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December 29, 2009

• Did two city inspectors take bribes from a local builder or just improperly accept gifts?
  
  
• Hiring a police chief
  
  Diploma mill dupes
  
  
• Cell phone use is returning
  
  What gender gap?
  
  
• Dave Featherly: “I have nothing to do with the petition being circulated for five county commissioners.”
  
  DDA calls around to learn what businesses are in District
  
  
• Electronic billboards are to sell advertising, not to issue missing children alerts
  
  
• Jessica Venable
  
  The young bullrider’s death / LCCC tips
  
  
• David Bush
  
  The streets. Oh, the streets!
  
  
• Reorganize or scrap the Wyoming Business Council
  
  
• Gov Dave, what is going on inside the highway patrol?
  
  She has wheels again. No thanks to WARM.
  
  
• Lease the doggone ballfields
  
  Raw milk
  
  
• Gambling in Cheyenne
  
  Anders Nelson, we barely knew ye
  
  
• The City budgeting process is one guess upon another guess
  
  Cheyenne’s new police chief
  

December 15, 2009

• And a Merry Christmas to you, too!
  A city police officer, in his police car, ran a red light
  and broadsided a Cheyenne resident’s SUV. The
  officer admitted fault. But, the victim was then told
  that the city does not have “normal” insurance and
  she may not be paid for her damages and injuries.
  
  
• Buy local?
  
  
• The mayor was not “out of bounds.” He knowingly exceeded his authority.
  
  
• Cheyenne Area Convention & Visitors wants a new name
  
  
• DDA still doesn’t get it
  
  
• Closed meetings continue
  
  
• City attorney’s office has “no comment” on report of employee suspension with pay
  
  
• Recyclable trash vs. other trash
  
  New police chief
  
  
• Jessica Ballard Venable
  
  Another mercenary leaves UW mens’ BB program
  
  
• Is the Cheyenne VA Medical Center in danger of having its surgery capabilities downgraded or closed?
  
  
• Trangressions?
  
  
• When Oprah goes, so go I.

December 1, 2009

• Mayor: Leave the recycling program alone!
  
  
• The beginning of rationed health care
  
  
• CFD 2010 Night Show Line-Up
  
  
• More jobs for friends / DDA
  
  
• WTE: It was not a “lesson in government”
  
  
• The truth about the Friday Music on the Plaza
  
  Candidates for governor
  
  
• “You’d vote for her because she has nice legs?”
  
  
• Access to coroner records
  
  Reusing 3D glasses at movie theaters?
  
  
• Judge Michael Davis doesn’t know the law
  
  Use your cell phone while driving
  
  
• The turkey was the one writing the WTE column
  
  
• What became of the WT-E “editorial board?”
  
  40 is the new 30
  
  
• Why five county commissioners?
  

November 17, 2009

• Failed cell phone ban petition drive / Recycling fee
  
  WNU principals should face criminal charges / New police chief
  
  
• Residents ignore CLFP wind power program
  
  Warren National University
  
  
• Plea bargains are designed for the guilty.
  Not for the innocent.
  
  
• Ten best places to raise a family
  
  
• And they think using a cell phone when we drive is unsafe?
  
  Shoveling two feet of global warming
  
  
• “When we want your testimony, we’ll provide it for you!”
  
  
• Enterprise fund
  
  
• “For every reason. Spin! Spin! Spin!”
  
  
• Cheyenne Community Clinic
  Has the United Way outlived its usefulness?
  
  
• “Might I have more lashes, sire?”
  
  
• Solar snow removal inadequate for downtown
  
  
• Cell phone ban petition drive results
  
  Work on the shrine has been delayed
  
  
• The Fort Hood gunman
  
  The spirit of sharing
  

October 27, 2009

• From three county commissioners to five
  
  DDA smackdown!
  Votes in the DDA defeat
  
  
• Beaten on an average of every other day (scroll down)
  
  
• That radio station
  
  
• Justices oppose open meetings?
  
  
• Where will they slink off to now?
  
  Limbaugh and the NFL
  
  
• You reap what you sow
  
  The land on Chalk Bluffs
  
  
• Sports
  
  
• Channel 5 reporting is full of mistakes
  
  
• Sanitation Department
  Of course they take in more revenue than their payroll
  
  Blue lid containers
  
  
• David Bush case
  
  Lummis continues her negativity
  
  
• WNU lawsuit
  
  Hundreds for a lap dance?
  
