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Gail Symons: Believe It Or Not, Our Counties Don't All Share The Same Budget
Columnist Gail Symons writes: "Prop One supporters insist local governments can absorb the loss. Their proof? Add up all 23 counties and declare everyone can afford it. But Wyoming’s counties don’t share one budget or bank account."
Gail SymonsOctober 26, 2026
Joan Barron: Interim Legislative Work Hangs In Legislative Balance
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "This year there is a pall over many of the end-of-year committee meetings, because the election defeat of so many Freedom Caucus members changed the makeup of the Legislature.”
Joan BarronOctober 24, 2026
Bill Sniffin: The Indian Ghosts Of Wyoming’s Vast Red Desert Haunted Jimmy Smail
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes, "Some stories are so strange that you almost hate to believe them. But when they are told by someone you know, someone you respect, and someone who has spent a lifetime exploring one of Wyoming’s most mysterious places, well, you listen."
Bill SniffinOctober 24, 2026
Jonathan Lange: Write-In Confusion Degrades Voter Confidence
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, “To exempt portions of the ballot from proper counting procedures makes them a sham. Either remove write-in votes from the ballot or count them properly. Anything else is just one more reason for voters to doubt elections.”
Jonathan LangeOctober 24, 2026
Rod Miller: Why Hasn't Bryan Miller And The Wyoming GOP Endorsed Eric Barlow?
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "GOP chairman Bryan Miller and the state Central Committee are sitting on their hands and remaining close-mouthed about Checkgate Becky’s demonstrated RINO-hood. And they have yet to endorse their own nominee for governor."
Rod MillerOctober 23, 2026
Tom Lubnau: A Party That Wants to Flush Fifty Years of Winning
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "Chuck Gray is running affordability ads in October. When a Republican in Wyoming starts airing poll-tested commercials this late in the race, somebody on his staff is reading numbers they don't like."
Tom LubnauOctober 22, 2026
Fred Harrison: Why Wyoming's Elections Expose a National Security Crisis
Columnist Fred Harrison writes, "When concerned citizens retained me as legal counsel to examine Wyoming's voting apparatus, I began as a skeptic. But what emerged is a sobering record of statutory disregard and unverified systems that persist today."
Fred HarrisonOctober 21, 2026
Dave Simpson: What's Next? A Plague Of Locusts?
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “Threats and dire predictions are coming fast and furious, with just two weeks left before we vote on Prop 1, the property tax reduction referendum. I expect to hear there will be a plague of locusts if voters pass Prop 1."
Dave SimpsonOctober 20, 2026
Gail Symons: Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics On Prop One
Columnist Gail Symons writes: A news story captured Rep. Ann Lucas saying her family home's property taxes rose 70%. Treasurer records show a 1% increase from 2019. Shouldn’t her statements reflect what she’s actually paying?
Gail SymonsOctober 19, 2026
Tom Lubnau: Governor's Debate — Louder And Faster Doesn’t Make It True
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "Bextel fired off claims about scams, swamp creatures and baseball bats while Barlow explained the Constitution and the budget process. If you were scoring on volume, Bextel won. But, volume is not the measure. Competence is."
Tom LubnauOctober 18, 2026
Bill Sniffin: $66 Billion Project Could Be Poster Child Of Wyoming’s Latest Boom
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “Wyoming, by tradition, has functioned as a boom/bust economy over its long years of statehood. Today, we are seeing perhaps its 16th boom. This is great news.”
Bill SniffinOctober 18, 2026
Joan Barron: Tax Referendums Hot Here And In Colorado
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "Although Colorado and Wyoming have wide differences in their political leanings and lifestyles, the two neighboring states have something in common. Both states have explosive tax issues on their general election ballots."
Joan BarronOctober 18, 2026
Dennis Sun: Looking Forward to Election Day
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Maybe people in Washington, D.C. think off-road vehicles are like golf carts and cause no damage, but there is a reason there are no knobby tires or four-wheel drive on golf carts."
Dennis SunOctober 16, 2026
Jonathan Lange: Prop 1 Re-Balances What Outsiders Skewed
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "Don’t let the dark money fool you again. Proposition 1 is not a 50% reduction of property tax. It is not even a 50% reduction of residential property tax. I will be voting for Prop 1. Once you understand the real issue, I think that you will, too."
Jonathan LangeOctober 16, 2026
Rod Miller: Governor's Debate — Swamp Monsters, Short People, And Deep-State Bureaucrats
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The kindest thing that can be said of Rebecca Bextel's debate performance is that her hair never really ignited, it just smoldered several times. She revealed that she has less of an understanding of the role of governor than does Ken Casner."
Rod MillerOctober 16, 2026
Ken Buck: France's Debt Crisis Offers a Cautionary Lesson for US Lawmakers
Columnist Ken Buck writes, "France's debt crisis offers a glimpse of what's to come if lawmakers in Washington cannot prove those perceptions wrong and work together to get our national debt on a sustainable, downward path."
Ken BuckOctober 15, 2026
Tom Lubnau: Dealing With Election Cognitive Bias, Or Missing The Gorilla In The Room
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "As voters, we have to tune out the slogans and the name-calling and ask a simple question: Does this candidate have the skills to do the job, or is this just another blowhard tossing out catchphrases that tickle our biases?"
Tom LubnauOctober 15, 2026
Rod Miller: The Ghost Of Oral Eathorne And Election Trick-Or-Treating
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Oral Eathorne – erstwhile leader of Wyoming’s Republicans – endorses not the GOP nominee, but the fringe candidate from the tiny Constitution Party, Rebecca Bextel, who abandoned the GOP. How’s THAT for weird?"
Rod MillerOctober 13, 2026
Fred Harrison: The Delusion Of The Sovereign Self — Lindsay Clancy, The Lone Juror, And The Battle For The American Soul
Columnist Fred Harrison writes, "Outside the Plymouth courthouse, a grotesque spectacle unfolded. Hundreds of women, cloaked in pink and clutching signs, gathered not to mourn the dead children, but to canonize the woman who killed them."
Fred HarrisonOctober 13, 2026
Dave Simpson: No Thanks. I Won't 'Turn Off Fox News'
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “Those of us with high mileage on our odometers remember what the news media was like in the days before Fox News. The nightly news was all put together by dedicated liberals. And that was the only option.”
Dave SimpsonOctober 12, 2026
Gail Symons: Stop Fighting Everyone And Explain Why You Deserve Our Votes
Columnist Gail Symons writes, "For the first time since 1974, I won't vote for the Republican nominee for U.S. House or U.S. Senate. That's not an easy decision, and it doesn't mean I've abandoned my principles. It means I'm applying them."
Gail SymonsOctober 12, 2026
Bill Sniffin: Fall Colors Remind Of Three Great Photographers, Randy, Ted, Daryl
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “I have always loved the fall colors in Wyoming. Photographing this beauty is not as easy as it might look. Three of the best were Randy Wagner, Ted Carlson, and Daryl Hunter.”
Bill SniffinOctober 11, 2026
Joan Barron: In The Golden Age, Our Delegation Wasn't Afraid Of Voters
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "In the golden age when Wyoming had remarkable representation in both the Senate and House, we had Gale McGee, Cliff Hansen, Teno Roncalio, Dick Cheney and Alan Simpson. They relished debates so they could show off what they knew. They weren’t afraid of their voters."
Joan BarronOctober 11, 2026
Jonathan Lange: Speak, Vote And Pray As God Teaches You
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, “November 3rd calls us to vote according to the judgment of God’s Word. November 4th calls us to stop judging and pray that God would grant grace to those elected.”
Jonathan LangeOctober 09, 2026