Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I have got to hand it to Neil at LiquidLawn.com. He is persistent. I do not require his services at this time but there will come a time whe...

Thanks for Neil over at Liquid Lawn for sending me some mail. This is the third flyer I've received from his company since I moved to Or...

My eight-year-old son Kevin and I were on our third day of cross-country travel from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Washington, D.C. I had promised Ke...

Paul Huttner, chief meteorologist for Minnesota Public Radio, had a compelling story about the federal government shutdown in his "Updr...

Cheyenne writer Edith Cook writes thoughtful op-ed pieces for our local paper, the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle . Her favorite subject is the envir...

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post's "The Fix" political blog likes to make lists. In August 2011, hummingbirdminds was n...

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...

On Wyofile , veteran Wyoming journalist Kerry Drake takes a long, hard look at the Medicaid expansion question in Wyoming: Facts, common s...

This was on Facebook today: New map: US High Speed Rail System. This map is inspired by ideas from various agencies and advocacy groups in...

Ogallala strawberries. Winter won't last forever. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 8:30-8:30 p.m., in the Laramie County Public Library's Cot...

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

Columnist Eugene Robinson explores Mitt Romney's stance on disaster response. Let's privatize it! Tell that to the folks in New Jers...

Sam Western, Sheridan author and correspondent for London's The Economist , spoke last night at the Roosevelt-Kennedy dinner held by the...

Face it, Tea Party Slim has the best of both worlds. He spends his winters in Arizona and summers in Wyoming. "I should call you Snow...

The Wyoming Republican Party is reporting straw poll results on Facebook . Here are the results for Laramie County: Santorum 66, Romney 55, ...

This just in from the Casper Star-Tribune : The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says high levels of methane, benzene and chemic...

But he is in my head! From the Casper Star-Tribune : U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., joined dozens of federal lawmakers from both parti...

My government-issue parents in Denver, circa 1950. Thanks to my sister Mary for the photo. I was born in Denver at the tail end of 1950. ...

The Wyoming Country Party has been floating around the state since spring. Its mission looks suspiciously like that of the Wyoming Republic...

An August Sunday morning. Tea Party Slim and I were dining on the veranda. We weren't so much "dining" as eating doughnuts and...