made, and wyoming people made, and are still making. we're stand until front of the wyoming state capitol, which is an important building in the state's history, of course. also, it has the significance because estell rio was the first woman elected to a state office in the nation. she became wyoming's superintendent of public instruction. this occurred in 1894. and even though it was only about four years after wyoming -- the equality state, became a state, she felt that women should not hold the governorship, that women should be happy with the right to vote, and equal pay. she was a proponent of that. but she also had another significance. in 1898, president william mckinley appointed her as the first female superintendent of indian schools and that was a very important position in that era. she wrote a textbook, a course of study for indian schools, and traveled 65,000 miles during her first three years in office, and she traveled by buck board, on horseback, not like the travel we consider today. so, she was an amazing person that

he had a passion for wyoming. and he felt wyoming meant a lot to him. i grandfather was a county -- my grandfather was a county commissioner. that certainly was part of my childhood and part of what i believe. toi want to go back something you mentioned earlier, growing up on the ranch. how has your life been going up -- how has your life going up on a ranch she'd do as a leader? best childhood available. not only in terms of the experience and wonder of it. there is a cause and effect that immediate in agriculture. if you don't want your pastors you see the result. if you don't feed the livestock you see the result. learn in agriculture that sometimes you are going to have bad days. in terms ofad year weather, those things happen. a disease gets into your livestock. keep charging to forward. othere are consequences. i take this to politics. itthere is a limit to spend should not fly and politic -- there is a limit to spend. it should not fly in politics as well. we were challenged in wyoming -- opened 50% of our land is controlled by the federal govern

wyoming people. my people can agree or disagree, and they can see what the independent spirit shows that we hardork hard, and we work for her family, our community, and our state. care about our families, and a lot of hard work is needed. not only for our families, but for ever state. >> your family has a long history of representing the government. my great grandfather was in the state senate here. i did not know him. but i know of him through my grandfather and parents. he had a passion for wyoming. wyoming always meant a lot for him, and he felt that public service was important. was a countyr commissioner, and a governor, and a two-term u.s. senator, and may mom ran for governor and was successful. but those dinnertable conversations were about giving the publicrving sector. that was part of my childhood and what i believe in. >> i want to go back to something we talked about earlier. growing up on the ranch. you?id that shape i say, and of course, i am biased, but growing up on a ranch is the be

cannon in wyoming. and for the first time, wyoming which had been reluctant to connect his name in crimes now arious openly criticized him for such callous behavior. this sense, if there was ever a conspiracy against tom horn, it was publicwide. popular conception of tom horn, this controversial often g detective is viewed as in effect two men. schitzo iks dcs interpretation, the first tom orn is the chief of scouts in pinkerton detective who stood on the side of law and order. the second is the cattle who terrorized and assassinated rangers and small wyoming erators on the ranges. the usual justification for this personality change is he felt forced to adopt the direct actions of a frontier regulator juries in wyoming refused to convict rustlers. the evidence contradicts this interpretation. brutalized in the no holds barred atmosphere of campaigns in which even apache women and chirp were callously murdered. in fact, tom horn admitted to charlie in one instance where he actually shot a little baby in

was a center of activity for not only cheyenne, wyoming, but actually for the rest of the state of wyoming. it was a central part in politics, in cheyenne frontier days and even on a smaller level people's everyday slides, rodrigues, kiwanis meetings, wedding receptions, parties. anything that was big was happening in cheyenne was happening at the hitching post in. it was built in about 1925 which started with the lincoln court when peter smith is that after he and his brother had tried homestead and growing potatoes, well, there's a lot of potato growing in this part of wyoming, so once the homestead deal for them was overcome he decided that this road which is the lincoln highway, that there was a lot of people at that point finally starting to travel and he wanted to start a hotel or a campground basically right here on this very hope to be busy road one day. he started with 25 rooms where people could just, they had showers and such. as time went on a cap expanding. his son came over from russia with his mother about nine years after this was started and a year later she died. it was h

she is quite famous in wyoming and should be nationally. first claim to fame was she was the first woman to serve as a governor of a state and country. she then went on to become director of the united states. >> she grew up in a very poor family in missouri and later on she moved to omaha nebraska. she taught kindergarten for a very short time. she went down to tennessee to see some relatives. met william bradford ross, a young attorney who lives there. after the marriage they moved to cheyenne. will was fascinated by politics. he ran for governor in 1918 and then ran again in 1922. elected as a governor in another state. late over and laramie in september, giving a talk about the importance of -- he becomes ill. at first it doesn't seem that serious but then it becomes an acute case of appendicitis. so they perform surgery and things go from bad to worse. since he died about a month before the next general election the rule was somebody would have to run and win in the general election to serve out his last both parties had to select a ca

