162 members of the Wyoming Army National Guard’s 133rd Engineer Company took to the floor in formation at UW’s Arena Auditorium Thursday, as a crowd of well-wishers in the stands cheered them on.

The company, based in Laramie, will be deployed for Operation Enduring Freedom.  Army National Guard soldiers who represent several Wyoming communities and five other states were be honored at the ceremony. Including 14 UW students and 10 others who are either WyoTech or Wyoming community college students.

The Wyoming Army National Guard unit received federal mobilization orders for 400 days to conduct base security operations to support Operation Enduring Freedom. The unit will receive more than one month of pre-deployment training at Camp Shelby, Miss., followed by nine months in Bahrain, a small island country situated near the western shores of the Persian Gulf.

Wyoming Governor Matt Mead addressed the troops by way of a prerecorded video message, saying that he regrettably could not attend the ceremony, as he is, himself, currently returning from the Bahrain region.  Mead went on to say that he plans to meet the 133rd in Mississippi to see them off personally.

Secretary of State Max Maxfield was on hand during the ceremony.  He presented the company with a “Welcome to Wyoming” sign.  A tradition dating back to the Korean War.

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Have fun while you help raise awareness for people with disabilities at NOWCAP Services’ 9th annual Wyoming Disability Awareness Walk!

It’s coming up on Saturday, March 30th in Casper, Cheyenne, Cody, Gillette, Newcastle, Riverton, Rock Springs, Sheridan and Worland.

All walkers get a free t-shirt and teams of 10 or more receive a free banner.

Sponsored by Mountain View Regional Hospital & Clinic, Hilltop National Bank, The Craig and Susan Thomas Foundation, First Interstate Bank, Casper Star Tribune, KCWY-TV 13 and Townsquare Media.

A 21-year-old Laramie man was arrested on Saturday, February 16th, after witnesses say that he drunkenly caused extensive damage to both vehicles and property in West Laramie.

According to Circuit Court paperwork, thirteen calls were placed to 911 at just before 6:00 Saturday evening, reporting an out of control driver in the area of west Laramie.  Police arrived at the corner of W. Polk St. and N. Pierce Street to find a white 2000 Dodge Durango with significant damage, as well as extensive damage to the properties of surrounding homes.

Oscar Vargas, identified by police as a resident of Laramie, was arrested on the scene as the suspected driver of the vehicle.  According to police, Vargas at the time of his arrest was uncooperative and was screaming obscenities.

Various witnesses cited in the court paperwork claim the following:

• The white Dodge Durango was observed at the intersection of N. 3rd Street and E. Clark in Laramie, where the driver “extended the majority of his body out of the driver’s side window and began yelling at passing vehicles.”
• Witnesses then claim that the Durango continued west over the Clark Street viaduct and repeatedly swerved into oncoming traffic at “a high rate of speed.”
• The Durango continued onto Snowy Range Road.
• It was then said that the Durango attempted to pass an SUV on Snowy Range Road, collided with the SUV, forcing the SUV into on-coming traffic.  Eye-witnesses estimate the Durango’s speed at 70-90 miles an hour during the collision.
• The Durango was then said to turn onto N. Pierce street where, attempting to pass a Chevrolet Suburban, drove off the road and into the front yards of two homes, causing extensive damage.  The Durango stopped at the intersection of W. Polk and N. Pierce.

A search of the Durango by police revealed three empty 200 ml bottles of rum and and empty energy drink can.

The total value of damages estimated by investigators on scene was approximately $10,000.

A preliminary breath sample taken of Vargas at the Albany County Detention Center registered Vargas’ blood alcohol content at .127%, approximately four hours after the original accident.  Driving under the influence in the state of Wyoming is defined as having a blood alcohol content .08% or higher.

Vargas faces one count of Driving Under the Influence, one count of Reckless Driving, one count of Failure to Stop at the Scene of an Accident, one count of Failure to Maintain Liability Insurance, and one felony count of Property Damage.

Vargas is currently being held at the Albany County Detention Center on a $25,000 cash bond.

Summer cannot come soon enough.  Summer brings warm temperatures, barbecues, and of course the Beartrap Summer Festival.  The 2013 Beartrap Summer Festival is set to go off the weekend of August 3rd and 4th!

