Archived Articles

December 26, 2006

• Dishonesty from the WT-E
  
  
• Hunkins platform being adopted by Freudenthal
  
  
• Life without the Cheyenne Herald
  
  
• Recent story confirm CS-T’s continued descent
  
  
• Do we really want to grow up to be like Fort Collins?

December 15, 2006

• Letter from the Judge (Voiding Grasslands Annexation)
  
  
• Order Granting Summary Judgment for Plaintiffs

December 11, 2006

• Plaintiff’s (Cox et al) December 4, 2006 filing
  
  
• Defendant’s (City of Cheyenne) December 4, 2006 filing

December 11, 2006

• Chalk up one for the residents
  Judge Roberta Coates rules that her Court
  is not bound by an “interpretation” of a city employee
  
  
• Souvenir Bob Fecht T-Shirt (Lacrosse U.)
  
  
• Settlement in the Dwayne Sells case
  
  
• The Million water pipeline
  
  
• Scrap or salvage vehicles (from front page)
  
  
• The Grasslands.
  
  
• The wrong of the right of eminent domain

November 27, 2006

• The Grasslands. A satellite City that will not be a part of this City?
  
  
• Mold in the city
  
  
• Recreation Center
  
  
• Spend some of the next $2b State surplus on...
  
  
• Grasslands annexation (conclusion)
  
  
• Bill Sniffin’s relationship with the Governor
  
  
• A guy looking for a hand up, not a handout
  
  
• Another “find” in the Republican Party Public Records Request?
  

November 13, 2006

• Ms. Irrelevant
  Barbara Cubin’s next two years might be better spent baking anatomically shaped cookies or honing her photography skills
  
  
• “I did not have sexual relations with that man, Mr. Jones”
  
  
• City not immune
  Supreme Court rules sewer line back-ups due to city negligence can be that city’s financial responsibility
  
  
• Shock. And, awe!
  The 2006 general election is devastating for Wyoming!
  
  
• Rafferty had it right
  
  Vindictive prosecution
  Mark Voss begins his reign of terror
  
  
• Circuit Court Judge Denise Nau near miss on retention!
  
  When will F.E. Warren Air Force Base close?

November 6, 2006

• Jim McBride’s tenure at CCAF

November 3, 2006

• Not an “October Surprise”
  
  
• Document Request letters and e-mails

October 31, 2006

• Kirk Knox bequeaths $1.6 million to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter

October 30, 2006

• Jim McBride Evaluations

October 30, 2006

• Rude, crude, and lewd
  Jim McBride is not only unqualified to be Wyoming
  Superintendent of Public Instruction, he is unfit
  
  
• Jim McBride
  State School Superintendent candidate unmasked
  
  
• Bennett, Colorado School District 29-J
  Superintendent Evaluations on Jim McBride
  
  Mark Shubert letter to WT-E
  
  
• Republican Party public records request
  
  
• Pages 2,5,6,7
  
  
• Pages 9,10,11,12
  

October 16, 2006

• Whats a wolf?
  
  Refusals to answer
  
  
• Regional Health Training Center Study
  is a very good idea
  
  
• [Jim] McBride’s resume gap
  
  
• Foley fiasco is not a sex scandal
  
  
• Trauner interview (conclusion)
  
  Maybe that’s why Cubin won’t debate
  
  
• Trash-to-Ethanol, Waste-to-Diesel
  
  Johnny’s on his way out
  

October 2, 2006

• Ray Hunkins on the issues
  
  
• The meth scourge - Ray and I talk
  
  
• Wont have to pass the hat for Barbara Cubin
  
  
• City of Cheyenne smoking ban.
  Health boon or wealth bane.
  
  
• Prepaying for gas
  
  
• Do not call the Cheyenne Herald if you're up to no good
  
  
• Fire at the Cheyenne Club
  
  
• How do we protect our schools?
  
  
• What success in public eduaction?
  Fiscal conservative in public education?

