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May 1, 2020
In this issue, a Los Angeles native recounts her lifelong commitment to a city now under lockdown, celebrating its defiance, vastness and paradoxes. We show how Arizona’s public health workers are adapting to COVID-19’s challenges in order to serve underserved communities, and we visit the Borderlands, where President Trump is building the border wall over local objections. In Washington, we explore the fascinating Pumice Plain in Mount St. Helen’s National Volcanic Monument, where important scientific research may be threatened. Elsewhere, we review a book about Lissa Yellow Bird’s search for the missing in Indian Country, and we talk to Antonio R. Flores, president of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, about the challenges facing these institutions. Finally, in a lighter vein, we share tips on social distancing from some of the West’s most experienced social distancers — a useful reminder that we humans have a lot to learn from our fellow creatures.
Feature
Reportage
Get lit, howl and mind your paws.
Anger and despair rise as new projects are announced in the Southwest.
The FBI has been investigating the owner of a now-closed Colorado funeral home since 2017.
Forty years after the mountain’s eruption, officials struggle to balance research and risk.
As COVID-19 closes in, a rural doctor awaits the inevitable.
In the West, nearly 100,000 people over 65 years old live in counties without a hospital bed.
Editor's Note
As the pandemic grinds on, we in the media must continue to bear witness.
What Works
Outreach to immigrant communities moves to Facebook and phones, as roving mobile health programs deliver food and medicine.
Facts & Figures
COVID-19 reverberates across the energy world.
Essays
Sheltering responsibly doesn’t mean you have to stay inside.
Conversation
‘Government support is going to be vital.’
Photo Essay
COVID-19 upends a Wyoming resort town.
West Obsessed
A failure of imagination has stymied our outbreak response, but that’s just the beginning.
Review
Journalist Sierra Crane Murdoch documents Lissa Yellow Bird’s search for the missing.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
Supporting each other helps us all do our best.
Be safe, dear friends.
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