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Senate Judiciary Committee green-lights gun bills for debate on the floor
The Wyoming Senate hasn’t passed a gun-related bill in the past five years—with no shortage of opportunities. This has provided […]
What lawmakers talk about when they talk about cutting public services
Wyoming House members who decided the budget fate of two social services programs last Friday described the process as “painful” […]
Judiciary Committee to puff on weed bill a while longer before passing it to the full Senate
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Refusing to raise new revenue, lawmakers take a slash-and-burn approach to education funding
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Senate Agriculture Committee members chastise citizen opponents of anti-abortion bills
Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee who support two anti-abortion bills made their biases clear during public comment period before […]
With the budget cut to its limit, the House turns to inanity and minutia as a means of filling its days with “serious debate”
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Senate committee kills a bill to allow new trials based on new evidence of innocence
Let’s see what you remember from your high school civics class. One thing everyone agrees about is that if a […]
Senators from Wyoming cities that support LGBT rights send mixed messages by voting down a statewide workplace nondiscrimination bill
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“People ask what are the consequences of cannabis. The consequence is that a person is alive”: House cuts sentence for marijuana, but won’t budge on medical use
Before today, no bill reducing penalties for even small amounts of marijuana had ever passed a chamber of the Wyoming Legislature. […]
Wyoming House ignores UW faculty senate’s plea to stop concealed carry, as two gun bills move on to the Senate
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Right-to-life advocates pack a House hearing on proposed abortion laws, as a committee passes three on to the floor
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House members evoke a sense of danger to argue against UW making its own decisions about guns on campus
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Anti-LGBT bill HB-135 was not an innocent “religious freedom” act
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House panel chooses to keep Wyoming’s working poor in poverty
The Wyoming State Legislature’s House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee could have voted to raise the state’s minimum wage […]
In the face of intense public outcry, anti-LGBT bill’s sponsors pull it from consideration, citing the need for “more discussion”
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