Articles

December 28, 2010

• The house at 211 E. 3rd Ave. was never a meth lab (scroll down)
  
  
• Even Dave won't leave the public trough
  
  They're going to get to touch me after all

• Interview with former LCCC VP, Dr. James Cook (scroll down)
  
  
• About those C-130s
  
  
• What is the "Wyoming Newspaper Group?"
  
  Teacher tenure
  
  
• 2010 was a very good year for the Cheyenne Herald
  
  
• Redistricting in 2011
  
  Peter Arnold reversed again
  
  
• Your new Hitch
  
  
• Downtown Destruction Advocates (the DDA)
  
  "Meth house" neighbor and the Channel 5 performers
  
  Coroner's salary
  

December 14, 2010

• The FAA cannot order the City of Cheyenne to remove any trees
  Few of the trees in Lions Park have to, or should, come down
  
  
• We are all crooks. We are all threats.
  
  
• Thomas Rudolph
  
  
• The DDA wants another election. Best 2 out of 3?
  
  We’re not paying ‘em this time!
  
  
• LCCC disgraced former president Darrel Hammon did not resign. He was fired!
  
  
• An interview with former LCCC VP Dr. James Cook
  
  
• For $24,999, we used to harvest entire forests
  
  
• Timberrrrrrr!!!! For $543.45 a tree.
  
  
• Cheyenne should adopt Laramie’s ordinance on drunk driving
  
  
• CFD 2011 Night Shows
  
  CFD large rodeo award
  
  
• Now You’re Thinking Smart!!

December 1, 2010

• Hammon was fired!

November 30, 2010

• Justice for you finally, Michael. Justice for you Finally
  
  
• A statue for the Southside Park
  
  
• Morale at LCCCis not a big concern to me
  
  
• Joe Leadingham in Oregon
  
  Gov Dave's coarse words
  
  
• Demolish the old Safeway
  
  City employees health insurance costs
  
  
• LCCC's recent credit card "audit" makes the college and its friendly auditor look foolish, fishy, and unprofessional (Jim Mathewson)
  
  
• Will terrorists board planes in airports that tout poor security measure as an attraction? Like Cheyenne.
  
  
• Laramie County Community College Held Hostage Day 849
  
  It is additional income
  
  
• Good for John Dinneen
  
  Why do Americans care about British royalty weddings?
  
  
• Unprofessional. Very unethical.
  
  
• No new Menards in Wyoming in 2011
  
  Hammon. Still getting gifts?

November 29, 2010

• McGee, Hearne & Paiz Report to LCCC on credit card use

November 16, 2010

• Laramie County Community College held hostage
  Day 835
  
  
• Fecht fiddles with WTE interviews while Attention Homes fails
  
  Judges retention
  
  
• Is pot (marijuana) bad enough to make it worth clogging our law enforcement, courts, jails and prisons over?
  
  
• Cost to taxpayers for Wyoming Hwy Patrol kidnap caper
  
  
• What might have been (trash-to-ethanol)
  
  
• 2010 elections
  
  
• American Eagle, where “on-time” means “same day”
  
  
• Ol’ Al (Simpson) is at it again
  
  Are TSA agents groping passengers?
  
  
• (American) Assn of Community College Trustees held their annual meeting in Toronto, Canada!
  
  Recycling
  
  
• The “Tea Party”
  
  
• Cheyenne Christmas Parade
  
  Who planned the Obama trip?
  

November 9, 2010

• LCCC credit card spending by selected LCCC employees (July 2009 - June 2010)

November 2, 2010

• LCCC President Darrel Hammon questioned the accuracy of Cheyenne Herald disclosures and the value of what we do. He will now be the focus of our attention.
  
  
• Unrealistic expectations
  
  
• LCCC credit card spending (Jim Mathewson)
  
  
• The kidnapper (State of Wyoming) paid ransom to the victim (Walmart truck driver)
  
  
• Will ten violations earn a probation revocation? How about 20? 30?
  
