Them on Us: Hospital hearsay
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
By Jake Nichols
Pricey Polaroids
More than 1,200 photographs from Polaroid’s historic collection will be auctioned in New York City this summer. The collection was started by Polaroid founder Edwin Land. A bankruptcy court in Minnesota is forcing Polaroid to sell the collection to pay off creditors.
About 70 percent of the images are Polaroid prints. They are estimated to bring $7.5 million to $11.5 million at Sotheby’s on June 21 to 22. Sotheby’s in New York will handle the auction. One of the 400 Ansel Adams prints includes the famous “Tetons and Snake River.”
Hospital called out“Dead is not a good thing when you’re shopping around for health care,” said Jim Angell, executive director of the Wyoming Press Association. Angell was commenting on St. John’s Medical Center’s refusal to open records to the News&Guide that pertained to a particular type of operation that had resulted in the death of a patient. “This is pretty basic information that health care consumers need, especially in the wake of a death of a patient.”
The NaG eventually sued to get at the information, prompting the advocacy group, The Wyoming Coalition for Open Government, to hand its “Black Hole” award to administrators of SJMC for their lack of transparency.
The award was hardly a surprise considering the general state of disarray the hospital was in last year, but WyCOG member Dan Neal, stating in the Billings Gazette that, “the case prompted hospital trustees to fire CEO Jim Schuessler” was news to us.
Wyoming blowsA new wind analysis conducted by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory pegs Wyoming’s total capacity for generating wind energy at about 552,000 megawatts. That’s up from a 1993 study and is good enough to rank Wyoming eighth among states for its potential wind capacity. Wyoming currently has about 1,100 megawatts of installed capacity.
In an effort to cash in on all that blows, the governor and legislature are moving toward taxing wind farms on the basis of how much power they produce. In Wyoming, carbon-based fuels – oil, gas and coal – have long reigned supreme and policymakers feel that wind is just another extractive industry that needs to pay its “fair share.”
Denver architect honoredCurtis W. Fentress, an architect credited with designing some of the most iconic elements of the Denver skyline, has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.
Fentress’ portfolio includes the Denver International Airport, the Colorado Convention Center, Invesco Field at Mile High and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson. Next up for Fentress is an expansion to the River Crossing property in Rafter J.
JH athletes compete nationwideJackson’s Creel Smith, 16, competed in the Level 3 Polar Bear Junior Super Championships held Feb. 13-15 in Macon, GA. Smith played well but bowed out to the eventual champ, Andrew Harvin, 6-4, 6-0. We read the sports roundup in the Moultrie Observer.
ESPN covered the North Face Masters held at Crystal Mountain, Wash.’s Silver King. Locals took top honors there but Jackson’s Alex Yoder, 20, won the Young Gun award – given to the best up-and-coming rider under 21. The North Face Masters of Snowboarding heads to Kirkwood, Feb. 25-27, for the finals. JHW
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