Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

This summer, we're going to party like it's 1890. Doesn't it always seem like 1890 around here, especially when the legislatur...

Thanks to fellow prog-blogger Rodger McDaniel for his excellent column yesterday in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle and later reprinted on his Bl...

On this last Saturday in February, snow is falling and more is promised. On the plus side, the legislative session is half over. But that al...

Wyofile's Kerry Drake wrote another excellent column Dec. 10 about the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, This time, he wond...

From Joan Barron's article in the Sunday Casper Star-Tribune : Late last month, 17 newly elected Wyoming legislators attended a three...

LOWRSTFA! Last year, Republican legislators tried to change the Wyoming Retirement System from a defined-benefit program to one that was b...

ShockandAwed reports on Daily Kos that there's a new group working to provide a progressive counterweight to the ultra-conservative Ame...

The Equality State Policy Center and the Coalition for a Healthy Retirement held a town hall meeting Thursday in Cheyenne about impending t...

Andrew Cohen writes in The Atlantic about the main reason that the Republicans lost. And no, it wasn't Super Storm Sandy and Chris Chris...

Read this comprehensive Wyofile article by Greg Nickerson about the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Nickerson pro...

Good news from Huff Post Politics: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Montana's campaign donation limits, telling the f...

Common Cause has a full list of  ALEC's Corporate Members  (via AlterNet). Couldn't find the names of any Wyoming corporate members,...

ProgressNow's blog tracks ALEC influence in Colorado politics. Go to http://progressnowcolorado.org/blog/

Rodger McDaniel writes today about what we've known for awhile -- "ALEC owns your state legislators." Read all about the Ameri...

This list goes a long way toward explaining some of the more extreme laws proposed in this session of the Wyoming Legislature (last year...

This press release comes from the Wyoming Democratic Party . We can expect more of this type of anti-worker legislation from the Tea Party w...

Remember that wacky 2011 session of the Wyoming Legislature? Me too. What fun we had keeping tabs on ugly bills spewing from the People...

Rep. Amy Edmonds I was pleased to see that reliably conservative Wyoming State Rep. Amy Edmonds (R-Cheyenne) will introduce a bill this ...

In March, when Wisconsin public workers were battling anti-union legislation, this blog featured a video of the Dropkick Murphys' song, ...

The list of ALEC funders include names of corporations that do business in Wyoming. One of them, BP, brags that Wyoming is the site of its ...