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The WPR politics team brings you this news quiz on the latest from around the Cowboy State, updated regularly.
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This week, we reach beyond our studios and bring you interviews from Wyoming PBS’ "Wyoming Chronicle." It’s an election year and there are a couple of new rules. The Secretary of State talks in detail on the new rules and the reasoning behind them. And a vertical farm operation has put roots down in the state and is focused on how to make sure there’s a production method in the world's back pocket for a future where agricultural production is less stable and more expensive.
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Wyoming is joining about two dozen other states in a pair of lawsuits challenging new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Residents pushed back against proposal for what could be the biggest building in the town’s history.
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In 1998, Judy Shepard’s son, Matthew, was tortured outside Laramie and later died as part of an anti-gay hate crime. After his death, she helped found a nonprofit dedicated to fighting hate and the discrimination of LGBTQ+ people, and worked to usher in federal hate crime legislation.
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The Cheyenne Workforce Center held a teen job fair earlier this week. Wyoming added nearly 5,000 jobs in the fourth quarter of last year, and employers are keen to fill those positions.
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The National Association of Letter Carriers asks those who are able to place a bag of nonperishable food items next to your mailbox before mail pickup on May 11.
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A new exhibition opening later this month at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West shares posters that were used to advertise the Wild West show in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Rocky Mountain Power will be holding a series of public meetings next week for its customers. That’s because the electric company is proposing increasing its rate.