Letters to the Editor
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Letter To The Editor: A Love Letter to Public Lands
Dear editor: I am incredibly disheartened that instead of celebrating our nation’s great mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, and forests, Wyoming legislators are leading the charge to sell off public lands to drill and mine beloved lands.
February 10, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Legislature Failed With Not Addressing Snowmobile Wolf Killings
Dear editor: It is shameful that the Wyoming Legislature refuses to pass Mike Schmid’s amendment to house bill 275 or House Bill 331, both of which would prohibit the intentional killing of wildlife with snowmobiles.
February 10, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Wyoming Legislature -- A Political Spectacle at the Expense of Trans Lives
Dear editor: The larger issue at hand is the cruelty behind these anti-trans bills, not to mention the sheer volume. These measures are not about policy — they are about ensuring that transgender people, especially transgender women, do not have the right to exist in public spaces.
February 07, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Transfer Of 30 Million Acres Of Federal Land Is Horrible Idea
Dear editor: Losing this tremendous public land resource that currently belongs to all Americans for present and future generations would be an absolute tragedy.
February 07, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming's New License Plates Are Repulsive
Dear editor: There have been some unattractive license plates, many were plain, and some had odd colors. But none were so ugly as to compel a letter to an editor. These new plates are repulsive.
February 07, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Abortion Bills Are Brazen Contradictions To Wyoming's Principles
Dear editor: Wyomingites have always valued limited government and personal liberty. These abortion bills are brazen contradictions of those principles and infringe on our state constitution by interfering in private healthcare decisions.
February 06, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Free Market Works -- Even In Education
Dear editor: Free-market competition will revive our education system by giving parents the freedom to choose the best school for their child’s needs. Just attach the money to the child and let the free-market work.
February 06, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming’s Tax Debate is a Slow-Motion Train Wreck
Dear editor: The fantasy is that voters will finally connect taxes to services when cuts bite. But what’s the lesson? That 911 calls go unanswered? That our kids’ schools hemorrhage teachers?
February 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Don't Make Us Live With These Horrible License Plates
Dear editor: Please don’t have us live with these ugly new license plates for any more than eight long years.
February 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Be Careful On National Concealed And Carry Bill
Dear editor: The proposed bills to allow concealed carry and open carry on a national basis has two sides to it.
February 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Three Bills That Are Threatening Wyoming's Way Of Life
Dear editor: Public lands are precious beyond measure. No matter who you are, you can wake up, and love the land, and let the land love you back. Once public land is lost, it’s gone forever. Right now, there are three bills that threaten this beautiful patchwork quilt that we live in.
February 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: RINOs or Neighbors? Wyoming Needs Republicans, Not Purists
Dear editor: Lately there’s been this tiresome trend of branding folks as “RINOs,” or trying to lecture them about their so-called "lack of integrity."
February 04, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act Is A Betrayal Of Trust
Dear editor: "I am extremely frustrated by Sen. Jared Olsen's decision to co-sponsor HB0199, which diverts funds from public schools to unregulated recipients. This is a betrayal of the public trust and a disservice to the people who rely on these essential services."
February 04, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Selling Private Property To Government To Protect Private Property Rights Is Oxymoron
Dear editor: If our legislators are unwilling to stand up against more government acquisition of our state which is already 56% owned by government, then when will they stand up?
February 03, 2025
Letter To The Editor: No Teaching Degree, No Training, No Experience
Dear editor: House Bill 100 is a clear example of legislative incompetence and a lack of understanding or care about the complexities and value of a strong education.
February 03, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Legislation Undermine Rights & Restrict Access To Healthcare
Dear editor: In November, Teton District Court Judge Melissa Owens ruled that abortion bans are unconstitutional in Wyoming. Despite this clear ruling, legislators are pushing forward with bills that undermine these rights.
February 02, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Legislature Remind Me Of Former UW President Phil Dubois
Dear editor: It feels like this year’s legislature is ... looking to change just about everything that Wyomingites hold near and dear, many of the reasons we continue to choose Wyoming as our home.
February 02, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Freedom Caucus Not Focused On Important Things
Dear editor: If the Freedom Caucus truly cared about protecting women and children, they would focus on the issues that genuinely impact their safety and well-being: addressing Wyoming’s alarmingly high rates of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child poverty.
February 01, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Please Pass The Clean Kill Bill
Dear editor: The very sad and unfortunate act of cruelty that took place last year in Wyoming will now show people that totally disrespecting any animal in such a manner will pay a very high price with felony charges is only fitting.
