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• "Cumulatively, approximately $110 million -- or 5 percent of FY 2013 estimated disbursements -- will be withheld from several states and counties where energy production occurs on federal lands during the remainder of the current fiscal year," Etchart said.
• He said counties where geothermal energy production occurs also will see cuts, he said.
• Etchart said his office recognizes the cuts may impose hardships on states but it has no choice under the budget-reduction law.
• Mead announced Tuesday that he received no advance warning from the federal agency of the cuts.
• "As far as communications go, this method of passing along significant information that greatly impacts Wyoming gets a grade of F-minus or worse. It is not acceptable," Mead said. He said he has asked the state attorney general's office for advice on the Wyoming's options.
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Rock 'n' rollers aid academy opening in S. Dakota
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- As a Boys Club kid growing up in the South Dakota city of Sioux Falls, Chuck Brennan never had the opportunity to learn an electric guitar lick or pound out a lengthy drum solo.
• The founder of the Dollar Loan Center payday loan company now wants to give the city's youth a better chance to master guitar, bass, drums, keyboards or vocals with the opening of the $3.6 million Brennan Rock & Roll Academy just blocks from where he grew up.
• "We're going to be focused," Brennan said. "Even though it's going to be for the kids of the Boys & Girls Clubs, we're going to run this like a professional music academy and really have these kids learn something, so they come out of here with a skill."
• Brennan is pulling out all the stops for this week's grand opening, hosting intimate fundraiser concerts featuring Alice Cooper, Robby Krieger of The Doors, Night Ranger, and '80s rockers Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Joey Allen and Stephen Pearcy. Comedians Louie Anderson and George Lopez also are slated to perform.
• Jack Blades, Night Ranger's vocalist and bassist, said the band is humbled to be the first to take the academy's stage, which he said could produce the next AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton or U2.
• Blades said the state-of-the-art environment is nicer than most of the places (Continued on page 29)
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