Senate panel can’t move fast enough to give oil industry a tax break
The tax break would benefit oil company CEOs like the bill’s co-sponsor, Senate President Eli Bebout.
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Five-man Senate committee unanimously passes “Boner’s Bill”
Women who had miscarried pregnancies came out in droves to speak against a bill that would force Wyoming doctors to offer “nonviable birth certificates.” But Chairman Charlie Scott shut down discussion so the committeemen could determine what’s best.
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Lawmakers bury tax reform chances, while the need for tax reform remains very alive
No bill to raise revenues survived the first week of the 2018 Legislative session. This means Wyoming will continue to suckle at the teat of the mineral industry, and lawmakers will have no tools to balance the budget other than further cuts.
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Senate Education Committee backs meager measure to promote state-supported early childhood education
Wyoming is one of the few states that doesn’t fund early childhood education. A proposed bill won’t change that—but it at least moves us in the right direction.
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Back-door Bebout reassigns public school defunding bill to a friendlier committee
Senate President Eli Bebout (R-Riverton) on Monday reassigned a proposed Wyoming State Constitutional amendment that would defund public education after he realized the committee to …
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Two criminal justice reform bills sail through the House, as they have in years past. Will they die in the Senate, as they have in years past?
A pair of positive, commonsense criminal justice reform proposals passed House Judiciary Committee this week. But “tough on crime” lawmakers are lurking in the senate, ready to kill any bill that doesn’t keep our prisons overflowing with inmates.
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Senate introduces bill to give birth certificates to miscarried fetuses
The Wyoming State Legislature just can’t resist the urge to barge into doctors’ offices and tell physicians and their female patients what to do during …
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Lawmakers propose resolution to combat Porno Madness
Seven men who serve in the Wyoming House of Representatives want the state to declare pornography a “public health crisis.”
But their proposed bill doesn’t …
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If there’s fat to cut from Wyoming public schools, why didn’t “Recalibration” find it?
Imagine being told you’ll get a great present at the end of the year that will make your life much better. You wait, getting more …
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The Cuts So Far (Part 7): Public schools – No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers
Over the past two years, the Wyoming State Legislature has cut hundreds of millions of dollars from state agencies and public services in response to
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The Cuts So Far (Part 6): Game and Fish – Hunting for funding
Over the past two years, the Wyoming State Legislature has cut hundreds of millions of dollars from state agencies and public services in response to
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The Cuts So Far (Part 5): Corrections – The high cost of quitting prison drug rehab ‘cold turkey’
Wyoming legislators cut the state’s prison-based substance abuse programs to save money. But more and more addicts are landing back in prison, continuing the cycle of incarceration and costing the state double what it “saved.”