Category: June/July 2017
Take it or Leave it: The New West’s Big Lie…by Jim Stiles
Back in 2008, the day after Obama’s landslide election, Moab progressive/ environmentalist Dave Erley sent out a mass celebratory email. In part he wrote: “The progressive, green, candidates won all three contested County Council seats and the progressives now have…
Sowing Clover: The Intolerable Intolerance of the Internet Leftist…by Tonya Audyn Morton
Do you ever wonder if Facebook is making you hate people? I don’t mean to suggest I hate my Facebook “friends.” I like those folks. I keep my friend list short, filled only with people I know and like, so…
Look Inside the Box on the Newsroom Wall: A Deeper Look at the Bears Ears Monument …By Bill Keshlear
More than a few years ago, in the 1970s, Sam Reynolds, an editorial writer at a newspaper in Missoula, Mont., had a birdcage-like box nailed to his office wall in the newsroom. He posted a sign on the door of…
Edward Abbey’s Compass…by John Waugh
In the Spring of 1964 I traveled into Arches National Monument with my family. We entered the park over the Willow Flats Road, seven or eight miles of rough, one lane, sand and dirt in the family station wagon and…
Coming Soon… Moab 5.0 : ‘You Ain’t Seen Nuttin’ Yet’…by Jim Stiles
MOAB, (4,042 alt., 883 pop.), seat of Grand County, is the commercial center of an extensive sheep and cattle country, and since 1930 has achieved importance as a point of departure for scenic attractions in southeastern Utah. Though isolated it…
Jim, Pringles, and Me…by Damon Falke
For Jim Stiles, of course This is not a paid endorsement. In fact, this is not a paid anything. And it may not be an endorsement. I am not certain when Jim Stiles and I became fellow-travelers, comrades in…
BYGONES & OBSOLETE STORIES: HOTEL NEWHOUSE …BY CLARK PHELPS
Jimi Hendrix, Grace Slick & The Jefferson Airplane were guests Judge Willis Ritter was a resident I was an interloper. The Hotel Newhouse was an elegant 12-story Salt Lake hotel built in 1912 on the southwest corner of 400…
Vlachos’ Views…Photos and Captions by Paul Vlachos
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… Let’s talk about film, the stuff we used to make photographs with,…
POINTBLANK: TRUMP v. HILLARY— THE SHADOW versus THE FACADE… by LOCH WADE
Whoever is president is a symptom, not the disease. If we were able to wave a magic wand and make Trump go away tomorrow, and replace him with Clinton, would it change anything? Would the United States stop interfering in…