Dave Simpson
Dave Simpson started his newspaper career in 1973 as a reporter for the Laramie Daily Boomerang. He moved on to editing posts at the Rawlins Daily Times and the Casper Star-Tribune. He then published newspapers in Colorado and Illinois for Howard Publications owners at the time of the Star-Tribune for 17 years.
Dave has written a weekly column about a wide variety of topics for 39 years, winning top columnist awards in Wyoming, Colorado, Illinois and Nebraska.
He and his wife Caryl are retired and live on an old wheat field east of Cheyenne. Their dog Mitch the latest in a long line of black Labrador Retrievers was rescued from the pound in Torrington.
Dave built his log cabin in the Snowy Range of Carbon County in the 1980s, where he spends as much time as possible every summer.
Latest from Dave Simpson
Dave Simpson: I’d Crawl Over Broken Glass To Vote
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "We're witnessing all-out efforts on multiple fronts to keep the guy 70 million of us voted for from ever being president again, despite the many good things that happened when he was president."
Dave SimpsonAugust 14, 2022
Dave Simpson: Merle Was Right About These Years
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "I was 67 when my first grand daughter was born, and 69 when her little sister arrived. Suddenly, things like highchairs, stuffed toys, and a wayward pacifier found under a bed, started showing up at our house."
Dave SimpsonAugust 09, 2022
Dave Simpson: The Mind Just Keeps On Boggling
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Now we're begging the Saudis to boost oil production, instead of unleashing our domestic energy industry. The mind boggles."
Dave SimpsonAugust 02, 2022
Dave Simpson: Plenty Of Good News Up At Buford
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "This past weekend, gas at Buford was $4.15 a gallon. I never thought I'd see that as a bargain, but then we'd never had fossil fuel-hostile Joe Biden as president before."
Dave SimpsonJuly 25, 2022
Dave Simpson: These Are The ‘Adults In The Room?’
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "If this is the best the adults in the room can do runaway inflation, gasoline prices through the roof, chaos at the border with Mexico, enough deadly fentanyl streaming in to kill us all, a thwarted murder plot against a Supreme Court justice, prosecutors who don't prosecute, and a nonstop stream of confusing word salad from our president and vice president?"
Dave SimpsonJuly 19, 2022
Dave Simpson: A Couple Very Tough Nuts To Crack
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Cheyenne guy and Casper guy can't figure out why Liz Cheney is on such a crusade against Trump, while representing a state where the former president got 70 percent of the vote highest of any state."
Dave SimpsonJuly 11, 2022
Dave Simpson: A Far Cry From The Watergate Hearings
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Some of us are old enough to remember the Watergate hearings back in the summer of 1973. Trust me on this: The January 6th 'hearings' ain't no Watergate hearings. "
Dave SimpsonJuly 06, 2022
Dave Simpson: Try Not To Spend It All In One Place
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "The average American buys 400 gallons of gas a year, so three months of relief with Joe Biden's gas tax pause of 18 cents a gallon comes to a total of $18. Enough for three more gallons. Don't quit your day job, folks."
Dave SimpsonJune 28, 2022
Dave Simpson: Liz Pursues The Great White Whale
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "The problem with Rep. Liz Cheney's Captain Ahab-like determination to see that Donald Trump never gets anywhere near the Oval Office again (her words) is that Trump was so much better at the job of being president than President Joe Biden."
Dave SimpsonJune 21, 2022
Dave Simpson: Worth The High Price Of Gasoline…
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Maybe something strong from the brewery can help us forget Joe's $4.69 gasoline. Wyoming's at it's best this time of year. It's worth the price of gasoline to get out and about."
Dave SimpsonJune 13, 2022
Dave Simpson: Still Four Feet Of Snow? You Betcha!
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "As of Monday morning, the government reporting station at Sand Lake in the Medicine Bow National Forest showed 50 inches of snow still on the ground - four feet, two inches."
Dave SimpsonJune 06, 2022
Dave Simpson: Dave’s Hard-Learned Lessons For The Grads
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "A high school graduation party for a young man I shadowed on his first day walking home from grade school reminds me that it's time for Dave's Hard-Learned Lessons for the Grads."
Dave SimpsonMay 31, 2022