In this episode of the Voter Assurance Podcast, host Jan Jeter Otto is once again joined by Jonathan Clark to give listeners a special conversation with Jake Braun of Cambridge Global. Mr. Braun is Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Global Advisors (CGA) and Managing Director of Cambridge Global Capital (CGC). In this capacity, Mr. Braun has work...

Late in the afternoon on Monday, February 10th, 2020, the Wyoming State Legislature failed to pass House Bill 75, a measure intended to pave the way for Medicaid expansion. Although the bill failed before it could officially be introduced in the House of Representatives, examining the contents of House Bill 75 closely to determine whether or not ex...

Despite the clear cut law that names of government servants are public records, Superintendent Jillian Balow thinks she is above the law. School districts across this state will burn through more of our tax dollars hiring attorneys to try and weasel out of a simple public record request by Senator Tom James asking for the names and salaries of thos...

by Philip Baron, MBA At the October meeting of the interim Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs, a fifty-cent tax "fee" was proposed on every phone connection in the state. The proposed bill was not sponsored by the committee, who declined to vote on moving the bill out of committee. This fee would be administered in a similar way ...

by Philip Baron, MBA A proposed bill to tax electricity generated in Wyoming was heard Interim Joint Revenue Committee on Tuesday, Nov 12th, 2019. The committee failed to vote on the legislation. The proposal led by Sen. Cale Case, R – Lander, seeks to tax electricity generated in Wyoming at a rate of $1 a Megawatt-hour (MWH) or the gross receipts ...

Submitted by: Susan Gore Casper Star Tribune - Oct 25, 2019 Wyoming's need for protective elections statutes is more than obvious. Yet on Sept. 19 the Interim Corporations Committee voted down a voter ID bill. How did that happen? Practice varies across the state. Wyoming election clerks lack legal backup by which to deter non-residents. A person n...

by Philip Baron, MBA Many industries in Wyoming focus around the production of oil, gas, and coal. These industries have many small businesses and suppliers that support the miners who extract the minerals from the ground. Some of the support industries that build equipment or manufacture parts could find work making specialty parts for the aerospa...

As legislators face the spending problem in Wyoming, talk of Wyoming's first breed of an income tax still hovers in the air. A bill that failed in last year's session is back with a new name and projected to produce even less than originally estimated. Philip Baron lays it all out for listeners on the Chuck Gray show. 

by Philip Baron, MBA Wyoming's proposed corporate income tax is back in a new version that was presented at the Joint Revenue committee in Pinedale on September 19, 2019. This bill sponsored by Rep. Obermueller, R – Casper, passed the committee with a 9 – 4 vote. This new version of the bill would tax all businesses with more than 100 shareholders....

by Evan Blauser In 1963, New York became the first state to implement a new policy mandating that healthcare facilities (including nursing homes) comply with numerous state requirements in order to expand their facilities or construct a new building. The basic tenant behind the policy was that if the government is able to limit the expansion of hea...