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Keep letters under 500 words.
Include your full name, city or town, email and phone for verification.
Must be factually accurate and free of libel, personal attacks, hate speech or offensive language.
Letters should be constructive — no back-and-forth personal arguments.
Publication is not guaranteed; editors reserve the right to edit for length, clarity and style.

We will publish no more than one letter from the same reader within 30 days. No exceptions.

Letter To The Editor: Watch It With The Quotation Marks

Dear editor: Reporters need to keep their opinions out of the stories they cover. The job is simply to report the news using the facts available, not to state or imply their own opinion on the matter. And yes, punctuation counts.

March 28, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Legislature Is Ignoring The People On Property Taxes

I just looked up how much the state of Wyoming has in surplus funds and it was $950 million. If that is the case, why is the state of Wyoming raising our property taxes???

March 26, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Abortion Is Not Health Care, It Is Murder

Dear editor: It is [a woman's] responsibility to take precautions instead of using abortion! Abortion is not “health care”, it’s murder!

March 26, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Thank God For Don Day!

Dear editor: Rather than forecasting and reporting actual conditions, it seems the weather channel has turned to predicting impending doom and disaster on all fronts. Thank God for Don Day, I much prefer his weather forecasting.

March 25, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Bitterly Disappointed With Success Of Traditional Republicans, Probably Romney’s Fault

Dear editor: It is with bitter disappointment that I read Uinta and Lincoln Counties have reverted to “traditional” GOP Leadership. One suspects that the Romney Republicans are having a negative impact on western WY.

March 25, 2023

Letter To The Editor: I Never Called Anyone A Secessionist For Questioning Vax Mandates

Rep. Landon Brown writes, "I write this to clarify and correct the assertions made that I called people secessionists for 'daring to question Joe Biden's unconstitutional mask and vaccine mandates.'"

March 23, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Rod Miller Claiming I Spouted “Hyperbolic Bullshit” Is Hyperbolic Bullshit

Dear editor: Rod Miller and I are both duly elected members of the Laramie County GOP central committee, so I don’t feel this is the kind of “civil discourse” that would be required on the debate floor. I don’t think disagreement is “hyperbolic bullshit.”

March 23, 2023

Letter to the Editor: Don’t Like Starving Wildlife? You Can Blame Wind Turbines & Solar Panels

Dear editor: Placing thousands of square miles of wind turbines or solar panels right in their winter grazing areas is just that – harassing the wildlife."

March 22, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Every Child Has Something To Offer And Change Change A Life

Dear editor: As a parent of a child born with a disability, who has since passed and is with Jesus, how can people place such little value on human life!

March 22, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Joe Ricketts Loves Wyoming So Much He’s Trying To Change It

Dear editor: It has always interested me that people will move into a place because they love it, then immediately set about changing it

March 20, 2023

Letter To The Editor: House Divided, Sour Grapes, Other Ignored Maxims of 2023 Legislative Session

Dear editor: Abraham Lincoln, quoting a notoriously liberal thinker once said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”. The ideology of the originator doesn’t make it any less true or applicable to the current status of the Republican party.