NOTE: I first wrote this in the mid-1990s, when I thought there was a chance our little town of Moab might avoid–or at least try to avoid—the kind of fate that it has eventually been consumed by. It was also…
“There are two different types of change: one that occurs within a given system which itself remains unchanged, and one whose occurrence changes the system itself.” – Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch, from their book Change. For years now Jim Stiles…
Last year, I became aware of a new (at least to me) environmental/progressive activist in Moab named Darcey Brown. She’s become a voice for “New Moab” and has been a frequent contributor to the Letters section of the Moab weekly,…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ON THE FACTS, DARCEY BROWN & MOAB ‘THEN & NOW’ SOWING CLOVER By Tonya Stiles “SORRY. THE COMPUTER SAYS ‘NO.’” BEFORE & AFTER…Moab, Utah…then and now Dewey Bridge: 1982 & 2008 MOAB GROUND ZERO:…
I’ve been a devoted reader of the ‘Letters to the Editor’ page in the weekly Moab Times-Independent for almost 40 years. Some of my fondest Moab memories are sitting in publisher Sam Taylor’s office on countless occasions, discussing the issues…
RE: David Bonderman…Facts or ‘Fluff?’ You Decide… About 15 years ago, I became aware that some of the world’s wealthiest bankers, financiers, and industrialists were throwing huge amounts of money at this country’s mainstream environmental organizations. The ‘contributions’ trickled all…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Welcome Kara Dohrenwend’ “IT’S THE SCIENCE, STUPID!” But for Conservatives and Progressives Alike, the ‘Science’ has to FIT. SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Watching SOUTH DAKOTA GROW… A Century After Wild Bill, the Boom &Bust Continues…
I was a resident of Moab, Utah for more than 30 years. I had every intention of spending the rest of my life there, but over a period of three decades, Grand County changed so dramatically that I felt like…
Climate change ‘deniers’ are a never-ending source of frustration and dismay to those who believe that global warming is real and already having an adverse effect. To them, the time for debating its existence is over and the conclusion inescapable—human-caused…
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…