were released) conversations.

Trump blurts and tweets like an incontinent adolescent in meetings, in his jammies at 5 a.m. when he’s all thumbs, and he continually insults and gaslights, traduces and lies, self-contradicts and manipulates. My question of those who voted for him is, Really? You agree with these displays of crude juvenilia? Because if you are silent, you are transmitting that agreement.

I suppose the real test of the worth of the American people will come this November, when we will vote in 435 House members and 34 of the Senate seats will be up for election. Most folks are framing this in a partisan fashion, noting that 26 of the seats up for election this year are currently held by Democrats, thus giving very asymmetrical favor to

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A snow shortage across the west has brought visitors from Colorado to California with stories of mountain biking and trail running. In the Tetons, the total season snowfall was 233 inches at the Rendezvous Bowl snow study plot by January 22.

Over half of that snow fell before December.

Mountain snow depths currently range from four to eight feet. A layer that formed during the December drought is the source of the persistent deep slab avalanche problem around the 8,500 foot elevation and below. This layer is buried about three to six feet deep and is comprised of faceted snow grains and crusts.

The persistent deep slab problem will not present with the usual warning signs of shooting cracks, collapsing slopes and recent avalanche activity. This

problem will linger and the only way to detect it is by digging into the snowpack to look for it. The hazard may have already been eliminated on some slopes because it already slid during the last avalanche cycle from January 10 to 16.

Surfaces from another dry spell were recently been buried by very light density snow. These surfaces were sun crusts, wind pack, loose snow and dangerous surface hoar. The snowpack is always adjusting to the winter weather and we can only hope the weather will bring new snow.

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Republicans, but I’d personally just like to see more civil discourse, or at least a return to an era when the phrase ‘moderate Republican’ wasn’t an oxymoron.

Mark Hatfield. Margaret Chase Smith.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jacob Javits. Hell, even Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Oh, wait, the Tea Party types call those Nelson Rockefeller sorts RINOs, Republicans In Name Only. I think the black RINOs are extinct and the white RINOs are highly endangered. When the lead Republican is so vulgar and gets nearly zero pushback from other Republicans I think we do approach the point when failure to act like a racist, sexist, gun-fondling, nuke-gripping xenophobe is tantamount to not being a Republican, at least by almost all evidence. When Lindsay Graham is our best example of moral rectitude for Republicans we are at a new benthic low in a sea of Republican moral turpitude.

So far, I’m massively unimpressed by Trump’s voters, the overwhelming number of them refusing to make themselves known publicly as opposed to many of Trump’s ugliest utterances. We will see what it comes to this November, certainly, but for now I’m not seeing demonstrations of civility, decency, or much appreciation for the nominal American values of equality, fairness, or freedom for all.

I want to feel like a brother to Trump’s voters but not yet.

Yours for a nonviolent future, Tom H. Hastings, Ed.D., Director, PeaceVoice Program, Oregon Peace Institute http://www.peacevoice.info/

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Teton County Mark Newcomb — already struggling mightily with growth problems — will lose the very wild soul that residents covet and the tourism industry capitalizes upon.

The take-home message that needs to be spoken publicly — and no longer dodged — is that limits on development, much to the chagrin of the free-marketeers, are the only thing that will save what most of us love about Greater Yellowstone.

We should remember that once upon a time, me-first profiteers in the territorial government of Montana claimed that setting aside Yellowstone would cause economic calamity; in Teton County, some of the pioneer families said the same thing about creating Grand Teton park.

The uniqueness of Greater Yellowstone is based on a rare virtue— that of human self-restraint exhibited out of respect for nature and pursued creatively in partnership between the public and private sectors. It puts public good and wildness ahead of policies that pander only to personal egos and individual profits. Ironically, it’s also been bullish for business. PJH

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or me as a semi-libertarian (I believe in individual freedom so long as it doesn’t harm anyone else or destroy the valuable things we hold in common as a society), it’s fascinating when listening to fellow human denizens of Greater Yellowstone.

Especially freshly-arrived developers now pouring into our region and carrying with them the impression that Greater Yellowstone is ripe for the picking.

When interviewing people, I hear certain private property owners (I too own property by the way) and business people (I also run a business) beating their chests, condemning anything that “hobbles their right” to do whatever they want with their land.

Of late, I’ve been watching the commentary of an individual from Jackson Hole on social media who obviously resents government, rules and zoning.

And so, my question back to such folks is: Why are you here?

Greater Yellowstone is a region where human self-restraint as an ethic has yielded a spectacular array of public and private dividends that only continue to accrue value in the crowded, blighted modern world.

Had free-marketeer ideologues, anti-planning and zoning zealots prevailed long ago neither Yellowstone nor Grand Teton national parks, nor national forests, wildlife refuges, wildlife or the special mystique of public lands that define our region would exist.

There is not a single example in the history of humankind where our species — i.e. the “private sector”, if left to purely its own devices, unencumbered by regulations, has ever succeeded in safeguarding a natural region as wondrous as Greater Yellowstone.

There have been many kings, oligarchs and emperors who presided over huge swaths of land, but none that yielded a huge public good for the peasants, guaranteed public access, a sense of stakeholdership, the right to

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have a say in how management decisions are made and the right to challenge decisions that result in ecological destruction.

At the recent “22 in 21” conference hosted by the Jackson-based Charture Institute, Teton Count y Commissioner Mark Newcomb delivered a provocative talk which you can read in its entirety now at mountainjournal. org.

In it, Newcomb dangles a number: $15, 2 2 2 , 9 9 0, 8 5 3.

Yes, $15 billion with a B. That is the estimated value, according to the state assessor’s office, of all of the remaining undeveloped private land in Teton County, Wyoming, one of the richest counties per capita in America.

If you wanted to protect all of the private land in the county, which, of course, isn’t wise or possible, that’s what it would cost.

Teton County has a mess on its hands, ironically, because it is a place where many wealthy, free-market, anti-government, anti-regulation people want to have their vacation homes. And yet the landscape they covet is an absolute product of government regulation and individual self-restraint.

In his speech, Newcomb alludes to the mad scramble going on among modern resource extractionists—this time it’s the tourism industry including commercial kayakers, snowmobilers, skiers etc. trying to monetize very last inch of private/public land to enrich themselves.

At the same time, Jackson Hole finds itself coiled tightly in a Gordian knot.

Limited buildable real estate combined with visionary land protection to preserve community character have created a place that is no longer affordable to working class people.

The free-marketeers would have us believe that if only development restrictions were lifted, problems of social inequity for locals could be resolved, which is both a myth and a greed-driven conceit. If that happens and the development footprint markedly expands,

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Prosecutors Push on Against 59 Protesters Despite Defeat The U.S. Attorney’s Office dropped charges continues to prosecute journalists, others who have spoken to the press

BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

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n Thursday, federal prosecutors in Washington D.C. dropped charges against 129 of the 188 people facing rioting charges during protests of Donald Trump’s inauguration last January. The decision comes after a jury found all six of the defendants in the first round of trials not guilty on all charges on Dec. 21.

“The US Attorney has essentially admitted it never had the evidence to charge these innocent people in the first place, and we’re gratified to see they’ve come to their senses,” the ACLU-D.C. said in a statement. “For a full year, the government’s abusive prosecution has upended the lives of these defendants, who’ve endured the anxiety of multiple court hearings and suffered disruptions to their educations or careers while facing the prospect of more than 60 years in prison.”

The government’s notice of intent to proceed lists three reasons for the continued prosecution of the 59 defendants named—and in doing so seems to acknowledge that there was never a strong case against the 129 people, all of whom have spent the last year looking at the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in jail.

“The government is focusing its efforts on prosecuting those defendants who: (1) engaged in identifiable acts of destruction, violence, or other assaultive conduct;

(2) participated in the planning of the violence and destruction; and/or (3) engaged in conduct that demonstrates a knowing and intentional use of the blackbloc tactic on January 20, 2017, to perpetrate, aid or abet violence and destruction.”

“By that justification as written, it doesn’t make any sense for me to be one of the people they are focusing on. But it has never made any sense to be focusing on any of us,” said Elizabeth Lagesse, one of the defendants in the case who is also part of an ACLU civil suit against D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and a number of individual officers who, they claim, violated civil rights or engaged in violence while on duty that day.

“With my case in particular I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that I’ve been outspoken or that I am part of the ACLU lawsuit,” she said.

“This has always been political,” said Dylan Petrohilos, one of the people accused of planning the anti-capitalist anti-fascist march that resulted in some broken windows. “Not only has it always been political, it’s already been a yearlong punishment.”

Petrohilos says he was not even at the protest. Months later, police officers raided the home where he was living, taking an antifa flag and copies of progressive magazines like The Nation as evidence.

Since the beginning of the case, MPD and U.S. prosecutors have worked closely with far-right media. On the day of the protest, a police officer released a spreadsheet with the names of everyone who was arrested to the far-right site Gotnews. com. In the first trial, prosecutors made liberal use of videos of an alleged planning meeting secretly recorded by an operative for James O’Keefe’s shady farright sting site Project Veritas. Although prosecutors had previously argued for a protective order that would prohibit body camera footage from being released to the media, the night before they filed their intent to continue prosecuting 59 individuals, D.C.’s Fox 5 released “new” footage showing some members of the black bloc anti-capitalist protest breaking windows.

To the defendants still facing charges, the timing did not seem coincidental.

Journalist Aaron Cantú is among those still facing charges. Eight journalists were initially arrested, although charges against most of them were quickly dropped. Alexei Wood, a photojournalist

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who was live-streaming the protest, was one of the six acquitted on all charges.

Cantú’s lawyers filed a separate motion to dismiss on Friday, hours after the government announced it would continue with its prosecution of him.

“This case doubly implicates the First Amendment, because not only was Mr. Cantú present as a journalist to gather and disseminate the news, but the newsworthy event he was covering was a political demonstration,” the motion reads.

