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More Cuts To Wyoming Game & Fish?

Associated Press — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:00:22 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director Scott Talbott says the agency faces another round of budget cuts unless lawmakers increase its funding.

Talbott told a legislative committee Wednesday that the agency will have to slash $1

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Budget Cuts Border Security, Immigrant Detention

Associated Press — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:46:08 +0000

PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been released by the Obama administration due to budget pressures. Officials have also scaled back border agent hours, drug patrols and staffing at border crossings — all during the peak illegal border-crossing season

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Budget Cuts Hurt Trade Policy, Official Says

Associated Press — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:46:53 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The administration's top trade official says budget cuts are making it more difficult to negotiate new trade deals and enforce existing ones.

Demetrios Marantis, the acting U

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Budget Cuts Could Hit Needy College Students

Associated Press — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:52:12 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of universities and college professionals is asserting the automatic budget cuts could end up costing some students hundreds of dollars a year.

The 77-member Student Aid Alliance says the cost could total as much as $876 a year in new fees, fewer work-study hours and reduced grants for students receiving federal aid

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Obama, Top Lawmakers To Meet Friday On Budget Cuts

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:10:32 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will meet Friday with congressional leaders to discuss what to do about $85 billion in mandatory spending cuts.

The top Democrat and Republican in both the House and Senate will attend

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Panetta: Defense Budget Cuts Will Damage Economy

Associated Press — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:29:30 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is laying out a grim list of spending cuts the Pentagon will have to make in the coming weeks that he says will seriously damage the country's economy and degrade the military's ability to respond to a crisis

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Some In Jackson Upset About Proposed Tourism Cut

Associated Press — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:10:20 +0000

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Some business owners and tourism officials in Jackson are worried about a proposal to cut more than $1 million from the state's tourism budget.

Business owner Stephen Price the Associated Press that the governor's proposed cut could affect the number of people visiting Jackson Hole and, ultimately, how many people are employed in tourism-related businesses

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Education Secretary Urges Balanced Budget Cuts

Associated Press — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:47:01 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is urging Congress to avoid across-the-board cuts that he says would harm the Education Department's ability to provide for the neediest students in the next school year

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Wyo. Agency For Families May Cut Services, Staff

Associated Press — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:34:54 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Department of Family Services may cut 30 positions and $8 million in the coming two-year budget period.

The Associated Press reports that the cuts would leave the DFS with 749 employee slots

The agency proposed the cuts to meet Gov

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UW Trustees Could Be Looking At 8 Percent Cuts

Associated Press — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:57:21 +0000

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees is scheduled to hear a presentation on possible budget cuts for next year.

Falling energy revenues prompted Gov. Matt Mead to order state agencies to prepare for 8-percent budget cuts in the fiscal year that starts July 2013

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Governor Asks Wyoming Agencies To Prepare For 8% Cuts [AUDIO]

Brian Scott — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:05:45 +0000

In the State Budget the Legislature and Governor Mead directed state agencies to prepare cuts to their budgets of 4% for fiscal year 2014, but with natural gas prices moving still lower Governor Mead has now asked them to be ready with proposed 8% reductions.
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Obama To Press Congress To Revisit $1.2T In Cuts

Associated Press — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:51:09 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — In its budget submission next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee to cut the deficit by at least $1

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Prison Budget Cuts Could Hurt Wyo. Prison Programs

Associated Press — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:00:56 +0000

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Budget cuts of five percent or more would hurt alternative programs in Wyoming's prison system, according to the corrections department.

Department director Robert Lampert briefed lawmakers on Monday about what cuts would be required under different funding scenarios

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USDA Closes 259 Sites, Two In Wyoming

Karen Snyder — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:43:49 +0000

Modernization and better customer service are behind the closing of 259 U.S. Department of Agriculture offices and lab facilities across the country including two in Wyoming.

The consolidations come as the USDA budget gets a 3 billion dollar slashing

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Obama Unveiling Strategy For Slimmed Down Military

Associated Press — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:44:16 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting his personal stamp on a rejiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts, marking a turning point in U

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Wyoming Lawmakers Say Brace For Budget Cuts

Associated Press — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:28:43 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Top Wyoming lawmakers are directing state agencies to brace for possible budget cuts.

Republican Sen. Phil Nicholas, of Laramie, and Republican Rep. Rosie Berger, of Big Horn, are co-chairmen of the Joint Appropriations Committee

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UW Starts Work On Possible Budget Cuts

Associated Press — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:08:59 +0000

Responding to requests from a legislative committee and Gov. Matt Mead, the University of Wyoming has started working on three possible budget-cutting scenarios.

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Budget Cuts Mean Consolidation For Wyoming Homeland Security

Karen Snyder — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:56:29 +0000

Federal budget cuts to Homeland Security Agencies across the country means about 1.5 million less for Wyoming next year.

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Rapid City Mail Sorting Could Move To Casper

Associated Press — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:54:02 +0000

Letters mailed in Rapid City, South Dakota would have to take a longer trip under one cost-cutting proposal being considered by the U. S. Postal Service.

The agency is considering closing the city's mail-processing and distribution facility and moving those operations to Casper under the plan, the Casper Star-Tribune reports that a letter mailed in Rapid City, or some other towns in western South Dakota, would have to be sent to Casper for sorting and then sent back across the border for delivery

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