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The Wyoming Legislature has been abuzz this week with a number of high-profile bills — and topics — filtering through the House and Senate. Some would directly impact Teton County, and others have animated conversation around Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, taxes, power generation and voting. We’ve rounded up a few of the bills here. House Bill 164, co-sponsored by Teton County Rep. Andy Schwartz and Sen. Mike Gierau, passed the committee on Monday in a 5-2 vote. The legislation authorizes Wyoming to sell a square-mile Grand Teton National Park inholding to the National Pa...

The Equality State is one of nine states that do not tax residents’ job-related earnings. Supported for decades by revenues from mineral extraction, Wyoming is notoriously tax-averse. A number of newly-elected Wyoming legislators campaigned on a “no new taxes” pledge, and there are only nine other tax-friendly Democrats in the 60-person Wyoming Legislature. But Yin told the Jackson Hole Daily opposition to taxes “doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be pushing this conversation. “We have a budget crisis, and we need to deal with it,” he said. Revenues from oil and...

‘What are you doing for others?’: Springfield celebrates legacy of slain civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Updated Jan 18, 2021; SPRINGFIELD — The annual celebration of the life and legacy of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might have taken a different form this year — it was presented online, instead of in an event at the MassMutual Center that typically draws hundreds — but the message of continuing to work for equality and justice remained the same. Gov. Charlie Baker used his remarks to highlight the state’s recent police reform legislation — which ...

After hearing concerns about transparency, Teton County commissioners have opened up to the public future meetings of the committee overseeing planning for growth in northern South Park. “Northern South Park is the future of our community,” Brooke Sausser told the Teton County Board of County Commissioners on Monday. “It will be home to future generations of Jacksonites. It’s something we all have a stake in, and that’s why I was shocked and disturbed to hear that the steering committee met in private. “Let’s not let an unhealthy black box of secrecy be what...

Iasked Jacksonites to reflect on the local news stories of 2020 that had the greatest impact on them personally. Susan Marsh, author and 30-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, wrote about Bear 399 and her four cubs wandering through the valley: “What really had an impact on me in addition to the bears themselves was how many people in the valley were hypervigilant about keeping them safe when they wandered out of the park. Instead of the usual eco-porn about grizzly bears with teeth bared, we had a mother and her four children being looked after so they can continue to live like bea...