Rock Springs, Wyoming, has a largely unrecognized history of racial violence.
Items by Paul Krza
Collective politics thrived more than a century ago in a frontier town.
Christo's controversial project -- a canopy over Colorado's Arkansas River --
may not be harmful, but that doesn't mean it's great art.
Paul Krza not only shares a birthday with the bomb; he has spent his life involved with radiation.
Paul Krza says Socorro, N.M., is being stressed to its
limits by the constant booms and bangs of nearby
bomb-testing.
Boosters of a Western primary hope it could give the
Interior West a greater voice in the politics of Washington,
D.C.
Invoking NAFTA, a group of Texas farmers and irrigation
districts sues Mexico over the Rio Grande’s water
Two Democratic governors – Dave Freudenthal of
Wyoming and Bill Richardson of New Mexico – find themselves
caught between the money that comes from the energy industry and
the environmental impacts of oil and gas development
New Mexico’s Harlan McKosato sees his radio show,
Native America Calling, as an "electronic talking circle" that
helps build bridges between cultures
The state of New Mexico is beginning an aerial herbicide
assault on the exotic shrub saltcedar, or tamarisk, but some fear
spraying Arsenal along the Rio Grande could harm native
cottonwoods
A timeline traces the history of the pueblos of New
Mexico
Fueled by money from casino gambling, New Mexico’s
Indian pueblos and reservations are throwing their political weight
into the state’s water tug-of-war
Wyoming’s new governor, Democrat Dave Freudenthal,
may have a chance to turn the stagnant state around economically
and environmentally, by reducing its dependence on energy and
mineral industries.
Dick Cheney once lived in the boom-and-bust community of
Rock Springs, Wyo., but didn’t learn there the lessons that
he might have learned to help him deal with unintended consequences
in a war against Iraq.
The city of Albuquerque, N.M., is fighting a judge's order
that says city water must be released from reservoirs into the Rio
Grande to save the endangered silvery minnow.
In New Mexico, environmentalists are aghast at a new law,
approved by legislators of both parties, that gives counties
'police power' to cut trees in national forests threatened by
fire.
Retired Democratic congressman Teno Roncalio says the
Democratic party needs to redefine itself in Wyoming if it's going
to regain any of its historic influence in the state.
Wyoming's brand of insider politics is keeping the state
in thrall to extractive industries and out of step with the rest of
the West.
The coal mining town of Wright, Wyo., braces for another
boom.
A timeline demonstrates the ebb and flow of Wyoming's
promotional schemes and dreams for development.
The state of Wyoming remains stuck in the Old West and
trapped by its myths and boom-and-bust cycles, while outside its
boundaries the New West comes to life.
Wyoming Go. James Geringer takes over the state's Resource
Advisory Council after he disagreed with Interior Secretary Bruce
Babbitt over the appointment of a member too closely tied to the
livestock industry.
In the high arid plains of southwest Wyoming, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has built Rube Goldberg irrigation systems that keep farmers on the edge of poverty and load up the rivers with salt.
Exxon's construction of one of the largest natural gas processing plants in North America has arrived in southwest Wyoming, bringing with it a mixture of wealth and dismay.
The existence of Rock Springs, Wyo., is dependent upon economic waves, tied largely to the presence (or in the case of busts, the absence) of large corporations.
Exxon has announced plans to double the size of its giant Shute Creek gas processing plant already under construction, possibly needing a workforce of 5,000 people.
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