by Karen HertelWyoming Rising advocates for civil liberties, quality public education, affordable health care, protection of the environment, and participation in government. In keeping with our recent March for Science and celebration of Earth Day, I wanted to focus on the “protection of the environment” part of our mission. What…
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Supermajority, an exciting new advocacy organization with a mission to educate, train and mobilize women across the country to elevate their issues. The group’s founders include three powerhouse women—Cecilia Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Ai-Jen Poo, Executive Director of National Domestic Workers Alliance and Alicia Garza,…
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…
In just 7 days, it will be Earth Day. The world will be celebrating all week, and we will be ending the week of celebration on April 27 with a March for Science, free Earth Day events at the Buffalo Bill Center Of The West and a stellar group of…