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It’s Been A Banner Season For ‘Stupid Tourist Tricks’ In Yellowstone
Tourists keep pushing their luck with wildlife in Yellowstone National Park, and it’s probably just a matter of time before somebody is “severely injured,” one observer said.
Mark HeinzAugust 30, 2023
WEA Claims State Trying To Set Precedent To Justify Underfunding Schools
The Wyoming Education Association claims in new court filings Tuesday that the state is trying to unravel 40 years of legal precedent to justify underfunding public schools.
Clair McFarlandAugust 30, 2023
Witness: Watching Military Helicopter Crash At Cheyenne Airport Was 'Pretty Scary'
A UH-1 helicopter from F.E. Warren Air Force Base crashed and flipped upside down on a runway at Cheyenne Regional Airport on Wednesday morning. A witness says watching it happen was "pretty scary."
Leo WolfsonAugust 30, 2023
Long Shot For President Barnstorms Wyoming, Says George Washington Is ‘By My Side’
Walter Clapp is a 35-year-old Red Lodge, Montana, attorney who’s been barnstorming his way across Wyoming and other states says he should be the next U.S. president because George Washington is “by my side.”
Leo WolfsonAugust 30, 2023
Dave Bell: Shooting The Supermoon Over Wyoming's Cirque Of The Towers
Famed Wyoming photographer Dave Bell writes, "For years I have wanted to photograph a full moon rise over the Cirque of the Towers and tonight my hard work paid off. It rose dead center on the jagged edges of the peaks which comprise the famous Cirque in the southern Wind River Mountains."
August 30, 2023
Cowboy State Daily Radio: Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Good morning, and welcome to Cowboy State Daily Radio News for Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Wendy CorrAugust 30, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Agency Proposes Sensible Plan To Protect The Northern Red Desert
Dear editor, “Wildlife is hard-wired to the habitat occupied for thousands of years. Places, sounds, views, smells and even the solitude afforded by the Northern Red Desert are testimony to who we are as humans.”
August 30, 2023
Wyoming On Notice As Others Pause Permitting For Wind Projects
Concerned over the number of proposed renewable energy projects, Twin Falls County in Idaho has joined other jurisdictions that are showing more restraint in permitting. Some say Wyoming needs to do the same.
August 30, 2023
Boyfriend Tells Police Mother Of 2-Year-Old Boy Swung Him ‘Like A Baseball Bat’
A Cheyenne woman and her boyfriend are charged with attempted murder for allegedly brutally beating her 2-year-old son, including swinging him “like a baseball bat.”
Clair McFarlandAugust 29, 2023
Game and Fish Traps, Relocates Grizzly Hanging Around Highway
Wildlife agents captured and relocated a young male grizzly near Moran on Saturday because it was hanging out too close to a highway. It was one of numerous incidents involving bears this year in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Mark HeinzAugust 29, 2023
Wyoming Schools Unprepared For Space Alien Invasion, But Maryland’s Aren’t
If space aliens invade Wyoming, its schools will be caught flat-footed, even though some schools in Maryland are preparing for an “Independence Day” scenario.
Mark HeinzAugust 29, 2023
It’s Expected, But Livestreaming Public Meetings In Wyoming Isn’t Required
The pandemic has quickly accelerated efforts to livestream public meetings in Wyoming, which made not doing so for a Monday Joint Appropriations Committee meeting, a surprise for even some lawmakers.
Leo WolfsonAugust 29, 2023
Colorado 7th Grader Kicked Out Of Class For “Don’t Tread On Me” Patch
A top free-speech advocacy group and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis derided a Colorado Springs school's decision to kick a seventh-grader out of class for having a “Don’t Tread On Me” flag patch on his backpack.
Clair McFarlandAugust 29, 2023
Cheyenne Transient Dies From Beating, Reward Offered
The Laramie County Sheriff's Office is investigating the beating homicide of Cheyenne transient Jason Mullen, 50, whose real name was Stacey Mullen, after Mullen died Sunday at a medical clinic.
Clair McFarlandAugust 29, 2023
BLM Proposal Prefers People Not Be Able To Use Public Lands
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, “While most headlines about the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan note the agency’s preference to set aside 1.3 million acres … the BLM preference is ‘conservation of resource values with constraints on resource uses.’”
Cat UrbigkitAugust 29, 2023
Green River Man Charged After Infant Sex Torture Porn Found On Phone
A Green River Man who had recently moved to Casper has been charged after police found dozens of videos and thousands of images depicting disturbing sex torture of infants and toddlers.
Clair McFarlandAugust 29, 2023
After More Opposition, Cheyenne Plastic Bag Ban Dies On Close Council Vote
In a close 5-4 vote, the Cheyenne City Council rejected a proposal to ban the sale of plastic bags in city limits on Monday night, but not before getting another earful from residents who opposed the plan.
Leo WolfsonAugust 29, 2023
John Bear: Uniparty Claims to Know Better Than You Do
In a guest column, Wyoming Freedom Caucus Chairman John Bear writes, “Before the leadership of a supermajority Republican legislature complains about every Make America Great Again Republican voting against their pork filled budget, they should ask themselves why every Democrat voted for their budget.”
August 29, 2023
FAA Investigates Laramie Regional Airport Over User Complaints
The Federal Aviation Administration outlines in a letter that a number of complaints made by Laramie Regional Airport users are the focus of an active investigation.
Leo WolfsonAugust 29, 2023
Cowboy State Daily Radio News: Tuesday, August 29, 2023
This is Cowboy State Daily Radio News for Tuesday, August 29, 2023
August 29, 2023
Dave Simpson: Think You Used Enough Dynamite, Butch?
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "Our Trump-hating Democrat friends are determined, in the words of Sundance, to use enough dynamite to get rid, once and for all, of a guy so craven and evil and sick that he wants to make America great again."
Dave SimpsonAugust 29, 2023
10 Years In Prison For Wyoming Man Who Hurled Screwdriver At Child, Tortured Others
A Wyoming federal judge has sentenced a Fort Washakie, Wyoming, man to 10 years in prison for hurling a screwdriver at a child and committing other acts of abuse.
Clair McFarlandAugust 28, 2023
Gillette Men Accused In Scheme To Scam Woman, 87, Out Of More Than $300,000
Court documents outline an alleged scam by a pair of Gillette men to cheat an 87-year-old woman out of more than $300,000, including attempting to get a power of attorney over her.
Clair McFarlandAugust 28, 2023
Cops Banned From Donut Shops? Not In Wyoming
A Wyoming undersheriff, gun advocate and bakery all say a California chain of bakeries that’s banned cops because they carry guns is “extremism taken to the max.”
Mark HeinzAugust 28, 2023