The Federal Building at 308 W 21^st St in Cheyenne has been officially renamed. Yesterday, my team and I were in Cheyenne and joined by Governor Mark Gordon, Mayor Patrick Collins, State Representative Cathy Connolly, Cheyenne City Council Woman Michele Aldrich, and members of the Louisa Swain Foundation Board of Directors to celebrate the unveiling of the newly minted Louisa Swain Federal Office Building.

 

 

This renaming started with a desire to commemorate the trailblazing women of Wyoming who played an integral role in the journey towards suffrage and who continue to propel Wyoming forward. Thus, S.2126 was born.

 

I introduced this bill alongside Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on June 17, 2021. It passed through the Senate with unanimous consent on October 10, 2021 and then passed in the House of Representatives on March 30, 2022. President Biden signed it into law on May 10, 2022, where it officially became Public Law No: 117-20.

 

I am grateful to my team both in the state and in Washington for their tremendous work on getting our first stand alone bill passed. I’d also like to thank Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), and Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen for partnering with me to honor the important legacy of Louisa Swain. Now when folks walk past, visit, or go to work in the Louisa Swain Federal Office Building, they’ll be reminded of this important piece of not only Wyoming’s history, but the history of women’s rights across the nation.

If you missed the ceremony, you can watch it here. 

Kendall Cummings could feel the grizzly bear’s jaws tearing through flesh down to his skull, but the adrenaline coursing through his body made it a painless sensation.

 

“I could hear when his teeth would hit my skull, I could feel when he’d bite down on my bones and they’d kind of crunch,” Cummings told Cowboy State Daily on Monday morning.

Wyoming’s had a much better fiscal year than expected. After a shaky couple of years, the state braced for more of the same in 2022. But unexpectedly high energy prices — particularly oil and natural gas — helped state revenue outperform predictions made at the start of this year, the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group (CREG) announced Wednesday.

 

Gov. Mark Gordon cautioned in a written statement that “this welcome news is not cause for excessive celebration or reason to relax our fiscal conservatism. We must remember that there has been a lot of volatility in our mineral revenues over the past few years, and that remains a concern for our future.”

 

The Wyoming Chapter of the AARP says tricksters have adjusted their plans to swindle people out of their money based on what’s going on around this time of year. Such scams include Medicare fraud, as scammers pose as insurance providers pretending to offer great deals, because the open enrollment period is underway.

 

Veterans Day is about 2 weeks away, and scammers are trying to get people involved in the Camp Lejeune Settlement. That incident involved US Marine Corps Personnel, their families and locals who either consumed or bathed in contaminated water at the Jacksonville, North Carolina camp, from 1953 to 1987.

An unassuming plesiosaur in Glenrock’s Paleon Museum has turned out to be a whole new species of dinosaur. The newly named Serpentisuchops pfiserae was first unearthered by Wyoming rancher Anna Pfister near the Badlands. She then donated the fossil to the Paleon Museum. At the museum, a group of volunteers, including a group of elderly women known as the “Glenrock Bone Biddies,” helped chip away at the bones. Once the skeleton, measuring more than 23 feet in length, had been cleaned, paleontologists soon realized that this was a species they had never seen before. Many other plesiosaurs around the world are now being reevaluated to see if they might actually be a Serpentisuchop, also known as a “snakey crocodile-face.”

Photo courtesy of University of Wyoming Athletics