Flocked This time of year virtually no one would claim truly to enjoy cold mid-winter temperatures and 15-hour nights, but one of the characteristics of our ...
Our nation witnessed an experiment in mob rule Wednesday. A horde of goons stormed the United States Capitol while the U.S. House and Senate were in session ...
Perhaps it's not true that everybody is an expert on something, but it is true that everything has an expert. That means there actually are experts on the ...
Shipments of the two approved coronavirus vaccines are making their way to Wyoming, but the numbers are pretty small. That's partly because we are a ...
Holiday housekeeping Your daily newspaper staff appreciates the rare three-day Christmas weekend. We pulled it off by publishing on Monday last week, the ...
Who wrote the best-known poem by an America? We don't mean to start an argument here, but for our money the answer is Clement C. Moore. And one of the things ...
President-elect Joseph Biden said before the election that he would be bound and determined to nominate cabinet officers and appoint senior administration ...
Chuck Yeager is dead, and he is receiving admiring and affectionate tributes around the country. He earned them. The world-renowned test pilot, who decided ...
Mild Christmas Mother Nature's mild run-up to Christmas continues. Day after day, we experience calm, stable weather -- very cold in the mornings but sunny ...
Our 68th Christmas edition is near, so write in by Dec. 18 Santa Claus reads the local newspaper. It's true. He's a subscriber. It's a lifetime ...
Holiday housekeeping First up, your daily newspaper staff appreciated the day off last Thursday. It gave our hard-working bunch a chance to observe ...
Eight years into important discussions about how county and municipal law enforcement in Fremont County might find ways to cooperate with Wind River Indian ...
The Wyoming Supreme Court carries a lot of clout in our state, and it exercised some of it last week. Due to the spiraling coronavirus upturn in Wyoming there ...
Central Wyoming College learned this week that money it had requested under the CARES act to create and equip a small television studio at the Wyoming Capitol ...
-- We make fun of it sometimes, but we'd be lost without good committee work -- When an average person considers what it might be like to serve in the ...
Tuesday notes Mostly nice November After having a day on Saturday with some of the worst whether we might fear for November -- screaming winds and plunging ...
We human beings, with our big brains, our memories, our abilities to react and adapt, and the subtleties of our reasoning powers, also have a striking capacity ...
One of the characteristics of our Wyoming elections - indeed, many probably would call it a benefit - is that we are not hamstrung by an unending rounds of ...
Fifty years ago today, on Veterans Day, the last of the great allied leaders of World War II died. "DeGaulle is dead," read a headline, "and France is a ...
Anyone who is not alarmed by the drastic rise in coronavirus infections in Fremont County, Wyoming, and the nation certainly ought to be. Hospital space in our ...
What has played out in recent days, as mailed presidential votes have been counted in painstaking fashion, instantly and forever places the election of 2020 in ...
Oops on Amendment A We got it wrong when we wrote yesterday that Constitutional Amendment A "passed pretty comfortably, both in Fremont County and ...
Election notes (part 2) Council flip In a municipal election process that pits the same two candidates against each other in both the primary and the ...
Waiting to vote People voting at the Fremont Center building at the county fairgrounds in Riverton had an experience few, if any, ever had seen before in ...
We vote (if we haven't already) The term "election day" has fallen somewhat out of fashion because so many people voted early this year.Tuesday, Nov. 3, now ...
If you're turned off by the presidentialportion of the election, please take part in the rest of it A not uncommon statement around the country from ...
The most enjoyable and traditional activities anticipated on Halloween aren't advisable in 2020. Getting together in big party groups, or knocking on the ...