Doug Randall
Doug is Assistant News Director for Townsquare Media/Cheyenne
Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi says a "listening session" he held Tuesday afternoon at the Laramie County Public Library gave him a lot to think about.
The state's senior senator says by his count 43 different topics were discussed, including one person who hit 12 different issues, which Enzi says he only counted as one of the 43
Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen doesn't support a proposal in the state legislature to ban local governments in the state from passing their own laws on firearms.
"That disturbs me, to be honest with you", the mayor says, adding that he is especially concerned about what he calls ''a blanket statement across the state" about allowing guns in city meetings
Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says he and the city council have already completed the first round of work on a budget for fiscal year 2014, which gets underway July 1 of this year.
Kaysen says the city got good news when the legislature recently approved $20 million in funding for city and county governments across Wyoming
Officials with Cheyenne Regional Medical Center say work on the hospital's new cancer center is right on schedule.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Foundation Executive Director Steve Stone says the mild winter weather that has been prevalent recently has been helpful because it has allowed construction to continue at a brisk pace through the winter months
City of Cheyenne Forester Lisa Olson says there has been a problem recently in the area with people going door to door offering to do tree maintenance work without the proper licensing.
She says city codes require anyone performing such work to have a business license and proof of insurance before performing such work