Have a question about the city of Casper? Send it to city reporter Pete Nickeas and he'll ask the mayor of Casper on Mayor Minute each Thursday on www.trib.com.
Or maybe you have a random query? Get it answered! Answer Girl videos are returning to Trib.com, and I'm excited to see what we get to find out.
On that note, I'm pleased to announce a new video feature each Friday: the Prep Blitz.
Clint Robus and Jack Nowlin, two members of our sports team, will work with Online Producer Dan Craig on a weekly video detailing what to watch for in high school sports for the coming weekend.
Friday's inaugural Prep Blitz assessed the statewide high school football playoff chases. Also be sure to follow Robus' live prep football blog each week, available both at http://tribtown.trib.com/ClintRobus/blog and at http://www.trib.com/sports/high-school/blitz/ .
Don't worry, University of Wyoming football fans. We've got you covered, too. Beat writer Eric Schmoldt's live blog will be stationed at today's UW-Air Force game, available at http://www.trib.com/sports/college/ and at http://tribtown.trib.com/ESchmoldt/blog. Join the chat and/or see comments for other Pokes fans locally, nationally and worldly while watching the game on TV or listening to it on the radio.
Meanwhile, health care was this week's big topic on both Trib.com and Tribtown. Here's what people had to say:
Reasonmclucas said: "The most important rule in health care is 'first do no harm.' ... They seem incapable of understanding that changes can make a situation worse instead of better just like giving a patient the wrong medical treatment can worsen the patient's condition. The wrong medical treatment can kill. Making the wrong changes in the health care system can reduce access to health care and reduce the quality of health care."
Msmith contributed: "There is not and will not be free health care. The only free health care will be no health care and that is not an option."
Independent added: "Support a public insurance option that operates not for profit, but is required to operate within its means. Those who oppose a public option claiming that it's a 'government takeover of health care' are wrong; the only way a public option becomes a government takeover is if the private insurance companies are so greedy that they refuse to compete and the entire country CHOOSES to go to the public plan, in which case they deserve to fail if they are actually that greedy and stupid. The government offers public insurance plans for other things and it does not inhibit private insurers from being able to exist.'
One last thing: Business Editor Tom Mast has opened the following request to the general public: Are you currently working a job outside your field because it's all you can find? Are you working part-time when you would like to be working full-time? Then we would like to talk with you. Please contact Mast by email at tom.mast@trib.com and he will contact you. Please include a telephone number where you can be reached, and the town in which you live.
Online Community Coordinator Jake Mitchell writes a weekly column about the Star-Tribune's virtual world. Contact him at 307-266-0603 or jake.mitchell@trib.com.
Posted in State-and-regional on Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:00 am Updated: 1:33 pm. | Tags: Wyoming, News, State, Regional, Answer Girl, Tribtown, Eric Schmoldt, Clint Robus, Pete Nickeas, Health Care, Mayor Minute,
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