Letters to the Editor
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Letter To The Editor: Bill Gates Didn't Ask Me If I Wanted Russian Nuclear Reactors
Dear editor: I must have missed the phone call from Mr. Gates. The call, where he asked me, if I wanted to live in a state loaded with Russian nuclear reactors.
August 17, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Grow A Backbone!
Dear editor: It is the chairperson's job to maintain decorum through calm leadership and the use of properly followed Robert's Rules of Order. It is not done by eliminating scheduled speakers; such as recently happened to former House Speaker Tom Lubnau.
August 17, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Radiant Nuclear's Micro-Reactor Project Is Great For Wyoming
Dear editor: As a lifelong resident of Wyoming, I believe we are standing at the threshold of one of the most promising economic and technological opportunities our community has ever seen: welcoming Radiant Nuclear’s Kaleidos micro-reactor project to be built right here in our hometown.
August 16, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Freedom Caucus’s Misguided War on Free Markets
Dear editor: The Wyoming Freedom Caucus has embraced a bold strategy! Being anti-free market and anti-energy at the same time!
August 15, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Is The Far Right Destroying Conservatism?
Dear editor: I've personally observed political elitism making its way throughout conservative circles across our great state. This idea that we must be all or nothing and have lost all civility.
August 14, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Begich Is Willing To Take The Plunge
Dear editor: My reference is to Mr. Begich's willingness to invest time and significant financial resources into breathing life back into the Star Plunge.
August 13, 2025
Letter To The Editor: I Don't Like President Trump Nor Do I Like Harriet Hageman
Dear editor: The lies which they utter are so obvious as to be laughable, but the situation in America, with this corrupt line of ‘leaders,’ is dire, not funny.
August 13, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Land Is More Than Acreage, It's How Families Make A Living
Dear editor: Trying to stop folks from using their land for energy projects, especially ones that bring in new income without harming the land, isn’t just short-sighted. It’s a threat to the very values this state was built on.
August 12, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Promote The Sale Of Public Lands At Your Own Peril
Dear editor: There are millions of people who agree with keeping public lands public. If any politician, especially from Wyoming, wants to die on this hill, they will enjoy a swift political death.
August 11, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Can Lead The Way In Powering America Again
Dear editor: Wyoming has always led the way in powering America. We lead in uranium, coal, oil, and gas. Now, we have the chance to lead again with next-generation nuclear manufacturing.
August 11, 2025
Letter To The Editor: 40% Of Wyoming's Newspapers Were Shutdown Today
Dear editor: Shocked! What just happened? Forty percent of Wyoming’s newspapers were closed today by outside owners.
August 07, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Defending Wyoming From Harriet Hageman And Her D.C. Handlers
Dear editor: Cowboy State Daily ran an article this week about Project Winchester full of attacks from Harriet Hageman and her nervous DC handlers — but let’s set the record straight.
August 06, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Life Ain't Grand
Dear editor: With all due respect to your community, we suggest that for Teton County to achieve the “Life is Grand” motto you desire, kick the tires on your local law enforcement. Anyone who lawfully exercises their right to self-defense should have a place in your town.
August 06, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Republicans Have Not Slashed Medicaid Funding
Dear editor: “Republicans slashed Medicaid funding.” This is the false talking point promoted by the Democrats and their media lackeys. Medicaid spending will still increase over the next 10 years from the current level of $656 billion this year to $861 billion in 2034.
August 06, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Shoshoni Town Council Meeting Should Have Remained Open
Dear editor: Mayor Joel Highsmith advised the council that state statute has a provision to go into executive session to discuss “potential litigation." I think the council was poorly advised by the mayor, and by their lawyer. There is no [such] provision in state law...
August 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Cowboy State Daily Newsletter Is Highlight Of My Morning
Dear editor: I cannot recall how I came across your newsletter. However, I am glad I did, because your newsletter is now the highlight of my morning routine.
August 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Thank You, Cowboy State Daily
Dear editor: That's why I am writing to you folks at Cowboy State Daily. You are a breath of fresh air to those of us left, out here, who know the value of real journalism.
August 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Everything Is Horrible. We Need Term Limits.
Dear editor: Dear editor: Our representatives are all unrelatable and too eager to sell out Wyoming while "patting" themselves on the back for so called work done on our behalf. Nothing is done on our behalf....
