High Country News

Light rail moves inland from the 'Left Coast'

Light rail has become unexpectedly popular in deeply conservative Salt Lake City, Utah

by Allen Best, Nov 14, 2005
Why the Republicans failed Nov. 4

A couple of years ago, there was talk of a permanent GOP majority. But now the party is facing a serious decline in power.

by John Baden, Nov 05, 2008
We’re in a land of Lincoln

For better and for worse, the West of today was created by Abraham Lincoln and the early Republican Party.

by Ed Quillen, Mar 03, 2008
Democrats rise again in the Rockies

Rob Saldin looks at the reasons why the Democrats finally succeeded in breaking the Republican chokehold on the West.

by Rob Saldin, Nov 11, 2008
An Obama-Huntsman ticket would get my vote

It might be a radical pairing, but if Huntsman ran as Obama's vice president, he'd get this writer's vote.

by Ray Ring, Jan 19, 2012
It's time for a ceasefire on guns

Hal Herring believes that Democrats should give up on gun control, not just for the sake of politics but because it’s the right thing to do.

by Hal Herring, Dec 05, 2008
A fractured party

The Grand Old Party will either find a new life – or court self-destruction – in the West today, where moderates and hard-liners are battling over conservation issues.

by Ray Ring, Jul 21, 2008
Republicans face an uncertain battle for governor

Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's decision to run for governor of Colorado may throw a spanner into Republican plans to re-take the West.

by Allen Best, Mar 02, 2010
Lynch-mob politics

It's not the Old West -- it's our guide to this year's Western elections.

by Jonathan Thompson, Oct 19, 2010
Utah’s favorite sons battle for governor

In Utah, Democrat Scott Matheson Jr. is duking it out with Republican Jon Huntsman Jr. for the governor’s seat

by Joshua Zaffos, Sep 27, 2004