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Librarian Brooky Parks is shown outside the library on the campus of the University of Denver on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, in Denver. Parks, who was fired for standing up for programs on anti-racism and LGBTQ+ stories she organized for teens at the Erie Community Library north of Denver, won a $250,000 settlement in September with the assistance of the Colorado Civil Rights Division. She now works as a librarian at the University of Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings
By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press
Wed,11/08/23-1:00AM , 99 Reads
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas.
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Three people sit with a sign at a Campbell County, Wyo., Library Board meeting, July 23, 2023, in Gillette, Wyo. The library system is among several local and state libraries that have cut ties with the American Library Association amid criticism that the librarian professional group, which has stood up for books some deem harmful to youngsters, has become politicized. (Ed Glazar/Gillette News Record via AP)

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Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books
By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press
Tue,09/05/23-5:18AM , 184 Reads
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged with new policies making such books a higher priority for removal — and keeping out of collections.
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A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. Wyoming's first-in-the-nation ban on abortion pills will come before a state judge Thursday, June 22, 2023, as the court considers whether the prohibition should take effect as planned July 1 or be put on hold pending the outcome of a lawsuit. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Judge blocks Wyoming’s 1st-in-the-nation abortion pill ban while court decides lawsuit
By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press
Thu,06/22/23-1:02AM , 210 Reads
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban them won’t take effect July 1 as planned while a lawsuit proceeds.
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A sign hangs at a Taco Bell on May 23, 2014, in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Declaring a mission to liberate "Taco Tuesday" for all, Taco Bell asked U.S. regulators Tuesday, May 16, 2023, to force Wyoming-based Taco John's to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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'Taco Tuesday' trademark tiff flares anew between fast food competitors
By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press
Tue,05/16/23-2:04PM , 115 Reads
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Declaring a mission to liberate “Taco Tuesday” for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force Wyoming-based Taco John’s to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark.
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