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By Julianne Couch

BioFuels and Energy | Travel/Recreation
Darn that Kentucky Dam!
11/19/2009

kentucky dam post cardA trip to one of the Southeast's oldest hydroelectric plants brings perplexity and incurs an unexpected dryness.

Media | Travel/Recreation
Regional Radio, Where Art Thou?
10/23/2009

A traveling journalist can't live on interviews and Diet Coke alone. She needs fortifying music, and today's FM stations are awfully thin soup.

BioFuels and Energy
Geothermal Power Offers a Hot Hand Up
09/16/2009

james mason thumbGeothermal power is available to all Earthlings, but finding the right spot for a full-scale electrical plant takes a long drill, a lot of money, and luck.

Ag and Trade | Cool Places | Food | People to Know
On Tour With the Godfather of Wheat
08/05/2009

Taking a tour of far Western Kansas with the Godfather of Wheat.

BioFuels and Energy
Inside a Nuclear Plant: Skip the Lip Balm
07/13/2009

Cooper hydraulic controlThe power tourist, Julianne Couch, clears security, dons a dosimeter and takes us inside a nuclear plant in far east Nebraska.

Cool Places | Main Street Economics | Travel/Recreation
Scissor-Step to the Very End
05/29/2009

skyline skate counterWhere can you find a boyfriend, limbo and eat a really big dill pickle? Now that Skyline Skate is closing, all that's going to be tough.

The Past is Present — The Wyoming Newspaper Project
05/05/2009

Laramie Wyoming in 1890 Maybe the future of newspapers can be discovered in what happened one hundred years ago. Maybe not. In any case, it's fun to look.

Cool Places | Media | People to Know
How It Ended at Medicine Bow Peak
03/25/2009

wreckage of flight 409 A deadly airplane crash in 1955 put Laramie, Wyoming, on the national radar screen, briefly. One man never forgot Flight 409 and made sure future generations would remember it, too.

BioFuels and Energy
Wyoming Plant Roars with Coal-Fired Power
02/18/2009

coal storage area and the coal storage silos Julianne Couch visits the Laramie Basic Electric Station, one of 500 U.S. coal-powered plants still fired up and burning fossil fuel.

Arts and Culture | Travel/Recreation
To Tread, or Totter, across the Boards
02/10/2009

No age barrier can hold back playmakers. The Unexpected Company of Laramie, Wyoming, is one of 2000 senior community theater companies having a ball nationwide.

Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural
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