Coach soccer, they said. It'll be fun. When we signed our 7-year-old twins up to play youth soccer, the league director told all the parents that if one of ...
From governments to private citizens, sensible snow removal helps everyone We got off easier than expected with this week's snowstorm, which threatened to ...
Could Amtrak come back to Wyoming? We ran a news brief on the idea in Tuesday's Ranger. The City of Rock Springs endorsed Amtrak's return. Expanding passenger ...
Online education is a great alternative to in-person instruction, but don't assume that it has the same quality as live interaction with a teacher or ...
When the Wyoming Legislature crosses most people's minds, thoughts of winter days at the Capitol building in Cheyenne come to mine most readily. Usually, ...
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced Friday, and two reporters won it. They aren't reporters who take a camera over to Kiwanis Kids Fishing Day on a Saturday ...
Help Avenue of Flags Any contribution is welcome to help volunteers meet the costs of buying, repairing and placing flags on Main Street and Federal ...
Quick -- name a Nobel Prize winner. It's not all that easy, is it? Some Americans probably would remember that Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama won ...
Do the American people support spending $1.4 trillion to build, rebuild and/or upgrade highways, bridges, airports, seaports, pipelines, transmission lines and ...
Hearing "Mountain Time" by Ian Munsick burst open the capillaries of my imagination. The song is about rushing home from a tour to be with one's love, but ...
"Food insecurity" is a nicer way of saying "hunger." Many Fremont County residents might not realize it, but there are significant numbers of people here who ...
Thanks, Ma There is no official, verifiable, unimpeachable way to determine what day of a particular year has the best weather. Not everyone even agrees ...
September marks the beginning of hunting season in Wyoming, a time of harvest you might say. But it's not so much a harvest of wildlife, as a harvest ...
New enrollment figures at the University of Wyoming show a decrease of about 300 students this fall. The decline comes in the category called "returning ...
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 ...
