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April 27, 2010

First Amendment: “A Document for All Seasons.”

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UPDATE: 4:30pm (MT), 4/30/10

Casper–”To be a free people, we must have the courage to exercise our constitutional rights,” Chief Wyoming US District Judge William F. Downes said at the conclusion of his oral ruling this week ordering the University of Wyoming to let former Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers speak on campus. “To be a prudent people, we have to protect the rights of others, recognizing that that is the best guarantor of our own rights.”

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March 16, 2010

Gov Dave’s Long Goodbye Poses Problems for Wyoming Democrats

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Laramie–The decision by Governor Dave Freudenthal not to seek a third term has dramatically changed the contest for the state’s chief executive.  The Cheyenne Tribune-Eagle reported the three announced Republican candidates saying “Freudenthal’s departure from the gubernatorial race does not affect their campaigns.”  Yet the governor was the 800-pound gorilla in the room.  His exit [...]

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March 16, 2010

In Conservative Idaho Democrat Allred A Surprise Candidate

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“A big surprise”: That was the Idaho Statesman’s headline last December, when Keith Allred announced his candidacy for Idaho governor –– running as a Democrat in one of the most solidly Republican states in the country. A decade ago, Allred, a fifth-generation Idahoan educated at Brown, Stanford and UCLA, was a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy [...]

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February 12, 2010

Blogging Cheyenne: Blogs on the Legislative Budget Session

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…a number of journalists, state politicians, policy wonks, environmental activists and political party henchmen are blogging the 2010 Budget Session of the Wyoming Legislature now in full swing in Cheyenne.

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January 22, 2010

Will He, Won’t He? Question Looms Over 2010 Gov Race

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The 2010 Wyoming governor’s race is difficult to handicap. The main uncertainty is whether two-term Gov. Dave Freudenthal will challenge the state law for term limits which prevents him from running for a third term.

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December 14, 2009

Tom Stroock Dies: Wyoming Leader and Iconoclast

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He was an easterner who took Wyoming as his home, or as he might have said in his fluent Spanish, his querencia, the place in the ring where the bull makes its final stand. He was an oilman who championed the environment; a Republican state senator who crusaded for Wyoming to get more for her mineral resources; a diplomat who confronted dictators and his own government; a World War II marine who opposed the 2002 invasion of Iraq. He helped launch Dick Cheney’s career, but bitterly opposed vice president Cheney’s support of torture of suspected terrorists.

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September 16, 2009

Feds Gone Wild, Part III: RIP, RIK? New Bill Would Kill Industry’s Darling

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For more than a decade, West Virginia Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall watched powerlessly as the Bush administration and a Republican Congressional majority made Royalty in Kind the main method of collecting oil and gas royalties on federal lands.

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September 1, 2009

Feds Gone Wild Part II: A True Story

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When President Bill Clinton signed the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and Fairness Act of 1996 into law in Jackson Hole, his Washington, D.C.-based Minerals Management Service director, Cynthia Quarterman, came out to attend the August ceremony.

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September 1, 2009

Feds Gone Wild

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On a cold, blustery January 28, 2009, the newly appointed Secretary of the Interior of the United States, Ken Salazar, arrived at the headquarters of Minerals Management Service at the Federal Center in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colorado.

With him were two men: Interior’s Inspector General Earl Devaney, a former Secret Service agent and police officer, and Salazar’s chief of staff Tom Strickland, the former U.S. attorney for Colorado.

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July 15, 2009

Wyoming News Reader

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NEW: For the best, hand-picked, eclectic selection of current news about Wyoming from newspapers, magazines and websites…

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June 22, 2009

GUEST COLUMN: Bring Severance Tax Rates Into State Budget Discussions

Bring Severance Tax Rates Into State Budget Discussions
Hikes should be part of an overall review of revenues and tax investments
By Dan Neal and Sarah Gorin
No more Centennial Singers?
No more Geology Museum, in a state famed for its geology and, more to the point, its energy resources?
As the boom slides toward the bust, it’s appropriate and [...]

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May 19, 2009

Teton County Tops Party Leaderships, Petersen Heads Dems, Vaughan GOP

When it comes to running for statewide office in Wyoming, hailing from tony Teton County can be a voter turnoff.
Just ask Jackson Hole Democrat Gary Trauner, who was crushed by Cheyenne Republican Cynthia Lummis in the fall race for the state’s sole U.S. House seat.
But if you are looking to lead a Wyoming political party [...]

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April 20, 2009

Is Sweetwater County Getting Shafted? Report Urges Wyoming Tax Reforms

An extensive report by Headwaters Economics, an independent regional research organization, recommends that Wyoming follow Alaska’s example to revamp its severance tax formula and direct additional tax revenue to the counties and communities where most mineral extraction takes place.
“Some have argued persuasively that Wyoming ought to compare its tax structure not to its peers in [...]

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March 16, 2009

Wyoming Legislature: Of Leaf -Cutter Bees and Helium Tax, Small Issues Embraced, Big Ones Avoided

Cheyenne — In a lengthy and multifaceted session, Wyoming’s 60th legislature dealt with storage of carbon gases from energy production, ignition interlocks that require convicted drunks to test for alcohol before they drive, long-term financing for the weather supercomputer to be constructed in …
Wait, WAIT! – stay with me, please — I know you don’t [...]

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February 23, 2009

Editorial: WyoFile Calls for Reform of Severance Tax

Get Involved! Ask Your Lawmaker for Change Here!
Wyoming has not raised its basic severance tax for oil, gas, and coal for 28 years.
WyoFile would like to see that change.
Right now, Wyoming seems to be pretending that the energy world of 2009 is the same as the energy world of 1981. It’s not.
The era of cheap [...]

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June 16, 2008

Winslow Friday’s Eagle

Wind River Sun Dance and Religious Freedom
Laramie – For centuries, the Northern Arapaho Tribe has conducted the Sun Dance, of which the centerpiece is the offering of an eagle to the Creator. Dancers, wearing eagle feathers, chant and blow whistles made from eagle wing bones. The eagle’s tail is placed at the top of a [...]

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