Clair McFarland

3 weeks ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Clair McFarland

A provision of the Trump-endorsed One Big Beautiful Bill Act is prompting two tech-oriented Wyoming legislators to warn of federal government overreach and potentially dire consequences.  The bill, U.S.  House Resolution 1 of 2025, would extend the 2017 personal income tax cuts and instill other tax provisions, but could add at least $3 trillion to the nation’s long-term deficit. It has pitted Libertarian-leaning Republicans like U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Rep.

3 weeks ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Clair McFarland

Wyoming lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a state Constitution amendment proposal that, if enacted and approved by the voters, would remove the Constitution’s structures for property taxes. Looking back two days later, the legislative Joint Revenue Committee’s two chairmen say that draft takes the call for property tax reform too far. They said they will seek to ratchet back the proposal at the committee’s August meeting. Sen.

3 weeks ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Clair McFarland

A federal court judge has dismissed the case of a Wheatland man who sued Platte County Sheriff’s Deputies last year, for sending him to jail rather than the hospital despite his 0.357% blood-alcohol content. Bryan Hays had a withdrawal seizure in the jail’s shower, sustaining brain damage and facial damage, his original lawsuit complaint from last April says. That document also says Hays had to re-learn how to walk over the course of several weeks, after spending one week in a coma.

3 weeks ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Clair McFarland

Sublette County commissioners and leaders of the Sublette County Hospital District are locked in a dispute over the county’s withholding of $2.7 million that had been pledged to help build a new long-term care facility, a component of a larger project to give the rural county a hospital. The Sublette County Commission says its withholding of money is temporary and meant to secure “adequate assurances” that the hospital district will hold up its end of the two entities’ agreements.

3 weeks ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Clair McFarland

A Rock Springs woman and her boyfriend have both agreed to plead no contest to charges that they included a teenage girl in their group sex acts for more than a year. Sweetwater County Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney Micaela Lira filed a plea agreement Tuesday in the case of 40-year-old Jennifer Renee Fahrney, offering a 25 to 35-year prison sentence and a demand of $4,600 in restitution, in exchange for the dismissal of 43 of the 66 felony-level counts.