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.

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