September 18, 2006

• How many clerks does it take to screw up an election?
  
  
• Drake Hill survives
  "For integrity" my ascot
  
  
• McBride is unqualified
  
  
• Don't prepay for gas
  Public Defenders
  
  
• Kinky Friedman
  Truisms about political campaigns
  
  
• "Silly season" it is
  

August 28, 2006

• Maggie Carter Judgment and Sentence
  

August 28, 2006

• Republican Party chairman Drake Hill must be replaced
  
  
• Write-in Candidates
  
  
• JonBenet Ramsey murder confessor
  
  
• The Winney for Congress Campaign
  
  
• Uneven justice
  A “cooperating state’s witness gets off easy. Often.
  
  
• Maggie Carter
  Judgment and Sentence of the Court
  
  
• Give it a rest!
  
  
• “Anti-marriage” Worker’s Comp Rule in Wyoming?
  Why would State encourage couples to divorce?
  

August 24, 2006

• 2006 General Election Frequency Discounts and Availability of Full Color Advertising
  

August 14, 2006

• All Pages

July 31, 2006

• July 31 issue, pages 1,3 - 12
  
  
• July 31 issue, page 2
  

July 17, 2006

• See the difference in a WT-E letter to the editor - what was sent by the Bill Winney campaign and what was printed
  

July 17, 2006

• Barbara Cubin’s “influence” rank in the U.S. House is 193 rungs below California’s Mary Bono. Mary is Sonny Bono’s widow!
  
  
• Bill Winney has served his country for more than three decades. Leadership. Economic Diversity. Education. (Scroll down)
  
  
• The votes, the voice, and the void
  
  
• Open letter to Wyoming Secretary of State (and
  Republican candidate for State Treasurer) Joe Meyer
  
• Commissioned cops?
  
  
• Albin Day
  

July 3, 2006

• Is the Republican Party derailing this election, too?
  
  
• Republican’s public records request hurtful to Herald efforts
  
  Traveling these days
  
  
• I hate smoking. I don’t hate smokers.
  
  
• Fool us once, shame on you.
  Fool us twice, shame on us.
  City of Cheyenne snookered another time on waste disposal.
  
  
• Green Power, Inc. (conclusion)
  
  Traveling ... (conclusion)
  
  
• Welcome .. Cheyenne’s Superday
  
  

June 19, 2006

• Smoking ban approved
  
  
• Something is glaringly missing from Bob Fecht's campaign brochure
  The Chief's not touting his mail order master's
  
  
• Municipal waste to diesel may be the purrfect solution
  
  
• Democrats are the irresposible tax-and-spenders, and the Republicans are the fiscal conservatives. Right?
  
  
• The federal debt
  
  Republican Contract with America
  

May 30, 2006

• Gov Dave starts to throw 'em over the side
  Close friend and campaign aide Phil Noble is the first to go
  
• Winney for Congress (ad)
  
  
• In the interest of full disclosure...
  
  
• Censure
  
  
• FY2007 Budget
  
  
• Animal Shelter
  
  
• Mary's Bake Shoppe fire
  Will the City's demolition interference end up being "a gift" to Mary Coonts?
  
• Citizen's survey
  
  
• 100!

May 15, 2006

• Saddle Ridge annexation lawsuits withdrawn
  Dr. Jean Cotton will direct her efforts and resourcesto the “201 Agreement” for the benefit of more county residents
  
  
• City lawsuit attempts to seize Mary’s land
  Will the District Court rule again that the City broke the law?
  
  
• Animal Shelter v. The Public
  How will the impasse be resolved?
  
  
• The Cheyenne Herald has become the hottest ticket in town
  All the water cooler talk is now about what the Herald has on its pages

May 5, 2006

• Local group seeks to resuscitate the Animal Shelter
  

May 2, 2006

• Cheyenne Fire Chief Scott Alvord has applied to become fire chief in Boca Raton, Florida
  

May 1, 2006

• Wyatt Johnson: I did not start the downtown fire
  they say I confessed to starting

• Does the truth matter anymore?
  Education Department employees know the purpose...
  
