A broad coalition of business and labor groups and health care providers, especially hospitals including the Wyoming Medical Center, supported Medicaid expansion.
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has vetoed numerous provisions in the state's $3-billion general appropriations bill that attempted to limit future state agency budget requests.
The City of Casper is joining the rest of Wyoming and the nation in honoring the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, according to a news release from the city manager's office.
The Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee's decision last week to reject the governor's proposal to expand Medicaid isn't about the money or trusting the federal government, local hospital officials said this week.
An official with Cheyenne Regional Medical Center says he doesn't understand why some state legislators don't want to accept federal money to expand the Medicaid program in Wyoming when they have no problem taking other federal funds.
Any proposal to expand Medicaid will be dead on arrival in the Legislature next month if eight House and Senate members from Natrona County have their way.
A federal lawsuit is heading to trial after a judge ruled two new trespassing laws to thwart environmental research on open lands pose serious concerns about free speech and other constitutional issues.
The state’s failure to implement Medicaid expansion has aggravated a sharp rise in the uncompensated care written off by the Wyoming Medical Center, hospital officials said recently.
The proposed budget put forward by Republican Governor Matt Mead earlier this week is drawing some positive feedback from a Democratic legislative leader