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Rod Miller: Rep. Lauren Boebert -- You Can Take The Girl Out Of The Trailer Park, But…
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Grand Old Party would be well -advised, when choosing their spear-carriers to represent the moral high ground when it comes to sex, to find a handmaiden who can keep her knees together, her hands to herself and her thong in place."
Rod MillerSeptember 20, 2023
Cat Urbigkit: Colorado Preps for Wolf Reintroduction
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Although it appears there is no stopping Colorado’s voter-mandated gray wolf reintroduction program, a draft federal record of decision issued last Friday by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will make dealing with problem wolves a lot easier.
Cat UrbigkitSeptember 19, 2023
Dave Simpson: Did I Mention It Was 4 Whole Days?
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "Kids shouldn't be spending time every day watching cartoons on television or staring into an iPad. But I'll have to admit that the girls got their share of screen time during their visit, which gave Granny and Gramps time to regroup, catch our breath, and plan strategy."
Dave SimpsonSeptember 18, 2023
Rod Miller: The Ol’ Campfire & The Salvation Of Wyoming Politics
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I finally met Dan Sabrosky around the ol’ campfire when he came up to me and introduced himself. Dan and I have spent months lobbing “truth bombs” and laughing emojis at each other, behind our keyboards. But, after a firm handshake and looking one another in the eye, the dynamic changed."
Rod MillerSeptember 17, 2023
Bill Sniffin: Wyoming’s Love-Hate Relationship With Interstate 80
Bill Sniffin writes: “I am always complaining about the 12,000 to 16,000 semitrailer trucks on Interstate 80. Even if 99% are courteous and safe, that other 1% means 120-150 monsters making stupid decisions that risk the lives of all of us.”
Bill SniffinSeptember 16, 2023
Dave Simpson: Oh Good, California Professors Want To Save Wyoming
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "Two professors in California have hope for us. They hope we can get over our silly concerns over vaccine mandates, gender-altering procedures on children, boys playing girls' sports, and talking sex to First Graders in Wyoming."
Dave SimpsonSeptember 15, 2023
Charlie Spiering: Thanks to Nancy Pelosi, We’re Back in Impeachment Season
Columnist Charlie Spiering writes, "Republicans have not reached the 'high crimes and misdemeanors' threshold necessary for a successful impeachment case, but they have certainly reached the new threshold set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2019 when she moved to impeach President Donald Trump."
Charlie SpieringSeptember 13, 2023
Cat Urbigkit: Legislators to BLM -- Rock Springs Plan is a Community Killer
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Republican legislators attending Tuesday’s committee meeting in Pinedale thanked the Bureau of Land Management for attending the session and then let them know that the’s BLM’s preferred alternative in the draft plan for the Rock Springs district isn’t highly regarded."
Cat UrbigkitSeptember 12, 2023
Dave Simpson: I Call It The Lumpy Rutherford Party
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "My wife says the Democratic party is the Eddie Haskell Party, in that they are complimentary to June Cleaver's face - 'You're looking particularly beautiful today, Mrs. Cleaver' - but laugh at how gullible adults are behind her back."
Dave SimpsonSeptember 11, 2023
Rod Miller: Transparency and Political Courage in the Cowboy State
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When it comes to the political courage to back up their hot air, WyoRINO is woefully lacking. I suppose that, if you lack cojones, you are better off concealing your cowardice behind a cloak of anonymity."
Rod MillerSeptember 10, 2023
Dennis Sun: Private Land Rights
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "Most every person I have caught trespassing is also a terrible liar – their excuses are some of the tallest tales one will ever hear."
Dennis SunSeptember 09, 2023
Clair McFarland: Defying Gravity In A Wheeling Death Machine
Clair McFarland writes, "That’s the thing about a small aircraft and a brother pilot. You can fly over the rooftops that matter, instead of hurtling toward California over a patchwork quilt while a baby howls behind you and your seat neighbor suppresses a barf."
