At one point or another, all elected officials will have to address the question of constituents or conscience as they serve in their office. …
A while back there was a — I guess you’d call it a meme — going around the internet. It was a very serious Trump sitting in a chair looking st…
“I have four children. Two are adopted. I forget which two.”
Using both tight budgets and a COVID-19d pandemic as excuses, the dumb idea of limiting printed public notices in Wyoming newspapers has reare…
Worldwide, the seemingly biggest concern on the minds of politicians is climate change. A very ambiguous term taking in a whole raft of climat…
Open letter to U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming):
It is true that political power is in the voting booth, but it is shared with the local political parties. How well both function depends on p…
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Sheep or Sheep Dog?
“I know that money, power, prestige and fame do not bring happiness. If history teaches us anything, it teaches us that.”
In my favorite business column called “the 20 things I’ve learned in 50 years of business,” three rules seem to have dominated my life over th…
And God bless his soul. I miss him. Steve W. was a friend to many who lost his life this last summer on the Platte River. I do not think he wo…
Wyoming’s public schools have long been a subject of derision for many Republican state lawmakers who claim they underperform. If such scrutin…
Some favorite places around Laramie to access public lands have become, for a few, places of trauma and danger. Since mid-November, six dogs b…
Undermining the status and power of Wyoming’s sole representative in Washington, D.C., is bad for business. Which is why, for the good of our …
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Vengeance?
“The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.”
Worldwide the seemingly biggest concern on the minds of politicians is climate change. A very ambiguous term taking in a whole raft of climati…
I spent much of my 82 years as an advocate of education, environment and political causes. I wanted public lands protected so I could continue…
A year ago I joined the Democratic Party, though many of my positions were once considered Republican. This column explains why.
1. COVID IS HIGHLY CONTAGEOUS. The COVID pandemic captured my full attention back in March. I even wrote a column about the preventative measu…
Okay, now that we have 2020 in our rear-view mirror, what do we foresee for 2021? This is my annual prediction column. First, we are not done …
It is the thing that always defines a nation. How is it that a nation that produced people like Audie Murphy, Neil Armstrong and Captain Sulle…
New Year’s Eve comes once a year, but this year there is more. There is uncertainty. There is no clear future. There is COVID.
More swell thoughts as we limp our way through the final month of this rotten, colonoscopy of a year:
Torture. That’s what it was. Pure torture.
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus.”
During a 2019 road trip through nine states, I stumbled on to an interesting factoid: the longest highway in America bisects Wyoming.
For most of us in Wyoming, 2020 brought many challenges. As we head into 2021, we can celebrate a new year with some much-needed encouraging n…