  
• What vote fraud?
  
  The day the power went out all over town

October 13, 2009

• Dave, Rita and those other two guys did the right thing in denying public money for a private day care facility in Cheyenne
  
  
• The petition drive
  
  
• Micheli for governor?
  
  UW men’s basketball schedule
  
  
• What if she were your sister?
  
  
• United Way
  
  Albuquerque Int’l Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (scroll down)
  
  
• How innocents are convicted (scroll down)
  
  
• New DDA Executive Director
  
  
• Just Say No
  
  WNU lawsuit
  
  
• The new viaduct
  
  This should work out well
  
  
• Not much of an endorsement for an education at LCCC
  
  
• How low will the daily go? Now, they’re trying to make a buck on breast cancer.
  
  Today’s lesson: You can’t blackmail a liberal.
  
  
• Albin school property

September 29, 2009

• Mayor’s “grace period” action on cell phone ban is illegal
  
  Still in denial about the condition of Downtown Cheyenne
  
  
• The little southside shed is gonna have a big shadow
  And, the park will have the wrong name
  
  
• Maybe that’s why the City doubled the vendor fees on kids selling pop along the CFD parade route
  
  
• The cell phone ban and petition drive
  
  A need for five commissioners?
  
  
• Can we talk?
  
  
• “Better a thousand innocent be incarcerated than one guilty person go free.”
  
  
• Attorneys should be under oath. Their incentive to lie is far greater than most witnesses.
  
  
• Pole’s apart
  
  
• Jessica Ballard Venable. To quote Vince Lombardi and the Laramie County DA’s Office: “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”
  
  
• I was a litle short on my bid to have lunch with Sarah Palin
  
  
• This radio station must be for sissies
  
  
• LCCC controversy
  Prez continues descent
  
  Personal cell phone use while driving
  

September 15, 2009

• Cheyenne PD to Cheyenne governing body:
  “You can’t tell us what to do.”
  
  
• Warren National University former students lawsuit
  
  Recycling
  
  
• Publicly-provided daycare is not an entitlement
  
  
• Cash for Clunkers flaws
  
  
• Demise of the Hitch
  
  Frontier Days
  
  
• Guilty or Not Guilty? It can be a roll of the dice
  (scroll down)
  
  
• My parking ticket
  
  Judge Nau’s slapdown of ADA Becket Hinckley
  
  
• Did VA misplace hundreds of veterans claims?
  
  DDA mailing lies to downtown property owners
  
  
• Low bids don’t always win
  
  Graffiti
  
  
• The POTUS speaks to your children
  
  
• LCCC prez seems to be slipping into the abyss

September 1, 2009

• Does Wyoming have its own Timothy Masters in Rawlins? (scroll down)
  
  
• Death Panel
  
  
• Anonymous internet postings
  
  
• DDA Director was ousted - and deserved to be
  
  I..O.U.’s for Clunkers
  
  
• “Five card stud. Joker’s wild. Penny ante.”
  
  
• Wyoming ACT scores
  
  
• Let’s get the details about that land swap straight
  
  
• Jessica Ballard Venable
  
  Carey Avenue
  
  
• Sports
  
  
• “We didn’t do anything for you but you can’t tell anyone we didn’t do anything for you.”
  
  
• Reporting others have to do. I don’t. And won’t.
  
  
• Grand Canyon University accepted few credits and no degrees from Warren National University (and nothingfrom Kennedy-Western University)

August 18, 2009

• City Attorney: Graffiti is beyond our control
  
  DDA Director Ousted!
  
  
• How should patriotism be measured?
  
  Ed Grant / Gov / WTE
  
  
• The disloyal Colorado Lottery
  
  
• Were you able to blow off your DUI?
  
  Billboards
  
  
• The meth lab on Reed Ave.
  
  South High traffic
  
  
• Cash for Clunkers Program ... Reward for the irresponsible
  
  Channel 5 / KKTU
  
  
• Turn out the lights. The party’s over.
  
  
• Slogan du jour
  
  Maybe his diocese condones adultery
  
  
• Ban cell phones while driving. Allow gambling in your house. Tolerate obscene graffiti. Sound like a plan to you?
  
