Morality, religion and Wyoming’s budget crisis
Opinion
by 10 Comments The moral test of government has come to a head in Wyoming, Dodson writes, as budget cuts hit children, elderly and the needy the hardest.
Department of Family Services
Proposed budget cuts pound public services
Lawmakers must approve Gordon’s proposed reductions, which weaken Wyoming’s already thin social safety nets
Judicial committee greenlights new child-welfare legal office
Proposal would move child representation in removal cases from public defenders to new Guardian Ad Litem office. Similar parents measure still being studied.
Shutdown threatens food programs; millions in lost wages
Lawmakers have no plans to deal with a looming funding crisis for Wyoming’s food-for-the-needy programs which will run out of money in February and March if the federal shutdown continues.
Will the appropriation committee’s new vision survive?
Drake lauds conservative legislators who’ve put essential programs ahead of additional savings in their proposed budget.
