Cheyenne News Staff
Governor Mead Cuts Proposed Budget [AUDIO]
Governor Matt Mead is proposing cuts to the state budget proposal he submitted to state legislators in December. Doug Randall reports. The U. S. Department of Agriculture Friday announced a proposed rule that would modernize the country’s poultry slaughter inspection system by shifting toward a more prevention-oriented format. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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U.W. Officials Want Tuition Rates for Two Year Period [AUDIO]
University of Wyoming officials plan to ask trustees in march to approve tuition rates for a two year period. The greater sage grouse and Wyoming pocket gopher made the list of wildlife most at risk in the country, because of oil and gas development. Deborah Smith, with Wyoming News Service, reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Rocky Mountain Power Hires Rita Meyer
Rocky Mountain Power has hired former State Auditor Rita Meyer to serve as the electric utility’s Vice President for Wyoming. Doug Randall reports. The Wyoming Attorney General’s office is asking a federal judge to deny an WY-Watch’s request to allow the group to display its anti-abortion materials in a walkway leading to the state Capitol during next month’s legislative session. Click past the j
Wyoming Lawmaker Questions UW Pay Raise Request [AUDIO]
The co-chairman of the Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee questioned University of Wyoming officials about their budget request for pay raises. Doug Randall reports. Congresswomen Cynthia Lummis says she is extremely disappointed with the President’s decision to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline permit, but she says Congress might take action on the matter.
EPA Seeking Peer Review Panel For Pavillion Report [AUDIO]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking nominees to take a close look at an EPA draft report that theorizes a link between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater pollution in a Wyoming gas field. Wyoming is near the bottom of the list in a new report from Good Jobs First. The report grades each state on how well they enforce requirements related to subsidies given to businesses for job
Lummis: Congress Will Have to Rethink SOPA [AUDIO]
Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) says lawmakers received a lot of push back on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The Carbon County Commission has approved resolutions supporting a Texas company’s plan to issue $545 million in bonds to help fund construction of a planned $2 billion dollar coal to gasoline plant. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News
Wyoming Building Commission Bans Displays in Tunnel [AUDIO]
Doug Randall reports that public displays and demonstrations will no longer be permitted in the underground tunnel between the Herschler Building and the Wyoming State Capitol building. A series of meetings will be held next week to discuss a Health Benefit Exchange for the state. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Two Student Censorship Cases [AUDIO]
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear a pair of cases on whether schools may censor students who are at home when they create online attacks against school officials and other students. A Wyoming legislative panel has advanced an education reform bill. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Walk in Cheyenne [AUDIO]
Students, teachers, military personnel and state and local officials participated in the 30th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March held in Cheyenne. Preservationists hope to win state recognition for the Officers Club at the former prisoner of war camp in Douglas, Wyoming. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Wyoming Game & Fish Wants To Bait Big Game [AUDIO]
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Joan Evans, Director of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, says the merger of Workforce Services with the Department of Employment has been a good move so far. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is pushing to allow baiting of big game animals to allow hunters to lure deer herds away from towns. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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