From wire reports
Posted: Sunday, April 6, 2008 12:00 am
Cheyenne mayor runs again
CHEYENNE - Cheyenne Mayor Jack Spiker says he will seek a third term.
Spiker says Cheyenne has seen significant development over his first two terms, and still more projects are on the table in coming years.
Among them is a proposed $55 million recreation center that would be funded through a sixth-cent sales tax. The tax will be up for a vote on May 6.
Spiker was first elected to the City Council in 1996. He defeated incumbent Mayor Leo Pando in 2000 and was re-elected in 2004.
Jackson resort gets record snowfall
JACKSON - A record season for snowfall - or near-record season, depending on how you look at it - ends Sunday at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
As of Saturday, 562 inches of snow had been measured since Oct. 1 at Rendezvous Bowl at the resort. The previous record of 577 inches dates to 1997.
That record will likely stand, unless the Rendezvous Bowl gets 15 inches of snow overnight.
But at the resort's Raymer weather station, a record 602 inches of snow has been confirmed. The previous record of 573 inches had dated to 1999.
The last snowfall measurements of the season are expected to be taken Sunday morning.
Cheyenne police hope photo will identify vandals
CHEYENNE - Police are seeking as many as four vandals who caused more than $1,000 in damage to a former tire shop in downtown Cheyenne.
They say they've got a good lead - a photo of a boy running outside the shop. They're hopeful that someone will recognize the suspect.
Police say a man went to the building on March 29 to take photos of previous damage and spotted two boys trying to open a door. The man told police that the boys saw him and ran, but he was able to snap a photo of one of the boys in mid-stride.
Inside the building were 15 discharged fire extinguishers and a thick coat of foam.
Police Lt. Mark Munari says investigators found four sets of footprints inside the building. He says police haven't identified any suspects.
Wyo spends more on public health
Wyoming and Montana receive more federal dollars per capita to spend on prevention measures for public health than most other states, but Wyoming far outpaces Montana in the amount of state money allocated to public health.
That's according to a report titled "Shortchanging America's Health" released last week by the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C.
Wyoming ranked ninth for per capita federal prevention funding and third for state funding. Montana ranked 18th in the nation for federal funding and 41st for state funding.
Only Hawaii and Vermont spend more state money per capita on public health than Wyoming, according to the report.
Wyoming received $16.5 million, or about $31.64 per person, last year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the primary source of government funding for disease and injury prevention in the United States.
The national average was $17.23 per person, with Alaskans receiving the most per capita funding at $69.76 per person and Kansans receiving the least at $13.61 per person.
About 80 percent of the CDC's $6 billion budget in 2007 went to state and local health agencies for prevention efforts.