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December 30, 2008

• What kind of mayor?
  
  
• Where are the insults about Caroline Kennedy?
  
  
• This one may not pass the smell test
  
  
• 20 things a good mayor could accomplish (scroll down)
  
  
• Steve Kline in SD5, to replace Bob Fecht
  This administration hasn’t listened
  
  
• So far, so fair for Rick Kaysen
  
  
• Where is the hospital getting all the money it’s spending so foolishly?
  CRMC is giving up on the Wellington Clinic
  
  
• Equality State?

December 16, 2008

• If the WT-E wants the City to break the law on annexations, they should pay the legal fees
  
  
• The Mayflower
  
  
• UW football coach
  
  
• A local bailout?
  
  
• Almost 70% of local crimes involve liquor...
  
  
• Private investment in Cheyenne’s downtown
  
  
• Wine is alcohol
  
  
• Gay Woodhouse

December 2, 2008

• Home invasions in Cheyenne
  CRMC woes mount!
  
  
• Northside Community House
  Southside Community House
  
  
• Illegal immigration fixing itself
  Indian Education for All Act
  
  
• Commissioners propaganda piece
  Downtown parking
  
  
• Judge Peter Arnold must be taken off cases involving spousal abuse and child custody
  
  
• The “historic” houses
  Blue bins
  
  
• Even churches use alcohol to raise money
  936 cats killed by a group charged with saving them?
  
  
• Stoneridge Prep School
  California basketball-factory feeds UW basketball team

November 11, 2008

• How many Cheyenne residents live in houses without certificate of occupancy?
  Former State Superintendent of schools involved with major diploma mill
  
  
• Hospital cleans up Nob Hill
  
  
• Just kickin’ some Ash
  
  
• Early voting vs. election day voting
  
  
• Fair and unbiased?
  Recounts

October 28, 2008

• Two local professional engineers signed off falsely...
  
  
• Southsiders, you can determine the outcome of this election!
  
  
• A “must read” column
  
  
• City council president jinx
  Albin teacher wins major award
  
  
• I support Amber Ash for city council in Ward 1
  Campaign ads in other media
  
  
• Prove it, Safeway. Prove you care.
  
  
• Prices at the pump
  
  
• Is Gov Dave a day late and a dollar short?
  WT-E “critique” of yardsigns
  
  
• Former city councilwoman / city council secretary off probation
  Graffiti
  
  
• Constitutional amendments on ballot
  
  
• At least no one lost their home
  
  
• Your most effective vote

October 14, 2008

• Front page
  
  
• Page 2
  
  
• Page 3
  
  
• Page 4
  
  
• Page 5
  
  
• Pages 6 and 7
  
  
• Page 8
  
  
• Page 9
  
  
• Page 10
  
  
• Page 11
  
  
• Page 12

September 30, 2008

• One is coming. One is going.
  
  
• Can Cynthia lose? Can Gary win?
  
  
• A new morgue
  
  
• Ah, Joe, Hoover was president and television wasn’t in homes yet
  
  
• The Minneapolis bridge v. Norris Viaduct
  
  
• Yes, Cynthia, non-natives can serve!
  
  
• Walkability contract
  
  
• “Like a PTO gone bad” (Jim Mathewson)
  
  
• Contracts with elected officials
  
  
• Privatized profits and socialized losses?
  
  
• Cleaning service’s jewelry thief had a criminal record
  
  
• It took eight years to get back to 2000

September 16, 2008

• Jewelry “burglaries” were inside jobs
  “The elevator’s on the fritz again ...”
  
  
• Has your Chamber really changed?
  Vacating McComb Ave.
  
  
• How old will city council candidates be?
  
  
• Department heads who should be removed
  
  
• Trauner’s scare tactics
  
  
• Sarah Palin. Eureka!
  
  
• Illegal annexation in the works.
  Jamie Kamai unsolved murder
  
  
• When are houses just old, not historic?
  Catch and release. Fugitives, not fish.
  
  
• If it’s not working, why do they keep doing it?
  Walkability? Where are those goofy Trunk Troopers when we need ‘em?
  

August 26, 2008

• “I have a fire in my belly to be mayor....”
  
  
• Who did what where
  
  
• Did Dru Rohla Just Give Away $11,931.86 of Civic Center Proceeds to his Wife’s Boss?
  
  
• Is this any way to run a city?
  
  
• An Open Letter to the Governor from a State of Wyoming employee
  
  
• It’s even worse
  
  
• Big Brother could soon be watching... Your garbage!
  