  
• The Southside Shed has Sides
  
  Retiring Judge Ed Grant is now a prophet
  
  
• Fox guarding the hen house?
  
  
• The land swap was not about morality. It was about legality.
  

August 4, 2009

• Menards coming to Dell Range and Windmill?
  
  
• The Thunderbirds are okay but why doesn’t CFD get the varsity?
  
  
• Cash for Clunkers. What a Crock!
  
  
• South High. You can’t get there from here.
  
  
• Was money promised to the Botanic Gardens?
  
  
• About the land swap
  
  
• Peculiarities of the land swap
  
  
• Victims not considered in plea agreements
  
  
• Frontier Days attendance figures
  
  “There’s nowhere to turn”
  
  
• Downtown property owners tax election
  One property owner rigged the system in 1993 to get 11 votes with one building
  
  
• Moving the Dell Range fire station is a bad idea
  
  TCE in the drinking water
  
  
• Morality, my ascot!
  
  Children’s parade vendor permits dropped by almost half

July 21, 2009

• Former mayor Jack Spiker wants to undo the trade made with the former owners of the ice center so they can now receive $3.0 million cash. That would be immoral. And illegal.
  (scroll down for earlier stories on this same issue)
  
  
• Discredited Cheyenne police chief to leave
  
  
• Laramie County Fair
  
  
• An open letter to a Wyoming State Senator concerning an apartment house he owns thatmay have been used as a clandestine meth lab
  
  
• Burning money in the never-ending quest for educational excellence

  One Citizen’s Opinion (Jim Mathewson)

• A foreclosure

• Nuisance
  Some property owners are more equal than others
  
  The Utah truck driver, Jamie Kamai unsolved murder

• A bell we can’t unring

• Who says you can’t go home?

June 30, 2009

• Injustice! (scroll down)
  
  
• We want a rec center just like the one in Broomfield. Or, not.
  
  
• Do the stories matter?
  Does the truth make a difference?
  
  
• Laramie [Geology] Museum
  
  
• Should graffiti be treated like jaywalking?
  
  
• Entry into Avenues house and removal of water meter
  
  SLIB members didn’t know there were objections to a
  state-built day care center?
  
  
• Jamie Kamai unsolved murder
  
  
• Free Country Club membership for mayor and council members?

June 16, 2009

• Cheyenne Frontier Days: You banned cell phones. Was SHARK right about abuse?

  Never a meth lab (See pages 5 & 9 also)
  Only in a police chief’s imagination

• Shhhh. Quiet city ahead.
  
  WNU former students lawsuit

• Billboards
  Apartment dwellers are now second-class citizens in Cheyenne?

• USC basketball coach and Stoneridge Prep
  
  Brett Favre

• It’s often hard to tell the monkey from the organ grinder
  
  No authority to break into a private residence to remove a water meter

• Warren National University’s latest campus

• Nob Hill residents were threatened out of their homes so CRMC could lease the land to a Colorado company for its concrete-making operation?

• A parking lot for restaurants that don’t support other locals?
  
  Atlas Theater / Fieldhouse

• Contamination from smoking meth as opposed to “making” meth

• Government-provided daycare for 182 kids?
  How many new employees with that produce?

• City budget
  
  Letterman is a pig!

• A violent death and a prison sentence that were both avoidable

May 27, 2009

• Tax the children more so city employees can be paid more and the council can spend more!
  The fee enterprise system and the city budget
  
  
• Briefs
  
  Amy Winehouse at the Cheyenne Civic Center?
  
  
• The Historic Mayflower
  
  
• Rick didn’t say anything about hiring a new DDA director
  
  
• Good for you, LCSD2. Good for you.
  
  
• Another beautiful job by a majority of the Wyoming Supreme Court
  
  Channel 5 back on Bresnan
  
  
• I-80 speed limit
  
  What is the Cheyenne Herald?
  
  
• It’s people like these that give employers a bad name
  Disabled VA employee terminated two weeks before his probationary period ended
  
  
• How much will you have to pay for this City mistake?
  
  
• NIU - another one bits the dust in Wyo! (scroll down)
  
  
• Providing medical treatment to one who doesn’t want it but withholding medical treatment from those who do
  
  
• Maybe Dave doesn’t want a third term after all
  
  The $1,000,000 must be paid
  

May 26, 2009

• Parade vendor permit application

May 12, 2009

• There but for the grace of God go I. Or thee.
  
