TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles * Some Personal Thoughts on the Moab City Hall Story, & Local Journalism in General. * Wind Subsidies & Conflicted Core Values, left and Right SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Sorry, Smokers. The Death Panels…
Sorry, Smokers. The Death Panels Were Real I’m the sort of person who volunteers to fill out forms. It’s a bizarre personality trait, but one of the few things I can offer to the people I like. So, when a…
In this Issue… TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Itching…A personal History SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘LOSING OUR RELIGION’ (soon-to-be) BEFORE & AFTER Moab, Utah…then and now COMING TO DOWNTOWN MOAB IN 2016 THE HILTON ‘HOMEWOOD SUITES’ MOAB GROUND ZERO…FACTS &…
There’s no use in sugar-coating it: I can’t go to church services anymore. When an acquaintance died a couple years ago—a warm, funny and open-minded man—I thought we were right to go to his funeral. I was raised Catholic, after…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles The ‘Negro Bill’ Debate—What Isn’t Racism, and what IS (Flashbacks #1) Progress v development SOWING Clover…Tonya Stiles The End of Work BEFORE & AFTER—Moab, Utah…then and now The Meador House on Main Street GROUND…
Consider, for a moment, the horse. Your average horse is still a romantic figure, evoking a rich historical relationship of labor, war, and transport. Horses made the journey across the Oregon Trail. Horses marched into battle, and lay among the…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ON THE FACTS, DARCEY BROWN & MOAB ‘THEN & NOW’ SOWING CLOVER By Tonya Stiles “SORRY. THE COMPUTER SAYS ‘NO.’” BEFORE & AFTER…Moab, Utah…then and now Dewey Bridge: 1982 & 2008 MOAB GROUND ZERO:…
I’ve always liked to think that I have pretty decent luck. But it turns out that everyone has good luck until, suddenly, they don’t. On April 17th, I was on a camping trip with my husband, Jim, when I received…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Welcome Kara Dohrenwend’ “IT’S THE SCIENCE, STUPID!” But for Conservatives and Progressives Alike, the ‘Science’ has to FIT. SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Watching SOUTH DAKOTA GROW… A Century After Wild Bill, the Boom &Bust Continues…
I know the drive back home intimately. Coming from any direction, the Black Hills are a forested island, rising out of the dust-sea of plains. The hills are old and carry all the legends of old age. Harney Peak, where…