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A bill to protect the Wyoming Range from new energy development should finally get a hearing on the Senate floor next month, the Senate majority leader announced this week.
CHEYENNE - The last time a Democrat represented Wyoming in the U.S. Senate, Apple Computer was just being incorporated and the state of Utah executed Gary Gilmore by firing squad.
Gay marriage benefits So Sue Perry doesn’t get the benefits of gay marriage (Letters, Sept. 19)? She obviously has never been a part of minority discrimination. She has never felt the stigma of being misunderstood and hated by many or watched loved ones being bashed and hung up on Wyoming fences and left to die. Society continues to teach people that we are evil sinners and should be ...
CASPER - The nation's economic and energy woes took center stage in debates Sunday between candidates for Wyoming's two U.S. Senate seats in Casper.
PIERRE - South Dakota's campaign-disclosure system suffers from a lack of online filing and searchable databases, says a grading group that ranked the state among the worst in the nation. South Dakota ranked above only Alabama and Wyoming in the annual "Grading State Disclosure," a collaboration of the Center for Governmental Studies, the UCLA School of Law and the California Voter Foundation. ...
Voters could send Republican Cynthia Lummis to the U.S. House because of her experience in Wyoming government and conservative credentials, she said.
The nation's economic and energy woes took center stage in debates between candidates for Wyoming's two U.S. Senate seats in Casper. Incumbent Republican John Barrasso and Democratic challenger Nick Carter disagreed on the $700 billion bailout package that Congress recently passed.
WASHINGTON - Here's how area members of Congress voted on recent major roll calls.
LARAMIE -- Three University of Wyoming history and political science professors agree that the 2008 presidential election campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain has been, at least, "unusual."
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, Charlotte (N.C.) Mayor Pat McCrory, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas The 2008 election has been an embarrassment of riches for political junkies. The presidential race has been...
The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a bill Monday that would have given the Secretary of the Treasury up to $700 billion to rescue the U.S. financial system.