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Senate committee kills a bill to allow new trials based on new evidence of innocence

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One thing everyone agrees about is that if a person has been convicted of …

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    There was no one to stop the madmen: Bills banning gun-free zones at schools and government meetings advance

    January 25, 2017 Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R-Cheyenne) warned the Wyoming House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that it was about to hear from a lot of gun-hating...


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    Senate Agriculture Committee members chastise citizen opponents of anti-abortion bills

    Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee who support two anti-abortion bills made their biases clear during public comment period before passing both proposals with 4...


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    Wyoming Legislature poised to pass first anti-abortion bills since 1989

    The Wyoming Legislature hasn’t passed an anti-abortion bill since 1989, when lawmakers decided to require parental consent and a 48-hour waiting period for minors. Each...

Senators from Wyoming cities that support LGBT rights send mixed messages by voting down a statewide workplace nondiscrimination bill

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    Energy bills keep Wyoming blundering down the path of economic schizophrenia and ecological destruction

    January 19, 2017 It’s a coal industry executive’s wet dream: At the same time some state lawmakers want to tax the wind energy industry out...


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    “People ask what are the consequences of cannabis. The consequence is that a person is alive”: House cuts sentence for marijuana, but won’t budge on medical use

    Before today, no bill reducing penalties for even small amounts of marijuana had ever passed a chamber of the Wyoming Legislature. That barrier was shattered Friday...


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    SESSION RECAP: For gay rights in Wyoming, nothing got better, but nothing got worse

    March 24, 2017 Gay rights advocates helped stir up enough opposition to defeat two terrible bills during the legislative session that would have legally protected...

“People ask what are the consequences of cannabis. The consequence is that a person is alive”: House cuts sentence for marijuana, but won’t budge on medical use

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Before today, no bill reducing penalties for even small amounts of marijuana had ever passed a chamber of the Wyoming Legislature. That barrier was shattered …

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    Wyoming House ignores UW faculty senate’s plea to stop concealed carry, as two gun bills move on to the Senate

    February 2, 2017 Lawmakers ignored a plea from University of Wyoming faculty to reconsider its support for a bill that would allow concealed-carry permit holders...


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    Senate Judiciary Committee guts marijuana reform bill (but rules for edible THC might finally make the books)

    February 22, 2017 People hoping to see state lawmakers meaningfully reduce penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana in plant form were hosed Wednesday by...


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    PRESIDENT BEBOUT (Part 4): A failed champion of public land transfer

    In this multi-part series, Better Wyoming appraises longtime politician Eli Bebout’s first session as Senate President of the Wyoming State Legislature. Read the first three...

Wyoming House ignores UW faculty senate’s plea to stop concealed carry, as two gun bills move on to the Senate

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    “People ask what are the consequences of cannabis. The consequence is that a person is alive”: House cuts sentence for marijuana, but won’t budge on medical use

    Before today, no bill reducing penalties for even small amounts of marijuana had ever passed a chamber of the Wyoming Legislature. That barrier was shattered Friday...


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    Senate Judiciary Committee guts marijuana reform bill (but rules for edible THC might finally make the books)

    February 22, 2017 People hoping to see state lawmakers meaningfully reduce penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana in plant form were hosed Wednesday by...


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    PRESIDENT BEBOUT (Part 4): A failed champion of public land transfer

    In this multi-part series, Better Wyoming appraises longtime politician Eli Bebout’s first session as Senate President of the Wyoming State Legislature. Read the first three...

Right-to-life advocates pack a House hearing on proposed abortion laws, as a committee passes three on to the floor

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    There was no one to stop the madmen: Bills banning gun-free zones at schools and government meetings advance

    January 25, 2017 Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R-Cheyenne) warned the Wyoming House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that it was about to hear from a lot of gun-hating...


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    Refusing to raise new revenue, lawmakers take a slash-and-burn approach to education funding

    February 12, 2017 Education in Wyoming is about to see the bottom drop out of its funding, as the reverberations from recent years’ economic busts...


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    BUDGET RECAP (Part 2): Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em

    April 9, 2017 Click here to read Part 1: Healthy Babies Cost Too Much The Wyoming Legislature’s conservative majority might as well stand in unison...

House members evoke a sense of danger to argue against UW making its own decisions about guns on campus

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    Wyoming legislators propose the worst anti-LGBT law in the nation

    With a proposed bill like a hunting license, an extreme right-wing faction of lawmakers has declared open season on Wyoming’s LGBT couples and individuals. Sara...


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    Bill to restore nonviolent felons’ voting rights barely survives committee

    February 26, 2017 People with non-violent felonies on their records came a step closer to automatically having their voting rights restored in Wyoming on Friday,...


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    BUDGET RECAP (Part 1): Healthy Babies Cost Too Much

    The Legislature lumbered through its budget proceedings this session like a sword-wielding drunkard, clumsily slashing whatever was in reach, cowering each time special-interest lobbyists or...

