Opinion
Dennis Sun: American Beef Is Top-Notch
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "American beef is the best in the world. I’m not bragging. It is proven and supported by worldwide demand for our beef."
Dennis SunApril 19, 2024
Sally Ann Shurmur: The Greatest Sports Movie And It's Not Even Close
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, "If you watch football and you don’t watch this movie, I don’t know what to tell you. If you don’t watch football, first, what is wrong with you and second, you’d still learn something if you watched this movie."
Sally Ann ShurmurApril 18, 2024
Rod Miller: Enough Already – Or – The Final Liberation Of Wyoming’s Political Parties
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Weston County contingent is proposing amendments to the Wyoming GOP bylaws that would complete the party’s transition from the legacy Republican Big Tent to a tiny blanket fort with room enough for only diehard fire-breathers who know the password and wear the secret decoding ring."
Rod MillerApril 18, 2024
Tom Lubnau: The Fetterman Battle – Lessons For Our Times
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "Before one barges in and arrogantly starts telling people how to do things, one must develop an understanding of why things are the way they are."
Tom LubnauApril 17, 2024
Candy Moulton: New Trails and New Stories
New Cowboy State Daily columnist Candy Moulton writes, "These days writing is both my work and my hobby. I tried retiring a couple of times and it didn’t take. So here I am, off on a new trail and a new adventure. I hope you’ll join me as we explore Wyoming and the American West."
Candy MoultonApril 16, 2024
Dave Simpson: Exposed When The Tide Went Out
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "If your lawmakers voted to kill gun-free zones, then voted against a veto session, bring it up next time they come asking for your vote."
Dave SimpsonApril 15, 2024
Rod Miller: Big Iron, Little Hips & Gunplay Around The Ol’ Campfire
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "'Where the hell is my big cookin’ pot?' Cookie brandished a butcherknife at the hands gathered around the ol’ campfire. Latigo Lou from Lingle answered, 'That li’l Secretary of State feller, the one that wants to be governor, he took it down to the creek for target practice.'”
Rod MillerApril 14, 2024
Bill Sniffin: RIP Dave Kellogg, Tall In The Saddle For Good Works In Wyoming
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “Dave Kellogg was sitting in his favorite chair looking out the window at those wonderful mountains. When Carol found him, he had a scotch poured but untouched on the table beside him. The only thing missing was 'a damned good cigar.'"
Bill SniffinApril 13, 2024
Rod Miller: A Broncpeeler in Drag
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I have dressed up as a woman exactly twice in my life. And I didn’t do it to be sexually attractive to anyone, and I didn’t dress in drag to make any sort of a political statement."
Rod MillerApril 12, 2024
Dennis Sun: A Study In Carbon
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Ranchers in the U.S. are great stewards of the range with their rotational grazing practices, and it has been proved we can raise our income by doing so ... but good rangelands helping with pollution are welcome by most everyone."
Dennis SunApril 12, 2024
Sally Ann Shurmur: On The Eclipse And That Girl — The Sun, The Moon, And One Of One
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, "The same news guys who told us nightly in 2020 that we were all going to die if we had human contact and didn’t get continuous jabs were now brought to tears by the moon playing hide and seek with the sun."
Sally Ann ShurmurApril 11, 2024
Dave Simpson: Who Are These Strange People, Anyway?
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "People as nearby as Nebraska are already mowing their lawns. But we've still got the snowblower gassed up and ready to go, waiting for a Mother's Day blizzard. And the wind is howling like a banshee."
Dave SimpsonApril 08, 2024
Rod Miller: Bride Of Chucky – Or – Advice To The Lovelorn From The Ol’ Campfire
From the campfire, columnist Rod Miller writes, "That li’l feller who was here the other night, our Secretary of State, is he really runnin’ for governor?” Joe the Wrangler said, “Yep, but it’ll be a tough go for him. He’s single. Ain’t got no wife.”
Rod MillerApril 07, 2024
Rod Miller: Of Wolves and Assholes
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Any cowboy, hunter or serious outdoorsman with a modicum of ethics and respect for creation should be pissed off. Cody Roberts’ malicious stupidity will give political ammunition to those outside our borders who are convinced that they can manage the Cowboy State better than we can."
Rod MillerApril 06, 2024
Bill Sniffin: Quality Medical Care Is Essential, Especially When Sickness Strikes
Bill Sniffin writes: “After initial consults and my wife Nancy being wired with a portable harness (that sent medical signals somewhere) she was placed on a bed in a hallway of the hospital and I was issued a chair next to her. We stayed there for the next 22 hours!"
Bill SniffinApril 06, 2024
Clair McFarland: My Life In One Country Song
Clair McFarland writes, "I always, always circle back to country music. Not the crappy, fake-accent, get-up-on-my-tailgate-in-them-Daisy-Dukes pop that some of y’all call country music. No: Real country music teems with corny puns, but it’s anguished, joyful, intense and sincere."
Clair McFarlandApril 05, 2024
Dennis Sun: The More, The Merrier When It Comes To Grocery Shopping
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "When consumers are happy with a product, it usually puts the manufacturer or producer in good light. I think it really works with our nation’s beef and lamb producers. We need to take advantage of it."
Dennis SunApril 05, 2024
Sally Ann Shurmur: Sports Meets History As Final Eight Begins
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, "When Caitlin Clark plays, it’s not just girls’ basketball, it’s history. It’s not just what she does by herself, but that she makes everyone around her better."
Sally Ann ShurmurApril 04, 2024
Rod Miller: An Easy Win for the Wyoming Freedom Caucus
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Joe Ricketts intends to build a chi-chi destination resort for other zillionaires in a pristine corner of Wyoming, and -- get this -- he wants to change the name of Bondurant to 'Little Jackson Hole.' I kid you not!"
Rod MillerApril 03, 2024
Tom Lubnau: Choosing Our Media Sources
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "These days, if one media outfit says the sky is blue, the other media outlet will say the sky is red. Every day, with every media story, we obtain different information based on our confirmation bias."
Tom LubnauApril 03, 2024
Cat Urbigkit: On Choosing Grace
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Watching the question of a special session for the Wyoming Legislature the last week was rather disheartening. Some even suggested that those with differing views were associated with evil and told followers that those with opposing views 'hate you.'"
Cat UrbigkitApril 02, 2024
Dave Simpson: Oh No! Another Adult In The Room!
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "If the governor is the adult in the room, what does that make the rest of us? (Asking for a friend.)"
Dave SimpsonApril 01, 2024
Rod Miller: “We the People” And Our Marching Orders
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It rubs me the wrong way when some folks take a phrase from our Constitution and use it out of context for their own political gain. That displays a cynical lack of understanding and respect."
Rod MillerMarch 31, 2024
Bill Sniffin: A 47-Year Debt Repaid (To Me) In A Welsh Mountain Town
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “This small Welsh town was made famous in 1903 when Wyoming’s Buffalo Bill performed several shows in the area. Some giant redwood trees were planted there in his memory.”
Bill SniffinMarch 30, 2024