Gillette Wyoming Blog

City of Gillette Mayor, Duane Evenson, supports a Wyoming Wind Energy Tax in his latest blog post.  Due to recent wind energy development projects in Campbell County, he expresses the need for Wyoming to treat all energy producers equally and not support unfair competition in the energy market.

The state Joint Revenue Committee voted against a tax on wind energy in November, and like Mayor Evenson, Governor Freudenthal supports a wind energy excise tax.  What are your thoughts?  Please post a comment and share your view on whether wind energy should be taxed differently than coal-fired plants and other electricity producers.

Campbell County reported its first case of swine flu (H1N1) on Wednesday.  Read the full story.

The U.S. Census Bureau has released the 2008 state and county population estimates by age and sex and race and Hispanic origin. Data tables are available on the Economic Analysis Division’s (EAD) website, http://eadiv.state.wy.us and by using the following links. The EAD has also issued a press release that highlights some of the changes in Wyoming’s population for 2008.

Population estimates web page, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/pop.html
News release, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/POP_NEWSRLSE_ASR08.pdf
State age and sex, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/ST_AS08.htm
State race and Hispanic origin, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/ST_RO08.htm
County age and sex, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/CO_AS08.htm
County selected age groups, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/CO_AS08_GP.htm
County race and Hispanic origin, http://eadiv.state.wy.us/pop/CO_RO08.htm

2008 Wyoming state and county demographics PDF

Gillette residents soon will be paying more for their water and electric bills, as the city tries to bridge the gap between what the utilities cost to provide and what people are paying for them.

City officials proposed yearly rate increases for both services that will cost residents somewhere between $7 and $13 more a month over the next three years.

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- I personally am not too worried about this… Moving here from Rapid City, I was so blessed by the low utilities we have in Gillette. I would say my utility bills here are about half of what they were. So this change does not even phase me.

Weather reports are calling for more blizzard conditions tonight and tomorrow for Gillette, WY and the surrounding area. The National Weather Service has issued several blizzard warnings for surrounding cities, including Buffalo and Rapid City.
For details, see the full story.

What a mess!  I just shoveled again while watching three of my neighbors try to get their trucks out of the road.

I can no longer see the bottom half of my car.