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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, October 15th. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B forward slash story."

– When two Natrona County School District 1 trustees showed up for a Friday meeting over a controversy that's sprung up around new Turning Point USA chapters in the district, they were told to leave. Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck reports Superintendent Angela Hensley made it clear that the school board members weren't welcome.

"They had been invited by Kylie Walsh, who's been at the center of a controversy, and the leader of the Natrona County High School Turning Point USA America…they just wanted them to be witnesses and observers. When they got there, they told me that the superintendent directed them away from the meeting, said that they were not board trustees in that sense at that meeting, and basically asked them to leave."

The parents of Natrona County High School TPUSA student leader Kylie Wall invited the trustees to the meeting and told Cowboy State Daily they left feeling as if their concerns had not been resolved. The school district issued a "statement of clarity" about TPUSA chapters, stating that they wanted to "provide stakeholders with an understanding of processes while encouraging continued support."

Read the full story HERE.

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Speaking of Natrona County high school, The Natrona County school district meeting room was packed on Monday night with many people having an opinion on the district's controversy involving Turning Point USA Club America chapters. Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck reports that more than 20 people spoke and had three minutes to express their opinions. And opinions varied.

"One of the themes of the night was support for the high school principal, that he does a good job and that he didn't deserve criticism. Another theme of the night was that from some of the students…at least three of them were against the formation of a TP USA club. They used words like homophobic…And then there was members from the TP USA Wyoming, the president of the TP USA Wyoming University of Wyoming chapters came and spoke and just talked about the need for students to be able to dialogue on …hard subjects."

The district school board meeting concluded with the decision that the TP USA club can continue in Natrona County High School as long as it follows school policy.

Read the full story HERE.

– Lawmakers are starting to point fingers after Radiant Nuclear dumped Wyoming for Tennessee. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports some legislators say the state made a catastrophic mistake in not embracing the industry.

"You have folks like Senator, yeah, folks like Senator Ed Cooper, who spent a lot of time getting to know this industry and promoting it and being very bullish about what it means for Wyoming's economy…Governor Gordon chimed in and really branded those that vocally opposed radiant as 'Club No" that they were more interested in turning something away than developing something. And so, yeah, the feelings were raw and fresh."

Matt Wilson, a representa