The Carbon County Traveler
Mike Armstrong

I won’t deny that there was a part of me that did not really accept my mortality as I faced surgery on November 3. Don’t get me wrong, I am not fearful of death.

I watched my father embrace death along with his pure belief that he was going to heaven. It was a relief to him to go to the promised land.

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

Deciding to get surgery involves many components.

First, it can be afforded is a crucial consideration.

At Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC), this question can be answered by the business office, which will make every effort to make sure it can be done in a financial manner that causes the least stress.

The cold is coming and again I will start to question why I live in a place that has high winds and bitter cold.

Then I look back, and although I sometimes forget it, I have actually been conditioned many times in my life to face the cold.

I have never enjoyed the cold, but fortunately, as a tyke, I did grow up in an area that got snow.

This opinion may offend a few sensibilities and immovable perspectives. So be it. If you, the reader, have a sensitive disposition or a die-hard attitude, it’s probably best if you skip this opinion. If you are of the more hardy personality (I expect that you are, being the resolute Wyoming individual we seem to prefer), read on and please comment, start or join a conversation. Let’s talk!

I was asked to come to the “No Kings Day” at Riverside on Saturday. As a reporter of things happening in Carbon County, I tried to make it.

Unfortunately, when I got there, only signs were present.

At the Comet, we try to keep a balanced coverage of politics when it is news. When press releases come from politicians in our State and County, we put them in. 

We owe it to our readers.

One recent evening, the Western sky presented a palette of turquoise and tangerine enhanced with scattered, puffy white clouds. The sight was a privilege worth a few minutes of high plains appreciation.

When I rose the next morning, I was greeted with a rising Eastern sun illuminating the West with a brilliant, full spectrum rainbow. It doesn’t get any better up here in “Get it done!” Carbon County.

The Carbon County Traveler

Mike Armstrong

A couple years back, my sister gave me a bumper sticker, “I may be old, but I saw all the best bands”.

I am not a bumper sticker guy, but I put this one on.

Just the other day, I had a guy come up to me at the gas station and say, “I agree with your bumper sticker.”

I laughed.

To: comet@letstalkrawlins.com

Date: 10/2/2025 7:01:02 PM

Subject: Let’s talk.

My first job was at Burger King where the employees needed to be able to be as flexible as necessary to do all the jobs in the establishment. To set the tone, I was in high school, it was before I had my driver’s license. My father said he would split the payments for my first car with me, so I started working as soon as it was legal for me to do so. Burger King was a corporate entity and although I made friends with my co-workers, I would not say we were a team.

Let's Talk

Henry Nicolle

I met a writer who works for newspapers in Colorado the other day. He was very complimentary of the Comet.

It is always good to hear, especially from someone who understands the effort that is put forth.

He asked me if I had always been in journalism, which had me sort of laugh inside.

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By Henry Nicolle

This opinion begins with an abbreviated question from a Comet reader I received during the Labor Day weekend. The reader commented and asked  the following:

“I am planning on moving to Laramie—in and around—partly because of the Carbon County Comet and the sense of community it suggests.”

To say my life is busy is really an understatement. I don’t get a lot of free time, which is alright for the most part.

I feel lucky I do work I enjoy, even if sometimes it gets a little too much and I have to tell myself, Enough is enough.

Let's Talk

Henry Nicolle

Institutional language is intended to establish order and enforce compliance.

Human language is primarily intended to accomplish effective communication and encourage voluntary cooperation.

Like almost every American who was old enough to remember back that September day in 2001, I remember too well where I was when I first heard about the attack. I was back in the United States after returning from Australia in 2000. I was working at the Saratoga Resort for the summer and returning to Taiwan in October.

I had left my townhouse in Saratoga and was renting it out while I lived in my home in Hanna.