Since 1994, the Beartrap Summer Festival has descended upon the meadows of Casper Mountain every summer.   The sweet sounds of bluegrass and country captivate audiences by the thousands each year.   2013 is promising to be another stellar year for the music festival.  Top music acts, vendors, and all around fun are on the schedule for this year.  Past years have brought us great acts such as Asleep at the Wheel, Patty Loveless, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Taj Mahal Trio, Marshall Tucker Band, Steve Earl, and many more.  Clear your calender for August 3rd and 4th, because you are not going to want to miss out on the best summer music festival in Wyoming.  See you there!

Stay tuned for updates, more information and performer announcements.

Check out some photos from the 2012 Beartrap Summer Festival.

If you have planted a garden and or have a pond or water attraction built into your backyard network, then you are well aware of the fact that these items also attract the unwelcome pests like bugs and mosquitoes. The first thing people may do is expend some sort of common pesticides or pesticide poisoning. There are many, many good reasons to NOT use these chemical pesticides to rid your yard and garden of pests and bugs.

Nature has a built in pest elimination system. Wild birds and bats are natures best pest control companies to control pests. Insects play a major role in the cycle of nature, from the largest to the smallest of backyard networks. Other people may hire pest control services using pest control products which can to eternal damage to the plants, animals and even family members as well. One of the major problems chemical pesticides verses the organic pesticides is that they really don’t know when to stop destroying and killing. It’s like winding up a mechanical destroyer from a science fiction movie that has not emotion, will or decision making capacity. All it knows it “engage me and I will kill”.

With this destruction going on, what happens is that natural and beneficial insects will be destroyed, which may give rise to a more difficult pest problem, especially if you just sprayed and killed the insects natural insect predators.

Pesticide use will continue to lessen as gardeners and planters are mindful of the great benefits of natural pest control and stay away from traditional pesticide use. If you’re trying to get total elimination of your pest control problems, you never will. Chemical pesticides may dissolve the problem temporarily, however if a formerly sprayed pest returns to your neck of the woods, they may be more resistant to chemical pesticides in the future.

It’s also to keep in mind that electric bug zappers also work in the same way of the pesticides albeit different in the fact that you are not spraying, but are still eliminating a very rich resource for local birds and bats to munch on. One thing that people fail to realize is how the bug zapper works and how they fail to attract the intended targets – mosquitoes! Here’s why. Electronic bug zappers work by attracting insects that are looking for a mate at night and are attracted to light.

A mosquito on the other hand, find their nightly meal of blood from mammals by smelling the carbon monoxide that all mammals exhale. They are not attracted to light and therefore miss being killed by these bug zapping devices.

Ken “The Batman” Rudman is resident of Wyoming. He is also a writer, businessman and a promoter of bird and bat preservation, natural insect control, and a “how-to” guy to help people build up their backyard network in attracting song birds, feeders, artificial houses, facts and more. Send your questions, ideas, article requests and inquiries to Ken – The Backyard Ombudsman-  at his email address: mailto:wildlifehouses@yahoo.com

Dear Governor Romney,

With the suspension of Sen. Rick Santorum’s campaign, it now appears that you have the 2012 Republican presidential nomination sewn up. And in the current climate, that should assure you of a victory in November. Yet the wrong strategy might still result in all of your recent primary wins being rendered irrelevant by year’s end. A Republican campaign based on a flawed perception of the real nature of the electorate (a historical failing of the GOP Establishment) could secure a second term for Barack Obama where none of his empty promises or leftist theatrics would ever prevail.

You say that you do not intend to set your “hair on fire” to impress anybody. Well you should realize that something in your campaign needs to catch fire. If the enthusiasm of those desiring to rid the nation of liberal socialism were in any way matched by a passion to see your particular campaign succeed, you would win in a landslide. Grassroots America flexed its muscle in 2010, and no amount of liberal activism, even when abetted by thoroughly jaundiced “coverage” from the liberal media, can undercut the momentum of the “grassroots.”

Sadly, this phenomenon was disparaged by the very Republican “Establishment” whose political fortunes most directly benefited from it with almost the same degree of contempt as it received from liberal Democrats. You may recall who it is that comprises the GOP “Establishment”. They are the same people who brought us the candidacies of Bob Dole and John McCain, and who convinced George H.W. Bush, on the heels of his 1988 victory, to discard the tenets of Reagan and opt for a “kinder and gentler” brand of governance in place of Reagan’s staunch conservatism.

