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JACKSON - Should partisan politics trickle all the way down to the local level, potentially impacting decisions about how to educate children as young as 5? That's a question on the minds of lawmakers from the opening day of the Wyoming Legislature on Tuesday, when Senate File 98 was already on the drawing board. The bill would require school trustee candidates to declare a party affiliation when running for a seat. It is sponsored by Sen. Jared Olsen, R-Cheyenne, who is vice...
JACKSON — As valley leaders discussed priorities for the Wyoming Legislature’s general session that starts Tuesday, Teton County Sheriff Matt Carr warned the delegation about “a lot of really scary bills that are being proposed right now.” One bill that has been filed aims to punish towns and counties seen as giving sanctuary to undocumented immigrants. Freshman Rep. Joel Guggenmos, a Freedom Caucus member from Riverton who won 55% of the vote in his Republican primary...
JACKSON - The day after a gunman opened fire in Yellowstone National Park on the Fourth of July, Wyoming clergy sent a letter to the state's elected leaders, asking them to denounce a rising tide of political extremist rhetoric in the Equality State that they say could lead to violence. The Rev. Mary Erickson, associate rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Jackson, was among the first to sign onto the letter, "denouncing antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry" and "combating...
JACKSON -- The gunman who opened fire in Yellowstone National Park on July 4 had plans for "Pro White Nationalist Violence" and "a history of expressing white supremacist and antisemitic views." That's according to court documents filed in federal court Friday by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Wyoming, which revealed new details about the incident and the shooter, Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, a 28-year-old Floridian and employee of Xanterra Parks and Resorts....
JACKSON - Some lawmakers in Teton County voiced their doubts about the "Five and Dime Plan" promoted by the hard-right Wyoming Freedom Caucus at the end of last week. The Freedom Caucus established its majority power in the Wyoming House of Representatives in the Nov. 5 election and committed to passing five bills within the first 10 days of the upcoming legislative session. The proposed legislation includes invalidating driver's licenses issued to undocumented immigrants by...
JACKSON — Local elections aren’t just about deciding who sits on the Town Council or heads to Cheyenne to write laws in the Wyoming Legislature. Voters decide on the makeup of their county political parties. Precinct committee people are selected every two years to make up the county central committee, according to Wyoming law, for the Democratic and Republican parties. One precinct committeeman and committee woman is elected for every 250 votes or major fraction cast for the party candidate’s representative in Congr...
CHEYENNE — In the back of an SUV with a license plate frame proudly stating “I wasn’t born in Wyoming, I got here as fast I could,” a mother and daughter waited patiently Sunday for the unofficial kickoff to Cheyenne Frontier Days. Debbie Harvey told her mother, Cynthia Newby, to be ready early in the morning to head out, but gave little indication what the surprise would be.They drove from Harvey’s home in Cheyenne to the intersection of Interstate 25 and Vandehei Avenue, and...
