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That frankly sounds like an excuse... by Doc: To not give a crap about any of the choices we hav...
Hansen by Katherine: Go Hansen Go! Activism is not for the feign of hea...
scholls by James L Bohlander: Jen- Good to see that you are writing again. We o...
I cannot improve upon the words of Abraham Lincoln by marty weiss: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching tha...
The Earth will take care of itself by Chris Carrier: All this discussion is really just a lot of mental...

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: The myth trafficker Keoki Skinner deals lemonade and information from his yellow fruit-stand van in the border communities of Douglas, Ariz., and Agua Prieta, Mexico; Sleepers Several magazines and newspapers provide good independent commentary on water in the West, but there is always room for more; The wet Net John Orr created his "Coyote Gulch" blog to follow Denver-area politics and Colorado water issues; Waterblogged Rick Spilsbury, a Western Shoshone Indian, writes bitingly and sometimes hilariously about Nevada’s water issues on his "noshootfoot" blog; Online: No more talking heads Jennifer Napier-Pearce uses her own money to produce a Salt Lake City-based podcast called Inside Utah

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