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An avalanche of political mailers have been flooding mailboxes around the state.

While there's not one side that has done everything perfectly or another that has done everything wrong, Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson says some politicians are more concerned about the trend than others.

"Former House Speaker Tom Lubnau… believes that it's very concerning trend, that a lot of misinformation is being spread and in our current, modern day news ecosystem where people can kind of just going to do echo chambers and listen to whatever news agrees with their preconceived conceptions, that they end up missing out on the real facts of the matter and just kind of go into a skewed type of world."

However, Wolfson says that everyone he spoke to about the matter agrees that this is the highest volume of political mailers they can remember.

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Colorado authorities have issued a Senior Alert for a 76-year-old missing Wyoming woman with dementia who was last seen early Monday morning in Colorado Springs.

Martha James, of Rock Springs, has been missing since Saturday late afternoon when she left home in her vehicle. James has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia, and Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that her family is worried she may be lost and not able to find her way home.

"Her dementia has been progressively getting worse over the past several months, so her family, her sister in law and brother, are quite concerned about her, because … she's been getting lost a bit around town… her credit card was used in Rock Springs on Saturday about 530 so then the next time it was used was in Cheyenne, later that evening, and then again on Saturday in Boulder, Colorado."

James is traveling in a 2022 Silver Nissan Rogue and thought to be with her two dogs, a tan Chihuahua and a white miniature poodle.

Read the full story HERE.

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Australian-based American Rare Earths Ltd. has restructured its rare earths project in Wyoming as part of a new strategic direction to attract Wall Street investment and accelerate development of its critical ores needed for national security purposes.

With Wyoming becoming ground zero for new development of rare earths deposits, energy reporter Pat Maio says companies are in a race to be the first to start producing. And the new entity, called Wyoming Rare (USA) Inc., is considering moving its headquarters to either Laramie or Cheyenne.

"They've restructured the business here in Wyoming, and they're … formally going to make it like a 100% owned, independent company here in Wyoming, which is going to streamline things for them to essentially raise money, lots of money, like half a billion dollars, at least, money, so they can start accelerating into mining for rare earths."

The decision to move the headquarters will be made before the end of the year, as well as rounding out the composition of its board of directors.

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Secretary of State Chuck Gray wanted to make it clear at Monday evening's State Building Commission meeting that he hasn't forgotten about Gov. Mark Gordon's veto of House Bill 125 during the 2024 legislation session, a bill that would have banned gun-f