In addition to slamming President Biden for his energy and economic policies, Gov Mark Gordon, in his State of the State address, urged legislators to be cautious with the $2 billion surplus Wyoming has.
In announcing he will run for a second term, Gov. Mark Gordon said Wyoming was one of the states to impose few restrictions on its residents during the coronavirus pandemic and kept students in school for more days than any state in the nation.
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Big government is a cancer. As a conservative Republican I have, and always will support the rights of private individuals and their rights as business owners to operate their enterprise as they see fit. We need fewer regulations, not more. I oppose growing government interference.
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Wyoming Gov Mark Gordon on Thursday blasted President Joe Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandate as un-American and has asked his attorney general to fight it.
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Gov. Mark Gordon told a group in Jackson that mask mandates from “on high” don’t work and local control is the best option.
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While South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has sent 100 troops to the U.S. – Mexico border, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon is evaluating ways Wyoming can help.
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Gov. Mark Gordon said he will work with the state legislature to consider the option of making Juneteenth a formal state holiday.
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Gov. Mark Gordon is dedicating up to $12 million in CARES Act funds to re-launch the Energy Rebound Program, which is designed to get more people working in the energy industry.
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Gov Mark Gordon on Friday said Wyoming will not be participating in any vaccination passport program no matter what the federal government says.
Gov. Mark Gordon joined other governors in writing a letter of support to Congress on the Storing CO2 and Lowering Emissions Act.
The University of Wyoming and the state’s seven community colleges are launching a collaborative effort to better prepare Wyoming students for the state’s evolving economy and encourage entrepreneurship, officials announced Monday.
Wyoming’s resiliency through the coronavirus pandemic has allowed the state to fare better than most, Gov. Mark Gordon said Tuesday.
Gov. Mark Gordon’s office on Saturday announced that Wyoming restaurants and bars can return to normal hours effective on on January 9.
Gov. Mark Gordon, the Wyoming Business Council and the Wyoming Department of Health are all working together to quickly roll out a relief program to businesses that now have reduced hours of operation due to the newest health orders passed this week.
Gov. Mark Gordon is expressing concern about a federal proposal to list a tree in Wyoming as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Gov. Mark Gordon is providing additional support to hospitals across Wyoming in response to skyrocketing coronavirus cases all over the state.
Gov. Mark Gordon released his supplemental budget proposal on Monday, which includes additional cuts on top of the 10% he implemented in July.
Gov. Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Department of Health are taking certain actions to address the state’s rising coronavirus cast count.
Gov. Mark Gordon had strong words for people in Wyoming who disregard precautionary measures — like wearing masks — designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Gov. Mark Gordon announced that new state public health orders will be issued next week, the first major change to the orders in months.
“I was wondering [after seeing the list] if the virus the mayor was worried about was Republicanism and fiscal responsibility or if they were really talking about the[corona]virus,” Gordon joked.
Gov. Mark Gordon announced Tuesday that Wyoming’s public health orders will be extended for at least two more weeks until Sept. 30.
Gov. Mark Gordon extended the Wyoming’s public health orders for a third time Thursday, which will remain in effect until at least Sept. 15.
The first round of Wyoming budget cuts have been finalized, totaling more than $250 million, with an additional $80 million in cuts to maintenance of state buildings and those at the University of Wyoming and community colleges.
Of the 6,256 grant applications received, 2,096 were from out state, most of them undergraduate students. This was 33% of the applications received.
Gov. Mark Gordon and U.S. Department of Agriculture Sec. Sonny Perdue signed a new stewardship agreement Tuesday between the Forest Service and the state to promote forest management and respond to ecological challenges.
A bill that would have laid out the process for evaluating the state’s possible purchase of 1 million acres of land in southern Wyoming was vetoed Friday by Gov. Mark Gordon.
“I believe this complaint by the Federal Trade Commission is a wrongheaded attempt to drive a nail into an industry which is struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing marketplace.”
Most people I’ve talked to about this proposed land deal usually respond with “What the …” and “I thought the State was broke,” but some have expressed the view that it would be good to have more public land, more public access, more areas set aside for wildlife – as if state and federal lands are managed in the same way. They aren’t.
“We don’t have that money,” said State Rep. Bo Biteman. “We are scrambling, scratching and clawing, looking under the mattress for quarters. We’re not in any position to grow our state government at all. We need to be cutting our government.”
