Hardworking Wyomingites are tired of politicians hell-bent on creating conflict.
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Three ways YOU can get involved for the 2025 legislative session
The 2025 legislative session is just around the corner. Here are three concrete things you can do to get involved with Better Wyoming for the session.
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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 each time special-interest lobbyists or their anti-tax overlords shrieked “Small government!” In the process, lawmakers shed crocodile tears as they made unnecessary, short-sighted cuts in vital services to the poor, […]
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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 they plan to solve an anticipated $400 million shortfall in Wyoming education funding through 2020. The idea behind “recalibration” is that the state will be able to tinker enough with […]
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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 they violated the far-right’s extremist agenda on abortion. Fortunately, those two bills failed. That’s the good news. On the bad news side of the ledger, the GOP passed two new […]
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