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Oil lobbyists force House committee to re-vote on pipeline protest bill
Even in a state where it’s common for lawmakers to roll over and beg for the oil and gas industry, this demonstration of submissiveness by Wyoming’s “leaders” was deeply disturbing.
House Revenue Committee kills oil and gas tax break
The proposal was sponsored by Eli Bebout, who’s the president of both the Wyoming State Senate and Nucor Oil and Gas, LLC.
Senate works to nab pot brownie dealers before they strike again
The Senate is diligently working to confront a dangerous threat to Wyoming.
While the Senate looks to slash education, a House proposal would modernize revenue streams to put less toward savings and more toward schools
The two chambers will meet next week to negotiate a solution. At stake is whether Wyoming will take a more modern approach that saves public schools, or whether it will stubbornly keep pouring money into savings and decimate education.
Senate passes oil and gas tax break while Wyoming faces a budget crisis
The Senate’s cuts to education are apparently their way of paying for tax breaks for oil and gas companies.
The Legislature’s education funding debate is on track for public school disaster
Conflicting egos, draconian cuts, and a staunch refusal to raise new revenues spell disaster for Wyoming education.
Public outcry and dissent from the medical community help kill Boner’s Bill
Boner’s Bill to give “nonviable birth certificates” to women who miscarry pregnancies died in the Senate on Tuesday. Lawmakers lost heart after hearing from so many outraged citizens.
Medicaid expansion dies a quiet, shameful death for the fifth year
The Legislature yet again refused to accept hundreds of millions of federal dollars because they would go toward helping poor people get healthcare.
Senate budget proposes $130 million in cuts to Wyoming schools
The proposed cuts, on top of the $77 million the Legislature has already cut from public education over the past two years, would be devastating to Wyoming schools and communities.
Amendments to defund Wyoming schools pass Senate committee
The Wyoming State Senate wants education funding cuts so big that lawmakers know the Supreme Court will reject them. So, two senators are trying to change the constitution to make their cuts to public schools legal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]