When I learned about former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson’s death at age 93, my encounters with one of the most influential Wyoming ...

Conspicuous by its absence in your laudatory obituary of Sen. Alan Simpson was any mention of the Wyoming Republican's ...

But for Alan Simpson, I might have been a United States senator. I loved him anyway. I was the 1982 Democratic Party nominee for the Senate. Back then, Democrats had ...

Many voters don’t make the time to cast a ballot in their local elections, and that is a sad statement for our democracy.

As a young 20-something editor of the Star Valley Independent, I was impressed that a U.S. Senator would give me time for an ...