First Female Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyo., Will Confront Tough Fiscal Challenges

Route Fifty: As she went door-to-door during her campaign, Marian Orr, the mayor-elect, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, said the feedback she heard from city residents mostly had to do with government basics.

“I heard so much about potholes,” she told Route Fifty in a phone interview last week. “It was ‘fix the roads, fix the infrastructure, and put more police on the street.’”

Orr made local history on Nov. 8 when she was elected as the first female mayor of Cheyenne, which is Wyoming’s capital and the state’s most populous city, with about 63,000 residents.

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