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Wyoming's congressional delegation is speaking out against tariffs on Canadian newsprint that are driving up costs for newspaper publishers to the point of threatening to close some smaller community publications. For many of America's community newspapers, tariffs on Canadian newsprint threatens to increase costs by as much as 20 percent.
The last time Gary Trauner ran for national office he was accused of having robbed a bank when he was 16. Though not true, it taught the 58-year-old Wilson resident an important lesson. "People will do anything to win, and though lots of people say they don't like negative campaigning, it's effective," Trauner said Friday, soon after announcing that he would run as a Democrat in the 2018 race for U.S. Senate.
Wyoming's congressional delegation wrote a letter to President Trump last week urging him to ignore a proposal for a $4.5 billion federal subsidy for eastern Appalachian coal. Proposed by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in early August, the subsidy would provide a $15 per ton subsidy for utilities that purchase Eastern rather than Western coal.
Wyoming residents this weekend found a creative way to protest the anti-LGBT remarks made by one of their U.S. senators - holding tutu-wearing parties at bars and other venues. Sen. Mike Enzi infamously told students at a Wyoming high school recently that he knows a man who wears a tutu to bars and gets into fights because of it - and "he kind of asks for it."
Accusations of carpet-bagging, a ticket for illegal fishing and a family spat over gay marriage led up to Cheney abandoning her bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, a fellow Republican, last election cycle.