Cantú’s charges are based on the fact that he arrived where the black bloc was meeting, wearing dark clothes, and that he moved with them. His lawyers liken Cantú to a journalist embedded with the military.

“Mr. Cantú’s brand of journalism continues a time-honored tradition of journalists who have embedded themselves to provide first-hand accounts of important events,” the motion reads. “American history is replete with examples of journalists sacrificing their own personal comfort or safety for the sake of a worthwhile story.”

The decision to continue prosecuting a reporter for the actions of people he was covering comes only one day after Republican Senator Jeff Flake gave a long speech criticizing Trump’s attacks on the press as the “enemy of the people.”

“It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people,’ that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader,” Flake said. He did not mention the name Aaron Cantú in his speech. Nor did the pundits who attacked the president’s “fake news awards” given out later that same night.

Aaron Cantú is among an increasing number of journalists who’ve become targets in the U.S.

Most of the mainstream media still treats Trump’s war on the press as a Twitter feud. The prosecution of Cantú and others who have talked to the press such as Lagesse and Petrohilos shows that it is far more than that.

In most jurisdictions, these crimes would be prosecuted by state’s attorneys, but in the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice oversees such prosecutions. The suit cites specific DOJ guidelines intended to prohibit just such prosecutions of the press. But when Jeff Sessions’ prosecutors ignore those rules, the mainstream press remains shamefully silent.

Cantú and his lawyers are clear about the the stakes, however. “Prosecution of journalists not only imposes severe penalties on the individual journalists arrested and charged, but it significantly deters other members of the press from exercising their constitutional rights,” the motion argues, claiming that “the government’s conduct amounts to an outright ban on newsgathering at demonstrations.”

But it is not only journalists who enjoy the protections of the First Amendment.

Lagesse, who appeared on Vice News days before the government’s notice was filed, was insistent that she would not back down.

“If they’re going to fight, so am I,” she said. “If they think they have a good case against me, then they’re wrong and I want to keep fighting. If it’s because they’re mad that I have been outspoken, I’m not planning on being any less outspoken.”

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og Island Activate (HI ACTivate) is a new group intended to be a resource and inspiration for effective political action to support men’s rights and the polices of Hog Island Mayor Ndogo Uume.

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I came to the stand as a victim, and I leave as a victor. — Stephanie Robinson 4.

As you deteriorate in prison, I want you to remember that you lost. As you eke out your days in prison, know that you will be forgotten and left alone. — Maureen Payne

only beginning to just use them. — Aly Reisman

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That’s something a 25-year-old shouldn’t have to do — sleep in their parents bed ‘cause they’re afraid of a monster. — Ashley Yost

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5 POWERFUL QUOTES FROM THE NEARLY 140 WOMEN WHO JUDGE ROSEMARIE AQUILINA ALLOWED TO PROVIDE VICTIM STATEMENTS AT EX-GYMNASTICS DOC LARRY NASSAR’S SENTENCING

“We oppose the anti-American agenda of the so-called women’s marchers, most of whom are professional protesters flown in from Wilson and paid by for by liberal elites living in new doublewides on the west end of the trailer park,” said Ken Earle, a founding member of HI ACTivate. (Disclosure: Ken is my stepbrother’s uncle and his latest wife is my third ex-wife’s daughter’s stepbrother’s ex-wife’s sister.)

According to Earle, HI ACTivate was planning an opposing march on the day of the woman’s march but was blocked by “leaders of the women’s march employing devious traits from the murkiest part of the female psyche,” Earle claimed. “They purposefully scheduled their march on a Saturday when they knew men would be hungover.”

Earle went through a list of what he called disgusting and subversive goals JH ACTivate has published on their website and repudiated each one.

“They claim inclusion as one of their ideals,” he raged.

“Well, inclusion is a code word for allowing Dallas Cowboy fans the same rights as Denver Bronco fans. It’s disrespectf ul to our military.”

“They want civil rights for all, but they don’t define who “all” is.

Would “all” include people who root for BYU, people

who drive Fords instead of Chevys?

Who drink Coors instead of Bud Lite?” Earle said. “It’s disrespectful to our military.”

“They favor science and evidence-based policies, but science is often wrong and evidence can be biased. Just look at the history!” Earle said. “For tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture and the rise of an educated liberal elitist class, the best science and evidence-based theory’s stated that the earth was flat and the sun went around America. Men hunted all day and women did all the work and any man could grab the ass or breasts of any woman he wanted without fearing a hashtag movement. It was a golden age. Now the earth is round, we go around the sun, math has become complicated, we can’t have sex with a woman without her consent and the world is in chaos all because of science and evidence-based policies.

And it’s disrespectful to our military.”

“JH ACTivate believes in the foundational concepts of democracy.

That’s disrespectful to our service men and women.” Earle said contemptuously. “Everyone who truly loves the trailer park, who loves America, who loves freedom believes Mayor Uume should be rewarded with lifelong rule and the power to make decrees without legislative interference or liberal meddling.”

“And what’s all this about freedom of the press,” he demanded. “The press needs to reports the news the way Mayor Uume wants it reported; everything else is fake news and disrespectful to our military.

The founding fathers n e v e r intended freedom of the press to be inf inite, but free w it h i n the boundaries of a 280-character tweet.” PJH

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THE BUZZ COURTESY OF SLADE ROSS

A New Sheriff in Town An indie candidate announces run against Whalen for Teton County Sheriff

BY FW BROSCHART @broschartfred

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lade Ross, a former deputy in the Teton County Sheriff’s Department, announced he would run against incumbent Sheriff Jim Whalen as an independent. “I’ve never believed that the sheriff should be a partisan position,” Ross said in a news release. “It stands for equal protection under the law no matter what your political stance.”

Whalen, a Republican, has been sheriff since 2009 when he was appointed to head the department after the retirement of former Teton County Sheriff Bob Zimmer. Whalen was then elected to the position for two consecutive terms.

In a news release, Ross described himself as a person with deep roots in the county, having ancestors who homesteaded in Teton county before Wyoming became a state, including a great-great-grandfather who, Ross said, was one of the first game wardens and constables in the valley before Teton County was established.

“I grew up on a cattle ranch south of town where I learned a good work ethic and to respect our lands and our animals,” Ross said. “I love this valley and am dedicated to keeping our community as safe as possible.

“I am proud of my roots and excited about the opportunity to set the tone for the sheriff’s office.”

Ross worked for the Teton County Sheriff’s office for 19 years, attaining the rank of lieutenant. A departmental shakeup in early 2017 ended with Ross being terminated from his position, and another lieutenant in the department being demoted. In the release, Ross called his termination from the Teton County Sheriff’s Office a, “mutual parting of the ways after it became apparent

“I grew up on a cattle ranch south of town where I learned a good work ethic and to respect our lands and our animals,” Slade Ross said.

that they (Ross and Whalen) could no longer work together to further the mission of the sheriff’s office.”

Besides his promise to be a non-partisan sheriff, Ross cites his training and experience as a Teton County Deputy as a key qualification for the position.

Ross says he has over 3,000 hours of law enforcement training, and has experience in communications, patrol, investigations detention, search and rescue, court security and civil process.

According to the release, Ross is also trained in accident reconstruction and has trained and worked as a SWAT team member. He is also a licensed pilot who has flown aerial firefighting flights.

Ross also studied anti-terrorism and forensics at the FBI’s national academy, a 10-week course for active law enforcement personnel from around the U.S. and some foreign countries to learn more advanced law enforcement skills and investigative techniques.

In his news release, Ross said he believed having deputies spend less time tied to a desk so they can work the streets is another goal. He also said he would “open up more lines of communication with businesses, mental health providers, community advocates schools and private citizens,” so if incidents occur people would be better equipped to deal with the Sheriff’s office.

Ross said he would start an internship program to encourage younger

people to pursue work in law enforcement so the department would better reflect the diverse nature of Teton County’s population.

Perhaps the biggest problem facing the Sheriff’s Office — and many other employers in Teton county — is the lack of affordable housing that forces many to live outside the county in neighboring areas, counties or states. Of the 24 employees of the Teton County Sheriff’s office, only five live in Teton County.

Besides being a point of strain for workers like deputies, having a bulk of employees living elsewhere has the potential to cause severe public safety issues. In February 2017, a snowstorm closed several roads leading into Jackson Hole from surrounding areas for several days. According to current sheriff Whalen, this caused significant problems for the department and caused a major public safety problem.

In the wake of that snowstorm, Sheriff Whalen proposed a housing allowance scheme in April that would make it easier for public safety workers employed by the Sheriff’s Department to reside in Teton County. Whalen’s proposed allowance of $800 per month for deputies, $600 per month for dispatchers and $400 per month for jail staff and court security was less than the $1,100 the State of Wyoming offers any of its employees to defray the cost of living in county.

Ross said, if elected, he would also

support a program to “incentivize deputies… to stay or move to Teton County so that they are more invested in the community they protect.”

Any such scheme, however, would need approval from elected officials in the county.

Should he be elected, Ross would be the second Sheriff in Teton County elected as an independent. He acknowledges it might be a difficult campaign, however, saying that in Wyoming, independent candidates are barred from fundraising until after the primary election is held.

Under Wyoming law, parties that select nominees by way of conventions instead of primary elections are barred from fundraising until after the state’s primary, which will be held this year on Aug. 21. Independent candidates also are barred from fundraising until after the primary. Members of parties who participate in the primary can accept donations of $1,000 per person maximum prior to the primary, and again prior to the general election in November. Independent candidates can only accept a maximum of $1,000 once.

Ross said he would begin his campaign with a petition drive to be put on the ballot. To successfully be listed as a cadidate on the ballot in November, Ross will have to get a number of signatures equal to 2 percent of the number of votes cast in the county for congressional representative. PJH

January 2018

St. John’s Calendar of Events Most events are free unless otherwise noted.

