Month: January 2023

Bruce Moats, journalist and lawyer, is all about transparency in government.  He questions whether commissioners or elected board members can go into executive session, at least as often as some do.  Mr. Moats has also been on retainer for the

There are two major thrusts of this bill: creates an independent board to oversee the approval of new charter schools increases state funding of charter schools, both nonprofit and for profit As of July 1, 2022 the State Loan and

Rep. Chip Nieman (R–Hulett) is the Majority Floor Leader, and he is solely responsible for when and if bills are scheduled for a floor vote.  This article describes Rep. Nieman as “thoughtful” as he picks those bills which will have

Since 1978 the Federal ICWA law, all tribal adoptions have priority over non-tribal adoptions.  Before this, 80% of Native families had a child taken and placed elsewhere. SCOTUS will decide on IWCA in June.  Are non-reservation children members of a

Medicaid is 10% of the Federal Budget in 2023.  Whatever money WY doesn’t take isn’t saved somewhere else.  Add your name here to the Better Wyoming list of citizens who want the Medicaid Expansion to be approved this year.  WY

ARPA funds that can sustain the 988 suicide hotline for another year.  What about its future?   Some are waiting on WY’s share of new Biden dollars for suicide prevention.  Too many preface support on “proof” that the 988 system works.

At the Sundance Festival opening Thursday the surprise program addition was the film “Justice.”   The documentary’s director Doug Liman is known for movies such as “Swingers,” “The Bourne Identity” and “Edge of Tomorrow.” The film includes discussions of the

The College Board is field-testing a new course on African American Studies in 60 high schools. Delilah Andrews, a Black mother of two children near Orlando, told WESH, the local NBC affiliate station, that the state’s action was disappointing. “It saddens me,