  
• If Police Chief Bob Fecht were elected...
  
  
• Not quite as presented
  Grizzlies rent was to have been $500.00, not $350.00
  as claimed by Post 6
  
  
• What does it take for revocation of probation?
  
  
• Add ... Grizzlies
  
  
• Arghhh!!!
  
  
• Does Gov Dave really want to kill your pets?
  
  
• A challenge to Barbara Cubin in the Republican primary
  

April 17, 2006

• Herald accused of Slander!
  KOHL’S to open by Lowe’s in north Cheyenne and Best Buy is also likely
  
  
• April 20th
  Happy 18th Birthday, Jessica
  
  
• Hardball. Real hardball.
  Grizzlies unwelcome at new ballfield.
  
  
• Maggie Carter Lied to Judge Kalokathis
  
  
• Barbara Cubin
  Voters can help her keep her word
  
  
• Slander ... conclusion from page 1
  
  
• Misunderstood Data?
  “Master Plan” for the Belvoir?
  
  
• Good Samaritan
  New bike shop owner helps local resident
  
  
• Apryl Meares
  Wyoming girl’s 10-meter air rifle champion
  
  
• “This thing is cool!”
  
  
• Even unopened Cheyenne Herald envelopes are contraband at the Wyoming Honor Farm
  
  
• Trent in Alaska
  Who should be the next Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction?
  
  
• Some things never change
  Ft. Collins mayor also doesn’t want to “give anyone the right to vote ...” Sounds familiar.

March 27, 2006

• Dr. Michael Baden joins Sells lawsuit
  Other expert witnesses will include liquor liability expert Fred Del Marva

• Sam Galeotos speaks on annexation ... and more

• Sam Galeotos speaks ... (conclusion)
  And cats are supposed to have a lot of lives?

• Maggie Carter
  Being a parent

• Major New Development Proposed on Southside
  Now they support public money being used to establish“satellite, surface parking lots” in the downtown?

• Johnny's last chance for exoneration within our system

• Becket Hinckley will not seek re-election
  Why trash-to-ethanol will not work and why it's a poor choice for disposal of trash

• Hunkins v. Freudenthal
  Who will win in November?

March 23, 2006

• Maggie Carter guilty plea and sentencing hearing
  Docket No. 28-707 (10 pages, please scroll down)

March 20, 2006

• ANNEXATION LAWSUIT, SADDLE RIDGE III and EAST WHITNEY PARTNERSHIP Docket No. 167-602 (18 pages, please scroll down)

March 13, 2006

• Right to Bear Beer
  A constitutional guarantee?
  Trashed!
  Trash-to-ethanol project abandoned

• Another lawsuit filed against City
  re: Grasslands Research Station Annexation

• No deal. Not guilty
  Sometimes it's guilt that loses. Sometimes, it's innocence.

• Private School Licensing
  Senate File 69
  Caution on the arson confession

• A couple things you may be reading in - or hearing from the other media in the next few weeks
  Safeway to buy Albertson's store ...
  Trilegiant Building sold, to become state offices
  City of Cheyenne Audit

• Gale Norton meets Cheyenne mayor, council - resigns Cabinet post.
  Takin' ‘em off the list, one name at a time
  Greybull, Cheyenne . Cheyenne , Greybull.

• “No homes will be taken.”
  Win a 1977 Harley-Davidson Sportster
  Your newspaper? Your television station?

• THE CHEYENNE HERALD picks all the winners and losers in the NCAA Basketball Tournament

March 3, 2006

• ANNEXATION LAWSUIT, GRASSLANDS RESEARCH STATION Docket No. 167-523 (10 pages, please scroll down)
         
            Grasslands Lawsuit Exhibit, City of Cheyenne Ordinance           No. 3689 (2 pages, please scroll down)

February 27, 2006

• Cheyenne 's proposed recreation center
  For only $34 million, resident will get...
  Utility Relief Cut Short
  
  
• To ALL Citizens of Cheyenne, YOU'RE INVITED!!
  Councilman Laybourn says: “Let's give the State's money back”
  
  
• Wyoming should be oh so proud!
  Diploma mill lies can be heard (read) around the world. From Wyoming.
  
