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GRAND CANYON TAKES A BREAK FROM THE CROWDS

By Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff

To reach any national park in the West, people have to travel. Travel is risky and helps spread the virus.

Photograph by Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff

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WHEN GETTING BACK TO NORMAL ISN’T NORMAL

By Linda Smaligo

What if things get worse? What if things really fail and there is a food shortage? Do any of us know how to provide for ourselves?

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COVID’S KILLING THE OIL INDUSTRY, AND IT MAY NOT COME BACK

By Jonathan Thompson

Cracks began to appear in the hydrocarbon-bubble years ago and in the months prior to the arrival of the coronavirus a breakdown appeared imminent.

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WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS

By Paul Krza

How strange that is – to fight an attacker with solitude.

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COVID-19 PANDEMIC ILLUSTRATES IDAHO’S SPLIT PERSONALITY

By Jerry Brady

On the one hand there’s the spirit of cooperation and belief that government can help, on the other there’s outright contempt for anything governmental.

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IT’S TIME FOR WYOMING TO FACE THE TRUTH

By Dustin Bleizeffer

What some in Wyoming might consider discrimination, others might cite fighting for their lives in the face of sea-level rise and deadly wildfires.

Photograph by AJ Nash

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A DEPRESSED TOWN FIGHTS BACK

By Dave Marston

This is a place that knows the pain of an industry cutting back.

Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, Flickr

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WHEN THE VIRUS HITS YOU, IT HITS HARD

By Dave Marston

Friday the virus had its way with me:

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WHAT THE CORONA VIRUS TEACHES US

By Jonathan Thompson

What I was witnessing was just one instance of an ad hoc, failed response to a crisis

This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like.

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MAKE WAY FOR THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

By 'Asta Bowen

Northern California has lost an estimated 90 percent of its kelp forests

Photograph by Paul Lamb

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THE DAM TRUTH ABOUT THE COLORADO RIVER

By Gary Wockner

Want to know the dam truth about the Colorado River?

Photograph by Paul Lamb

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Writers on the Range has been a godsend for the Las Vegas Sun, filling a critical need for columns on regional issues of importance to our community, to Southern Nevada and our entire state.

Although the Sun is well-served through contracts with the New York Times News Service and Tribune News Service, the columns we receive from those syndicates tend to focus mostly on national issues. That’s where Writers on the Range has been invaluable to us. The group’s focus on Western issues – water conservation, the drought and climate change, environmental protection for fragile desert areas and more – allow the Sun to provide its audience with content that illuminates and adds to the public dialogue
on policy.

The Sun strongly supports the group, and hope it continues to operate for years to come. 

Ric Anderson, Editorial Page Editor
Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas, NV

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