Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Capitol Outlook - Originally Aired February 22, 2008
Note: The program starts at 1 minute. We are still trying to get the process nailed down for the best way to make these videos available to our viewers, so in many ways this is a test run.
Comments Off - Posted in Legislature, Videos by Thomas Fischer
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Capitol Report for February 26, 2008
We’ve noted before in this column that there is a great deal of interesting information – some of it trivia, some of it world-shaking – to be learned by attending the early morning committee meetings where legislation is often shaped and shaken. You won’t find many curious citizens at these meetings, which is unfortunate – […]
Comments Off - Posted in Legislature by Geoff O'Gara
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Capitol Report for February 25, 2008
I missed a few days of blogging while battling a humongous head-and-chest cold, while still trying to make key committee meetings and floor debates.
Flus and colds and even some rather exotic diseases often make the rounds at the legislature – blame the small-scale committee hearing rooms, where you sit cheek-to-jowl with everyone from a local […]
No Comments » - Posted in Legislature by Geoff O'Gara
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Capitol Report for February 21, 2008
During a budget session, when the big mirror bills governing expenditures for the next two years reach the House and Senate floors, the nights grow long. Wednesday night, around 7 p.m. the last few remaining souls left the House gallery, each in need of a fix of coffee or gin. But the folks down on […]
Comments Off - Posted in Legislature by Geoff O'Gara
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Capitol Report for February 20, 2008
People may not be that interested in whether Exxonmobil is paying taxes on its helium production, but they sit up and take notice when Aunt Betty’s strawberry preserves get yanked off the county at the Farmer’s Market by the state health inspectors.
No Comments » - Posted in Legislature by Geoff O'Gara
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Capitol Report for February 19, 2008
“The political will isn’t there.”
It’s an expression you hear when an issue comes up that would seem to demand decisive action - and nothing happens. Before the session, when we were developing short television news “packages” on different issues confronting the state, we asked about the natural gas price differential - the difference between the […]
Comments Off - Posted in Legislature by Geoff O'Gara
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Capitol Outlook - Originally Aired February 15, 2008
Note: The program starts at 30 seconds. We are still trying to get the process nailed down for the best way to make these videos available to our viewers, so in many ways this is a test run.
No Comments » - Posted in Legislature, Videos by Thomas Fischer
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Capitol Report for February 14, 2008
Several decades ago, Wyoming got a black eye in the national media when it was portrayed as a rough-and-tumble state with some pockets of organized crime. (We won’t name the city that was singled out, except to say that it rocks in the season that comes right after winter)
Apparently, Wyoming once again has a bad […]
No Comments » - Posted in Legislature by Geoff O'Gara
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Capitol Report for February 13, 2008
Entering the legislative season, Wyoming PBS did an informal survey of viewers on our contact list to see how they felt about various issues. One that got a strong and overwhelmingly negative response was the idea of imposing a gasoline tax - ten cents a gallon - to pay for much-needed, and very expensive, highway […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Legislature by Geoff O'Gara
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Capitol Report for February 12, 2008
There was disappointment last year when Wyoming lost out on the huge government-funded “Future Gen” project to convert coal to gas with innovative “zero emissions” technology. Illinois got it. But $50 million into the project - with $1.5 billion yet to come - the federal government pulled the plug.
Now, Rep. Tom Lubnau (R-Gillette) thinks a […]