We live in a time of constant connection. You can't seem to go anywhere without the omnipresent digital world clawing at you. In these times of modern ...

Well, the Great Public School Funding Shortage of 2021 must not have been such a big deal after all. The Wyoming Legislature adjourned Wednesday without ...

This is an ode to the patience of plants, our most moderate of citizens. Spring beckons us all this April. We are lured out, bare-armed and blinking, to a ...

The ugly handiwork of the vandal with a can of spray paint was an evidence around Riverton on Thursday morning. The Riverton Police Department was kept busy ...

We've just celebrated Easter. Outdoor temperatures are putting us all in a new mood after an unimaginable pandemic. Birds circle blue skies, ready to mate ...

Bad News April Something about the fourth month is fertile ground for terrible events We haven't studied the matter exhaustively, but years in the news ...

Wyoming Ma Nature timed beautiful weather for the Easter weekend, but the spring seesaw continues this week. Snow fell across much of Fremont County overnight ...

Breezy? One of the great understatements of March 2021 came in a brief weather forecast that we noticed while putting together the Sunday "weather corner" on ...

You get them, I get them, we all get them. And they annoy the dickens out of all of us. Spam calls surpassed regular phone calls in 2019 for the first time. ...

When it wants to, the federal government trumps state and local governments virtually every time. While some in Cheyenne have disagreed in recent days when ...

Solace, meaning a source of comfort or consolation, is a word that has less meaning, less value, than it once did. We live in an age increasingly devoid of ...

Regional sports tournaments are time-honored and well-demonstrated sources of economic development in Fremont County. Or at least they were, before coronavirus ...

I read the H.G. Wells classic "The Time Machine" in eighth grade, during a long interlude with science fiction as a junior high kid. The book was just one of ...

We're in the midst of a nationwide observance called Sunshine Week, when local news organizations, led by newspapers, encourage both the public and local ...

Weather swings The most unsettled period of weather in our calendar year is about to begin, and this week is providing the opening act. After starting out ...

As the Wyoming Legislature plunges forward enthusiastically in its drive to create a "voter ID" law in the state, a question arises, or ought to. Why make it ...

When I was a school teacher, a lesson I tried to instill in my math students was where and when to use a calculator, pencil and paper, mental math, or a ...

"If I live to be a hundred, I will never know from where came those ribbons, lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons for her hair." Remember that song? Well, next ...

Necessarily, Wednesday's congressional hearing with U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy had a bit of an eyes-glazed-over quality to it. Take it from a ...

The legislative committee that last week made the decision to recommend doing away with local government public notice requirements has made a mistake. If the ...

My school teachers lifted me I consider myself pretty well off in life. That isn't to say I'm wealthy. Far from it. Being a public educator has never been a ...

Riverton High School's newly announced Certified Nursing Assistant program -- perhaps "revived" is the better descriptor -- is a welcome and positive addition to ...

Every two years, a first-grade teacher asks me for a love letter. "This is a special surprise for your child, so be sure and keep it anonymous!" The ...

The cold-weather emergency in Texas is more than a typical case of warm-weather residents shivering when the temperature drops into the 40s. What's happening ...

When times are tough, there always are people ready, willing and planning to make them tougher. Worse, one of the ways they often try to do it is undermining ...

Shiver our timbers We're shivering through our longest period of cold weather of the season. After week of mild winter conditions, this is the real deal. ...

The cold is biting and unfriendly today. It will be so through the weekend. It won't last, but I can't help but think of weatherman Phil Connors's quote from ...