Dave Simpson
Dave Simpson started his newspaper career in 1973 as a reporter for the Laramie Daily Boomerang. He moved on to editing posts at the Rawlins Daily Times and the Casper Star-Tribune. He then published newspapers in Colorado and Illinois for Howard Publications owners at the time of the Star-Tribune for 17 years.
Dave has written a weekly column about a wide variety of topics for 39 years, winning top columnist awards in Wyoming, Colorado, Illinois and Nebraska.
He and his wife Caryl are retired and live on an old wheat field east of Cheyenne. Their dog Mitch the latest in a long line of black Labrador Retrievers was rescued from the pound in Torrington.
Dave built his log cabin in the Snowy Range of Carbon County in the 1980s, where he spends as much time as possible every summer.
Latest from Dave Simpson
Dave Simpson: I’ll Take Rudeness Over Incompetence
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Suddenly, I don't hear much from my Democrat friends about competence and the adults in the room."
Dave SimpsonOctober 27, 2021
Dave Simpson: A Familiar Problem For Capt. Kirk
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "William Shatner said this week that the tough thing about going into space - where no 90-year-old man had gone before - was getting in and out of the chair in the space capsule here on earth."
Dave SimpsonOctober 19, 2021
Dave Simpson: So Much For ‘Bringing Us Together’
If you were surprised to learn that a person who once assisted people who spiked trees to endanger loggers now heads the Bureau of Land Management, you might be even more surprised to learn who has been nominated by feisty President Joe Biden to be comptroller of the nation's banking system:
Dave SimpsonOctober 13, 2021
Dave Simpson: Which Wyoming Town Is The Most ‘Typical’ Of The Cowboy State
Dave Simpson says: Neither is Laramie, where I lived for six years back in the 1970s. There's nothing typically Wyoming about our only university town, where 11,000 students goose the dickens out of the economy every August through June. And it has one of the best downtown business districts in the state.
Dave SimpsonOctober 06, 2021
Dave Simpson: Pay Like Everyone Else Does, Joe!
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was in a snit last week (he does snits better than anyone), fulminating at Republicans who were refusing to go along with Democrats in the latest installment of the raising-the-debt-ceiling clown-car show."
Dave SimpsonSeptember 28, 2021
Dave Simpson: Want The Lowdown? Ask A Smoker!
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "If I really wanted to know what was going on who was mad at whom, who was about to quit, what caused that new dent in the company van, and the very juiciest gossip I would ask a smoker. They usually had the answer, and would roll their eyes that the boss was always the last to know."
Dave SimpsonSeptember 21, 2021
Dave Simpson: Still Think 2021 Has To Be Better?
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "So I've learned my lesson well. We prefer doddering, incomprehensible incompetence over mean tweets. Jot that down."
Dave SimpsonSeptember 15, 2021
Dave Simpson: Half A Hundred Years Of Columns
Columnist Dave Simpson is celebrating his 50th year of writing newspaper columns.
Dave SimpsonSeptember 06, 2021
Dave Simpson: Trying To Fill Some Very Large Shoes
The very large shoes of Rush Limbaugh are being replaced (not filled) by a number of able talk radio practitioners. And in much of Wyoming, we have impressive access to some of the best.
Dave SimpsonSeptember 01, 2021
Dave Simpson: Forget The Bear, Fear The Black Flies
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "The breaking news from my little patch of woods high in the Snowy Range of Wyoming is that a black bear made off with my neighbor's six pack of Miller Lite beer last Friday."
Dave SimpsonAugust 24, 2021
Dave Simpson: No Break From The News This August
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Things used to slow down in August, as the luminaries, dandies, high-rollers and poohbahs of politics and media decamped to The Hamptons to sip wine and nibble crudites. No such luck this year. Let's touch some bases:"
Dave SimpsonAugust 18, 2021
Dave Simpson: Dawdling Dave’s In No Hurry At All
Columnist Dave Simpson writes: "Get off the interstates, folks, especially this month when Wyoming is at its most spectacular."
Dave SimpsonAugust 11, 2021