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Editorial board: Harshman, Nelson, Longtine for House seats
Voters in all three state House districts in Natrona County have a strong candidate for the Nov. 4 election.
Editorial board: Of few school board candidates, Applegate is clear choice
Serving on a school board can be a thankless job.
Editorial board: Vote for Mundell, Johnson, Schlager, Pacheco for Casper City Council
It's been a tough, long year for the Casper City Council. The ethics and conflict-of-interest brouhaha featuring Councilman Craig Hedquist has…
Editorial board: Choose Lawson, Hendry, Schlager for Natrona County Commission
On Nov. 4, the voters of Natrona County have a chance to remake their County Commission by choosing three members of the five-member board.
Editorial board: Ceballos the right choice for Wyoming schools chief
During the primary election season, we said that the state of Wyoming would have a win-win situation if Republican Jillian Balow and Democrat …
Editorial board: 1-cent tax provides newcomer benefits
If you're new to the Casper area, the 1-cent tax on the ballot Nov. 4 might seem like an odd piece of work. Why would a city choose to review …
Editorial board: Shortage of safety inspectors growing dire
The state inspector force keeping an eye out for the safety of workers in Wyoming has a serious problem: It's dwindling.
Editorial board: We need safe oil tankers, sooner not later
The dickering between Washington and the oil and railroad lobbies over train cars hauling crude continues, seemingly unabated, just like the s…
Editorial board: Bad move to dissolve Shoshone and Arapaho Joint Business Council
How a sovereign state behaves toward its neighbors is a sign of its maturity. A sovereign nation would, one would think, prefer to make decisi…
Bentley: Time for action on Pinedale’s air
More than 6,500 new oil and gas wells across 850,000 acres: that’s what’s planned in and around Pinedale at projects with names like Normally …
Cook: Big benefits from Annie's Project
Just as some families never get around to setting up a budget or developing a five-year or ten-year plan, so some farmers and ranchers never i…
Barron: Change is hard and inevitable
CHEYENNE -- One of the state public health institutions currently being studied by a task force was founded in an era when tuberculosis was a …
Kettl: A normal, everyday thing to do
It was a nice anniversary present.
Salih: Moderate Islamic scholars and ISIS
Whenever something hateful is done by a group of Muslims the question arises, “where are the moderate Muslims and how come they did not speak …
Groose: 'Equality State' or not?
When discussing sexual ratios, several genetics students have asked me, “Why are only two of 12 University of Wyoming trustees women, when a m…
Billiter: Taking time, while there's time left
I’ve watched him spend school nights and every Sunday evening at the kitchen table. Textbooks fanned out, laptop fired up and nose down. For t…
Blewer: What would William Wallace do?
On Sept. 18, mist lay on the hills of South Lanarkshire, the region once home to the legendary Scottish patriot, William Wallace. The wind was…
Bader: Reject the lodging tax grab
The Casper Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is calling for an increase in the lodging tax from three to four percent. Local governments and…
Linowes: Bird mortality: Big Wind on defense
Nobody really knows how many birds are destroyed annually in wind turbine related collisions. Wind proponents have long discounted the carnage…
Kopocis: Clean water proposal aims to help farmers
When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, it didn’t just defend the mighty Mississippi or the Great Lakes; it also protected smaller s…
Barron: A tight fit
CHEYENNE -- The elected officials in the Capitol building are disappointed over the space they will get after a major renovation is finished.
Williams: The great sage grouse opportunity
One of the most challenging and politically contentions issues in the West is also one of our greatest opportunities and an important investme…
Stubson: Of patriots and protest
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” -- James Madison
Billiter: When the tilting stops
One of the first professional plays I attended was “Man of La Mancha” at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles. I was in the fifth grade when my …
Cook: Hemp a huge missed opportunity for the U.S.
For more than five decades, industrial hemp has suffered mis-classification because of its resemblance to marijuana. Both are members of the c…
Shanor: Common Core movement a campaign for control
Throughout my 40 years in education, I have seen a lot of experiments, trends, and fads come and go. Some garnered short-lived attention, othe…
Cook: Hoping for Larry's Place
The other day I sent a letter to a young man in Rawlins: “Can you tell me how you came to be labeled 's.o.' and what this has done to your life?”
Barron: Nonresident University of Wyoming trustees; different views
CHEYENNE -- Wyoming's only ballot question for voters to decide in the November general election is getting little attention, let alone robust…
Kuzara: Wyoming’s bloodiest Fourth of July
July 1, 1874: Captain Alfred Elliot Bates led Company B of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry consisting of 63 troopers out of Camp Brown, Wyoming Territory…
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