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CASPER, Wyo. — Two students from Kelly Walsh High School have been chosen as winners of the 2024 Congressional App Challenge.
That’s according to a release on the Natrona County School District website, which states that “their innovative app is designed to help students match their personality and interests with scholarships tailored to their academic goals.”
Although U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman told Cowboy State Daily she expected President Joe Biden pardoning his son for ongoing federal gun and tax evasion charges to be an “inevitable” event, she doesn’t believe that makes Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son Hunter on Sunday right.
As a result of the pardon, Hunter Biden won’t face any federal charges stemming from the crimes he committed or may have committed over the last 10-plus years through Sunday.
A bill that would take away the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations that support terrorists in America is quickly moving through Congress with Rep. Harriet Hageman’s support.
Wyoming’s only member of the U.S. House of Representatives voiced support Wednesday for a new House rule banning males from the women’s bathrooms and locker rooms throughout the U.S. Capitol complex.
The controversy erupted after Rep. Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, introduced a resolution Monday that would ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms and changing rooms in the Capitol — weeks after Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride was elected as the first openly transgender member of Congress.
Wyoming’s congressional delegation, and 10 more members of Congress, sent a letter Monday to the commissioner of the Mountain West Conference, urging her to keep males out of women’s sports.
A bill to honor Dessie A. Bebout, a former Shoshoni Postmaster, has been passed by the United States House of Representatives and is now awaiting the President's approval. This legislation, introduced in the Senate by U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Tom Carper (D-Del.), was unanimously approved in April. It then moved to the House where it received support from U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) and passed without opposition.
Congresswoman Harriet Hageman expressed serious concerns about the severe wildfire crisis in Wyoming this year, calling it “the worst year” she has witnessed in the state. She noted that extreme vegetation conditions and dry lightning have significantly contributed to the fires. While praising local forest management efforts, she acknowledged the catastrophic nature of the wildfires.
The transgender ideology that has been inculcated in America's youth has gotten a lot of attention in the media, specifically with groups that advocate for parental rights and some agendas being pushed on children without parental consent.
This issue has come up in schools all over the country from Loudoun County, Virginia, to Leon County, Florida with minors "identifying" as transgender and an ongoing conflict between the schools and parents. When it comes to sports, transgender women playing in women's sports has also raised concerns about the safety of biological women.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced in an August 29, 2024, press release its proposed roadmap for solar energy development on public lands. It would make over 31 million acres of public lands across 11 western states available for potential solar development, driving development closer to transmission lines or on previously disturbed lands.
Wyoming’s lone member of Congress said she’s heartbroken over the devastating wildfires that have burned more than 600,000 acres across the Cowboy State this fire season.
That includes her family’s Hartville homestead that burned in the 29,000-acre Pleasant Valley Fire.