>> welcome to cheyenne, wyoming, located in the southeastern corner of the state the capital is known as the magic city of the planes due to its rapid growth with becoming a transcontinental railroad. each summer with more than 100 thousand people visit wyoming's biggest city to take part in front here days, the country's largest rodeo. with the help of our charter cable partners, over the next hour we explore cheyenne's history, starting with the origins of frontiers days at the old west museum. >> cheyenne has the moniker of daddy of them all because it was the first big rodeo of them anywhere. cheyenne started in 1897 as a means to bring some economic vitality into an otherwise depressed economy. and this was certainly not what was expected to happen but it soon became one of the premier rodeo events easily became known as the world championship rodeo, the place to go for any cowboy or for anybody who wanted to experience western life as it was experienced by the cowboy's themselves they would be able to come here. the days has all of the traditional rodeo sports that you would com

. >> all weekend american history tv is featuring cheyenne, wyoming. it was named for the indian tribe that dominated the area and was selected as the capital of the wyoming territory. learn more about cheyenne wyoming. >> welcome to the state capital. the capital was originally built in 18 86. it was selected to be the capital -- at the time there weren't any other cities that were that large. there was a rivalry between casper and cheyenne. casper did not become an actual city until 1869. at that point they had started building the capital. the citizens of wyoming to vote on where they wanted the capital to be. what they wanted was 60% plus one. it was never totally settled until 1982 and it passed the law . there are 782 pieces of granite and some of it has come from all over the world. you will also see two statues. that was in 1869. be able to hold public office, to hold property, and have them recognize legal documents. he was chief of the tribe for 60 years. he died at 1900 at the age of 102. the outside of the capital is corinthian style with t

>> from their recent trip to cheyenne wyoming, roger mcdaniel author of buying for joe mccarthy discusses the life and death of the senator lester hunt. >> the most significant positions in the country whose name is not remembered. part of the problem is the nature of his death overshadowed the accomplishments of his life to cause in 1954, there was an enormous stigma of move about homosexuality and about suicide. and lester hunt's widow made it her life work to make sure the story of the suicide was never told. she went so far as to threaten the author of the wyoming history textbook that if he put anything about the suicide in the textbook that she would sue him. so although he knew part of the story about the blackmail he left it out and so for all the students of wyoming history they have read a book on page 521 gets that in the semester but on page 521 of the book essays overcome by personal and political problems he took his life in 1953. as a politician, he was enormously well-liked. the first time here in for office he was the top go-getter in the county and got elected to the leg

we know that he found this in a friend's house in wyoming and he made an offer to buy it for the museumnd they agreed. we do know that it has been around the country from one owner to the next for the last several decades. the furtherest back we were able to trace it is back to san diego in 1993 and we have no idea where it was before that. but now it has returned back here and we are continuously trying to collect items just like this to expand the heritage of collection that we have here. one of the most wonderful pieces that we most recently located here inside our own archives is this original letter from the wyoming fronty day committee dated september 1897. it has the sigs of the very first chair when printed on was r head by the editor on the committee. this is a beautiful letter explains exactly what they're going to be doing for the first frontier day here. but then they're asking the city for $250 to help the event. unfortunately, what makes this particularly fun all the way back then is that we have the clerks' signatures on the back that basically outlines the request and it

