Letters to the Editor
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Letter To The Editor: There's A Reason Australia Won't Take Our Beef
Dear editor, If our ranchers can attain the quality which Australia demands, it could possibly open the European market for our beef. Just thinking outside the box, because Europe and Australia will never allow United States ag products in their countries due to the current methods in use to raise our crops.
April 12, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Echoes Of Blitzkrieg In Modern Governance
By April 1st, President Trump had signed 103 executive orders. This pace is unprecedented in modern U.S. history. The rapid speed and extent of Trump’s signing of executive orders mirrors the German attacks in late 1939.
April 11, 2025
Letter To The Editor: It's No Wonder Young People Leave Wyoming
Dear editor: In a recent Cowboy State Daily article about population loss in rural Wyoming, one county commissioner claimed that young people “just don’t want to work that hard anymore.” That’s not just lazy analysis, it’s flat-out wrong.
April 09, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Hypocritical Democrats Want Government Oppression, Not Freedom
Dear editor: While the Democrats were out demonstrating, the rest of us in the real world were fixing cars, raising cattle, changing tires, waiting on tables, bartending, drilling for oil, driving trucks, keeping the lights on and the water running so the demonstrators could have a latte and go to lunch after their show.
April 08, 2025
Letter To The Editor: If You're Against Abortion, Don't Have One
Dear editor: I know for a fact the God that lives inside every abortion clinic and to which all pregnant women pray is understanding and supportive. This God has many names and is big enough for every person's prayers.
April 07, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming's Senators Lack 'Backbone' To Stand Up To Trump
Dear editor: Our Wyoming senators have abdicated their responsibilities to bend the knee to "King Donald" with disastrous early results to our democratic institutions and economy.
April 06, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Approval Of Wind Farms 'A Horrible Decision'
Dear editor: I warned years ago and again recently, these things will eventually contaminate our public lands and the state board just green-lit the pollution of the great white lollypops.
April 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Disagrees With Cheyenne School Board Member On Abortion
Dear editor: Ms. Hinkle presents her perspective on abortion; however, I must emphasize that abortion deaths of pre-born children are profound. ... The sanctity of a woman’s body, endowed with the capacity to create, nurture and sustain life is a profound, sacred gift. To terminate a life bestowed by a loving and just God is a grave matter.
April 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Integrity Of The Judiciary Is At Risk
Dear editor: To me, it is unclear that we can hope to preserve or restore the integrity of and faith in the judiciary without impartial and honest discourse. What a great opportunity to begin such a conversation, squandered on such transparently partisan rhetoric.
April 02, 2025
Letter To The Editor: How Al Simpson Saved My Business And Career
Dear editor: The park superintendent interrogated me. He held a copy of my permit in front of me and threatened to tear it up. … The senator said, “I’m not one bit happy with the superintendent anyway. I’m going to call him right now!”
April 01, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Don't Let Insurance Companies Get Your DNA
Dear editor: I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I do know insurance companies and how they’d LOVE to get their hands on your data so that they could deny coverage for “pre-existing conditions.”
April 01, 2025
Letter to the Editor: I'd Trust The Delegation Over A Bunch Of Lawyers Any Day
Dear editor: Any group with Lubnau, Sullivan and 98 other lawyers ganging up like this smells more like a clubhouse flex than a public service. When that many suits circle the wagons, it’s rarely good news for the rest of us.
March 30, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Hageman Dodges The Heat With Virtual Town Halls
Dear editor: It seems very convenient to have phone-in town hall meetings because Rep. Hageman can then pick and choose what issues she wants to address and put forth only her agenda. That is apparently what she wants these town hall meetings to be.
March 30, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Don't Forget The Lessons Of The Greatest Generation
Dear editor: There is another greatest generation now sacrificing everything to defend their country from totalitarianism. They are the heroes of Ukraine who do not ask for our warfighters, but do need our financial support including weapons and political support.
March 27, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Left-Leaning Judges Trying To Block Trump 'Wrong And Reprehensible'
Dear editor: Trump’s election victory has been a complete waste. Nothing will get done as courts are left-leaning and have proceeded to block all policies he is trying to implement.
March 27, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Data Shows The 'Rich' Pay More Than Their Fair Share
Dear editor: According to the Tax Foundation’s 2025 update to the latest federal income tax data, the top 1% of income earners paid 40.4% of the 2022 income tax versus those earning less than $50,339, which make up 50% of income earners, who paid 3% of the total 2022 income tax that was collected.
March 26, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Democrats Disrupt Town Halls Like A 'Pack Of Feral Dogs'
Dear editor: Harriet Hageman's town halls in Rock Springs and Laramie were met by some people who were not there to ask any legitimate questions, but were there to disrupt, scream and act like a pack of feral dogs.
