Joan Barron
Casper Star-Tribune
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Past articles by Joan:
Barron: Future shaky for property tax reform
Barron writes: As the Legislature is at the halfway point, the stack of property tax relief bills is sinking fast. → Read More
Barron: Lawmakers still shy about future pay
Barron writes: Better compensation is needed to attract more and better quality lawmakers. → Read More
Barron: Let us protect reporters
Barron writes: One of the bills filed for the Legislature this year would create a shield law for journalists. → Read More
Barron: Forging a compromise over property taxes
Barron writes: The big benefit of legalized gambling is the money it generates for the state and local governments. → Read More
Barron: Wyoming’s new golden egg
Barron writes: The big benefit of legalized gambling is the money it generates for the state and local governments. → Read More
Barron: A Cheyenne vision gets closer to reality
Barron writes: The Cheyenne Children’s Museum project appeared to be dead several years ago. → Read More
Barron: Wyoming's red tsunami
Barron writes: In Wyoming, however the red tide grew and gobbled up a few more legislative seats. → Read More
Barron: Buchanan chose judgeship over political office
Barron writes: Ed Buchanan wasn’t kidding when he said his career goal as a lawyer was to become a judge. → Read More
Barron: The nastiest race
Barron writes: Here it is early May and I am already weary of TV political campaign ads. → Read More
Barron: Capitol project on budget but not on time
CHEYENNE — The two main goals of the Capital Square Project are basic — bring it in on budget and on time. → Read More
Barron: Lawyers helping lawyers
CHEYENNE — Perhaps some of you remember seeing Gov. Matt Mead’s announcement on television earlier this year of a program to help lawyers with problems. → Read More
Barron: Why the media missed the Trump story
CHEYENNE — I must confess I rather enjoy watching the big guns in the national political press fall over themselves trying to explain why they missed the message in the → Read More
Barron: A bevy of local candidates
CHEYENNE — When Rick Kaysen ran for mayor eight years ago he began his door-to-door campaign early — at the end of May. → Read More
Barron: Looking for extra pots of money
News about state revenue has been pretty depressing lately. → Read More
Barron: Breaking old liquor laws
CHEYENNE — While Wyoming lawmakers will be working later this year on bills to tweak the state’s complicated collection of liquor laws, our neighbors to the south are making sweeping → Read More
Barron: Another prison debacle
CHEYENNE — During the inspection tour, legislators were surprised to find cracks everywhere in the penitentiary at Rawlins. → Read More
Barron: Unparking liquor licenses
CHEYENNE — The Cheyenne City Council recently voted to allow the transfer of an existing retail liquor license to Sam’s Club. → Read More
Barron: Demand high for free legal help
CHEYENNE — The county money clerks see them first — the distraught person hit with a legal summons they don’t understand and with no money for a lawyer. → Read More
Barron: A big move to tax Internet sales
CHEYENNE—The last time you bought a shirt or a new computer on the internet, did you pay the state the tax owed on the purchases? → Read More
Barron: The climate change war
CHEYENNE — It’s hard to believe that climate change was supported by the leaders of both major political parties in the 1990s. → Read More