next, a look at our recent visit to cheyenne, wyoming. you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. ♪ >> cheyenne has the moniker, the daddy of them all because it really was the first big rodeo of them anywhere. cheyenne started in 1897 as a means to bring some economic vitality into an otherwise depressed economy. and this was certainly not what was expected to happen but it soon became one of the premier rodeo events easily became known as the world championship rodeo, the place to go for any cowboy or for anybody who wanted to experience western life as it was experienced by the cowboy's themselves they would be able to come here. the days has all of the traditional rodeo sports that you would come to expect including wild horse racing, steer roping, steer wrestling, calf roping, and then of course saddle bronching, bareback, bull riding, and so many other things. cheyenne frontier days started in 1897 so we are in our 118 year of the event and it got started as an effort to try and bring people up from denver, colorado. there was a gentle

consequently, all the trails come through casper, wyoming. these early explorers, basically you see the outline of the state of wyoming. this square basically shows south pass whether you're going to the great salt lake, whether you're going to the oregon territory for free land or whether you're going to california for gold. this represents some of the early explorers. the best known explorer in wyoming is none other than jim bridger. he wasn't that well traveled but he did a great amount of documentation in his diary. he was the first white man, we believe, to have discovered the great salt lake. it's his diaries that the mormons would later follow to the great salt lake. when you compare jim bridger to another very famous explorer, john c. fremont when you compare his travels with some of the other explorers, you can see how some were very well traveled and some just stuck to certain areas but they're all important to the story of the trails west and why people came west and these diaries that will be followed basically become the road map

. >> we are standing in front of the wyoming supreme court building. it used to be the labor rebuilding. it no longer is. it's significant of course and it has an interesting person involved with it. he was a powerful attorney in wyoming in the 1884-97 era and is significant in the state history because he was also the person, one of the people that defended the cattleman incident of 1892 and he was visiting court justice for wyoming. he was appointed to the united states supreme court and he was a justice who served from 1910 to 1932. he was the first and the only supreme court justice from the state of wyoming. nathaniel robertson was a carriage maker here in cheyenne and originally came from aberdeen scotland and he was one of the finest carriage makers in the area and in 1882 he partnered with george kaufman as well. one was for alexander's one of the swan landing cattle company. and that was a large branching concern in this area and he built a trap and also built speaks to the elegance of the era. this is the way that people traveled more. they h

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about the access to money for farmers and in a place like wyoming.they have the money to replenish their herds? >> look at the farm bill that congress passed last day very. one of the first think that was of limited was livestock disaster help programs. they can apply for aid through that. there are some crop insurance programs that deal with forage. into the food inflation story. it takes a couple of years to build back a herd to the part where you're selling to the market again. >> it does not seem like it takes a lot of time to work through the system when we talk about jenna newman aboute -- when we talk genetically modified crops. what is this telling us? figures department of agriculture gave us a too far. they concluded a year-long investigation from oregon, about a genetically modified a farmers field. there is non-commercially anilable, so they were doing investigation. they have concluded that there was no risk to the food supply, but they still do not know where heat week came from -- w came from. they have found some in montana on a field

>> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring cheyenne, wyoming. team recentlytour traveled there to learn more about its rich history. learn more at c-span.org/localcontent. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend and c-span3. >> 200 years

people in green river, wyoming, something like this happens, people talk.went. >> the bob duke murder trial was on everybody's mind in green river, wyoming, that summer. bob duke was 29 by then, liane and erik had been in their grifgriff graves six years. >> to me, if you're capable of killing your own son for insurance money, there is not much beyond that. >> but inside the sweet water county courthouse, the prosecutor was preparing to rest and iffy case. no real forensic evidence, no real physical evidence, and his main witness was a known addict. and then over lunch, there she was. >> just spur of the moment. >> her name was crystal be robinson. and she had a story to tell. >> i wrestled with it for a while because, i did, i looked horrible. i looked like a home wrecker. >> crystal told the prosecutor she met bob duke at the green river mini bar, just 13 years old then. and bob, she said, came on to her. >> just so flattering that an older man would have any kind of interest in, you know, a girl that was so young. >> they started hanging out together. we

