It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, November 12th. I'm Mac Watson. This newscast is "Brought to you by the University of Wyoming Center on Aging. Did you know that 1 in 3 Wyoming adults have pre-diabetes, and most don't realize it? Are you tough enough to know your numbers? Take the quiz at: Find Out WY dot org."

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After 46 years in Colorado Springs, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and ProRodeo Hall of Fame are considering a move to Cheyenne. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports the move makes a ton of sense.

"This is a perfect matchup. I mean, Cheyenne is where the 'Daddy of them all' the big rodeo Cheyenne Frontier Days is a lot of the I went and looked at the Hall of Famers. A lot of them, if they aren't from Wyoming, they still went to Wyoming for Cheyenne Frontier Days and won a buckle there…Plus, Colorado Springs is more focused on being the Olympic city rather than being the rodeo city. If you brought the pro Rodeo Hall of Fame to Wyoming, it's like bringing the NFL here. You know, professional rodeo is our sport, right? And so a lot of people are seeing this as like, 'Well, hey, how come no one ever thought of this before?'"

Economic development entity Cheyenne LEADS CEO Betsey Hale tells Cowboy State Daily that one of the reasons the PRCA is seriously considering a move to Wyoming is that it's outgrown the space in Colorado Springs.

Read the full story HERE.

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Cheyenne City Council member Mark Moody is spearheading a proposal that would increase the fine for sleeping on city streets. Cowboy State Daily's Jackson Walker reports, if passed, the fine would escalate considerably.

"The Cheyenne City Council is weighing an amendment to a city ordinance that would increase the fine for sleeping in city streets by 15 times, from $50 all the way to $750…Cowboy State daily also spoke to several business owners in an area that has a known homeless encampment there, and those individuals said that they're not necessarily concerned either by the homeless population. There one business owner told me they're human beings and expressed a willingness to support them in any way possible, and said that this increased fine is only going to make the situation worse, rather than helping these individuals get into a better place."

The proposal will go through the public services committee, where it will undergo discussion before being brought up at a future city council meeting for a second reading, during which members of the community will have an opportunity to give public comment.

Read the full story HERE.

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The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a marketing company suing Kanye West's 2020 presidential campaign, which was registered in Wyoming, failed to show it was cheated out of payment. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that it was up to the rapper to prove there was a contract.

"Monday, the appeals court both said, 'Whoa, this company failed to show that there was ever a contract between it and Kanye.' You know, they might have had some understanding with this other company that was doing services for Kanye 2020 but the company that's actually suing failed to show a contract with Kanye West, and so their case is going to rightfully be dismissed."

SeedX Inc. was a marketing company that accused the Kanye 2020 campaign of denying it payments for services it said it provided West's presidential campaign lost in court in April. U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson, of Wyoming, dismissed the case "without prejudice" which means SeedX could reorganize and file a better version of its case if it wished.

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The future of more than 3 million acres of federal land in southwest Wyoming remains uncertain under a Resource Management Plan that has been debated and revised numerous times. Outdoors Reporter Mark Heinz spoke with some outdoors enthusiasts and they say out of the 3 million acres that encompasses the RMP, the Greater Little Mountain area should remain untouched.

"There's one area, kind of in the middle that about a 500,000 acre area called the greater little mountain area. And the consensus with that seems to be, no matter what else we do with the rest of this area, let's leave this more or less intact. Let's not touch it. Let's not go in there and put in a bunch of energy development or roads or subdivisions or whatever. Let's leave it the way it is, because it is a special area. And I talked to a couple guys, one guy who lives in Green River and another who lives in Rock Springs, about how even going generations back in their family, this has always been kind of a little mini wilderness where everybody's gone to get away from everything or going. Hunting or hiking or whatever they do."

Proposed revisions of the Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs RMP has sparked a heated debate over the past few years, with many Wyomingites claiming that the BLM's preferred alternative is too restrictive and would stifle local economies.

Read the full story HERE.

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I'll be back with more news from Cowboy State Daily, after this….

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Military service has been Mark Pfenning's life since the day he was born in an Army hospital in France. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that along with 300 others packed into the American Legion Post 6 meeting hall in Cheyenne on Tuesday, Pfenning said he felt like celebrating.

"Veterans are really quick to say, it's good to remember those who died, but that's what Memorial Day is for veterans. Day is a celebration, but it's not, you know, you can remember everybody who served, but it's not a solemn event, they celebrated."

Wyoming American Legion Department Commander Russell Stafford tells Cowboy State Daily that it's sometimes easy to pick out the veterans in a community, because they're the ones who are first to help out, volunteer, or become first-responders.

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Wyoming's largest teacher's advocacy group and eight school districts are urging the state Supreme Court not to pause a judge's order requiring more money for school staff, lunches, and technology while the state appeals the ruling. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports why the Wyoming Education Association and the school districts filed an opposition to the Wyoming Attorney General's Office's earlier request.

"The Wyoming Education Association and eight school districts fired back late last week, saying, 'We don't want the Wyoming Supreme Court to pause a judge's order to give lawmakers breathing room so they don't have to meet this new basket of goods.' So the you know, the state had said, Whoa, give lawmakers some time while this appeal is ongoing, because we don't know if this judge's mandate like that there needs to be one computer for each kid and mental health councils in elementary school and stuff like that. We don't know if this mandate is going to hold, so why don't you back off and just let them legislate. And Wyoming Education Association fired back and said, 'No, we think this mandate is going to hold.'"

The motion claims the state is likely to win its challenge and in so doing, win back more legislative autonomy on how to fund schools.

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Two local historians are researching and sharing the lives of Campbell County veterans buried in Gillette's Mount Pisgah Cemetery. Cowboy State Daily's Jackie Dorothy reports that their work digs into the veterans' backgrounds so the service members are vividly remembered.

"The reason that they're preserving these stories is because of it's for the children. The reason that they're preserving these stories is for the children. It's for our future, so they will have this connection to these servicemen and women who served during wartime efforts and who gave and sacrificed so much they don't want them to be forgotten, and this project helps bring them to the forefront."

More than a thousand veterans are buried at the cemetery in Gillette. Rockpile Museum Youth Coordinator Penny Schroder and veteran Greg Bennick tell Cowboy State Daily that they research about 12 veterans a year.

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A pair of brawling mule deer bucks crashed through a plate glass window and ended up in the basement exercise room of a home in Roxborough Park, a semi-rural neighborhood in the Denver area on Sunday. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports the how and why two bucks got into this predicament.

"This time of year, the deer, mule deer, and the rut, that's the mating season. So you get bucks sparring with each other, fighting with each other…at 12:30am Sunday morning, a couple of deer ended up crashing right through a window and into a basement exercise room in a home there."

A spokesperson for the West Metro fire department tells Cowboy State Daily that the pair were safely tranquilized, hauled out by firefighters, and set free again.

Read the full story HERE.

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