Posts
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Planning Monday, Oct. 4
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Planning: Oct. 1, 2021
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Planning: Sept. 30, 2021
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Election 2021: Water
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Election 2021: Getting Moab’s house in order
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Election 2021: Candidates respond to Moab’s demographic changes
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Tales of Trails: Playing in the river
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Election 2021: Tourism and leading meetings
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What Grand County is doing about flood mitigation
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Election 2021: Housing and the role of mayor
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The 2021 election coverage
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School district approves tax rate decrease; and more
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Election 2021: Introductions
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Grand wants to preempt oil development from Delicate Arch vicinity
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Grand schools mask mandate; a denied rezone
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The legal and moral imperatives of going off trail
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A political compass for Moab
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How bad was the Flooding? For one couple, more than $10K in damages.
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The fight over high-density housing goes to court
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Grand County’s head of economic development leaving for San Juan County
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Grand’s pandemic status, and a vote against OHV ads
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Grand wants zoning oversight; luxury trail line believes it is exempt
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Analysis: Why Moab’s hotel rooms are the most expensive in the state
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Draft: Moab needs its political hobbyists to become political professionals
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Draft: The future of the Colorado, and how Moab fits into it
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Draft: County commission votes against improving cell service in Spanish Valley
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Draft: Grand County is changing its open government rules
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Draft: Synergy’s dietary supplements
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Draft: Locals use three times as much water as tourists
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State approves funding for three Moab transportation projects
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Draft: In Grand, it is now a crime to encourage illegal e-biking
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Voting rights are at stake in Moab. Here’s how to protect them.
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Kimley-Horn wins $150,000 transportation planning bid
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Thanks to tourism, the county government has an extra $8.4m
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Pack Creek Fire leaves behind a patchwork of charring
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The post-mortem on the Pack Creek Fire is starting
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Pack Creek Fire still not growing
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What exactly are the fire and firework restrictions in Grand County?
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The time I almost killed a family friend on the Whole Enchilada
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Mill Creek management planners recommend a change in primary parking
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Legal voting districts are coming to Moab
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Water quality in Moab could suffer after Pack Creek Fire
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Will this be the election of housing affordability?
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Shit that just isn’t very important
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Taxable sales have increased dramatically, even since 2019
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County prevails against homebuilders
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Nothing
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The Book Cliffs highway is on again
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Grand County Commission meeting
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The solutions to housing are complicated. That’s not an excuse.
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Moab’s housing crisis in four key figures
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The decline of apartments in Moab
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The economics of local news are tough but not impossible
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Roughly half of Moab’s 2017 housing plan is incomplete
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Klonzo, the land of one-way trails
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The next 30 years in Grand County transportation
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Property owner wins Creekside zoning dispute
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Is the end of the pandemic in sight? What does that look like?
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Housing crisis causing employment crisis
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Which of Moab’s 2016 housing goals are complete; and more
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Raw: Documents to read and process
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I did interviews today that didn’t show up in the record.
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On Mother’s Day, a prayer at the defaced Birthing Rock
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Grand County gets new political party officers; and Big Bend vandalism
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Above Abyss is a “new” Slickrock alternative
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Where the rest of the council sits on HDHO intent
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A silly defense of my honor
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More on the appeals; Arches reservation system
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USU tops off; middle school surpluses old supplies; more
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The intent of the HDHO is now clear
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Draft: Why the county’s High-Density Housing Overlay rules disagree with the ordinance
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Overviewing the HDHO appeals and responses
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Birthing Rock vandalism (final story)
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New middle school; the reporting I need to do; and more
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A new housing story begins; two middle school stories; and more
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Fridays are hard
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Cases in Grand highest in state but health department ‘not alarmed’
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Grand County’s noise ordinances are now in effect
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County puts brakes on OHV businesses
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Utahraptor State Park
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Skip day
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Sen. Lee staffers shoot the shit with Moab constituents; more on HDHO appeals
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Grand may squeak in past its OHV deadline; one dead in Canyonlands fall; and more
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Moab has nine years left to conserve a lot of water; and more
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Dead Horse Point is Moab’s Disneyland
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The T-I has pissed now off everyone on Creekside Lane; and more
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Archival resources
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Commission meeting wrap: bypass, waste management, OHV noise hearing
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Biden bucks for Moab; Creekside owner big mad; more
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They’re just giving out the vaccine at this point; rollover near the library
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A little rant
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Another skip day
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State: Moab could safely use more water
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Moab could safely increase its water usage by 50% or more
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Jeep debuts all-electric SUV at Easter Safari
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Skip day
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I am looking to syndicate T-I reporting with KZMU
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The bills affecting Moab from the 2021 legislative session
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Adults and older teens can get vaccine starting tomorrow
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Grand and Moab have picked the losing side of the bypass argument
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A screed about failing policy
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Flat Pass pits bikers against drivers, and it’s fun.
