Tag Archives: WY
Cheyenne Frontier Days
After 117 years, Cheyenne has learned how to throw a party. Just before the turn of the last century, a railroad promoter & a local newspaper editor organized a small festival to bring folks in from out of town. The … Continue reading
Back to the Buffalo Commons
After years of outmigration, people are moving back to the Great Plains, the vast dry expanse of prairie once discounted as the Great American Desert. Today our desert is giving Middle East deserts a run for their oil money with … Continue reading
Diverging Diamond Dropping In On Cheyenne
The Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) seems to be the “next big thing” coming in traffic engineering, and it’s coming to Wyoming. I’m a confirmed skeptic. The idea of the DDI is to reduce left-turn conflicts and increase traffic through-put by … Continue reading
GIS Day at Laramie County Community College
November 14th, 2012, is GIS Day all across the globe, celebrating the wonders of maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as part of Geography Awareness Week. Locally, Laramie County Community College (LCCC), the State of Wyoming and the Cheyenne/Laramie County … Continue reading
Broadband is not a luxury, but “something like plumbing” necessary for normal life
“The new railroad, the new interstate, the new road system in this country and in this state is (Internet) connectivity.” (WTE) Governor Matt Mead opened the inaugural Wyoming Broadband Summit with keynote remarks before over 200 policy wonks, technology geeks … Continue reading
New Beginnings
October finds me in Wyoming, starting on a new job as a Senior Planner with Laramie County Planning and Development, in Cheyenne. Laramie County, Wyoming, has about 92,000 residents, of whom about 60,000 live in the City of Cheyenne. Cheyenne … Continue reading
An Honest Discussion About Agenda 21
Agenda 21 is a bureaucratic report initially adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) “Earth Summit” held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, in June 1992. Periodic assemblies have reviewed the status of the report, most recently … Continue reading
Drilling Down on Oil Rigs in the Mountain Time Zone
Oil drilling rig counts are at an all-time high… or dropping off, depending which report you read which week for which area. Overall, industry source Baker Hughes reports relatively stable activity, declining slightly to levels just below last year nationally. … Continue reading
Western Planners Get Smart About Energy, Revitalization and Transportation
Energy development, smart growth and transportation planning were the topics of choice at the 2012 Western Planner Conference in Billings, Montana. Western Planner brings together professionals from just west of SRDC’s borders to Alaska, many of whom work in small … Continue reading
RFP Safe Routes to School Plan
Re-post from The Western Planner Continue reading
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