Salt Lake City attorney serves the homeless
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Meth in the West
The West continues to be the hot spot for meth in the U.S., leading the rest of the country with 65 percent of meth treatment admissions, according to a new 171-page study by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health puts Nevada first in meth use, with 2.02 […]
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Carrying your own load
Lessons from off the grid
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A different outdoor game
Too little, too late. Shoot first, ask questions later… If you can shake your head in disgust while you say it, you’ve probably found the right cliche for the environmental fiasco that surrounds the wall on our southern border. The Department of Homeland Security recently agreed to fork over $50 million to the Interior Department […]
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Legalize It
It sure didn’t seem like the kind of place where bloodied drug smugglers stumble out of the scrub after shootouts. But it was. On a holiday road trip to Mexico, my family and I stopped for the night at some friends’ house near Tubac, Arizona, a small community south of Tucson, about 15 minutes north […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 2009: Non-navigable River Blues
Catch him if you can
The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James HogueDavid Samuels192 pages,hardcover: $23.New Press, 2008. Palo Alto High School believed James Hogue was a recently orphaned 16-year-old from a Nevada commune. Princeton University thought he was a self-educated ranch hand who lived alone in the […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 2009: Non-navigable River Blues
The HCN miracle
Well, you’ve done it again. Just when we were worried that the worsening economy would seriously cripple our financial condition, you stepped up in December with a blizzard of support. All told, our readers provided $150,000 in Research Fund gifts — a record amount for a single month. The presses (and the electrons at hcn.org) […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 2009: Non-navigable River Blues
No news is bad news
For Westerners interested in the news, one of the biggest stories lately is the crisis in the news industry itself. A few highlights: Washington state’s second-largest newspaper, the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was put up for sale Jan. 9. Its owner — Hearst Corp., a privately held chain based in New York — says that unless […]
Posted inFebruary 2, 2009: Non-navigable River Blues
Blood quantum myth
Regarding your “Blood Quantum” story, back before the first European contacts, marriage outside the tribe was the norm (HCN, 1/19/09). In my studies on biology and genetics, I learned that our Native elders did have extensive knowledge of biology, ecology, genetics, lethal recessives and the like. The only difference is that Western science quantifies, categorizes […]
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In case you’re having a good day…
Okay, so you got up this morning, scraped the scum off your teeth and that last bit of change from your kid’s piggybank, and headed down to the corner coffeeshop to buy one cup of endless refills and spend the rest of the day surfing the Interweb looking for some good news to brighten up […]
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The myth of minority favoritism
A myth is circulating around the West, and it goes like this: Regardless of your level of competence, if you’re black, you’ll beat out everybody else when it comes to getting a job with a federal land-management agency such as the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management. A hint of this myth appeared in […]
Posted inJanuary 19, 2009: Blood Quantum
Welcome, new board members
We’re delighted to announce that Marley Shebala and Jesus De La Rosa have become our newest board members. Marley is the senior news reporter and a photographer for the Navajo Times in Window Rock, Ariz. Marley is Dine (Navajo) and Ashiwi (Zuni Pueblo). Her mother’s clan is Toaheedliinii (The Water Flow Together Clan), and her […]
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Wherever you go, there you are
I lived alone in Paris for six months when I was 20. Technically, I had a roommate, an 80-year-old Frenchwoman who’d helped her father smuggle Jews out of the city during the Nazi occupation. She took in boarders to help pay the rent on her Latin Quarter apartment, and I was just one in a […]
Posted inJanuary 19, 2009: Blood Quantum
The fine art of bureaucracy
Artists helped further a government agenda
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Blood Quantum
A complicated system that determines tribal membership threatens the future of American Indians
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Understanding agriculture…and farmers too!
If you know farmers, you know that most of them can be relied upon to provide gloomy reports looking backward and gloomier forecasts going forward. If most of the farmers I know have a good year, they will not talk about it but instead will tell you about all the bad things that are about […]
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Reflections on “Methow homecoming”
Christopher Solomon’s essay (Methow homecoming, 12-8-08 edition) struck a heart chord with me. Like Solomon I escaped from the East Coast with a master’s degree (mine was more useful; it came with a teaching credential) and went looking for a home in the West. And like Solomon and Rick Bass whom he quotes my wanderings […]
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Parking is primo in Vail
Ah, Vail, where big money still gets spent on a crucial item like a parking space. The Vail Daily says a treasured spot within Vail’s heated indoor Founders Garage is now on offer for $500,000. “Parking is going up in Vail,” said Buzz Schleper, the spot’s owner. “There’s always somebody out there who has money […]