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Commissioner arrested for drunk driving, other offenses
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I got the HDHO emails.
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Using measurements to enforce noise ordinances
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Bye bye, bypass
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The American Rescue Plan could replace Grand’s lost 2020 tax revenues.
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Middle school principal transferring; bicyclists at stop signs; and more
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Should Grand County ask Moabites about a bypass?
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No news, just programming
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No news, just other news
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Grand County got the tax reform it wanted.
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Shocking! Margaret L. Hopkin Middle School might not be done on time!
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Utah’s statewide mask mandate ends April 10; Grand’s may continue.
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An owner on Creekside Lane is has plans for six houses on 6.5 acres. Neighbors are fighting it.
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Navajo Rocks has lots of cows
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Technical notes: I am successfully learning AWS CloudFormation
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Synergy has a new CEO
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Grand County needs fact checking on the High-Density Housing Overlay.
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Against developers’ wishes, county passes HDHO rules
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Why is reading so hard?
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The Rivian story; a 20-foot fall; a $15,000 grant; and more
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Rivian emails: Bathroom code (Nov. 9 to Nov. 18)
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Rivian emails: The health department gets looped in (Oct. 22 to Oct. 27)
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More Rivian emails (but I’m not keeping this up)
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Rivian emails: More bathroom questions (Nov. 5)
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Rivian emails: GPD tries to set up a phone call (Oct. 22 to Oct. 29)
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Rivian emails: Setting up an initial meeting (Sept. 22 to Oct. 12)
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Laying out the Rivian emails; a dead body in a burned car; and more
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A Tesla competitor courts Grand; Hinkins sinks OHV curfew bill
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Grand’s planning staff departs; when the care center will reopen; and more
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Why didn’t somebody tell me about Klondike Bluffs sooner?
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A third Grand County resident dies of COVID-19; legislative updates; and more
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No news, just technical notes
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County holds line on HDHO reading, tables vote on rules
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SLC flights, and challenges to official narrative on housing ordinance
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The latest on TRT reform and the other bills Moab is watching
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The county’s side of the High-Density Housing Overlay debate, explained
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A bill to set curfews on OHV use is moving through the Utah State Legislature.
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Final draft: A new conflict could cost Grand hundreds of new homes
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Are the rules and regulations related to the High-Density Housing Overlay good or bad?
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Easter Jeep Safari is half un-canceled.
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A disagreement over the High-Density Housing Overlay could cost the county affordable housing.
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The bills the county does and does not like; responsible advertising; and more
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April car show canceled; Easter Jeep Safari still up in the air
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Go get a COVID-19 test.
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What Margaret Hopkin meant to Moab
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Back to the newsletter
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It's almost redistricting time.
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Utah is not doing enough testing, so we don't know how many cases we actually have.
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Rapid testing has changed again in Moab — for the better. Here's the situation.
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UTV follow-up; questions on COVID-19 testing in Moab; good news; and more
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Grand and Moab want to see changes to UTV regulations, and so do some other surprise advocates
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