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Cowboy State Daily Video News: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Thursday's headlines include: * Hunters Dig In Their Heels * Public Lands Proposal In Shambles * Busted For Racing In Grand Teton Park
Wendy CorrJune 26, 2025
Wyoming Takes Cautious Step Toward Licensing Natural Health Doctors
Wyoming lawmakers have taken a tentative step toward licensing naturopathic doctors to practice in the state. Multiple state representatives noted during the meeting that they've benefitted from natural healing.
Clair McFarlandJune 26, 2025
Purple Heart Vet On Wyoming Hunt Almost Tangled With Moose — And Wants To Come Back
As a Purple Heart recipient, Hank Ward has seen a lot, but he’ll never forget the first time he saw a moose in the wild in Wyoming. He almost tangled with a young bull that didn’t see him. Like many vets treated to Wyoming hunts, Ward wants to come back.
Mark HeinzJune 25, 2025
Wyoming Ranchers Behind Federal Push To Make American Beef Labeling The Law
Wyoming ranchers say they support protecting what beef can be labeled “Product of the USA” by making it a federal law. A bill that would do that passed the U.S. House on Monday.
Matthew ChristianJune 25, 2025
Bomb Squad Called For Device Found Near River In Lander — It Was A Fake Pipe Bomb
A bomb squad was called Wednesday to disarm what looked like a pipe bomb along Lander's Popo Agie River. An X-ray image showed the device to be a fake pipe bomb. It's the second time in three months people have found fake explosives in Fremont County.
Clair McFarlandJune 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Don't Hurt Small Business
Dear editor: 86% of small business owners are concerned that legislation handcuffing American technology companies and U.S. innovators could harm their ability to grow.
June 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Harriet Hageman Has Joined Barrasso And Lummis As A Sell-Out
Dear editor: Harriet Hageman has now very clearly joined all the other sell-outs in Washington, DC, including Sens. Barrasso and Lummis. They, too, have "gone along to get along," much to our detriment.
June 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Laramie County Commissioners Should Have Blocked Cell Phone Tower
Dear editor: Our Laramie County Commissioners had a chance to block a 150’ tall 5G Tower from our beautiful neighborhood, 130 feet from Iron Mountain Road. They choose to go for the special interests of Verizon and Rocky Mountain Tower, a California Company.
June 25, 2025
Bill Sniffin: Bad National Forest Rules Opened Door To Wildfires - They Were Just Overturned!
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “I watched as bad Clinton-Gore-Babbitt forest policies set the stage for waste and horrible forest conditions in our national forest next door. It was truly malpractice.”
Bill SniffinJune 25, 2025
Counties Look To Regulate As More Wind, Solar Projects Eye Northeast Wyoming
Crook County doesn’t have regulations for local permitting of solar and wind projects, and hasn’t needed them — until now. As more wind and solar development is planned for northeast Wyoming, local governments are drafting new rules.
David MadisonJune 25, 2025
Wyoming Hunters Say They’ll Oppose Public Land Sales, No Matter What
Wyoming hunters said they won’t budge from their staunch opposition to selling public land. That’s despite U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, still pushing for a revised version of his federal land sales measure in a Senate budget bill.
Mark HeinzJune 25, 2025
Federal Public Lands Sale Not Dead As Lee Works On Scaled-Back Plan
U.S. Senate Republicans said Wednesday they have no timetable for releasing a new proposal from Utah Sen. Mike Lee to sell public lands in the West. The Senate referee ruled his first plan violated the budget process by straying too far into policymaking.
Sean BarryJune 25, 2025
Barrasso Says Senate Republicans ‘United’ Behind Megabill As Vote Looms
U.S. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso of Wyoming was upbeat Tuesday about the massive budget legislation called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. He says “Republicans stand united” with voting expected to begin later this week or early next week.
Sean BarryJune 25, 2025
Four Arrested For Drag Racing ‘High-End Luxury Sports Cars’ In Grand Teton Park
Four people were arrested Tuesday, accused of drag racing "multiple high-end luxury sports cars" in Grand Teton National Park. A Wyoming auto writer says that’s foolish, and wonders “what would happen to a Lamborghini if it hit a black bear?”
Clair McFarlandJune 25, 2025
Drugs Fly Out Window During 40-Mile High-Speed Chase Through Carbon County
A more than 40-mile high-speed chase through Carbon County on Tuesday ended in Saratoga. During the chase, suspected drugs were flying out a window, and the driver and a passenger face felony drug charges.
Jen KocherJune 25, 2025
Cowboy State Daily Show with Jake - Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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Jake NicholsJune 25, 2025
Cowboy State Daily Video News: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Wednesday's headlines include: * Former Govs. Weigh In On Land Sales * Horizontal Drilling Opens Up Powder River Basin * Facebook Hammers "Wyoming Through the Lens"
Wendy CorrJune 25, 2025
Wyoming Again Considers Banning Buying Junk Food With SNAP Benefits
A Republican state lawmaker is again seeking to ban buying junk food using Wyoming SNAP benefits. The federal government sends nearly $65 million a year into Wyoming homes through the program.
Clair McFarlandJune 25, 2025
Wyoming Legislators Wear Red To Warn Of Projected $700 Million Budget Deficit
Some Wyoming House members wore red jackets Tuesday to a legislative committee meeting as a warning of a projected nearly $700 million deficit. Detractors of the visual protest say those same lawmakers helped gouge state revenues.
Clair McFarlandJune 25, 2025
Tom Lubnau: At This Point, House Appropriations Members Should Just Go Full Clown Show
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "Wyoming needs serious-minded people who are not using the committee meetings as campaign stunts, but as gatherings to conduct the serious business of the state. We do not need a clown show."
Tom LubnauJune 25, 2025
One Reason For Firearms Sales Lag Could Be That ‘Everybody Who Wanted One Has One’
While the firearms industry is cyclical, the current slump in gun and ammo sales might defy the usual explanations. The owner of a Riverton tactical shooters training company says AR-15 sales could be down because “everybody who wanted one has one.”
Mark HeinzJune 25, 2025
One Of Wyoming’s Largest Oil Producers Drilling Its First 3-Mile Well
Anschutz Exploration Corp. is already one of the largest oil producers in Wyoming. Now it’s pushing the industry by drilling Wyoming’s first 3-mile lateral well on a pad in Johnson County.
David MadisonJune 24, 2025
Wyoming Man Caught In YouTube Child Predator Sting Gets 10 Years
Sean Joseph Brennan of Hudson was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. Brennan was caught by an Internet vigilante who poses as minors to snag child predators.
Matthew ChristianJune 24, 2025
Former Governors Say Bipartisan Anger Over Public Land Sales Not Surprising
Wyoming’s four living former governors — two Republicans and two Democrats — say they aren’t surprised about the bipartisan anger over the sale of federal public lands. Accessible wildlands are a defining element of Wyoming’s culture, they say.
Mark HeinzJune 24, 2025