Laura McPhee photographs: The River of No Return Laura McPhee made these remarkable photographs over several years on successive visits to the Sawtooth Valley. River of No Return is organized like a long poem or a piece of music…a stunning look at an actual place, a meditation on rivers, nature, history, the history of landscape…
Is a Leaf Like a Noun, Flowing like a Verb? “Elements of landscape language are like parts of speech, each with separate functions and associations. Flowing, like a verb, is a pattern of events expressed in both water and path. Water and path, like nouns, are action’s agents and objects; like adjectives or adverbs, their…
Stormy day on the plains today.
Wrapping themselves in their patriotism, the Tea Party folks wave a rebel flag while protesting shutdown of the government they wanted shut down. What is it called when you take your ball and go home and then go back to the playing field and complain there’s no game? The past is never dead. It’s not…
House rules were changed by committee to restrict voting to end the shut down. Brought to you by the people who want to restrict access to voting for everyone.
In primary and general elections in 2012 and recall elections in 2011 and 2012, a total of 117 members and alumni of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) were voted out of office, according to research and analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), ColorOfChange, and others. Read the article
by Jane Lane After ordering several of my last books on Kindle, I received in the mail today a lovely little used book that I purchased for a few dollars and as soon as I brought it out of the envelope, I loved the look and the feel of it. My “new” copy of Ceremonial…
I’m a big fan of The Art of the Rural, so it’s fun to find out that someone from there will be at The Big Feed in Yuma, Colorado, Sat., Oct. 15. Here’s more about The Feed: SOURCE THE BIG FEED — 2011 Saturday, Oct. 15-16 at the Yuma County Fairgrounds, Yuma, Colo. The entry…
During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, when programs helping victims are calling on their communities to send the message that domestic violence will not be tolerated, Topeka, Kansas City Council is considering decriminalizing domestic battery in order to save money. The Topeka City Council is butting heads with Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor, who announced…
Closing Maternity Wards: Costly and Risky Article in Daily Yonder – Keeping it Rural 04/27/2011 Maternity wards are closing in rural areas already underserved by physicians. Rural women need a new model for prenatal care and more options for birthing.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune Apr 29, 2011 12:09AM Polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs has been moved to a West Texas jail that is closer to his group’s Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado but allows somewhat fewer opportunities to communicate with the outside world. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints…
According to a story in the Rapid City Journal, the polygamist Mormon sect that owns a 140-acre compound in the southern Black Hills is $178,594 past due in its Custer County property taxes for 2008 and 2009. From that story: The United Order of South Dakota, which is the legal name of the Fundamentalist Church…
Story By ColorLines The details are horrific: Susana Chavez, an internationally renown poet and long time activist who spoke out against the decade-long femicide of woman in Juarez, was found murdered this week. She had been tortured and suffocated; her left hand had apparently been dismembered with a saw. Chavez is one of over 500…
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