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Joan Barron: More Wyoming Women Should Run For Election
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "The three senior women Senate leaders to watch are Tara Nethercott, a Cheyenne lawyer and majority floor leader; Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, a Torrington rancher; and Wendy Schuler, a retired Evanston teacher."
Joan BarronMarch 15, 2025
Bill Sniffin: The World Says Good-Bye To A Giant – Big Al Simpson’s Style Will Rarely Be Seen Again
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “The biggest news story I ever wrote was done working closely with Big Al. In 1990, a Lander gal named Midge Olson told me her husband died of cancer caused by working in the uranium mines. His body was so radioactive, grass would not grow on his grave."
Bill SniffinMarch 15, 2025
Jonathan Lange: The Weston County Clerk’s False Filing Cannot Be Ignored
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Clerk Hadlock has had more than four months to explain to the public how her false report of November 6, 2024, was not willfully false. Now the ball is in Governor Gordon’s court."
Jonathan LangeMarch 14, 2025
Dennis Sun: The Volatile Egg Industry
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "With egg prices at a record high and rising, multiple management methods are at work to try to solve the issue of low egg supplies. However, high egg prices are not entirely due to highly pathogenic avian influenza."
Dennis SunMarch 14, 2025
Rob Wallace: Al Simpson -- A Wyoming Kid Who Conquered The World
Guest columnist Rob Wallace writes of a photo in Al Simpson's room: "In the front row looking directly at Al were presidents Trump, Bush, Obama, Carter, and Clinton all laughing uncontrollably at something he had just said. It was the perfect memory of a kid from Wyoming who conquered the world."
CSD StaffMarch 14, 2025
Sally Ann Shurmur: How Big Is The Window On Your World?
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, “Once upon a time, there was an editor who didn’t talk much to me. He did say once though that in writing my columns, he appreciated the way I ‘put it all out there.’ Consider yourselves warned.”
Sally Ann ShurmurMarch 13, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Seeing The Eagles Hits Differently On This Side Of Life
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "My home life in the 1970s was dysfunctional, oftentimes violent. The Eagles’ “Hotel California” struck a chord with me. But seeing that opening number Friday in the Sphere was like putting prescription glasses on for the first time."
Tom LubnauMarch 12, 2025
Candy Moulton: Off The Grid, At Least Temporarily
“We had no power for 22 hours in Saratoga and Encampment this weekend. I thought briefly about the things I could do with no power – like clean the house – but I successfully resisted that opportunity. And the outage pales in comparison to the 25-year outage that once happened here.”
Candy MoultonMarch 11, 2025
Dave Simpson: Good News – Legislature Was Not 'Horrible'
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "You might not have thought we needed 165 new laws, but it could be a lot worse. Hundreds of bills were proposed.”
Dave SimpsonMarch 11, 2025
Cassie Craven: The Wyoming I Know Is Back
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “We bucked the system, stirred the pot, spoke the truth and didn’t back down. Both chambers did the people’s work. And it was damn good work.”
Cassie CravenMarch 09, 2025
Bill Sniffin: Can I Whisper ‘Golden Age’ As We Contemplate Wyoming’s Immediate Future?
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes, “Wyoming will benefit greatly by the presidency of Donald Trump. With a fossil fuel-friendly administration, a friendly Congress, and the sensible Supreme Court, Wyoming’s capacity for generating energy here has not seen such a green light in decades."
Bill SniffinMarch 08, 2025
Joan Barron: Maybe Next Year Will Be Better
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "It was a good thing for the Legislature to quit two days early this year. That way the lawmakers could not do any more damage to the Legislature as an institution than they already have."
Joan BarronMarch 08, 2025
Jonathan Lange: This Year’s Flood Of Election Integrity Bills Accomplished Great Things.
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Kudos to Secretary of State, Chuck Gray for tirelessly pushing the legislature to fulfill its constitutional mandate to “pass laws to secure the purity of elections, and guard against abuses of the elective franchise.”
Jonathan LangeMarch 07, 2025
Dennis Sun: The World Has Gotten Smaller
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "America needs to stop accepting beef from Paraguay as it doesn’t have strict health regulations over its cattle. Ranchers are worried about imported meat bringing in disease, especially foot and mouth disease."
Dennis SunMarch 07, 2025
Sally Ann Shurmur: Farewell To Colleague And Friend Jason Marsden
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, "Back before the big corporate buyout, before reporters thought they should make a union, before home delivery stopped, we were a family."
Sally Ann ShurmurMarch 06, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Actually, The Wyoming Senate Is More Conservative Than The House
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "The Senate did not react well to pressure from mysterious puppet masters. When dealing with the budget the upper chamber instead coalesced into a cohesive body. Leadership agreed to kill the budget, and no one on the Senate floor made a move to overrule Leadership."
Tom LubnauMarch 06, 2025
Candy Moulton: All Aboard! Let’s Get Amtrak Back
Candy writes: “Next to traveling on a wagon, taking a ride on a train very well may be my favorite mode of transportation.”
Candy MoultonMarch 05, 2025
Clair McFarland: Sure, False Spring, I’ll Fall For You
Columnist Clair McFarland writes, "I’m not blind to the fact that it’s going to snow tomorrow. This warm spell was a trickster and a flirt, designed to put me off my guard. And it succeeded."
Clair McFarlandMarch 03, 2025
Dave Simpson: Blame It All On The Freedom Caucus?
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “Keep in mind that the awful stuff you hear about the Freedom Caucus might be what Sen. Larry Hicks calls fertilizer.”
Dave SimpsonMarch 03, 2025
Cassie Craven: The Wild Bunch Is Wyoming
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “Gordon’s letter quoted an unnamed neighbor: ‘This wild bunch doesn’t understand Wyoming.’ With all due respect, Governor, the wild bunch was elected in a near landslide, despite your big-time money and endorsements trying to stack the deck. Maybe you and your friends don’t understand Wyoming.”
Cassie CravenMarch 02, 2025
Rod Miller: The 800-Pound Gorilla In The Wyoming Classroom
Columnist Rod Miller writes: "Absent the immediate writing and passage of an amendment to the Wyoming Constitution that says lawmakers can do what they damn well please with school funding, our citizen legislature has its work cut out for it. And it all circles back to our Constitution."
Rod MillerMarch 02, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Wyoming's Constitution Demands Fairer Teacher Pay
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "The Legislature has played games with teacher pay. Sometimes lawmakers dole out an increase just for one budget year, so the pay would slump right back down after that year - falling even further behind inflation."
Tom LubnauMarch 02, 2025
Joan Barron: Legislature Pedaling Back 50 Years
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "The recent movement to ignore the supplemental budget is clearly Freedom Caucus-inspired and is meant, at least partially, to target and embarrass Gov. Mark Gordon."
Joan BarronMarch 01, 2025
Bill Sniffin: Two Funerals, Two Monte’s, And An Inspirational Dream
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “This column is a somewhat different from my normal writings. It just seemed important to share these stories with you today.”
Bill SniffinMarch 01, 2025