A bill intended to reform the operations of agricultural checkoff programs was reintroduced in the U.S. Senate on March 28. The bipartisan Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act of 2019 was again brought forth by Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ). Cosponsors include presidential candidate hopeful...
City of Sheridan has too much debt
Re: SEEDA. economic development debt The report to the community 2018 indicates the city of Sheridan has $14.5 million in loans. This debt was acquired between 2015 and 2018. These loans are for public works and engineering projects. In addition, the city has $3 million in loans due to...
The Transgender War on Women
The Equality Act sacrifices female safety in restrooms, locker rooms and even domestic-violence shelters. It has become rightly fashionable to ridicule the idea of “safe spaces,” places where adults can hide and sulk like children avoiding ideas they find threatening. But women need actual safe spaces—not from intellectual challenge,...
Joint Education Committee Interim Topics – Medicaid services in K-12?
Greetings from your Wyoming Liberty Group! It’s going to be a very busy interim for the Joint Education Committee! And, the Wyoming Liberty Group will be very busy tracking their efforts for you. The Education Committee will be discussing the recently passed bill that permits students to attain a...
Republican DEFECTORS
Republicans DEFECTORS Vote Against President Trumps National Emergency Declaration on the Southern Border. 1. Sen. Lamar Alexander (TN) 2. Sen. Roy Blunt (MO) 3. Sen. Susan Collins (ME) 4. Sen. Mike Lee (UT) 5. Sen. Jerry Moran (KS) 6. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK) 7. Sen. Rand Paul (KY) 8. ...
Wells Fargo Regulators Weigh Shake-Up
More than two years after a scandal erupted over fake customer accounts, Wells Fargo & Co. remains at sharp odds with its government overseers. How sharp should come into focus Tuesday, when Chief Executive Timothy Sloan appears before a House Financial Services Committee newly dominated by Democrats with a...
Rural Sheriffs Defy New Gun Measures
‘Second Amendment sanctuary’ counties say they won’t enforce background checks, other gun-control proposals SANTA FE, N.M.—In swaths of rural America, county sheriffs, prosecutors and other local officials are mounting resistance to gun-control measures moving through legislatures in Democratic-led states. The “Second Amendment sanctuary” movement has taken hold in more...
Forget Gigabyte, even a Yottabyte Won’t Do
Richard J.C. Brown, a British chemist who studies weights and measures, has a big idea: He wants to name the next set of prefixes used to identify gargantuan numbers. To facilitate international trade, manufacturing and scientific communication, most countries use a standard system of units sanctioned by the International...
Why the Bull Has Room to Run
The bull market started March 9, 2009, 10 years ago Saturday. The S&P 500 had dropped to a close of 676 in the midst of the financial crisis, 2,072 points or 75% lower than its current 2,748 level. Given that the Federal Reserve has quintupled the size of its...
The Trouble With Taxing Wealth
Around the world, governments in recent decades have sought to lighten the burden on capital by reducing taxes on dividends, capital gains, corporate profits and wealth. The motivation is straightforward: more capital means more investment, higher productivity and faster growing wages. Capital is also highly mobile: Tax it too...