  
• Let the clean-up commence (the Hitch)
  
  
• Albin Elementary School named a National Blue Ribbon School
  
  
• “Welcome aboard American Eagle flight No. 2979 to Dallas / Fort Worth. Sit back and relax because it’s going to be a couple hours before takeoff. There is a restroom at the rear of the cabin for your convenience. Did I remember to say ‘Welcome aboard’?”
  
  
• Laramie County Circuit Court Judge Denise Nau is considered the worst Circuit Court Judge in Wyoming. By attorneys!
  
  
• No campaign ads in this issue of the Herald
  
  WT-E endorsements
  
  
• Ice Center vs. Fieldhouse
  
  The $150.00 city employees Christmas gift
  
  
• Ted Adams is a skunk. A rat.

October 21, 2010

• Breaking Story - Denise Nau's Retention
  
  
• 2010 Judicial Level Comparisons
  
  
• 2010 Support Levels for Retention
  
  
• 2010 Judicial Poll Individual Evaluatons - Nau
  
  
• 2010 Judicial Poll Individual Evaluations - Coates
  
  
• 2010 Judicial Poll Individual Evaluations - Rogers

October 19, 2010

• There’s no accounting for the credit card shenanigans taking place at LCCC
  ARE THEY SLOPPY, DISHONEST, OR JUST ETHICALLY-CHALLENGED???
  
  
• Fifth penny sales tax
  
  Give two-wheelers space
  
  
• The truth about American Eagle passenger counts
  
  
• One criminal violated his probation ten times, including multiple uses of heroin. He still walks the street. Another criminal did not make his ordered restitution payments and he was sent to Rawlins The first killed his brother.
  The second’s crime was property destruction. ...
  
  
• Public education in Wyoming
  
  
• Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs ...
  
  
• The Cheyenne Herald does not make candidate endorsements. In the upcoming election ...
  
  Correction (and explanation)
  
  
• Vandehei “dividers”
  
  A Message to the Voters
  
  
• We must tighten the laws on having vehicle insurance.
  With no insurance, an injury-accident should lead to an
  on-the-spot arrest. Period.
  
  
• Library Coffee Counter
  
  Laramie County Voters ... LCCC needs your help
  
  
• “You must help us survive our mistakes. You must!”
  
  $66,937,668.00 - LCCC 2010 budget
  
  
• Chile miners rescue
  
  
• An open letter to readers of the Cheyenne Herald

October 5, 2010

• What a difference a Chief can make
  
  
• If you read the Cheyenne Herald, you know about many important things long before other print and broadcast media report it
  
  
• FEMA “scrap” mobile homes
  
  
• LCSD1 buses. Safe? Are drivers capable?
  
  Briefs ...
  
  
• Progressive discipline is not always required
  
  Colorado Senatorial candidate Ken Buck isn’t the first one to “rewrite” the Constitution
  
  
• My wife and I were high at lunch
  
  
• The current LCCC Board
  
  
• The Cheyenne Herald does not make candidate endorsements. But, in the upcoming election, I ask that you seriously consider voting for these candidates and for / against these propositions.
  
  
• The ad being run in Trader’s is simply a lie
  
  About FIRE
  
  David Bush case review by RM Innocence Center
  
  
• WNU former students losing lawsuit
  
  
• Arson at “The Hitch”
  
  
• Many yesterdays. No tomorrow. (scroll down)
  
  More photos of the Hitch fire and aftermath

October 4, 2010

• Order Granting Partial Judgment for Travelers, re WNU lawsuit

September 14, 2010

• Are FEMA “scrap” mobile homes being illegally sold in Laramie County for housing?
  
  
• Governor’s pardon of a former Natrona County District Attorney is wrong on so many levels
  
  
• An outlaw from our past
  
  Water our trees!
  
  
• Declining library use
  
  
• Darrel Hammon’s “proposed” 2006 LCCC employment contract
  
  
• LCCC prez: From $125,000 a year to $184,500 a year. In three years. While LCCC declined and state budget cuts were imposed.
  
  
• Discussing LCCC employees morale in public would be “suicidal?” “Stupid?”
  
  Once again, the WTE objects to a litigant appealing to the
  Supreme Court. It’s okay for them to cost taxpayers money
  with appeals but it’s wrong for a public entity?
  
