Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Here are two GOP senators from Wyoming who don't have a clue about what people are facing out here. I sent them a plea to pass the HEROE...

Chris, Annie and I saw "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" on Thanksgiving Day. Walking down the corridor to the theatre, I was ...

Common Cause has a full list of  ALEC's Corporate Members  (via AlterNet). Couldn't find the names of any Wyoming corporate members,...

At least we're not number one: States with the most lax anti-corruption laws

This list goes a long way toward explaining some of the more extreme laws proposed in this session of the Wyoming Legislature (last year...

Wyoming Republican Rep. Cynthia Lummis speaks as Rep. Eric Cantor looks on (from Rep. Lummis's Facebook page) Depending in which yea...

Occupy Denver Rally starts from the Greek theater in the Civic Center Park on Saturday. Three years ago, Barack Obama accepted the Democra...

A brave coterie of protesters gathered outside the recent Koch Brothers Right Wing Lovefest in Vail, Colorado. CommonBlog has a list of co...

I'm not the only one who's noticed that the Wyoming Legislature has gone crazy this year. Lander journalist and one-time Republica...

From today's Casper Star-Tribune : CHEYENNE -- Wyoming's 2010 congressional race heated up recently, as Democratic candidate David W...

From Monday's New York Times : President Obama sharply criticized the nation’s largest banks for trying to stop legislation that would o...

Ah, to be an Alaskan prog-blogger this Fourth of July weekend 2009. Gov. Sarah Palin resigns in a huff and under a cloud. Palin's lawyer...

America's top-ten for-profit medical insurers pay their executives handsomely. That's one reason they so fiercely oppose a single-pa...

Leonard Pitts, Jr., writes for the Miami Herald , a daily paper known for a tell-it-like-it-is columnists. I first noticed him during the el...

Watch Claire McCaskill (D-MO) take apart the idiot financiers who got us into this mess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt90KUwCCoE This one...

"A Snowmobile for George" is a new election-year documentary. Here's a description from the film's web site: When Preside...

The usually very alert jhwygirl in Missoula emerged from her cold medicine haze to notice that she's on the list of 6,000 voters being c...

Montana has nurtured many fine writers -- Tom McGuane, Richard Hugo, James Welch -- but Montanan Barbara Ehrenreich is a writer and activist...

Who said this, and when: “My faith sustains me because I pray daily. I pray for guidance and wisdom and strength…. But it's a humbling e...