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BUDGET RECAP (Part 3): Lawmakers do pass taxes (as long as they’re not taxes)

April 10, 2017

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

April 9, 2017

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

April 8, 2017

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

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

March 30, 2017

“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

March 24, 2017

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

March 21, 2017

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SESSION RECAP: Lawmakers’ prefabricated ‘think tank’ bills are useless to Wyoming

March 13, 2017

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

March 9, 2017

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

March 7, 2017

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Senate Says ‘Welcome Back’ to Nonviolent Felons by Restoring Voter Rights

March 3, 2017

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Critics say new ENDOW program endows the state with more bureaucracy, waste, and old thinking

March 2, 2017

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

March 1, 2017

The Wyoming Legislature hasn’t passed an anti-abortion bill since 1989, when lawmakers decided to require parental consent and a 48-hour […]

Bill to restore nonviolent felons’ voting rights barely survives committee

February 27, 2017

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Campus carry is dead (while bills to allow guns in government meetings and public schools advance)

February 25, 2017

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