***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Wendy Corr, Cowboy State Daily Chief Washakie was a proponent of peace among his people and white settlers who moved into American Indian territory in the 1800s in what’s now Wyoming. A new statue memorializing the great Eastern Shochone tribal elder was dedicated Friday at the corner of 19th and Capitol streets in Cheyenne on the southwest corner outside St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Although put up late last year, the ceremony to commemorate the 2-foot-tall bronze statue on a pedestal with a plaque was delayed until this past w ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Leo Wolfson, State Politics Reporter Leo@CowboyStateDaily.com State Rep. Karlee Provenza, D-Laramie, apologized Monday afternoon for a controversial meme she shared on her personal social media accounts that drew national backlash including reported death threats. The meme she reshared Saturday depicts an elderly woman holding a rifle with a scope and the words “Auntie Fa Says protect trans folks against fascists & bigots!” The name “Auntie Fa” is a homonym for Antifa, a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political group ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** Cowboy State Daily Two people died after trucker rolled into the Interstate median near Wamsutter, Wyoming early Monday morning and slammed into a tow truck and a car being towed. At about 3:10 Monday morning, a 1995 Kenworth truck was headed west on Interstate 80 when the driver, Edgar F. Echeverria, 45, of Texas, lost control of the truck, according to a Monday statement by the Wyoming Highway Patrol. Echeverria started to leave the road to the right, then overcorrected, causing the truck to overturn and enter the median. There i ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Dennis Sun, Columnist Agriculture comes with numerous names, but the most important is “business.” As a business, like others, we realize stability comes in all forms. For those involved in agriculture, especially farmers and livestock producers, the main factors for stability are prices and weather. Another factor agriculture has always had to deal with is politics. When it comes to agriculture in politics, we are often out voted, but we need to learn to be better at telling our story. We have some great ag organizations assist ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Dave Simpson, Columnist Summary quote: They won’t be truly happy until our 45th president appears in Alex Murdaugh jail coveralls, pink shower clogs, and gets his maximum-security head shaving. Nice to see smiles on the poor dears’ faces. It’s been such a long and disappointing road. They’ve suffered so much. We thought they’d never smile again. They cried openly when the man they consider Beelzebub defeated their dream candidate in 2016. They wore pink hats, gathered by the hundreds of thousands, and declared themselves “the Re ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Kevin Killough, State Energy Reporter Kevin@CowboyStateDaily.com Launching civil lawsuits against oil companies for allegedly harming people with climate change is nothing new, but now some legal experts propose criminal prosecutions.  A new academic paper in the Harvard Law Review posits a legal theory called “climate homicide.”  Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman, who was a trial lawyer for nearly 30 years and worked on cases involving water and natural resource issues, told Cowboy State Daily the legal theory has no merit ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Mark Heinz, Outdoors Reporter Mark@CowboyStateDaily.com Morose drone footage recently taken in northwest Colorado near the Wyoming state line reflects a scenario being played out across both states as a miserable winter for wildlife drags on.  The camera steadily zooms in on the emaciated carcass of a large bull elk on the edge of a tiny patch of bare ground on a ridgetop amid a sea of hardened snow. It’s a place where, for who knows how long, the bull held out as best he could – until a lonely death took him as it has take ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Kevin Killough, State Energy Reporter Kevin@CowboyStateDaily.com When the federal Inflation Reduction Act passed, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the energy and climate provisions in it would cost taxpayers $391 billion and do little to reduce inflation.  A new analysis by Goldman Sachs estimates those provisions will actually cost $1.2 trillion, more than three times as much as originally estimated. “It’s a perfect example that anytime the federal government tries to fix a problem, the solution usually makes the ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Mark Heinz, Outdoors Reporter Mark@CowboyStateDaily.com With Wyoming still getting sledgehammered by a hard winter, grizzly bears are apparently sleeping in – and the most famous of them all, Teton Park’s Grizzly 399, is no exception.  The last confirmed sighting of Grizzly 399 was in September, when she was busy fattening up for hibernation, Jack Bayles of “Team 399” told Cowboy State Daily.  “There’s still lots of snow on the ground (and) no one that we know has seen her,” Bayles said, although two other grizzlies ha ..read more

***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Clair McFarland, State Courts And Crime Reporter Clair@CowboyStateDaily.com Accused of punching, pistol-whipping, and warning another man never to attack his dad again, Logan James Savage, 43, pleaded not guilty to a felony assault charge Monday.   Savage also got out of jail on a $20,000 unsecured bond.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Elmore argued against Savage’s release.   “There are individuals in the community who are afraid of the defendant based on the charged conduct,” said Elmore in a he ..read more