Would 2016’s “New West” Even ‘Get” Ed Abbey’s Classic 1975 Novel? There’s a new “Monkey Wrench Gang” MOVIE rumor circulating on the internet. A web site called “New WorldOdor.com” reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is secretly producing the film version of…
CHARLIE STEEN’S youngest son ‘sets the record straight’ about the Life & Times of Moab’s Most Famous Prospector My father, Charlie Steen, has always maintained that the truth about his discovery of the Mi Vida mine and its consequences is…
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
…Last issue’s 14,000 word investigative report on the hiring of Moab City Manager Rebecca Davidson generated a record number of comments on our web site. Here is a compilation of most of them. To read these and other comments,…
Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18 The ancient pueblo ruins at the Lowry archeological site are about nine miles due west of Pleasant View, Colorado, and they go back to 1060 C.E. They lie on…
US 191 AT ARCHES NATIONAL PARK 1940s and Today Until the 1950s, when the road from Crescent Jct to Moab was finally paved, just covering those 30 miles could be an ordeal. In this image, taken in the late 1940s,…
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…
“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…