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Cat Urbigkit: The Gift of Breaking Bread
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: "As we enter into the gift-giving season, please consider a gift to support the good work of our non-profit volunteer organizations."
Cat UrbigkitDecember 06, 2022
Dave Simpson: The Best Darned Library In Wyoming
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Wyoming has an abundance of quality libraries and friendly librarians. But for the best, come to Cheyenne."
Dave SimpsonDecember 05, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: Who Stands with the Anti-Ranching Vendetta?
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: Western Watersheds Project is classified as a non-profit organization. This public charity has a staff of 15 that are paid to attempt to accomplish the organizations goal to permanently remove livestock from public lands.
Cat UrbigkitDecember 03, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: Western Watersheds Project Grew From A Grudge
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: "Although Western Watersheds Project claims its mission is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and legal advocacy, its primary goal is to end public lands livestock grazing."
Cat UrbigkitDecember 02, 2022
Dave Walsh: Bold Prediction Puts Cowboys In Arizona Bowl
Dave Walsh writes: For most of College Football America, the biggest and most interesting day of the weekend is Sunday. After all those conference championships have been staged, there comes college footballs Selection Sunday.
Dave WalshDecember 01, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: Private Deals to Retire Public Grazing Permits
Cat Urbigkit writes: "Although the anti-grazing group Western Watersheds Project said the Sagebrush Habitat Conservation Fund wouldnt be used as a war chest for the anti-grazing group, within five years the Fund was funneling money to WWP, providing more than $2.2 million in six years.
Cat UrbigkitDecember 01, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: Where Did the Ruby Pipeline Money Go?
In part one of a four part series, columnist Cat Urbigkit looks at the deal Western Watersheds Project made with the Ruby Pipeline to see where the money went and if commitments were satisfied...
Cat UrbigkitNovember 29, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Terrifying Tales Of Treacherous Driving On Interstate 80 In The Winter Time
Bill Sniffin writes: Two and a half years ago, a horrific crash involving hundreds of big trucks and dozens of cars and pickups found themselves slamming into each other on Interstate 80. Four people were killed and dozens were injured. I-80 in the winter time is not to be dismissed."
Bill SniffinNovember 29, 2022
Dave Simpson: What’s The Name Of That Paper Again?
Columnist Dave Simpson got his start at the Laramie Boomerang 49 years ago this week. He covered everything from cattle mutilations and UFOs, failed prison escapes, and an intoxicated Easter bunny getting arrested.
Dave SimpsonNovember 28, 2022
Dave Walsh: It’s A Time For Family, Which Is What The Pokes Are
Dave Walsh writes: Your team becomes your family. Your teammates are your brothers and sisters. Coaches are often looked upon as father or mother-figures, or even older brothers or sisters.
Dave WalshNovember 25, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Lots To Be Thankful For – Mainly That Pandemic Is In Our Rearview Mirror
Bill Sniffin writes: I recall seeing a Lander sportsman standing before a teller in a local bank, with his pistol on his hip, wearing a mask and making a withdrawal.
Bill SniffinNovember 23, 2022
Greg Johnson: How I Made My First Real Date Projectile Vomit The Night Before Thanksgiving
Greg Johnson writes: Before getting out of the car, she made me promise to never tell anyone about what happened that night. I held up my right hand: pinky swear, double-dog-dare I promise. Its our secret. Of course, the first thing I did when I got home was tell my mom.
Greg JohnsonNovember 23, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: We Grieve
Last weeks national news reported the killing of three young men at the University of Virginia, four university students killed in Idaho, and five killed in a shooting rampage at a nightclub in Colorado. All these tragic losses of human life were at the hands of others
Cat UrbigkitNovember 23, 2022
Dave Simpson: A TV Dinner For Thanksgiving? Yup.
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "One year we had TV dinners for Thanksgiving. The kids loved it. They could have whatever they wanted, and they chose macaroni and cheese."
Dave SimpsonNovember 22, 2022
Dave Walsh: ‘Safety Dance’ Was Born From Wyoming’s First And Only Win Over Boise State
Dave Walsh writes: The Cowboys had scored a safety with 1:25 showing on the clock. Josiah Hall shuffled across the end zone with his hands clasped above his head, signaling safety. The safety dance was born.
Dave WalshNovember 18, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Seasonably Reasonable? Difficult Time With Politics, Football, Weather, Kanye . . .
Bill Sniffin writes: The answer is that with politics being as polarizing as it is, voters would vote for a cabbage if it was portrayed as being on their side.
Bill SniffinNovember 16, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: Working Lands Are Key to Migrations
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: "My travels around the ranch bisect a major wildlife migration corridor. The corridor has been busy the last few weeks, with recent snowstorms bringing mule deer out of the mountains and streaming through this mixture of private, state and federal lands."
Cat UrbigkitNovember 16, 2022
Dave Simpson: Let’s Turn Our Frowns Upside Down
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina said a Republican wave would be tantamount to Hitler taking over the country. Maybe the limp showing by Republicans will result in some lesser despot emerging, say a Benito Mussolini, a Fidel Castro, or a Papa Doc."
Dave SimpsonNovember 14, 2022
Dave Walsh: For Wyoming Football, Nothing’s More Special Than A Border War Win
Dave Walsh writes: The Border War game is special for all Cowboy football players, dating back more than a century. Saturdays game will be the 114th Border War, and the teams will play for the 77th year in a row.
Dave WalshNovember 11, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: The Shifting Moon
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: "I knew the livestock guardian dogs were gone because it was far too quiet, and Id dreaded what the morning might reveal..."
Cat UrbigkitNovember 08, 2022
Dave Simpson: Time To Forgive And Forget? Nope.
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "After almost three years of vilifying us over one often contradictory decree after another, the folks who made no secret of their frustration with us even firing some for not taking an experimental vaccine now those folks want understanding. I don't think so."
Dave SimpsonNovember 07, 2022
Dave Walsh: UW Football And Basketball On The Same Day
Columnist Dave Walsh writes: "There were many times back in the '90's, and right on through present day, when a Cowboy Football game and a Cowboy Basketball game, somehow got scheduled on the same day."
Dave WalshNovember 04, 2022
Cat Urbigkit: WildEarth Guardians Advocates For Expansive Federal Authority Over State Wildlife
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: "In two separate actions last month, the environmental group WildEarth Guardians asserted claims that federal laws preempt state laws when it comes to state wildlife management."
Cat UrbigkitNovember 01, 2022
Dave Simpson: Never A Better Time To Live In Wyoming
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Just once in the horrible surveillance videos we see of innocent people being beaten to within an inch of their lives, I long to see someone with the ability and the tools necessary to fight back."
Dave SimpsonOctober 31, 2022