Health & Wellness

Support Groups Cancer Support Group for Patients Survivors, and Caregivers Led by cancer nurse Beth Shidner, RN, OCN, and social worker Lynnette Gartner, MSW, LCSW Thursday, February 1 Thursday, February 15 4-5 pm Professional Office Building Suite 206

For information, call 307.739.6195

Grief Support Group Led by St. John’s Hospice social worker Oliver Goss, LCSW Drop-ins welcome, but please call ahead Wednesday, February 14 Noon – 1 pm Wednesday, February 28 Noon – 1 pm Professional Office Building Suite 114, 555 E. Broadway, Entrance C

Call 307.739.7463

Teton Mammas For new babies and their families Wednesday, February 7 1 – 2:30 pm Moose Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.6175 For those suffering from persistent memory problems; family members and caregivers welcome Thursday, February 8 Noon – 1 pm

For information, call 307.739.7434

Teton Parkies (For those affected by Parkinson’s Disease)

For information, call 307.739.7634

Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Group in Spanish In Spanish! ¡En Español!

Zumba with Elvis. Family friendly.

Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30 – 6:30 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.7466

Suffering from back pain?

Learn prevention and treatment options Dr. Christopher Hills, orthopedic surgeon Thursday, February 8 5:30–6:30 pm Four Pines Physical Therapy 46 Iron Horse Drive Alpine, WY

For information, call 307-654-5577

Keeping your Heart Healthy Dr. Bill Mullen, cardiologist Thursday, February 22 5:30–7 pm Pinedale Medical Clinic 625 East Henpeck St Pinedale, WY

For information, call 307.367.4133

Spine Classes Information for people considering or scheduled for spine surgery Tuesday, February 6, 3-4:30 pm Monday, February 12, 1-2:30 pm Tuesday, February 20, 3-4:30 pm Monday, February 26, 1-2:30 pm Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

For information, call 307.739.7678

Joint Classes

Auxiliary Monthly Luncheon “Healthcare for Families in Our Community,” by guest speaker Berit Amundson, MD, St. John’s Family Health & Urgent Care Thursday, February 1 Noon Boardroom

New Physicians and other providers from St. John’s Medical Center Wednesday, February 7 5–6:30 pm Short program at 5:45 pm Refreshments provided Wort Hotel 50 Glenwood

Information for people considering or scheduled for joint replacement surgery Thursday, February 8, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, February 13, 4-5:30 pm Thursday, February 22, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, February 27, 4-5:30 pm Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

625 E. Broadway, Jackson, WY

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Gather for mutual support, discussion of disease and therapies, and more.

Tuesday, February 13 4:00 pm Walk at Emily’s Pond.

Dogs welcome.

Out for dinner afterward.

Tuesday, February 27 5:30pm Jackson Whole Grocer BYO dinner. Showing “2015 Tour de Fox” video Contact Elizabeth at 307.733.4966, 614.271.7012, or epgerhard@gmail.com

Open to everyone interested in weight loss and those considering (or who have had) bariatric surgery Thursday, February 15, 4 pm Professional Office Building Suite 206

Jazz Improvisation, Musical Creativity, and the Brain featuring researcher and surgeon Charles Limb, MD Friday, February 2 noon – 1 pm Teton County Library Free, but ticketed.

Available at gtmf.org

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Memory Loss Support Group

Weight Management Support Group

Lunchtime Learning in collaboration with the Grand Teton Music Festival

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Bring Your Own Politics Jackson’s 2nd Annual Women’s March focused more on elections, voting than pussies

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o mark their surviving the first year of the Trump administration — and to keep going the political momentum established by the original Women’s March held the day after Trump’s inauguration — about 400 people in Jackson took to the streets Saturday afternoon to march in solidarity with dozens of other marches taking place around the country.

Saturday’s march in Jackson, and another held nearby in Pinedale, focused primarily on ensuring people are registered to vote, motivating them to do so and even encouraging people to run for office.

In many ways, turning the focus of the march to encouraging people to register, vote and even run for office changed the

“Get on the phone, get fired up, write, run and register.”

overall tenor of the march into a more tightly focused means of resistance. This year, there were fewer “pussyhats” on display, the name for knitted pink hats that were a satire of Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” remarks that were made public just before his election. Instead, the march seemed to be aimed at taking serious action against the President and his political enablers.

The march also became a campaign stop for Teton County resident Gary Trauner, a Democrat who is running for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Republican John Barrasso.

Megan Kohli, an organizer of the event, addressed the crowd at the end of the March in Jackson Town Square.

“Call [elected officials] every time you’re pissed off,” Kohli implored marchers.

“Get on the phone, get fired up, write, run and register.”

Outside of the focus on voting, the march was pretty much a “bring your own politics” affair, with activists toting signs about women’s rights, reproductive rights, health care access, workplace fairness and equal pay, immigrant’s issues, environmental concerns, the economy, the government shutdown and almost anything in between.

And, like the original, there was also a lot of irreverent commentary aimed at a deeply unpopular president who has provided more than his fair share of gaffes and blunders throughout the first year of his administration.

The scene was similar across the nation. According to New York mayor Bill de Blasio, 200,000 marchers took to the streets of the Big Apple Saturday; 300,000 hit the bricks in Chicago; Los Angeles authorities estimated about 500,000 people showed up there, and Washington, D.C. officials said there were fewer than last year’s near half-million marchers, but the number of people what turned out in the nation’s capital was still measured in the hundreds of thousands.

Like the Jackson and Pinedale marches, most events around the country were focused on the “Power to the Polls” theme espoused by national organizers.

Even though the march was billed an opportunity for people — not just women — to speak out about political issues that mattered to them, this year’s event carried a more significant gravitas than that, feeling much more determined and focused on turning out voters to the polls for November midterms.

Joan Anzelmo, one of the organizers

of the Jackson event said the overarching goal of the organizers here was to ensure people are still registered to vote, get them registered if they aren’t and get them to turn up to polling places in November.

According to Anzelmo, just because a person was registered to vote in the past, they should ensure they are still registered, as some clerks across Wyoming have been purging voter rolls of people who did not vote in the general election in 2016.

The march also hoped to encouraged people, especially women, to run for office at local, county, state and federal levels.

Across the nation, 389 women have filed as candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, double the number who ran in 2016, according to Rutgers University Center for American Women in Politics. Across the country, there will be 36 gubernatorial races and 79 women are contenders for them, a record number according to Rutgers.

Of the women running for the House, 314 of them — about 81 percent — are democrats. Nearly 61 percent of female governor candidates are Democrats.

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Weird Chemistry

NEWS OF THE

WEIRD

In Lawrence County, Tennessee, law enforcement officials are confronting the fallout from a new drug known as “Wasp” (crystallized wasp repellant mixed with methamphetamine). To wit: On Dec. 18, as the Johnson family baked Christmas cookies in their Lawrenceburg kitchen, Danny Hollis, 35, walked into their home and asked for help. NewsChannel 5 in Nashville reported Hollis poured himself a glass of water from the sink before grabbing a knife and cutting across his throat. Teenage son Canaan Johnson said Hollis then ran up to the second floor, heaved an oak dresser down the stairs, and jumped out a window onto a gazebo below, seriously injuring his neck. The Johnsons, meanwhile, had retreated to their car, where they called 911. Hollis chased the car down the street, but got hung up on a barbed wire fence, then stripped naked to free himself and climbed a nearby tree, where officers found him, according to police reports.

Hollis fought them off by allegedly throwing his own feces at them, as they tased him out of the tree. Hollis was booked into the county jail on numerous charges.

Khaled A. Shabani, 46, a hairstylist in Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested on a tentative charge of mayhem and disorderly conduct while armed after an altercation with a customer on Dec. 22. Shabani scolded the 22-year-old customer for fidgeting, then taught him a lesson by using the “shortest possible attachment” to “run down the middle of the customer’s head,” reported the Wisconsin State Journal, and “leaving him looking a bit like Larry from ‘The Three Stooges,’” police spokesman Joel DeSpain said. Shabani also clipped the customer’s ear with scissors. “While it is not a crime to give someone a bad haircut,” DeSpain noted, “you will get arrested for intentionally snipping their ear with a scissors.” Shabani said the snip was an accident, and his charge was later reduced to a ticket for disorderly conduct.

Bright Ideas

Awesome!

Bertha Vickers of Morgantown, Mississippi, turned 100 on Jan. 9. To celebrate, she bagged a deer. “I was sort of shaking until I got ready to shoot,” Vickers told the Clarion Ledger. “I didn’t think it was all going to go right.”

Vickers still lives in her home and mows her own lawn, tends a garden and hunts for squirrels. “I don’t know why everybody is making such a big deal about it,” she said. “It was just a doe. I would love to kill a buck.”

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When Dustin Johnson, 22, of Minot, North Dakota, tried to steal $4,000 worth of merchandise from a local Hobby Lobby, he failed to take into account that shopping carts don’t have snow tires. The Grand Forks Herald reported that over a seven-hour period on Jan. 3, Johnson filled a cart then fled the store—where the cart became stuck in snow in the parking lot and flipped over. Johnson fell

Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em

Christians in a Portuguese village carry on a curious tradition during Epiphany: They encourage their young children to smoke cigarettes. Vale de Salgueiro locals told Fox News that nobody is sure what the smoking symbolizes, but the centuries-old tradition persists. And Portuguese authorities don’t intervene, despite the fact that the legal age to purchase tobacco in Portugal is 18.

Writer Jose Ribeirinha researched the tradition and said that since Roman times, villagers in the region have done things that were out of the norm during winter solstice celebrations.

The Litigious Society

Siera Strumlauf and Benjamin Robles of California, and Brittany Crittenden of New York, saw their complaints go up in steam on Jan. 5 when U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed their lawsuit against Starbucks for underfilling its lattes and mochas.

According to Reuters, the judge cited lack of evidence brought by the plaintiffs, who accused the coffee chain of fraud by making its cups too small and instructing baristas to skimp on ingredients and adhere to low “fill-to” lines on milk pitchers. The suit also claimed milk foam should not be counted toward advertised volumes, an opinion Rogers said reasonable customers do not hold. Starbucks and the plaintiffs had no comment.