August 04, 2025
Letter To The Editor: I Don't Know About Dennis Sun's Column About Steroids
Dear editor: I am not sure why Dennis Sun would use vegetables and beef as a comparison when it comes to hormones in foods we Americans consume? That would be like comparing apples to oranges.
August 04, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Why Is Laramie County Undoing The Food Freedom Act?
Dear editor: I moved here for Wyoming's rugged individualism, not for the same nanny-state nonsense I escaped. Let's keep Wyoming free. I urge Laramie County commissioners to scrap the home occupation permit requirement for Food Freedom Act-compliant businesses.
July 31, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Hold Harriet Hageman Accountable
Dear editor: Rep. Harriet Hageman came to Pinedale this week well-scripted and ready to show off legislative accomplishments, both for Wyoming and at the federal level at large. All of her talking points require scrutiny, here is just one egregious example:
July 31, 2025
Letter To The Editor: What Is Central Wyoming College Hiding?
Dear editor: I urge Central Wyoming College President Brad Tyndall to release the requested metrics and prove Wyoming PBS serves its viewers, not a political agenda.
July 31, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Who Exactly Is The Freedom Caucus?
Dear editor: As the Wyoming Freedom Caucus puts out statements in support of or in opposition to an issue, the question in my mind is who exactly is the Wyoming Freedom Caucus?
July 31, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Gap Pucci Enters the Pearly Gates
Dear editor: I really appreciate the excellent article about the life of my old friend, Gap Pucci. So special that the nuns are going to buy his home.
July 29, 2025
Letter To The Editor: You're Batting .500 On Your Ozzy Osbourne Coverage
Dear editor: I found the 7/24/2025 Cartoon of the day #1 depicting Ozzy with a dove only days after his passing neither amusing nor appropriate. However....
July 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Preventing Firearm Suicide In Wyoming
Dear editor: The latest finalized data from the CDC shows Wyoming had the highest rate of gun suicide in the nation – more than twice the national average and ten times higher than the state with the lowest rate.
July 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: I Am Disappointed In Wyoming PBS CEO Joanna Kail
Dear editor: I believe the statements made by CEO Joanna Kail regarding bias and audience decline are both misleading and potentially damaging to the long-standing credibility and public trust earned by PBS.
July 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Fight Trump By Upgrading Your PBS App
Dear editor: An upgrade to the PBS app, PBS Passport, offers much more availability of quality programming. Included are many Wyoming-centric programs. NO – they are not all leftist propaganda.
July 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Thank You Robert Price
Dear editor: Thank you Robert Price for standing up for PBS. It has long been a staple for giving unbiased information, in my opinion.
July 19, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Thank You, Joanna Kail
Dear editor: The July 18, 2025 opinion piece by Joanna Kail, the CEO of Wyoming PBS, was a superior read.
July 19, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Education Association Undermines American Values
Dear editor: Our family, including a child with autism, relies on homeschooling and non-traditional education because the outdated public school system — rather unchanged since the 1900s — fails to meet diverse needs.
July 19, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Let’s Talk Honestly About PBS in Wyoming
Dear editor: A recent opinion column took aim at PBS, suggesting it has strayed from its mission and no longer reflects the values of Wyoming viewers. We should be skeptical of any effort to discredit PBS based on political perception rather than demonstrated harm.
July 18, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Is Prison Gerrymandering Really An Issue?
Dear editor: Joan Barron's column attempts to paint prison gerrymandering as an issue of great importance to the state, yet she provides ZERO examples of this; I guess we must take her word for it.
July 14, 2025
Letter To The Editor: If It's Not Cassie Craven, It's Jonathan Lange
Dear editor: If Craven or Lange can offer coherent arguments for their political positions, let’s hear them. But let us reject the “logic” of - if you don’t agree with me, you dishonor the troops and must hate your family.
July 14, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Thank you Cassie Craven
Dear editor: It is my belief that shooting at ICE agents, destroying college campuses, burning buildings and cars, supporting Hamas, and threatening Jewish people are not 'good and vibrant' discussions. It is anti-American hatred. Cassie pointed that out in so many words and I thank her for that."
July 12, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Does Hate Help?
Dear editor, At a recent rally, President Trump declared something he's said before: “I hate Democrats.” He didn't just say it once, he said it several times. The crowd cheered.
