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Dear Editor, I recently gave a reading of the iconic “I Have a Dream” speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which he gave at the March on Washington in 1963. I gave the reading at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center and the Villa for President’s Day and Black History Month. The speech is a solemn reminder. The words not only speak for themselves, but they are necessary. It is heavy stuff, but is there anything more important? The speech mentions President Abraham Lincoln as well, and the key to the speech is what it says about hopes for chil...
Dear Editor, I recently found out that the Rock Springs City Council intends to revisit the chicken ordinance on March 4. I urge the Mayor and council to maintain the current prohibition for the following reasons: It is currently unsafe to allow backyard chickens in our community due to public health concerns. - Newly Confirmed Cases: The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) has recently confirmed the state’s first human case of H5N1 avian influenza in an older adult from Platte County. This individual marks the third confirmed hospitalization li...
There’s a famous quote from Mr. Rogers that talks about “looking for the helpers” when tragedies happen. This week’s newspaper is full of its share of tragedy, but we’re thankful that it’s also full of stories of “the helpers.” Last Friday, our community faced a horrific tragedy. This week’s front page is filled with the devastating details of the accident at the I-80 tunnels. From those who lost their lives to those whose lives will be forever changed by injury and trauma to the brave and dedicated first responders who will continue to feel...
Dear Editor, Today’s attack on the U.S.A. is not coming from China or Mexico or Canada or even Greenland and Denmark, and not from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, or Panama, likewise it is not coming from Ukraine, Europe and NATO, nor Taiwan, Okinawa, South Korea, Japan, Australia or New Zealand, or even Samoa, and not from immigrants or even Democrats and Socialists. Today’s attack is coming from an odd collection of highly insecure, lying, abusive, and narcissistic billionaires. They have done this by using democracy to gather the many votes of...
With Valentine's Day this week, the subject of love may be on people's minds more than usual. Unfortunately, the subject of empathy, often connected to and associated with love, seems to be under attack and up for debate these days. Empathy is simply defined as "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another." Merriam Webster goes into even more detail, defining it as "the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings,...
Muley Fanatic Foundation recently shared a press release containing a letter addressed to Wyoming legislators regarding Senate File 0118. Together with other sportsmen groups, Muley Fanatic explained how the bill proposes transferable landowner tags and forces a move towards privatization of wildlife. They also expressed their concerns about why this would be an issue. The following is the content of the letter: Dear Wyoming Legislators, On behalf of numerous outdoorsman organizations...
There’s a lot going on in the political realm right now, both on the state and national level. As the Wyoming legislature debates hot-button topics in the general session and President Trump continues to issue executive orders in his first two weeks, there are lots of discussions, and lots of strong feelings, connected to politics. In the midst of discussions and strong feelings, words tend to get thrown around, often without people having a full understanding of what the terms they’re hearing and using actually mean. Some of the terms that hav...
Dear Editor, Unfortunately, HB 172 to repeal gun free zones is back and even worse than the Governor vetoed HB 125 from last session. This legislation has come before the Legislature for many years but never gained much traction until last year when the gun lobby started putting the full court press on Legislators. Public poles show that a majority of Wyomingites DO NOT want gun free zones repealed! - March 2024 KGAB Poll: “Do you agree with Governor Gordon’s Veto of House Bill 125” 63.3% indicated YES. - August 2024 Wyoming Tribune Eagle...
Dear Editor, The Freedom Scholarship Act seems to be a departure from the Freedom Caucus’s usual stance of ‘smaller’ government. This Wyoming bill is no more than a blatant effort by the Freedom Caucus to encourage the establishment of religious-based schools to further the Freedom Caucus’s “Godly” ideology and make the state pay for it. How this bad piece of legislation got as far as it did is inconceivable to me, and it is clearly designed to hobble public education. My daughter and son-in-law in New York pay $7000 a year to have their son a...
On Monday, January 20, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. Several Wyoming officials released statements congratulating President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance and sharing their optimism for the new administration. On the same day, President Trump signed multiple executive orders, including several related to energy, which multiple Wyoming officials also praised. Governor Mark Gordon, who was also present at the inauguration, released the following statement: “The energy-related executive orders signed b...
Dear Editor, Your Year in Review issue (1-6-25) started out with the Green Belt Taskforce celebrating new Lighting. Not everyone is celebrating. The Taskforce and the City have helped create a truly remarkable path along the River. There are National Parks that don’t have the amount of Wildlife we have. Beaver, Otters, Muskrat, Fox, Coyote, Raccoon. The large birds include Swans, nesting Bald Eagles and Red Tail Hawks. Pelicans, Heron and Cranes. It’s a GREAT place to walk! I realize some will like the new Lighting . Just wanted you to kno...
The 68th Wyoming Legislature convened for the 2025 General Session on Tuesday this week. After opening ceremonies and swearings-in, the introduction of bills began right away. It’s probably safe to say that the average Wyomingite doesn’t follow the legislative session very closely. And we understand that. Politics can be challenging to understand, and, let’s be real, fairly boring for many of us. Legislative sessions are long and complicated, with a host of bills introduced at the beginning, many of which won’t go far, and many of which will be...
