The winners of the reader photo contest, plus other favorites.
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Posted inMay 1, 2017: Change Comes to Short Creek
We’ll keep covering the West’s politics
Below are readers’ responses to the editor’s note by Editor-in-Chief Brian Calvert in our April 3 issue, in which he addressed recent criticism of our coverage of “divisive” political issues. I appreciated your editor’s note about the mix of politics and High Country News. In today’s polarized political environment, we tend to be more sensitive […]
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Your uncomfortable Western corners
Readers respond with unique encounters and uneasy revelations in the region.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
15 books every well-versed Westerner should read
A reading list for understanding the region.
Posted inAugust 8, 2016: Line of Descent
The best notes from our reader surveys
We asked you for advice, and here’s what you said.
Posted inJune 25, 2012: Special travel issue
Faraway, favorite and less-than-famous places
We asked our readers and staff to send in some of their favorite places in the West. Here’s a sampling of their responses. Add your own in the comments! California’s Alabama Hills — Not only was this rolling desert stippled with boulder outcrops the setting for Tremors, my family’s favorite cult film, in which giant […]
Posted inOctober 25, 2010: Lynch-Mob Politics
We’re listening
Below are some of the comments you sent us on the most recent reader survey. Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think. We’ve been reading all your survey responses, and thinking about how we can keep HCN on your “essential reading” list. I have learned more from HCN about the […]
Posted inJanuary 20, 2003: A breath of fresh air
THE GREAT RANCHING DEBATE
Two recently released books, Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West and Ranching West of the 100th Meridian, offer very different visions of ranching’s place in the West. In a special feature, High Country News’ Ed Marston and Forest Guardians executive director John Horning, review the books and reopen the debate on the […]