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Lake Powell is a boater’s dream. The nation’s second largest reservoir on the Colorado River is a maze of sandstone canyons teeming with houseboats. But climate change and unchecked demand for water sent the lake’s levels to a new record low this year. In this episode we explore changes to recreation in this popular vacation hotspot.

Farmers and ranchers use the vast majority of the Colorado River’s water. Getting them to voluntarily use less is difficult.

It's no secret that Box likes to populate his novels with characters named after folks he knows in real life. That’s how I found myself transformed into Rodney “Mandan” Miller in his first book, Open Season.

Episode 13: Shadows

This mesmerizing novel from one of Russia's most important modern authors traces the life journey of a selfless Russian everywoman. In the wake of the Soviet breakup, inexorable forces drag Vera across the breadth of the Russian empire. Facing a relentless onslaught of human&#x20...

An author who has published approximately 300 poems in the United States, Canada and Great Britain will speak during an upcoming Visiting Writers Series event at Northeast Community College.

Loren Steffy’s book The Big Empty is a novel about a sense of place, where a clash of cultures comes in the form of the construction and operation of a massive semiconductor plant in...

Loren Steffy’s book The Big Empty is a novel about a sense of place, where a clash of cultures comes in the form of the construction and operation of a massive semiconductor plant in...

Loren Steffy’s book The Big Empty is a novel about a sense of place, where a clash of cultures comes in the form of the construction and operation of a massive semiconductor plant in...

Loren Steffy’s book The Big Empty is a novel about a sense of place, where a clash of cultures comes in the form of the construction and operation of a massive semiconductor plant in...