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Bill Sniffin: My Personal Editor's Library Is Living On Borrowed Time
Bill Sniffin writes: “Despite my pride in them, I think these books will become dust catchers going forward into the future. Someday our kids and grandkids will have to lug all these books to some terrible place, like the dump."
Bill SniffinMarch 29, 2025
Joan Barron: Sure Hope You Can Find Your Birth Certificate By Next Election
Columnist Joan Barron writes: "I don’t think anyone wants to see illegal aliens voting in Wyoming elections, though the possibility is remote. But I also don’t believe that people want to disenfranchise residents who cannot comply with the new voter registration requirements."
Joan BarronMarch 29, 2025
Jonathan Lange: The Censorship Machine Is Exposed - Time To Destroy It
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "We didn’t have a word for the suppression of ideas during COVID-19. But this outrageous collusion of manufactured academic claims, official government denials of the truth, and non-governmental organizations has since been dubbed the 'censorship industrial complex.'"
Jonathan LangeMarch 28, 2025
Dennis Sun: Beef Producers Are Looking At Record Prices
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Cattle producers and the beef industry are both looking at record prices for beef products. These prices are expected to stay current or rise over the next couple of years as heifer retention has not showed up yet to grow the U.S. cattle herd."
Dennis SunMarch 28, 2025
Sally Ann Shurmur: Let's Reclaim Awesomeness After That Twisted Stalking Case
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, “I have had a behind the scenes view of the disgusting, despicable actions of a 41-year-old wife and mother, herself raised in Glenrock, who decided to stalk two teens with suggestive, sexually harassing texts."
Sally Ann ShurmurMarch 27, 2025
Tom Lubnau: I'm Addicted To Scrolling, But Bob Newhart Said 'STOPPIT!'
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "I had fallen into a destructive habit of surfing the internet instead of doing anything productive. I had to hearken back to the wisdom of comedian Bob Newhart, who bellowed, 'STOPPIT!'"
Tom LubnauMarch 26, 2025
Candy Moulton: Celebrating John Nesbitt – A Boy From The Country
Columnist Candy Moulton writes: “In his newly published autobiography Boy from the Country, John Nesbitt shares the hard, sometimes painful, stories of his growing up in rural poverty and how that shaped him into the writer he is.”
Candy MoultonMarch 25, 2025
Dave Simpson: 400 Bullet Holes, And They Made It Back
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “As his son-in-law, I'm biased. But this new book is a riveting look at the incredible sacrifice, and the deadly price paid by many everyday Americans who risked it all for love of country.”
Dave SimpsonMarch 24, 2025
Clair McFarland: Don't Harass Your Banjo Player
Clair McFarland writes, "Little-Feisty played ‘Joy to the World.’ Even with that banjo being just a pan, a neck, five strings and some invisible sprites, I could hear it well above the sound of ‘Thunderstruck.’”
Clair McFarlandMarch 24, 2025
Cassie Craven: Don’t Get Your Medical Advice From CNN
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “If an ultrasound were not completed prior to taking abortion pills, and a woman merely guessed at how far along she was and was wrong, the results could be devastating."
Cassie CravenMarch 23, 2025
Joan Barron: What About Accountability For New $7,000 School Voucher Payments?
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "What protection, readers have asked, is there to prevent a parent from taking the $7,000 school voucher and letting the kid sit on the couch and watch TV all day?"
Joan BarronMarch 22, 2025
Bill Sniffin: Too Hot! Too Cold? Too Windy! Why Do Old Men Talk About The Weather So Much?
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “The elderly talk about the weather because it appeals to everyone. The elderly get detached with what many younger people are interested in and often feel like they have nothing to offer. The elderly want to be heard.”
Bill SniffinMarch 22, 2025
Jonathan Lange: Barbuto’s Miscalculation Released The Flying Monkeys
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "By Wednesday, the protesters in Laramie totally forgot the narrative. Instead of looking like MAGA with misgivings, they looked like Portland anarchists. It was a disgrace."
Jonathan LangeMarch 22, 2025
Dennis Sun: The Post Office is Not Listening
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "The outgoing postmaster general wants DOGE to examine the 'unfunded mandates imposed on USPS by Congress,' as he calls them. Some of these are delivering mail six days a week and maintaining rural post offices. I believe those are services vital to rural America."
Dennis SunMarch 21, 2025
Sally Ann Shurmur: Hip, Hip Hooray And A Great New Book
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, “I have a new hip and it is a miracle, less than 24 hours in. But I also want to share a first novel by a longtime Casper resident that is available for purchase Tuesday.”
Sally Ann ShurmurMarch 20, 2025
Guest Column: Al Simpson -- "Be Honest And Do What Is Right For The People We Represent”
Don Hardy, author of 'The Life of Senator Al Simpson,' writes, "I was 16 years old when a tall attorney looked at me and smiled. 'You don’t know it, Don, but I do: you are a salvageable human being.' That didn’t seem likely since I had just landed on a two-year district court probation."
CSD StaffMarch 20, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Some Of Wyoming's New, Amazingly Stupid Laws
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "How did these bills become law? Legislators who do not want to be labeled as gun grabbers or abortionists chose not to amend them. So we got crappy laws instead."
Tom LubnauMarch 19, 2025
Guest Column: Senator Al Simpson. A Wyoming Treasure.
Former Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead writes, "During this time of division it is a great loss to lose someone like Al who didn’t view people with opposing views as enemies or with hate. Al did not shun those with opposing views, but instead, he listened."
CSD StaffMarch 19, 2025
Candy Moulton: When The Women Ran Jackson
Columnist Candy Moulton writes, "A group of strong-willed women took over the town of Jackson in 1920 when the town elected an all-female town council. And the women quickly swept the town clean – both literally and figuratively."
Candy MoultonMarch 18, 2025
Joan Barron: Alan Simpson Grew To Be A Statesman
Columnist Joan Barron, who has covered the Wyoming legislature since 1970, writes, "Calling themselves ‘just a couple of country lawyers,” Simpson and Herschler outsmarted the hot shot attorneys who flew in from New York and D.C. The trona industry won and the defeated eastern lawyers flew out of Cheyenne."
Joan BarronMarch 18, 2025
Dave Simpson: These Nuts Oppose Cutting Waste
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “Our Democrat friends have painted themselves into an impossible corner. And they're determined to keep right on painting."
Dave SimpsonMarch 17, 2025
Cassie Craven: What Is A Woman? Ask Esther Hobart Morris
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “Our Governor allowed the 'What is a Woman Act' to become law without his signature. He cast women's quest to have privacy rights and a biological reality in law as a 'national political itch to be scratched.'"
Cassie CravenMarch 16, 2025
Guest Column: Al Simpson And The Press
Mary Kay Hill, Al Simpson's longtime press secretary writes, "Al had a relationship with the press. It was complicated. He experienced the highest peaks of media praise and suffered the valleys of media condemnation. He expected authenticity and he despised a double standard."
CSD StaffMarch 16, 2025
Clair McFarland: Mom Says No More Mountain Haggery On The Video News
Columnist Clair McFarland writes: "Mom wants me to look clean and polished on Cowboy State Daily’s video newscast. But I want to exude enough mountain haggery to terrify the out-of-staters."
Clair McFarlandMarch 15, 2025