Western Wyo. is a good college

A few weeks back, a comment made by school board member Ann Rudoff stuck out for me.

During a vote to give the high school speech and debate team funding to help pay for their trip to nationals, Rudoff said she would vote against the proposal, saying a discussion needed to happen with the speech and debate team about Western Wyoming Community College, where Rudoff works.

“Western is not an ugly place and Western has a good speech and debate team,” she said.

While I wasn’t able to find out about what led to those comments -- Rudoff said the issue now involves people higher up and didn’t want to...