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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, March 6th. 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 to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, host Jake Nichols brings you news, weather, sports AND in-depth interviews with news-makers from across Wyoming - presented with Jake's unique humor and lively commentary. Just click on the Cowboy State Daily homepage and join the live broadcast!

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Dick Cheney has been on President Donald Trump's political hit list for some time, and now a federal building named for the former vice president may be on a Department of Governmental Efficiency hit list to be sold amid a federal downsizing frenzy.

The federal building that houses prosecutors, U.S. Postal Service operations and other workers was the only Wyoming building on a U.S. General Services Administration list of federal buildings to liquidate, according to Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland.

"In some ways people are praising Trump for staying so busy, and in some ways, skeptics are like, whoa. This is a rocky rollout of a lot of things at once. And so it does look a little confusing here, because what you have is the Dick Cheney building, which houses federal prosecutors and postal service operations and a bunch of other things, was up to be sold. And so that was, you know, earlier this week, and then the GSA instantly turns around and removes that list of buildings that are going to be sold from its website. So I didn't ever get an answer from them… Casper locals were speculating like, does this have to do with the long time Trump-Cheney feud? No one I talked to confirmed or stated that that was the case."

The 55-year-old four-story structure at 100 E. B St. provides space for 151 federal employees from more than 20 federal agencies. It was built in 1970 and renamed the Dick Cheney Federal Building in 1999 to honor Cheney, who graduated from Natrona County High School in Casper.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Wyoming Legislature on Wednesday overrode Gov. Mark Gordon's veto of a bill requiring women to get ultrasounds before receiving abortion pills in Wyoming. The override was one of five the Legislature has issued to Gordon's vetoes so far this session.

The legislation passed both chambers with a large majority before the governor vetoed it Monday night, calling the ultrasound mandate a "personally invasive" and an "often medically unnecessary procedure." But Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that both the Senate and House voted to override the veto.

"Some of the senators who even still supported the override and supported the bill and who considered themselves pro life and abortion, even they expressed concern about this bill and what it could do, some like Senator Gary Crum, a Republican from Laramie expressed concern about the effect that this will have on women. He brought up, you know, the fact that this will require most women to get a transvaginal ultrasound, which could be very intrusive to a woman who's already experienced harm, such as a pregnancy by rape or incest… But then the others, like Senator Laura Pearson, a Republican from Kemmerer, said it's just simply about protecting the life of the unborn baby and the mother."

HEA 35 is one of two abortion bills passed during the 2025 session. The other regulates surgical abortion clinics as ambulatory surgery centers in Wyoming. Immediately after Gordon signed this bill into law it was challenged in court.

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