Inmates at Wyoming's women's prison in Lusk. According to Wyoming Department of Corrections Deputy Director Steve Lindley, 85 percent of the state's female population needs substance abuse treatment. The Legislature cut substance abuse funding last year.

More prison or less prison? Judiciary Committee kills a "tough on crime" bill and moves a reform bill forward

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Peterson, Curley, and who pays if Wyoming moves away from minerals

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An abandoned school in Jeffrey City, Wyoming, which closed during a mining bust in the 1980s.

Want to cut Wyoming education funding? Fine. That means closing rural schools.

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When lawmakers argue that funding cuts can solve Wyoming’s…
Sen. Ray Peterson issues a monologue about the doomsday effects of funding public schools.

Fearful of proposing new revenues, State Senator uses fake math to argue for education cuts

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Sen. Hank Coe (R-Cody), having heard it a million times before, no longer bothers to mask his boredom as Sen. Kinskey blathers on about Wyoming public school performance.

“Recalibration” committee members slam Sheridan senator over bogus claims about Wyoming public school performance

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Students in Powell, Wyo., learn to operate a technological gizmo that we at Better Wyoming are too old to understand. Powell is one of the only places in Wyoming where students currently have access to computer science courses in public school.

While Wyoming State Senate leadership pushes for more education cuts, a committee votes to require new computer science courses in public schools

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“We’re about as low on staff as we can possibly get and still keep the town running.” —Dayton, Wyoming, mayor Norm Anderson

Amidst education funding crisis, Wyoming cities remind Legislature that they’re broke, too

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A tourism tax would help pay for ads like these in national publications.

Wyoming travel industry wants a new tourism tax so it can invest in and pay for itself

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Rep. Timothy Hallinan's proposal would stop putting some mineral tax revenue into savings at a time when the state faces a financial crisis. But it would also perpetuate Wyoming's dependence on mining industries.

Lawmaker proposes to divert mineral tax revenues from savings accounts and use them to fund education instead

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Rep. Scott Clem (R-Gillette), one of many lawmakers who likes to pretend the Legislature hasn't already cut $55 million from Wyoming public schools. These cuts have resulted in 577 jobs eliminated and 44 of the state's 48 school districts cutting programs.

Fearing cuts, educators want to keep school funding model

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Nick Naylor, the fictional tobacco lobbyist from the movie "Thank You For Smoking," which examines the American culture of political spin that was on full display in Thermopolis. None of the lobbyists in Wyoming, however, were nearly as handsome or dashing as Aaron Eckhart, who plays Naylor.

Smoke ’em if ya got ’em: Tobacco lobbyists bamboozle legislators and score a victory for their industry

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