I have written these pieces after elections before. This is the first one I have written without much hope. Full disclosure, as always: I’m a conservative, I live in Gillette, and I ran against Eric Barlow twice. I lost both times by about 100 votes. The results are in. Eric Barlow is our next governor… Read More »Notes After the 2026 Election
The deadline to file for the 2026 primary closed on a Friday. By Saturday, I had two pieces of mail from a group called BWAR on my desk. Two were the same glossy attack card. Two were handwritten postcards that looked like a couple of concerned neighbors had just happened to write me the same… Read More »Registration Closed Friday. The Lies Showed Up Saturday.
Blue Republicans tell us one of the Great Attractors to Wyoming is that we do not have an income tax. ‘Wyoming has no income tax…we have low sales taxes…Wyoming is a low tax state. Come! Come to Wyoming!’ Well, despite no income tax and low sales taxes, according to the United States Census Bureau, Wyoming… Read More »States with No Income Tax…Wyoming is the 2nd Worst State
Full disclosure before we start: I’m a conservative. I live in Gillette. I built Evidence Based Wyoming because Wyoming voters deserve data, not narrative, when they try to figure out what their legislators are actually doing in Cheyenne. Bias disclosed, methodology documented, numbers verifiable. Recently, I published an analysis of the 2026 Wyoming House showing… Read More »The Other Chamber: Why Conservative Fiscal Policy Dies in the Wyoming Senate
As many of you know, Wyoming’s real GDP growth from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2024, was the LOWEST of any state in the country. (Note: final ’state’ based data for 2025 has not yet been published by the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis) To ensure we are comparing apples to apples, these… Read More »Laramie County
As always, full disclosure before we start: I’m a conservative. I live in Gillette. I built Evidence Based Wyoming because Wyoming voters deserve data, not narrative, when they try to figure out what their legislators are actually doing in Cheyenne. The analysis in this article is built on real votes, documented methodology, and numbers you… Read More »The Budget Wyoming Actually Got: Conservative Discernment vs. a Progressive Rubber Stamp
For those looking for my normal political commentary, this isn’t it. I wrote this a few months ago and have nowhere else to put it. I’ve been involved with AI at the margins for a long time. It’s just awesome in what it can do, but can it truly replace a person? I do not… Read More »The AGI Incoherence Triangle
Congratulations to Governor Mead and Governor Gordon! Now we know why our younger generation is leaving Wyoming. No wonder our younger Wyoming generation cannot afford anything here…our median household income is DREADFUL. From 2010-2024, Wyoming’s growth in median household income was the 47th worst in the country (including District of Columbia). If not for DC, Wyoming… Read More »Wyoming Ranks #47
For more than a decade, the Evidence Based Wyoming Legislator Comparison tool has given Wyoming citizens something no campaign mailer or advocacy scorecard ever could: an unfiltered look at how their legislators actually vote. From a single launch page, you could pull up conservative-liberal rankings, check legislative transparency, track critical defections, score bills yourself, dig… Read More »Evidence Based Wyoming: The Next Evolution
Wyoming taxpayers spend more per student than nearly any state in the nation. Our graduates can’t do college math. That’s not opinion. That’s what the data shows. The Numbers Per-pupil spending (FY2023): $19,332 — 17% above the national average of $16,560. ACT math college-readiness (Class of 2024): Only 26% of Wyoming graduates met the benchmark.… Read More »The Wyoming Education Paradox: $19,332 Per Student, 74% Not College-Ready
