High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 5. Picture a town that celebrates its old businesses http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16913 Linda Hasselstrom muses sadly over the closing of a 118-year-old drugstore in downtown Cheyenne, Wyo. No publisher Linda Hasselstrom Communities in transition Roedel Drugstore Cheyenne Wyoming neighborhood businesses ma-and-pa stores shops big box stores Wal-Mart pharmacies communities Cheyenne Frontier Days sustainable economies socio-economics small towns growth development corner drug stores 2010-02-05T09:42:58Z News Article You ain’t from around here, are you? http://www.hcn.org/issues/344/16955 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. No publisher Brian Kevin wilderness Moab Communities in transition growth Country Zephyr sprawl Utah tourists development mountain bikes Jim Stiles demographics small towns degradation New West newspaper publishers land use and planning changing communities population rural West Canyon Brave New West Ed Abbey 2010-08-06T22:43:07Z News Article Phoenix Falling? http://www.hcn.org/issues/344/16939 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. No publisher Craig Childs Hohokam River Project Salt River Communities in transition growth Goodyear Chandler Dams and water supply Arizona Craig Childs Phoenix Ruins Southwestern cities Water pre-Columbian Indians Communities Mesa water supply systems development sprawl canals Salt projects Tempe Neolithic civilization desert civilizations 2010-08-06T22:17:59Z News Article When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate http://www.hcn.org/issues/346/17002 Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe drought can get Westerners to work together on water issues No publisher Paul Larmer Lake water supply Communities in transition growth Powell city Colorado River Compact Paonia Water conflict development small towns communities drought Lake Mead governments Colorado George subdivisions Las Vegas Nevada Colorado River Commission of Nevada 2010-08-06T20:17:00Z News Article Thomas McGuane’s lonely freaks http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16922 The powerful short stories in Thomas McGuane’s Gallatin Canyon prove him to be the New West’s answer to Flannery O’Connor. No publisher Annie Dawid anthologies friendship suicide recovery Cuba difficult lives West loneliness fiction Communities in transition Ernest Hemingway alcoholics Thomas McGuane New book reviews Flannery O’Connor Key West short stories redemption 2011-09-01T19:41:51Z News Article