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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, March 9th. I'm Mac Watson.

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The Wyoming Legislature overrode four of Gov. Mark Gordon's 25 line-item vetoes to the budget Friday. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the governor says everyone is calling his budget a win.

"So, while the House maybe had more qualms with Gordon's line-item vetoes to the budget, the Senate only sent seven overrides, and the Senate had pretty much no debate, no issue. Overrode those – sent them on. The House had debates, and then ultimately only overrode three. And the big one was

the budget footnote. Gordon, when he was talking to Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols on Friday, was saying, 'Wow, this budget, everybody's claiming a win.' He said that more than 90% of his recommendations were ultimately adopted. So yeah, he was happy with the budget. Had some qualms about separation of powers, and wanted to give business-ready communities back its money and give UW more flexibility. And he succeeded at both of those vetoes."

The budget no longer hinges $10 million of the University of Wyoming's $40 million block grant on UW crafting a road map to $5 million in savings by Dec. 1st.

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An Evanston couple is celebrating the latest additions to their family — fraternal twins who together weighed more than 18 pounds. Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck reports the big babies were brought into the world naturally by an 82-year-old midwife.

"When they went for their 20 week ultrasound, they found out that they were going to have twins, fraternal twins. And so she wanted to have, still wanted to have the babies at home, but in Wyoming, there's a law that says you can't do that. You can't have twins at home with a midwife. And so she looked to a friend in Utah that she had mentored under, and called her and that that midwife, Chris Miller, helped her through prenatal time, and when it came time for the babies to come to birth, they went over to Ogden, Utah, and the babies were born. They were both over nine pounds, and according to the Wyoming Department of Health. They set a record with their weight together being over 18 pounds. So two new babies in the world, both of them very healthy, and both of them pretty hefty."

Hope and Raleigh Henderson welcomed the twins, a boy and a girl, into the world on March 3rd, — weighing 18 pounds, 10 ounces combined.

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It's been nearly 60 years since Doug Chamberlain, a Marine veteran and later a Wyoming legislator, came home from Vietnam. Cowboy State Daily's Zak Sonntag reports that the war changed him, as he's still haunted by the soldier he was ordered to leave behind.

"He was commanded to bury one of his fellow Marines, which was totally against the protocol of never leaving a fellow Marine behind. And he did so. And it got worse because he organized a follow up rescue mission to get this marine, and he would discover that some of the higher ups on the chain of command had also attempted to cover up the fact that they made this order, which was very much against everything that every Marine was told."

Long before he was a rancher, a rural postman, or speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Chamberlain was a Marine Corps captain in Vietnam who survived firefights, landmines, leeches, and cobra snakes.

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