Dennis Sun: Not All Wild Horses Are Wild
Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "For the next couple of years, the BLM will be gathering feral horses from four herd management areas in southwest Wyoming. This action doesn’t sit well with some folks, who believe there are never too many feral horses on the range."
Dennis SunApril 18, 2025
Jonathan Lange: Jesus Teaches Us How To Speak Truth to Power
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The New York Stock Exchange was closed on Friday because Jesus’ crucifixion was the business of the day. The global earthquake over tariffs will resume after we have celebrated His resurrection. Until then, Wall Street will just have to wait."
Jonathan LangeApril 18, 2025
Sally Ann Shurmur: Much Like Spring Weather, Christians Rejoice As Sunday’s Coming
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, “Holy Thursday has always been my favorite Mass of the year. I like to think of it as the first great dinner party.”
Sally Ann ShurmurApril 17, 2025
Tom Lubnau: The Wyoming Republican Party Should Fix Its Own Election Integrity Issues
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "The Republican Party's dispute resolution committee, in one last stroke of arrogance, said its conclusion is 'the Party’s sole remedy and is full, final and not appealable.' If the party were a private club, this whole process would be no big deal. But the party is a creation of law."
Tom LubnauApril 15, 2025
Candy Moulton: Two If By Sea, Get Ready For America's 250th In Wyoming
Columnist Candy Moulton writes, “July 4, 1776, marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence and America is preparing to commemorate the semiquincentennial (250 years). The lighting of two lanterns in some Wyoming courthouses Friday is the official start of the celebration in the Cowboy State.”
Candy MoultonApril 15, 2025
Dave Simpson: Quite Simply, The Cadillac of Dogs
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “ The way I see it, any guy who calls his wife his best friend has probably never known the joy of owning a black Labrador Retriever. Simple as that.”
Dave SimpsonApril 14, 2025
Cassie Craven: Wyoming Conservatives Should Learn From An 11-Year-Old Girl
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “The divide is deep. Egos have been bruised; people question one another’s motives. But if conservatives can’t get it together and act in unison, I’m worried we’ll squander an opportunity to bring Wyoming into its golden age.”
Cassie CravenApril 13, 2025
Joan Barron: New Rules Review Grows Government
Columnist Joan Barron writes, "The late Democratic Senator Robert H. Johnson was a force in the Republican- dominated Legislature in the 1970’s."
Joan BarronApril 12, 2025
Bill Sniffin: How About A Wyoming Walkabout? It’s Time To Get Out There
Bill Sniffin writes: “Most Wyoming cities and towns have wonderful walking paths. Cheyenne has done an amazing job. Greybull has a superb walking path. Evanston has transformed itself into a walker’s paradise.”
Bill SniffinApril 12, 2025
Dennis Sun: The Need to Promote Beef and Lamb
There are a number of countries around the world who have not been treating the U.S. in a fair manner. Some won’t even let the U.S. bring beef or lamb into their countries, and they claim to be our friends.
Dennis SunApril 11, 2025
Jonathan Lange: Trump Resurrected Coal - Let's Make Laws To Keep It Alive
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Will the effects of Trump’s action last? Probably not. And that’s OK. Lasting reform to let Wyoming’s legacy industries compete on a level playing field deserves legislative action."
Jonathan LangeApril 11, 2025
Sally Ann Shurmur: Basketball’s Over, The Rockies Are Lousy, But I’ve Got Books
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes: “It’s the number one question, even surpassing the many about my magic hip: ‘Now that basketball is over, what are you going to do?’”
Sally Ann ShurmurApril 10, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Public Defenders Stave Off Tyranny - Let's Fund Them
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "The public defender stands between the state and accused, wielding constitutional rights. The defender curbs the nearly unlimited power of the state - and acts as a vital check and balance."
Tom LubnauApril 09, 2025
Candy Moulton: A Salute To The Many Ships To Wear The Name ‘USS Wyoming’
Candy writes: “For a land-locked state, Wyoming has its share of naval history, including two battleships that served in the Civil War, World War I and World War II. The USS Wyoming built 1912 had a silver tea service that is now in the collection at the Wyoming State Museum."
