Wyoming governor urges diversification

Gov. Jim Geringer is urging Wyoming legislators to develop policies that encourage continued diversification and quality growth in the state’s economy and reflect “faith in the future.”
The governor opened the Legislature’s 20-day Budget Session Feb. 19 with a generally positive report on Wyoming’s economy, but with a challenge to improve in key areas such as commercializing research and providing help in financing new ventures through new economic-development initiatives.
“Our economy is growing in Wyoming,” he said in his annual State of the State message. “It’s growing more slowly than our surrounding states, but I don’t consider that to be…