Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Here’s how I used to think about World War 2. It was our father’s and mother’s war. My father joined up early in ’42 and served as a radioma...

Have you ever heard the term “Dark Forest” in reference to one of the universe’s big mysteries? I had not until I read Richard Powers’ won...

Note of paranoia from Wyoming Senator/Sawbones John Barrasso. Somehow I got on his email list. I haven’t yet unsubscribed because it is so...

The Tooth Fairy is real.  Two young people in Jackson Hole have come up with a compelling project to help save elephants. You may have hea...

On Saturday, I posted about Seattle and the fact that urbanites in that green bastion might have to drink their lattes with a spritz of c...

Matteo Pistono will be the keynote speaker at the Wyoming Democratic Party's Nellie Tayloe Ross banquet on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the P...

On Wyofile, San Juan Islands' resident Charlie West offers a tongue-in-cheek modest proposal: You send us your coal, we'll send you ...

From Wyoming Community Media's Whistle Stop Film Festival: Mt. Sinai Synagogue in Cheyenne will present a double feature of two short...

SF-Oakland Bay Bridge -- Made in China This is disgusting (from buzzflash ): Did you know that some of America's infrastructure is ...

If a job can be sent to China or the Dominican Republic or Malaysia, it will be. Manufacturing jobs were sent overseas by the millions duri...

Did you know this: Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway estimates that 500 pounds of coal are blown from each rail car for every 500 miles ...

So, some of that money that we paid for Chinese-made gewgaws at Wal-Mart is finding its way back to Wyoming and Colorado. And the jobs that ...

Laramie River coal plant near Wheatland   China burns half of the world's coal production every year. It pollutes its air and kills its...