Weird Science

Researchers have discovered that 99 percent of green sea turtles born in the northern parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are now female. Sea turtles’ gender is determined by the temperature at which the eggs are incubated, and warmer temperatures reduce the number of male hatchlings. The author of a new study, marine biologist Michael Jensen, told The News York Times the shift in gender suggests climate change is having a more dramatic effect on sea turtle populations than scientists realized. “We’re all trying to wrap our heads around how these populations are going to respond to those changes,” he said. Researchers warn that continued global warming will threaten the persistence of these populations.

Animals Gone Wild

Postal workers in the Rocky River suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, were unable to deliver mail to about two dozen homes for three weeks in December and January after being attacked by aggressive wild turkeys. Local ordinances prevented the city from eliminating the birds, so residents were asked to pick up their mail at the post office. Rocky River Mayor Pam Bobst encouraged residents to stop putting out bird food, hoping that would discourage the turkeys from hanging around. “There’s a lot of bird feeders over there, so there’s a food source in that area,” she told Cleveland.com. The USPS said several carriers were pecked, but no serious injuries had been reported.

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Extreme Climate News It may be cold where you are, but it’s hot in Broadford, a small town about an hour from Melbourne, Australia, where on Jan. 5, the highway began melting.

Temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit and higher reactivated an ingredient in the road surface, turning it into a sticky mess on the Hume Freeway, 9News reported. Motorists were warned by Victoria police to avoid the right lane and expect delays over a 10km stretch. Officials also put in place a fire ban and urged people to stay indoors until the heat abated.

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Polk County (Florida) Sheriff’s officers responded to an unusual 911 call on New Year’s Eve: Michael Lester, 39, of Winter Haven, started off by telling the dispatcher, “Umm, I’m drunk. I don’t know where I’m at. I’m just drunk driving.” The dispatcher urged Lester to pull over and park, but he explained that he was driving on the wrong side of the road near a Publix and wondered where the police were. WTVT reported that officers finally caught up with Lester, who helpfully explained he’d had several beers, hadn’t slept much and had taken methamphetamine earlier in the day; he was jailed on a DUI charge. Officers later posted on their Facebook page that “in this particular incident, nobody was hurt, so we couldn’t help but LOTO (that means we Laughed Our Tasers Off).”

down, then got up to run, leaving behind his wallet with photo ID matching the shoplifter’s description. Minot police caught up with Johnson at his home.

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Oooh, Wise Guy, Eh?

By THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL

The Bomb That Went Off Twice part 2

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The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower.

Now, it’s poisoning the nation’s water and soil.

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica.c om

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As early as 1979, company documents show, Mallinckrodt, the company that operated the plant before Ensign-Bickford acquired it, had detected nitrate contamination related to explosives in water wells offsite.

n 1980, after reports of more waste being dumped into ditches and leaking from unlined pits, an EPA official stated that the contaminants that leaked could be expected to contain explosives. By 1981, the company was theorizing that the contaminants were seeping through the ground and into the irrigation ditch.

“I regularly saw the waste water from that operation leave the production building and flow in a downhill ditch,” Lawrence Bradshaw, who worked with RDX production at the plant for 19 years, said in testimony. Bradshaw described poor maintenance and constantly overflowing equipment. “The waste water … contained RDX waste and TNT waste. … It was red in color.”

Then, in 1986, the liner for a 45,000-square-foot, 12-foot-deep waste pond of nitric acid ruptured, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of acid and other contaminants from the production of the explosives into the soil and the ditch nearby. After the spill, Ensign-Bickford tested the water in its monitoring wells and detected RDX at 10,700 parts per billion — some of the highest levels ever recorded in the environment and about 5,000 times what the EPA thought was safe. A few years later, a consultant hired by the company warned its executives that the contaminants could be consumed through irrigated vegetables.

None of this was disclosed to Petersen or the other residents of Mapleton, who continued to water their

fields and drink from their wells.

Instead, the company continued to quietly study its problem, and strategize about ways to minimize the fallout. Ensign-Bickford hired consultants who outlined the enormous liability the company could face, and the “negative publicity” it would undoubtedly endure depending on how the contamination was made public. “A serious threat exists to the longterm water supply of the city of Mapleton,” read handwritten meeting notes from the Trojan Corp., which Ensign-Bickford owned, dated 1990. The notes said Mapleton would be forced to shut its groundwater wells and could lose a significant portion of its water supply, leading to “media attention, increased pressure from regulatory agencies and potential lawsuits.”

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and its chemical derivatives accumulated in plants and fish was well accepted.

“Plants need nitrogen for protein, just like we do,” said Terry McLendon, a former University of Texas professor of biology and an ecological risk assessor who has worked with the Department of Energy on contamination in plants at Los Alamos, and on other federal projects. “And RDX is a nitrogen-based substance.”

But accumulation in plants also meant that the vegetables concentrate the chemicals and amplify the exposure to anyone who eats them far beyond what it would have been if they’d simply swallowed polluted water. The question was how much did the chemicals accumulate, and how much had Mapleton residents consumed?

The group hired McLendon’s consulting company to find out, and the calculations he presented to the court were striking. Based on previous research, he calculated that a carrot grown with water containing the amount of RDX measured in Petersen’s well, for example, would have up to 286 times as much RDX in it as the water it was grown with. Spinach would contain 55 times as much RDX, the researchers found.

The chemicals are most concentrated in the roots and the leaves of plants. So tomatoes might be less of a risk than lettuce or potatoes.

Petersen meticulously accounted for her home-grown diet over the years, calculating that she’d eaten at least one potato, on average, each day since she’d moved into her home, as well as thousands of beans, carrots, squash, cucumbers and more. McLendon calculated that she’d consumed more than 100 mg of pure RDX and its derivatives each year.

The defense team criticized Weisenburger’s and McLendon’s conclusions for making what it described as theoretical leaps beyond what could be proven. But before the case was settled in 2002, the arguments made in the Mapleton lawsuit were subjected to a special kind of scrutiny: The federal district court judge held a so-called Daubert hearing to evaluate the credentials of the experts and the scientific approach they took in offering their testimony. And after weeks of deliberation and an extensive review of the evidence, the judge validated the plaintiffs’ approach, ruling that their experts’ analysis that hydrazines and nitrosamine compounds were likely to cause non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma were valid, and that the methods used to quantify residents’ exposure were legitimate.

It takes significant evidence to meet that legal standard, said Laurie Ashton, the attorney who represented the Mapleton families. “You can’t just be a crank,” she said.

What appeared to be missing, though, was more conclusive research along the lines of the studies

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“Trojan Corporation,” the notes state, “faces impli- type, for example, led to tumors in mice with a single cation as the probable cause.” minuscule dose of just one-tenth of a part per billion.

By 1994, the company had tested and documented The variations derived from RDX are not well studied, the existence of RDX in the private wells of Petersen but based on his research and published papers, “one and Ruff, having collected samples under the guise of should assume that they have carcinogenic potential, routine water monitoring, but it still hadn’t informed until proven otherwise,” Weisenburger wrote. them of the results, according to the plaintiffs’ stateBoth nitrosamine derivatives and hydrazines were ments. (In some documents Ensign-Bickford denies it found in the water wells of Petersen and the others. documented unsafe levels of RDX. The company did And both types of compounds, Weisenburger noted, not respond to requests for comment.) Trojan was able have been directly linked with the same type of to keep the contamination secret in part because the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that befell the Mapleton EPA’s guidelines for RDX concentrations in drinking residents. water were not a legal, enforceable limit. The agency Years earlier — as concerns about residents’ health had never specifically formalized regulation of RDX, mounted — Utah’s health department investigated and so the pollution was not in violation of the law. a potential cancer cluster in Mapleton, but concludAs evident as Ensign-Bickford’s cover-up was, how- ed that while leukemia cases appeared unusually ever, Petersen and the other plaintiff families still common, they could not be linked to pollution from had to prove that the explosives had made them sick. Petersen’s lawyers Supercharger plant built their case not on RDX itself, but by focusing on the chemistry workers in the that results as RDX degrades in the Midwest during ground, and how those unusual compounds are then absorbed into WWII. plants consumed as food.

What they found casts new light on the nation’s RDX problem, suggesting that even as RDX fades away, the chemicals in it will remain lethal, perhaps becoming even more so as they break down.

In 1999, the plaintiffs hired a professor specializing in microbiology and epidemiology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center to examine how RDX might be connected to the specific types of cancers found in Mapleton.

For years, the doctor, Dennis Weisenburger, had studied how non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma develops and how environmental exposures may play a role in it.

Weisenburger examined the chemical breakdown explosives. The agency found no apparent cluster of of RDX into groups including what are called hydra- non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Weisenburger argued that zines, and another called nitrosamine compounds. the state had diluted the sample pool by including These descendant compounds can be more prevalent an area far away from the Ensign-Bickford plant, and and more dangerous than the RDX itself, he warned. that it had erroneously divided two types of lymphoHe noted that nitrosamines in particular are “some of ma into separate categories when they should have the most potent carcinogens.” (Formaldehyde, anoth- been counted as one. He also found that Petersen and er breakdown product, has since also been classified Ruff’s cases had not been counted in the study. When as carcinogenic.) he combined the incidents of chronic lymphocytic Hydrazines were already classified by the EPA as a leukemia and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and added “probable human carcinogen” based on animal stud- in Petersen and her neighbor, the numbers were ies. One related breakdown compound is so potent it stark: Mapleton had twice as many cases of non-Hodhas long been used to induce colon cancer in rodents gkin’s lymphoma and three times as many cases of for research purposes, often on the basis that a single leukemia as would have been expected. dose will cause tumors. Another variation has been Petersen’s legal team believed that she and her specifically linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in neighbors got their cancers by eating food grown mice. with explosives-saturated water and by drinking that The nitrosamines — and their broader family of water. For years, researchers, including those working related compounds — are more difficult to analyze for the Pentagon, had been investigating the potential because there are many, and some are extremely dan- for plants to absorb RDX and other explosives, often gerous. More than 300 varieties are believed to cause with the goal of using those plants to remediate, or cancer, Weisenburger noted in his testimony. One suck the contaminants out of polluted soils. That RDX

on the northern part of the base’s ranges for years.

