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12/13/2025

Live on the Robert K. Johnson Foundation - Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network
(11 AM) MT, Saturday, December 13

Giordano: ANDREA CHÉNIER

Daniele Rustioni; Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier), Sonya Yoncheva
(Maddalena di Coigny), Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard)

https://ow.ly/sq4e50XHFzg

12/12/2025

Wyoming news in under 10 minutes? Charles understood the assignment.

🎙️Tune into Wyoming Debrief on every podcast platform OR stream it directly from our website.

https://ow.ly/Zig750XIAKN

Gov. Mark Gordon is examining complaints submitted by 19 qualified electors made against all of Platte County’s commissi...
12/12/2025

Gov. Mark Gordon is examining complaints submitted by 19 qualified electors made against all of Platte County’s commissioners.

In a press release, Gordon said if necessary, he’ll conduct an investigation into the complaints, writing, “Following the mandated process set out in Wyoming statutes, the Governor’s Office will examine the verified complaint and, if necessary, conduct a thorough investigation to determine whether the allegations justify pursuing the requested statutory removal process. At the end of this investigation, the Governor will make a determination on the request.”

The complaints, received by Gordon on Dec. 2, allege two of Platte County’s three commissioners met with an energy company about a wind, solar and battery storage project proposed for Chugwater without allowing members of the press or the public inside.

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One of the complaints alleges two of Platte County’s three commissioners violated the state’s Open Meetings Act. Gordon may decide to investigate.

On day eight of the Joint Appropriations Committee's budget hearings, some lawmakers once again donned red jackets. Rep....
12/12/2025

On day eight of the Joint Appropriations Committee's budget hearings, some lawmakers once again donned red jackets. Rep. Ken Pendergraph (R-Sheridan) gave a brief speech explaining why some members continue to wear red, citing forecasts from the Legislative Service Office (LSO) that suggest current spending could see the state go into debt, or “the red”, in just a few years. This time, however, two other lawmakers chimed in with the decision not to wear red jackets.

Sen. Ogden Driskill (R-Devils Tower) said the legislature has seen similar forecasts in the past. He said when he became president of the senate, the state put $2 billion in savings.

“We literally have the ability in Wyoming to cut our way into a budget crisis. Think about that,” said Driskill. “We have the ability to cause a budget crisis that makes this prediction come absolutely true. If we cut budgets to the point that they're to the bone and we had a downfall, which has happened over time, I can assure you we're in a budget crisis. Then we are looking at new taxes.”

Photo credit: Jordan Uplinger

Employee salaries came up as a common theme throughout the day. Departments say higher wages will allow them to be more competitive in the market.

This time last year, we heard about a special food sovereignty project on the Wind River Reservation: including traditio...
12/11/2025

This time last year, we heard about a special food sovereignty project on the Wind River Reservation: including traditional foods like chokecherry jam and bison meat in the Food Bank of Wyoming’s monthly distributions, in honor of Native American Heritage Month.

This year, 700 boxes of food went out into the community at the end of November, each with a package of bison meat from the reservation. Elders also got a jar of chokecherry jam as a special gift.

And because this season’s seen a spike in food insecurity, it was the second distribution of the month – normally, there’s only one.

Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann takes us behind the scenes of distribution day.

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Seven hundred boxes of food went out into the community at the end of November, each with a package of bison meat from the reservation and...

Over 700 University of Wyoming students will receive degrees this Saturday.The new graduates include 521 undergraduates,...
12/11/2025

Over 700 University of Wyoming students will receive degrees this Saturday.

The new graduates include 521 undergraduates, 209 graduate students and six law students.

The winter commencement ceremony will be held at the Arena-Auditorium on campus at 10 a.m. Shuttles will be available from parking locations. The event will be livestreamed.

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The new graduates include 521 undergraduates, 209 graduate students and six law students.

Yellowstone National Park’s winter season begins Dec. 15.That means most park services are either closed or have limited...
12/11/2025

Yellowstone National Park’s winter season begins Dec. 15.

That means most park services are either closed or have limited hours, and most roads are closed to cars. The only ones remaining open are between the North Entrance in Gardiner, Montana, and the Northeast Entrance in Cooke City, Montana.

