Keep Casper Smoke Free

Casper residents who want to vote on the smoking referendum before the Nov. 3 election may cast absentee ballots now, Natrona County Clerk Renea Vitto said Tuesday.

Casper voters will have the opportunity to decide whether they want uphold a relaxed smoking ban or go back to a total smoking ban in buildings in Casper.

Keep Casper Smoke Free's quest for a city wide smoking ban has taken a step backwards, because the Wyoming Supreme Court says they pursued the case in the wrong way.

A Natrona County District Court Judge has issued a ruling, as to whether or not some Casper City Voters should have been disqualified, from a petition regarding smoking, but the issue may not be over.

There’s still no word yet on whether Keep Casper Smoke Free's suit against the city of Casper will proceed to trial after both sides met for a summary judgment hearing earlier this year. “I’m as anxious to hear back from the judge as everybody else,” Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chairperson Kimberly Holloway said...

Keep Casper Smoke Free says attorneys with the anti-smoking group, which is trying to overturn a partial repeal of the city of Casper's public indoor smoking ban, met with city attorneys for a summary judgment hearing last week. “Both sides made motions to the judge basically saying that this really doesn’t need to go to trial,” Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chair Kimberly Holloway said on Wednesday..

Officials with Keep Casper Smoke Free say the anti-smoking group’s lawsuit against the city of Casper will go to trial next year. According to a post on Keep Casper Smoke Free’s FundRazr page, the trial has been scheduled for March 2014...

Keep Casper Smoke Free has started an online crowdfunding campaign that aims to defray attorney’s fees in a suit the group plans to file against the city of Casper in district court later this year. Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chair Kimberly Holloway says her group, which came up 61 signatures short of its smoking ban referendum target of 2,554 last month, is attempting to raise $3,000 by Dec... Rea

City of Casper officials say they will not recount nearly 100 rejected smoking ban referendum signatures that were being challenged by Keep Casper Smoke Free earlier this week. In response, Keep Casper Smoke Free says it will now file a complaint in district court...

Keep Casper Smoke Free says it will challenge nearly 100 of the 685 smoking ban referendum signatures that were rejected during an official count in July. The group requested to review the petitions it submitted to the city again after coming up 61 valid signatures short of its 2,454-signature special election target...