  
• Banning tattoo shops is ruled unconstitutional
  
  WTE: Pay the City the $4,576.39 for the mayor’s e-mails. They must be worth far more than that in newsworthiness. You’ll get your money back. Even if you don’t, the McCrakens can afford it.
  
  
• Only in America!
  
  
• Sometimes, Diane, “politics” means doing the right thing
  
  Fire Chief finalist had Illinois job offer rescinded after bad publicity
  
  The trees ... oh, the trees!

August 31, 2010

• What didn’t the mayor / council know and when didn’t they know it?
  When did City officials realize American Eagle had deceived them?
  
  
• Tattooing and piercing again
  
  
• Jessica Venable’s baby
  If Jessica Venable’s baby can be stolen from her in the manner being proposed, is any child safe?
  
  
• WTE lags behind the Cheyenne Herald. Again.
  The Herald predicted the Ice Center results
  
  
• Fire chief candidates
  
  Education boards of trustees
  
  
• Analyses of the Governor’s race
  Mead/Simpson/Freudenthal campaign narrowly edges Rita Meyer
  
  
• Analyses of State Superintendent and other races
  
  
• Maybe we don’t want to be too much like Fort Collins after all
  
  I don’t recognize myself
  
  
• This Boeing 737 can land in and take off from Cheyenne but the tiny American Eagle Embraer ERJ-135 cannot? Maybe it’s not the trees. Maybe it’s the equipment. Or the pilots.
  
  
• Did someone “steal” the mineral rights at the Belvoir from under the City’s nose?
  
  
• Political endorsements / Now, this is a roundabout!
  
  
• What part of “NO TRUCKS” do the trucks using Fifth Street between Warren and Morrie not understand?

August 10, 2010

• Most of the Cheyenne fire chief candidates were forced out of their last jobs
  
  
• WT-E’s lunatic fringe wannabe columnists CFD attendance
  
  
• Polls and endorsements
  
  
• Issue No. 200 of the Cheyenne Herald
  
  
• Rita Meyer is the right choice. The best choice.
  
  
• McBride must be defeated!
  
  
• More Graffiti on new Norris Viaduct
  
  
• Cindy Hill, State Superintendent of Schools
  
  
• The dastardly orchestrated theft of incarcerated Jessica Venable’s baby
  
  
• Judges up for retention
  
  
• American Eagle not exactly soaring
  
  
• What’s the real issue with the tattoo shop?
  
  
• Your Laramie County Attorney

July 27, 2010

• Republican gubernatorial candidate’s letter to the judge in support of a confessed rapist is very disturbing
  
  
• How not to hire a CEO
  
  
• Students vs. Warren National - litigation by the page/pound
  
  
• Welcome CFD visitors
  
  
• Vote FOR increasing to five commissioners.
  Vote AGAINST electing them by district.
  
  Attention Homes
  
  
• Is this yardsign legal?
  
  
• Grace for 2 Brothers Walk of Grace
  
  
• Fired LCCC VP James Cook reinstated!
  Board of Trustees reverse college president and ignore hearing officer
  
  
• Hammon’s arrogance knows no bounds!
  Another LCCC employee terminated without an opportunity to refute charges
  
  
• American Eagle - the distortions, and the trees
  
  
• Rita Meyer does best against Dems
  
  
• Nice house. Nice location. Nice signs.
  Except. The house belongs to an editorial board member of the WT-E and the signs were up before WT-E’s endorsement for Governor was made

July 13, 2010

• Order dissolving Temporary Restraining Order - WTE
  
  
• Peter Arnold lied to me!
  
  
• What idiots!
  
  Graffiti is not a photo op
  
  
• Commission change(s)
  
  Election 2010
  
  
• A Christensen bridge would benefit very few
  
  
• No “crown jewel” (scroll down)
  
  You can tee it up at the Cheyenne Country Club
  
  
• This is not a “ball field”
  
  
• Fired to hide a lack of training
  
  
• Let me see if I have this right: Trees can’t be in the path of an airport runway but people can?
  
  Airplane takeoffs are inherently safe
  
  
• 50 states. 50 miles each. Roughly 8 million footsteps.
  
