Mark Udall on the big stage.
Jonathan Thompson
Contributing Editor
Jonathan Thompson is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He owned and edited the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in the tiny town of Silverton, Colo., and was the editor-in-chief of High Country News from 2007 to 2010. After that he lived in Berlin, Germany, and then was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 2016, Jonathan was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalist's Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market.
email: jonathan at hcn.org
Led by vets against the war, a huge protest finally gets noticed at the DNC.
Sportsmen say their vote is up for grabs.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer makes an appearance at the big tent to see the bloggers.
Montana Governor gets prominent place on convention agenda
Yes. Even High Country News editors fall under the spell of celebrities from time to time.
Democrats' voices on energy drowned out by ... protesters.
HCN does the Convention on the cheap.
It's not all about parties and rallies.
There are nuggets of substance buried in the Convention circus. But is anyone listening?
When the convention comes to Denver, it feels a bit like another Western city.
The High Country News team has landed in Denver. Stay tuned for more under-the-radar coverage from the Democratic National Convention.
Tune in to HCN.org Aug. 25-28 for unconventional coverage from Denver
A desert village called Big Water and a troubled ski resort near the hardscrabble town of Beaver are two unlikely places in Utah where entrepreneurs plan to build exclusive resorts for the ultra-rich.
High Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.
Some moderate Western Republicans, tired of being penned up behind rigid ideological fences, are rebelling against the hard-line elements of their party.
Our policies are schizophrenic.
In most of the West’s complicated environmental
problems, so-called “unlikely alliances” between greens
and their opposite numbers are really not that unlikely after
all.
Garry and Diann Fulks have been recycling large metal
objects for 35 years at their scrap yard in Montrose,
Colo.
Westerners in towns like Durango, Colo., and Monticello,
Utah, have been exposed to mine tailings for years, unaware that
uranium might be even more dangerous than scientists used to
believe.
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