Private school vouchers take public money away from public schools and redirect it to private and religious institutions that don’t serve rural students or provide special education. But expanding Wyoming’s voucher program is a top priority for the Freedom Caucus now that it has a majority.
Legislature preview: Freedom Caucus poised to expand private school voucher program Read More »
The Wyoming Family Alliance’s campaign to elect school board members uses a candidate questionnaire that focuses far more on sex and genitals than it does on anything a school board member would actually need to know.
The sex-obsessed fundamentalists influencing Wyoming school board elections Read More »
Did you know you pay the same property tax rate as Walmart and Facebook data centers? Vote “yes” on Amendment A this election, so Wyoming can have the tools to lower tax rates on people’s homes while maintaining revenue from corporations for public services like hospitals and schools.
Vote “yes” on Amendment A to give Wyo. lawmakers better tools for tax reform Read More »
From Idaho to Montana to Nebraska to Utah to Colorado, efforts to confront a lack of affordable housing are ongoing in basically all of Wyoming’s neighbors. Even though our own state has done basically nothing to confront the problem, we have plenty of models to look toward if lawmakers ever get the gumption to act.
Wyoming’s neighbors provide examples of housing solutions Read More »
Wyoming’s housing crisis came on fast, but solutions to it from political leaders are either incremental or nonexistent. In some towns, local officials have updated zoning regulations to allow for more construction. Federal rent assistant programs are backlogged, and the Legislature has done essentially nothing.
Slow or none: Wyoming lawmakers’ response to the housing crisis Read More »
In the second part of our housing series, Better Wyoming looks at the secondary problems caused by our housing crisis: intensified brain drain, lack of critical services, harm to the economy, and an overall impact on our communities’ well-being.
Wyoming’s unaffordable housing drives young families and businesses away Read More »
In the first part of a new series, Better Wyoming looks at the causes of our state’s housing crisis—including wealthy out-of-staters paying cash and driving up prices, short-term rentals depleting housing stocks, restrictive zoning, high construction materials costs, and more.
What causes Wyoming’s housing crisis? Read More »
