Wyoming's Permanent Mineral Trust Fund contains roughly $7 billion. It continues to fill even fuller as lawmakers try to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from public education funding.

How to cut Wyoming’s education budget shortfall in half without raising taxes or drawing money from savings

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Dec. 21, 2017 By Better Wyoming staff Wyoming lawmakers who want to cut public education talk like the state is so broke they simply have …
Mike Moser (L) and Buck McVeigh (R) are full of excuses about Wyoming shouldn't move away from its dependence on minerals

Revenue Committee members clap back at no-taxes-ever corporate lobbyists

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Dec. 20, 2017 By Better Wyoming staff The rabid anti-tax bluster spewing from the mouths of lobbyists this year is so loud and obnoxious that …
Senate President Eli Bebout hoped "Recalibration" consultants would help him find $200 million to cut from Wyoming public schools.

Consultants, finding no major areas for education cuts, leave lawmakers to defund Wyoming public schools on their own accord

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Dec. 14, 2017 By Better Wyoming staff Surprise, surprise: The consultants hired to “Recalibrate” Wyoming’s public school funding didn’t find any wasteful bureaucracy, bloated teacher …
What kind of miserable state puts people in prison for candy?

Just what Wyoming needs: More laws to imprison people for marijuana

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Dec. 5, 2017 By Better Wyoming staff Late last month the state Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee voted to sponsor two new bills that would make …
The proposal would raise the tax cost on a $100,000 house by just $11 a month.

Revenue Committee to consider property tax bill to fund schools and reduce tax burden on low-income homeowners

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Dec. 1, 2017 By Better Wyoming staff The pressure is intense on the state legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee to not pass any proposals that would …
Charles Pelkey (L) is sponsoring a bill to classify domestic strangulation as a "violent" felony, which is it. But the ACLU's Sabrina King (R) says the proposal would contribute to Wyoming's prison problem and wouldn't protect victims.

Proposals to make strangling your wife a “violent” felony test whether anyone in Wyoming (besides the ACLU) is really serious about criminal justice reform

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Nov. 30, 2017 By Better Wyoming staff Strangling your wife is not considered a “violent” crime in Wyoming. Wyoming’s laws protecting women from domestic violence …