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Nine Wyoming Stocks

WY is a great place to live. Course we do have high winds in the winter that only cease when it snows. The warm wind from the south keeps the state from being a deep freeze.

Compared to Colorado or most other big states, the traffic in WY is nonexistent. About the only problem areas are on I-25 south from Cheyenne, and I-80 going toward SLC. There's also a few other bottleneck spots on I-80. There's a couple of touches of congestion between Buffalo and Sheridan on I-90 at times. If you live most anywhere north of I-80 and ignore the Jackson/Yellowstone tourist spots, roads are open (allowing for occasional construction work areas). There aren't that many big rigs on the N/S routes, but I-80 and I-90 do get quite a few. Rush hours in some of the boom towns can be annoying and are getting worse, but they are nothing like Denver.

Sorry about Matthew Shepherd. No murder is good. The people involved were convicted with life sentences. But keep in mind that Mr. Shepherd's murder was one of only 11 in the entire state that year. Not a bad record overall. I think that the violent crime rate in San Francisco that year was about 2.7 x as high as our entire state. It isn't unheard of for San Francisco to have 10x that number of homicides in a year for just the one town. So don't let a single murder of one gay man paint an entire state as homophobic - okay? Even the people who are supposedly better adjusted don't get along that well.

Of the companies, I have owned Questar in the past and happen to own it now. The direction for NGas is the question, but it seems like its stock price is pretty decent and it seems pretty well managed. Some of the utilities listed don't seem to be very well liked, but what utility is in its service area?

Nine Wyoming Stocks

Neoconservative, well - lots do live here.

Anti-environmentalist - you're nuts - tourism is a big industry and the mineral industry vs. water pollution debates are intense.

Gun runners - not at all. But we do own a lot of guns and enjoy shooting them. On the other hand, murders happen infrequently enough in the state that each one makes front page news and the trial stays front page news for a long time. You folks in the big cities should consider that criminals tend to avoid places where they might get shot accurately by something big enough to take down an elk.

Radical wing nuts - Everyone is a radical about something. We just are radical about things you don't like.

Bigoted theologians - Having God in charge wouldn't be a bad thing, but sadly He's not. Yes, we have some bigots here. There's just so few people here in general that you hear about them more. But overall, we're pretty much a live and let live state.