July 10, 2025
Letter to The Editor: We Don't Need Another Political Party
Dear editor: The columnist’s portrayal of the Freedom Caucus as 'hard Christian right,' (as if this supposed to be pejorative) is not only foundationally misleading, but it also reveals a deep misunderstanding of both our founding values and the purpose of a limited government.
July 10, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Rep. Mike Yin's Attack On Freedom Caucus Is Hogwash
Dear editor: Rep. Mike Yin's latest opinion piece attacking the Wyoming Freedom Caucus is utter hogwash. It's a classic attempt to stir up resentment against folks who don't toe the left's line.
July 08, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Fourth Of July Parade Is Not Moving To Evanston
Dear editor: There was a letter to the editor printed in Cowboy State Daily which said that the Uinta County 250th committee wanted to move the Fourth of July Parade next year to Evanston. This is blatantly untrue.
July 08, 2025
Letter To The Editor: None Of Us Have A License To Speak For Troops, Dead Or Alive
Dear editor: Cassie Craven's newest opinion piece seeks to co-opt the experience of dead veterans in a reprehensible way.
July 07, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Fort Bridger's Fourth Of July Parade
Dear editor: Uinta County's semi-quincentennial committee ruled that the 2026 parade would be held in Evanston. "Over our dead bodies," the Ft. Bridger American Legion cried.
July 05, 2025
Letter To The Editor: We Tuscaloosans Love Wyoming!
Dear editor: Reading Bill Sniffin’s column on Wednesday made me stop, smile, and reminisce about this Alabama girl’s joyful times in Wyoming.
July 04, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Why Wasn't Trans-Person Arrested?
Dear editor: Is the governor going to charge this trans-person with a crime or what? What was the point of making the law if it is not going to be enforced?
July 04, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Targeting The Vulnerable
Dear editor: Oh please, Sen. Barrasso, M.D., long out of practice – you and Sen. Lummis and Rep. Hageman keep fibbing to us about Medicaid cuts.
July 02, 2025
Letter To The Editor: State Can Handle The Public Lands Much Better Than The Feds
Dear editor: My years of working with federal agencies as a county commissioner and state senator have taught me one thing. If we ever have an opportunity to control our own destiny by taking control of the federal lands as a state, we should take it.
June 26, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Don't Hurt Small Business
Dear editor: 86% of small business owners are concerned that legislation handcuffing American technology companies and U.S. innovators could harm their ability to grow.
June 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Harriet Hageman Has Joined Barrasso And Lummis As A Sell-Out
Dear editor: Harriet Hageman has now very clearly joined all the other sell-outs in Washington, DC, including Sens. Barrasso and Lummis. They, too, have "gone along to get along," much to our detriment.
June 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Laramie County Commissioners Should Have Blocked Cell Phone Tower
Dear editor: Our Laramie County Commissioners had a chance to block a 150’ tall 5G Tower from our beautiful neighborhood, 130 feet from Iron Mountain Road. They choose to go for the special interests of Verizon and Rocky Mountain Tower, a California Company.
June 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Another Way To Deal With Charging Moose
Dear editor: After hiking through a slight bend in the trail, I heard the sounds of snorting and pounding hooves behind me. From about 50 feet away, a cow moose came at me full bore.
June 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Hey Gramps, Take Me To The Fishin’ Hole!
Dear editor: I’m sorry son, I sure want to go, but the land’s been bought and they say no. I’ve been goin’ there since ‘54, but we can’t go there anymore.
June 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: We Don't Need Lecturing From Out-Of-State Environmentalists
Dear editor: Trevor Neilson can go on back to California, or Washington, or wherever, and keep spreading his leftist nonsense out there. But he shouldn’t come into Wyoming and presume to speak for us after being a resident for about ten minutes.
June 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Harriet Hageman Should Know Better
Dear editor: Harriet Hageman should know better. She grew up on a ranch. She’s walked this land, ridden across it, hunted on it. So how can she now pretend that auctioning off Wyoming’s future is somehow pro-freedom or pro-Wyoming?
June 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Stop The Public Lands Grab
Dear editor: Ask yourselves who will benefit from this land grab. It won’t be regular Wyomingites; it will be wealthy developers coming in from out of state or even out of the country who will be lining their pockets in the end.
