Over the next several weeks, Better Wyoming will publish a series of articles, “State of Insecurity,” that examines shortcomings in the ways Wyoming deals with homelessness, hunger, and low wages. This is the series introduction.
New proposals would reform parole sentencing and increase substance abuse treatment in Wyoming.
Wyoming’s lack of an income tax means the rich get a free ride.
Computer scientist Kathryn Lenth was happy to make Casper home, until she and her partner, Kristen, realized Wyoming might not be the best place for LGBT people to live. Now Kathryn is training the tech workforce of tomorrow … in Utah.
Powerful police lobbyists have convinced the Wyoming State Legislature to ignore citizens’ wishes and refuse to reform the state’s draconian marijuana laws. Now, they’ve taken their crusade public.
The State School Facilities Commission has one job: to make sure Wyoming students have good schools. But the commission has inserted itself into the debate over education budget cuts—and it’s hard to believe the commissioners came up with the idea on their own.
The decision to close the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute will hurt the school’s fundraising and community engagement efforts—not to mention scientific learning on campus and throughout the state.
EXIT INTERVIEWS is a new series profiling talented people who are leaving Wyoming as a result of boneheaded policy decisions. This episode features a (former) UW professor and his wife, a (former) pillar of the Laramie arts community.
Rep. David Miller knows a state income tax would largely solve Wyoming’s revenue problems. But he’d rather shackle the state even more securely to boom-and-bust mining industries.
The deepest cuts in more than a decade couldn’t fix Wyoming’s “structural deficit.” When will lawmakers realize more cuts aren’t the answer?
The board will vote next week to give itself the ability to single-handedly fire tenured faculty, cancel courses, and eliminate academic departments—big responsibilities for a group that’s proven itself incompetent.
After completely defunding Wyoming’s statewide program in 2017, the Legislature allocated $2 million this year for suicide prevention. The scope of damage—and what a new program will look like—is unclear.
