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An energy boom of unprecedented proportions is
transforming western Colorado towns like Rifle, which just recently
recovered from the last big energy boom – and a catastrophic
bust.
by Francisco Tharp,
May 12, 2008
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Now that logging no longer provides enough money to
support Oregon’s libraries, Pepper Trail says it’s up
to citizens to decide to keep their state’s bookshelves
filled and accessible.
by Pepper Trail,
Apr 09, 2007
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Kathryn Socie works two jobs and still can’t afford
to buy a house in Missoula, but she believes that her life in
Montana is well worth the sacrifice it takes.
by Kathryn Socie,
Mar 26, 2007
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Willits, Calif., is one of a growing number of communities
trying to prepare for a post-oil world by becoming economically and
agriculturally sustainable.
by Tim Holt,
Feb 19, 2007
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Giles Slade’s new book, Made to Break: Technology
and Obsolescence in America, is a fascinating intellectual history
of how marketers demolished the American tradition of
thrift.
by Matt Jenkins,
Jan 22, 2007
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In All God’s Children: Inside the Dark and Violent
World of Street Families, Rene Denfeld tells the disturbing story
of Portland’s teen runaways, charting the path that took one
of them, Danielle Marie Cox, from honor student to convicted
murderer.
by Stephen J. Lyons,
Jul 16, 2008
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In Western Colorado, where the energy boom is stretching
the resources – and social fabric – of local
communities, some companies have turned to portable dormitories to
ease the housing crunch.
by David Frey,
Jul 16, 2008
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Homeless families aren’t found only in urban areas.
They’re also struggling to survive in the rural West, as
shown by the story of Barbara Trivitt and her two children, who
lived in a Jeep in Coos Bay, Oregon, this fall.
by Emma Brown,
Jul 16, 2008
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More than a dozen Asian-owned local businesses in Denver
are being driven out to make way for a taxpayer-subsidized Wal-Mart
Supercenter, in a destructive pattern seen across the
nation
by Stacy Mitchell,
Feb 02, 2004
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Vancouver, Wash., has a rapidly growing population, many
of them people who can't afford to live where they work, across the
river in Portland, Ore.
by Rebecca Clarren,
Nov 25, 2002
