High Country News - Current Issue
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Film: Lens of compassion
Peter Richardson created an independent film called Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon, to illuminate a culture clash that was tearing his hometown apart
by Fitz Cahall, Oct 02, 2006 -
Zine Roundup: Gone fishing
A 38-year-old female deckhand who calls herself Moe Bowstern created the zine called Xtra Tuf to explore the turbulent culture of the fishing industry
by Rebecca Clarren, Oct 02, 2006 -
Zine Roundup: Sweet simplicity
Since 1992, Dan Price has been publishing a hand-drawn, illustrated zine called Moonlight Chronicles from his tiny, hobbit-style home in a meadow in Joseph, Ore.
by Rebecca Clarren, Oct 02, 2006 -
Undaunted muckraker
Navajo Times reporter Marley Shebala is a fiercely determined journalist whose investigative reporting has helped bring down two tribal presidents
by Dan Kraker, Oct 02, 2006 -
News from the gas fields
Roughneck is a two-year-old monthly devoted to covering the oil and gas industry in Sublette County, Wyoming
by Ray Ring, Oct 02, 2006 -
A paper with bite
The Taos Horse Fly, with its biting journalism, does its best to live up to its name
by M. John Fayhee, Oct 02, 2006 -
Stirring the pot
The North Coast Journal has been published in Arcata, Calif., for almost 18 years by Judy Hodgson, a journalist who believes in stirring the pot
by M. John Fayhee, Oct 02, 2006 -
'They both do not exist'
Quote by Wyoming Attorney General Patrick Crank
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
Give us your poor, your uninsured...
Many Westerners live in poverty, but even more lack health insurance
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
The longevity of place and race
Life expectancy in the West
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
Free will flounders in the courts
Judges throw out some libertarian ballot measures
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
Take that nuke waste and shove it
Skull Valley Goshute Tribe’s nuclear-waste storage plan rejected
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
Half a Roan for gas, and half for everyone else
Nobody’s happy with BLM’s Roan Plateau plan
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
It's shady in the Interior
Interior Department blasted by its own watchdog
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
Roadless returns!
Judge reinstates Clinton roadless rule
by Staff, Oct 02, 2006 -
Dottie Fox, one of the greatest old broads
Dottie Fox, a tireless wilderness advocate and co-founder of the group Great Old Broads for Wilderness, dies after a long fight with cancer
by Betsy Marston, Oct 02, 2006 -
Homegrown news: Money can't buy it
In an introduction to this special issue celebrating independent media, High Country News associate editor Jonathan Thompson recalls the exciting, exhausting, high-caffeine years he spent publishing his own newspaper in a small mountain town
by Jonathan Thompson, Oct 02, 2006 -
From the ground up
The Crested Butte News, a successful independent newspaper in a small Rocky Mountain town, has come full circle and is once again owned by a chain
by M. John Fayhee, Oct 02, 2006 -
Heard around the West
Pretending to be an illegal immigrant; Olympia’s gangsta raccoons; advice on selling Bibles door-to-door; peculiar – and pricey – ads in Colorado; Snakes on the Ground are scaring folks in Arizona.
by Betsy Marston, Sep 18, 2006 -
The memory of mountains
The author remembers a long-ago hike up Pikes Pike with her mother, who later died having no memory of that hike, or of her daughter.
by Diane Sylvain, Sep 18, 2006
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