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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Before I started working in the cash advance business I had no idea what it was about or how it worked. I wish all those that have a problem with cash advance companies could spend one month in my job. The "interest rate" every one keeps complaining about is a one time flat fee. A $200 loan costs $30 in the state of TN. The customer pays that loan completely off in 14 to 30 days. At that time the load is paid in full and the customer can walk out the door and choose to come back or not. My customers tell me about expensive vacations, buying expensive cars, purebred animals etc. If doing without the full $230 is a hardship they can also opt to get a lesser amount anytime they take a loan out. Those of us behind the counter are always counceling our customers to make it easier to avoid falling into a payday loan rut. I tell them to wait as long as possible when they pay the loan off before coming back for another. Because they may find they do not need the full $200. But over a 6 year period very few take my advise, and those that do still return months later to do business with us again. It's easy to come to me for a small loan, I won't ask probing questions that a family member would. I won't make them feel like they are being a burden and I won't tell anyone they have borrowed money. My customers feel the 15% fee is well worth it. How many banks do you know of that will loan $25 to $200 with no questions asked? We make it easy and some people allow it to become an habit. Is it a bar's fault when a person becomes an alcoholic?
Linda

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Saturday, February 04

TODAY'S EVENTS

Music
Phil Round
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
in the lobby of Amangani Resort.

Music
Tram Jam
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
at the base of Bridger Gondola at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

Music
Holligans
3:00 PM
in the Trap Bar at Grand Targhee Resort.

Music
Chanman Roots Band
7:30 PM to 11:00 PM
at the Silver Dollar Bar.

Music
Revolver
9:00 PM
at the Virginian Saloon.

Music
Kinetix
9:30 PM
at the Mangy Moose in Teton Village.

Community
Volunteer Day at Habitat
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
at Hall Avenue job site in east Jackson.

Dance
Gallim Dance Open Rehearsal
3:00 PM
at Dancers' Workshop, Studio 1, Center for the Arts.

Music
Vert-One
3:30 PM to 6:30 PM
in the Peak Restaurant of Four Seasons Resort.

Community
Ice Pond on the Square Community Event
4:00 PM
Jackson Hole Town Square

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