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PRESIDENT BEBOUT (Part 1): Save the banks, screw the taxpayers
In this series, Better Wyoming appraises longtime politician Eli Bebout’s first session as Senate President of the Wyoming State Legislature. […]
BUDGET RECAP (Part 4): Whispers of an Income Tax
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BUDGET RECAP (Part 3): Lawmakers do pass taxes (as long as they’re not taxes)
Part 1: Healthy Babies Cost Too Much Part 2: Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em It’s not that Wyoming lawmakers […]
BUDGET RECAP (Part 2): Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em
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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 […]
INTERIM DISPATCH: “Recalibration” committee will have to do more than recalibrate to fix school funding
April 6, 2017 “Recalibration.” It was the one-word answer most Republican legislators gave during the recent session when asked how […]
SESSION RECAP: Increasingly conservative Legislature passes first anti-abortion bills in decades, though largely defanged by amendments
“Pro-life” Republican lawmakers in Wyoming tried to create two new state laws to put women and doctors in jail if […]
SESSION RECAP: For gay rights in Wyoming, nothing got better, but nothing got worse
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SESSION RECAP: On public lands, the action took place before the session began
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SESSION RECAP: Lawmakers’ prefabricated ‘think tank’ bills are useless to Wyoming
March 13, 2017 Imagine you’re a state legislator. So it’s up to you to propose laws that will make Wyoming […]
SESSION RECAP: A marijuana reform bill is a terrible thing to waste
There was a time when introducing a marijuana bill in the Wyoming Legislature was a totally futile act. Legalization? Forget […]
SESSION RECAP: Lawmakers opted to tackle 10 percent of Wyoming’s education funding crisis and solve the other 90 percent … sometime later
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Senate Says ‘Welcome Back’ to Nonviolent Felons by Restoring Voter Rights
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Critics say new ENDOW program endows the state with more bureaucracy, waste, and old thinking
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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 […]