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U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is accepting applications for nominations to the U.S. military service academies for the 2017 school year. Every year, Enzi gives Wyoming youth considering military careers the opportunity to apply for nomination to the Air Force Academy, the Merchant Marine Academy, the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy. “Military service academies provide outstanding opportunities to our nation’s youth through education and training. Attending one of these academies is a great way for our young men and wom...
Owning and taking care of horses is obviously one of the great joys for a lot of Wyoming people. To me, I like to ride them, but have never had the urge to own one. Imagine my surprise back in the 1970s, when one of my former business partners (and my boss) Bruce Kennedy asked me to spend a week at his Greybull house, looking after his property and mainly, babysitting his prize horses. I also helped to manage our newspapers in Greybull and Cody, but most of my memories are about taking care of...
A unique part of the four-year curriculum at Wyoming Catholic College in Lander is a three-week wilderness course taken by all freshmen just before starting college. The wilderness trip is a true spiritual experience as these young people from all over the USA (students come from 38 different states) as they bond with others and attend religious services with the two priests who tag along. The Catholic faith involves communion with wine and bread in the form of hosts. This is where this story...
Pow! Pow! Pow! That was the sound of the explosions coming from the high-powered revolvers used by some rough-looking, tough-talking cowboy-types in front of the Irma Hotel in downtown Cody. We were there in July and my granddaughters held their hands over their ears in shock at just how loud a high-powered pistol could be. The Cody Gunfighters have been staging their downtown shootout six nights a week from June to September since the 1980s before big crowds in front of the historic Irma...
An old grizzled editor told me 50 years ago that during my career I should always to be on the lookout for real life heroes. “If you are lucky, you might get to know at least one in your life. If so, spend time with them. You will never regret it,” I was told. During my 46 years in Wyoming, I have known many great men and women around the state who achieved national and international stature. Here in my hometown, despite being a small town full of big characters, two men stand tall as I loo...
Beginning with the Oct. 6, 2016, paper, the Pine Bluffs Post will no longer be printed as a tab format newspaper. It will, instead, be printed in the traditional broadsheet style. What does this mean? Your paper will be much longer and more narrow than the pages you are currently used to. The reason for this change is because our printer is switching to a narrow sheet that would make the tab format look too small. We at The Pine Bluffs Post are excited for the change. While we have loved our format, we have been limited by it, too. The change...
I am very thankful to reside in the small town of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. The terrible hail storm in July was like the destruction of a Tornado with a million baseball bats. Our community plus the National Guard worked non stop to help clean up this peaceful town as quickly as possible. Neighbors helping neighbors along with youth groups that volunteered to help the elderly. Even some residents with snow plows helped clear a path through the banks of hail so street access was available to everyone and tons of water could flow more freely. Thanks...
Pine Bluffs Coaching Staff, Your job as a coach is to help young men grow as individuals so that they can become better members of society. They are not there to boost your ego. As a coach, I’m sure you talk a lot to your players about respect. Is it respectful to another team, which is also made up of young impressionable men, to play the way you did? By keeping your starters in a game when the outcome is clearly in your favor shows a complete lack of class. Great educators do not teach in this manner. When other teams warn of the poor s...
Not sure how to weave Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and the First Lady serving duck at a Native American event into a column, but here goes: It had been a while since my wife Nancy and I spent any time with U. S. Sen. Mike Enzi and his wife Diana, but we shared a quick breakfast during their visit to Lander on primary election day Aug. 16. As usual, Mike was full of news. Most interesting is the fact that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has been reaching out to members of the Senate for...
The biggest political mystery to me over recent years is who in the world convinced Liz Cheney to go after incumbent Mike Enzi in the 2014 U. S. Senate race? Ranking as probably the single worst political decision in Wyoming history, it resulted in embarrassment for Ms. Cheney, as the immensely popular Enzi appeared to be on his way to crushing her by a gigantic margin. Then, a family health crisis intervened and Liz dropped out to the relief of just about everybody in Wyoming. Last fall, she...
Back in 1978, I hired a group of young men in their mid-20s who all grew up to be powerhouse publishers. But back then, they were raw, ambitious and a handful to deal with, for sure. My wife Nancy and I recently both enjoyed and endured hearing about some of those earliest Wyoming experiences during a mini-reunion of some of these former colleagues here in Lander. Recalling those early Wyoming days of the late 1970s was like going back in a time machine and experiencing them all over again....
While I had earlier predicted Liz Cheney, Wilson, will win the Wyoming GOP nomination for U. S. House, now she is enduring being on the butt end of a funny commercial by her competitor State Sen. Leland Christensen, Alta. Christensen has a long social media post about what he considers to be the three biggest mysteries he is aware of. He equates Liz with the Lochness Monster and Bigfoot as “rarely seen” imaginary legendary creatures. He contends she is not “indigenous” to Wyoming and can onl...