Gov. Mark Gordon announced Friday morning in Lander that President Donald Trump put in his new budget the purchase of $150 million of domestic uranium to replenish military supplies. Wyoming is the largest producer of uranium of any state.
“I can support it,” Governor Mark Gordon said when asked if he can get behind the concept of a statewide lodging tax to fund the future of tourism.
Wyoming and Montana will join forces to sue the state of Washington over its refusal to allow the construction of a coal export terminal, Gov. Mark Gordon announced Tuesday.
On Feb. 10, the 2020 Budget Session of the Wyoming Legislature officially begins, one that could be somber and frustrating — considering Gov. Mark Gordon has told lawmakers that after mandated expenses they only have around $23.5 million to play with.
Former Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal joined family and friends on Friday to be presented his official portrait.
I can see clearly now – the year 2020 will emerge as one of the most important years in Wyoming’s history as various trends emerge.
It’s going to likely be an eventful Valentine’s Day for anyone who’s been following Wyoming’s computer science standards saga.
The year 2019 will go into the Cowboy State’s history books for a great many reasons – many of them not very pretty.
Several of the participants in a march Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of women’s suffrage in Wyoming said the event helped draw attention to instances of inequality that still need to be addressed.
As coal, oil and natural gas revenues decline, state legislators could have some hard decisions ahead, according to information generated by a strategic planning effort created by Gov. Mark Gordon.
Gov. Mark Gordon’s release of his budget proposal for the 2021-22 biennium on Monday came with a recognition of the declining fortunes of Wyoming’s mineral sector.
A Torrington native and longtime congressional staffer has taken her new duties in a state office created to mediate disputes over the release of public documents.
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon talked turkey on taxes at a wide ranging press conference yesterday in Cheyenne.
The unclaimed cremated remains of 23 United States soldiers were interred with full military honors at the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery in Evansville this week.
Drug makers distributed nearly 126.7 million painkillers in Wyoming between 2006 to 2012, according to a federal prescription database recently made public.
Out-of-state contractors are racing to complete repairs on a collapsed irrigation tunnel in Goshen County as governmental agencies analyze the best ways to help affected farmers.
Over 100,000 acres of farm and ranch land in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska have been without irrigation water for more than two weeks after an 102-year-old irrigation canal collapsed.
While it is easy to “want what I want when I want it,” the challenges of government transparency are much more complex than simply asking for data and receiving it immediately.
More than 100,000 acres of agricultural land are without irrigation after a canal tunnel collapsed July 17 in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
Gov. Mark Gordon has the fifth-highest approval rating of U.S. governors, according to new polling by Morning Consult, a Washington, D.C.-based media and technology company.
Gov. Mark Gordon’s efforts to create a true two-year budget for state government should encourage state agencies to plan better for the future, he said Thursday.
Gordon opened the WY-Wind River: Economic Development & Entrepreneurship Symposium on Wednesday at the University of Wyoming with remarks about moving forward together with Wyoming’s Native American population, embracing the outdoors and supporting entrepreneurship.
This weekend in Casper, high school students came together to hear from a variety of speakers including Governor Mark Gordon, entrepreneur Jerad Stack, and Leadership Wyoming Executive Director Mandy Fabel, among others at the second annual LIFT Wyoming Conference.
Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday renewed calls for the state to become a leader in carbon capture and sequestration technology.
Gordon, in a news release, said he would accept public comments until May 1 on the sage-grouse executive order first put in place by former Gov. Dave Freudenthal in 2007.
Both Jennie Gordon, First Lady of Wyoming and Governor Mark Gordon worked alongside Cheyenne volunteers Monday evening to fill 925 food bags for area children who may not have access to nutritious meals when school is out for spring break.
A bill that would have allowed the Legislature to sue the state of Washington over the denial of permits for a coal export terminal has been vetoed by Gov. Mark Gordon.
Frigid winter temperatures across the state prompted Gov. Mark Gordon on Monday to sign an executive order allowing drivers of propane delivery trucks to drive extra hours to deliver much-needed fuel.
A transparency task force created by Gov. Mark Gordon and Auditor Kristi Racines will focus on the “gray” areas of Wyoming’s public documents laws, Racines said.
Gov. Mark Gordon vetoed 14 footnotes to the Legislature’s supplemental budget bill on Tuesday, saying many of them went beyond what is allowed under Wyoming’s Constitution.
Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday vetoed his first bill, a measure designed to increase the amount legislators are reimbursed for expenses while taking part in legislative work from $109 to $149 per day.