And when confronted with mounting concerns about the RDX in groundwater there, the Army sought to keep it that way.

“They were using every argument in the book,” said one EPA official familiar with cleanup effort at Camp Edwards.

Such friction was hardly new. The Pentagon had for years argued that “sovereign immunity” clauses protected the military from prosecution and fines under environmental law. In the spring of 1992, the Supreme Court ruled on a similar argument by the Department of Energy, confirming that the Pentagon was correct; environmental agencies couldn’t fine it for past violations of hazardous waste statutes. The move took the teeth out of enforcement at both the federal and the state level, because without fines there were no consequences for refusing to clean up contaminated sites.

Congress ultimately responded a few months later with the 1992 Federal Facilities Compliance Act, restoring a large portion of the EPA’s oversight authority over federal agencies’ handling of hazardous waste. But it didn’t come easy.

“DOD fought it, for six years, over three Congresses,” said Richard Frandsen, who served as chief counsel for environment issues for the House Energy and Commerce Committee for more than 30 years. “We had all 50 attorneys general, Republican and Democrats, and we finally got it passed.”

Ever since, the relationship between the Pentagon and the EPA has remained uneasy, often dysfunctional.

In 1997, the EPA began pressing the Army to measure the amount of RDX and other contaminants in the groundwater near its firing ranges. EPA officials hoped to identify the source of the contamination and asked the Army to survey its grounds for unexploded munitions. According to an internal EPA document obtained by ProPublica, the “EPA received no meaningful response.”

The EPA didn’t have military expertise or much knowledge of the physics and chemistry of explosives; it depended on Pentagon officials for such information. In what EPA officials viewed as an effort to quell their concerns, the then head of the Department of Defense’s explosive safety board filed a technical memo with the agency promising that the risk of contamination from unexploded munitions was “virtually zero.” The memo said that unexploded shells lying in the ground don’t leak or break, that they are essentially secure “museum quality” vaults of metal.

For a short time, the document convinced EPA senior managers that the RDX must have come from a different source, and the agency relaxed its order.

But soon after, EPA lawyers came to believe that the Army had deceived them. Another Army weapons expert told the EPA that the Army had been studying the fate of buried munitions and knew at PUBLIC DOMAIN

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that Levine had done for the Army in 1984, a con- concern at the bases prior to the EPA’s RDX finding. trolled experiment exposing live mice and rats to RDX Otis Airfield was declared a Superfund site in 1989. doses. Levine, deposed in the Mapleton case, said the And for decades the people of Cape Cod wondered Pentagon was extremely unlikely to ever sponsor such which environmental blight — from pesticides to a study again. smog — might be responsible for high rates of canEnsign-Bickford’s settlement with the six fam- cers there. In 1991, the Boston University School of ilies was for an undisclosed amount of money — Public Health even noted the risk of air pollution Rodney Petersen, Marilyn’s husband, said their share around Camp Edwards’ bombing ranges, finding that amounted to $1.8 million — but the company did not lung and breast cancers near there were unusually acknowledge responsibility for any harm they expe- common. rienced. Marilyn Petersen died of her illness in 2004.

The prospect that the Army’s firing ranges were Glenn Allman, Charles Bates and Cherie Hunt died contaminating the drinking water posed a new probbefore the lawsuit was settled. lem, one with significant implications. Not only were “We have seven kids and they were also exposed,” far more people at risk than in any of the other known Rodney Petersen told ProPublica during a recent visit cases of RDX groundwater contamination, but in to his home near the Spanish Fork Canyon. “So the Massachusetts, RDX couldn’t be written off as coming end of the story may not be written yet.” from messy, outdated practices at the nation’s weapCape Cod in Massachusetts depends on one large aquifer for the vast majority of its drinking water. That underground body of water is shaped like a lens, with a high point that approaches the surface at its peak. There, at its most vulnerable, it is separated from the grassy fields and thick woods of the western Cape by a relatively thin layer of porous sand.

Directly above this high point in the aquifer is the 14,000-acre target area of a vast firing range where Army National Guard troops have for decades launched ordnance and munitions, testing their power and precision on the training fields of the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

In the mid-1990s, the EPA discovered RDX in that single source of drinking water, a supply that supports more than 520,000 people during the Cape’s busiest summer months.

The roots of the Massachusetts Power canal and intake Military Reservation — as the sprawlfor Springville/Mapleton, ing 21,000-acre military bases of Camp Edwards and Otis Airfield were called Utah in 1982.

— date back to 1911, when the Cape was remote and far less inhabited.

Now known as Joint Base Cape Cod, the bases have ons manufacturing sites. It appeared to be coming served as critical training grounds for the Pentagon from active training that was still underway. since World War II. The southern half has been overOne thing stood in the way of the EPA finding seen by the Air Force, which ran an experimental out for sure: Because of the continuing Superfund aeronautical missile program there in the 1960s and cleanup at Otis Airfield, the EPA and the Army had classified nuclear missile preparations in the 1970s. already legally agreed to the boundaries of the cleanMeanwhile, the Army has long used the ranges of the up area long ago, as the law requires. Camp Edwards’ northern base for artillery practice. firing ranges and the new RDX contamination lay The bases also have had confusing lines of owner- outside that cleanup boundary. The Army refused to ship and authority. They were once federal land, then voluntarily expand the boundaries, arguing that the were transferred to the state for its National Guard, ranges were still active, and that an environmental but with portions, including the test ranges, leased investigation would interrupt training of troops. The back by the Army. That, in turn, muddled the ques- RDX coming from active ranges could be subject to tion of which jurisdiction’s environmental laws apply different environmental laws, but those wouldn’t and who enforces them. apply until the firing ranges were closed — something “The net result is an atmosphere in which no one EPA lawyers say the Army postponed even for areas knows who is in charge,” Lt. Col. William FitzPatrick that hadn’t seen action in decades — or until the conwrote in an analysis for the Army Environmental taminants seeped off the military’s land and actually Policy Institute in 2001. began dripping out of people’s taps.

Serious environmental problems had been a As a result, the Army had kept the EPA from testing

The issue had by then escalated beyond environmental concerns. With the interruption of Army National Guard training, the core missions of the Defense Department and the EPA were colliding. The Army asserted that any restrictions on training would endanger soldiers and compromise national security.

If the EPA could disrupt training for environmental reasons in Massachusetts, it could interfere with the Pentagon’s mission anywhere on U.S. soil.

“There was zero trust, and it was because of what I was wearing, the camouflage,” said Lt. Col. Joseph

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The site of the old Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant in Grand Island, Nebraska.

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Knott, who ran the Army’s cleanup at Cape Cod once it was underway. “The military is like, ‘We’ve got to train our soldiers so when they go fight, they come home.’ That seems pretty obvious.”

From the EPA’s perspective, the spread of RDX directly threatened the health of the very Americans the Army was fighting to protect overseas.

“They felt like EPA was encroaching on their mission of protecting the country,” said one senior EPA official with knowledge of the clash. “We felt our mission was more important than their mission.”

The environmental testing the EPA had pressed for, in the meantime, had yielded the results the agency had most feared. Nineteen separate groundwater plumes emanated from 10 distinct ordnance targets or gun positions on Camp Edwards, spanning much of the 14,000 acres. RDX levels were as high as 43,000 parts per billion in the soil, 21,000 times greater than the EPA’s advised lifetime human health exposure threshold and four times the highest levels ever detected near Mapleton, Utah. Perchlorate, a rocket fuel, as well as lead, cadmium and other significant

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explosives such as TNT, nitroglycerin and HMX — a byproduct explosive of RDX — were also spreading from the target ranges.

In firing munitions, as many as one in five fail to detonate, and the EPA believed that a significant amount of the contamination was coming from unexploded bombs that eventually leaked their contents. EPA scientists were tracking the plumes as they moved from the base. The drinking water in towns including Mashpee, Bourne, even one day Barnstable were all at risk.

Still, according to internal EPA legal documents, the Army National Guard “was unwilling” to clean up the contamination. The disagreement boiled down to a matter of perception of risk, since the contamination, at the time, remained within the bounds of Camp Edwards.

The resistance was based on concerns that bowing to EPA authority would set a precedent for interrupting military training at sites across the country, as well as fears about what cleaning up the groundwater beneath a site like Camp Edwards might cost, according to several military officials and contractors familiar with the confrontation. A cleanup would be a decades-long process, involving scraping millions of tons of soil off the land, and then pumping water from underground, treating it, and reinjecting it into the aquifer.

Every year, the Pentagon gets $3 billion to $4 billion in funding from Congress to support its environmental work. But that money is specifically targeted for work under the Superfund and hazardous waste laws designated by the Federal Facilities Compliance Act of 1992. When the EPA declared Cape Cod’s water problem an “imminent and substantial endangerment” under the Safe Drinking Water Act, it triggered an entirely different form of response, one that had to be paid for directly out of the base’s operations budget. Cleanup funds were scraped together out of monies meant for the bases’ water and fire services, power generation and maintenance. “Some of these other pieces of the pie were going to get cut back to put the cleanup on steroids,” Knott said.

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the time the memo was prepared that unexploded ordnance in fact does break down and ultimately leak its contaminants.

“They knew it was false,” said William Frank, a senior EPA attorney who worked in enforcement over Department of Defense facilities, including at Camp Edwards, for 25 years before his retirement.

The technical memo “was given to EPA to influence its implementation and oversight in an enforcement matter,” Frank said. A short while later, Army officials would discover a large quantity of “extremely corroded” ordnance that included a rotten, rusted 155 mm shell on the Massachusetts fields with a hole worn through and raw RDX exposed to the open air.

