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Wyoming's 2024 Candidates | WyoFile 2024 Election Guide
6 days ago · Welcome to WyoFile's guide to the 2024 election. This guide aims to help voters inform themselves before heading to the polls. Every federal and state legislative candidate was sent a questionnaire crafted by WyoFile reporters and editors about the key issues facing Wyoming. The candidates' responses, or lack thereof, …
Wyoming Supreme Court rejects abortion ban constitutionality
Apr 9, 2024 · Owens has yet to decide on those motions for summary judgment. Instead, she asked the Wyoming Supreme Court last month to rule on more than a dozen questions pertaining to the constitutionality of the bans. Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Kate M. Fox (Mike Vanata/WyoFile) In the high court’s response, Chief Justice Kate M. Fox directed Owens to rule on the pending summary judgment ...
Gordon signs property tax relief package into law - WyoFile
Mar 22, 2024 · But not all property tax bills found favor with the governor. Senate File 54 – Homeowner tax exemption would have applied a 25% exemption to the first $2 million of a home’s fair market value. The governor, however, vetoed the bill since it “would have only provided a temporary and very expensive tax exemption to all Wyoming homeowners at the expense of other taxpayers in our energy ...
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Mike Koshmrl, Author at WyoFile
Mike Koshmrl reports on Wyoming's wildlife and natural resources. Prior to joining WyoFile, he spent nearly a decade covering the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s wild places and creatures for the Jackson Hole News&Guide.
Wyoming likely no longer home to nation’s highest suicide rate
Sep 5, 2023 · All three states recorded rates above 30 the year before. “Preliminarily, I would say that those numbers make me want to jump for joy,” said Andi Summerville, executive director of the Wyoming Association of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Centers.
Wildfire burns 163,000 acres in northern Wyoming, forcing
Aug 22, 2024 · The House Draw Fire burning in northern Wyoming grew to more than 163,000 acres on Thursday — nearly the combined size of Denver and Salt Lake City — threatening structures, prompting evacuation orders and forcing the closure of Interstate 90.
Not all ‘election integrity’ cases are treated equally by Gray
Aug 28, 2024 · The mailer’s backers, in defending the Trump vote accusation, cited a budget bill footnote, which didn’t make it through the budget process, that would have prevented the secretary of state from intervening in any out-of-state litigation that didn’t name himself, his office or the state as a party to the suit.
Report: Wyoming needs more affordable housing, but challenges …
Mar 19, 2024 · “There’s a current need for almost 50,000 homes or some types of modifications,” he emphasized. That’s because more than 50,000 Wyoming households at or below 100% area median income are overcrowded, lack adequate facilities or plumbing or cost more than local workers can comfortably afford, Hoversland said.. Additionally, Wyoming will need a larger, more diverse housing stock for the ...