as a territory and a state. >> for more information on book tv's recent visit to cheyenne, wyoming, and the other cities visited go to c-span.org/local content. >>> coming up next, sister simone campbell, author of "a nun on a bus eye" talking about a -- this is a little under an hour. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> i want to go ahead and ask us to find seat. so we can get started. while the 2014 community action partnership annual convention actually technically starts this afternoon, with our general opening session at 1:00, we have actually a very special guest and a great opportunity for those of us who are here and able to make it here early. it's a great pleasure for me to be a part of introducing a friend of community action to you, to engage in an interview of sorts. we'll first hear some of the thoughts and the heart of our guest, and then afterwards we'll have an opportunity for question and answer. there is a microphone right here. and so as you're listening, if there's something you particularly are interested in following up on, then you'll have that op

next a look at our recent visit to cheyenne, wyoming, you're watching american history tv, all weekendeneral dodge laid out cheyenne in july of 1867. by september when the cheyenne newspaper started, they had about 300 people living here. it increased to 3,000 people and that's where it got the name magic city of the plains. [horn blowing] >> we are currently today in the cheyenne depot building, that was constructed in 1886 and 1887, and a portion of the west wing has been converted to a railroad museum basically, it is a historic structure in cheyenne and actually a crown jewel of cheyenne and a landmark. the pacific railroad act was signed by abraham lincoln in july of 1682, but the plan for pacific railroad had been on the drawing boards for a number of years prior to that, but the civil war came about and that delayed the construction of the railroad. there was a lot political pressure, where the southern congressman wanted the route to go around the south. the northern congressman wanted it to go north and abraham lincoln and general dodge together decided that the central route

explorer inwn wyoming is none other than jim bridger. traveled butt well he did a great amount of documentation in his diary. the first white man, we believe, to have discovered the great salt lake. diaries that the mormons would later follow to the great salt lake. bridger tompare jim another very famous explorer, john c. fremont, when you compare his travels with some of explorers, you can see how some were very well traveled to certainst stuck areas but they're all important to the story of the trails west why people came west and these diaries that will be followed basically become the road maps for all of these way.s down the at the oregon trail gallery, you'll experience crossing the river.lat the river,t crossed in between fort laramie and red here at casper. we would travel on to independence rock trying to get by thependence rock fourth of july, hence the name, independence rock. and again, we must travel through south pass with those wagons in order to successful transverse the rocky mountains. oregon trail starts in about 1840

all wyoming would get. they're no match for number two ranked oregon. byron mar shell sweeps right, see you. heisman candidate, marcus mariota, two tds and ran for 71 and two scores, including this 19 yarder. slips over the pylon. ducks improve with the 48-14 victory. >> virginia tech coming off a huge win against ohio state last week. make the hokies overlooked east carolina today. hokies battle back. virginia tech score two tds. the cardinal and at the pirates were too much. through for 492 yards, the third most the hokies ever allowed to one quarterback. east carolina upsets virginia tech, 28-21. ohio state buckeyes looking to bounce back from the loss to virginia tech. hosting kent state. this one all buckeyes. the sophomore, michael thomas over the middle. 31-0, ohio state. 45-0 at the half. now third quarter. barrett shovel pass to marshall. buckeyes roll, 66-0. improving to 2-1. >>> we'll take a brief time-out before we look ahead to the 49er and raiders matchup on sunday. 49ers hosting the bears. the first time collin kaepernick started against

he is the wyoming man that owned a small farm and he built upon. why?ck water for our horses and cows and improve our property and it provided an environmental benefit as well. john: it means that you are diverting water that might've gone to someone else amax. >> actually our pond is designed where if we hve a spillway and it comes out to a certain level, it automatically comes over and we don't regulated at all. so were not actually blocking the water. john: you go to your state environmental official and you get permission? >> that's right, i went there and we sent off a permit through the state of wyoming to the cheyenne office. when we got back, we began to start our project. john: we check in the engineer's office says the bed everything is in good standing and its exercise exactly as permitted. and then the feds come in suddenly and what you say? >> they say you may or may not be in violation, but you need to prove to us you're not. john: in violation of why? >> the clean water act. the funny part is that my water that leaves my property is actua