Clair McFarlandSeptember 07, 2023
Charlie Spiering: Desperate Dems Cling to 14th Amendment To Keep Trump Off Ballot
Columnist Charlie Spiering writes, “Democrats continue their attempts to block former President Donald Trump from running in 2024, as they are afraid that American voters could put him back in power."
Charlie SpieringSeptember 07, 2023
Game & Fish Reports Compensation for Wildlife Damage to Crops Nearly Equal to Compensation for Damages to Livestock
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Although much attention is paid to livestock losses from large carnivore attacks in Wyoming, information prepared by state wildlife officials indicates that the state is paying out nearly an equal amount for wildlife damage to cultivated crops."
Cat UrbigkitSeptember 06, 2023
Rod Miller: Nels Smith - Another Tall Tree Gone From Wyoming’s Skyline
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When Sen. Al Simpson eulogized the passing of Gov. Ed Herschler, he said, 'A tall tree is gone from Wyoming’s rugged skyline.' When Wyoming’s titans pass, I always think of those words. And there have been damn few trees taller in our state than Nels Smith.
Rod MillerSeptember 06, 2023
Dave Simpson: Welcome To The Twilight Zone, Voters
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "When guys like me find a Kennedy interesting, lions are no doubt lying down with lambs, pigs have taken wing, and monkeys are flying out of our cabooses. Beware the plague of locusts."
Dave SimpsonSeptember 05, 2023
Rod Miller: A Better Mousetrap for Wyoming’s Flawed Election Code
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "A recent vacancy in the Sheridan County Commission set the wheels in motion for the Republican Party to once again behave like a dysfunctional HOA in a gated community full of rednecks."
Rod MillerSeptember 03, 2023
Bill Sniffin: A Pair Of 70-Somethings At The ‘Barbie’ Movie — What Could Go Wrong?
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes, “If you can see the opening 10 minutes and the last three minutes, well it gets a partial thumb’s up from me. The rest is a thumb’s down.”
Bill SniffinSeptember 02, 2023
Dennis Sun: Sheep Industry Goes High-Tech For Best Genetics
Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, “We all know in the early days of statehood up to the 1960s, sheep were king. Let’s face it, our region is best for grazing sheep. … This vision to develop and use better genetics by a few sheep producers is the future of the industry.”
Dennis SunSeptember 02, 2023
Aaron Turpen: The Aragon Collection — Four Generations Of Corvettes And Other Beauties
Automotive Writer Aaron Turpen writes, “I could see that he was in love. He didn’t just like this car. He like liked it. His eyes had that gleeful enamor-filled glaze a fifth grader gets when he meets his first crush. A few weeks later, he had one in his driveway.’
Aaron TurpenAugust 31, 2023
Charlie Spiering: Despite Freezing up Again, Mitch McConnell Won’t Step Down Easily
Columnist Charlie Spiering writes, “Senate Republicans will now face more questions from the press on Capitol Hill whether they trust that McConnell is healthy and fit to serve. There's a quiet contingent of Republicans in Washington, D.C., who believe it's time for McConnell to step aside. But barring another serious health incident, they might just have to wait.”
Charlie SpieringAugust 31, 2023
Rep. Landon Brown: Books Are Only A Problem If Our Kids Can Read
In a guest column, Rep. Landon Brown writes, “The noise has been surrounding books, but a more pressing issue is the fact that more than half of children in Wyoming aren’t reading proficiently. To me, this seems like our priorities are out of order.”
August 31, 2023
BLM Proposal Prefers People Not Be Able To Use Public Lands
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, “While most headlines about the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan note the agency’s preference to set aside 1.3 million acres … the BLM preference is ‘conservation of resource values with constraints on resource uses.’”
Cat UrbigkitAugust 29, 2023
Dave Simpson: Think You Used Enough Dynamite, Butch?
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "Our Trump-hating Democrat friends are determined, in the words of Sundance, to use enough dynamite to get rid, once and for all, of a guy so craven and evil and sick that he wants to make America great again."
Dave SimpsonAugust 29, 2023