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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…
Editorial board: Forest Service camera rule a bad, vague proposal
The basic rules of preserving natural places is this easily remembered phrase: "Take nothing but pictures; leave nothing but footprints." The …
Editorial board: Missed chance to lead on same-sex marriage
It’s a pattern we couldn’t ignore, even if we wanted to.
Editorial board: More talk, less jargon
The Wyoming Department of Education has concluded that it needs to lighten up on the lingo when telling folks in the Cowboy State how the lear…
Editorial board: 1-cent tax pays for police and fire protection
Hear a siren in the distance? Watch a police car or fire truck scream by? Chances are, you are experiencing 1-cent optional sales tax dollars …
Editorial board: Take a deep breath on Ebola fears
We've seen the movies: "Outbreak," "Contagion," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Even if you haven't, you'll recognize the similarity in thei…
Editorial board: Wrong way to run for governor
Let's say you want to run for governor.
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…
Klein: Wyoming’s creeping administrative state
On Oct. 3 the Wyoming Department of Administration and Information ("A&I") held a public hearing on proposed revisions to the Wyoming pers…
Curtis: It is what it is
Is it just me? Empty. Uneasy. Confused. Sad. Something is wrong. Is it for everyone, or is it just me?
Schilling: Kasparaov's message for the world (and Wyoming)
Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion and more importantly, given the state of the world today, the preeminent, pro-democracy, anti-…
Billiter: #WonderKidDiscoversTwitter
The calls started trickling in with the same question. After I listened to a couple voicemails, I realized I had made the etiquette mistake of…
Halverson: Walk away from wage gap fallacy
The Star-Tribune editorial ("Work on the wage gap," Oct. 2) regarding the so-called wage gap in Wyoming demonstrates, once again, the blinders…
Barron: Prodding the Corps
CHEYENNE -- State officials are prodding the U.S. Corps of Engineers to do more work on the groundwater pollution problem at the Belvoir Ranch…
LeResche: EPA choosing experiment over water quality
In 2012, the Powder River Basin Resource Council published a six-point plan to protect Wyoming’s groundwater. The report found that 99 percent…
Wulff Wisdom: Brotherhood of hunters
Is there a neon light that blinks over the head of a veteran, unseen by everyone other than another veteran? There's something faintly familia…
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