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I am an outfitter and have lived in Grand County for 18 years. My company, Western Spirit Cycling runs multi-day bicycle trips on the public lands throughout the county, and is headquartered in Moab. I have served as the President of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) and am now working with Public Land Solutions, a non-profit that works with government, businesses and other public land stakeholders on issues that affect gateway communities.

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Not everyone shares in the new abundance. On the west and south of the city (where the poor always seem to find themselves) live the original inhabitants of this City Different, the native Mexican-Americans, that mestizo mixture of Indian and Spanish who never quite succeed in adapting, who never quite catch up. They brood among their flat-roof slums and junked automobiles, surviving on part-time employment and full-time welfare, breeding too many babies, training too many criminals, dreaming too many bitter dreams.

Indifference on the white people’s side, envy and hate on the other. Someday soon the lovely old town of Holy Faith will explode in class warfare, a warfare made even uglier by cultural incompatibility and the racial divide.

Polite people do not talk about such matters. Strolling about the icy streets last November, I too preferred to think of sweeter things. The volcano will erupt soon enough; why spoil the present? Enjoy, enjoy, they cried in Pompeii, unto and into the Latter Days.

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Jim’s fortitude in handling this situation made a deep impression on me. Sixty years old at the time, I was all too familiar with the way otherwise decent, competent professionals habitually turn a blind eye to hypocrisy and injustice when confronting it would mean taking on a truly powerful individual or organization. Once I told a psychiatrist whom I had greatly respected that the practice of pharmaceutical companies buying behavioral health professionals lunches in order to hawk more of their pills was bribery. His response? “Now Scott, you don’t want to be known as a trouble maker.” That’s what I mean.

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