Last week, I sent out a text to my closest friends: “Warning: For the next 24 hours, you will not be able to contact me. I’m reading ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’” Before reading it, I was puzzled as to why this book had become such a...

My name is Emily Bennett and I am in my second senior year finishing my double major of political science and communications. My name might sound familiar because I was an ASUW senator for the college of Arts and Sciences. I ran for senate because I...

While parts of Wyoming and Colorado have been going through some of the hardest times lately, the wildfires that are topping local headlines have had another effect. While July 4 is a date which easily brings people closer, the tight knit community effort to combat fires...

Situated right off of Reynolds and 15th Street, Laramie High School has been used for everything except school since the wildfires started. Numerous lines of tents across the grass amount to somewhere around a few hundred temporary homes for the firefighters coming from places like Colorado,...

To learn more about Levi's project, check out his links.     http://freedomisalongroad.blogspot.ca/     http://www.stayclassy.org/fundraise?fcid=194764     https://twitter.com/#!/LAmmundsen  

Levi Ammundsen, is on a biking trip across the continent raising awareness for LiNK.   This week he has begun passage through Wyoming. Freedom is a Long Road   Blogspot  (why he is

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Forward Leonard Washington gets a talking to from an official during the Cowboy's 72–62 win over the visiting New Mexico Lobos Saturday January 14th. The Branding Iron selected a few photos from the semester that didn't make it into the previous issues but still summarized a...

The Associated Students of the University of Wyoming conducted its last meeting this week, wherein the newly elected senators tied up loose ends for the year. Senators approved job descriptions for the ASUW executive positions, including chief of staff, director of government affairs, director of finance,...

Sometimes, life leaves us with difficult questions that go unanswered. Almost a year ago, on May 6, 2011, the University of Wyoming, the UW athletic department, and the UW swimming and diving team experienced one of life’s most unfair questions. David Schmitt, then senior swimmer for...

A well-known name in Laramie, Patti Fiasco formed at the last minute in 2008 after being told that an opening band was needed for a show. Founding members Dee Tyler, guitarist and vocals, and Alysia Kraft, singer and guitarist, had already played a few acoustic shows...

The Laramie Police Department arrested a local man on Saturday at 2:00 a.m., after dispatch was notified of a “large fight” in the 100 block of Ivinson involving 10 people, according to a statement from LPD Commander Mitchell Cushman. After officers were able to sort out...

Jack White has problems, specifically, girl problems. He is just a bit more eloquent than, say, Jay-Z’s “99 Problems.” And, if White’s “divorce party” from Karen Elson was a cover-up for his true feelings, then his new album, “Blunderbuss,” is his admission of problems. White released his first...