Yes, I've shared this before, but recent SRIs (Sock Related Incidents) compel me to revisit the topic with readers. ---------- How many socks have you ...

The 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on 2001 sparked headlines and remembrances around the nation, including in Wyoming, just as it should ...

When I was a history major at Yale, I took a class with renowned Cold War historian John Gaddis. The great professor has written and taught about the conflict ...

Football is back, with gambling now part of it --officially. That could hardly seem more strange to many longtime fans. Until very recent years, gambling on ...

Not long ago -- before this year, really -- the notion that a landslide-elected official in Wyoming, whose last name was Cheney, would face a big-money, ...

How do you make a connection in time? If it's a past event, we all experience the sensation of nostalgia, some more than others, but it is a common human ...

In the days immediately following the terrorist attacks 20 years ago this week, the empty spaces on newspaper opinion pages challenged editorial writers. ...

A week after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, I got into a car and drove from Riverton to New York City to see the attack site for myself. I had a ...

q I first embraced the bird-watching hobby thanks to the red- bellied woodpeckers I saw in Iowa City. Returning to Iowa after 15 COVID-influenced months in ...

If you had a sore knee and began limping in order to "favor it," you might notice that your supposedly good knee starts to hurt as well, due to the extra ...

There's a drought in Fremont County because it only rains in my house. I've always been stubborn about the fact that my four sons are my main job. Yes, ...

Anyone who knows anything about the coronavirus pandemic knows that early last fall to the middle of last winter was the worst period of the whole coronavirus ...

One question: Is 'lefty loosey, righty tighty' one of Newton's laws of motion? --------- Most things were pristine when I moved into my new house here in ...

Lots of communities, from the smallest to the largest, disagree with the population figure they are assigned by the U.S. Census Bureau every 10 years. ...

There's something prideful in census results. You just don't want to see your community shrink. That blanket statement might not apply to absolutely ...

I've spent the entire week moving into a new house here in Iowa City, where I've come back to teach at the University of Iowa after more than a year in Wyoming ...

Timing can work against bureaucracy when important decisions need to be made. That could well be the case as Wyoming school districts, community colleges and ...

I learned the term "rain shadow" in a University of Wyoming class on the physical geography of the West. In essence, the mountains scrape the moisture from ...

The new Path of Honor Veterans Memorial at Fort Washakie opened officially on Thursday. It ought to be seen by everyone in Fremont County. Delayed by more ...

After months of expectation, federal funds from the big American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes of the Wind ...

Muscular Ma Mother Nature showed some muscle Monday night just before and just after sundown, when a sledge-hammering thunderstormtore across central Fremont ...

Once there were 57 dairies operating in Fremont County. Today there are none. Statewide the number of dairy farms once numbered more than 400. Now just a ...

For the longest time, having a baby as an unmarried woman carried his significant social stigma --usually for the mother and, sometimes, even for the ...

My student was anxious. He'd waited in the rain to talk to me, pacing up and down outside the cafe window while I finished my scheduled meeting with another ...

Creating a community hospital from scratch is difficult. Not impossible, but difficult. Some of the best people in Riverton have been working on it for ...

Joe and Rose Stanbury are really going to retire after 44 years at RTO for Joe. That's Riverton Tire and Oil. The business will remain in family hands. And ...

Riverton probably isn't the only town its size in the U.S that that has 15 or more buildings displaying big, fine-art murals on the exterior walls. But it ...