What would former President Donald Trump have to do to move his base supporters to finally concede his threat to our democracy?
An apology wasn’t enough. Louise Carter-King was right to resign as mayor.
The end of 2021 means the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn on for nearly two years in Wyoming.
Life was supposed to get back to normal in 2021, and in many ways it did. Businesses weren’t closed, schools were in session, mask mandates di…
There’s a good reason a nearly 125-year-old editorial penned by Francis Pharcelus Church of the New York Sun has become the most reprinted wor…
The greatest gift I ever got was one of subtraction.
Christmas for most is a time of celebration, reverence and good cheer, and that’s true for my family.
With a few exceptions like Ralphie’s coveted Red Ryder BB gun in “A Christmas Story,” our cherished memories of the holidays usually aren’t do…
When I get the time, I like to listen to podcasts.
When the holidays roll around each year, how many times do we catch ourselves saying it wouldn’t be the holidays without ... (insert whatever …
After nearly 30 years writing and editing news from rural Colorado to the Alaska wilderness and places in between, it takes a lot these days t…
Got the phone call I was expecting this week.
Got the phone call I was expecting this week.
Newspaper publishers, editors and reporters with any common sense (and we know that’s only some of them) never believed for a second that the …
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Was there anything that didn’t annoy, chafe, bother or peeve Andy Rooney?
On Oct. 4, Facebook had a global outage. For several hours, users around the world were unable to argue politics with complete strangers, let …
A nearly 30-year career in community journalism doesn’t happen without having covered countless Veterans Day and Memorial Day ceremonies and t…
EVER GET SOMETHING you didn’t order delivered to your home?
For the most part, we relish Wyoming’s unique, independent and proud political example of coveting as much local-level control as possible. Th…
A woman comes to the newspaper office and asks about an online story the paper published about another woman accused of killing her husband. S…
HERE’S ANOTHER sentence I never thought I’d write:
Look up the word “homemaker” in the dictionary and the entry is likely to include a photo of my mom.
I need a break.
Folk wisdom is that you “don’t change horses in midstream.” Those are good words to live by, but I’ve often found myself to be the closest per…
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Several years back, when I was a reporter and editor with the Polk County Democrat in Bartow, Florida, I seized upon an assignment. Then Agric…
… that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have hopes and dreams, as well as the desire and motivation to pursue these.
On Christmas Eve I was watching the PBS program on Fred Rogers, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” I am thinking of him right now as I write this on …