Sen. Ogden Driskill
Local GOP invites anonymous owners to public forum
CASPER – Since it first popped up in 2019, the anonymous website WyoRINO has further cleaved Wyoming’s already divided Republican Party, declaring certain state lawmakers to be “Republicans In Name Only.”
But the people behind the site have never...
Photo courtesy of Michael Smith
Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, reads during the morning session Jan. 31 in the Senate
Chamber.
The general session of the 67th Wyoming Legislature came to an end on Friday, March 3, and majority floor leader Rep. Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, said he is encouraged by the good work done for constituents in Wyoming.
At the start of the session, according to a Wyoming Legislative Service Office...
GILLETTE (WNE)— The state will now have a board made up of qualified education individuals to authorize new charter schools. Previously, if a school district board did not agree on the creation of a charter school, the decision went on to the state loan and investment board.
Senate File 174,...
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The 67th Wyoming Legislature kicked off its second week of the 2023 General Session on Monday, Jan. 16, and local legislators stated that Northeast Wyoming residents should pay particular attention to agriculture issues addressed in various bills up for consideration.
The House Agriculture...
A helicopter drives a band of wild horses into the BLM trap near Superior in October 2021. (Angus M. Thuermer, Jr./WyoFile)
Rep. John Winter (R-Thermopolis) rode horseback into the Red Desert to see some new country last year.
An outfitter and rancher, Winter was accompanied by a rangeland specialist and members of the Rock Springs Grazing Association. During the outing he learned a good bit about a growing natural...
The 67th Wyoming Legislature convened on Tuesday, Jan. 10, for a 37-day General Session.
“The Wyoming Senate and House of Representatives will hold opening ceremonies as their first order of business and new members of the Legislature and legislative leadership will be sworn in at this time,” a...
Weston County is well represented in terms of agriculture in the 67th Wyoming Legislature this year as both Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, R-Lingle, and Rep. Allen Slagle, R-Newcastle, will serve on agriculture committees on their respective sides of the State Capitol, according to a Dec. 2 release from...
CROOK COUNTY—Rep. Chip Neiman (R-Hulett) likens his first term in the Wyoming Legislature to being a newly married youngster responsible for a 2-month-old baby.
“I had flippin’ no idea what I was doing,” Neiman said from the living room of his ranch home.
A newcomer to politics in general, that’s...
CHEYENNE – State Sen. Anthony Bouchard will not be the subject of a formal investigation following a misconduct complaint filed in March, and he was assigned to serve on a committee in the upcoming year.
Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, received a letter from Senate President Dan Dockstader, R-Afton, that...
POWELL – Powell’s new state senator has been shut out of Legislative Committees for the 2023 general session.
Senator-elect Dan Laursen was not listed on any committees in the release from the Legislative Service Office last week outlining committee assignments for the general session starting in...
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