  
• The 5th Penny
  
  LCCC Board of Trustees election
  
  
• Is the “piercing” story over?
  
  
• $2500 to watch a UW football game?
  
  Laramie County Fair

June 29, 2010

• LCSD1 teacher fired for “infraction” much less serious than LCCC’s Darrel Hammon committed on student trip to Costa Rica
  
  Dr. Cook decision by Paul Hickey is wrong
  
  
• They still don’t get it. Romero Park is not in South Cheyenne
  
  
• The hail you say!
  
  
• Sell the water!
  
  Everybody won. But, nobody won.
  
  
• Rick: Tell the WT-E to sit down and shut up!
  
  Does CRMC want to apologize to the Nob Hill residents who had their homes confiscated for a new hospital?
  
  
• Removing mature trees from the airport flight path for a temporary airline is not a good idea
  
  
• How was tattoo artist permit application denial worded?
  
  Hynds Building
  
  
• Blasphemous!
  
  
• Parliamentary Procedure 101
  
  
• Grace for 2 Brothers
  
  
• Somewhat sleazy? The State acted somewhat sleazy?
  
  Those are dumb moves
  
  
• Candidates: Don’t overlook the early voting.
  
  Profit, nonprofit.

June 8, 2010

• We have our own John Kerry. Judge Peter Arnold.
  “I ruled for the Cheyenne Herald.
  After I ruled against the Cheyenne Herald.”
  
  
• Shooting dogs
  
  Trent Blankenship
  
  
• cinco de junio?
  
  
• John Wooden was the greatest coach ever. College or professional. In any sport. In any era. By any measurement. No question.
  
  
• Divorce. We’re No. 1! / Denny’s. On I-25. Yawn.
  
  
• There is a reason that we do not eat horse flesh in America. It’s toxic!
  
  Sexism in the media
  
  
• Candidates in the 2010 Primary Election
  
  
• Parliamentary Procedure 101
  
  
• More on the action taken by your local community college to try to suppress the Cheyenne Herald’s coverage of the 2008 trip to Costa Rica taken by the president of LCCC
  (4 pages, scroll down)

May 27, 2010

• The story behind the LCCC TRO

May 25, 2010

• Order dissolving Temporary Restraining Order
  
  
• The LCCC 2008 Costa Rica trip (scroll down)
  
  
• LCCC’s Temporary Restraining Order against the Cheyenne Herald (scroll down)
  
  
• Parliamentary Procedure 101
  
  
• The Democrat state party chairman is supporting a Republican for governor?
  
  Primary candidates and term limits
  
  
• Has Mayor Maybe given up on the 5th penny
  
  Twelve Angry Men
  Cheyenne’s Tea Party membership roll
  
  
• Campaign 2010
  
  
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
  
  
• The DDDon’t
  
  
• Usually holes that deep have tour guides
  
  
• the Norris Canvas
  
  Only 4 “Safeway Houses” and 1 garage claimed
  
  
• Slaughterhouse Sue
  
  I did not serve in Vietnam
  
  
• McBride drags Wyoming public education kicking and screaming into the 20th Century!
  
  The calming islands were a dumb idea and it took them how long to figure that out?

May 24, 2010

• Temporary Restraining Order (LCCC v. The Cheyenne Herald)
  
  
• Complaint
  
  
• Affidavit
  
  
• Motion for Temporary Restraining Order

May 21, 2010

• LCCC 2008 Costa Rica Trip (4 pages, scroll down)
  
  
• Care Team Report (2 pages, scroll down)

May 11, 2010

• How far will the trustees allow LCCC to decline with Hammon before they make a move to save the college?
  (scroll down)
  
  
• Killing and kidnapping dogs in Hillsdale
  
  You go, girl!
  
  
• Governor candidates need to get out front, not wait until after a judge rules to take a position on free speech
  
  Ann Coulter is no William Ayers
  
  
• Kidnapped. By a WHP trooper.
  Then, misled by WHP officials into accepting
  an insulting settlement
  
  
• City Budget 101 -- The 5th penny of sales tax
  
  
• Dr. James Cook - LCCC hearing
  
  
• Dr. Darrel Hammon - LCCC hearing
  
  
• Slaughterhouse Sue losing support
  
  Lies about Kennedy-Western and Warren National
  just keep coming
  
  
• Lenders to former students of WNU should have been sued, too!
  
