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  • What do precinct committee people do?

    Jasmine Hall, Jackson Hole News&Guide Via Wyoming News Exchange|Updated Aug 21, 2024

    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...

  • Bucking horse drive pulls attendees back in time

    Jasmine Hall, via Wyoming News Exchange|Updated Jul 27, 2023

    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...

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