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Cassie Craven: Welfare Was Supposed To Be Our Job
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “The shift of society away from the church-based and community welfare efforts, toward the government was no good for our fellow man. Neither were the technological advances that made us distant, isolated, and serotonin-addicted."
Cassie CravenNovember 24, 2025
Clair McFarland: What I Want To Say Before The Bots Take Over
Clair McFarland writes: "Artificial intelligence is threatening to replace real human beings with the sum of our least complete thoughts. But for the space of this column, let me be an individual."
Clair McFarlandNovember 22, 2025
Joan Barron: UW Tax Exemptions Have Laramie Steamed
Columnist Joan Barron writes, “The amount of property tax income lost to the City of Laramie and to Albany County from the University of Wyoming exemption totals about $4 million to more than $5 million a year. And the citizens would prefer the payments be in cash."
Joan BarronNovember 22, 2025
Jonathan Lange: Annoying Emails Are Not Exempt From The First Amendment
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "We still don’t know how many emails are being diverted. And we don’t know what percentage of them are constitutionally protected communications from Wyoming citizens to their elected officials."
Jonathan LangeNovember 21, 2025
Dennis Sun: It was a Good News Week
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "It’s not often agriculture has a week where good news abounds, but this was the case last week."
Dennis SunNovember 21, 2025
Scott Clem: The Spoiled Mob And Spooked Alarmists Have Been Here A While
Columnist Scott Clem writes: “It may seem new that our political culture looks like part spoiled mob, and part spooky-conspiracy-theory, tin-foil hat club, but it's not. The historical terms are modernity and post-modernity. They’re not new, and they’ve shaped our politics, morality, and spirituality."
Scott ClemNovember 21, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Clear Creek Wood Bank – Making Wyoming Better
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "The Clear Creek Wood Bank is a charitable project out of Buffalo. Its mission is to 'ensure no one ever has to choose between eating and heating.' Last year it distributed 128 cords of cut/split firewood to 892 families in northern Wyoming.
Tom LubnauNovember 19, 2025
Bill Sniffin: Wyoming Is Where The Wild Things Are
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “Badgers, bears, wolves, elk, deer, beavers, wild horses, plus just about every other critter. Here in Wyoming, we live in the wildest of places.”
Bill SniffinNovember 18, 2025
Dave Simpson: Don't Bet The Farm On 'Coming Together'
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “This whole 'coming together' thing is a pipe dream anyway. Last time it happened, after 9-11, the togetherness only lasted a couple months before we were back at each others' throats.”
Dave SimpsonNovember 17, 2025
Gail Symons: Leadership Wyoming Turns The Awkward Into Empathy
Columnist Gail Symons writes: "The payoff for Leadership Wyoming does not surface in a single headline. It shows up in quieter ways, years later. When a decision crosses their desks, the alumni conjure memories of coal dust, hospital waiting rooms, tribal offices, and rural main streets."
Gail SymonsNovember 17, 2025
Cassie Craven: Dumb Watchdogs Beware
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “Don’t put your belief in people. Trump, leadership, a governor. They will all let you down. Put your belief in God. Something that is pure and true and good. Something that doesn’t involve killing and pretending to be what we are not."
Cassie CravenNovember 17, 2025
Bill Sniffin: Four Of Wyoming’s Television Icons Are Gone
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes, "If Wyoming had a Mount Rushmore for large Wyoming personalities who were on the national TV news constantly, it would be Al Simpson, Dick Cheney, Gerry Spence, and Foster Friess. All were constantly appearing on national TV programs in their prime."
Bill SniffinNovember 16, 2025
Joan Barron: Will We Let Wyoming's Small Towns Die?
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "Could we, in good conscience, let Lost Springs die? Or Manderson? Or Hyattville? I think as long as Wyoming has money in the bank, they will get state help. Whether that is wise or not is debatable."
Joan BarronNovember 15, 2025
Dennis Sun: U.S. Lamb and Beef are Not Overpriced
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "This country can’t keep providing dollars to those who don’t want to work, especially immigrants who just want to live off the dole. In some ways, a person can’t blame them as they received all they needed when they crossed the border."
Dennis SunNovember 14, 2025
Jonathan Lange: Don’t Just Condemn Bullying, Refuse To Participate
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Wyoming has a problem with bullying and it’s not confined to the classroom. This toxic behavior is on full display in state and local politics as well. Notice the reflexive tendency to label and berate people rather than dispassionately discuss policy.
Jonathan LangeNovember 14, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Freedom Caucus – A Year In Review
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "The Freedom Caucus has never passed a budget. They are living off the wisdom of prior legislators, they call the 'insiders' or the 'elite.' We haven’t yet seen the long-term effect of their policies. They are living on the coat tails of those they ridicule."
Tom LubnauNovember 13, 2025
Clair McFarland: Turns Out You All Weren't Lying About The Northern Lights
Clair McFarland writes: "It’s not the swatches of red that make this sight awe-ful. It’s not y’all with your enhanced photos. It’s knowing that a whirring, indifferent force came for me, and I was spared."
Clair McFarlandNovember 12, 2025
Bill Sniffin: If You Live In Wyoming, You MUST Love Seasons
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “Wyoming residents can experience heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, at just about any time of the year. Yes, you need to appreciate seasons!”
Bill SniffinNovember 12, 2025
Dave Simpson: Cheney Didn't Look Like A Future VP At The Time
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “Early in his career, Dick Cheney flew under the radar. Quiet, competent, he was almost never the lightning rod, rising in the leadership in the House. That would change when he served as Secretary of Defense and Vice President.”
Dave SimpsonNovember 10, 2025
Gail Symons: Election Bill Solutions Without Problems
Columnist Gail Symons writes, "These bills [approved by the Joint Corporations Committee for Wyoming's 2026 Budget Session] aren't responding to Wyoming problems. They're importing fear from cable news and 2020 conspiracy theories that collapsed in court."
Gail SymonsNovember 10, 2025
Cassie Craven: Don’t Politicize My Conservativism
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “The attempt by several voices around the state to discredit the Freedom Caucus as a bunch of tinfoil crazies because they talk about chemtrails and transparency in government is wild to me."
Cassie CravenNovember 10, 2025
Bill Sniffin: On Vets Day, We Thank The Vietnam Generation – We Know Them Well
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “Vietnam was a horror for my generation. I know lots of men who survived but were left with serious battle scars.”
Bill SniffinNovember 08, 2025
Joan Barron: The Dick Cheney I Remember
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "During the spring of 1978 he was the cute guy who entered the press room of the Capitol Building in Cheyenne. Dick Cheney had a wicked sense of humor, could talk freely and at length on policy issues, yet was far from being a social chatterbox."
Joan BarronNovember 08, 2025
Jonathan Lange: Truth Makes Best Policy, and Hageman Knows It
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, “Federal subsides do not make green energy cheaper to produce. They only make it cheaper to buy. And when those subsidies go away, power producers will simply recoup their costs from the consumers. That’s Economics 101."
Jonathan LangeNovember 07, 2025