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Wyo’s fight against clean energy drives young people away
Opinion
by 4 Comments Fixing Wyoming’s economy, stopping climate change and embracing new approaches are all more important than the special interests of a privileged few, opines our guest columnist. That’s why she favors the Rail Tie Wind Project.
Wind project doesn’t belong in Laramie Basin
Opinion
by 13 Comments “Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘til it’s gone”
– Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi (1970)
Albany County soon may learn exactly what singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell meant when she penned these words 50 …
The West badly needs a restoration economy
Opinion
by 1 Comment As fossil fuel industries decline, leaders of energy-dependent communities scramble to find solutions. Yet one solution rarely comes up in these conversations: Restoration as economic development.
School finance: Lawmakers’ biggest remaining challenge
Analysis
by 2 Comments Undertaken every five years, the ‘recalibration’ analysis and reconsideration of Wyoming’s complex public-education funding and expenditures model takes on special urgency and import in 2021.
Wyoming GOP embraces Trump’s phony voter fraud claims
Opinion
by 17 Comments Despite Wyo’s solid record of safe elections, Republican group recommends misguided reforms, Drake writes. A proposed bill he expects to cruise into law just tackles a nonexistent problem, he opines.