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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Wyoming Newsletter for Sunday March 29, 2020 ( 4 items )  

ACLU of Wyoming Asks State Criminal Legal System to Develop Plan to Prevent a Public Health Crisis Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 26 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Wyoming issued the following news release: As COVID-19 continues to spread within Wyoming communities, the ACLU of Wyoming is urging state officials to heed public health experts' advice and immediately develop an evidence-based, proactive plan for the prevention and management of COVID-19 in Wyoming's jails, detention centers, prisons, ICE facilities and detainee transportation. People who are incarcerated are highly vulnera  more

Three Wyoming Communities Chosen for National Main Street Facade Improvement Grants
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 26 -- The Wyoming Business Council issued the following news: Main Street America has selected three Wyoming communities to participate in the Main Street Facade Improvement Grant Program: Laramie, Rock Springs and Thermopolis. Wyoming Main Street -- a program of the Wyoming Business Council -- will work with Laramie Main Street Alliance, Downtown Rock Springs and Main Street Thermopolis to award grants of up to $25,000 for improving downtown facades in those communitie  more

Wyoming Business Council: Governor Announces That Wyoming Businesses Can Start Applying for Federal Disaster Loans
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 23 -- The Wyoming Business Council issued the following news: Governor Mark Gordon announced that Wyoming small businesses are now eligible to apply for up to $2 million per company in federal economic disaster loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The announcement applies to businesses in all 23 counties. Economic Injury Disaster Loans administered by the SBA are designed to help small businesses and private nonprofits that have suffered substant  more

Wyoming Business Council: State to Assist Distillers, Brewers Making Sanitizer
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 25 -- The Wyoming Business Council issued the following news: Governor Mark Gordon has directed the Wyoming Business Council to allocate funding to assist Wyoming distilleries and breweries in their efforts to help produce much-needed hand sanitizer. The Governor is utilizing "Imminent Threat Grants" funds available through the "Community Development Block Grant Program" (CDBG) to pay for the supplies distillers need in order to produce mass quantities of hand sanitize  more