If you still cling to the notion that straddling the political middle is somehow a more enlightened approach to politicking, consider the significance of “Reagan Democrats” in the Gipper’s 1980 and 1984 landslide victories. These people were inspired to cross the political aisle by something higher, and not merely cheaper, than that offered by the Democrats. Try as you might, you will never find any evidence of “McCain Democrats” or “Dole Democrats” who were similarly motivated by fence-sitting Republicans.

More significantly however, though the nation suffered gravely from those misbegotten GOP efforts at “broadening the base,” the dismal results they reaped were nonetheless reparable. This is no longer the case. America is at a critical crossroads, and the people on Main Street fully know it. If the onslaught of socialism and Statism is not reversed immediately, the destruction of the American ideal may be permanent.

Perhaps this assessment sounds exceptionally harsh. Well it is. Barack Obama and his minions have embarked on a course that portends disaster for America, and an honest political appraisal of their goals, and the damage they have already done, will affirm as much. Softening the depiction, whether to avoid being perceived as confrontational or to appeal to the political “center,” is to be less than forthright with the American people.

Strident criticism and severe assessments of horrendously flawed political philosophies must not be reserved for the likes of Rick Santorum. If it is proper for you to characterize other Republicans, with comparatively conservative records, in that manner, should it not therefore be permissible to warn America of the looming dangers of the far-leftist ideology and seditious inclinations of Barack Obama with equal passion?

With the nation currently facing crippling deficits and a total national debt that has ballooned in recent years, the people of the Heartland have no stomach for nuanced political diatribe that decries socialism implemented by the federal government, but then struggles to defend its viability at the state level. America can forgive the transgression of Romneycare in Massachusetts, but only if we can be assured that the cancer stops there. Attempts to avoid the full repeal of Obamacare will rightly be construed as a complete betrayal of the American people every bit as egregious as the unconstitutional and unconscionable destruction of private health care in this country by the current Administration.

No less can be said of the other liberal efforts to remake America, or the malicious promises by such individuals as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to oppose the conservative agenda of any Republican President. It is not possible to maintain one’s principles and work in a conciliatory manner with such people. Their intention is to dominate the political landscape, and subsequently wield their accrued power to implement a vile and dangerous agenda. It is no virtue to accommodate them in this effort, either by collaboration or passivity.

Ultimately, you must abandon any notion of achieving “bipartisanship.” Democrats only ever resort to this platitude when pressuring our side to “cave” on important issues, or to get us to share the blame for the mess they have made. We do not want a president who can “reach across the aisle” or “find common ground” with a party whose leaders actively seek the destruction of traditional America, and whose moral compass is so perversely skewed that they consider such a goal “honorable.”

At no time in recent history has the impending threat of out-of-control liberalism posed so great a danger to the nation. Consequently, the need for a truly principled and courageous conservative leader, unswayed by a desire for acceptance from liberals in the “mainstream” media, is paramount. America does not want you to “feel our pain.” We need you to rescind those policies which are causing so much pain across the land. This cannot be accomplished by a political course rooted in “moderation.”

Finally, you need to thoroughly understand that it is not up to Barack Obama to make you look good. And though he has lately been doing a decent job of presenting you as the superior alternative, it is assured that this will change in the final days before November 6, when he will suddenly tack to the middle. At that point, your only hope is to have remained so unshakably principled, which means conservative, that he cannot believably posture to your right.

Heartland America, and particularly your staunchest conservative critics, are diligently looking for reasons to rally to you. But they will abandon such an effort if that means forsaking conservatism or ignoring the real dangers liberalism poses to this country.

So, for the sake of this nation, all of the ideals it embodies, and all of the promise it has offered, seize the opportunity now presented to you and use it, not in a futile quest to ingratiate yourself to the liberal media and “bipartisan” D. C. political establishment (if you will excuse the repetition), but to fight the good fight and bring America back from the brink.