  
• “Scalping” tickets
  
  
• Evidently, writing columns is harder for some than others

  Bristol Palin

• WTE: “We don’t need no stinkin’ constitution!”

• West “gateway” to downtown

• DDA days numbered?

  Miss California USA

• Wayfinding
  
  The city council had a downtown parking “fix” but lacked the courage to see it through

• Cyndy’s still a “No!”
  
  Citizen Survey (abandoned)

• Where are these bozos getting their training?
  
  It’s time to junk those little parking ticket scooters

• Banning teenagers from the mail is a hurt that will keep on giving

• Soon there will be no degree sellers in Wyo

• The Historic Mayflower

April 28, 2009

• Entrapment at a county bar! (scroll down)
  
  
• Warren National University’s “hardship” appeal
  
  
• They can remove the “Yes” button from Cynthia’s desk in the U.S. House
  
  
• Addition by subtraction?
  
  
• Before they even call, the answer is “no”
  I don’t want to be a district court judge
  
  
• “Tea Party”
  
  Wyoming Wranglers
  
  
• LCCC prez paranoid? “Us vs. Them?”
  (Read Hammon’s internal memorandum)
  

April 27, 2009

• Judge Kautz' ruling on the billboard litigation vs. City of Cheyenne and NextMedia

April 14, 2009

• Adults are also unwelcome at the Mall. Who will spend money there when their children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other youth of Cheyenne have been banned?
  
  
• 100+ days in jail. FOR THE VICTIM!
  
  
• The Crankster speaks
  Former attorney general Pat Crank steps in it again
  
  
• Why did the Tribune-Eagle wait so long to disclose they had lost at District Court?
  
  
• Laramie County District Court judge has been on the mat more often than “Scrap Iron” George Gadaski. Down for the count more often than Jerry Strickland. Licked more ...
  
  
• Sue Davidson -- the disciplinary action
  
  Was Jay Cutler gone the day McChild was hired?
  
  
• Neighbors prevail in billboard litigation
  
  AmTrak will expand through Wyoming because we wrote some letters?
  
  
• The Historic Mayflower in Downtown Cheyenne
  
  
• The POTUS knows best who should (or should not) run General Motors?
  
  Here we go!
  Too many under 30 prefer socialism.
  
  
• Can someone tell me why they didn’t just tear down the shed? Oh, wait, for all intents and purposes, they did!
  The Southside Community Shack is really taking shape

April 6, 2009

• Preston University. They can run. But they cannot hide.
  The Cheyenne Herald found 'em. In Los Angeles, California.
  

March 31, 2009

• Is the city governing body deciding while distracted?
  
  
• Why weren’t those old houses “historic”?
  
  
• Judge Davis put another violent criminal on the streets for a paltry $2500
  
  
• Billboards
  
  “How’s Rick doing?”
  
  
• The lost years toward solving Cheyenne’s trash disposal problems
  
  
• Cheyenne’s new downtown restaurant
  
  
• Don’t offer those creeps any excuses!
  
  NCAR, AmTrak AND 900 new military personnel?
  
  
• Taxpayers are paying $85,000 for what?
  
  Why, those selfish jerks!
  
  
• Cheyenne’s population
  
  
• To paraphrase Willie Sutton: “We operated unaccredited ‘schools’ in Wyoming because that’s where we could
  steal the money!” (scroll down)
  
  
• Kennedy-Western - more on their financials
  
  
• The cell phone ban
  

March 18, 2009

• More on the Kennedy-Western University financials

March 17, 2009

• No abuser of women should be allowed six confirmed assaults before it becomes a felony (scroll down)
  
  
• 24/7 day care
  
  
• The fine line between journalism and voyeurism
  
  
• Distracted driver ordinance has gone overboard
  
  Downtown Decimation Authority (DDA)
  
  
• We brought that Minnesota school to its knees!
  
  
• KWU/WNU -- Kennedy-Western was a gold mine.
  And its students were the canaries. (scroll down)
  
  
• Well, that should have taught him a lesson he won’t soon forget!
  
  
• The McNuggets 9-1-1 call
  
  The Jamie Kamai unsolved murder
  
  
• Top 10 accomplishments of the 2009 60th Legislature
  
  It’s only pork if it’s theirs. Not if it’s ours.
  
