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And they are attacking my plan and saying it is big spending. just to remind you, the same members in congress passed the tax cut. a giant giveaway to the top corporations and 1%. listen to this, almost none of that 2 trillion tax cut was paid for. it just ballooned the federal deficit. in fact, the unpaid bills racked up by the last administration are projected to increase the national debt by more than $8 trillion over time. what im proposing is totally different than that approach for three r...

George Polk Award and an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for their for their two-year investigation into the expropriation of Indigenous lands for the land-grant university system. In “Land-Grab Universities,” published in our March 2020 issue, Tristan (Kiowa), now editor-in-chief of the Texas Observer, and Lee, who is at Cambridge University, located 99% of the nearly 11 million acres taken from 250 tribes through broken treaties, illegal seizures and outright genocide, and the...

Texas Observer and then-Indigenous Affairs editor for High Country News, and Lee, a historian at Cambridge University, located 99% of the nearly 11 million acres transferred to fledgling land-grant colleges by the Morrill Act of 1862 — lands taken from their original Indigenous caretakers through the use of broken treaties, illegal seizures and outright genocide. In addition to the feature published in High Country News, the project also created a database at landgrabu.org that translates t...

A CHANGING OF THE GUARD In 2002, after nearly two decades at the helm, Publisher and Editor Ed and Betsy Marston decided to step down. Longtime staffer Paul Larmer became publisher, and Greg Hanscom took over as editor. Together with Art Director Cindy Wehling, they turned the black-and-white tabloid into a full-color magazine that celebrated the beauty and exposed the ugliness of the West. This included deep reporting on the region’s extractive industries. The 2000s brought an unprecedented ...