Sincerely,

Christopher G. Adamo

A Wyoming Conservative

Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state level for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com

To identify wild birds is an art in and of itself. But with persistent practice, you will be able to identify wild birds too. The challenge of being able to identify wild birds is one of the thrills of most bird watcher’s. The art can be very overwhelming and, at times, frustrating, but there are some great tips to help you with the challenges that come with identifying birds in your backyard.

There are not only tips in wild bird identification, but also some questions that you will want to ask yourself when you come upon an unidentifiable bird in your neck of the woods.

1. Looking At A Bird.  The most important piece of advise that I could give any beginning birder, when identifying an unfamiliar bird is to look at the bird and not at the bird identification guide in your pocket. I’m not saying that you should not pack one, you should, but that shouldn’t be the first thing you flip to.  One good reason, among a few, is that by the time you get your handy, dandy bird guidebook out, the bird may be long gone, but you will still have your field guide. Get a quick impression of the bird you are trying to identify and ask yourself some questions.

• What the the most noticeable thing about this bird? How big is the bird? Three features you should notice right away are:   Appearance (color), Size and Shape.  For an example you could take the Cardinal. Right away you would see that he is read, black, medium tall with a fairly squared top head.  A general impression of the avian visitor you are observing is a great starting point in  identifying back yard birds, or any other bird for that matter.
• Bird Bills ~ Experts have taught to pay particular attention to the birds bill. Bill shape and size often indicate to which family a bird belongs. A bird family has been defined as, “Made up of bird species that are closely related and share many characteristics“.  An example of this would be the sparrow. They have short, thick bills. Mockingbirds have long, thin bills, and typically have a downward curve to them.
• Bird Wings ~ Is the back of the bird darker or lighter than the head or the belly? Are there spots, streaks? What is the pattern of the wing notches, and color of the primaries on the upper wing? Wing Bars, which are the pale tips of greater and median secondary coverts on the wing. Are the wing bars present or not?

Flight patterns are another way to identify birds in your backyard network. Some birds, such as finches and woodpeckers, rise and fall as they intersperse flapping with gliding. Their flight patterns differ from, say, birds of prey. They tend to have their own flight style. Red-tailed Hawks fly with deep, regular wing beats or soar in circles on broad wings. Whereas the Sharp-shinned Hawk gives just a few stiff flaps and then glide. Falcons fly with powerful beats of their sharply pointed wings. I think you get the idea.

Once a bird launches, you can get a feel for what kind of bird it is simply by attitude, rhythm and movement. Do they bounce, or glide? What is their approach to a feeder? Like the robin, who will bounce up to a perches verses the mockingbird who flutter’s when they come upon a perch.

The ideas of identifying birds are endless and we certainly would not be able to post them all here. I hope that some of the traits to look for when you are bird watching, will help give you some points to look for when identifying birds. Remember that you should try and identify the bird first, before breaking out your hand book. The bird may soon be gone, but your hand book will be with you for the remainder of the trip. Let us know what types of birds you have spotted in your neck of the world by contacting me at: www.wildlifehouses.com

As always, Happy Birding to you and yours from Ken – The Backyard Ombudsman!

Ken “The Batman” Rudman is resident of Wyoming. He is also a writer, businessman and a promoter of bird and bat preservation, natural insect control, and a “how-to” guy to help people build up their backyard network in attracting song birds, feeders, artificial houses, facts and more. Send your questions, ideas, article requests and inquiries to Ken – The Backyard Ombudsman-  at his email address: mailto:wildlifehouses@yahoo.com

The advocates for faith, family and freedom, WyWatch, have alerted the public that the Governor’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Tony Young, has informed them that there will only be 15 minutes of public testimony at the SBC (State Building Commission) meeting today, April 18, 2012, at 8:00 AM. Since there will be such a limited time to discuss this new policy from the floor, WyWatch wanted to inform the public and the legislators who are considering attending, as soon as possible.

WyWatch has done a preliminary scan of the proposed SBC policy changes and thought it prudent to show  the public the area of concern with the proposed policy. There are numerous areas of the proposed policy that are believed too restrictive in nature.

For instance, some of the concerns were already present with the current policy and many had hoped the new proposed policy would correct them, however the results are disappointing. The area known as the Herschler Gallery (the tunnel between the Capitol Building and the Herschler Building) is still OFF LIMITS to the public for events or displays. But it appears to not restrict Government agencies from doing so. In other words, the government may have access to lobby the legislators on specific issues or legislation but the people of Wyoming are shut out from doing so.

