‘SUMMER CAMP’ 1944-1952 HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High…
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles * Some Personal Thoughts on the Moab City Hall Story, & Local Journalism in General. * Wind Subsidies & Conflicted Core Values, left and Right SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Sorry, Smokers. The Death Panels…
I’ve been doing The Zephyr for 27 years now and one of the problems with running a small independent publication like this is that, as publisher, I’m required to wear many hats, even when I don’t want to. It’s not…
Sorry, Smokers. The Death Panels Were Real I’m the sort of person who volunteers to fill out forms. It’s a bizarre personality trait, but one of the few things I can offer to the people I like. So, when a…
“THANKS OBAMA?” For more than a decade, I’ve grown increasingly disillusioned with the lack of honesty in politics and have observed a vast chasm between the professed ideologies of BOTH liberals and conservatives and the Reality of their actions. If…
NOTE: In preparing this article about Moab’s city manager Rebecca Davidson, the Moab City Council’s actions re: Ms. Davidson and the subsequent “restructuring” of Moab government, The Zephyr sought information from a variety of sources. We filed Freedom of Information…
As work nears completion at the Latigo Wind Farm in Monticello, Utah, here are some of images, taken in December. One thing is certain, the 27 wind turbines have dramatically altered the landscape and viewscape of southeast Utah and southwest…
As a geologist and resident of San Juan County I have been following the construction of the Latigo Wind Farm as it has been reported in the San Juan Record weekly newspaper and in the October-November, 2015 edition of the…
Let me get the worst part of this story out of the way right now – my dog died on October 4, last year. It was the day of the Feast of Saint Francis, patron saint of animals. I’m not…