Archive - Jan 16, 2014

Wyoming's state legislator Kathy Coleman of Sheridan says the Legislature will discuss two separate proposals to expand Medicaid during the upcoming budget session next month in Cheyenne.

The Sheridan Heights Ranch LLC, owned by the Don Roberts family, has donated 32 acres of land, including a pond, to the City of Sheridan.

The University of Wyoming's Saturday University program is coming back to Sheridan next month.

The American Association of Retired Persons, better known as the AARP, is once again providing free tax preparation help for taxpayers with low to moderate incomes through its foundation's Tax-Aide program.

Sheridan Memorial Hospital CEO Mike McCafferty is concerned that an expansion of Medicaid under the new Affordable Care Act will adversely affect hospitals across the nation.

Officials with the Cloud Peak Energy company, that owns a coal mine about 35 miles north of Sheridan, announced this week that their Cordero Rojo Mine in the northeastern part of the state has operated more than one million work hours, consecutively, without incurring a reportable injury to the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

Lynn Gordon -- Pat Blair Photo

Anxiety – what it is, how to recognize it and ways to control it – was the focus of Wednesday afternoon's Brown Bag seminar in Sheridan.

Sheridan County officials and administrators of the county hospital have urged passage of a bill that would require all Wyoming hospitals to serve Medicare and Medicaid patients.

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