To federal environmental officials — and even some defense experts — the Pentagon’s efforts at deception and delay seemed to reflect concern over the broader, national implications of the pollution. If RDX was indeed spreading in the water beneath a test bombing range, it meant the scope of the Pentagon’s RDX liabilities across the country could be monumentally larger than previously thought. Munitions containing RDX had been fired on ranges at thousands of American military sites; at many of those sites old unexploded munitions were still strewn across the land, slowly degrading over time.

“They don’t want to get stuck with the bill,” said Rick Stauber, a leading munitions expert who has worked under contract with the Army to identify unexploded ordnance for most of the last three decades, including in Massachusetts.

A few months later the EPA issued a second order forcing the Army to suspend its live-fire exercises while it investigated the groundwater plume. The agency’s regional administrator at the time, John DeVillars, announced in May 1997 that the RDX pollution in the Cape’s aquifer was an “imminent and substantial endangerment” to the public, an unusual declaration that gave the EPA jurisdiction under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the emergency authority to stop dangerous pollution still taking place, regardless of its nature or cause.

DeVillars didn’t mind taking on an interagency battle and was of the mind that “the bigger the opponent, the bigger the fight,” according to colleagues.

His move outraged Pentagon officials, who felt the EPA had overstepped its bounds. Generals and high-ranking EPA officials, including the agency’s assistant administrator, convened in a Pentagon conference room in Arlington to hear the Army’s pleas.

But in the end, the EPA upheld DeVillars’ “imminent endangerment” order.

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Shaping Stars Community exhibit at Center for the Arts showcases the simplicity, beauty of an iconic doodle

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nyone can draw a star, Bronwyn Minton realized a few years ago as she watched her son doodle them over and over. There is something so satisfying about connecting the lines and tracing an outline of an iconic shape. There’s a reason why when people, even the non-artistic, pick up a pen and doodle, they often start with stars, she said.

Minton, the director of exhibits and programs at the Art Association of Jackson Hole, came back to the idea of the simplicity of stars when she thought about a community art exhibit for the Main Gallery at the Art Association.

“I realized we could have a really simple exhibit with as many community members as possible, because everyone can draw a star — a 5 year-old,

a 95-year-old — and everyone has Starry Starry Room hangs through Feb. 19, Art paper,” Minton said. “A star is really Association Main Gallery at the Center for the Arts. democratic.” makes the exhibit exciting, Minton Minton put out a community call and people “went nuts,” she said. She said. The stars just appeared and she hung them. received hundreds of stars.

The gallery is a two-story, white box “They just arrived and a lot them don’t even have names on them,” she space. Minton covered the entire space.

“It just feels really populated with all said.

The result is the exhibit “Starry of it,” she said. “It’s just a huge installaStarry Room.” It hangs in the Main tion that is meant to be experienced.”

The Art Association’s mission Gallery at the Art Association in the includes providing opportunities for Center for the Arts until Feb. 19.

Middle school students created one people in the community to experience 5-feet across. Others were only inches and make art, Minton said. This project wide. Some painted their stars, others was a way to get a huge swath of the added glitter. Some cut shapes within community involved.

“We wanted as many people to parthe stars or made origami stars. People used watercolors, colored pencils and ticipate as possible to make this gallery markers. Kids in an art program created feel like it belongs to everybody,” she stars with tissue paper to hang in the said.

The exhibit opened with a reception windows and look like stained glass.

“They did everything possible with that included exploring the exhibit in paper,” Minton said. “It’s something the dark with a flashlight. Minton said simple people can make, and also when she hoped to have other special events you take a simple shape and give it to where people can experience the exhiba bunch of people they all become so it in the evening.

The gallery is also open 8:30 a.m. to 5 individual.”

Stars cover the walls up to the ceil- p.m. Monday through Friday. It’s a pering of the Main Gallery. There were so fect exhibit to visit to escape the gray many Minton didn’t bother counting of winter, Minton said. It’s a place to them. She knows people of all ages and inspire hope and celebrate winter and some who’d never participated in an the community. PJH Starry Starry Room, a community art association show and others who are established community artists sent art exhibit, hangs through Feb. 19, Art stars, but she doesn’t know everyone or Association Main Gallery at the Center even how many people. It’s part of what for the Arts

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If Netflix wanted to build real goodwill, they’d set aside some of the cash earmarked for Bright 2, hire Mary Berry, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroy for their own version of The Great British Baking Show.

Sorry, Paul Hollywood, but there are a million mediocre dudes that can replace you.

and the pacing of the competition, the issue at the end of the day is that they try to shove the contestants into clear archetypes, which backfires when the only people that are interesting — the “no-nonsense mum” and the “I’m better than all of you and I know it” dude — are the people we’re supposed to dislike. That it all builds to a showdown between the contestant the show leans hardest on portraying as likable and pure and the show’s lone anti-hero isn’t particularly surprising or interesting, especially when it takes a couple of unnecessary extra episodes to get there.

This is why the best American cooking competition, which you can and should stream on Hulu or the Food Network app, is Cutthroat Kitchen, because it doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to giving American reality competition viewers what they want. We want to see people be dicks to each other. We want to see people suffer for our amusement.

We want to see people risk certain humiliation all of the chance to win a palty amount of money that will do nothing to lift them out of whatever economic woes they’re in. It doesn’t hide the point of what it’s trying to do the way that something like Chopped does. I find beauty in its brutal honesty; it helps that I’m a shameless Alton Brown mark.

Honestly, if Netflix wanted to build real goodwill, they’d set aside some of the cash earmarked for Bright 2, hire Mary Berry, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, and make their own version of The Great British Baking Show, full of nice people and ample food porn. There are a million mediocre dudes that can replace Paul Hollywood. You know it in your heart.

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of Survivor. It is here that the template for the majority of prerecorded, season long reality competition show is created.

Survivor was a sensation, and taught us all about eliminations, immunity and, most importantly, villains. Sure, competition is pure conflict, but even real sports have to manufacture drama between players and teams to secure eyeballs, so the fact that the descendants of Survivor work so hard to include at least one person in the competition who is a total dick is no surprise.

Which is what makes The Great British Baking Show such a breath of fresh air, and goes a long way to explaining why it’s become one of the buzz shows of the internet. It is the rare season long competition show that doesn’t feature anyone who is supposed to be the baddie you hate or villain so devious you can’t help but support. Even when a baker does something like take another’s dessert out of the refrigerator and forget to put it back in, it’s never painted as “look as this backstabbing jerk.” Honestly, the most accurate description of The Great British Baking Show might be “a group of strangers look after each other in an effort to not focus on their own perceived shortcomings, and there are pies.”

It’s a show that doesn’t feel like it would work in America at all, which is why you rarely hear anyone talk about The Great American Baking Show, other than in the context of the sexual misconduct allegations. Americans need heroes and villains, and while you could add them to The Great (Location) Baking Show format, it just doesn’t seem like it would be as fun.

Look no further than Netflix’s Zumbo’s Just Desserts. Clearly inspired by TGBBS, the show tries to stand out by tweaking the formula in ways that just aren’t great.

But beyond the structure of the show

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onflict is the engine that drives the majority of the stories we’re told.

Whether it be person against person, person against self, person against nature or so on, our most popular stories only hit their dramatic heights because of conflict. When it comes to conflict, no storytelling medium does it better in the modern era than reality TV. Now, I know you’re smart, so we’re not going to go over the whole “reality isn’t really reality” thing here; reality TV is just a catchy title for a broad swath of programming that includes competition shows, the lives of people we don’t know and would never talk to in real life shows, shows about paternity tests and Fixer Upper. Trust me, when you sit down and think about it, pretty much ever reality show fits into one of those categories.

Most people got their first exposure to reality TV through MTV’s The Real World, where conflict was baked into the entire show’s premise. It was right up there at the top of the show: “What happens when people stop being polite and start getting real?” The answer, for a few seasons at least, was pretty compelling television. It’s a real shame that MTV doesn’t have the first few seasons up somewhere because they would make a great binge.

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usic is emotion. It’s a perfectly written lyric that brings tears to your eyes. It’s a guitar solo so powerful the hair stands up on the back of your neck. It’s the beat that hits you so hard that you feel like your mind is exploding. The best music, your favorite music, it reaches inside you and makes things happen. It’s outside of your control, but if music is your first love, there’s no rush better. I don’t pity people those who don’t love music, because I don’t need my passion to be everyone’s passion, but I have trouble imagining what a life where the only function music served was background noise.

But music is also concrete. It’s math and science. It’s experiments and peer reviews and journal submissions. A lot of

time, energy and money has been spent exploring why music does what it does, how it does it and the important role it plays in our lives.

Then there’s the plant thing.

A simple Google search will reveal that many, many words have been written on the subject of music and plants, and whether the former can affect the latter, and it’s interesting stuff. You probably know at least one kid who used it as the basis of a project in your local science fair.

Now, I’m going to be honest with you: science is supremely not my thing.

Anything more complicated than “clouds get heavy and then it rains” just makes my eyes glaze over. What I’m saying is that there’s a world of research out there, and if you think the guy who was making jokes about John Fogerty song titles seven days ago is smart enough to have taught himself musical botany since we last spoke you must be out of your goddamn mind. I can, however, tell you this: people don’t have to understand the science behind playing music for your plants to do it. It’s like anything else: someone tells you something worked for them so you do it yourself because if it did work for them it’ll have to work for you.

All of this has built to the follow question, based on something I learned this

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most growers are white, seemed too on the nose at best, too problematic at worst.

In fact, as I went down the list of various styles of music in my brain, I’m going to be honest: none of them really stood out as better than the other when it came to the subject of pot growth.

This makes sense, because while the subject of how music affects plants still has a lot of room for study, we have plenty of evidence on the effect of pot on music, and the results are pretty obvious: smoking pot does not make you a musical genius. There are cool musicians who smoke pot and their are garbage musicians who smoke pot. The effect of pot on music is probably vastly overstated, with one exception: it’s the only thing that can explain why there are multiple, terrible white boy reggae bands out there, and white boy reggae is the worst music genre by any metric.

