Earlier this year, the Wyoming State Legislature, driven by the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, proposed cuts to the University of Wyoming budget of up to $60 million. Though the legislature ultimately restored UW’s full funding, the question on many Wyomingites’ minds was: why? Freedom Caucus members said the reason was to “get UW’s attention.” They certainly did that, and in doing so recalled an anti-intellectual strain in Western political culture th…
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.