I’m sure Texas and Arizona could use $5.25 million that a Wyoming state senator wants to send them to help pay for a border wall between the U…
When my father married my mother, she weighed about 100 pounds. After she gave birth to three children, her weight went far beyond that. My mo…
Here we are knee-deep in the year 2023 and tiptoeing into the month of love. It is interesting that because of one little day filled with flow…
In March 2020, gripped by the exponential COVID-19 pandemic, many American businesses and schools shut their doors. Yet they kept running and …
This week, the Wyoming Senate and House entered the third full week of the 67th Legislature’s general session. This is a rubber-meets-road jun…
“You are a false prophet,” the title to an awaiting email read. Much of the email responding to my columns is constructive, even when writers …
Questions surrounding news that President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence have disclosed possession of classified documents in …
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Another Martin Luther King Day disrespected by the Wyoming Legislature.
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“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi
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Wyoming Democrats have insisted for years that the political pendulum is bound to swing their way after decades of Republican dominance.
Sometimes I hear a comment that makes me ponder. Recently I heard someone say if you have an hour of work to do and two weeks to do it in, it …
