At a Glance: NEWS BRIEFS

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

By PJH Staff

NPS/airport agreement available for comment
Jackson Hole, Wyo.-The National Park Service this week released the Jackson Hole Airport Use Agreement Extension Draft Environmental Impact Statement, marking the beginning of a roughly 60-day public comment period.

The airport, situated on 533 acres of federal land within Grand Teton National Park, is required to secure certain lease extensions to receive the federal funding that keeps it operating at the current level of service.

A no action alternative would preclude extending terms of agreement, and commercial passenger service would likely cease in a few years. Under the second, “preferred,” alternative, the agreement would extend by two 10-year options and maintain eligibility for federal funding for airport improvement programs. During the last decade, FAA grants have funded almost $25 million in Jackson Hole Airport projects.

The draft is available at http://www.nps.gov/grte/parkmgmt/planning.htm or call 739-3410.

Bunny needed
Want to score a free three-course meal Easter Sunday?
The Wort Hotel is looking for someone to put on their bunny suit and entertain kids from noon to 4 p.m., April 12. The pay? The aforementioned meal, priced for the public at $100. Call Alicia at 733-2190.

Payday lending pioneer sometimes here
A Cleveland, Tenn. resident who has a ranch in Jackson Hole is the subject of a story this month on so-called payday lending, a service that provides short-term loans at interest rates into the hundreds. W. Alan Jones founded Check Into Cash, “the first of the national payday-lending chains,” according to the April edition of Harper’s Magazine. The author compares payday advances to the post-Civil War practice of sharecropping, which indebted desperate planters to landowners with rates that exceeded earning potential by design.

“Allan Jones has ensured that [his hometown] will have everything to do with the new inequality,” the magazine says. PJH


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