Letters to the Editor
Have a comment on one of our stories or an issue you care about? Submit a Letter to the Editor! Please make sure to include your full name, city, and phone number. Your phone number will not be published. Keep the letter under 500 words, please!
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
Letter To The Editor: Glacier National Park Home Is A Bureaucratic Disaster
Dear editor: This is the perfect storm of environmentalists, bureaucrats with too much time on their hands, attorneys keeping their heads down, and property owners who who should have known better or have been advised better.
March 11, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Don't Mix Religion And Government
Dear editor: In complete opposition to the First Amendment’s prohibition against mixing religion and government, state rep. John Bear wants more religion in government.
March 11, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Quit Changing The Name Of Fort Bragg
Dear editor: Perhaps the administration that is currently planning to fire 80,000 employees at the VA could instead have used that money to retain some of those employees who provide vital healthcare and support services to veterans.
March 11, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Why Does Wyoming Still Support President Trump?
Dear editor: I’m wondering what it will take for the Wyoming Trump supporters here in Wyoming to see the truth. The free world knows now that Trump is working for Putin.
March 01, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Working Animal Protection Act Threatens Animals And Local Communities
Dear editor: The Working Animal Protection Act opens the door to exploitation, from backyard breeders to roadside zoos. Worse, it could embolden bad actors in industries like puppy mills.
February 28, 2025
Letter To The Editor: It's Time To End Rodeos
Dear editor: As a former bareback bronc rider, pathologist and large animal veterinarian, I have both the experience and autopsy proof that rodeo injures and kills animals.
February 27, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Where Was The Uproar Over "Let's Go Brandon?"
Dear editor: Sens. Barrasso and Lummis are unhappy about iPhones substituting “racist” for “Trump” in voice dictation. But I don’t recall them expressing disapproval of the marketing of “Let’s Go Brandon” signs.
February 26, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Why Are Your News Stories So Violent?
Dear editor: We have so many unusual and good stories from a small town or small state to share, do we need to hear these issues more typical of a big city?
February 26, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Criminals Don't Pay Attention To Gun-Free Zones
Dear editor: Those who study mass killings, concur with the founder of the Crime Prevention Resource Center, that the vast majority take place in “gun free zones.”
February 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Have We Lost All Moral Conscience For Unalienable Rights?
Dear editor: If children are dehumanized, aborted/killed, and deemed unworthy of life, it raises a profound question about the worthiness of all of us; begs the question – who deems ‘worth’ of life?
February 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Rep. Styvar Is Not Attending Committee Meetings
Dear editor: I ran in the GOP primary against Rep. Styvar to represent House District 12. It’s easy to say that, had I won, I would have committed to the job and showed up when I was supposed to, because Rep. Styvar’s behavior is unprecedented...
February 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: 'Gun Free Zones' Are Foolishly Naive
Dear editor: Have you ever heard of a case, even in “The Lancet” where a person who woke up in the morning prepared and intending to go to a school to use his gun to kill people, has been deterred upon getting there and seeing a sign that says, “Gun Free Zone"?
February 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Has Donald Trump Become King?
Dear editor: Trump has usurped both the law-making and appropriations powers of Congress like kings do. Trump has installed the legal basis of monarchy (“The King can do no wrong”) by obtaining immunity from criminal prosecution.
February 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Senate Does Not Care For Campbell County High School
Dear editor: How long must this nonsense go on? How long do parents, teachers and students have to scream we need help! Folks I'm here screaming Fire!
February 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: For The Last 100 Years, Scientists Have Been Recording Weather, Not Climate
Dear editor: As a retired geologist, I would like to respond to Terry Hansen's letter. I have no argument with Terry Hansen's statement that the Earth is undergoing "global warming." In fact the Earth has been warming for the last 12,000 years...
February 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: CDLs And Interstate 80, The Highway Of Death
Dear editor: I believe that number of non-domiciled commercial driver's license holders to be very high. In any truck stop in Wyoming you will several different languages, mostly eastern European or Middle eastern.
February 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Global Warming Will Likely Destroy The World
Dear editor: In her CPAC speech, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) mocked climate action and spoke of our "ever changing and healthy climate." However, in its report, “Catastrophe Modelling and Climate Change,” Lloyd’s of London....
February 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: In Defense Of SF40 - Zoning Protests And Unconstitutional Housing Mitigation Fees
Dear editor: The Wyoming Constitution states that “private property shall not be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation”. If we don’t stop this, it will spread to other counties.
February 21, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Sheriff Kozak Is Just Fearmongering
Dear editor: "Without knowing all of the facts and not knowing if any backfill money may occur for any of our 23 counties, Sheriff Kozak immediately said he will lose $2 million dollars in budget cuts, lay off 25 employees, and several programs will have to be eliminated."
February 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: House Bill 64 Is Thinly Veiled Attempt To Ban Abortion In Wyoming
Dear editor: Pro-Choice Wyoming opposes House Bill 64, which would mandate a transvaginal ultrasound and a 48-hour waiting period before a woman can obtain medication for an abortion. This bill is a thinly veiled attempt to ban abortion in Wyoming.
February 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Is Failing Moms. Let's Do Better On Maternal Mental Health
Dear editor: Our hearts are heavy in the wake of the recent tragedy in Byron, but we can't simply grieve and move on. We must dedicate our time and resources to prevention.
February 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Gov Needs To Sign Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act
Dear editor: I call on Governor Mark Gordon to sign HB 199, the Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act, and unleash educational liberty.
February 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Gold Should Be Better Appreciated By Cowboy State Daily
Dear editor: I take umbrage at the way your article was written to dismiss the usefulness of gold in the marketplace and which, maybe inadvertently, casted aspersions on my business partner and employer Josh Phair.
February 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Grab Your Skirts and Lipstick, Ladies
Dear editor: thanks to Wyoming Representative Jayme Lien and her absurd “What Is a Woman Act” (HB0032), simply existing in public as a woman might require you to pass a gender inspection.
February 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Casper Kids Should Be Celebrated For Engineering Success
Dear editor: Students from CY Junior High School in Casper worked tirelessly, won first place at regionals, and earned their way to Washington, D.C., to go head-to-head with some of the brightest young minds in the country.
February 20, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Linda Burt's Letter Is Riddled With Errors
Dear editor: Linda Burt’s letter to the editor criticizing my opinion piece with state Senator Cheri Steinmetz is riddled with errors.
February 18, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Let's All Rally Together To Support Olivia
After the tragic event in Byron earlier this week, let's all rally together and show our support for Olivia -- the lone survivor of the shooting in Byron. We are organizing candlelight vigils at 5:30pm in every county on Friday, February 14.
February 13, 2025
Letter To The Editor: The Free Market Does Not Work In Education
Dear editor: There are some fallacies in the Letter to the Editor "The Free Market Works -- Even In Education" about the free market and how it applies to education.
February 12, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Is Your Columnist Dave Simpson Happy Now?
Dear editor: Dave Simpson is overjoyed with the return of “common sense” under President Trump. The common sense of giving an erratic, unelected billionaire and his geeks access to the personal banking information of millions of Americans?
February 12, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Must Take a Stand Against Animal Cruelty
Dear editor: Two statewide polls have shown strong public opposition to using vehicles to harm wildlife. In fact, a poll by sportsmen found that 75% of respondents believe wildlife should be killed only with a clean, humane shot.
February 11, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Gun Lobby Pushing Gun Bills Wyoming Citizens Don't Want
Dear editor: A guest column written by Sen. Cheri Steinmetz and John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, uses the fiction that 94% of mass public shootings occur in gun free zones.
February 11, 2025
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