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Category Archives: January 2016
Dealing with the dark side: The Navajo Nation seeks to address the chronic problem of suicide
The sprawling 25,000-square-mile Navajo reservation has been jolted by a continuing series of suicides beginning in 2009, when nine teens in Ft. Wingate, Ariz., took their own lives. Those deaths preceded 15 teen suicides in Thoreau, another reservation town only … Continue reading
Published in January 2016
Ten days in jail for Phil Lyman: The sentencing ends the saga of the Recapture ride — unless he appeals
The long and tortuous saga of Phil Lyman and the Recapture Road came to an end in December – or maybe not. On Dec. 18 in Salt Lake City, Lyman, a San Juan County, Utah, commissioner, and Monte Wells of … Continue reading
Published in January 2016
Tagged phil lyman, Recapture Canyon protest
County seeks to add chapter to land-use code: Public has scant time to see ‘1041’ rules before hearing
After summarily rejecting the rough draft of a lengthy proposed addition to its land-use code – one that appeared to assert the county’s ultimate authority over public lands – the Montezuma County Commission is preparing to chew on a much … Continue reading
Published in January 2016
Tagged land-use code
Tribal coalition pulls out of Utah legislative process
In a surprise development, the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition says it is pulling out of negotiations with the Utah congressional delegation charged with developing recommendations for a massive public-lands bill. In a Dec. 31 letter to Utah congressmen Rob Bishop … Continue reading
Published in January 2016
Tagged Bears Ears National Monument
A novel for masochists: Elizabeth Strout’s latest features grim ruminations on family, forgiveness (Prose and Cons)
To paraphrase Gore Vidal on the subject of Joyce Carol Oates, the two saddest words in the English language are Elizabeth Strout. Strout, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her 2008 novel “Olive Kitteridge,” generally traffics in mother-daughter … Continue reading
Published in January 2016, Prose and Cons