• RETURN TO MOAB: 2020 AD: It was just after three in the afternoon when our Boeing 827 made its final approach to the new Moab National Airport, ten miles south of town on what used to be called Johnson's Up On Top.....

  • LET'S DRAIN LAKE POWELL: January 21, 2043. A cold winter wind whipped and buffeted the ten thousand visitors who had made their way from across America and the world to witness this historic event....

  • NEW WEST BLUES: In my never-ending quest to try to make some sense out of what is happening to us here in the rural West, I haven't "been to the mountain top," but I've been to the Sand Flats above town, and the view from there is discouraging....

  • PROGRESS VS. DEVELOPMENT: Last fall, a local realtor/developer told a writer for Salt Lake City Magazine that I "had a closed mind when it comes to progress....."

  • A TOURIST SURVIVAL GUIDE: A few years ago, I met a woman from New York at one of Moab's more popular greasy spoons. She looked fatigued, worn out...defeated. I asked her what was wrong and she replied, "You people around here really hate tourists don't you?...."

  • YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH A DOG: In the autumn of 1995, I made a gallant attempt to get arrested by the National Park Service during the showdown between President Clinton and the Conmgress which led to the big federal shutdown. I drove all over Arches National Park and could not find a ranger to place me in custody....

  • THE DEATH OF JOHN DINSMORE: On the evening of November 24, 1997, Moab resident John Dinsmore was shot and killed by Moab City Police Sgt. Mike Wiler. He and other officers responded to a 911 call by John's wife Holly...

 

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