Wyoming Politics Information Directory

Guest Column: Wyoming. Western Politics: “Cowboy Ethics” an Official Wyoming Law? What does it mean to legislate a moral code? In the Rocky Mountain Wild West, it's an official question. By Matthew Taylor, Guest Writer, 3-09-10 ...

Of course, Green's family is only one of many Wyoming clans that has had a strong showing in politics: just ask the Simpsons, Hansens/Meads, or the Zwonitzers, among others. It can be easy to pick out family ties in Wyoming politics, ...

Politics - Wyoming Style. We co-hosted a little party the other night for WWF members and other conservationists from Laramie County, to help them meet and talk with their legislators about some of the issues coming up in the Budget ...

During the conference, official heaped oodles of praise on Wyoming's sage grouse protection plan. The plan designated sage grouse “core areas,” zones in which a lot of grouse hang out, or breed, or have their leks. ... That nervousness will tend to make the energy industry a little less bold about exercising political muscle, out of fear that if they push too hard and fast for development, it could trigger a formal listing. As for West Nile virus, spilling a gajillion ...

Under genuine public outcry aimed at an unresponsive government, will Wyoming Legislators persist in playing politics as usual?

In February, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the likely Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kit Bond, released a statement strongly criticizing the Obama administration's proposed budget. She called it ...

WASHINGTON - Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that ...

Skipping through the Candy Land of the health-care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." What a deal. For dealmakers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that the ...

Voters in Luzerne County will have other choices to make in May, too, including U.S. Senate, House, state Senate, governor and lieutenant governor offices. But when it comes to selecting their party’s candidate for state House races in the November ...

Wouldn't it be great for our state to mine our coal like Wyoming does? I think we should ship it to Las Vegas and California by rail and let them burn it as they like for their power needs. They can charge what they like and we will make an income ...

WASHINGTON - Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that ...

Since the Senate passed its version of a health overhaul on Christmas Eve, most of the debate has focused on the politics of the effort. By now, many people have forgotten — if they ever knew — what the bill would actually do. So here's a short ...

CHEYENNE -- Wind energy rights, food freedom and poker are three interim studies approved by legislative leaders last week. The management council, the administrative arm of the Legislature which consists of legislative leaders, approves studies at ...

On Monday afternoon, a controversial Utah bill that charges pregnant women and girls with murder for having miscarriages caused by "intentional or knowing" acts, was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert. Contrary to media reports last week, the ...

It's like giving a kid an ice cream cone without the ice cream or birthday cake without the icing ... Unfortunately, the politics of PIAA basketball at all levels isn't fair to the kids sometimes,'' Joseph said. "That's always first and foremost what ...