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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Wednesday, November 20th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols takes you deeper into the stories that matter - and keeps up with the news, weather and sports in your part of Wyoming. Just tune into Cowboy State Daily Dot Com and join the conversation.

After a judge struck down Wyoming's two abortion bans on Monday, the state plans to appeal the decision to the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the announcement by Gov. Mark Gordon followed a Monday order by Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens, in which Owens cited a section of the Wyoming Constitution promising people the right to make their own health care decisions, and she made an official finding that abortion is health care.

"Governor Gordon announced early Tuesday morning that Wyoming is looking to appeal Judge Owens' decision. So they're going to tell the Wyoming Supreme Court, oh, there's something wrong with her decision or her reasoning, and we want you to send this back down for a trial or a change, and so we haven't, obviously haven't seen that argument yet. But this is far from over."

Gordon vowed to press on in defending the state's abortion bans.

Read the full story HERE.

Wyoming IDs may get a complete redesign in the near future that would include a special designation identifying people who aren't U.S. citizens on the state-issued cards.

Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that this upcoming session, the Wyoming Legislature will consider a bill adding a line to ID cards reading, "Not a United States citizen," as well as colors indicating the citizenship status of the cardholder.

"The proposal that was passed by the Transportation Committee on last but the proposal that was passed by the Transportation Committee last Friday will give a much larger label To these citizens and their status as not being able to vote in Wyoming elections. That's one of the primary reasons Secretary of State Chuck gray is supporting the bill, as he believes it will increase election security and make it extremely clear for election workers and election judges that someone with one of these IDs absolutely is not allowed to vote."

Non-U.S. citizen status is already noted on Wyoming ID cards with "NR" listed on the licenses. People who aren't American citizens cannot vote in Wyoming elections. People are also prohibited from holding two different state IDs at the same time.

Read the full story HERE.

Wyoming ranchers don't like federally mandated electronic cattle ID tags and might soon join other states in insisting that they stick to branding and other traditional means of tracking cattle.

The Wyoming Livestock Board passed resolutions a