the winter-like chill will hit montana and wyoming today. last night there was flooding in indiana. some streets in indianapolis turned into streams. it's part of a system that drenched the midwest. >>> 35 people were arrested during a protest in the suburban st. louis community where a black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer. demonstrators rallied against the ferguson shooting and wanted to shut down a highway but they were stopped by the police. omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: chanltsing crowds gathered on an overpass near interstate 70. police formed an opposing line and it didn't take long for the first arrest. protesters intended to bring highway traffic to a standstill at exactly 4:30. the timing was meant to symbolize the 4 and a half hours that michael brown's bob remained in the streets. >> they waits for us to stop protesting, then apparently they don't get it. things have not changed. >> reporter: police had set up barriers to keep them away from i-70 and just behind them, they even also brought out some of the heavier machinery. the protest move

they don't realize how influential wyoming can be. . . appointed her as the superintendent and it was a very important position in that era. she traveled about 65,000 miles during the first three years in office on horseback not at all like we consider today. so she was an amazing person in that way. also, she was kind of quirky and loved to dress up. she attended the inaugural and if she wore a $1,000 down and 50,000-dolla

i we know the through all of the hoops that the state of wyoming required in order to build this. asked all of the neighbors all of the locals. turns out i am one of the very, very few that have a state permit. >> he is not lying about this. we got a note from the governor of the state mr. johnson constructed his pond appropriately. the actions of the epa have been heavy handed. they want to aeks panned the their -- expand their authority. >> they want to take over all jurisdiction on private property. i think they are using me as a test case. >> the epa may adjust the rules and increase the amount of landed over which it has jurisdiction. that upset one family who had ditches and dried up river beds wetland. they made this song... ♪ that's enough that's enough ♪ ♪ the epa ♪ they will try to justify ♪ but we won the back down ♪ don't need our government anyway ♪ >> you have some company out west fighting them. >> absolutely. >> this idea that they showed a canoe in a dry ditch, does this resinate? >> they want to be in charge of every drop of water that hits the earth. who knows w

rain stretching up through colorado, wyoming, utah, oregon.s west along the gulf coast, down into florida and up to south carolina. >>> if you're flying, flight delays possible in albuquerque, new mexico. >>> police in charlottesville, virginia, are on the hunt for a person of interest in the disappearance of a university of virginia stunt missing now for more than a week. >> 18-year-old hannah graham was last seen in the early hours of last saturday morning, levering a bar with man who bought her drinks. police say that man is jesse matthew, who now has a warrant out for his arrest for reckless driving. they stress he's not a suspect. >> i believe hannah graham left the restaurant with jesse matthew. i believe that. in fact, i believe that jesse matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the earth. >> this is every parent's worst nightmare. i'm certain that everybody in this room and those watching knows that what happened to hannah could happen to their child. >> nearly 1,000 volunteers turned out this

this is cast par, wyoming. temperatures were below freezing, and 10 inches of snow possible in mountain areas. now further south, georgia rains have epic flooding in tennessee. and 8 inches in five hours in some areas. people stranded in their homes had to be rescued by both. the heavy rain caused the roof to collapse at a mall. >>> and in the northern states, cold out there. >> 12 states under frost advisories or freeze warnings as cold weather pressing down from canada. jim dickey joins us with the latest. >> good morning. an unseasonably cool air mass stays in place in the upper midwest. challenging record lows in many locations, down to 42, minneapolis. 30 in bismarck, 35 in pierre. and 35 in denver. and rainfall, and snowflakes mixing in. not expecting much in the way of accumulation. but much of the accumulation has fallen here in the higher elevations. and low pressure, a tropical disturbance across central and southern florida. and will bring flooding, moves into the gulf headed out to next week. back t

started a little slow today against wyoming. but then marcus mariota took over.rom the 4 yard line. that play was reviewed. it stood. oregon hammers wyoming 48-14. >>> last weekend, a big weekend for the acc, especially virginia tech getting a win on the road at ohio state. this weekend, welcoming east carolina, and they get upset. shane carden in the beaning moments of the game, takes it in. the pirates win it 28-21. >>> speaking of the acc. lose vim, high hopes, but they were dashed today. in the fourth quarter, late. the game-winner from 42 yards out with 3:30 left. virginia goes on to upset louisville and the folks storm the turf there in charlottesville. >>> purdue and notre dame from indianapolis. close game in the first half, as well. but here comes golson. 15 yards in the final minute of the second quarter. notre dame shut out purdue in the second half, and they would cruise. >>> we showed you the first overtime in this kentucky/florida game. this just happened over on the s.e.c. network. the gators score in the third overtime. that's the final possession

