Wyoming Business

The university wants to strengthen its partnerships with community colleges while also making sure students can transfer to UW.

"The endowment is going to incorporate everything from energy to tourism to ag to technology, which I think should be our next emerging sector, to everything including the taxes situation."

"If we’re going to bring in new industries to diversify us, whether it’s manufacturing or whatever it may be, we have to make sure that there is a tax benefit to that," Mead said.

National figures provide economic insights, business strategies Nov. 9-11 in Cheyenne

"It really needed to be done."

In the spring, there was an unprecedented decline in coal production.

The best overall ranking for the Cowboy State is largely due to Wyoming’s lack of corporate or individual income tax, as well as the state’s low sales tax.

For many city planners, the slowdown, spurred by an economic downturn, is a respite from the frantic development that sweeps across the state during boom times.

no members of the public spoke in favor of wind tax increases, even though lobbyists who represent fossil fuel companies sat through the entire discussion, which ultimately lasted nearly six hours.

"I will tell you it was quite intimidating," he said, "You need to have to some game." He declined to elaborate, citing a non-disclosure agreement.