Many citizens in Wyoming are calling for property tax relief including a constitutional drive to hold property taxes to the rate of inflation. Others states are doing it, why shouldn’t we give it a try? As the Executive Director of the Wyoming Taxpayers Association, one of my responsibilities is to educate Wyoming citizens and offer a word of caution, “the grass isn’t always greener on the othe...

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Background: Protein-Carbohydrate interactions are crucial in many biological processes with implications to drug targeting and gene expression. Nature of protein-carbohydrate interactions may be studied at individual residue level by analyzing local sequence and structure environments in binding regions in comparison to non-binding regions, which provide an inherent control for such analyses. W...

A new study of a number of specific GM crops over several years in rotation with conventional crops has found no evidence that they may be more harmful to the environment, in terms of the reservoir of weed seeds important for much wildlife, than conventional varieties alone. The findings of the Botanical and Rotational Implications of Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerance (Bright) project in...

Since the production of the first pharmaceutically active molecules at the beginning of the 1900s, drug molecules and their metabolites have been observed in the environment in significant concentrations. In this review, the persistence of antibiotics in the environment and their associated effects on ecosystems, bacterial resistance and health effects will be examined. Solutions to these probl...