I recently had a conversation with a legislator about the work done on property tax relief this year. As he campaigns for reelection, this legislator is often hearing from constituents about rising …
Editor: I just wanted to let you know I will not be renewing my subscription. After 28 years, I sold the cabin last fall. I got too old to take care of the place. I have enjoyed the paper …
B eing far away from home in Iceland and Britain for the last two weeks was perfect timing. Just as President Biden was proving to the whole country that he’s incapable of being president …
I often write letters to our offspring. We text almost daily, call a few times each month, and try to get together whenever we can, but I still like to write letters to them. Do they hate getting the …
Gov. Mark Gordon was right to applaud the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that hammered the final nail in the coffin of what was known as the “Chevron deference.” For states and their …
Wyoming’s long-term economic outlook presents a multitude of problems from the need for diversification to imbalances in our tax structures to failing workforce recruitment and the like. And …
When I hear the phrase “mass deportation,” I envision scenes from Poland in the 1940s. I know a lot of Republicans who would be appalled at that analogy, the kind of people who say …
G oing into Joe Biden’s debate with Donald Trump on CNN, the big question was whether Biden could last 90 minutes. We found out he couldn’t last 90 seconds. On Thursday night …
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was brimming with pride and arrogance last week when he signed into law a requirement that every classroom in his state — from kindergarten to college chemistry labs …
Thank God Willis Haviland Carrier invented air conditioning — for the most part. Before air conditioning, the heat drove us outside and brought us together. Friends sought the shade of …
T he Wyoming Legislature’s Republican supermajority doesn’t mean everybody gets along at the statehouse. A deep divide in the GOP spurred by the far right, with few Democrats to balance …
It’s your 248th birthday, America! Yikes! That’s a lot of birthday cakes. It’s also a lot of time to raise up quirky presidents, not to mention the rest of the nuts. When …
W ho do the liberal ladies of “The View” think they’re kidding? This week Joy Behar and her ragged troop of pretend political pundits were again acting terrified by the specter …
June marked the 80th anniversary of the historic day that America’s finest young men stormed the beaches of Normandy alongside their allied brothers from Canada, Great Britain and the Empire …
Editor: Recently my wife and I were staying at the Slate Creek campground along the Green River to the east of Kemmerer. I had to come to town for supplies. Never having been to your town …
So I turn on the news …. We’ve got wars raging in Ukraine and Israel. We’ve got nuke-carrying Russian warships visiting Cuba. We’ve got 4,000 illegal …
When Gov. Mark Gordon came to Gillette last December for a town hall meeting on mental health, there was a standing-room-only crowd and optimism in the air. At last, it seemed, government officials …
There are a few things fathers should remember, “When you’re raising your kids it’s the longest and the shortest time.” And Jack Dempsey said, “A champion is someone who …
I t was a good week for the Reagan family. Not so much for the Biden clan. On Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where my father is buried, there was a fine ceremony to …
Three cheers for the University of Wyoming and its board of trustees. They did the right thing in decommissioning the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, thereby deemphasizing …