Who's the most reasonable Republican in the Interior West? The latest evidence is here and here.
Obama's Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, is this unique: He has "a Nobel Prize, a YouTube following (for his lectures on climate change) and an unofficial theme song (Dr. Wu by Steely Dan.)"
For a glance at the nuclear waste crisis, here's a map of the storage sites and a good summation.
And note: California has at least one wolverine.
Ray has been a Western journalist since 1979. He's now High Country News senior editor, based in Bozeman, Montana. He's earned national recognition including a George Polk Award for political reporting, a Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Award for investigating oil-field accidents, and an Investigative Reporters & Editors scroll for going undercover as a prison inmate. He's had three novels published.
High Country News welcomes new interns Danielle Venton and Neil LaRubbio; Marian Lyman Kirst is our new editorial fellow; and correction to captive wolves story.
In Salt Lake City and other Western communities, billboard companies battle local democracy by fighting attempts to regulate the giant signs.
Burning down billboards isn't a good idea, but can a citizen fight the corporate power behind the big signs?
It might be a radical pairing, but if Huntsman ran as Obama's vice president, he'd get this writer's vote.
Despite poor poll showings, the worldly Jon Huntsman Jr. is the most qualified candidate in the Republican primary, especially when it comes to environmental issues.
Human beings seem to have an insatiable desire to own or at least manipulate wild animals.
A Western tradition of citizen legislation may cause more problems than it solves.
In a country where cigarettes and alcohol kill so many people every year, the argument against medical marijuana is pure hypocrisy.
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