Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor Guidelines
- Keep letters under 500 words.
- Include your full name, city or town, email and phone for verification.
- Must be factually accurate and free of libel, personal attacks, hate speech or offensive language.
- Letters should be constructive — no back-and-forth personal arguments.
- Publication is not guaranteed; editors reserve the right to edit for length, clarity and style.
We will publish no more than one letter from the same reader within 30 days. No exceptions.
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Letter To The Editor: Deporting Terrorists Without A Trial
Dear editor: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal MS-13 gangbanger from El Salvador with a lengthy wrap sheet prompted an immigration judge to order his removal in 2019. Garcia stayed and continued his criminal MS-13 rampage.
April 25, 2025
Letter To The Editor: We Are Losing Our Constitutional Rights
Dear editor: Unless we put pressure on the federal government to call up the true militia (which is a nation of armed citizens), and train them, we will lose our rights at the state level.
April 24, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Terrible Reporting Cowboy State Daily, No One Was Being Targeted
Dear editor: No one was being targeted; police work is often boring and cops play games to pass the time just like clueless reporters.
April 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Progress In Cowboy Boots (And The Shade Of Future Trees)
Dear editor: There’s something beautifully stubborn about Wyoming. You can throw anything at it — economic downturns, weather that changes by the hour, or an unexpected elk wandering into the post office — and it keeps showing up.
April 23, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Smokey: Replace That Shovel With An Axe
Dear editor: Instead of the Forest Service cleaning up the dead fall and dead standing trees, thinning the forest and the underbrush, they wait for a private contractor to ‘bid’ on doing the work, but it seldom happens.
April 22, 2025
Letter To The Editor: Let's Modernize Rules, Regulations That Govern Oil And Gas Development
Dear editor: In Wyoming, we find ourselves in a never-ending struggle with a federal absentee landlord that changes its mind every four years on how to manage its acreage.
April 21, 2025
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