Sen. Cheri Steinmetz
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On Monday, March 13, the Weston County Republican Party Central Committee held an organizational meeting. Election of officers were held and several resolutions were passed, thanking various elected officials from federal to local offices. Above, Jamie and Tom Farnsworth look over paperwork at the meeting.
Weston County’s Republican Party is alive and well, if the turnout and participation at the party’s recent leadership election meeting is any indication.
Party members reelected Kari Drost as chairwoman. Allen Slagle, who is also the House District 2 representative,, will be the vice chair, with...
Gov. Mark Gordon giving his 2023 state of the state address to the 67th Legislature. (Megan Lee Johnson/WyoFile)
Two abortion bills sit on Gov. Mark Gordon’s desk: a near-complete ban and another aimed at banning medication-induced abortions.
As of Tuesday, Gordon said he’s still mulling over both.
“Obviously, one of the most important [considerations] is constitutionality,” he said in a press conference,...
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As the Wyoming State Legislature’s general session approaches its end, local legislators are mourning bills that are essentially dead as "shenanigans" continue at the state capitol.
“We had two bills on ESG (environmental, social and governance) from Senator [Bo] Biteman, of which the House...
CODY — A resolution from a Park County legislator asking Wyoming’s Congressional delegation to rethink national policies on wild horse management is dead, but the conversation could continue in the coming months.
House Joint Resolution 3 — sponsored by Rep. John Winter (R-Thermopolis) — died on a...
CASPER — The “Life is a Human Right Act” sailed through the Senate Agriculture Committee in a unanimous vote Thursday morning after stalling for two weeks in the upper chamber, bringing Wyoming closer to a new attempt to ban abortion in a post Roe landscape.
Before moving it along, lawmakers on...
CASPER — After a nearly two-week hang up in the Senate, the most ambitious abortion restriction bill the Wyoming Legislature has ever considered is back on track.
Senate President Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, referred the “Life is a Human Right” bill on Wednesday to the Senate Agriculture...
Bill addresses county landfill issues
Senate File 176 Solid Waste Disposal, a Weston County-inspired solid waste district bill, was approved by the House on Feb. 13 on second reading, according to Wyoleg.com. The bill passed the Senate on third reading on Feb. 2, with all 31 senators voting in...
ROCK SPRINGS — There was a sigh of relief among representatives for public libraries and art institutions as the sponsor of an obscenity bill suggested that her draft “be put on hold’ during the senate education committee meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at the state capitol in Cheyenne.
Before the...
CHEYENNE —A bill that would have repealed educational exceptions for promoting obscenity in Wyoming law was pulled from consideration by its sponsor during a Senate Education Committee meeting on Wednesday.
Chairman Sen. Charles Scott, R-Casper, agreed to hold back Senate File 177 in the wake of...
A photo of Lester Hunt at the time he was governor of Wyoming seated at his desk. (Wyoming State Archives)
After Wyoming’s U.S. Sen. Lester Hunt took his own life in 1954, the details surrounding his death were largely kept from public view, thereby obscuring his legacy of public service. A resolution now before the Wyoming Legislature is intended to set the record straight and to catalyze today’s...
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