To see other parts of the park, like Old Faithful, private companies offer guided snowcoach and snowmobile tours, depending on conditions. Skiing and snowshoeing tours are also available. Or head on out on your own to enjoy Yellowstone’s winter beauty on foot or snowmobile. Just be ready for poor cell service, quick changes in weather and a slow response time if you need to call for help.

Photo credit: NPS / Jacob W. Frank

Services will be limited. But guided tours are available, and some areas are maintained for cross country skiing and snowshoe hikes.

Tuesday was another busy day for the Joint Appropriations Committee.Lawmakers spoke with the Department of Agriculture a...
12/11/2025

Tuesday was another busy day for the Joint Appropriations Committee.

Lawmakers spoke with the Department of Agriculture about state meat inspection and with Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resources Trust, a board that helps fund projects to enhance and conserve wildlife habitat and natural resources, about land management.

However, it was wildfire response that took the majority of time and interest.

After a prayer led by Sen. Tim French (R-Ralson), the Office of State Lands and Investments was first to speak to the committee. The office is made up of different divisions that deal with land and conservation issues, like community loans to improve drinking water and managing the Mineral Royalty Grant program. The State Forestry Division, which oversees fire and state trust lands management, also made its funding pitch.

The total budget request for the office is over $80 million. For any other department or agency, that would be quite a bit, but the office noted that this year they had 1,621 fires. A big part of fighting those fires was Wyoming’s growing fleet of air assets, assets that provided support for 76 missions. That helped keep fires small and prevent them from turning into the level of burns seen during the 2024 fire season.

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The 2024 fire season is still fresh in the minds of legislators. They want to avoid spending that much money again, and some are willing to pay now if it means fewer costs later.

12/11/2025

The Modern West - The Teeny Tiny House

People in the American West love tiny houses. But, come to find out, per square foot, they cost almost 40% more than a regular house. Eric and Erica found a way to get one on the cheap – by winning one in an auction! But are tiny houses really an affordable housing solution when you scale up?

https://www.themodernwest.org/

12/11/2025

Frontiersman Oliver Perry Hanna #552: Coffeen Family Papers

Oliver Perry Hanna was born in 1851 in Illinois. He became fascinated by frontier life after reading Beadle’s dime novels as a boy. At the age of sixteen, he headed west in an oxen-drawn wagon. His destination was the Montana territory. He tried his hand at gold mining, but takings were sparse, so he turned his attentions to hunting buffalo. He sold the hides.

https://ow.ly/1BEF50XAoBM

Dr. Mattson Mathew and Celeste Keelin huddled around a laptop in an examination room. Mathew asked Keelin about the pati...
12/10/2025

Dr. Mattson Mathew and Celeste Keelin huddled around a laptop in an examination room. Mathew asked Keelin about the patient she saw this morning, who presented with signs of croup.

Mathew is a family physician at Hot Springs Health in Thermopolis. Keelin is a medical school student through a regional program called WWAMI, which stands for the five states that participate in it, including Wyoming.

Keelin is in WWAMI’s Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) program, which pairs students with a dedicated physician mentor. In Wyoming, the TRUST sites are in Powell, Douglas, Fremont County and Thermopolis. Many of the students in the program want to come back to practice in Wyoming’s farther flung hospitals and clinics.

It’s a success story for recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals in the Equality State. The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) hopes to expand on opportunities like this with federal Rural Healthcare Transformation Program funds to address the state’s healthcare workforce shortage.

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The state hopes to use federal Rural Health Transformation Program dollars to help recruit and retain more healthcare professionals. WWAMI’s TRUST...

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Wyoming Public Radio is a commercial-free station licensed to the University of Wyoming. Wyoming Public Media programming is primarily news, podcasts, classical and contemporary music. We also air jazz, folk, bluegrass, and unique entertainment programs. We broadcast to over 80% Wyoming. Wyoming Public Radio is the state's only member of National Public Radio.

Wyoming Public Media also administers Classical Wyoming, Jazz Wyoming, and Wyoming Sounds streams of all three channels.