Open letter to Wyoming’s Statewide Elected Officials by Chair of Wyoming Rising, Ronn Smith (printed in Powell Tribune on 8/8/2019) To Wyoming’s Statewide Elected Officials: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced its intent to contract with a private company to build and operate an immigration detention center in Evanston….
Guest Essays & Editorials
Guest essay by Cody Petterson, Director at Sequoia Foundation. For the first time in 15 years, I sat down in my car the other day and broke down sobbing. On the side of a dirt road, surrounded by mountains. Waves of sadness, frustration, rage, and despair welling up. I’d spent…
Guest Essay by Lee Nellis. Jackie is face down in the pink mud, laughing so hard she cannot stand. Henry is doubled over in mirth. Sophie, our dog, looks down from a sandstone capped pinnacle above the wash. She doesn’t like snowball fights. But the melting of a wet November…
Guest Editorial, by Linda Raynolds. April 12, 2019 Dear Secretary of State Buchanan, I was disappointed to read your recent letter to the editor, which appeared in my hometown newspaper, The Cody Enterprise. You write of your opposition to the temporary Court-ordered suspension of thousands of acres of o&g leases…
Repost from the Mountain Journal, March 13, 2019 by Tod Wilkenson. “What does it say about us when we wake up in the morning and consciously decide to “go along to get along” even though we know in our guts that if we’re really going to save this place—if we…
Guest EditorialBy Emily Reed. Nearly 50% of Wyoming is comprised of public land. While Wyoming has worked really hard to diversify its economy through outdoor recreation opportunities under its previous Governor Matt Mead, an important source of funding for all states and Wyoming in particular has failed to be reauthorized….