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What will ‘super’ El Nino bring to landlocked, parched Wyoming?
While poised to wreak havoc across the globe, El Nino might mean a closer-to-normal Wyoming winter after a wild, snowless one last season.
What, a bribe?
President Trump pitched $5,000 to each American adult citizen as a "dividend" if Republicans win, but let’s not pretend to be fooled, writes columnist David Romtvedt.
National Elk Refuge fields questions about what feeding elk could mean for Jackson Hole’s water
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is weighing pros and cons of feeding wildlife, which could lead to more chronic wasting disease. That’s raising questions about health risks beyond the herd.
The home place
Humans yearn for a place that has meaning, that connects us to the earth and to our people, writes columnist Walt Gasson.
Barrasso loves attention from the media, but not protecting press freedoms
Wyoming’s U.S. senator backs President Trump’s ban on news outlets that say negative things about administration, columnist Kerry Drake writes.
Wet ink: The forgery accusation that nearly wrecked Wyoming’s first Legislature
WyoHistory.org editors Kylie McCormick and Leslie Waggener revisit the chaotic 1891 night when a clerk’s “wet ink” note sparked accusations of fraud, vote buying and a political meltdown in Wyoming’s first Legislature.