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I cannot improve upon the words of Abraham Lincoln by marty weiss: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching tha...
A Respected Authority, on prohibition by marty weiss: Here are two quotes from none other than Honest Ab...
The Earth will take care of itself by Chris Carrier: All this discussion is really just a lot of mental...
PLATE TECTONICS by MRS JANET CLUTTON: THE PLATE TECTONICS HAVE RIPPLES IN THEM WHICH PRO...
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Charles Bowden on The War Next Door | On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile ...
It's the population, stupid? | Some Westerners want to blame our environmental wo...
The trouble with monuments | An internally conflicted rant on Obama's "secret l...
Good night, sweet trees | A scientist sees a Shakespearean tragedy unfold in...
No ESA for sage grouse | Feds say iconic bird needs protection, but won't g...

Charles Bowden on The War Next Door | On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile ...
Thank you, Utah, for leading the way | Utah's Legislature has brilliant plans to cut educ...
Skeletons in the closet | When the media reported that Everett Ruess' bones ...
Water fallout | A nuclear power plant proposed for Green River, Ut...
Down the wormhole | An obscure cave near Steamboat Springs, Colo., con...

Related: Quartzsite or Bust A colorful look at life in Quartzsite, which becomes an RV mecca every winter.; Untold tales of the American frontier The second edition of John Ravage's book, Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier, illuminates the roles blacks played in settling the West.; Failed State Photojournalist Julian Cardona on living and working in Mexico's war zone.; Olympic Sasquatch After Vancouver, now what? Expectations from First Nations.; Power (and financial) struggle Wide-ranging talk at HCN's "Power Struggle" discussion in Tucson; HCN board meeting raises financial issues; clarification, corrections.

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