Sen. Alan Simpson was widely recognized for his affable demeanor and ability to engage across the aisle. His quick wit and personable nature endeared him to many constituents and colleagues alike.

I’m 84 and still doing things and never will retire until they throw me in the hole.” So said Alan Simpson to me in 2015, ...

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 ...

The pain and damage are piling up. Will Republicans next raid Social Security and Medicaid to pay for tax cuts?

Not just a factor of his 6-foot, 7-inch height, Alan K. Simpson was a giant in Wyoming political history. The former 18-year U.S. senator for Wyoming died in Cody early Friday, March 14, at the age of ...

In an official apology issued by the U.S. government decades later, the federal government admitted the reason for the camps ...

“It really is a company that became the country,” says Reynolds, the Hudson’s Bay executive, who is British and had to learn ...

Alan Simpson was a giant of a man and lawyer whose time in Wyoming's legislature ushered him into federal politics. Today he ...

The following column was originally published in the Laramie Boomerang on July 4, 2021. It is being reprinted today as former ...