Dear Editor: I am writing to you as part of a class project on the travel diary A Walk Across America. My classmates and I are sending letters to newspapers in an effort to stimulate responses from newspapers in a chosen state. In my case, Wyoming was that state. In previous years, members of...
By Sarah Pridgeon This week, I discovered that America does not happen in the middle of the night. For those of us across the pond who like to keep up with the pomp of the Oscars, the circumstance of presidential debates or the nachos of the Superbowl, it’s easy to develop the assumption that...
By Parker Jackson Aide to Rep. Allen Jaggi, Lyman, WY Voters across Wyoming have been silenced. Your vote doesn’t matter. At least, that’s what they want you to think. Since the 2010 election, those on the left, both Democrats and “Republicans” who have abandoned their professed party at heart, have constantly undermined Superintendent of...
By Sarah Pridgeon I am ashamed to admit that, although I have improved my snow driving exponentially since I was directed to a vehicle with four-wheel drive, the sight of my car at the bottom of our driveway, wheels spinning fruitlessly, is now becoming commonplace. It would seem that winter does take practice –...
In last week’s editorial, “The Future of Power in the USA…” Bill Sniffin wrote, “The biggest threat to the coal exporting opportunity involves environmentalists in the Northwest.” I disagree wholeheartedly. The biggest threat to our coal industry and our economy comes from the other direction, from Washington D.C. The Democrats have done everything they...
By Bill Sniffin That 34-minute power blackout during the Super Bowl gave the world a glimpse of the future of how electrical power outages will be occurring in the United States During the country’s transition from coal for electricity production, there will not be enough power to run things. And there are going to...
By Mark Semlek Last week the Legislature reviewed and finalized the supplemental budget. After all the State Agencies had undergone a budget reduction exercise this past summer, it was unlikely that there would have been much interest in considering requests in the supplemental budget to add back to budgets that had been scrutinized in...
By Sarah Pridgeon “It being Superbowl time, I think I should like to talk about my impressions of American football in my column this week,” I said to my husband as he was trying to get to sleep. “I’m not sure you can,” he muttered. “I don’t think you even know enough to work...
By Mark Semlek We are approaching the halfway mark of the Legislative session this week as the House of Representatives begins to consider Senate Files. House action on bill consideration last week included a proposal to raise cigarette taxes by an additional $1.00 per pack up from the current $.60 per pack. The bill...
By Sarah Pridgeon I am suffering from plague. Simple winter cold it may be but, if I’m going to describe the symptoms to you with any degree of accuracy, I can think of no more apt comparison than the Black Death. If, therefore, you catch sight of me wandering the streets in an eight...