  
• Water / Sewer rate hikes
  
  David Labon Bush
  A Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus has been filed
  with the U.S. District Court
  
  
• More mistakes of the Court / DA
  
  The Tea Party
  
  
• It must be campaign season. Time to hate your fellow man again.
  

April 27, 2010

• A horse slaughterhouse and horse meat cannery in Cheyenne?
  
  
• David Bush case
  
  Jamie Kamai unsolved murder
  
  
• Safeway Subdivision houses
  
  Warren National University former students lawsuit
  
  
• Has the Wyoming Highway Patrol allowed psychotic troopers to patrol our highways? (scroll down)
  
  
• Why wouldn’t the Cheyenne Police Department make a public announcement about the disappearance of a 15 year-old girl on Easter Sunday?
  
  
• DA’s office “rolled” (scroll down)
  
  
• Sarah Palin, your’re losing me girl. You’re losing me.
  
  
• Sen. Barrasso has it right
  No TCE in our public drinking water has to be the
  maximum tolerable level
  
  
• Parking monitors are enemies of the downtown
  
  They must have missed this listing
  
  
• Jessica Venable - child custody
  
  Airline carry on fees
  
  
• A $46 million budget for FY2011 is still too high
  
  WHP trooper on ‘roids

April 13, 2010

• Judge Arnold ...1 -- Scott Homar ... 0
  
  Jessica Venable ... Incalculable (scroll down)
  
  
• City of Cheyenne budget woes.
  
  
• City layoffs
  
  
• Candidates are surfacing
  
  
• Governor candidates
  
  Arrest listing
  
  
• Department of Interior notice re Powers Field misuse
  
  
• So, how’s that cell phone ban thingy working out?
  
  
• William Ayers
  
  Wrong about that
  
  
• Powers Field lease
  
  My bad. Sorry.
  
  
• Colorado charter school operation
  
  WNIT championship game attendance disaster
  
  
• I Own That Mountain (by Skip Eshelman)
  My firsthand account of the Tea Party Express Tour III
  
  
• 2010 Optional One Cent (5th penny) Sales Tax Election
  
  The $1,000,000 must be paid

March 30, 2010

• Sloans Lake is finally free of fecal matter and, NOW, no swimming will be allowed?
  
  
• Poker is legal for CFD but not for HOPE?
  
  Charter schools
  
  
• TCE - the former mayor’s choice of carcinogen in your drinking water
  
  
• UW women’s basketball - 2010 WNIT
  
  
• The new police chief: “Zero tolerance on domestic violence”
  
  Why I could not call Bob Fecht “Chief”
  
  
• With friends like these ... (scroll down)
  Vice President’s wrongful termination hearing against LCCC begins
  
  
• Wyoming Department of Education head wants another term
  
  Contested case hearing (conclusion)
  
  
• Teacher salaries
  
  DUI arrests
  
  
• Boy, that’s cold!
  
  Indulge me
  
  
• Justice for sale
  
  
• To Serve and To Protect
  
  
• WNU lawsuit - plaintiffs amend complaint
  
  American Eagle (airline)

March 22, 2010

• WNU lawsuit - Plaintiffs amend complaint
  
  
• Former WNU students amended complaint

March 16, 2010

• Cheyenne’s new police chief
  
  
• Race for Gov
  
  
• THE CODE OF THE WEST
  
  CFD Night Shows
  
  
• Electronic billboards. Unsafe at any speed?
  
  Itawamba County, Mississippi - meet Platte County, Wyoming
  
  
• Air Show Lost
  
  UW men’s basketball hasn’t been this bad since Carter was president
  
  
• DVD that force-fed Code of the West
  
  Operation Drunksy Toe
  
  
• City breaches grant conditions for Powers Field
  
  Cancer. Courage. 10 down. 25 to go.
  
  
• Will 2010 be the “Year of the Woman” in Wyoming?
  
