Guns, graft, gay rights, coal and water: 2018 in 12 stories
WyoFile staff collected 12 stories that we feel best represent Wyoming in 2018 and our ongoing efforts to capture it on the page.
Two Elk
Energy industry throws campaign cash to Gordon over Throne
Though both major party candidates have professional ties to the energy industry, fossil fuel PACs are spending on the Republican, Mark Gordon
Enzi economic development hire draws criticism, defenders
The selection of the senator’s son to oversee public contracts and funding — despite his connection to a federal fraud case — has some concerned.
Two Elk fraudster Michael J. Ruffatto locked up
The Powder River Basin power plant promoter reported to a minimum security federal prison in California this week to begin serving an 18-month sentence.
Ruffatto gets 18 months, $14.4M penalty for Two Elk fraud
A federal judge in Pittsburgh on Wednesday sentenced the power plant promoter to prison for stealing $5.7 million in federal stimulus funds.
