Hormonal changes during menopause might affect the disease’s development, researchers say Women make up nearly two-thirds of patients with Alzheimer’s dis-ease in the U.S., in part because they live longer than men. Now, researchers are exploring whether hormonal changes related to menopause affect the development of the disease. “The...
New State Auditor Kristi Racines Embraces The Transparency Revolution:
American Transparency (website: OpenTheBooks.com) and Equality State Taxpayers Association receive six-years of state checkbook expenditures. Applaud Auditor Racines for opening the books. Wyoming’s new State Auditor Kristi Racines has produced six-years of state checkbook expenditures to OpenTheBooks.com and Equality State Taxpayers Association. The production included all public state spending...
Medicare for All Plan Pressures 2020 Field
House Democrats are planning to unveil Medicare for All legislation soon, turning up the heat on Democratic presidential candidates facing questions over how far they want to go in embracing a national government health system. The bill from Rep. Pramila Jayapal and other House Democrats is expected to closely...
Legislature, after rough start, supports transparency
When this year’s session of the Wyoming Legislature began, a slate of bills that contradicted the rhetoric of transparency gave many across the state pause. Many of the new legislators — and other statewide elected officials — had just campaigned on making the state’s government more accessible and open to its...
The Experiment That Made Einstein Famous
One hundred years ago, an extraordinary feat of astronomy proved that the theory of relativity One hundred years ago, at the beginning of 1919, few people outside Germany had ever heard of Albert Einstein. By the year’s end, however, he had become a worldwide celebrity and a symbol of...
TRANSPARENCY ALERT
Fellow Wyomingites, We had a small victory in the WY House today as a pro-transparency amendment was added to SF57! The amendment would allow citizens to be awarded attorney fees in the event that you have to sue a government entity for public records if the entity refused to...
Medicare for All Plan Pressures 2020 Field
House Democrats are planning to unveil Medicare for All legislation soon, turning up the heat on Democratic presidential candidates facing questions over how far they want to go in embracing a national government health system. The bill from Rep. Pramila Jayapal and other House Democrats is expected to closely...
Andrew Cuomo’s Tears of SALT
He wants Donald Trump to repeal one of tax reform’s best features. Spare a thought this week for the beleaguered underclass known as Albany politicians. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is heading to Washington to beseech President Trump to re-store the tax deduction that has propped up the Empire...
Emancipation Deniers Target Lincoln’s Reputation
In an age when rocking century-old statues off their pedestals has become a public sport, no historical reputation is safe. That includes Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator. It is “now widely held,” Columbia historian Stephanie McCurry announced in a 2016 article, that emancipation “wasn’t primarily the accomplishment of Abraham...
Vote on the Green New Deal
Every Member of Congress should step up and be counted. Democrats rolled out their Green New Deal last week, and by all means let’s have a national debate and then a vote in Congress—as soon as possible. Here in one package is what the political left really means when...