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I'll confess: I never have been a big fan of the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” It’s “let’s spend the night together” message never has resonated with me, …
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By Mike Buhler
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12/18/18
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George Herbert Walker Bush may have been, in his lifetime, one of the most accomplished of our presidents.
But before getting to that, let me tell you about my first experience with him. He came …
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By Pat Stuart
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12/11/18
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My reading interests took an uncharacteristic turn last week.
For most of my adult life, I have preferred to read non-fiction — especially history and current events — to reading …
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By Don Amend
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12/6/18
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When I first started working at the Tribune, most of the people I interviewed did not know me. I would introduce myself — Tessa Schweigert, as my name was then. To help people get to know me, I …
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By Tessa Baker
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12/6/18
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While hunting alone on the last day of antlered deer season, I sat hidden — haunted by memories of words best left unsaid.
It took nearly an hour before I managed to get the thoughts out of …
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By Mark Davis
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12/4/18
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This year, Wyoming women earned 68 percent of men’s salaries on average. That’s according to a just released (October) study by the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, writing for …
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By Pat Stuart
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12/4/18
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At 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 12, wide awake in the international wing of the London Gatwick airport, I received a message from Matthew Taggart.
“I’m coming up to Cody at the end of the month …
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By Virginia Schmidt
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11/27/18
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When I left southeast Missouri three years ago — first to move to Nebraska and later here to Powell — I had a feeling I wasn’t going to be getting home for Thanksgiving that …
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By Mike Buhler
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11/27/18
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Thanksgiving is a little early this year.
In fact, Nov. 22 is the earliest date Thanksgiving can ever fall on. It can only happen when Nov. 1 falls on Thursday and November has five Thursdays. …
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By Don Amend
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11/20/18
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Kids. Thirty to 40 of them flood through the Powell library doors on any given school day after the last bell rings. Some of them have nowhere else to go until their folks get off work. Others may …
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By Pat Stuart
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11/15/18
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When a person needs to lose a few pounds, it’s only natural to spend an above-average amount of time looking for foods to eat that are not only healthy, but also tasty.
Recently, that quest …
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By Mike Buhler
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11/13/18
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About an hour down the road from Powell, I officially became a news writer, joining the small staff of the local paper. It is actually among the oldest newspapers in Wyoming, and it has a rather …
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By Don Amend
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11/8/18
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Did you know 2018 is the “Year of the Chinese Buffet?” Maybe it’s not noted on your calendar, but in my belly it’s perfectly clear. If I might say a couple words about Chinese …
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By Doug Blough
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11/6/18
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Running for a seat on the county commission gave me not just permission but an obligation to ring doorbells. To do so entailed a lot of driving along the roads of our ag lands.
Sometimes as I …
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By Pat Stuart
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11/1/18
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It has become commonplace to hear people, chiefly those on the left, saying that Donald Trump is the worst United States president ever.
According to a recent The Economist/YouGov poll, 41 percent …
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By Mike Buhler
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10/30/18
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When it comes to voting, I sometimes feel like an explorer, hacking my way through a Central American jungle in hopes of finding the ruin of a Mayan temple.
Please understand, this feeling …
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By Don Amend
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10/25/18
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It’s election time again.
Once again, we face the task of choosing the leaders of our local and state governments, as well as our representatives in Washington.
That’s a tough job, …
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By Don Amend
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10/16/18
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One of the Park County Commission candidates, speaking at the first campaign forum, said something to the effect that you can’t do anything about kids leaving the county and the state. …
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By Pat Stuart
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10/16/18
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If you haven’t heard, Taylor Swift abandoned her neutrality on politics over the weekend and announced to the world on Instagram that she was an ultra-liberal, left-wing, Hillary Clinton-loving …
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By Mike Buhler
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10/11/18
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We live in the best place on earth.” Or is it, “… the last best place on earth?”
Either way, I’m betting we all feel it’s true. A lot of our reasons for saying …
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By Pat Stuart
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10/2/18
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