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Cheyenne’s event is at Little America on Sunday from noon to 4 pm.

The Wyoming Business Council was quite busy in 2021. They worked on several projects with the Business Ready Communities Program and streamlined their foundational projects to help prepare for Wyoming’s future growth.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis is working on a comprehensive bill to help establish frameworks for digital assets in Wyoming. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Stable Coin, and Central Bank Digital Currencies, are the subject of these efforts.

Each week Blue Federal Credit Union and Wyoming News Now are teaming up to salute our community helpers with our Do Gooder award. This week’s recipient is Jessica Schwass.

Every year, the Women’s Legislative Caucus organizes an event called Leap into Leadership. This event is to encourage women to run for office.

Laramie County is showing an alarming trend, and parents should pay attention. Health officials are saying that children’s Covid-19 case numbers are going up. The week of Dec. 26th through Jan. 1st, case numbers for children ages 0 to 18 were 41.

UW’s Board of Trustees voted today (Thursday) to authorize the launch of the new academic unit. Reporting to the provost, it initially will be housed in the College of Engineering and Applied Science to accelerate its development. Eventually, the School of Computing will become a separate unit similar to the School of Energy Resources and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, with its own dean and interdisciplinary connections across the university.

As Omicron numbers increase, the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is looking at compensation to make sure nurses and staff stay happy.“Other than bonusing our nurses here in our organization and really looking at how can we increase the benefits and have really good benefits that entice them to stay here. Looking to try to find ways to just make this a comfortable environment for them to work so that they feel supported feel like they are part of the family and want to stay because of that,” said Tracy Garcia, Chief Nursing Officer and V.P. of Clinical Services.

Governor Gordon has issued the following statement applauding the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today that halts the OSHA vaccine mandate on private businesses. The Governor also expressed his disappointment at a second ruling by the court upholding a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate that applies to most healthcare workers.

Wyoming Superintendant of Public Instruction Jillian Balow is resigning. In a letter, Balow announced publicly that she will be stepping down after being asked to come into the same position in Virginia under Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin.

“The thing with criminals that is common across the board -- they don’t discriminate,” said Supervisory Special Agent James Marcy of the IRS Criminal Investigation Branch. “They don’t care who you are, where you are from, what college, town, business you run, operate or work at; their primary focus is to get your money or get your personally identifiable information to do bad things with that.