  
• Dollars trump sense
  Republicans again worship at the altar of “It’s your turn”

August 12, 2008

• Cyndy! Markie! You children play nice together.
  Our seniors should not be treated like prisoners
  
  
• Flooding the Civic Center
  
  
• Paris Hilton one-ups the “wrinkly, white-haired dude”
  
  
• The 2008 Campaign
  
  
• Cyndy’s Collapse
  Cynthia Lummis’s claim of “job well done” while she was treasurer is not true
  
  
• It’s time for a change
  
  
• Good news: I have not held political office
  
  
• Mark Gordon is still misrepresenting his ties to the Sierra Club
  
  
• Rezoning the ice land
  Mayoral candidates
  
  
• Candidates I’d like you to consider
  He’s still a dope! (Jim McBride)
  
  
• The WT-E endorsements and other works of fiction
  
  
• My Fellow Citizens of Wyoming

July 29, 2008

• What if you returned from vacation and your house had been illegally demolished?
  
  
• CFD Parade advantage: Incumbents seeking re-election
  
  
• Airport security
  
  
• Joe Dougherty wants to be your new mayor
  Dru Rohla wants to be your new mayor, too
  
  
• Kudos to Channel 5 but the Tribune-Eagle embarrasses itself once again
  
  
• Diploma mills gone
  
  
• It’s time for a change
  
  
• The Lummis Loss
  Demolition (con’t from front page)
  
  
• There are some things that still don’t add up
  
  
• Lies from the mainstream media
  
  
• The liberal print media’s bias...
  
  
• A working man working for you
  

July 1, 2008

• Is there a cover-up in the sheriff’s department?
  
  
• Lunch is served again
  
  
• The secretive chase
  
  
• Mayoral candidates
  
  
• Is there a last-minute illegal annexation percolating for this law-breaking city governing-body cabal?
  
  
• The Admiral Tindal letter
  
  
• The death of a daughter
  
  
• Endorsements and political polls
  
  
• Why haven’t the younger children been taken from the homes in Gloucester, Mass.?
  
  
• MWC Academic All-Conference Awards
  
  
• Maybe unimportant to you...
  
  
• An apology

June 17, 2008

• Cheyenne Housing Authority to seniors: “Let ‘em go hungry!”
  
  
• Parady to Barrow, Alaska
  
  
• Latest library award
  Oh, the pain of integrity!
  
  
• July 15th issue of the Herald is cancelled
  What would Barrasso have made with tort reform?
  
  
• One citizen’s opinion. (Jim Mathewson)
  
  
• What passes for journalism in Wyoming
  
  
• Mayoral candidates
  
  
• Mark Gordon is no Ronald Reagan
  
  
• Term limits
  
  
• Miley Cyrus’s bare back
  A trip to the nation’s capital
  
  
• Texas children returned
  
  
• It’s one thing when you lie to any enemy, quite another when you lie to a friend
  Patrick Collins lied to one who still respects him, Jack Spiker

May 28, 2008

• Mark Gordon’s contributions to Democrats
  Even the advertising-controlled print media has picked up on my story. Three months late and without attribution to the Herald, but what the hey.
  
  
• Oh, yeah! Another survey is just what you need.
  
  
• DA’s office soft on male, violent offenders - tough on female, nonviolent offenders
  
  
• Another example of the no-bid contracts which have become much too popular at Jack Spiker’s City Hall
  
  
• The kind of do-nothing “progressive” the Tribune-Eagle would probably endorse again for the City Council
  
  
• What do you think of this guy’s character now, Judge Grant?
  Did someone get away with murder in Cheyenne? (encore)
  
  
• Murder forgiven (encore)
  
  
• What’s next for the axle swinger?
  
  
• More about the 6th penny election
  
  
• Lunch with the mayor
  
  
• The Texas child grab
  
  
• What are the odds that the same company would have two consecutive bookkeepers steal significant amounts of money from them?

May 13, 2008

• Smackdown!
  Rec center rejected by huge margin!
  
  
• Ken Esquibel (D-HD41) proposes that the State pay half the cost for a Cheyenne rec center
  
  
• Americans are not dependent on Middle East oil
  
  
• Channel 5 does it again
  Patience is running thin with did news readers
  
  
• Rec center didn’t even pass in the city
  
  
• Wrrrrrrecked!
  
  
• Why the repudiation?
  
  
• WT-E finally get it right.
  At least on charter schools. Nothing else, just charter schools.
  
  
• Preservation of Cheyenne’s historic properties
  
  
• WWE to visit Cheyenne!
  We have arrived!
  
  
• “Lady Plainsmen?
  What dolt came up with that nickname?”
  
  
• Cheyenne is a great city
  
  
• Mark Gordon responds
  
  
• Cheyenne Regional Medical Center billed for services they did not provide, admitted it and tried to collect.

April 29, 2008

• Can government win the May 6th sales tax vote by virtue of the Stockholm Syndrome?
  
  
• Mark Gordon, candidate for House: “I oppose subsidies. Except mine.”
  
  
• Parents are knowingly providing “kiddie cocaine” to their children
  
  
• A meeting at the Community House is not the answer to Cheyenne’s racial division
  
  
• So, what’s Wyoming? Chopped liver?
  