Anti-LGBT bill HB-135 was not an innocent “religious freedom” act

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    “A year has gone by, and things have not gotten better”: Mead urges action in the face of budget crisis

    January 11, 2017 Legislative observers will remember when “bang for your buck” was the top catch phrase in the Capitol. People just loved saying it....


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    House members evoke a sense of danger to argue against UW making its own decisions about guns on campus

    January 30, 2017 An effort to allow the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees to make its own decision about people carrying concealed guns on...


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    SESSION RECAP: Lawmakers opted to tackle 10 percent of Wyoming’s education funding crisis and solve the other 90 percent … sometime later

    March 7, 2017 How many ways did the Legislature fail Wyoming’s public education system during its recent session? It’s difficult to count them all, but...

House panel chooses to keep Wyoming’s working poor in poverty

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The Wyoming State Legislature’s House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee could have voted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $9.50 an hour Friday, …

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    Wyoming legislators propose the worst anti-LGBT law in the nation

    With a proposed bill like a hunting license, an extreme right-wing faction of lawmakers has declared open season on Wyoming’s LGBT couples and individuals. Sara...


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    Bill to restore nonviolent felons’ voting rights barely survives committee

    February 26, 2017 People with non-violent felonies on their records came a step closer to automatically having their voting rights restored in Wyoming on Friday,...


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    BUDGET RECAP (Part 1): Healthy Babies Cost Too Much

    The Legislature lumbered through its budget proceedings this session like a sword-wielding drunkard, clumsily slashing whatever was in reach, cowering each time special-interest lobbyists or...

In the face of intense public outcry, anti-LGBT bill’s sponsors pull it from consideration, citing the need for “more discussion”

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    “People ask what are the consequences of cannabis. The consequence is that a person is alive”: House cuts sentence for marijuana, but won’t budge on medical use

    Before today, no bill reducing penalties for even small amounts of marijuana had ever passed a chamber of the Wyoming Legislature. That barrier was shattered Friday...


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    Senate Judiciary Committee guts marijuana reform bill (but rules for edible THC might finally make the books)

    February 22, 2017 People hoping to see state lawmakers meaningfully reduce penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana in plant form were hosed Wednesday by...


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    PRESIDENT BEBOUT (Part 4): A failed champion of public land transfer

    In this multi-part series, Better Wyoming appraises longtime politician Eli Bebout’s first session as Senate President of the Wyoming State Legislature. Read the first three...

There was no one to stop the madmen: Bills banning gun-free zones at schools and government meetings advance

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    “People ask what are the consequences of cannabis. The consequence is that a person is alive”: House cuts sentence for marijuana, but won’t budge on medical use

    Before today, no bill reducing penalties for even small amounts of marijuana had ever passed a chamber of the Wyoming Legislature. That barrier was shattered Friday...


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    Senate Judiciary Committee guts marijuana reform bill (but rules for edible THC might finally make the books)

    February 22, 2017 People hoping to see state lawmakers meaningfully reduce penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana in plant form were hosed Wednesday by...


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    PRESIDENT BEBOUT (Part 4): A failed champion of public land transfer

    In this multi-part series, Better Wyoming appraises longtime politician Eli Bebout’s first session as Senate President of the Wyoming State Legislature. Read the first three...

Wyoming legislators propose the worst anti-LGBT law in the nation

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With a proposed bill like a hunting license, an extreme right-wing faction of lawmakers has declared open season on Wyoming’s LGBT couples and individuals.

Sara …

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    Proponents of a $27 million annual tax break for the coal industry run into an obstacle: reality

    Advocates of forcing Wyoming to suckle even more forcefully at coal’s teat were given a thorough shaming Friday when a proposal to grant coal companies...


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    With the budget cut to its limit, the House turns to inanity and minutia as a means of filling its days with “serious debate”

    February 8, 2017 Many people can’t take time off from work to see what their state lawmakers are up to. Those who follow the news...


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    Bill to restore nonviolent felons’ voting rights barely survives committee

    February 26, 2017 People with non-violent felonies on their records came a step closer to automatically having their voting rights restored in Wyoming on Friday,...

Proponents of a $27 million annual tax break for the coal industry run into an obstacle: reality

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Advocates of forcing Wyoming to suckle even more forcefully at coal’s teat were given a thorough shaming Friday when a proposal to grant coal companies …

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    Wyoming lawmakers look to pass a new tax by claiming it’s not a new tax

    January 16, 2017 Wyoming lawmakers run away from new taxes like stampeding buffalo, out of fear of voter retribution. But supporters of a bill that...


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    WEA official: Doing nothing on education funding is better than Legislature’s plan

    February 21, 2017 Warning of a “disastrous effect” on K-12 funding, a Wyoming Education Association official Tuesday said the Legislature would be better off doing...


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    SESSION RECAP: On public lands, the action took place before the session began

    March 21, 2017 Better Wyoming didn’t report on public lands issues this legislative session, not because we don’t care about public lands—in fact, they’re among...