I’ll sing about an emptiness the East has never known, Where coyotes don’t pay taxes and a man can live alone… And you’ve gotta walk forever, just to find a telephone. It’s sad, but the tellin’ takes me home. -Utah…
A New Regular Feature, Updates from the Great Southwestern Artist: “His work is unique and strongly individualistic, though, at once indigenous to this land. For he has probed, with his cutting mind, beneath the deserts and mountains, into the…
“An honest read of climate science doesn’t provide answers that society wants to hear.” – Doug Meyer A danger we may face with the new red-state led Congress is that over time we’ll become so tired of their banality and…
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Until the day my father died, he and I agreed on practically nothing. Once, almost two decades ago, on a visit home, he and I crossed swords on the issue of welfare. While I’ve never quite been the bleeding-heart liberal…
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Green Chev : A local’s classic. Not as many local “daily driver” classics in Moab as there once were. Atomic Motel : Stayed here a couple of times. Yes it was funky, and by funky I mean moldy.…