March 26, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Cows And The Freedom Of Speech
Dear editor: The sound of people booing in attempt to voice their displeasure over various things sounded much like the cattle’s mooing at their displeasure with being loaded on the trucks.
March 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: We Wouldn't Have A Free Country Without Trump
Dear editor: I guess the people writing these letters trashing and complaining about Rep. Hageman and President Trump support the Marxist movement to destroy our country.
March 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Who Really Wanted To Be King?
Dear editor: With regard to Mr. Costantino's letter published March 23 where he expresses concerns that "Trump wants to be king." Biden himself summed it up best in responding to a constituent: "I don't work for you."
March 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: In Wyoming, A Handshake Means Something
Dear editor: Many ranchers, farmers, and other homeowners received award letters from federal agencies saying they would be paid for projects authorized by Congress. However, President Trump issued Executive Order 14154 in March putting these funds on hold.
March 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Trump Wants To Be King
Dear editor: Trump says he wants to be king. Few take him seriously. I do. He is acting the part already. He would not hesitate to break any law or destroy any institution.
March 22, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Trump Supporters Lecturing On Rude Behavior Is Laughable
Dear editor: It is laughable to be scolded about rude behavior by supporters of Donald Trump, the king of crude behavior and name-calling. But let’s consider the substance of Representative Hageman’s recent town halls:
March 22, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Supreme Court Needs To Honor The 14th Amendment
Dear editor: We were sitting in a coffee shop here in Sundance, Wyoming, having a political discussion. My friend is a pro-choice Democrat. I am a pro-life Republican.
March 22, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Fire Congress, Not The Workers
Dear editor: Congress (not firefighters, health-care workers, park rangers, air traffic controllers) has increased the debt to about $36 trillion dollars. And who is being fired for this so-called massive fraud and waste? Not Congress.
March 21, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The 36 Trillion Reasons For Changing Federal Spending
Dear editor: In the operating room we have a dark truism that "all bleeding stops eventually." This means that either you get control of the bleeding, or the patient will simply bleed to death. Our federal government is bleeding...
March 21, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Dismantling The Department of Education
Dear editor: Don’t buy the lie that dismantling the Department of Education is about increasing choice, quality, or freedom. It’s about money, and making sure the other faction doesn’t have it.
March 21, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Why Did You Take The Side Of The Protestors?
Dear editor: I was greatly disappointed by your reporting on the town hall meeting in Laramie with Harriet Hageman.
March 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Al Simpson Built Bridges, Not Division
Dear editor: I read the guest opinion piece by Gov. Matt Mead and it filled me with so much nostalgia for what politics used to be and the inherent goodness of Senator Al Simpson.
March 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Both Audience And Hageman Were In The Wrong
Dear editor: I can’t and won’t defend the worst behaviors I saw in the audience. Nor can Hageman defend her condescension and arrogance. Whether she likes it or not, these people are her constituents...
March 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Thanks For Continuing Coverage, Cowboy State Daily
Dear editor: I want to thank Clair McFarland for her continuing coverage of the debacle which is I-80 and the mess the US DOT has gotten us into with CDL holders not being required to speak or be fluent in English.
March 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Cowboy State Daily Missed Some Of The Shenanigans
Dear editor: Leo Wolfson‘s account of Rep. Hageman’s town-hall meeting in Laramie yesterday evening was accurate enough. He omitted two small but significant details that might account for Laramie’s robust reaction to the representative’s pitch.
March 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Protestors Should Go To Gaza To See For Themselves
Dear editor: It doesn’t take any courage to scream epithets and profanity in support of terrorists while safe here in America. All those folks should be flown to Gaza so they can get a reality check about Hamas.
March 20, 2025
Letter to The Editor: Brian Nesvik Is Bad Choice For U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Dear editor: Brian Nesvik’s record of failure leading the Wyoming Game & Fish Department is a precursor for how he would run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Our public wildlife, lands, waters and everyone who cherishes these incredible resources will pay the price.
March 18, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Hageman Not Being Honest About Her Vote To Cut Medicaid
Dear editor: Last month, Congress passed a budget plan that will require deep cuts to the Medicaid health insurance program and a decrease in Americans’ ability to access healthcare. Rep. Harriet Hageman voted for the budget plan...
March 17, 2025
Letter To The Editor: My Life Is Being Threatened Because I Picked Up A Wombat
Dear editor: Am I a villain? Over holding a wombat, thousands threaten my life. Let me be clear; these same people ought to understand the reality of Australia today.
March 17, 2025