Were I the type that had to build a playlist for a grow operation, I’d probably do my best to keep things balanced. A dash of Mozart here, some ZZ Top there, a tune or seven from Outkast with some Andrew WK in the mix for maximum positive vibes. The plants probably don’t care all that much. Like us, they’re just keeping an ear out for the perfect thing to help them grow. PJH

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week: Did you know that marijuana growers play music for their plants?

There I was on an ordinary Friday morning, surrounded by marijuana plants, watching a grow team make the first harvest for a medical marijuana company. As you can imagine, the mood was upbeat and celebratory, which is why it didn’t strike me as odd at first that there was music playing in the grow room. It wasn’t until I noticed the bluetooth speaker high up on the wall that I realized that the music was a part of the grow, not just background music for work.

Now curious, I asked one of the guys on the grow team what music the plants enjoyed the most. He told me, more seriously than you’d guess for a guy harvesting marijuana plants, that different growers have different feelings on the subject. Some people pump in classical music while others go the hip-hop route; in this grow room the important thing was that there was music, no matter what the style. Then he kind of trailed off the way you do when you don’t want to tell someone that they just asked a stupid question.

I’ll be honest: I liked his style. The idea of playing classical music for pot plants seems a bit too try hard for my tastes.

The idea of playing hip-hop music for pot plants, especially when you consider that

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The idea of playing hip-hop music for pot plants, especially when you consider that most growers are white, seemed too on the nose at best, too problematic at worst.

SUNDAY Leslie Tom Band (Silver Dollar)

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So Many Activities!

ackson is rife with badass events this week — events we think you can’t, or don’t, want to miss. Here are three of those events, which we think you should look into for the betterment of your social life. You can thank us later.

The show theme is “Flirting with Disaster.” The five storytellers will share experiences that follow that thread of close calls and living on the edge, Bradley said.

The Moth adds to the diversity of entertainment the Center tries to bring to Jackson, Bradley said.

Storytelling also continues to grow in popularity with podcasts that fuel people’s interest and local live events where people share their own experiences, she said.

The Moth has presented more than 20,000 stories in events worldwide and produces more than 500 live shows a year.

Stories are recorded and shared on the Moth Radio Hour.

All ages are welcome to the show, but some tellers might share raw and explicit stories meant for mature audiences.

Stories might also include profanity.

The Moth

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There is no greater demonstration of the power of words than listening to the Moth, a live storytelling event. The Moth features true stories told live and without notes and often feature a range of emotions that capture the human experience.

On Friday, the Moth returns to Jackson for the third time. The show starts at 7 p.m. at the Center for the Arts. Tickets are $45 to $75.

“There is a really powerful thing that happens during live storytelling where people feel connected with a complete stranger telling them a story,” said Anne Bradley, marketing director for the Center for the Arts.

You get a glimpse of the famous Corbet’s Couloir as you ride the Aerial Tram at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort to the top of Rendezvous Mountain.

“It’s almost saying ‘I dare you to jump in,’” said Eric Seymour, content manager at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

Twenty-five top big mountain snowboarders and skiers will drop-in and showcase their skills at the first King and Queens of Corbet’s competition. The field includes X-game medalists and ski and snowboard film stars.

The event is meant to showcase the famous ski run, and also elite level athletes, Seymour said. The contest will

Jackson is rife with awesome events this week, including the Madame X gala fundraiser (left) and the King/Queen of Corbet’s (right.)

take place on yet-to-be-determined day between Jan. 31 and Feb. 4 based on optimal conditions. The resort will close the run before the competition to help build better conditions.

“We don’t envision it as a just a hucks competition,” Seymour said. “We want to show progressive the sport is. The entire couloir from top to bottom is in play. Its skiers vs snowboarders. Skiers can go a little bigger into the couloir, but it’s a natural playground down there.”

Each athlete gets three runs, but they don’t have to take all of them if they don’t want to. Everything is filmed. The athletes will watch the film and judge the best run to decide a winner.

The resort is creating a spectator area at the bottom of the run for people to watch.

Follow the resort’s social media accounts to find out what day the competition will run.

Madame X Find the best costume that will still allow you to dance the can-can and prepare to party to support Off Square Theatre.

The Madame X gala fundraiser runs 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Center the Arts. Tickets are $175. This year’s theme is “Moulin Rouge,” said Clare Payne Symmons, executive director of Off Square.

The event, hosted by the Madame X

society, an all women secret society formed to support the theater company, starts at 6 p.m. with cocktails in the lobby and entertainment modeled after the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Guests will then move into the theater for a performance that includes students from Off Square’s upcoming “Beauty and the Beast” production. A French-themed dinner provided

by Bistro Catering is served on the stage.

There will be several contests, including a costume competition.

“And then we dance the night away,” Symmons said.

The Madame X Society formed in 2002 to raise money for the Off Square production of “The male intellect: An oxymoron.” What began as a one-time fundraiser became an annual event, Symmons said. The Madame X society, through its fundraiser and dues the members pay, now contributes about 20 percent of Off Square’s operating budget, Symmons said.

The organization has raised more than $500,000 for the theater company. That money underwrites productions, but also provides scholarships for those wishing to participate in theater education programs.

Each year the madams choose a theme.

They wanted something romantic and fun this year, Symmons said.

“There are slightly naughty elements to the Moulin Rouge, but there are also beautiful costumes and a great story line,” she said. PJH

BY HELEN GOELET

Stagecoach Bar in Wilson are exceptional. Of the five available options — carne asada, al pastor, chicken tinga, fish tacos and chipotle cream shrimp — their fish tacos and al pastor are the ones that should not be missed.

What makes them so good?

Balance.

All too often, the tacos you’ll find in our area are over-sauced, greasy and entirely too large. Crazy, I know, but tacos should have specific — and small-ish — dimensions.

The tacos at StreetFood tick every important box on the checklist. They’re offered in two options: Land Tacos — your meats found on, well, land — go for $4 a piece or 3 for $10, and the Sea Tacos — the ones stuffed with briney, delicious seafood — go for $5 a piece, or 3 for $13. That’s a steal for good tacos.

Whether it’s land or sea, these beauts are flavorful yet simple, and care taken to make sure each

ingredient in these tacos serves a specific purpose. Nothing is lost.

Everything about StreetFood’s tacos works, from the base on up.

Their corn tortillas are served warm and are not crispy, but they’re not greasy or too dry either.

The right tortilla consistency is very important for a number of reasons. Have you ever eaten a taco and had the entire tortilla disintegrate in your hands, leaving a pile of salsa and meat in your palms? Of course you have, because serving up a dry corn tortilla is one of the most common mistakes out there.

Another common mistake is to use too much oil on the tortilla before reheating it, which in turn turning changes the consistency to that of a chip or tostada, which is delicious in the right setting. Tacos are not the right setting. They are tacos, not tostadas. The shell needs to be soft if advertised as such.

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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hile there are plenty of places serving up tacos in the valley, the tacos that make their way out of StreetFood’s kitchen at the

Everything about StreetFood’s tacos works, from the base on up.

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50 Best Dishes in the Teton County: #50, StreetFood Tacos at Stagecoach

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But it’s not just the tortilla that take the tacos at StreetFood to a killer level.

They’re also served with either salsa roja or verde, both of which are made in house. The roja is just a touch hotter and sweeter than the verde, which has a slight tartness that accompanies the tacos beautifully.

Now, on to the fillings. The fish — often Mahi Mahi — is seasoned well, and is cooked to just the right temp. The salty fish is not dry and has just the right amount of char to give the taco a deliciously subtle yet smokey flavor. They’re served with slaw that is lightly marinated to soften the cabbage, but still has enough crunch to add texture and are finished with a lime and cilantro garnish. The flavors are clean and punchy but not overwhelming, and allow for the fresh flavor of the fish to hold strong.

The al pastor tacos are another solid choice. Unlike the pork found

The fillings...ah, the beautiful, taco-licious fillings.

in a few other local establishments, the meat in StreetFood’s tacos is neither greasy nor saucy. It’s also not shredded. As a result, each bite you take has substance but is never chewy. The pastor is marinated with just the right spices and served with pineapple, which gives these tacos a subtle smokey sweetness.

They’re garnished with fresh white onions, which cut through the flavor of the meat, bringing the textures and flavors of the soft sweet meat and sharp crunchy onion together. Sprinkle some salsa verde and a spritz of fresh lime over the taco and you’ll have the perfect harmony of a clean, flavorful taco.

These tacos are a complete win, which is why they’re on my list of 50 best dishes. Enjoy your Taco Tuesdays at StreetFood. No need to thank me. PJH

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

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

Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm.

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

THE BLUE LION

A Jackson Hole favorite for 39 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome.. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

PICNIC

Our mission is simple: offer good food, made fresh, all day, every day. We know everyone’s busy, so we cater to on-the-go lifestyles with quick, tasty options for breakfast and lunch, including pastries and treats from our sister restaurant Persephone. Also offering coffee and espresso drinks plus wine and cocktails.

Open Mon-Fri 7am-5pm, Wknds 7am-3pm 1110 Maple Way in West Jackson 307-2642956www.picnicjh.com

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

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Featuring dining destinations from breweries to bakeries, and continental fare to foreign flavor, this is a sampling of our dining critic’s local favorites.

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1110 MAPLE WAY JACKSON, WY 307.264.2956 picnicjh.com Free Coffee with Pastry Purchase Every Day from 3 to 5pm

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.

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 seasonallyinspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

LOTUS ORGANIC RESTAURANT

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. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner starting at 8am daily. 140 N. Cache, (307) 7340882, theorganiclotus.com.

MANGY MOOSE

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

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 through its awardwinning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp Moe-Boy sandwich. A daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily. Moe’s BBQ stays open late and features a menu for any budget. While the setting is family-friendly, a full premium bar offers a lively scene with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery is also available.

