Day 2: Interim School Facilities Committee
The Committee hears reports first, including recommendations for charter schools. Browsing the meeting materials (posted on wyoleg.gov), there is a lengthy discussion of the differences between the previous ranking system and the new one. A few schools shifted significantly. Read
Women’s Equality Day
Today is the anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, which granted some women the right to vote. However, women now have fewer rights than we have had in decades, and we are far from equal in our democracy.
1-day Interim Meeting: Select Committee on Tribal Relations
This group is meeting at the Fort Washakie Business Center. At 2:00 p.m., they will end the meeting for a Rock Art Imagery Tour. During the meeting they will discuss three draft bills and hear presentations from CWC and UW
Tax Facts, Lunch & Learn
The partners Equality State Policy Center and Wyoming Tax Facts again sponsor a lunchtime discussion. This installation includes three guests: Rep. Mike Yin (D-Teton), Casper City Council member Amber Pollock, and Jerimiah Rieman, Exec Director of the WY County Commissioners
Interim Joint Education Committee: First of 2-day meeting in Casper
Topics for the first day morning include testimony on pre-school readiness, the National Institute for Early Education Research, and the Imagination Library Program. The afternoon session focus is 3-fold: mental health for vulnerable adults, medicaid, and Charter Schools. A footnote
Lecture: Lewis Cowie, Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian
This talk will take place in the AG Auditorium and live-streamed on WYO-Cast. To obtain a free copy of Mr. Cowie's recent book, Freedom's Dilemma. The author's most recent book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance toFederal Power, won