As smoke clears, House and Senate reload for 2020 budget
Dems, rank-and-file lawmakers said programs for state’s vulnerable are casualties of budget war as senators called for rules change to amass more power
Legislature
About last night: How the 2019 session spilled into overtime
The clock ticked down to midnight, with several matters still to resolve, forcing the bleary-eyed Legislature to clock back in for a wee-hours conclusion early on Feb. 28.
‘New sheriff’ Gordon reins in Legislature’s budgeting process
New governor flexes muscle in confrontation over infringement of executive power; vetoes 14 items in 2019 supplemental budget.
Stifled by leadership, wind tax proponents look to voters
Frustrated by the speaker’s refusal to consider wind tax bills, a citizens’ group will try to put an initiative before voters in 2020 to raise the tax.
Should Wyoming consider a new budgeting process?
Opinion
by 4 Comments Two-year budgeting made a lot of sense in the pioneer days but the volatility of modern revenues, and the reliance on supplemental budgets beg the question.