Month: February 2024

Reporter Maggie Mullen offers insights in her analysis of days 1–3.  Thank-you, Ms. Mullen.  She notes that the traditional deference to the introduction of interim committee bills is being undermined.   They aren’t accepted for introduction! If you have been watching

In the very first minutes of Day 1, the Senators revealed legalistic and personal aspects of a dispute concerning the chairman of the Appropriations Committee.  Senator Charlie Scott asked, “What should the rule be going forward?” He added that he

“WY is on a roll.”  All sorts of measurements are better than they have been recently, including unemployment, GDP, etc. Watch the governor’s speech on the WY PBS site. Watch>>> The video of the address also includes an address by

WY has at least 150 cold cases.  Increased attention to the horrific MMIP cases is surely a motivator for all of Wyoming’s cold cases.  “House Bill 29 will provide DCI with $150,000 from the state’s general fund to create and

In 2022, the FBI initiated a similar investigation in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. Indigenous people comprise 10% of New Mexico’s population, but only 3% of Wyoming’s.  As so often explained, “the MMIP issue crosses complicated jurisdictional lines among

The Park Co. Commission was asked to impose hand-counting of the 2024 ballots.  Currently, machines mechanically count all WY paper ballots.  SOS Gray’s office examines and approves those devices. Two reasons were given: (1) to secure elections, and (2) to

To quote Sen. Padilla, “As a nation of immigrants, we have a responsibility to make this process as easy as possible for newly naturalized citizens by actively helping them complete and return their voter registration forms.”  Jessica Jones Capparell, Director