Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth lately about the state's brain drain. No, we're not talking about the sinking IQ levels of WY G...

You'd think that the sprawling parking lot at the Little America Conference Center would be spacious enough for all of the comic book ge...

According to our insurance agent, it would cost a lot to rebuild our house if it was destroyed by a tornado or other insurable natural disas...

A letter writer to the local paper this week used the tired old trope "love it or leave it" in regards to Cheyenne newcomers advoc...

I've always been pleased when people who live in the far-flung regions on Wyoming refer to Cheyenne as North Denver. They mean it as a s...

I can't help myself. I keep writing nice things about Republican legislators. This time it's newly-elected Sen. Stephan Pappas of Ch...

Gas prices are lower and expected to go even lower. We may be in for $2.50 gas prices in early 2015. Yellowstone had a record 4 million vi...

You can't spell "progressive" without "progress." That's a fact. But you can be a political progressive withou...

Billboard for Wyoming's newest roadside attraction An entrepreneur from a city named for a Southeast Asian revolutionary whose heroe...

The U.S. Census Bureau shows that Casper is the eighth fastest growing metro area in the U.S. while Cheyenne is number twenty. Some Natrona ...

Joyce Kilmer at the High Plains Arboretum: I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree. Cheyenne owes its existence to gov...

Hummingbirdminds supports Rep. Sue Wallis's Food Freedom Act (from Wyoming Business Report ): This week, the Wyoming House of Repres...

Science! It's a gas -- biogas, that is. The City of Cheyenne and UW and Microsoft and Fuel Cell Energy Inc. are building a pilot project...

File this under That Darn Federal Gubment: The Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced today tha...

Many are wondering if the passage of Amendment 64 in Colorado will have any effect on Wyoming. All of us in the southeast part of the state ...

This is about the closest that the Wal-Mart strike got to Wyoming. Photo from Wal-Mart protest in Lakewood, Colo. See more at http://chang...

The Denver Post reports that Colorado may have been the tipping point for President Obama on election night. Read all about it here . One...

Wyoming Sen./Dr. John Barrasso, running for re-election, voted today to block a jobs bill for military veterans. He was joined in the naysay...

Some Republican Legislators talk up economic development but also sponsor and support anti-gay legislation. They may want to rethink that st...

In reference to my previous post about legislation changing the retirement plan for state employees.... I've posted below the summary...