Ronn Smith Chair, Wyoming Rising March 3, 2021 Simply put, Medicaid is a joint federal-state health insurance program for low-income people that traditionally focused on children, pregnant women, the elderly and the disabled. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), each state was permitted the option to expand eligibility to include…
Guest Essays & Editorials
Editorial by Ronn Smith, January 2021. The last few months have strained America’s constitutional democracy, which Bill Moyers described as “our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.” Granted, Donald Trump acted within his rights by launching in scattergun fashion scores of legal challenges to the 2020…
ACTION ALERT FROM WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL NOTE: This week, the bill passed out of the Senate Corporations Committee, which means that it will be considered by the Senate and, if it passes there, the House during the 8-day virtual legislative session that kicks off on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. This…
A recent article by the editors of The Atlantic endorsed a presidential candidate for only the fourth time in the publication’s 163-year history. Two of those four endorsements have been for candidates opposing Donald Trump. The article described President Trump as “a clear and continuing danger to the United States.”…
Guest Editorial by Phyllis Roseberry Our legislative committees have been discussing big cuts to our states school and other state services. Wyoming is in dire budget straits. COVID is also spiking affecting our citizens health and ability to make a living. We cannot cut our way out of this without…
Useful information from Better Wyoming: Go to the polls with down-ballot know-how! Okay, so you know it’s important to vote in your local elections. But how do you know who to vote for? Many traditional sources of information about local candidates, like newspapers (remember those?), don’t do the job they…