  Drunkest cities
  
  
• When is an investigation not an investigation?
  
  Plea deals
  
  
• Co-op grocery store
  
  Dr. James Cook v. Laramie County Community College
  
  
• Powers Field
  
  
• LCCC prez - No confidence!

March 2, 2010

• DA investigates mayor / council
  
  A Cowboy Creed?
  
  
• Collins attacks the mayor
  
  
• Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorance.
  
  
• Powers Field dispute
  
  
• City streets
  
  
• The abandoned “Safeway Subdivision” houses
  
  Removing writing from PAWS test would be a
  huge mistake
  
  
• Vacant house ordinance
  
  Electronic billboards
  
  
• Oh. Then that makes it all right.
  Toyoda apologizes for selling dangerous cars
  
  
• Was the sale of land in the West Industrial Park an inside deal?
  
  Next to leave UW men’s basketball program?
  
  
• Auto Electric is still going strong
  
  
• There was no “plug pulled by economy”
  
  No “Miracle on Ice”
  
  
• McBride and his Ride
  
  Now, that’s irony
  
  

February 16, 2010

• Safeway or the State? Who shafted shoppers?
  
  
• VoteVets.org does not speak for this vet
  
  Some of the bills that were introduced this Session
  
  
• When my Taurus goes down the road, fast, without my foot on the accelerator, it’s because of cruise control. When a Toyota goes down the road, fast, without a foot on theaccelerator, it’s because of a defect.
  
  
• “City may have held illegal meeting.”
  
  
• Illegal meetings... (State statute on Executive Sessions)
  
  
• No contamination on Safeway site
  
  
• City financial quagmire
  
  Ten years later...
  
  
• Finally. A use for the W. 15th St. parking lot.
  Trailer and other storage.
  
  
• Fox guarding the hen house
  
  Should the aging QB finally retire?
  
  
• Wyoming Legislators still embrace unaccredited diploma mills
  
  Sometimes readerboards are used well.
  Sometimes not so much so.
  
  
• We’ve found the “giant sucking sound” that Ross Perot spoke about
  
  The daily is sending out small children to sell subscriptions?
  
  
• Contamination on the westside
  
  Who made the decision to make downtown streets impassable, the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce?

February 15, 2010

• Groundwater test results - westside
  
  
• Soil vapor (gas) test results - westside
  
  
• Answers regarding PCE contamination

February 11, 2010

Special - Safeway/State Shaft Shoppers

• Governor's Press Release and Realtors Letters

February 2, 2010

• Those outhouses blocking the view of the depot are awful
  
  
• DA’s office: “We only have eyewitnesses, a paper trail
  and verbal admissions. We don’t have enough to
  prosecute. We can’t get a conviction.”
  
  
• Las Vegas
  
  
• Boys don’t make good Governors
  
  
• Rick: Sell the Ice Center. Sell the land at Dell Range and Windmill. Lease the Civic Center. Do not sell the Belvoir. Maybe parts. You’re stuck with the garage.
  
  
• How long will it take the UW men’s basketball program to recover after the Portland Pair are gone? Can it ever?
  
  
• Blue bin containers Sunday pick-up
  
  
• Rita Meyer: You were wise to throw the guy over the side
  
  
• Voters elected Will Smith president. What did they think they’d get?
  
  
• Wheatland banner flap
  
  
• This should help his defense
  
  
• City’s buyout offer

January 19, 2010

• The Supreme Court said what?
  
  Police “escort” service
  
  
• Y2K, my ascot!
  
  The “aught” decade
  
  
• Election 2010
  
  The Cheyenne Herald does not care what individual teachers are paid
  
  
• Is there a bias against the southside?
  
  
• “I didn’t write that letter to the editor”
  
  
• The City budget
  
  
• Airline security: They make me take off my shoes but can’t tell if a real terrorist has explosive sewn into his underwear?
  
  
• Notes from the City’s 2009 audit
  
  
• Sometimes life throws you a high hard one
  
  
• Recycling costs residents little
  
  
• WTE Top 10 Stories of 2009
  
  
• Parking garage siphoning mineral royalties and cash from the general fund
  
  Longevity pay for city employees