  
• Reasons to Vote “No” on Prop 4
  
  
• Commissioners back down. Part way.
  
  
• “How should I vote?”
  
  
• Eckhardt and his latest strawman
  
  
• CFD refrain: “We were just about to do that. Really, we were.”
  
  
• Code of Conduct
  
  
• Wow! Were the natives ever restless.
  
  
• Chasing kids down with police cars comes with a price

April 15, 2008

• It is said that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. And it can be said our circuit court will bind over for trial an accused whose “victim” exonerated him. (See page 7 also)
  
  
• Increase number of commissioners to 5
  
  
• Earlier story titled “Trailer Trash”
  
  
• Mark Gordon - Suddenly a Republican...
  
  
• Red light cameras getting mixed reviews
  
  
• Not everyone get to drive these babies!
  
  
• Cheyenne’s proposed rec center
  
  
• CFD Night Show Withdrawals
  
  
• Aggravated assault without a victim
  
  
• If Cheyenne Police Chief Bob Fecht had handled an earlier incident differently, would Joshua Rogers be alive today?
  
  
• If you get called about the rec center
  
  
• WT-E April Fool’s page
  
  
• The office makes the man. It’s not the other way around.
  
  
• The Rural City Council
  

April 1, 2008

• Car dealer’s missteps mount
  
  
• Spiker / Laybourn
  
  
• Marvin Johnson
  
  
• Anonymous rantings...
  
  
• Judge Arnold not ready for prime time
  
  
• City Parks official damages a City vehicle by running into his own horse ... and WE get to pay for his negligence
  
  
• The USS Pueblo. The conclusion.
  
  
• Upcoming 6th Penny referendum
  
  
• “Meth house” owner
  
  
• Progressive?

March 18, 2008

• “Trailer trash”
  
  
• We don’t need no stinkin’ guide
  
  
• Our ship. Their museum.
  
  
• Guilty until proven innocent.
  
  
• “I didn’t do it. I’d like a pardon.”
  

March 4, 2008

• Your “new” car may have been “demo’d” by a thief (p.9 also) Should a car dealer sell a car stolen off its lot, missing for as long as 3 months, and returned heavily damaged, as new?
  
  
• “Dirty tricks” mailing done using Cheyenne Herald’s post office box number as the return address
  
  
• Ralph Nader needs to give it a rest
  
  
• Are the Laramie County Commissioners becoming just a rural Cheyenne City Council?
  
  
• Jumping the tree?
  6th penny propaganda was circulated before the ballot resolution was passed
  

  Buffy’s contract
  $10,500.00+ to schedule meetings

• The Rockies in Tucson
  

• No remorse from an innocent man. So, no pardon.
  

• The USS Pueblo. We allowed our sailors to be brutalized.
  

• Stolen Yukon...
  

  You Can Help Hands in Harmony
  

• A 16 year-old African-American student is assaulted, then cited under City Code for “fighting”
  

• What’s next for the County? A chain of drive-in theaters?
  

• The outrider and the tow truck driver

February 14, 2008

• Bring the Pueblo home!
  
  
• What the hell is he thinking?
  
  
• What if Mike Enzi does not seek re-election?
  
  
• Wanted
  
  
• What has Cheyenne become?
  
  
• A USS Pueblo sailor begins to tell the story
  
  
• The Kamai investigation
  
  
• 6th Penny Sales Tax Collection is about over
  
  
• “Highly qualified” teachers determined by highly unqualified non-teachers?
  
  
• So you think you’d like to own some rental apartments?

January 31, 2008

• Extortion!
  Spiker to Burns: “Get in line - or else!
  
  
• Jamie Kamai’s unsolved murder
  
  
• Just a dream. Just a dream
  ... walkway over the UP tracks ...
  
  
• The City’s fight against an elected official’s rights is being led by Nancy Freudenthal - the Governor’s wife!
  
  
• Segrave withheld the truth
  
  
• Southside Park
  
  
• Asking the City of Cheyenne’s building inspectors to work a FULL DAY ... (scroll down)
  
  
• Burns mayor speaks out
  
  
• Just how good are the Cowgirls?
  And how bad are the Cowboys?

January 17, 2008

• Does the Cheyenne police chief have his own agenda when dealing with illegal drug activity in the City? (scroll down)
  
  
• Wyoming caucus/convention as big a stunt as ...
  
  
• License plate shuffle
  
  
• Casper police chief wants to hold drunk driving suspects in jail longer. Until they’re sober. Cheyenne police chief want more liquor licenses ...
  
  
• Charter school application had no chance
  
  
• Dinneen WTE column is offensive
  
  
• St. Charles, Missouri ... meet Cheyenne, Wyoming
  
  
• Barrasso’s money
  
  
• Closed meetings