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Outside Delta, Colo sits yet another rural subdivision that was never completed -- a sign of the West's housing bust and of the difficulty of regulating rural growth.
by Paul Larmer,
Mar 05, 2012
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If you want to understand why Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 18 others at a Tucson Safeway in 2011, look to Arizona’s soulless culture and vitriolic politics.
by Tom Zoellner,
Feb 27, 2012
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Logan, Utah, needs to get over its adolescent angst and decide what it wants
to be when it grows up.
by Dennis Hinkamp,
Jul 01, 2011
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An ambitious green development is in the works on Mesa del Sol just outside of Albuquerque, N.M.
by Stan Alcorn,
Apr 18, 2011
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Phoenix land-use planners want to use a chunk of state trust land as a laboratory for future, more sustainable real estate development.
by John Dougherty ,
Apr 27, 2009
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Surprise, Ariz., exemplifies the Arizona real estate collapse along with what many see as the rise and fall of the car-dependent Western exurb.
by Rob Inglis and Jonathan Thompson ,
Apr 24, 2009
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Jeremias Pink fixes up bikes and gives them away because
he loves his town, Pocatello, Idaho
by Andy Lilley,
Jun 25, 2007
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Western real estate slump hits suburbs, but developers
keep on developing; Marijuana McMansions; copper booming; Logan,
Utah, rejects dirty power; Tri-State puts off two coal power
plants; animals killed by Wildlife Services
by Jonathan Thompson,
Apr 30, 2007
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In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers little in the way of useful alternatives.
by Brian Kevin,
Apr 16, 2007
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Craig Childs lifts the rug of modern-day Phoenix, Ariz.,
to examine the remnants of the civilization that preceded it
– the Hohokam people, who also built a great city in the
middle of the desert, and flourished until the day they ran out of
water.
by Craig Childs,
Apr 16, 2007
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