*Note: This episode of Brave New West originally appeared in the December 1999 Zephyr, 19 years ago… CLICK HERE to READ PREVIOUS EPISODES of BRAVE NEW WEST (The Comic Strip)! Jim Stiles is Founder and Co-Publisher of the Canyon Country…
I have recently learned to remotely keep track of traffic flows at Arches National Park and the Moab area via web cameras at the park entrance and along US 191 as the tourists flow in and out. I’m a Luddite…
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A few weeks ago, I submitted a shorter version of an article we posted in The Zephyr called “The New West’s Big Lie” to the environmental newspaper, High Country News. Though “The Big Lie” was in direct response to a…
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…
As the Bears Ears debate heated up last summer, monument proponents revealed sentiments that went far beyond support for a presidential proclamation. Again and again, the argument included a near unanimous loathing for the Rural West, especially the many small…
From The Zephyr archives, in 2004 Irene Thill shared her memories of Moab of half a century ago and into the Uranium Boom. A year later, she ‘wrapped things up’ with this last installment. Irene died in 2008—I wonder what…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIM STILES ’SKETCHY ANDY’ SAYS HE’S ‘GUILTY’ AFTER ALL.. GETS SLAP ON WRIST &…IN DEFENSE OF ‘WELFARE BUMS’ & ‘LAZY LOAFERS’ SOWING CLOVER…TONYA STILES ‘The Blessings of Uncertainty’ THE GALLERY DEPUY! Our Favorite Southwest Artist &…