Kerry Drake

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Senators should reconsider immigration reform

June 18, 2013

Sens Enzi and Barrasso were among 15 GOP senators who voted against debate of bipartisan immigration reform, a measure that a majority of Wyomingites support.

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Show some trust of Wyoming’s workers

June 11, 2013

With no data to back up the claims, Wyoming lawmakers are convinced that workers are bilking workers comp and unemployment programs.

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In this case, the feds really are our enemy

June 4, 2013

Dying of cancer, Tina Moyer never had a chance to collect her social security benefits because of a waiting period. Her husband is now seeking …

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No reason yet to celebrate Boy Scouts’ vote

May 28, 2013

Discrimination is discrimination; as long as gays and lesbians aren’t treated the same as straight men and women, we shouldn’t celebrate the Boy Scouts’ vote.

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How much does it cost Wyoming to hate Obama?

May 21, 2013

Refusing to hand Obama a success, Wyoming leaders refused to extend unemployment benefits, run our own health exchange, or expand help for sick, poor people.

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Saving mineral funds is an uphill battle for Wyoming

May 14, 2013

How successful can Wyoming’s partisan Senate delegation be when the federal government has shown an increasing willingness to take away mineral funds?

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Voter ID bill needs to go away for good

May 7, 2013

Wyoming lawmakers will study voter ID legislation, but an honest look should tell them it’s a solution in search of a problem.

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Lawmakers go overboard defending ‘Hill Bill’

April 30, 2013

Legislative leaders may have had justifiable reasons to weaken Superintendent Cindy Hill’s powers, but they should have made them more coherent.

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Wyoming already has some homeless solutions

April 23, 2013

Wyoming has a poor record of caring for its homeless, but we don’t have to re-invent the wheel to improve on solutions.

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If GOP wants gun debate, why did they try to kill it?

April 16, 2013

Wyoming Sens. John Barrasso and Mike Enzi don’t seem too confident that their opposition to gun control legislation will prevail in the Senate.

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Lies about health care reform are coming home to roost

April 9, 2013

No one is completely satisfied with the Affordable Care Act, nor should they be, but the law is having positive impacts for Wyoming health care.

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Let communities decide on smoking laws, instead of state

April 2, 2013

With so many different attitudes about smoking in Wyoming communities, the state should leave proposed smoking bans in the hands of local voters.

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Liz Cheney can win in Wyoming, but she has hurdles in her way

March 26, 2013

Liz Cheney definitely looks like a U.S. Senate candidate from Wyoming, but Mike Enzi may not be going anywhere, leaving her political future uncertain.

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Welcome to Wyoming. Now Shut Up.

March 19, 2013

Being a multi-generational Wyomingite doesn’t give anyone an innate sense of ability to determine what’s right for the state.

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It’s time for Casper to aid Poverty Resistance

March 12, 2013

The manager of an anti-poverty program in Casper is paying the price for the city’s failure to address its homeless problem.

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Why is the GOP so willing to throw people out of work?

March 5, 2013

Sen. John Barrasso says the president is trying to scare Americans about sequester cuts, but it’s the GOP’s plan we should fear.

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Wyoming’s senators choose politics over protecting women

Commentary by Kerry Drake February 26, 2013 February 26, 2013

The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is essential to combating crime on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

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The latest in Wyoming’s long line of anti-labor legislation

Commentary by Kerry Drake February 19, 2013 February 19, 2013

Kerry Drake writes that legislation proposed by state representatives is aggressively anti-labor, but the lack of collected outrage isn’t surprising.

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So where is that Wyoming health care solution?

Commentary by Kerry Drake February 12, 2013 February 12, 2013

Facts and common sense fly out the window when some conservative Wyoming politicians are determined to show how much they distrust the government.

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Hill’s campaign should have worried voters

Commentary by Kerry Drake February 5, 2013 February 5, 2013

All of the signs of the impending train wreck that has been Cindy Hill’s tenure as Wyoming’s education chief were visible during her 2010 campaign.