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O'Gara: The intense rush of wrestling a $3.6 billion budget, and much more

February 11, 2014 by Geoffrey O'Gara Leave a Comment

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The intense rush of wrestling a $3.6 billion budget and much more

— February 11, 2014
(This is an excerpt of a Capital Outlook blog post by Geoff O’Gara, Wyoming PBS)

Geoff O'Gara
Geoff O’Gara

Legislators who love the intense rush of wrestling a $3.6 billion budget and hopper full of bills in a tight four-week session are going to get a bonus this year: a special session to deal again with the question of who runs the Wyoming Department of Education: Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill, or a Governor-appointed director.

The legislative Management Council met yesterday afternoon to deal with what Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kite called “the elephant in the room”: her court has declared Senate File 104 – the 2013 bill that stripped Hill of most of her management duties at the department – unconstitutional. So the legislative leaders did what politicians often do with an intractable issue that could have an impact in an election year: they decided to study it and make changes later.

That will be in a special session, sometime in 2014, but not likely to follow closely on the heels of the current budget session.

— To read the rest of this post, go to the Capitol Outlook blog at Wyoming PBS.


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Geoffrey O'Gara

About Geoffrey O'Gara

Geoffrey O’Gara is a writer and documentary producer based in Lander, Wyoming. He works for The Content Lab, LLC and serves on WyoFile's board of directors. His column, Weed Draw, is named for a remote vantage in Wyoming’s Red Canyon. He is the author of What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West (2002), and A Long Road Home, Journeys Through America’s Present in Search of America’s Past (1989), and several other books. Contact Geoff at [email protected]

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