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This Week
National money, small donors pour into Wyo’s U.S. House race
Both Liz Cheney and Anthony Bouchard received high numbers of small donations as Cheney outpaces the field early.
Rancher defends $339K award for stock he claims grizzlies killed
A Wyoming state attorney told a judge that an arbitration panel exceeded its authority when it awarded Josh Longwell compensation for missing cattle.
Signage of the times
Laramie photographer Rose Curtis chronicles the character and history of signs in southeast Wyoming.
Wyoming could use some ‘Byrd droppings’
Opinion
by 4 Comments Former U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd became famous for securing federal funds for his state of West Virginia, writes Dodson. Wyoming, he opines, could use a similar champion.
Cheney rails against plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
Wyoming’s Congresswoman is resisting calls to officially end a war whose history is closely intertwined with her father’s.
Wyo emerges from session with no long-term budget, ed solutions
Fiscally, Wyoming seemed ripe for change this session. What resulted was a return to the status quo.
Groups appeal plan to pump oilfield waste into aquifer
After Wyoming OKs underground disposal, conservationists ask federal regulators to make the state follow the Safe Drinking Water Act at Aethon Energy’s Moneta Divide Field.
The winners, losers and fireworks of the ed budget failure
Analysis
by 1 Comment Wyoming lawmakers saved the pyrotechnics for the very last day of the 2021 legislative session, when House and Senate negotiators failed to compromise on the education funding bill.
Lawmakers failed, again, to address Wyo’s most pressing needs
Opinion
by 7 Comments The legislative session was memorable for what didn’t happen, Drake writes: No action on school finance, Medicaid expansion, new revenues.