here's a look at ranch in northern wyoming from just this morning.ers say up to half a foot of snow could fall there by late afternoon, and that's not including the mountains where the totals could go much higher. in the midwest, it's heavy rain making a mess of the roads.ex look at indianapolis over here. storms in that area in this indianapolis area, reportedly left behind two feet of water on a stretch of interstate 74. always looks like more with we camera on the ground. we're told emergency crews responded to at least seven reports people strand ned the flood, so i was real, and snow? rick is in the fox weather center. rick, it's too early for snow, i don't care even if you're in alaska. >> you said, finally. i said no way, not ready for it, but it's happening. heavy snow across wyoming and montana, winter storm warnings in effect and might see another four to eight inches of snow. we'll see snowflakes flying towards denver tonight. look at these temperatures. we're 38 degrees below where you typically should be in rapid city. that is incredibly

and casper, wyoming, below freezing last night.r could see the first measurable snowfall of the season. >> i'm not ready for the jacket. >> they aren't either. >>> a storm system covering texas and the midwest and south, creating wet and flooding conditions up into the ohio valley and out to the east coast. and roads wet across the upper midwest and great lakes and south florida. >>> and flying today, airport delays possible in charlotte, atlanta, memphis, dallas and houston. >>> the cdc has issued a new warning about the enterovirus that's sickened for than a thousand children. >> it has spread to 15 states. starts out looking like a common cold, but progresses to where kids are struggling to breathe. and health officials are urging parents to be vigilant. >> if you're a parent, two crucial things to do if your child has a cold and has any trouble breathing, take them to the doctor right away. and remember, this is contagious. good hand washing is the best way to keep them safe. >> despite the high number of hospitalizations, the

snow, yeah, snow, in the higher elevations from idaho to wyoming. >>> now, to our other top story this wednesday morning. the growing threat of islamic militants overseas are posing to the united states. >> president obama will lay out the strategy of dealing with i.s.i.s., in a primetime address tonight. >> reporter: good morning. secretary kerry is in iraq for a high-level meeting with that country's new prime minister. and tonight, president obama will try to assure a worried public that he has a strategy for taking on and destroying i.s.i.s. tonight, a rare primetime address by president obama to lay out his strategy for battling i.s.i.s. administration officials say the president wants congress to sign off on a program to arm and train syrian rebels, who would take the fight directly to the sunni militant group. yesterday at the white house, mr. obama made his case to house and senate leaders. president obama is also considering an even more aggressive campaign of u.s. air strikes against i.s.i.s. perhaps even expanding them into syria. it appears the president is ready to move fo

started a little slow today against wyoming. but then marcus mariota took over.rom the 4 yard line. that play was reviewed. it stood. oregon hammers wyoming 48-14. >>> last weekend, a big weekend for the acc, especially virginia tech getting a win on the road at ohio state. this weekend, welcoming east carolina, and they get upset. shane carden in the beaning moments of the game, takes it in. the pirates win it 28-21. >>> speaking of the acc. lose vim, high hopes, but they were dashed today. in the fourth quarter, late. the game-winner from 42 yards out with 3:30 left. virginia goes on to upset louisville and the folks storm the turf there in charlottesville. >>> purdue and notre dame from indianapolis. close game in the first half, as well. but here comes golson. 15 yards in the final minute of the second quarter. notre dame shut out purdue in the second half, and they would cruise. >>> we showed you the first overtime in this kentucky/florida game. this just happened over on the s.e.c. network. the gators score in the third overtime. that's the final possession

asked, a look at our recent visit to cheyenne, wyoming. you are watching american history tv all weekend on c-span3. general dodge laid out cheyenne in 1867. when the newspaper started, they had about 300 people living here. when the railroad arrived, it increased to 3000 people. that is where it got the name magic city of the planeins. we are currently in the cheyenne depot building.

