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Mead aligns with House on education budget
Gov. Matt Mead supports smaller cuts, spending from savings, and diverting investment income to fund public schools, he told WyoFile Monday. “We have to fund education. It’s part and parcel of just...
View ArticleBudget negotiations move behind closed doors
Negotiations on the state’s budget and education funding have boiled down to disagreement between the Speaker of the House and the Senate President, who have been meeting with Gov. Matt Mead in an...
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House and Senate leaders reach budget compromise
A conference committee negotiating deep differences between the House and Senate’s budget plans cut an unusual deal Thursday by proposing to give each plan one year to work in the coming biennium. The...
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House and Senate cut budget deal
The House and Senate cut an unusual budget deal last week when they agreed to give each chamber’s plan one year to work in the coming biennium. After nearly three full working days without a public...
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Eleventh-hour negotiations on two key bills fall short
Negotiators failed to complete two key bills on Saturday night, meaning lawmakers will return to Cheyenne on Wednesday to seal compromises on education cuts and state construction. Final versions of...
View ArticleLawmakers fail to override Mead’s veto of “critical infrastructure” bill
Lawmakers on Thursday failed to override Gov. Matt Mead’s veto of a controversial bill that sought to prevent a Wyoming version of the Standing Rock pipeline protests by criminalizing impeding...
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Legislature ends session with education cuts, again
Wyoming’s House of Representatives saved the state’s public schools this year by blocking Senate proposals to slash school funding, according to Speaker of the House Steve Harshman. But just like last...
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Mead ‘deliberate’ with vetoes to check legislative overreach
Gov. Matt Mead has used his veto to check legislative overreach and to strike down poorly written laws, he said Monday. Mead described his vetoes during the 2018 legislative session — the last he’ll...
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Did Steve Harshman save public schools or mortgage their future?
On February 22 a group of Torrington’s Trail Elementary School students visited the Wyoming Legislature. Schoolchildren from around the state frequented the House and Senate galleries throughout the...
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Protest bill rises from grave after House rules fight
UPDATE: Senate File 74 – Critical infrastructure protection was approved for debate on the House floor Tuesday morning in a meeting of the House Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee....
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Mead aligns with House on education budget
Gov. Matt Mead supports smaller cuts, spending from savings, and diverting investment income to fund public schools, he told WyoFile Monday. “We have to fund education. It’s part and parcel of just...
View ArticleBudget negotiations move behind closed doors
Negotiations on the state’s budget and education funding have boiled down to disagreement between the Speaker of the House and the Senate President, who have been meeting with Gov. Matt Mead in an...
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House and Senate leaders reach budget compromise
A conference committee negotiating deep differences between the House and Senate’s budget plans cut an unusual deal Thursday by proposing to give each plan one year to work in the coming biennium. The...
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House and Senate cut budget deal
The House and Senate cut an unusual budget deal last week when they agreed to give each chamber’s plan one year to work in the coming biennium. After nearly three full working days without a public...
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Eleventh-hour negotiations on two key bills fall short
Negotiators failed to complete two key bills on Saturday night, meaning lawmakers will return to Cheyenne on Wednesday to seal compromises on education cuts and state construction. Final versions of...
View ArticleLawmakers fail to override Mead’s veto of “critical infrastructure” bill
Lawmakers on Thursday failed to override Gov. Matt Mead’s veto of a controversial bill that sought to prevent a Wyoming version of the Standing Rock pipeline protests by criminalizing impeding...
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Legislature ends session with education cuts, again
Wyoming’s House of Representatives saved the state’s public schools this year by blocking Senate proposals to slash school funding, according to Speaker of the House Steve Harshman. But just like last...
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Mead ‘deliberate’ with vetoes to check legislative overreach
Gov. Matt Mead has used his veto to check legislative overreach and to strike down poorly written laws, he said Monday. Mead described his vetoes during the 2018 legislative session — the last he’ll...
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Did Steve Harshman save public schools or mortgage their future?
On February 22 a group of Torrington’s Trail Elementary School students visited the Wyoming Legislature. Schoolchildren from around the state frequented the House and Senate galleries throughout the...
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Zinke clips state BLM conservation power, draws Wyoming ire
Wyoming residents, including Republican county commissioners, are contesting a proposal to lease thousands of acres of key wildlife habitat for oil and gas development under Interior Secretary Ryan...
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