VIRGINIAN SALOON

Come down to the historic Virginian Saloon and check out our grill menu! Everything from 1/2 pound burgers to wings at a great price!

The grill is open in the Saloon from 4pm - 10pm daily. (307) 739-9891. 750 West Broadway.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018

Across 1 Distinguished 9 One in on the deal?

13 1984 Martin/Tomlin film 20 Wetsuit substance 21 Feng __ 22 Causes of tots’ tears 23 One of three presidents who served in 1881 25 Dignitaries working abroad 26 Wife of Wang Lung in “The Good Earth” 27 Joke closing?

28 A fancy one may not include prices 30 Surprise from a lamp 31 1983 Streisand film 33 Scratches (out) 35 It’s just outside the Oval Office 38 Caveman Alley 40 Mich. NBA team 42 Word on a fast food sign 43 “Billy Budd” captain 44 Kitchen gadget 50 Subj. for some newcomers 51 “__ to you, matey!”

52 Thumbs-up cry 53 Biblical name meaning “hairy” 54 Cone filler 57 Discipline with poses 59 Sagan’s sci.

61 21st of 24 62 Fired up 67 It measures rpm 69 Pennsylvania railroad town 73 More achy 74 Private company paperwork 79 Some bar food 80 USA Today owner 81 Somme spouses: Abbr.

82 Move, as artwork 84 Thumbs-up cry 85 “Ozark” actor Morales 87 Cartagena cat 91 Stop one’s horse, in England

95 Envelope-pushing 97 Half a dance 98 Passion-ate composer?

102 __ trip 103 Certain sci-fi superfan 106 Dos cubed 107 Pinup’s asset 109 Sold-out letters 110 79-Across fish 111 “Awesome!”

114 Suffix from the Greek for “world” 117 Role for Dustin 121 King or queen 122 Taunting word usually repeated 124 Persian for “king” 126 Ostrich cousin 127 The Beatles’ last studio album 130 Unexpectedly changing one’s attitude ... and what’s literally hidden in six long puzzle answers 133 50-50 shot 134 Hendryx who was part of the “Lady Marmalade” trio Labelle 135 Alienate 136 Allergy symptom 137 Big refs.

138 Aficionados Down 1 Fancy 2 Author Zora __ Hurston 3 “__ is an island”: Donne 4 Sandal feature 5 Abbr. in home sale ads 6 Staying power 7 Related on mom’s side 8 Literature Nobelist Walcott 9 “__: Cyber”: 2015 spin-off 10 “May I speak?”

11 King or queen 12 Quick denial 13 Pie equivalent, in a simile 14 Canterbury commode

15 Half a strait-laced pair?

16 Witness 17 Stumble, as a horse 18 “L’ecole des femmes” playwright 19 Reputed Dead Sea Scrolls transcribers 24 “Band of Gold” singer Payne 29 Theater work 32 Be outscored 34 Alien-seeking gp.

36 Highland tongue 37 Solzhenitsyn subject 39 Passover 41 Sam Spade type 44 Great Barrier Reef feature 45 Boo mate?

46 Heart doc’s readout 47 Guzzler on the road 48 Hard thing to get out of 49 Share on Facebook, as a picture 55 Complete, in law 56 Paris’s __ Rodin 58 “Right back __” 60 Curtin castmate 63 Asian menu assurance 64 Masters prog. entrance criterion 65 Female lobster 66 Uneaten bit 68 “There’s __ of Hush”: Herman’s Hermits hit 70 They can make things clearer 71 Uno e due 72 Philip II’s fleet 74 Bygone cartography initials 75 Third col., usually 76 __Kosh B’gosh 77 Female nonclericals 78 Asylum seeker 83 Shorthand pioneer 86 Stitch 88 One may be high or low

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With 104-Down, what bosses rule 90 Wood used to age spirits 92 Preserves thickener 93 “__ a date!”

94 Buster?

96 1914 battle river 98 Soft drink manufacturer, e.g.

99 Get by effort 100 Exchanged texts, say 101 Emergency phone link 104 See 89-Down 105 Quietly show anger toward 108 Disagrees 112 Put on ice 113 Sierra Nevada resort 115 Backed (away) 116 Parson’s place 118 __ of Glamis: Macbeth 119 Worsted variety 120 Resting places 123 Rear 125 Cable channel for remodelers 128 Queen’s subject 129 French connections?

131 Fourth notes 132 Miracle-__

COSMIC CAFE WITH CAROL MANN

On A Lighter Note “A smile is happiness right under your nose.”

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uestion: What is the simplest, cost-free, in your control and proven way to upgrade your mood, improve your health and uplift others?

Answer: Smiling.

SMILE BIOCHEMISTRY

FIVE MORE FINDINGS

LOOKING IN THE MIRROR The next time you look in the mirror, smile at your own image. Your grin will override any negative selftalk, and you’ll enjoy a measurable uplift. You can pass on the good vibes throughout your day.

THE BIG PICTURE It has been said that if enough people in this world were smiling, laughing and happy for one full day, that would dispel all the negativity from the Earth. If you are inspired, this would be a worthy social media experiment.

WORLD SMILING DAY Did you know? World Smile Day is celebrated the first Friday of October. The holiday was created by Harvey Ball who developed the iconic yellow smiley image.

His intention was to improve the world one smile at a time. In that spirit, and in light of all the benefits of smiling, here are some final words of wisdom. “Smile, not because life always gives you reasons to smile, but because your smile is itself a reason for others to smile.”unknown PJH

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

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1. Research has shown that smilers tend to be more productive at work and make more money.

2. Flashing a smile makes us appear more attractive to others. Participants in the studies, consistently rate the faces of smiling people as better looking.

3. For those who’d enjoy looking younger, smiling is a mini-facelift, and others see you as younger.

4. The habitual act of smiling helps the brain move to a more positive space and remain there longer.

5. People also treat people who are smiling

When we see a smiling face it is obviously pleasing and welcoming. Studies have investigated this further.

Seeing an attractive smiling face activates the part of the brain which processes sensory rewards, the orbitofrontal cortex. We literally feel rewarded in the presence of a smiling person. Maybe this explains why most people enjoy interacting with and/or simply observing babies and little kids. As we interact with them, we are giving and receiving smiles. In fact, research shows that children smile an average of 400 times per day, compared to the average happy adult who smiles 40-50 times per day and the typical adult who smiles only 20 times per day.

In addition, we tend to unconsciously mimic the expressions of others. Our brains have what are called mirror neurons, which fire when we witness an experience, even if we are not experiencing it. Therefore, when you are smiling at someone, the chances are high they can’t help but return the smile. It would take a conscious effort on their part to intercept the brain’s signals to smile back.

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Smiling activates the release of feel good biochemistry, including endorphins, dopamine and serotonin.

These neurotransmitters help to relax the body, lower blood pressure, slow the heart rate, relieve pain, release stress and elevate your mood. Smiling also turns on the immune system. According to Sondra Barrett, author of Secrets of Your Cells, smiling can release tension on a cellular level as well, She explains that a habit of smiling reduces the rigidness of our cells, and this physical relaxation can help combat the risk of stress-induced cell mutations that can lead to disease. The blend of all these benefits offers a hefty dose of feeling good on so many levels.

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We all know that when we are happy, it is natural to smile spontaneously and often. Scientists have demonstrated that the reverse is also true. When we are not happy and choose to smile … even forcing a smile, even a tiny upturn at the corners of your mouth, even faking it till you make it … will dissolve stress and add happiness.

It is very hard to entertain negative thoughts and feelings while smiling. This is not to suggest ignoring unhappy or uncomfortable feelings. It is however a proven way to “change the channel” and feel better immediately.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The pawpaw is a tasty fruit that blends the flavors of mango, banana, and melon. But you rarely find it in grocery stores. One reason is that the fruit ripens very fast after being picked. Another is that the pollination process is complicated. In response to these issues, a plant scientist named Neal Peterson has been trying to breed the pawpaw to be more commercially viable. Because of his work, cultivated crops have finally begun showing up at some farmers’ markets. I’d like to see you undertake metaphorically similar labors in 2018, Aquarius. I think you’ll have good luck at developing rough potentials into more mature forms of expression. You’ll have skill at turning unruly raw materials into more useful resources. Now is a great time to begin.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) An iceberg is a huge chunk of ice that has cracked away from a glacier and drifted off into the open sea. Only nine percent of it is visible above the waterline. The underwater part, which is most of the iceberg, is basically invisible.

You can’t know much about it just by looking at the top.

This is an apt metaphor for life itself. Most everyone and everything we encounter is 91 percent mysterious or hidden or inaccessible to our conscious understanding.

That’s the weird news, Pisces. The good news is that during the next three weeks you will have an unprecedented ability to get better acquainted with the other 91 percent of anything or anyone you choose to explore.

grow. However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now.

Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem.

So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it. Say goodbye to it forever.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Between now and March 21, you will be invited, encouraged, and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you. Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In December, mass protests broke out in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing. But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40-percent hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response. I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In the late 1980s, Budweiser used a Bull Terrier to promote its Bud Light beer in commercials. The dog, who became mega-famous, was presented as a rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie. The ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20 percent. But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called her Evie. To earn money, the poor creature, who was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor Evie’s memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your Real Self -- to the max.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In 1899, Sobhuza II became King of Swaziland even though he was less than five months old. He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way. But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The giant panda is a bear native to China. In the wild, its diet is 99 percent bamboo. But bamboo is not an energy-rich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day.

Because it’s so busy gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your *anti*-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met -- not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’re the star of the “movie” that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras. To generate all the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae. In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative. Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Psychology pioneer Carl Jung believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved. And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation. It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems.

We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to 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.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Thirty-five miles per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses, and can go more than 20 years without refueling. If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In my ideal world, dancing and singing wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines. We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum -- as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours?

In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it! It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Anders Haugen competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games. But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had a been a scoring mistake back in 1924. In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal. The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his long-postponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries. Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.

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