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Rod Miller: Debate in the Cowboy State? Great!
Columnist Rod Miller says he does his best to help with climate change. "...all those bubbles rising in a frosty glass of Pabst Blue Ribbon are bubbles of that dreaded gas. When I drink it all down, I am sequestering carbon in my body, thus doing my part to save humanity."
Rod MillerNovember 12, 2023
Rod Miller: The Media Landscape in Wyoming is Changing
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If you mount up on a tall horse and survey the media landscape in Wyoming today, you’ll see an unavoidable truth. The venerable old institutions of newsprint journalism are mere shadows of their former selves."
Rod MillerNovember 08, 2023
Rod Miller: Schroeder And Inner Circle Broke The Law Besides Looking Like Nincompoops
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Not only did [the Wyo Dept. of Education's] secrecy look sketchy as hell on its face, their reluctance to divulge information violated the Wyoming Public Records Act. It took an order from a District Court judge to pry the requested records from their sneaky hands."
Rod MillerNovember 05, 2023
Rod Miller: The Wyoming Public Records Act At Work
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "It's a disturbing video. Graphic, violent and a man dies in it. But the public has every right to see it. I'm referring to the deputy’s body cam video of a fatal confrontation that Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak recently released."
Rod MillerOctober 29, 2023
Rod Miller: Can Wyoming’s Center Prevent An Outbreak Of D.C. Fever?
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "What Matt Gaetz and his fellow House conspirators attacked was not just a sitting speaker of the house, but also the institution itself."
Rod MillerOctober 22, 2023
Rod Miller: The Center Must Hold – In Wyoming And The World
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The siren song of extremism is seductive. It offers a sanctuary where the human mind can take it easy and just go with the flow of some belief system imposed by others. Extremism requires no mental labor, just blind obedience."
Rod MillerOctober 15, 2023
Rod Miller: Police Misbehavior And The Critical Role Of The Free Press
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland has broken a couple of stories about police misbehavior in Thermopolis. We are watching a real life instance of the power of a free press play out before our eyes in real time."
Rod MillerOctober 11, 2023
Rod Miller: Politics Around the Ol’ Wyoming Campfire
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Chatter around the ol’ campfire devolved into hoots and hollers as each cowboy sang the praises of his own favorite candidate and called everyone else a bunch o’ damn RINOs. The campfire vocabulary was reduced to one and two-syllable words, and finally to grunts, growls and chest thumps."
Rod MillerOctober 08, 2023
Rod Miller: How Safe Are Our Persons And Houses In Wyoming?
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "A cop in Thermopolis broke down a citizen’s door without a warrant of any kind and against the advice of the county attorney's office. A gunfight resulted, with the household resident dying and the cop being wounded."
Rod MillerOctober 06, 2023
Rod Miller: Friday Night Lights in Wyoming’s Lower East Side
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Confession – I’m a sucker for high school football. My son Vic and I caught the first win of the season for the 2A Burns Broncs in that bucolic little southeastern town out on the edge of America’s amber waves of grain."
Rod MillerOctober 01, 2023
Rod Miller: The Empty Head of the Sagebrush Rebellion Raises Itself Again
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "If the Freedom Caucus was too lazy or too proud to get involved in the fed’s planning process on the BLM’s Draft Management Plan from Day One, but then cry crocodile tears when the horse is out of the barn, they aren’t worth listening to."
Rod MillerSeptember 28, 2023
Rod Miller: Government Secrets vs. The Wyoming Public Records Act
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "In a free society like ours, citizens should know more about government than government knows about us. Knowledge is power, right? When government keeps secrets from its citizens, it becomes a secret government."
Rod MillerSeptember 24, 2023