  
• Arson Charges
  Arrest of a “non-suspect” surprises many
  
  
• RUDC claims the crown!
  The trash-to-ethanol schemers are now the all-time
  briefest business resident of Cheyenne
  
  
• Mary's Bake Shoppe fire...
  Has Mary Coonts been uncooperative with the investigation?
  Has the City lied?
  
  
• The confession and polygraph testing
  Will the arson confession withstand scrutiny?
  Has the confessor taken a polygraph test? Should others?

February 13, 2006

• They don't go when they're not invited.
  But they also don't go when they are invited.
  
  
• The 2004 downtown fire and its aftermath
  Was Mary Coonts (Mary's Bake Shoppe) slandered and defamed?
  If so, by whom?
  
  
• Wyoming Legislators!
  Before the vote on Private School Licensing amendments, read
  on ...
  County commissioners again piggyback on county residents lawsuit!
  
  
• Another two bite the dust
  $50.00 Reward
  
  
• Joe Bonds Whines: “It Just Isn't Fun Anymore”
  One Citizen's Opinion
  
  
• Vindictive prosecution?
  Is Johnny Lopez an innocent man who was tried
  by an angry prosecutor and angrier judge?
  

January 30, 2006

• Outlaw Saloon owner faces revocation of probation

• “How much is that puppy in the back room?”

• Mary's Bake Shoppe fire
  So, there!

• Injustice?

• Joshua Rogers shooting

• The trash-to-ethanol juggernaut finally has an office

• Attorney General “opinion” on annexation of city land

January 16, 2006

• "I did not start the fire. I do not know who started the fire. In fact, I don't think anyone started it."
  
  
• Trash-to-ethanol project
  Minimal due diligence should have made the City suspicous of this promoter
  
  
• Another illegal annexation alleged.
  Complaint/Appeal alleges, among other things, that petition for annexation was signed by unauthorized individual - one who did not own the land
  
  
• Being guilty is not enough
  The jury system is not perfect
  
  
• SHOULD we all just get along?
  Mary's Bake Shoppe (conclusion)
   
• Diploma mills continue to be discredited
  
  
• If the downtown gets much better, there won’t be a business open down there.

January 13, 2006

• ANNEXATION LAWSUIT, SADDLE RIDGE II Docket No. 167-202 (15 pages, please scroll down)

December 27, 2005

• City's trash-to-ethanol project is unlikely to succeed.
  A similar effort in New York has only a sign in the
  ground after 11 years.
  
  
• Dwayne A. Sells
  
  
• Dwayne Sells eviction
  
  
• The disagreement isn't about missing school. It's about what an unexcused absence is.
  The appeal of Johnny Lopez
  
  
• Who is the City dealing with on the trash-to-ethanol program?
  
  
• Middletown, New York
  Middletown mayor tells Herald she is “optimistic” about their 11 year-old trash-to-ethanol project. “Optimistic in hopes it never gets completed.”
  
  
• Diploma mills
  Not everyone believes Wyoming is sincere about cleaningup bogus degree sellers
  
  
• There's no pain when we throw people out of their homes. Is there?
  
