My husband and I have a new baby. Not really. What we have is a new truck, or rather a gently used truck. But it may as well be a new baby the way we treat it. And by “we” I mean “he.” We see automobiles very differently. I admit that I’ve named mine. And that I talk to it and pat its dashboard when it’s done a good job. But when I’m not in it, I hardly give it a thought. As much as I like it, my car is just a way to get me places that are too far to walk to.

Michael Reagan column for Wednesday, June 14, 2023

I still mourn the loss of two pairs of my favorite jeans. There was the one I tore, along with the legs in them, while I was climbing over a barbed wire fence. And there was the one that someone spilled bleach on. I’m not saying who but it was someone I’m married to. You might think both pairs had fashion potential as distressed jeans, but these had gone way beyond distressed to distraught. So had I.

ditor: I want to join with Tim Beppler in calling for Dave Bennett to resign from the Uinta County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees.

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As a multi-generational native Wyomingite, I grew up with tales of the hard-working folk who settled the American West. Not only were we regularly taught about these people at school, stories passed down through generations of those who came before us contributed to the legends of those rugged individuals. Rugged individualism. It’s a concept many of us grew up with, with a uniquely American idea of what it means. Railroaders, homesteaders, pioneers, revolutionaries. They crossed the American prairie in much the same way as their forebearers crossed the Atlantic, searching for a “new” world where a man could fashion a life with nothing but his own two hands. (Yes, I personally recognize the Americas were populated prior to European immigration and that not all of these people were men. That’s far more than I can get into in the confines of this column.)

Editor: Some may have thought that he was just joking when Uinta County School District No. 1 Trustee Dave Bennett made a remark at the Douglas Frank event on May 30 that “get a rope” was an appropriate response to unfounded allegations of voter fraud (Uinta County Herald, “Gasoline on the fire,” April 7, 2023). According to the Uinta County Herald article in last Friday’s paper and incited by comments about the former NIH Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci by U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, Bennett once again responded from the townhall audience to, “Get a rope for him, too.” The obvious reference to a hanging of Dr. Fauci got laughter from some members of the audience and a call, for God’s sake, to “crucify him,” by another person in attendance.

“A good leader stands in front of their men in times of criticism, and behind them in times of praise.” I do not know where this quote originated, but I heard it first from my husband, a supervisor at his job, who has always given his crew the credit when management praises them for a job well done, and takes the responsibility when things don’t go so great. This idea hit me in my gut and has always stuck with me. I took this to heart while I was the Uinta County Republican Party Chair. I took the criticisms on myself and gave all the credit to the great people in the central committee for the wonderful things we were able to accomplish during my term.

Joe Biden lies. He stumbles. He has the beginnings of dementia. Everything Fox News says about his incompetence and his horrible domestic and foreign policies is absolutely true. Everyone knows America will be more prosperous and safe when he is no longer in the White House. But Joe Biden isn’t leaving. He’s decided he can run for re-election in 2024 for one simple reason — the Republican Party nomination is in the pocket of Donald Trump.

Hayden Godfrey column for Friday, April 28, 2023

Dorothy Rosby column for Friday, April 14, 2023

Bill Sniffin column for Friday, April 14, 2023

Guest column by Vern Hopkin

Bill Sniffin column for Friday, April 7, 2023

Dorothy Rosby column for Friday, March 31, 2023

Bill Sniffin column for Friday, March 31, 2023

Michael Reagan column for Friday, March 24, 2023

Kerry Drake column for Friday, March 24

Letter to the editor from Ed Lyles

Letter to the editor from Lila E. Mohler