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Just want to say how much it means to me that HCN covered Plymell’s death (“Did James Plymell Need to Die?” March 2021). The story was barely covered at the time, and that never felt right. Your coverage got the real story, which is about the intersection of an imperfect human life with the efforts […]

In response to “High and Dry” (March 2021), I agree, our water crisis in the West is terrifying.  However, to me, what’s truly terrifying, is that we’ve known this for decades. HCN does a wonderful job of reporting on the crisis, yet we never change. We continue to use far too much water, mainly because we are […]

Stories can make you feel sadness, frustration, exhilaration. Leah Sottile’s “Did James Plymell Need to Die?” made me angrier than I can remember feeling after reading any story. The graphic showing Plymell’s officer contacts reveals 47 incidents from 2012 to 2019. And the officers involved in the Taser attack claimed they did not know Plymell? […]

I have read Alex Trimble Young’s review of  Let Me Tell You What I Mean twice now  (“Finding meaning on Joan Didion’s frontier,” February 2021) and cannot find any relevance to the usual subject matter of High Country News, which in itself has diverged so much from the original news information of the West. Thanks […]

I write in appreciation of Jessica Kutz’s piece about the end of the Navajo Generating Station and the Navajo Nation’s struggle for control of its energy (“Life After Coal,” February 2021). I really enjoyed the calm, in-depth exploration of the whole story. It has strong resonances here in Australia, where Indigenous peoples have nothing like […]

Jane Hu’s article about the cowardly attack on her enraged me (“The long Western legacy of violence against Asian Americans,” hcn.org, 3/5/21). I was a teenager growing up in Southern California during World War II, but was unaware of the anti-Japanese American feelings, probably because my parents were able to separate our fellow citizens from […]

Thirteen years ago, I was fortunate enough to live and work with my spouse in a remote region of Nevada near the Ruby Mountains. I’m not sure I saw a single person besides my partner during the entire field season. I have yet to return to this spot and now, after reading your recent article […]