The proposed new policy now allows for groups of 10 people or less to spontaneously gather (as in a small prayer group) but is restricted to a 15 minute time period. Our organization sees no need for a time limit that would be difficult to enforce.

There are other highlighted sections of the policy that are of public concerning, where the 1st Amendment is concerned,  from a preliminary review of the policy. If you have concerns about any section, please write to the governor’s deputy chief of staff at tony.young@wyo.gov and share your comments. Or attend the meeting this morning at 8:00 am, in the basement of the Herschler Building, room B-63. You may also contact WyWatch for more information at http://www.wywatch.org/

If you are able, please attend the meeting on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 at 8:00 AM in the basement of the Herschler building in room B63 and stand for FREEDOM in Wyoming.
Let’s make sure the Governor and the other elected officials who serve on the SBC “get it right” this time and allow Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and the Right to Peaceably Assemble in the great state of Wyoming.

by Chris Adamo

James O’Keefe has struck again. And once more, he deserves a medal for his heroic operation. In 2009, he and an accomplice, Hannah Giles, laid bare the rampant criminal activities being perpetrated nationwide by ACORN, the subversive network of leftist activists whose seditious political work had previously remained largely under the radar. As a result of that exposure, ACORN was forced to officially disband and reorganize, though its activity is ongoing.

This time, O’Keefe spotlighted the epidemic of deliberate vote fraud that liberals have promoted throughout the country in recent years, and which portends the destruction of its foundations if not soon confronted and corrected. And though O’Keefe did not take his sting operation directly to the Department of Justice, by making his case so profoundly, he essentially put the nation’s highest law enforcement office on notice that it will be held accountable for its action, and perhaps more so for its inaction when presented with such incontrovertible evidence of rampant criminal malfeasance at the voting booth.

By now the account of O’Keefe’s stunning maneuver has been widely retold. In short, he went to the very polling place where Eric Holder (Barack Obama’s Attorney General) would vote, and proved that current voter identification and verification practices are so inadequate as to permit O’Keefe to accept a ballot and vote in Holder’s name, had he a mind to do so. This is particularly incriminating since it is Holder who has done more than any other high official to purposefully undermine the voting process in this country.

Beginning with his contemptible decision to ignore the flagrant acts of voter intimidation perpetrated by members of the “New Black Panther” organization in Philadelphia in 2009, Holder has an unbroken track record of choosing to overlook criminal behavior based not on the real substance of the law or the nature of any breaches, but on whether or not the liberal agenda will be served or harmed by a strenuous legal response.

J. Christian Adams, formerly an attorney at the Voting Rights Section of the Department of Justice, eventually left his position and wrote an expose on the racial motivations which completely poisoned the department on Holder’s watch. In his book, he grimly warned America that the end result of this violation of trust, if not appropriately addressed, would be “lawlessness.”

In like manner, O’Keefe rendered proof positive that organized hordes of illegal “voters” can significantly skew the results of elections throughout the nation, just by claiming the identities of registered voters in those particular districts. And to nobody’s real surprise, Eric Holder is the most vigorous champion of maintaining the present system just as it is, while seeking to disparage and discredit O’Keefe.

Amazingly, Holder can apparently remain totally oblivious to flagrant crime if it serves his interests, while summoning an uncanny ability to concoct misdeeds where none have occurred. For just as resolutely as he refused to concede perpetration of crimes by the New Black Panthers, he fiercely pursues the ostensible possibility of “voter intimidation” elsewhere in the nation, absent any credible accusations from disenfranchised voters, but instead based on the premise that merely requiring legitimate identification might result in such.

So while the “Justice” Department cannot bring itself to protect white voters, who were criminally prevented from voting in Philadelphia, it is in hot pursuit of those “lawbreakers” in the state governments of Texas and South Carolina who want proper identification from would-be voters in their jurisdictions. In truth Holder is not bothered by the illegal activities of “New Black Panthers” since they do not threaten the advance of liberalism, but efforts to keep the polling places honest and upright clearly endanger the aspirations of the political left.