Dear Editor, I am dusting off my role as a debate coach to address an issue I believe could impact everyone in Wyoming, especially our children and educators. Wyoming House Bill 100 (HB0100) for the 2025 legislative session, titled “K-12 Uncertified Personnel,” proposes allowing school districts and charter schools to employ administrators, teachers, and other personnel without requiring certification or permits from the Professional Teaching Standards Board. Instead, these employees would need to undergo background checks. This would mean ind...
Wyoming’s landscape reflects the evolution of our energy economy. Where gold was once panned in mountain streams, a new gold and copper mine is on the horizon, along with anticipated rare earth mineral mining to meet national demands. Innovations like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have breathed new life into aging oil fields, unlocking opportunities in areas once considered depleted. These shifts highlight Wyoming’s resilience and ability to adapt to change. Now, we stand at another pivotal moment in our energy history. Coa...
On January 6, the United States Congress certified Donald J. Trump as President and JD Vance as Vice President of the United States. Several Wyoming representatives shared comments on their feelings following the certification. Senator Cynthia Lummis released the following statment: “For four years the people of Wyoming have suffered from skyrocketing prices at the grocery store and gas pump thanks to the Biden-Harris administration’s runaway spending. The American people spoke out strongly in November, overwhelmingly electing President Tru...
Here we are, standing on the brink of a new year together. The transition from one year into another is always interesting. At the end of the old year, we reflect back on everything the year held, all the ups and downs, all the accomplishments and setbacks, all the goals we achieved and those we still have to work on. At the beginning of the new year, we look ahead to the uncertainty and promise of the future. The blank calendar pages feel like a blank slate, a fresh start, where we can work toward all our goals again. Every year, the Green...
Dear Editor, For the better part of my precious, brilliant God-given lifetime here on earth, I have dreamed of truly becoming a poet, so now I will simply try to write one for all of you. The name is “Why not only love now?” Love me and I will love you! Hate me and I will as yet unconditionally still forgive you! And though I know this does not rhyme, please, please give it its all due iconic time for tribute’s sake. I mention tribute because this is about our service people. I originally wrote this poem 40 years ago for Vietnam. I wrote it fo...
Wyoming leaders have consistently expressed their disproval of the Bureau of Land Management’s plans for the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan (RMP). After the BLM released the final Record of Decision (ROD), they again issued statements detailing their disappointment. U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR), issued the following statement after the Biden-Harris administration released its record of decision for the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan: “The Bid...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the final version of the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan (RMP). This plan replaces the existing, outdated plan for the 3.6 million-acre field office in southwest Wyoming which was issued in 1997, and incorporates many of the recommendations from Governor Gordon’s Rock Springs RMP Task Force. Joshua Coursey, President of Muley Fanatic Foundation and Member of the Governor’s Rock Springs Task Force released the following statement in response: “Today is the culmination of fourteen years of hard...
By the end of this week, I'll probably have been to the movie theater as many times (or more) in the past month as I typically go in a full year. I've now seen "Wicked" (twice), "For King and Country: A Drummer Boy Christmas," and "The War of the Rohirrim." I'm also going to see if I can sneak in "Gladiator II" before it leaves this week, pushed out by the next wave of new releases. It's nothing new for lots of highly-anticipated films to come out around the holidays, but this year felt...
Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Congressional Western Caucus Chair Dan Newhouse (R-WA) wrote a letter to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning expressing their concerns with its final Greater Sage-Grouse Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA). “While the Biden-Harris administration spends its final days catering to its radical climate change base, farmers, ranchers and landowners across the west will bear the consequences of its catastrophic failures for years to come,” said Lummis. “In...
Republican leaders in the Wyoming House and Senate announced committee assignments for the year, and for the first time, Democrats have been completely removed from the Education Committees. This decision is a serious blow to Wyoming’s children and educators. Wyoming’s public schools have been successful because leaders from all sides have worked together to support teachers and students. Taking Democrats off the Education Committees shows that leadership is more interested in political control than working together to solve real problems. Se...
Dear Editor, I'm reaching out to share the details of a protest organized by the Wyoming Wildlife Protection Group, which took place on December 7th outside Santa Fe Southwest Grill in Rock Springs, opposing the World Championship Coyote Calling Contest. This local restaurant hosted a banquet for contest participants on the same day. We received notice of this troubling event just hours prior, making it difficult to rally a significant number of concerned citizens for our peaceful...
Dear Editor, In loving support of our senior citizens “also known as” (aka) the pillars of our society who reside in Mission at Castle Rock in Green River, WY, please consider a gift of love during the holiday season. Most of us remember Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa making sure we had that special gift under the Christmas tree on Christmas Day. It wasn’t just the bicycle, baby doll or Army fort that we dreamed about that our parents made sure came true for us, it was the unconditional love with which it was given. My beautiful mom was m...
Dear Editor, My name is Brooks Rushing. I am a Star Scout in Boy Scout Troop 312 and I am working on my Communications Merit Badge. One of my requirements is to write a letter to the editor in my community in order to express an opinion of mine. I would like to express my gratitude towards the hard work and dedication of the City employees, and the School District Recreation Mill Board for providing the funds for the new Riverside Memorial Park. The new park was made for all ages, my siblings...
