Nineteen citizens gathered at Senator Enzi’s office in Cody on Monday, February 6, to deliver a petition asking the Senator to oppose the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. Members of our organization did a beautiful job, drafting the petition during our organizational meeting on Saturday and gathering 95 signatures by Monday. The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Betsy DeVos as Education secretary by the…
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77 (seventy-seven!) people met at the Cody Public Library on February 4 to organize and unite around our most important priorities: education, environment, civil liberties, healthcare and reproductive rights, community outreach, and a government watch group. The small groups are going to meet and discuss urgent issues and priorities for action. Those issues and actions will be passed to the larger group via our website….
Guns in Schools public discussion at School Board meeting on Oct. 17 at 5:30. Thank you to all who attended the work session last week. It was a polite group and we all heard many comments by the School Board members that should be addressed at the regular board meeting on October 17. Below is the link to the “sample policy” the Park County School…
On January 28, over 40 members of our community met at the Cody Library to discuss our concerns and hopes for moving forward. We had a very productive discussion and have decided that we will organize a formal group. It was a very positive session – a listening session. We are all on the same page and there were many many good ideas brought forward….
Sharing with permission from an Environmental Protection Agency staffer. “So I work at the EPA and yeah it’s as bad as you are hearing: The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can’t be updated. All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released. No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to…