  
• Sports in our neck of the woods.
  
  
• The City broke a law that they put on the books. Now they want to change that law so their behavior was legal.
  (scroll down)
  

March 6, 2009

• A message to new national readers of the Cheyenne Herald,
  particularly those who are following our stories and revelations
  about degree sellers
  
  
  
• Kennedy-Western University was a gold mine. A veritable gold mine. And its students were the canaries.

March 3, 2009

• 305 State government employees make more than the elected officials
  
  
• St. Mary’s School is building a fence
  
  Peter Arnold reversed again on a child custody case
  
  
• Erin go bragh!
  
  
• McCraken’s Tribune-Eagle: “We voted for this before we voted against it. No, wait. We voted against this before we voted for it.”
  
• Parking downtown
  
  The cost to fly
  
  
• Warren National University (Kennedy-Western)
  Chief Academic Officer talks with the Herald (scroll down)
  
  
• When excellent newspapers like the Rocky Mountain News fail, how does a mediocre-to-poor one like Wyoming Tribune-Eagle survive?
  
  
• Walmart Distribution Center wastewater contamination
  
  Cell phone ban
  
  
• Now, that was just downright mean
  WT-E believes legislators support drunk driving?
  
  
• No. 19 - Waiting in line for Seinfeld tickets
  
  Can they do that?
  Can police officers strip things off your car?
  
  
• They took my Right Guard!
  
  
• Cheyenne Police Chief Bob Fecht’s alma mater has been closed by the State of Mississippi!
  Lacrosse University was never authorized to grant degrees!

February 20, 2009

• Cheyenne Police Chief Bob Fecht's alma mater (Lacrosse University) closed by the State of Mississippi
  Lacrosse University was never authorized to grant degrees!

February 17, 2009

• Preston University shut down by the State of Alabama
  
  Governor’s pay
  
  
• No, I do not do radio. Nor television.
  
  The Octuplets
  
  
• Same-sex marriage
  
  
• Is Cheyenne Housing illegally charging fees to applicants?
  
  
• “No” to breast cancer license plates
  
  
• The Hitch, Circuit City, C.B. Potts, Corral West and Sierra Trading Post
  
  
• Do fewer meth arrests mean less meth use?
  
  
• It’s still not a “meth house”
  
  “Buy Cheyenne” “Buy Wyoming”
  
  
• Uninsured motorists
  
  
• Peter Arnold does it again!
  
  That’s no charter school
  
  
• 1000 new jobs
  
  Michael Phelps, swimmer and pothead?
  
  
• Warren National University to close

February 13, 2009

• Preston University ordered to cease and desist operations in Alabama
  
  
• Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education Notice to Preston University

February 4, 2009

• Warren National University closing
  
  WNU announcement of closing

January 27, 2009

• The words of an innocent man’s family
  
  
• DUI arrests are up 50% and the Cheyenne mayor and police chief want more liquor licenses?
  
  
• In the Mayor’s Own Words (2/24/2002) (scroll down)
  
  
• The shape of the downtown today (January, 2009)
  
  
• Anti-Church? Anti-Catholic? Me?
  
  
• Streets of darkness
  
  
• Add ... Not Guilty
  
  
• “And, who are you wearing, Mrs. Freudenthal?”
  
  
• It was burning a hole in their promise
  
  
• Legislation .. How to kill 40 workdays in Cheyenne
  
  
• Happy Birthday To Us!
  
  
• The Ice Rink
  
  
• My next flight.
  
  
• Excuse me. Just what would “excessive force” be then?
  
  
• There’s a new place in town to celebrate...
  

January 26, 2009

• MRG grant application - parking lot at 17th & Warren
  

January 13, 2009

• NOT GUILTY! (scroll down)
  Why was this non-starter ever brought to trial?
  
  
• Healthcare insurance for state legislators
  
  
• A specialty magazine with a small circulation wrote that Cheyenne is somehow the top western town in the country - using criteria having nothing to do with being a western town. What does that make us?
  
  
• TCE in your water
  
  
• What idiot approved that St. Mary’s playground location?
  
  
• Peter Arnold - reversed again!
  
  
• Talk about your “white” house!
  
  
• Tara Vreeland