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- ↑ Joan Barron (January 8, 2011). "Education, states' rights expected to dominate 2011 Wyoming Legislature" . Billings Gazette . Casper Star-Tribune. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016.
- ↑ Joan Barron, 'Lawmakers view lottery differently', in Casper Star-Tribune , January 31, 2003
- ↑ Associated Press, 'Wyo. legislators seek ‘cowboy ethics’ code', on Boston.com, February 24, 2010 Archived 2012-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Dustin Bleizeffer, 'Coal turns economic wheels outside the mines', in Casper Star-Tribune, January 28, 2009
- ↑ "Council of State Governments Executive Committee". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-11-02.