National Puppy Day
Apparently today is National Puppy Day.
Our new puppy.
1806 Corps of Discovery leaves Fort Clatsop, Oregon.
1882 Oscar Wilde delivered a short speech on the Union Pacific Depot platform in Cheyenne. The UP depot there remains, and is self declared to be the most beautiful depot in the world. Whether or not that is true, it is undoubtedly a beautiful structure. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical sociey
1888 Ella Watson, remembered as Cattle Kate, filed for the patent on her homestead located on the Sweetwater, near the homestead of Jim Averell.
1911 The first insurance company in the state founded. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1916 Teno Roncalio, Wyoming Congressman, born in Rock Springs. The son of Italian immigrants, he was a decorated veteran of World War Two who graduated with a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1947. He served as the prosecuting attorney for Laramie County for many years before entering politics.
1916 The Punitive Expedition: The Casper Daily Press, March 23, 1916
Let's look at the entire evening paper this go around.
This is the first issue of the Casper evening paper in which a story about the troops in Mexico is not on the first page, since the raid on Columbus.
The editor was casting doubts on the distance between Villa and Carranza.
I've never even heard of Wyoming Light Lager.
1916 The Punitive Expedition: The Casper Daily Press, March 23, 1916
This is the first issue of the Casper evening paper in which a story about the troops in Mexico is not on the first page, since the raid on Columbus.
The editor was casting doubts on the distance between Villa and Carranza.
I've never even heard of Wyoming Light Lager.
1918 March 23, 1918. The news of the breakthrough at St. Quentin
The news the prior day had been optimistic. The news on March 23 was decidedly not.
And, surprisingly, Casper was reported to be favoring prohibition.
1923 The start of thirteen minor shocks that were felt at Kelly from March 23 to April 12, 1923.
The news the prior day had been optimistic. The news on March 23 was decidedly not.
And, surprisingly, Casper was reported to be favoring prohibition.
1923 The start of thirteen minor shocks that were felt at Kelly from March 23 to April 12, 1923.
1935 The first grazing district formed under the Taylor Grazing Act created, that being Wyoming Grazing District Number 1.
1942 The U.S. government began moving Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers which would ultimately include Heart Mountain, near Cody.
2016 Governor Mead directs the Attorney General of Wyoming to start proceedings to remove the Sublette County Sheriff after the Sublette County Commission requests the same. Wyoming's governors have this power, but its use is extraordinarily rare. The most pronounced examples came during Prohibition and a current use of this power is almost unheard of. The Sublette County Sheriff has been the subject of controversy surrounded some expenditures associated with his office that were incurred for the department but prior to his being officially in office.
2016. Perhaps showing how contested the election season really is this year, former President Bill Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders both planned whistle stop tours in Wyoming on this day, but both had to cancel due to the massive spring storm that shut down the Interstate and which closed the Denver airport for most of the day. Clinton was to have campaigned for his wife in Cheyenne, which by early morning was impossible to get in and out of, and Sanders was to have campaigned in Casper and Laramie. At least Sanders has indicated an intent to return to the state prior to the Democratic Convention taking place.
2016 For the first time since 2000, Wyoming's unemployment rate is higher than the national average.
The unemployment rate only comes in a little above 5%, which shows how high the rate of employment is statistically in the country right now. This is high enough nationwide that we fit into what used to be regarded as technical full employment. It's never possible to have 100% employment. In recent years, however, figures in this area have been regarded in a negative light and some claim the actual nationwide rate of employment is higher.
At any rate, the real unemployment rate in Wyoming is undoubtedly higher. Natrona County has a 7.2% unemployment rate and Carbon County has a 6% unemployment rate. Both counties are energy dependent for their economies, as is of course the state generally. Given as Wyoming had a high migrant employment rate in recent years the high unemployment rate now probably reflects a significant degree of reverse migration, so the actual rate is likely much higher than what we're now seeing reported.
2016 Governor Mead directs the Attorney General of Wyoming to start proceedings to remove the Sublette County Sheriff after the Sublette County Commission requests the same. Wyoming's governors have this power, but its use is extraordinarily rare. The most pronounced examples came during Prohibition and a current use of this power is almost unheard of. The Sublette County Sheriff has been the subject of controversy surrounded some expenditures associated with his office that were incurred for the department but prior to his being officially in office.
2016. Perhaps showing how contested the election season really is this year, former President Bill Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders both planned whistle stop tours in Wyoming on this day, but both had to cancel due to the massive spring storm that shut down the Interstate and which closed the Denver airport for most of the day. Clinton was to have campaigned for his wife in Cheyenne, which by early morning was impossible to get in and out of, and Sanders was to have campaigned in Casper and Laramie. At least Sanders has indicated an intent to return to the state prior to the Democratic Convention taking place.
2016 For the first time since 2000, Wyoming's unemployment rate is higher than the national average.
The unemployment rate only comes in a little above 5%, which shows how high the rate of employment is statistically in the country right now. This is high enough nationwide that we fit into what used to be regarded as technical full employment. It's never possible to have 100% employment. In recent years, however, figures in this area have been regarded in a negative light and some claim the actual nationwide rate of employment is higher.
At any rate, the real unemployment rate in Wyoming is undoubtedly higher. Natrona County has a 7.2% unemployment rate and Carbon County has a 6% unemployment rate. Both counties are energy dependent for their economies, as is of course the state generally. Given as Wyoming had a high migrant employment rate in recent years the high unemployment rate now probably reflects a significant degree of reverse migration, so the actual rate is likely much higher than what we're now seeing reported.
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