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Rod Miller: Of Milking Stools and Politics in the Cowboy State
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "While it's early yet, it appears that the centrists are noticing that there are barbarians just outside the gates and are pushing back with their checkbooks."
Rod MillerJanuary 07, 2024
Rod Miller: In Memoriam -- Bob Johnson, Outlaw Wrestling Coach
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "'Coach' has always been a term of deep respect to me. It means teacher, mentor, trail boss and, in rare instances, friend. Bob Johnson was my wrestling coach at Rawlins High School, and he was all that and more."
Rod MillerJanuary 04, 2024
Rod Miller: The Sport Of Kings In The Home Of The Horse
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It is a little known factoid that the horse was born in Wyoming. The earliest fossilized ancestor of the modern horse, Eohippus, was found in the northern Big Horn Basin, at the foot of the Pryor Mountains. Eohippus was a dog-sized critter, hardly the magnificent animal that we know today."
Rod MillerDecember 31, 2023
Rod Miller: Baseball, Lightbulbs and Carbon County
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I hail from Carbon County, one of the five original counties in territorial Wyoming that stretched from Colorado to Montana. And I want to tell you why, when we approach the Pearly Gates, we’ll be met by God driving his dusty ol’ ranch truck with County 6 plates."
Rod MillerDecember 24, 2023
Rod Miller: The Thousand Dollar Horse
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Marlboro Man showed up at the ranch at the crack of dawn with a horse trailer. While we normally raised our own horses, Darrell Winfield had a proven eye for horses and it was always worth taking a look."
Rod MillerDecember 17, 2023
Rod Miller: Football Fever In The Big Empty & The Swamp
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Pokes will play in a mid-range but respectable bowl, somewhere between the Rose Bowl and the Dental Floss Bowl. I fully expect our lads to send Coach Bohl into retirement by whupping Toledo like the family mule. Go Pokes!"
Rod MillerDecember 10, 2023
Rod Miller: Apologia of a Booksellin’ Cowboy
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "I liquidated my net worth -- state retirement, my stock in the ranch, drained my piggybank and opened Joe Pages Bookstore & Coffeehouse in downtown Cheyenne."
Rod MillerDecember 03, 2023
Rod Miller: Barbarians At The Gate Or A New Dawn for Wyoming?
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, as they themselves predict, actually runs the table during next year’s election, what can we expect? Don’t laugh, it could happen."
Rod MillerNovember 26, 2023
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Rod MillerNovember 22, 2023
Rod Miller: Mark Gordon Ain’t No Will Kane
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Give me a break. Saying you’ll duke it out and then backing down? Any respect I had for Mark Gordon as a political leader vanished with his 'lets get it on' followed by his 'no mas.' Maybe he just wasn’t cut out to be a cowboy."
Rod MillerNovember 22, 2023
Rod Miller: The “Cowboy Diaspora” & Deep Wyoming Roots
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "When our young cowgirls and cowboys hanker to stretch their legs and see what lies on the other side of yonder ridge, we should encourage ‘em. We should pack ‘em a lunch and let ‘em know they’ll always have a home to come back to."
Rod MillerNovember 19, 2023
Rod Miller: The Kelly Parcel -- Fertile Ground for Creativity
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Under an auction, the Kelly Parcel could wind up in the hands of some fatback greedhead developer who would slather the countryside with McMansions, strip malls and roundabouts. Or a Russian oligarch or a Saudi prince could snap it up and do God knows what with it."
Rod MillerNovember 16, 2023