TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE DAVIDSON/SMELT/TAYO INC LAW SUIT ‘SERIOUSLY. IT’S TIME FOR ‘NONE OF THE ABOVE’” SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles THE LAST AMERICAN SLAVES ‘BEFORE & AFTER’…1940 & 2016 The Junction of US 191…
On September 20, I was surprised to learn, via an email from the Moab Times-Independent, that I was one of five defendants in a civil suit filed by Moab’s then-City Manager Rebecca Davidson, her housemate Tara Smelt and Ms. Smelt’s…
“The horror…the horror.” —Joseph Conrad Last Monday evening, while more than a hundred million American masochists gathered gloomily around their flat-screens and “devices,” for no better reason than to confirm just how deeply our country’s moral compass has spun out…
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. The first time I went through Fallon, Nevada, I stayed in…
MOAB, UTAH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1941 Well, it’s been raining buckets since yesterday afternoon and with no end in sight. These storms have been a welcome relief after our long, dry and dusty summer, so I’m not going to mention…
Ned Chaffin, 86, often presages his narratives with the phrase “to make a long story short,” but his tales–many of which deal with his growing-up years in the remote sandstone jungle later preserved as the Maze District of Canyonlands National…
from The Zephyr Archives..Oct/Nov 2008 It may seem impossible in 2008, but there was a time when presidential candidates had the courage to confront power and greed in this country, even the crooked ones. Here are some memorable examples: FDR…”and…
THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
EDITOR’S NOTE: As this story suggests, we all thought Gene Schafer would live forever, or as he liked to say, “Long enough to piss on all of your graves.” He was like nobody else—outspoken and blunt beyond description, caring and…
Where I live, in the North, autumn comes early. I was out gathering blueberries and mushrooms when it came this year. Autumn is my favorite time of year, as it is for many people. Two years ago we did not…