Members of the 66th Wyoming State Legislature took a deep dive into the supplemental budget this week with both the Senate and House working on their own versions of how to address one of the most serious fiscal crises in the state’s history.

Is it time to raise taxes in Wyoming?  Or, can we still find more cuts in the state’s spending?

While both legislative houses will clash over those questions, State Senator Dave Kinskey sees the dire circumstances as the stimulus in getting everyone ready to work together in finding the right solution…

Echoing Governor Gordon’s assessment of K-12 funding as the “elephant in the capital”, the Senator acknowledge how big school spending has become…

The K-12 funding deficit is more than $300 million and the legislature’s task is find a way to fit the K-12 budget into the block grant funding model that is mandated by the Wyoming Supreme Court.

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