In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
Utah and surrounding states have a responsibility to address the pressure put on the human water supply by climate change and population growth, some scientists argued at a two-day symposium hosted this week by the University of Utah.
HARI SREENIVASAN: Deep in Nevada’s Mojave Desert — 100 miles from the Las Vegas strip — the rocks provide glimpses into the lives of Native Americans who inhabited this area for thousands of years. Hundreds of their petroglyphs, or etchings, are carved on the rocks in this area, now known as Gold Butte.
The story begins almost 250 million years ago, with the ocean and geology and gypsum. It starts with the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area under an ancient sea, at a time when what is now Utah marked the continent’s coastal boundary.
In reaction to President Trump’s immigration ban, thousands protested at airports around the country Sunday, including here at McCarran International Airport.
Business as usual on the Colorado River may be about to come to a screeching halt. One of the worst recorded droughts in human history has stretched water supplies thin across the far-reaching river basin, which serves 40 million people.
Business as usual on the Colorado River may be about to come to a screeching halt.
One of the worst recorded droughts in human history has stretched water supplies thin across the far-reaching river basin, which serves 40 million people.
It’s been 30 years since Marc Reisner’s landmark history of Western water, Cadillac Desert, was first published. The book’s dire tone set the pattern for much subsequent water writing. Longtime Albuquerque Journal reporter John Fleck calls it the “narrative of crisis” — an apocalyptic storyline about the West perpetually teetering on the brink of running dry.
Around a decade ago, Jonesburg, Mo., resident Lee Hobbs and the city's United Methodist Church found they needed new shingles for their roofs. They bought Heritage Shingles from Tamko Building Products, a Joplin firm that guaranteed the shingles would last for 30 years. They didn't.
The politics of water in the West was the theme of the second annual Western Water Symposium, held at the end of July at Morgan Library on the Colorado State University campus. More than 130 attendees heard from a series of water experts that the politics of water in the West transcends party affiliation — and there’s probably not a more divisive issue, even in this election year.
How could this happen in Oregon?
Rear Vision with Annabelle Quince, Keri Phillips: Hillary Clinton has spent more than 20 years on the national stage – as first lady, senator and then secretary of state. She’s now nearing the end of the first phase of her second tilt at the ultimate role in US politics. If she wins the Democratic Party nomination, she’ll be the first woman to run for president as the candidate for a major political party in US history.
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his house in Springfield, Illinois, in 2012, Colombian-born Jhon Erick Ocampo struggled to explain to them that he was an American citizen.
