Rep. Harriet Hageman has moved her town halls online after attendees at some, including in Lincoln County, heckled the representative for her support of the Department of Government Efficiency, among other issues.
Politics & Policy
Feds already got 50,000 comments on grizzly bears. Now they want more.
The debate over whether to keep federal protections for grizzlies is “deeply laden in values,” according to one expert.
Wyoming seeks to move abortion restrictions case back to Natrona County
A lawsuit that aims to overturn two new abortion restrictions was delayed by the state of Wyoming on March 13.
Longtime Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson dies at 93
During his 18 years as a Wyoming senator, he served as Minority and Majority Whip. He retired in 1997.
Teton GOP votes in new leadership
Katherine ‘Kat” Rueckert, a 28-year-old project engineer, hopes to shift the party’s focus from national to local issues such as taxes.
Judge orders thousands of fired federal workers be rehired
With details of rehiring unclear, Jackson business leaders and electeds are looking to nonprofits to step up.
Sweeping property tax bill inked by Gov. Gordon
Single-family homeowners will see a 25% cut applied to the first $1 million of their home’s fair market value. Funding for local governments that will lose property tax revenue because of it was removed from the bill’s final version.
Trans people in Wyoming are now banned from certain spaces
One new law prohibits public school students from going to restrooms and locker rooms that don’t correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Another bans trans people from sex-desginated public spaces associated with the state.
One year later, Sublette County’s wolf ‘torture’ incident still a ‘black eye’ for Wyoming
It’s been a year since a rural ranching community in Sublette County was cast into the international spotlight because of outrage over what many deemed “torture” of a wolf. The legalities and culture around the incident are still hot button issues.