What could possibly be the motivation of the Justice Department in such circumstances, other than to insidiously seize control of the ballot box, and thereby predetermine the outcome of the nation’s elections? Or perhaps more accurately, can any other reasonable explanation be offered in defense of this flagrantly biased and ideologically driven course of action?

Meanwhile, it is necessary to recall Holder’s other malignant attack on state sovereignty, and the very ability of states to maintain their integrity. In April of 2010, Arizona passed a law requiring the verification of identification of individuals caught in crimes who might possibly be illegal aliens. Of course, this resulted in an incredible outcry from every subversive group seeking the eradication of America’s borders. Before the law could take effect, Holder led the charge to have it overturned. Most incredibly, his premise was that Arizona’s effort to reduce the flood of illegals infringed on the jurisdiction of the federal government which, of course, would do nothing to improve the situation.

Since that time, Holder has taken similar action against Alabama, where a comparable measure was signed into law in 2011. Again, the DOJ premise is that states cannot interfere in a matter that it claims to be under federal authority. And in keeping with the betrayal of Arizona, Holder’s Department is unwilling to lift a finger to alleviate the influx of illegals into Alabama.

After Barack Obama exposed the nation to the ugly realities of liberalism in 2009 and 2010, Democrat political fortunes tanked, culminating in the rout of the Democrat controlled Congress in 2010. Since then, Barack Obama’s approval ratings have plummeted, and prospects for a rally are looking increasingly bleak. With the jobs market continuing to languish, energy costs skyrocketing, and America’s standing in the world dropping to historically low levels, it seems increasingly unlikely that an open and honest election will benefit the liberals. So of course they are looking for ways to affect the ballot box through stealthy and dishonest tactics. And as abhorrent as this prospect may be, it is far worse that an election victory gained in such a manner would mark the end of any possibility that real America could ever again triumph through legal and peaceable means.

Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state level for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com

If you haven’t done so already, NOW is a good time to get your bird houses set up and put out. The best way to get birds to inhabit your artificial cavities is to have them out before breeding season begins which should be right around late summer or early fall. This will give your local and native wild birds plenty of time to locate the houses, as it may take some time to do so. The time frame you set them out should be more than enough to allow the houses to be well-weathered by the time the birds occupy. If you want to provide a safe haven for annual migratory birds, then it would be a good idea to keep the bird houses up all year around for them to have a “rest area” of sorts, or a place to hang their hat while on their journey. After the nesting season, you can take them down for cleaning and then put them back up again.

There are instances that birds will not begin nesting immediately as it takes time for birds to find a birdhouse. If it is impossible to set-up birdhouses by fall, they should be in place as early as possible in the winter. Bird watchers should not wait to see birds in their yards before mounting or hanging their nest boxes.

As discussed in earlier posts, location of the birdhouse is just as important in attracting certain kinds of birds as the size of the box. For instance, Purple Martins are very particular about the size of the box, the hole, the height, etc.  Birds, depending on the species,  may prefer wooded to shady area or open grassy areas. (For more information on what the local birds in your neck of the woods prefer, visit: http://tinyurl.com/6w3hdqp

However, dense shade is not recommended, as most wild birds prefer a sunny open space. It is not advisable to mount birdhouses on the sides of trees as this can give squirrels and cats easy access to it.

The last thing you want to do is to put up your birdhouses and artificial cavities in the Spring, as it just may be too late and you’ll miss out on enjoying the inhabitation and activies of joy that your native birds bring as they occupy your bird house. Happy Birding!

Ken “The Batman” Rudman is resident of Wyoming. He is also a writer, businessman and a promoter of bird and bat preservation, natural insect control, and a “how-to” guy to help people build up their backyard network in attracting song birds, feeders, artificial houses, facts and more. Send your questions, ideas, article requests and inquiries to Ken  at his email address: mailto:wildlifehouses@yahoo.com

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Photos from DC and NYC Sunday night and early Monday morning after news of Osama bin Laden’s death.

Here are a few photos we snapped Saturday evening. See how much you’re missing? And of course, there’s no admission charge.

The Wyoming House made changes to House Bill 35 Monday, which would have imposed criminal penalties on state and federal workers who implemented any parts the Federal Affordable Care Act in the state. The House and Senate also debated education issues. Click past the jump to listen to the Legislative Report.