Letters to the Editor
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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