  
  

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December 12, 2005

• COMPLAINT FOR WRONGFUL DEATH and NEGLIGENCE
  JACK D.SELLS, PR for Dwayne Sells vs. HEJE, INC., HEIN, JEDLICKI and NATH Docket No. 167-17 (13 pages, please scroll down)

  Fred Del Marva Affidavit ... Sells v. Outlaw Saloon et al (11 pages, please scroll down)

• Wrongful death lawsuit against Outlaw Saloon, others
  Cheyenne Police Lieutenant Korber and Detective Basile are alleged to have received unreported cash payments from the Outlaw Saloon - with Police Chief Bob Fecht's knowledge and approval
  
  
• A message from Mary Coonts, owner of Mary's Bake Shoppe
  
  
• '...the whiners out at F.E. Warren Air Force Base...'
  Eckhardt of WT-E insults military families
  
  
• Sells vs. the Outlaw Saloon, Susan Hein, Mitch Jedlicki, Don Nath
  
  
• Sells vs. the Outlaw Saloon and others (conclusion)

November 28, 2005

• Maybe, just maybe, it's Dish Network that sucks
  LEADS owes Laramie County $258,660.00
  
  
• School attendance
  Dish Network (conclusion)
  
  
• Dwayne Sells Death (a review)
  from injuries suffered at the Outlaw Saloon
  
  
• So sure. But oh so wrong.
  
  
• LEADS owes County residents $258,660
  
  
• You have a right to a speedy trial.
  Do you have the right to a speedy appeal?

November 14, 2005

• Fecht tells Herald that there are only seven pages in the file concerning the Dwayne Sells death
  
  
• "Residents don't need a handout."
  
  
• The City is promising to obey a law that does not exist - after previously and repeatedly breaking a law that did
  Sales tax on food
  
  
• Degrees R Us
  
  
• Accreditation
  To have or not to have

October 31, 2005

• WAL*MART and LEADS "stiff" neighbors
  "100% variance" to rules means no trees
  
  
• How many times will the City spend the "excess fifth penny" sales tax funds?
  Georgia Broyles the logical choice to fill the vacant seat in Ward III
  
  
• Cheyenne drowning in water
  Variance rules not met by WAL*MART or Commissioners
  
  
• "We have no one to go to with our problems. So please help us."
  Glick's review of Sells' files
  
  
• Gilchrist School health issues
  
  
• Joining the fight
  
  
• When is store security ethnic discrimination?
  Street construction in front of the airport terminal

October 17, 2005

• Satellite City in County?
  Annexation, sale of city land, and private residential development west of Base will recreate island city.
  
  
• Coroner Bill Ryan thought the death of Dwayne Sells was a homicide
  
  
• Burns volleyball team
  WT-E again proves ignorance is bliss with uninformed story
  
  
• THE COUPLER BUILDING
  Just the latest example of myopic design and planning at the Depot
  
  
• THE CROOK, THE CRYBABY AND THE COWARD
  
  
• Laramie County Aquifer Protection Plan...
  
  
• One house per person. One person per house.
  
  
• add... Burns volleyball
  Google "Dwayne Sells"
  
  
• Power to the people
  Cheyenne Light and High West Energy disagree...
  UW Prez agrees with Herald's criticism of
  Fecht mail order degree
  
  
• Q. How long does it take to put in curbs, gutters, sidewalks and streets?
  Who stands to gain with annexation of separated land?

September 26, 2005

• Sell or lease?
  Justice for all? Or just for some?
  
  
• Journalists do not serve on boards covering issues
  they will write about
  Albin charter school fails again
  
  
• Stachy at EWC
  Shoddy journalism
  
  
• Diploma mills in Wyoming
  
  
• Another legal loss for City
  The healthcare "wave of the future?"

September 12, 2005

• Evidence Not Presented
  "Black death" at Gilchrist School?
  
  
• Wyoming School of Gymnastics Cheyenne
  Gilchrist mold (conclusion)
  
  
• Scream the accusation, whisper the apology
  Treehouse Rebuild #1
  
  
• Why the Cheyenne Herald Provides so Much Coverage on the Death of Dwayne Sells. Is it too Much?

August 29, 2005

• Blankenship fires back
  
  
• The Dwayne Sells Coroner's Inquest
  Raised More Questions than it Could Answer
  
  
• Unlike Cheyenne some places take getting college degrees seriously
  
  
• Ridding the state of diploma mills
  
  
• Unanswered Questions and Other Lingering Concerns...

