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There’s a lot of hype, misinformation, and outright lies surrounding a proposed corporate income tax in Wyoming. Here are five facts you need to understand.
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There’s a lot of hype, misinformation, and outright lies surrounding a proposed corporate income tax in Wyoming. Here are five facts you need to understand.
The Wyoming Legislature on Friday allowed the deadline for bill introductions to pass without considering House Bill 64, a proposed corporate income tax. The tax...
Ross Perot died last week. Perot hears a sucking sound. The billionaire and two-time presidential candidate famously remarked that the United States’ trade agreement with...
The Wyoming House on Monday voted to advance a proposed five percent statewide lodging tax that would generate an estimated $19 million a year. The...
Expanding Medicaid would help Wyoming’s struggling rural hospitals offset state budget cuts, provide mental health treatment, and attract and retain physicians to provide better services.
Opponents of Medicaid expansion in Wyoming trotted out their tired excuses and bogus information to oppose it for the seventh straight year on Tuesday. But...
If the Wyoming Legislature votes to expand Medicaid during the upcoming 2020 legislative session, roughly 19,000 low-income Wyomingites would get newfound access to basic healthcare....
Wyoming state senator Tom James (R-Rock Springs) chastised the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee during its most recent meeting for not exploring alternatives to taxes. “I’m...
When hospitals treat people who can’t afford to pay, they pass off those losses to everyone else, raising medical costs and insurance premiums statewide. This “uncompensated care” amounts to 6 percent of Wyoming hospitals’ total expenses. Medicaid expansion would cover those costs instead, helping hospitals and driving down the price of healthcare for everyone.
Wyoming state senator Tom James (R-Rock Springs) chastised the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee during its most recent meeting for not exploring alternatives to taxes. “I’m...
Rural hospitals and clinics are the bedrock of Wyoming’s statewide healthcare system. Our sparse population relies on facilities like those in Kemmerer, Evanston, and Douglas...
Opponents of Medicaid expansion in Wyoming trotted out their tired excuses and bogus information to oppose it for the seventh straight year on Tuesday. But...
The State of Wyoming would pay for 10 percent of the cost of expanding Medicaid—roughly $9 million the first year. But other states’ experiences have shown that savings from the program more than offset the costs.
You don’t hear much about poor people at the Wyoming State Legislature. There have been bills seeking to help a billionaire win his zoning dispute...
Beavers nearly went extinct in the 19th century. Demand for beaver-skin hats from East Coast and European elites fueled a lucrative industry that relied on...
If the Wyoming Legislature votes to expand Medicaid during the upcoming 2020 legislative session, roughly 19,000 low-income Wyomingites would get newfound access to basic healthcare....
If Wyoming wants to diversify and develop its economy, it should focus its efforts on building communities where people desire to live, instead of desperately jumping on each pile-of-garbage “opportunity” that passes our way.
https://vimeo.com/351686801 TRANSCRIPT: Hell yes, there’s a war on coal. It’s been going on a lot longer than you think it has. And coal’s enemies...
Ask a Wyoming politician what’s killing the state’s coal industry and they’ll likely sneer two words at you: federal regulations. But ask that same politician...
The first “Wyoming Public Lands Day” is this Saturday, Sept. 28. Day-use fees at state and national parks will be waived, and dozens of activities...
The committee’s support—and Wyoming’s worsening budget situation—gives Medicaid expansion the best shot it’s had in years.
Wyoming state senator Tom James (R-Rock Springs) chastised the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee during its most recent meeting for not exploring alternatives to taxes. “I’m...
Rural hospitals and clinics are the bedrock of Wyoming’s statewide healthcare system. Our sparse population relies on facilities like those in Kemmerer, Evanston, and Douglas...
Wyoming legislators are so experienced killing Medicaid expansion, they did it in record time Monday, the opening day of the 2020 session. The House voted...
A bill to expand Medicaid would help close the state’s sizeable budget shortfall (and it would help poor people get healthcare, too).
The Wyoming Legislature’s decision to reject Medicaid expansion since 2013 has cost the state $120 million a year in lost federal funds. This is the...
Opponents of Medicaid expansion in Wyoming trotted out their tired excuses and bogus information to oppose it for the seventh straight year on Tuesday. But...
If the Wyoming Legislature votes to expand Medicaid during the upcoming 2020 legislative session, roughly 19,000 low-income Wyomingites would get newfound access to basic healthcare....
As the coal industry falters, costing Wyoming hundreds of millions of dollars per year in lost revenues, state leaders struggle to act.
Ask a Wyoming politician what’s killing the state’s coal industry and they’ll likely sneer two words at you: federal regulations. But ask that same politician...
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon has been acting as an unofficial promoter of the coal industry since he took office last year. Hearing that coal is...
The Wyoming House fantasized Tuesday about its ability to prop up the state’s struggling oil and gas industries by gifting them a tax break. The...
How “keeping public lands in public hands” is critical to diversifying and strengthening Wyoming’s economy.
https://vimeo.com/351686801 TRANSCRIPT: Hell yes, there’s a war on coal. It’s been going on a lot longer than you think it has. And coal’s enemies...
Alongside corporate bigwigs and anti-tax lobbyists, a handful of average Wyoming residents had the nerve to show up to the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee meeting...
As the coal industry collapses, Wyoming state leaders’ responses have been somewhat less than heroic. Some have decided to sulk and point fingers, like Gov....
Naysayers who don’t want to admit they support Walmart over Wyoming schools are using a bogus technical argument.
Wyoming is the only state in the nation that doesn’t receive any federal Medicaid funding to pay for special education. Instead, lawmakers have chosen to...
Both chambers of the Wyoming Legislature agree that the state’s public education budget needs a $39 million “external cost adjustment” to keep up with inflation...
The Wyoming Legislature’s decision to reject Medicaid expansion since 2013 has cost the state $120 million a year in lost federal funds. This is the...
Wyoming politicians whine about the federal “War On Coal.” But no one was buying the Powder River Basin’s low-sulfur product until the Clean Air Act made it more affordable than its competitors.
https://vimeo.com/351686801 TRANSCRIPT: Hell yes, there’s a war on coal. It’s been going on a lot longer than you think it has. And coal’s enemies...
As the coal industry collapses, Wyoming state leaders’ responses have been somewhat less than heroic. Some have decided to sulk and point fingers, like Gov....
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon has been acting as an unofficial promoter of the coal industry since he took office last year. Hearing that coal is...
When times are good, no one questions whether the Legislature’s refusal to accept federal funding is wise. But as Wyoming’s budget problems continue, those questions are beginning to arise.
Wyoming state senator Tom James (R-Rock Springs) chastised the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee during its most recent meeting for not exploring alternatives to taxes. “I’m...
Wyoming is the only state in the nation that doesn’t receive any federal Medicaid funding to pay for special education. Instead, lawmakers have chosen to...
Representatives from the Wyoming House and Senate will meet this week to negotiate differences between the budget bills that each chamber passed during the first...