Candy MoultonApril 08, 2025
Dave Simpson: The Vociferous Minority Strikes Back
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “I wasn't silent about January 6th at all. I wrote, 'Terrible damage was done to the interests of those who simply want a less-intrusive government and a country our kids can grow up in that resembles the country we inherited.'"
Dave SimpsonApril 07, 2025
Cassie Craven: It's Time For Elementary School Counselors In Wyoming
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “Stories of elementary-school sexual assault in Cody, bullying in Natrona County, and the fifth-grade student in Carpenter, Wyoming who died by suicide haunt our recent history. Now that we have commonsense leadership in office, it’s time for Wyoming lawmakers to solve this problem.”
Cassie CravenApril 06, 2025
Bill Sniffin: This Year’s Bucket List Is For Seeing Charcoal Kilns, Petroglyphs
Bill Sniffin writes: “After wandering up, down, back and forth across Wyoming for 55 years, I can call myself an expert on what to do and where to go in this state. Folks, I have concluded that damn, there is a lot to see here in the 'Big Empty.'"
Bill SniffinApril 05, 2025
Joan Barron: It's Time For State Lawmakers To Sit Down And Learn Stuff
Columnist Joan Barron writes: "The Legislature’s interim studies are a great way for lawmakers to get educated on the basics of established programs. This is of particular value for the high number of new legislators elected in 2024, who showed their need for more education in the recent session."
Joan BarronApril 05, 2025
Jonathan Lange: An Enemy Demoralized Us; Love For The Truth Can Reverse That
Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but the enemy didn’t go away. Satan is the ultimate demoralizer. And he is alive and well - attacking the truth so that you would turn to cheap counterfeits."
Jonathan LangeApril 04, 2025
Dennis Sun: "Whiskey Is For Drinking, Water Is For Fighting” Has Never Been Truer
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "By a stroke of a pen, the EPA deemed potholes, farmer’s fields, and small ponds as navigable waters. These waters were no more navigable than a bathtub full of water. The radical environmentalists loved it."
Dennis SunApril 04, 2025
Sally Ann Shurmur: Hoping Al Simpson's Family Gets A Chance To Grieve Well
Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, “The celebration of life began the only way it could have, with Western Thunder Marching Band playing 'Ragtime Cowboy Joe.' Now with the funerals over, I pray to God that Ann gets a nap."
Sally Ann ShurmurApril 03, 2025
Tom Lubnau: Now The Jury Decides If A Budget Vote Was Some Anti-Trump Scheme
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "The Sweetwater County defamation lawsuit revolves around the alleged falsehood that Reps. Wylie and Larson made a vote to take Trump off the ballot. No vote was ever taken in the Wyoming legislature on any bill, resolution or proposal to keep or remove Trump from any ballot."
Tom LubnauApril 03, 2025
Candy Moulton: The Animal Snatching Wind Was No Match For The Sheriff's Office
Columnist Candy Moulton writes, "The wind was howling when a St. Louis family stopped at a rest stop on Interstate 80 near Creston Junction (imagine that!). When the son got of the vehicle, his favorite animal Dog went flying in the wind. When it got the report, the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office quickly launched a search and rescue operation."
Candy MoultonApril 01, 2025
Dave Simpson: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, “It was a vociferous majority, on steroids. Some in the crowd of around 500 at the Laramie Civic Center were screaming profanities at Hageman from the start, and giving our two-term representative the middle finger."
Dave SimpsonMarch 31, 2025
Cassie Craven: The Strange Bedfellows of Wyoming, Blockchain and Bill Gates
Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “Microsoft founder Bill Gates' group said it has received about $14 million in new funding in support of a pilot project in Wyoming. I thought we didn’t like those darn out-of-state influences and dark money? I guess that is only OK when the establishment tells us it is."
Cassie CravenMarch 30, 2025
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
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
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
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
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