January 26, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Splitting Mule Deer and Whitetail Tags Would Be A Disaster
Dear editor: This bill is not good for hunters and it is not good for the resource. It is being pushed by people who are only looking at money. They see the dollar signs and want a piece of that pie.
January 26, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Sausage-Making In The Legislature Is Terrifying
Dear editor: The Wyoming State Legislature is not boring this year, which everyone should find terrifying. If things continue as they are, I hope all of us can make our own “sausage” because the current actions of our legislative body is running Wyoming out of meat.
January 26, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Personal Bias or Monumental Ignorance? Neither Have a Place in Science
Dear editor: The Jan. 12 article regarding the introduction of wolves to Yellowstone unfortunately incorporated alarmingly slanted or seriously misinformed views from a supposed expert about wolf and elk population dynamics in Yellowstone.
January 15, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Let's Keep Nuclear Waste Dumps Out Of Wyoming
Dear editor: Here we are again — tempted by the possibility of easy money and an increasingly desperate federal government that has shown itself incapable of finding a permanent solution to the problem of nuclear waste.
January 09, 2025
Letter To The Editor: I Will Not Participate In The Charade
Dear editor: I thank Gina Mae Douglas for the Letter to the Editor in support of men becoming women and women becoming men, but I cannot agree with any of the reasoning, or the "esteemed" medical field held up as truth.
January 03, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Bravo To "The American West"
Dear editor: This is why I subscribe to the Cowboy State Daily newsletter and read it every day:
January 03, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Who's To Blame In New Orleans?
Dear editor: Was it evil outside our borders that invaded Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day or was it backsliding within?
January 03, 2025
Letter To The Editor: More Information On Wyoming's Otters Please
Dear editor: [Could] Cowboy State Daily’s Mark Heinz or another experienced wildlife reporter write a balanced story on the pros and cons of keeping otters on the state’s protected species list [?]
January 03, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Cassie Craven Is Wrong
In her most recent column, Cassie Craven espouses "common-sense" in praising the Freedom Caucus' third attempt to pass the What Is A Woman Act. Coming from a practicing-attorney, Craven's column is ludicrously disingenuous and propagandistic.
January 01, 2025
Letter To The Editor: BLM's Rock Springs Plan is Balanced, Good for Wildlife
Dear editor: In the case of the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan, the BLM has done a great job at taking into consideration local stakeholder input and honoring the wishes of many to protect the Red Desert for future generations.
January 01, 2025
Letter To The Editor: BLM’s Updated Western Solar Plan Is A Good Outcome
Dear editor: The updated Western Solar Plan, finalized by the Bureau of Land Management on December 20th, has been thoughtfully designed to address the challenges faced by the increased demand on western landscapes for energy generation.
December 30, 2024
Letter To The Editor: Thank You Sen. Lummis For Rip And Replace
Dear editor: Congress established Rip and Replace in 2019 because it realized Chinese-manufactured equipment in our broadband and mobile networks posed a serious threat to our national security and legislatively banned the equipment.
December 24, 2024
Letter To The Editor: Disappointed With Biteman And Salazar
Dear editor: As it stands, Sen. Biteman and Sen. Salazar have opened the door for allowing themselves to be viewed as complete failures in passing any conservative legislation through the Wyoming Senate.
December 16, 2024
Letter To The Editor: Keep Wyoming Ranching Alive And Supporting Private Property Rights
Dear editor: Leasing a portion of ranch land for wind turbines or solar panels provides a steady, reliable income that can help offset rising property taxes, unpredictable weather impacts, and volatile commodity prices.
December 16, 2024
Letter To The Editor: Many Tourists In Yellowstone Are Idiots
Dear editor: I am amazed that people are not afraid of the wild animals in Yellowstone National Park!
December 10, 2024
Letter To The Editor: Open Letter To Gov. Gordon
Governor Gordon: I am writing to you as a Wyoming-raised and WWAMI-trained OB/GYN physician to express my strong and earnest opposition to your decision to appeal the recent ruling by Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens, which struck down the state’s abortion ban and medication abortion prohibition.
December 05, 2024
Letter To The Editor: Listen To Framers Of Constitution, Not Jonathan Lange
Dear editor: Dear editor: Jonathan Lange is absolutely wrong in his assertion that governments should be encouraging religious worship.
December 03, 2024