Le Templar has been a newspaper journalist for 16 years. Raised on the wide-open plains of southeastern Wyoming, he has covered everything from growing sugar beets in the Nebraska Panhandle to book-banning in Texas’ Red River Valley to George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas and Janet Napolitano during her first term as governor of Arizona. Since December 2005, he has been free to speak his mind as an opinion writer and a member of the editorial board for the East Valley and Scottsdale Tribune.