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Welcome to Byline: WyoFile, a podcast that takes you behind the headlines of Wyoming’s most important stories.

On today’s episode, host Claire Schnatterbeck talks with education reporter Dustin Bleizeffer about how Wyoming schools are reopening this fall in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, parent and community resistance to mask requirements and low statewide vaccination rates. 

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Claire Schnatterbeck is a junior undergraduate studying political science at Columbia University and is the director of podcasting and audio at the Columbia Daily Spectator. She is a graduate of Sheridan...

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  1. Sad there is no mandate……

    Extra care needs to be taken. However, our need for FREEDOM of choice overwhelms this state. It seems one’s freedom not to wear a mask, particulaly if not vaccinated, threatens the safety and welfare of others.
    Further, this freedom has caused our hosptial cases rise and the threat to our children and elderly.

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