The Laramie City Council questioned the new head of a local economic development entity and his past with a controversial company during a Tuesday meeting. On Aug. 13, Brad Enzi, son of U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, took over the CEO position at the Laramie Chamber Business Alliance.
A proposal to raise the state sales tax got a chilly reception Tuesday in a legislative committee where lawmakers advocated a wait-and-see approach about using the strategy to address a major funding shortfall for K-12 education. The Senate Education Committee removed the proposed half-cent sales tax increase - from 4 to 4.5 percent - from a Wyoming House plan to fix the deficit of more than $360 million.