Election season is upon us: Teton County residents can officially start casting early absentee ballots Friday.
Jackson Hole News&Guide reporter John Spina has set aside his journalistic ambitions to try to get Republican Jackson billionaire Foster Friess elected as the next Wyoming governor.
The crowded field of candidates vying for Wyoming governor gathered in Jackson last week to send a message of steadfast support to a roomful of mining executives.
While coal, oil and gas have rebounded from the recent energy downturn, the state continues to face a $900 million structural deficit.
A Jackson Hole resident and entrepreneur who aims to represent Wyoming in the U.S. Senate no longer plans to run as an independent, meaning he’ll face incumbent John Barrasso in the Republican primary.
Voters will get to choose among eight candidates to fill three Teton County commissioner seats in the coming 2018 election.
Ballots are set for the Town Council’s 2018 election.
Most people know Jonathan Schechter as Jackson Hole’s data guru, but, with any luck, come November, he’ll be known as Councilor Schechter.
Former Teton County Commission Chairwoman Barbara Allen took her time deciding if she would run for the Wyoming Legislature this year, officially filing as a candidate for House District 16 just one hour before the 5 p.m. deadline Friday.
Just minutes before the election filing deadline Friday evening Jonathan Schechter, founder of the Charture Institute and a Jackson Hole News&Guide columnist, announced he will run for Town Council.
Fishing guide, resort employee and real estate agent Andrew Byron has filed to run for Teton County commissioner.
Builder Tim Rieser is running for the Teton County Board of County Commissioners as an independent, calling this year’s election a “pivotal time in the history of this valley.”
Wyoming treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Mark Gordon has announced campaign leadership committees for each county in Wyoming, according to a press release.
Born and raised in Jackson Hole, Arne O. Jorgensen simply won’t accept Jackson becoming a resort town.
Jackson musician and libertarian Judd Grossman is running again for Town Council to challenge big government. He came in third in the 2016 race, losing to Jim Stanford and Hailey Morton Levinson.
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Teton County Board of County Commissioners Chairman Mark Newcomb will seek a second term.
In today’s political climate candidates either tout themselves as outsiders capable of running government like a business or as experienced politicians who know how to work the system.
Mark Barron, who served as mayor of Jackson for 12 years, announced Tuesday he will run for the Teton County Board of County Commissioners.
County Commissioner Smokey Rhea will not run for re-election this fall after serving one four-year term on the Teton County Board of County Commissioners.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Foster Friess announced a statewide campaign tour Friday that includes four cities.
Teton County’s two most senior members of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Reps. Andy Schwartz, D-Teton, and Marti Halverson, R-Teton/Sublette/Lincoln, officially announced Monday they will run for re-election in 2018.
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Perennial Republican candidate Rex Rammell, who announced his 2018 gubernatorial campaign in January, informed the Wyoming Republican Party on Monday that he is considering switching to the Constitution Party.
Former Republican congresswoman Cynthia Lummis voiced her support of gubernatorial candidate Sam Galeotos on Wednesday, the first major endorsement of the election season.
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Rep. Mike Gierau, D-Teton, announced this weekend that he will vacate his seat in the state House of Representatives for a chance to join the Wyoming Senate.
Jackson resident, billionaire investor and philanthropist Foster Friess announced at the GOP convention in Laramie on Friday that he will run for governor of Wyoming in 2018.
State Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Mark Gordon is hosting a casual meet and greet from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at The Wort Hotel.
Election day is eight months away, and though the congressional and gubernatorial races are well underway, the local races have lagged.
State Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Mark Gordon announced Friday that he will be touring western Wyoming next week as part of his initial campaign push to 22 cities.
With plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency held public listening sessions all over the country to gauge Americans’ support for the idea.
State Sen. Leland Christensen, R-Teton, has served Teton County for most of his adult life. His campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, however, broadened his view of the state and its political ecosystem.
Alta native and longtime Teton County public servant and politician Leland Christensen announced Thursday afternoon that he is running for Wyoming treasurer, under the slogan of “Increase investment returns, not new taxes.”
Teton County Republicans gathered at Spring Creek Ranch last weekend to adopt a platform for the coming election season and the next two years.
David Dodson’s announcement that he will run against Sen. John Barrasso this year makes him the second Jackson-based entrepreneur to challenge the two-term senator for his seat in Congress.
David Dodson, a global entrepreneur based in Jackson, announced Thursday that he will challenge Republican Sen. John Barrasso for a seat in Congress this fall as an independent candidate.
Amid sexual assault allegations, Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray announced Friday that he will resign his post effective immediately.
Democrats won major victories in Virginia and Alabama in 2017, giving the party hope it can capitalize on President Donald Trump’s unpopularity during the 2018 midterm elections and flip several seats.
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Gary Trauner, who last week announced his 2018 Senate campaign, doesn’t care much for political parties.
Teton County voters said no to expanded transit services Tuesday, shutting down specific purpose excise tax propositions that would have replaced aging START buses and built a maintenance facility for town and county vehicles.
St. John’s Medical Center will move forward with its plan to build a new senior Living Center after winning by the second-largest margin in Tuesday night’s specific purpose excise tax election.
If the SPET election is a barometer of the community’s interest on various issues, affordable housing appears to be low pressure.
More than 4,000 Teton County residents voted yes on Jackson Hole Fire/EMS improvement projects in Tuesday’s specific purpose excise tax election.
The fate of 11 capital projects totaling $70 million will be decided by 7 p.m. Tuesday by the specific purpose excise tax vote.
In the wake of back-and-forth advertising campaigns pushing and panning the 11 specific purpose excise tax initiatives on the May 2 ballot, Jackson Town Councilman Jim Stanford organized a “debate” Thursday between public officials and special interest groups.
Voters have less than a week to decide which boxes to check in Tuesday’s specific purpose excise tax ballot.
With voter turnout for the May 2 specific purpose excise tax election expected to be around 30 percent, the difference between a successful campaign and a failed one could be razor thin.
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