Sen. President Eli Bebout on site for his oil and gas company, Nucor, LLC.

Senate panel can’t move fast enough to give oil industry a tax break

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The tax break would benefit oil company CEOs like the bill's co-sponsor, Senate President Eli Bebout.
Left to right: Sens. Baldwin, Boner, Scott, and Peterson (Bouchard was late)

Five-man Senate committee unanimously passes “Boner’s Bill”

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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.

Lawmakers bury tax reform chances, while the need for tax reform remains very alive

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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.

Senate Education Committee backs meager measure to promote state-supported early childhood education

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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.
The former Senate President's shadiness earned him the nickname "Back-door Bebout"

Back-door Bebout reassigns public school defunding bill to a friendlier committee

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Senate President Eli Bebout (R-Riverton) on Monday reassigned…
Inmates at the Wyoming State Penitentiary

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?

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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.

Lawmakers propose resolution to combat Porno Madness

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Seven men who serve in the Wyoming House of Representatives…

The Cuts So Far (Part 6): Game and Fish - Hunting for funding

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Over the past two years, the Wyoming State Legislature has…

The Cuts So Far (Part 5): Corrections – The high cost of quitting prison drug rehab ‘cold turkey’

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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."