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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…JIM STILES ’SKETCHY ANDY’ SAYS HE’S ‘GUILTY’ AFTER ALL.. GETS SLAP ON WRIST &…IN DEFENSE OF ‘WELFARE BUMS’ & ‘LAZY LOAFERS’ SOWING CLOVER…TONYA STILES ‘The Blessings of Uncertainty’ THE GALLERY DEPUY! Our Favorite Southwest Artist &…
For the last couple of years, The Zephyr has been following, with a sense of bewilderment and amusement, the life and times of extreme sports entertainer, Andy “Sketchy Andy” Lewis. Most recently, we’ve been keeping an eye on his…
Until the day my father died, he and I agreed on practically nothing. Once, almost two decades ago, on a visit home, he and I crossed swords on the issue of welfare. While I’ve never quite been the bleeding-heart liberal…
NOTE: Some of the information in this story can be found in my book ‘Brave New West’ and in previous Zephyr articles, dating back to 1998…JS On the evening of October 31, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced a standing-room…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Rangers Should Range–but Fear & Adrenalin Can Make Them Kill’ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Point Blank:‘Was’ with apologies to Mister Faulkner Damon Falke “Lonely are the Brave”…revisited Based on Edward Abbey’s book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ we…
PREFACE: The events in Ferguson, Missouri remind me of a moment in my own brief career in law enforcement, as a ranger with the National Park Service at Arches NP. I wrote this account in 2005, years after the confrontation…
NOTE: This is a story about the film ‘Lonely are the Brave,’ based on the book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ by Edward Abbey and my efforts to find, in 2014, the original film locations from the 1961 production. In searching for those…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles Getting the Facts Right, Part 1…RE: MOAB’S RECENT POLITICAL PAST SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles How to Be a Witness DAN O’CONNOR’S ‘TWISTED TABLOIDS’ ‘Billionaire Bonderman Takes Vow of Poverty!’ The Zephyr Chronicles part 4—Jim Stiles…
“For many, this is deja-vu. Grand County has been through this before. And, we know how to deal with it.” —Chris Baird, candidate for Grand County Council (explaining his recall petition to remove Lynn Jackson from office.) Sometimes I…