The “Paul Reveres” of climate change are riding through the streets sounding the alarm. The most foreboding warning is the certainty of the da…
A few nights ago, my wife drove 100 miles roundtrip to take a home-cooked meal to one of our friends who was diagnosed with cancer a few month…
Mother’s Day was a big success at our house, with our son from Utah surprising his mom with a visit. It was great to have both our sons home w…
I’m a natural smiler. I smile all the time. Some people don’t.
Wyoming anti-abortion activists view the Legislature’s passage of a “trigger ban” law — which goes into effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned th…
On April 5, a monumental task was accomplished with the purchase of the Stagecoach Motel to be added to the COMEA House and Resource Center ca…
In 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, the U.S. Supreme Court, in one of the most controversial decisions of the Warren Court era, held school-led praye…
There’s nothing sadder and more useless than a single dirty artificial flower next to a cemetery fence. Someone left this flower in memory of …
Dan was nonplussed when the white woman at the museum provided an anthropological explanation to a group of Indian kids about their ancestors’…
Arbor Day was started in the USA in Nebraska in 1872 with the planting of an estimated 1 million trees. History has reported that Cheyenne pla…
I was excited to see her. I passed through the double doors, down the hall and into the dining room. I knew lunch should be almost done, so it…
In a recent speech at Stanford, former President Barack Obama advocated for a radical reimagining of the First Amendment in response to recent…
Liz Cheney’s fight to keep her U.S. House seat is supposed to be a slugfest.
My neighbor is famous.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s first major ruling on the meaning of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause was in Everson v. Board of Education,…
I have a new lover.
Last year, my mother was admitted to a rehab unit at a skilled nursing facility (nursing home) after a 12-day hospital stay. At that time, the…
Wyoming’s natural resource-based economy has always had tension with the federal government. Unfortunately, the federal government’s environme…
People who enter the field of education have a strong desire to serve others. Their work changes the lives of our students and impacts our com…
In this space last week, I predicted that when our 2022 “Notice of Assessment” arrived, it would announce an increase in property taxes “a rat…
I would like to begin by saying we cannot do this work without our community partners. Thank you for providing the comments and feedback we ne…
It seems like a couple of topics have been on our agenda a lot recently: liquor licenses and historic horse racing venues. 307 First is a Wyom…
When was the first time you felt like you belonged somewhere? Does the memory push you all the way back to your childhood? Your family? Elemen…
Your life matters. It matters to me. It matters to God. It matters to your family. It matters because your individual, unique life gives joy a…
Gov. Mark Gordon and the Legislature apparently believe Wyoming’s electricity customers are all chumps.
After Shirley Samuelson of Jackson set the parking brake of the WYDOT street sweeper she operated last year, she climbed down from the cab to …
In his unanimous opinion for the Supreme Court in the watershed case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Chief Justice Earl Warren asked th…