Opinion

Since we are well into National Surveyors Week, observed from March 17-23, I thought it might be interesting to look at the exploits of a few of our county’s oldest historical surveyors. Capt. Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville, of Fort Bonneville fame, is usually not thought of as a surveyor. Bonneville was in the area in the early 1830s, ostensibly to do some hunting and trapping, but there is evidence that the War Department (U.S. Army) had actually sent Bonneville to the Rocky Mountains to document the native situation and to do some mapping. It is that mapping that we are interested in, particularly his journal entries regarding an area in the Wind River Mountains.

Recent controversies involving the Sublette County Hospital District (The District) , including the inadequately explained and secretive parting of ways with Star Valley Health (Star Valley) …

As the world is being sucked into the derangement of the mind, I keep a tight grasp on my sanity, or at least the way I perceive my mind’s soundness, with freethinking thought. I have to …

On Friday evening we gaveled a close to the 67th Budget Session in the Wyoming Senate and House. It was a tumultuous budget year. Yet, despite political differences and policy disagreements, the …

The saying goes, “Wyoming is a small town with long streets.” This is inherent in the Cowboy State’s identity.

Attention Walmart shoppers! This is a disclaimer of sorts, as I plunder into the degradation of entering these wretched stores of disgust. I am not judging or condemning anyone that may lower their standards enough to enter these stores of ill repute. However, be advised that when entering any Walmart store in any town, county or state, you will be forfeiting IQ points that may be needed later in life.

We have known Jason Ray since he was a teenager and have never seen negative of any kind. He has always been kind, considerate, intelligent and honest, with a strong work ethic.

I hope the powers that be can find a way to retain him in the system as his departure would be a great loss. Some accommodation with restrictions and a probationary retention should be possible and in the best interests of all concerned.

Health care is quite obviously a business. Here’s two stories in three days.

In this 2024 Budget Session, out of 221 bills and 8 joint resolutions filed in the House, the second most in Budget Session history, 90 House bills and 4 resolutions died due to time constraints today, on Friday the 16th. Which is to say that 135 pieces of legislation were voted on during the introduction process. For comparison, during the previous Budget Session, in 2022, out of 163 pieces of legislation filed in the House, 52 died from the clock running out, and 111 were voted on for introduction. So even though many bills died this year, 24 more pieces of legislation were voted on this session than in the Budget Session of 2022.

In the past, if you wanted one, and who wouldn’t, you called your doctor and he set it up. Those days are gone because somebody realized they could get another dollar from your wallet. Now you have to meet with qualifiers.

Each morning, no matter where the morning may find me, I open my artistic journals and pour into them words of thought through my pen. These words derived from places that I find wonder in the understanding of why. I hope these excerpts will reflect some illumination into the mind of a junkyard philosopher and purveyor of words. Then too, perhaps they will evoke thought of your own bewilderment.

I’ve never seen our newsroom empty. It makes me physically sick. Click in to continue reading.

Is this two-day-notice termination shaking my confidence? To be honest, it is. I feel sick. Click in to continue reading.

I’ve always tried to be someone Gar could be proud of; someone he wouldn’t be embarrassed to take out in full view of the community. Thankfully, a few of my shortcomings have been hidden so he’s never had to witness me publicly in my full nitwittery.

Because the 3 pounds of gray matter that we carry is such a mystery, we have been told that people only use about 10 percent of their brain. Several types of brain imaging studies show that there isn’t a part of the brain that is completely inactive.

As we age, our main goal is to make genuine attempts at achieving wise decisions. Wouldn’t that be so great if accomplished? Ha! Steve Jobs felt that it was ok to make mistakes because if you are, at least you’re making decisions. Steve Jobs never witnessed Gar and me in real time.

Some people advocate for discontinuing the penny because the cost of producing a single penny has been more than its face value for years. In fact, it costs about 3 cents to make each penny. Therefore, with inflation affecting the cost of raw materials, labor and distribution, producing a penny is becoming even more expensive. The United States lost over $93 million producing the coin last year, which is only a tiny gnat on the ass of our Nation’s $34 trillion dollar debt.

As the presiding officers of our respective chambers, we will focus on fighting rising costs like property taxes and electric utility increases, placing parents in the driver’s seat of their children’s education, and supporting mental health programs for our fellow neighbors.

I bring all these little stories together as the introduction to the commonly heard phrase that is echoing across the county. “The billionaires are moving the millionaires out of Jackson,” and they are crash-landing in Sublette County.

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