If this were a horse race, the announcer might say that front-runner Liz Cheney of Wilson is holding off challenger Leland Christensen of Alta on the last turn while early leader Tim Stubson of Casper is still running hard but might be starting to fade. But it is not a horse race. This is the race for Wyoming’s lone Congressional seat and there are eight men and one woman working very hard to convince voters that each is the best person for the job. This is the most interesting statewide race i...
During the short time I have been a reporter, I’ve been assigned to cover developing news events involving unthinkable losses. I’ve covered structure fires, the town of Ten Sleep losing its firehall, and other events I could never imagine experiencing. I am also no stranger to watching people come together to help each other out in a time of need — but I have never been directly impacted myself. Always just an observer. That changed last Wednesday when the storm hit. I was just sitting down to eat dinner when the hailstones began hitting my liv...
So, there I was. Hiking as fast as I could at 9,642 feet above sea level. This was a spooky, surreal and spiritual place. This is America’s Stonehenge, the famous Medicine Wheel, high in the mountains between Lovell and Sheridan. And I was totally alone. The sun was going down. It was breezy and getting cool. My chest ached from walking along this lonely ridgeline as fast as my 61-year old legs could take me. It was September 2007. I had been trying to drive from Jackson to Gillette in one d...
There is this new sad joke where the new Wyoming state license plate depicts the back end of a U-Haul truck with our Steamboat bucking horse emblazed on the end gate. – Pat Henderson, Sheridan In a recent column, I opined that a lot of Wyoming is going through good times along with the obvious bad times hitting places dependent on energy industries. Many of my friends let me know that even places that appeared healthy are nervous and confidence is breaking down. For example: In Sheridan, f...
There is always a tired old saying: “When you lose your job, it is a recession. When I lose mine, it is a depression.” That has never been truer in Wyoming than it is today. A few years ago, I could not find a discouraging economic word as I travelled from one end of the state to the other promoting my Wyoming-themed coffee table books. But lately it seems I am driving in and out of a patchwork of wildly diverse places where a lot of folks are suffering economically while nearby other folks are...
Although Wyoming has outstanding interstate freeways and high quality two-lane highways, if you want to get a good discussion started, just mention your favorite back roads. I did that in last week’s column about my favorites and the response was terrific. For example: Pat Schmidt of Cheyenne: “The Transpark Highway from Lovell through Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. It was meant to go clear to Hardin, Mont., tracing the west edge of the canyon, but was halted a short distance into Mont...
Wyoming’s back roads and mountain roads are some of the best-kept secrets of our great state. These are the places favored by the locals and cherished by visitors who can’t help coming back to them again and again. On Fathers Day Nancy and I drove up the winding switchbacks of the famous Loop Road that starts at the end of Sinks Canyon just outside of Lander. It was busy up there that day. On one big switchback, we encountered a bicyclist, a motorcyclist, a big SUV and a large pickup towing a f...
It could be argued that many of the core values and traditional activities cherished by most Wyoming people do not match up with the values of the majority of American citizens. If not so today, how will those values match up in the distant future? This column is being written looking ahead to the year 2040, when another generation has approached middle age. Trends concerning hunting, guns, rodeo, treatment of animals, gender stereotypes and our love affair with fossil fuels that are rapidly...
After visiting six states in the last three weeks, it is abundantly clear that we are no longer in the pesky drought that affected western states in such a dire way over the last two decades. The greenest state, though, is Wyoming. The Red Desert now has a new name: The Green Desert. Our famous foothills outside of Lander that protect us from the awesome beauty of the bare Wind River Mountains, known as the Lander Front, are as green as my front yard. Rivers and creeks are running high. By the...
Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park has been in the news a lot lately, and, indeed, it should be. I took the liberty here to call this park “Wyoming’s” but the reality is that this wonderful place belongs to the world. I happen to think it is the most amazing place on the entire planet. And what a gift to all of us Wyomingites that it is located right here in our great state. Most of you know that I travel the state giving talks about my coffee table books. One of the places featured a lot in...
If I were asked to give a commencement talk to a group of high school graduates this year, here is what I would have told them: Today’s graduating seniors face a much different world than the one faced by their parents and grandparents. These graduates face a time when even a college education might not be enough. They face a lifetime of education. A paradigm has occurred here. We are living during a time when the world is changing so fast, successful workers will need constant retraining and c...
Xenophobia: intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. The definition of the oddball word Xenophobia came true in all its ugliness here in Wyoming when the United States government wrongly imprisoned more than 11,000 Americans of Japanese descent in a camp between Cody and Powell during World War II. However, there are so many stories that have come out of that incarceration and many of them are positive. One of the best and most often repeated is how a young Cody Boy...
Not sure how to weave torrential rains, big major league home runs, some crazy Cheyenne bicyclists and a few other items that caught my eye into a coherent statewide column, but here goes: The Great Cheyenne flood of 1985 dumped six inches of rain on the state’s capital city and caused devastating damage and killed some folks, too. Here in Lander, we endured 4.64 inches of showers over a 48-hour period on May 6-8 and I started to think about that Cheyenne deluge. Nearly a thousand basements were...
