December 27, 2016 Oregon: Grant County supervisor, judge block citizen input in forest stewardship While the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge grabbed the world’s attention, a quieter struggle over federal lands is being waged by…
December 27, 2016 Utah Republicans plan to counteract possible Obama move on Bears Ears Worried that Obama will aggressively act on his way out the door, opponents like Lee are now gearing up for a protracted fight to…
December 26, 2016 Feds pushing to turn Forest Service facility into housing for illegal immigrants Davis in an interview expressed concern that the shelter would mar Hot Springs’ reputation as a tourist destination and doubted that the children are…
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…
