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Less than three weeks after a section of mountain dropped off and took part of Wyoming Highway 22 with it, the temporary fix was done on Teton Pass.

For the Wyoming Department of Transportation, the work is just getting started, according to Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols, who reports that engineers have figured out how to put the highway back right where it was to begin with.

"The part of the real mountain that was created back when mountains were created - that didn't fail. What failed was about 70 feet from the surface, 70 feet down, of manmade fill that was done in the 1960s. That fill was pretty good for the 1960s, but after a while, every spring, you know, water seeps in, runoff seeps in, and it just finally had had enough. So they're gonna put better fill in there, and just put it back where it was, better."

It will be a massive undertaking, but WYDOT already pulled off one miracle this summer, by getting the highway re-opened in record time. It will only take time and money to make the fix permanent — but those are two things the department never seems to have enough of.

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Wyoming's congressional delegates are sounding alarms about the United States' trajectory after President Joe Biden hosted a solo press conference following an hour delay Thursday evening.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland spoke to Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, as well as Representative Harriet Hageman, after Thursday evening's event.

"They're concerned for the nation's trajectory under Biden, and they're saying that, in addition to not being fit to run, also not fit to run the country… Senator Cynthia Lummis said that Biden's performance, both at the June 28 debate and at this press conference, make America look weak on the world stage."

The president articulated his prepared speech about the legacy of NATO fluently, but was often incomprehensible during the press question period that followed.

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The upgrade to the missile defense program at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne is expected to bring billions of dollars in construction money and thousands of jobs to the community.

But Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the project is coming in at 81% over budget.

"That did trigger a Department of Defense Review, that's required by congressional act, when a project is that much over. It was caused by not knowing some things about the ground work that was going to have to be done. But even as they were conducting that review, they were already teeing up money for this project in Congress. $1.6 billion is headed to F.E. Warren's way to get started preparing for this… But it's gonna move forward. And there really wasn't ever any doubt of that, the system is just too important for deterrence with countries like Russia, and now China, China has entered the nuclear sphere of things."

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