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: The NFL – Taking A Walk, As They Take A Knee
Who cares what a pro football team's nickname is if we have to sit through millionaire players and coaches taking a knee during the national anthem to show their contempt for our country?
Dave SimpsonJuly 23, 2020
Dave Simpson: Behold, The Kitchen-Table Haircut
My wife likes saving the $11 that a geezer haircut costs. When the coronavirus hit, we had no alternative but to have her cut my hair at the kitchen table.
Dave SimpsonJuly 14, 2020
Dave Simpson: Remember, Always Lie to Pollsters
The late, great Chicago columnist Mike Royko had this advice when exit polling was first introduced: Always, always lie to pollsters. It's the only defense we have against people who are relentlessly distorting our election process.
Dave SimpsonJuly 08, 2020
Hey GOP! Don’t Call at Dinnertime!
A key problem, however, is that the U.S. Senate is so out of touch and rude that it calls us at dinnertime.
Dave SimpsonJuly 01, 2020
Dave Simpson: Don’t Paint All Cops With Same Brush
Making sweeping generalizations about all cops is just as wrong as lumping peaceful demonstrators with looters.
Dave SimpsonJune 23, 2020
Dave Simpson: Digital News: We’re Losing Plenty In This Process
Coverage of local news and issues have never been more threatened. Why you should care.
Dave SimpsonJune 17, 2020
Dave Simpson: We’re Less Deplorable Than Before!
Apparently what makes us deplorable and not good people is our fondness for keeping our doctor if we like our doctor, keeping our insurance if we like our insurance, secure borders, an aversion to late-term abortions, not saddling our grand kids with huge, crippling debt, a general appreciation for capitalism over socialism, and a general belief that big government screws up more than it fixes.
Dave SimpsonJune 10, 2020
Dave Simpson: No Frontier Days? Cowboy Up!
There's gotta be a pony in this pile of manure...
Dave SimpsonJune 02, 2020
Dave Simpson: That ‘Powerful Odor Of Mendacity’, Dispatches From the New Abnormal
Columnist Dave Simpson wonders why progressives, who were never impressed by a growing economy, record unemployment, and a sky-high Dow, are now suddenly interested in the economy now that the coronavirus has wreaked havoc on American life.
Dave SimpsonMay 27, 2020
Dave Simpson: Temperatures Soaring Over Masks
Where I live, it's about half people wearing masks at Walmart, and half not. So if you wanted to pick fights with people not wearing masks, you could be fighting all the time.
Dave SimpsonMay 19, 2020
Dave Simpson: For This Nomad, The Long Trek Is Over
From an old bench at the edge of our place east of Cheyenne, you can watch freight trains fight their way over Archer Hill, making their way east and west on the Union Pacific Railroad.
Dave SimpsonMay 12, 2020
Dave Simpson: It’s Almost Time To Get Out of Dodge
My inalienable right to get a haircut has only this week been restored by our governor (just in time to avoid a Billy Ray Cyrus mullet).
Dave SimpsonMay 07, 2020