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News Tipoffs - Wyoming Editors Newsletter for Thursday September 26, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Idaho A.G. Labrador Leads 29-State Coalition Against Maryland's Bizarrely Unconstitutional Gun Ban
BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 26 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Sept. 25, 2024: Attorney General Raul Labrador, joined by 28 other states, has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States. The broad coalition requests a writ of certiorari, asking SCOTUS to take up the case of Snope v. Brown, where the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Maryland's unconstitutional ban on hundreds of styles of firearms, including the AR-15, the most   more

S.D. Gov. Noem and Colleagues Demand That Sen. Schumer Protect Jewish Americans
PIERRE, South Dakota, Sept. 26 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Governor Kristi Noem and 25 fellow Republican governors demanded that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pass legislation to protect and show support for Jewish-American communities. You can read the letter here (https://governor.sd.gov/doc/IHRA_Joint-Letter-to-Sen-Schumer_9-23-24.pdf). ""We are less than one month away from the first anniversary of October 7, when Hamas terrori  more

Transportation Commission Awards Almost $4.11 Million in Contracts in September
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. 26 -- The Wyoming Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded almost $4.11 million in contracts for four Wyoming Department of Transportation construction projects during its Sept. 19 regular business meeting. Jackson-based Evans Construction Company was awarded a $2.25 million bid for a project involving salt and sand stockpiling work at various locations within Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton and   more

Wyo. Gov. Gordon: Wyoming State Agencies Submit Protests to BLM on Rock Springs Resource Management Planning
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. 26 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Sept. 25, 2024: Wyoming state agencies have taken the next step in the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) continuing Rock Springs Resource Management Planning (RMP) process. Governor Mark Gordon announced that the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Wyoming Game and Fish, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and Wyoming State Parks submitted protest  more