A JUNE 2021 INTRODUCTION: In June 1990, thirty-one years ago this month, I penned a Page Two essay for my fledgling newspaper, The Canyon Country Zephyr, called “New West Blues.” The Zephyr had only existed for a bit more than…
Just three days before we published this issue, YouTube removed “Planet of the Humans” from its site. Here is Michael Moore’s response: https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10156931713771857 . The film is available on Vimeo at this link: https://vimeo.com/423114384. UPDATE: the film has been restored to…
Note: Elsewhere in this issue is a review of the recently released documentary, “Planet of the Humans.” The documentary was written and directed by Jeff Gibbs, and produced in part by Michael Moore. In part, it exposes the hypocritical connections…
When we recently watched “Planet of the Humans,” the new controversial environmental documentary produced by Michael Moore, we felt like we were re-living a number of our articles from the last couple decades. In addition to Jim’s written response, we…
In December, The Zephyr first reported on a leaked email of a draft memo from a Friends of Cedar Mesa board member. Here is an update…JS A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LEAKED MEMO The Friends of Cedar Mesa (FCM), a…
More than a few years ago, in the 1970s, Sam Reynolds, an editorial writer at a newspaper in Missoula, Mont., had a birdcage-like box nailed to his office wall in the newsroom. He posted a sign on the door of…
I’ve been a devoted reader of the ‘Letters to the Editor’ page in the weekly Moab Times-Independent for almost 40 years. Some of my fondest Moab memories are sitting in publisher Sam Taylor’s office on countless occasions, discussing the issues…
RE: David Bonderman…Facts or ‘Fluff?’ You Decide… About 15 years ago, I became aware that some of the world’s wealthiest bankers, financiers, and industrialists were throwing huge amounts of money at this country’s mainstream environmental organizations. The ‘contributions’ trickled all…