December 26, 2016 Reversal of fortune? Small miner hopeful Trump will veto EPA block on Alaska mine In February 2014, the EPA took the unusual action of blocking a mine before the project owner applied for a development permit. Trump win…
December 24, 2016 Santa Busted by Big Government Here, once Santa gets off the ground, his real legal trouble is only just beginning. A government agent need only ask Santa if he…
December 24, 2016 Big recreation industry joins enviros and Obama to wage war on rural West The seizure of 1.9 million acres is a tricky proposition, and the mostly-white, wealthy environmentalists and big rec corporate heads pushing for a monument in the Bears Ears region needed…
December 23, 2016 Feds hide identity of undercover FBI agent involved in Bundy Ranch standoff The witness list prosecutors provided to the defense Monday gives only a pseudonym, “Charles Johnson,” not the agent’s true name. Santilli’s attorney said the…
December 23, 2016 Obama poised to sacrifice Utah’s Native peoples to appease enviros, recreation industry Over eight decades later, Jones still remembers the day the federal government killed the sheep. In 1934, as part of former President Franklin Delano…
December 22, 2016 State and local leaders push back against federal Bears Ears land grab The most prominent Navajo opposed to the monument, Benally opened and closed Lee’s gathering in the Capitol’s elegant Gold Room. She called on environmental…
December 22, 2016 Mismanagement, waste, corruption plague Navajo Housing Authority More than $100 million has been squandered on projects that never housed anyone. Some housing developments sit empty years after they were built. In…
December 21, 2016 Public Lands: Don’t believe what the feds and corporate enviros are telling you From the beginning, land issues and jurisdiction created heated debate, decided many elections, kicked off a civil war and nearly destroyed our country before…
December 20, 2016 Obama Bears Ears takeover would be un-American The protection of our nation’s historic, cultural and natural resources is among the noblest of pursuits. However, turning our backs on the democratic process…
December 20, 2016 Bears Ears: Locals, Natives against, outsiders, corporate environmentalists for Lee and other members of the congressional delegation said the political fallout of a designation in Utah will result in the repeal of the…