http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/how-arizonas-culture-helped-shape-the-shooting-of-gabrielle-giffords 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. No publisher Tom Zoellner development sprawl Arizona politics state budget cuts Arizona culture mental illness Tucson Safeway shooting Jared Lee Loughner Tucson suburbs political violence Gabrielle Giffords guns Jan Brewer 2012-02-27T15:16:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/pity-the-sacketts-not-much An Idaho couple are getting a lot of sympathy because the EPA has halted construction of their planned home on a wetland, but if the agency would be more open with the facts, it would come out looking better. No publisher Judith Lewis Mernit wetlands protection development U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency Kaniksu National Forest Idaho wetlands Obama environmental policy Supreme Court cases Mike and Chantell Sackett EPA 2012-01-31T17:35:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-adolescent-west Logan, Utah, needs to get over its adolescent angst and decide what it wants to be when it grows up. No publisher Dennis Hinkamp Logan, Utah sprawl growth and planning development Small towns 2011-06-27T22:10:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/green-new-urbanist-development-rises-in-albuquerque-suburbs An ambitious green development is in the works on Mesa del Sol just outside of Albuquerque, N.M. No publisher Stan Alcorn development sprawl New Urbanism Mesa del Sol Peter Calthorpe planning Albuquerque Aquifer 2011-04-12T21:37:20Z Infographic http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-problem-of-western-water-is-not-what-you-think Water conservation in the West is ultimately just a waste of time. No publisher William deBuys Western water supply development climate change water conservation population growth drought 2010-09-21T20:16:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.22/the-big-bonfire The economy is stuck in a ditch, but on climate change the U.S. is finally moving in the right direction. No publisher Randy Udall Copenhagen climate change summit development economic crisis Hot Times global warming carbon emissions U.S. energy policy 2011-10-10T18:56:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.22/little-orphan-easement When a land trust dissolves, its conservation easements need to be taken on by another group, but that’s not as easy as it sounds. No publisher Sarah Gilman development conservation easements Animas Conservancy Paul Sugnet Colorado real estate La Plata Open Space Conservancy 2010-02-05T08:43:34Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.18/death-by-a-thousand-wells Unregulated domestic wells are straining water supplies in Washington’s Yakima Valley and throughout the West. No publisher Cally Carswell Kittitas County development permit exempt wells water supply Yakima River Basin domestic wells 2010-02-05T09:04:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.14/a-slow-moving-disaster As bark beetles ravage Rocky Mountain forests, communities like Granby, Colo., have to adjust to a radically different landscape. No publisher Hillary Rosner development lodgepole pines bark beetles Forest Service logging 2010-06-15T23:06:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.7/the-growth-machine-is-broken Phoenix land-use planners want to use a chunk of state trust land as a laboratory for future, more sustainable real estate development. No publisher John Dougherty development sprawl Grady Gammage Phoenix Sonoran Institute Superstition Vistas land-use planning economic crisis 2010-02-05T08:58:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.7/surprise Surprise, Ariz., exemplifies the Arizona real estate collapse along with what many see as the rise and fall of the car-dependent Western exurb. No publisher Rob Inglis and Jonathan Thompson development sprawl economic crisis Phoenix land-use planning exurbs 2010-02-05T08:32:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.6/last-rites-and-forgotten-landscapes The 12 young women whose bones were found on Albuquerque’s West Mesa led lives as unvalued as the sagebrush landscape that held their murdered bodies. No publisher Laura Paskus murder victims development Albuquerque West Mesa crime victims prostitutes 2010-02-05T09:04:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.13/home-is-where-the-guilt-is In Santa Fe, N.M., April Reese wrestles with the question of whether owning a new house is worth being responsible for the bulldozing of pinon and juniper trees. No publisher April Reese development home Santa Fe construction real estate 2010-02-05T09:31:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17386 Lincoln Bramwell looks back on years of firefighting and concludes that it’s just not a good idea for people to keep building houses in forests. No publisher Lincoln Bramwell Lincoln Bramwell forest fires development urban interface firefighters 2010-02-05T09:45:14Z News Article 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