“The government is not in the business of taking care of the people or the land, the government is in the business of taking care of the government.” I read this comment on The Friends of Canyon Country Zephyr page…
By April 1st tourist season in Moab is in full swing. With Easter as early as it can get this year the season starts off with a roar during March with a series of smaller weekend events and then the…
MOAB NEEDS A TRUCK STOP Winter is usually a quiet time in Moab. Most of downtown is closed and won’t reopen until February. It’s cold, of course, and few visitors are interested in hiking or biking in the winter time…
ELECTIONS – ALL OR NONE November started with a bang here in Moab. With four major events in town the weekend of November 7th, there was not a hotel room to be found in town. It is plain that the…
I returned from a few weeks away to a white wall on Main Street across the street from my driveway. A Homewood Suites has broken ground at Center near 100 N and since the hotel will be built to the…
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…
I grow plants in the desert for planting in yards and in unirrigated revegetation project areas in SE and Central Utah. Almost every day from February through October I talk with people about how to water plants – how much,…
I locked myself out of my house the other day. I stood there for a minute, and then walked the front door and then to the side door. All locked. Kinda funny really. We lived for over 10 years in…
I was a resident of Moab, Utah for more than 30 years. I had every intention of spending the rest of my life there, but over a period of three decades, Grand County changed so dramatically that I felt like…
A few weeks ago I was surprised to find a message in my Facebook inbox from Jim Stiles asking me if I would be willing to contribute to the Zephyr. My initial reaction was to laugh. While I do not…