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 The budget was signed this morning by the Governor.  Some highpoints of the budget that Rep. Gingery worked on and made sure that they passed
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$2.5 million into the Wildlife Trust Fund
$2 million into the Cultural Trust Fund
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$685,000 for telepsychiatry — Rep. Gingery serves as the Co Chair of the Select Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse and worked to get this provision in the budget.  Many communities do not have psychiatrists and by allowing patients to access psychiatrists through teleconference will expand patient care and reduce costs considerably.
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Representative Colin Simpson, the Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives has been working for years for improvements to our health care system.  Below is a letter that he sent out earlier today describing some of the bills that he is working on.
As this budget session continues, there are two bills I’d like to highlight that may be acted upon this week by the Wyoming House of Representatives. During these tough economic times we need to reduce costs for hard-working Wyomingites - so they can afford health coverage - and …

[reprinted from  an 11/7 edition of the JH Weekly, letters to the editor]

“Where’s the 757 in these 9/11 photos?  Anyone, anyone, anyone…”

When the empirical Dark Lords of the Bush and Bin Laden regimes began choreographing 9/11 they failed to foresee a fateful flaw in their sinister plans to wage their soul-less, profit driven war.  This would be the emergence of the Internet and a cultural phenomenon called Youtube.com.

The reptilian Republicans assumed that their “shock and awe” strategies would sweep panic and fear over the American people, while the blaringly obvious …

The Wyoming Legislature is trying an experiment today in allowing testimony before a standing legislative committee by videoconference.  Usually, in order to testify in support or opposition to a bill before the legislature you have to travel all the way to Cheyenne and appear in person.  The legislature has set up one committee room (Room 302 for those familiar with the Capitol Building) with monitors and cameras.  People who wish to testify will be able to go to a videoconference site in their hometown and testify from their own town.�
Today …

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VIDEO CONFERENCING AVAILABLE THURSDAY FOR PUBLIC DURING CONSIDERATION OF TWO HOUSE BILLS
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CHEYENNE -  Representative Keith Gingery, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has announced that the Committee will be holding public hearings on the following legislation: HB38 (Driving under the influence - amendments) and HB61 (Legal services funding). HB 38 will be taken up on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.  HB 61 will be taken …

Monday, February 8, 2010— the first day of the Wyoming Legislature’s Budget Session.  The primary purpose of the session is to set the budget for the next 2 years.  The new budget year begins on July 1, 2010 and runs through June 30, 2012, so we refer to the budget as the 11-12 budget, even though part of it is in 10.  This morning there is a reception at the Wyoming Supreme Court.  I chair the House Judiciary Committee, so I will attend that reception, since many of the requests …

The Germans and English have gotten beer to amazing levels over the past few hundred years. Germans have been starting breweries all over the world since the early days. So much of what we drink are German Lagers – Singha, most Mexican beers – you know – the light fizzy stuff. Thanks for the training old world. Now watch as America reinvents beer. Brewers throughout the US are making  Double IPA’s, Imperial Pilsners (Imperial anything really), Double ESB’s (a session beer no more) more and more …

It’s seems all to clear in these Orwellian times that significant improvements in improving social services for “we the people” are slim. Bipartisan bickering between parties has become an endless tug of war. Now is the time, exploiting readily available technology, to make a logical leap in American consciousness. If we drop the rope and engage our progressive gears then a new world of abundance for all awaits.

Imagine individuals and corporations coming forward to slowly, but surely wind down this mindless rat race that we were …

Some passages that I found interesting in Sarah Palin’s new book “Going Rogue”.   Some are just trivial that just caught my attention.
 

Sarah Palin is supposed to give her first State of the State address as Governor.  It is supposed to occur on January 15 and then she is flying to Georgia to be with her son graduating from boot camp.  The Senate President doesn’t like her, so the Senate President moves the time of the State of the State address so she won’t be able to make it to …

The Wyoming State Juvenile Justice Advisory Board met for the last two days here in Jackson.  They are appointed by the Governor and are the top experts in Wyoming on Juvenile Justice.  The concept is that you bring together the top prosecutors, law enforcement, state agencies, probation officers, and those that work in the field of juvenile justice and they come up with ideas on how to improve the juvenile justice system in Wyoming.  The Chairwoman is Donna Sheen, who has been leading the charge on reform of Wyoming’s juvenile …