charles in kinear, wyoming. charles, you make $50,000 to kinnear, wyoming.o you feel the middle class throughout? caller: i would be considered middle class. i sure don't feel middle class. host: why not? caller: well, if i were to work i would be making roughly $50,000 and $60,000 a year. i have to work my butt off just to get to about $90,000 a year. i'm a single dad raising two kids by myself. f i had to work absolutely no overtime at all, we would be barely able to -- to -- you food on the table, hardly. i mean every year, we have to eep on making adjustments for inflation. and every inflation, and every really u know, we can afford less and less. for people who want to the class say that warfare doesn't exist, well, if at how many companies are sending people -- jobs cheaper and cheaper labor, you know? they're tired of -- they're -- they don't feel like they can afford the employees nymore here in america, but they don't think about how the employees here in america feel trying to afford life anymore, you know? you know it's -- inflation keeps going up

years after this started in and one year later she died and the sudden drop to the university of wyoming and went to work for bls said his father died. he has to decide if he will take the hotel to make something of it or become an engineer. he decided he would go back to the family business. he gets married name brings his wife back and harry was the businessman, a manager but his wife was the persona of up 80 at the front desk desk, the politicians started to say with desert comments they call that their central holding he wanted them to stay there. they went to all legislators even those not running to say we want you to stay at our hotel and offer them at that time a friday -- a tiny rate of $5 a night. they cannot turn it down so legislators was stand there then though lobbyist would follow. that is what started it. people who might add contention there was hard to stay mad at someone but when you are at the buyer. >> wide years as a governor who came to the hitching post with two or three. at lunch we held his table from 12 through 12:20 p.m.. sometimes the governor would just show

even snow in sections of montana, south dakota and wyoming today.cast but as we watch that frontal boundary move through, once again, here's 8:00 o'clock. maybe a few spotty showers and south jersey and southern sections of delaware. but the front will move through overnight and tomorrow those winds will be coming in out of the north and west. that will lower the humidity and also drop our temperatures a bit tomorrow but then as we move into the upcoming weekend, that same front will move back toward our area as a warm front so we'll keep some clouds around. winds are going to be coming in off of the ocean. so saturday looks like a cloudy day with showers arriving especially toward the afternoon and evening time frame. some of that activity could be a little heavy. and then that system will move out of here sunday and we start to get clearing behind that system that will bring us unsettled weather for the second half of saturday. but for today, 84 degrees was the high. the normal for this time of year is 80 and right now, temperatures in the low 80s

the wyoming state bar is getting hit in advance of its annual convention next week.anization partly funded by taxpayer money is featuring dick cheney when it published a bio of the former vice president that was given to them by cheney's office. readers later found out the bio contained unusually subjective criticism of president obama in the text. quote, president obama began to dismantle the security policies that kept the nation safe. his policy decisions have led to a reversal of the gains america made on the war on terror in iraq and afghanistan. and a weakening of america across the globe. look, all we know is cheney will use any opportunity to stick it to the president. we also know you're not supposed to editorialize in your official bio. the wyoming bar heard from several lawyers who said they wouldn't attend because of the inappropriate material. the group later apologized. >>> next up, the news that russian forces moved into ukraine was verified by satellite imagery last week. russia denied involvement. the russian are troops are really just freelancing wh

talking about accumulating snow in northern parts of montana and wyoming.he cool air coming in. 73 here in chicago. rain has taken the edge of some of the heat. it was 98 yesterday in kansas. cooler air coming into the country. it is below normal. more like a late october air mass. by friday and saturday it is in firm control and will last through the weekend. we showed you some of these rain totals earlier across the metro area. i want to show you what is coming our way. this is out of south dakota. showers and our own area. there may be some snow in this region before it is all over. there is the storm indicating a lot of wind. the showers or turn off tomorrow but clusters start flowing back into our side of the lake by late tomorrow night and friday and the last into saturday. lake affect rain showers expected. we have at least six of the seven days in the '60s. low 60s at that. a little taste of autumn on the way. >> thanks. thank you so much for joining us today. joining us today. >> a great afternoon. we in the criminal justice system the people are r

