Richard Johnson

After visiting the Capital City this week on his cross country hitch hiking tour, actor Shia LaBeouf announced this morning that he will be moving to Cheyenne and running for mayor. "The people here were just so friendly and welcoming that I've decided to move here," LaBeouf told reporters this morning...

Richard Johnson is a Cheyenne City Councilman, representing Ward 3. He's also one of the most outspoken and outrageous political figures in the Capital City. When he's not wearing a Slayer t-shirt to council meetings, he's busy collecting signatures to legalize medical marijuana in Wyoming or posting scantily clad pictures of himself on Facebook...

Author Charles Dudley Warner once wrote that "politics makes strange bedfellows." Nowhere is that saying more true than right here in Wyoming. Richard Johnson is the City Councilman for Cheyenne's Ward 3. Not only is he the youngest elected official in Wyoming's Capital City, he might be the first politician to ever wear a Slayer t-shirt to a public meeting...

Hot on the heels of his controversial decision to relocate a carved wooden bear from the corner of Third Avenue and Warren to the Indian Village at Cheyenne Frontier Days, Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen has another bear in his sights. This morning, the Mayor announced his plans to remove a popular mascot from the Little Bear Inn...

This week, the Cheyenne City Council voted down a controversial proposal that would have allocated funding for new equipment designated to repair potholes. One City Councilman who voted in favor of the project is Richard Johnson, who represents Ward III...