If you learned something new or were moved by what you read here, help us do more of this work with your donation. We’re only able to bring this news and analysis to millions of people across the country because of readers like you. Reader contributions make up 75% of our revenue and are key to the future of healthy independent media.
A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West.
The McClure-Andrus package is obviously superior, statewide, to McClure’s 1984 proposal. But the transformation of public perceptions that we require has not occurred. Now the exigencies of substantially improving or fighting this legislation will dominate our time. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.2/download-entire-issue
Spread the word. News organizations can pick-up quality news, essays and feature stories for free.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
by Pat Ford, High Country News
February 2, 1988