June 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Deep Opposition To Proposed Public Land Sales
Dear editor: In reality, this is nothing more than a thinly veiled wealth transfer. The wealthiest Americans and large corporate interests stand to benefit by buying up these lands at bargain prices
June 19, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Energy Innovation Is Driving Wyoming Forward — Let's Keep It That Way
Dear editor: Congress should protect the tools that are working. Let's keep energy investment flowing into Wyoming and throughout the country by giving all businesses the certainty they need to build, hire, and grow.
June 17, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Delegation Is Trying To Sell Our Public Land
Dear editor: Hunting in the mountains on public land in Wyoming has been part of my life, my family, my community, and my culture for as long as I can remember. And now that huge part of me is under threat.
June 16, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Big Trade-Off -- No Property Tax, But Steep Sales Tax?
Dear editor: How do you feel about paying a 20% sales tax when you buy a car? Would you be willing to do so if it meant no property tax? Is this a commonsense approach to fund local services, or a straight path to a state income tax?
June 16, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Big Beautiful Bill Will Be Great For Wyoming's Coal Industry
Dear editor: When signed by President Trump (hopefully this summer), the Big Beautiful Bill will indeed be a game changer for Wyoming's coal industry.
June 15, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Where's The 'Merit' In Judges Driving Public Defenders Off The Ledge?
Dear editor: "For those of us in the trenches, it appears that judicial 'merit' is akin to cronyism. It means knowing the right people is a substitute for experience in the courtroom and knowledge of the law."
June 14, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Don't Demonize The Wyoming Association Of Municipalities
Dear editor: I was deeply concerned by a bill introduced last session that aimed to limit or prohibit cities and counties from pooling their resources to work through organizations like the Wyoming Association of Municipalities.
June 09, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Who Wins When Our Leaders Fight?
Dear editor: When our leaders fight, Wyoming stalls. We’ve got too much at stake to waste another day on ego wars.
June 09, 2025
Letter To The Editor: What Is Leadership Of Wyoming Historical Society Doing?
Dear editor: To the current executive committee members, what have you done to advance the study of Wyoming history and build unity in the society, instead of ripping apart this member-driven organization and stripping those very members of any voice in their society?
June 08, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Casper Gravel Pit Is Clear Example Of Lost Principle
Dear editor: Curt Meier’s quote, “You figure maybe 25% of the people of Natrona County are making decisions not only for Natrona County, but for the whole state” may be true but does a majority have the right to force its will on the minority?
June 07, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Called To Love Not Hate
On June 3, Cowboy State Daily published a cartoon portraying the perpetrator of the recent hate crime in Boulder, Colorado as the devil or a demon.
June 06, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Excuses And Half-Truths Out Of Laramie County School District #1
Dear editor: To truly address what LCSD #1 sees as a problem of decreasing enrollment, they need to look inward instead of making excuses to the public by blaming external factors.
June 03, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Cheyenne Regional Medical Center's Position Is Preposterous
Dear editor: A person seeking medical attention at CRMC should have no concern for the standard of care received no matter if that care is received by an employee or contractor.
June 01, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Is Turning Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
Dear editor: It's time to stop permitting these so called renewable energy developments that leave our state looking like a scene from some post-apocalyptic movie like 'The Blood of Heroes.'"
May 31, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Governor Needs To Fix Star Plunge
Dear editor: I recently had to change some vacation plans upon hearing Star Plunge is closed. I would encourage all of you to flood the governor's office with demands that he take action and resolve the conflict quickly.
May 31, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Setting The Record Straight On Star Plunge
Dear editor: It is unfortunate that the Wyoming State Parks have decided to destroy a family business and force the Star Plunge to resort to the courts just in an effort to get the state to follow the law.
May 30, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Protecting Our Children Isn't Book Banning
Dear editor: Wyoming this year joined 20 other states that have passed age verification laws restricting access to sexually graphic online material for minors. So why shouldn’t libraries also limit access to minors to harmful material in their collections?
May 30, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Why You Should Trust Professional Librarians To Select Books
Dear editor: I throw up in my mouth a little bit, every time Republican legislators use the term "common sense," to refer to their own personal opinion, as Rep. Ann Lucas did in her recent guest column.
May 29, 2025
Letter To The Editor: A Wyoming Future Fueled by Energy, Innovation, and Freedom
Dear editor: Energy production and our energy independence should not be a partisan issue. Republican-led states across the West, like Utah, Texas, and North Dakota, have aggressively pursued renewable and emerging energy investments alongside fossil fuels.
May 28, 2025