wyoming, alaska, utah, kentucky, michigan, california, ohio, texas and florida. the largest gain of 5% was in wyoming and alaska. the other states ranged from 1% to 3.3%. the american community survey includes house old income, poverty, and health insurance for u.s. states and metropolitan areas. for 2014. it expects household income to increase as the result of better job prospects and moderate inflation. but the firm said that income poverty and income inequality has a long way to go before we dig out of the financial hole that was created by the recession. for the past five months we've been documenting the lives of three families desperately digging out of that hole. as part of our series "america's middle class, rebuilding the dream." diane recently landed a new job as a school bus aid. despite a new job they decided rent out a room in their home. that didn't work out so well. >> we sacrificed part of our house. we rented a small portion of our downstairs. we saw $950 a month. it pays towards the mortgage. it helps a lot. sometimes a tenant comes in for thre

hoeven: i'd like to thank the senator from wyoming for his diligence and for his work. you know, this really is a bipartisan issue. there are -- we have legislation now with 57 sporters -- supporters that's pending before this body. in fact, we've passed this legislation, we had passed very similar legislation, different only in the respect that it called on the president to make a decision. this was back in 2012. i think we had 73 votes on this issue. the difference -- the pending bill we have provides congressional approval because the president once again delayed the decision when we passed legislation calling on him to make the decision earlier and so now we've come back with binding legislation after being congressional research. this bill makes the decision congressionally under the commerce clause that gives congress the ability to oversee commerce with northern nations. so simply what this does, we say to our closest friend and ally, canada, trans-canada is a canadian company, yes, you can cross the border with this palestine which is the latest, greatest techno

the years it has been such an important history to cheyenne -- important industry in cheyenne and wyoming. i don't know how you could think -- look at it any other way. the importance of the railroad it still is. , we run 100 trains a day through here. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring cheyenne, wyoming. the team recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about cheyenne and other stops at www.c-span.org /localcontent. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. >> next, author corey recko discusses the life and death of timothy webster. a former policeman turned unions by during the civil war. he was renowned as the union's top spy until he was betrayed in he was the first spy executed 1862. during the war. the museum of the confederacy hosted the event. it is about 45 minutes. >> we would like to welcome everybody to our book talk. i am kelly hancock, the manager of programs here at the museum of the confederacy. we do a number of different talks throughout the year. we have a brown bag lunch series that takes place on the third fri

service more than any other investment that helps munis reliability making it more attractive this is wyoming why one of the problematic category is for transit vehicle replacement prop k will provide $4.6 million for the first batch of l r r v beyond that prop k provides one hundred and $30 million for the existing l l r vs thank you for the transportation staff and our consultants and others for your work and assistance to the sfmta for this achievement with that, i'm conclude my remarks colleagues questions or comments seeing none, public comment on the chairs remarks. >> october october 5th center this is a special sunday with the sue most wrestles from 11:00 o'clock october 5th sunday at the center. >> okay. very good with that, seeing no other public comment next item and item 4 executive directors report an informational item. >> good morning, chair tilly chang welcome back from recess i hope you had an enjoyable recess we hit the nail on the head the ground running the first a seven hundred thousand grant from the regional couldn't to prove our transit reliability and crowding so thos

there was snow in wyoming, snow in montana, colorado. also into south dakota. some areas earlierest snow since 1888. a lot of the snow looks like it has ended but the cold air is in place. there is a good 25-degrees below average. we have temps that are a good 15 above. if they are cold, somebody has to be warmer. morning fogs. temperatures near the coast 60s and 70s coast and bay. a little bit copping down. it will take a day or two to bunch the inland temps up. from 89 novato. napa 93. clear lake 93. livermore at 98. 79 oakland alameda. concord 95 degrees. 88 san jose. 96 to gilroy. 88 santa clara. 92 in los gatos. and 89 redwood city and wood side. >>> it's worth up to $1.3 billion in tax credits. the factory is expected to generate 22,000 jobs and $100 billion for nevada's economy over the next 20 years. >> >> the comedian says anyone who donates $10 or more on the website will have a chance -- is that right? indy go go. you will have a chance to fly to san francisco and play video games with him for two hours. it will be broadcast live on san francisco bas