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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Wednesday, June 4th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by the Wyoming Community Foundation, who asks you to give back to the place you call home. "5 to thrive" is YOUR opportunity to leave a legacy for generations to come. Support the community nonprofits you care about with a gift through the Wyoming Community Foundation. Visit wycf.org to learn more.

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The Wyoming Democratic Party's State Central Committee is operating at a loss and could be left with about two weeks worth of funding by the end of the year.

That's what the party's treasurer said during a Sunday meeting in Rock Springs, at which Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland was present. But when information was presented showing that the party has been spending more money than it has been raising each month, the Democratic State Central Committee passed a motion ordering that the press was not to air the budget publicly.

"I was taking pictures of the itemized budget slides that were being projected onto… a platform, and the former vice chair was like, Well, you know, we gotta, we gotta make a motion. You can't publish these. And I had not agreed to those terms beforehand, and they had allowed me to enter their meeting, and they have vowed publicly that their meetings will remain open, despite a members only clause in the bylaws. And so after consulting with our attorney and our editors, we did go ahead and decide to air those budget slides for their public interest and political importance."

This year the Nellie Tayloe Ross fundraiser dinner – the party's major fundraising event – amassed $5,000 in revenue after its $12,000 in expenses. As of the meeting, the treasurer projected the party would have just one and a third months of reserves if it stopped making revenue.

Read the full story HERE.

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The "hard hazing" of a popular Grand Teton grizzly and her three yearling cubs led to two of the cubs being killed and cannibalized by a large male grizzly.

That's what a prominent wildlife photographer told Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz, referring to the death of two of Grizzly 1063's yearling cubs in May. Tom Mangelson said he thinks that wildlife officials hazing the bears away from residential areas caused 1063 and her cubs to become separated, giving a male grizzly a chance to kill the cubs.

"He is voicing very strongly the opinion that the hazing of those bears by the Park Service is what separated mom from the yearling cubs, and provided that male the opportunity to come in and kill two of them. The Park Service… have previously stated that they didn't monitor the hazing, and they did not see that occurring. You know, 1063 and her cubs had been going into some inhabited areas, and that's why they were hazing."

Like Grizzly 399 before her, 1063 (which Mangelson and his partner have named Bonita), likes to hang out near roadways and other crowded areas. That's why so many were aghast when two of 1063's cubs were killed, and the third went missing.

The third cub later reunited with its mother, apparently uninjured, much to the delight of Grand Teton Grizzly watchers.

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