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A nother week, another round of Republicans attacking each other. This time it was over the Ukraine funding bill that was passed by the House and ultimately became part of the big military aid …

I can’t help but wonder if Forrest Gump’s mother had the Freedom Caucus in mind when she said “stupid is as stupid does.” I have to give the Freedom Caucus credit for its …

“Kids are like farts. You only like your own.” - Chad Prather Chief Washakie once said, “Sometimes when you are young and full of life you do things that you might not do later …

Gov. Mark Gordon recently rejected a proposed rule change to Wyoming’s election laws submitted by Secretary of State Chuck Gray. The Wyoming Legislature’s Management Council determined …

It’s time for our annual letter to inform the constituents of the Kemmerer Senior Citizen Service District how we spent your tax money for 2022-2023 in our district and our projected budget for …

It’s challenging to find a silver lining to the situation unfolding in Sublette County after a man allegedly tortured and paraded a wolf in public before finally killing it. The …

I’m pretty sure that the number of people who are mourning the death of OJ Simpson can fit into the trunk of the smallest car Hertz ever rented. He was a man who killed his wife Nicole, as …

T he voluntary exodus from the Wyoming Legislature has begun, like it does every election year shortly before candidates start filing to run. Several prominent lawmakers have announced they …

As people from Wyoming and beyond join in righteous indignation over an ugly incident in which a man tortured and killed an animal simply because it was a wolf, we would do well to examine the policy …

“Death to Israel!” “Death to America!” It sounds like something you’d hear chanted by hundreds of brainwashed young people in the streets of Tehran. But …

In 1989, Boris Yeltsin, then a newly elected member of the Soviet Parliament and two years away from becoming the last leader of the Soviet Union and first president of Russia, visited the United …

I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington. As the GOP proved again in the House this week, it’s incapable of accomplishing …

The state visit by Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida isn’t just about tea and photo ops. It’s a wake-up call for the Biden administration to get serious about bilateral economic …

Editor: The Kemmerer Lions Club will collect used eyeglasses over the next month. Lions Club eyeglass boxes will be placed at various locations around Kemmerer, Diamondville and LaBarge in which …

Lent is over — and I’m kind of sorry. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I observe Lent every year. The Britannica defines Lent as a solemn period of penitential preparation in …

Editor: Like most residents of the Kemmerer/Diamondville area, | was stunned and then horrified by the letter I got from the Joint Powers Board regarding the local water quality. I …

We must stop giving our adversaries a leg up in energy markets. In 2014, former defense secretary Robert Gates wrote that then–vice president Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly …

T he 2024 legislative session was a tough one. More than any other time in recent history, political divisions and personal grudges impacted the work of our elected officials. This is a troubling …

I t turns out that for all of its chest thumping about the founding fathers and the Constitution, the Freedom Caucus isn’t very keen on the executive or judicial branches of government …

I can’t help but try to understand the position so many of our elected officials have taken in opposition to funding mental health in general and the endowment to support a 988 hotline in …

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