Ruxandra Guidi’s exceptionally good piece “Los Promotores” (HCN, 8/7/17) could be subtitled “Welcome to America! Harvest Our Food and We’ll Give You a Nice Little Place Next to the Dump.” Her article takes us into the remote desert corners of Southern California where the nearly concealed sins of environmental and social injustice become so terribly […]
Mark Winne
Posted inJuly 21, 2014: On the Wild Edge
Love that dirty river
Every year, I dutifully respond to those High Country News reader surveys in the fervent hope that you will devote more of your valuable real estate to urban-oriented stories about our region’s social injustices. Well, there is a Santa Claus, and he delivered a wonderful gift to me in the form of Daniel Person’s pitch-perfect “River of No Return” […]