August 15, 2005

• Veteran's Commission
  City "check scam"
  
  
• Sells Family Hires Investigator
  Witnesses Brought Forward
  
  
• Coroner's Inquest
  Ryan Should Step Aside
  
  
• The Felony was Check Fraud

July 25, 2005

• Spending like drunken councilmen
  
  
• Dwayne Sells

July 11, 2005

• City budget - fiscal year 2006
  July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
  Revenue& Spending
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
    
    
• It is No Crime in Wyoming to be a Felon In Possession of a Liquor License

June 27, 2005

• What is Chief Bob Fecht afraid of?
  Cheyenne 's police chief refuses citizen request to see the ‘Master's Thesis' for which the city paid him $2500
  
  
• Observation deck didn't observe the rules

June 13, 2005

• Dwayne Sells
  What really happened that night?

May 31, 2005

• Coroner Bill Ryan completed a false death certificate
  
  
• “Featherly: I want a Ph.D.”
  “It cannot be less credible than Chief Fecht's masters and it cannot cost more than $49.00.”
  
  
• She won the race. Going away.
  But someone else got the gold medal.

May 16, 2005

• Diploma Mills and Wyoming
  Will current DOE / Legislators rid the state of these mills or attract more?
  
  
• Commercial Gamebird Farms
  Coroner Bill Ryan Goes Hollywood!
  
  
• Jon Forwood... two for two
  Maggie Carter
  
  
• Which Side Does the City Attorney Really Represent?
  
  
• Dismissed!

May 2, 2005

• Cheyenne city prisoners are being held in the
  Platte County jail - with empty beds in our new jail!
  
  
• What others say about diploma mills.
  And, is Lacrosse University a diploma mill?
  
  
• Chief Bob Fecht's Phony Master's Degree is Giving Black Eye to Cheyenne and Its Police Department
  
  
• Laughingstock R Us
  
  
• Do you have to lie, cheat, steal and plagiarize
  to publish a newspaper these days?
  Another call center
  
  
• Fecht now being used for recruiting for bogus diploma mill degrees
  
  
• Is it Just Me?
  
  
• Internet - re Fecht, Lacrosse, Preston, etc.

April 18, 2005

• City of Cheyenne Paid for Police Chief's Bogus Mail-Order "Master's Degree"
  
  
• Bells of Balangiga Cannot be Unrung
  Take two Aspirins.
  Don't call us in the morning
  
  
• Why is Wyoming attractive to unaccredited diploma mills?
  
  
• Take two Aspirins
  Eyes On the Horizon, Nose in the Wind

April 4, 2005

• TCE Present in Groundwater
  Other than at Belvoir Ranch
  PCE/TCE at high levels within City too!
  
  
• Bells of Balangiga
  
  
• Lockdown!
  Security concerns at City Hall

March 21, 2005

• Memories of a Brother
  
  
• Survey Says...
  Wild Horses

February 28, 2005

• Bills to Benefit Everyone Except People
  Good Move, Governor
  Veto of House Bill 291, the Right Thing
  
  
• "What You Meant to Say..."
  WT-E ommitted words in a letter to the editor
  
  
• "...based on soil and groundwater conditions observed,
  this site is not favorable for a landfill."

February 14, 2005

• The Only Thing You Have to Fear is Fear Itself
  Like the Government, the Cheyenne Herald

January 31, 2005

• Wyoming Legislators, Wake Up!
  There are reasons annexed parcels must overlap.
  
  
• Generally First. Always Right.
  They got the staff. We got the stories.

January 17, 2005

• Skywacky
  If it takes the last of your dollars, this administration
  is bound and determined to open the Hynds.
  
  
• The Maggie Carter Issue
  Effects of Smoking bans

October 11 , 2004

• City Council's Credit Cards Being Used for Improper, Illegal Purposes