ARTICLES BY RON ROIZEN
Jim Wardner's Biggest Whopper
The tall tale is a revered part of the American West’s cultural fabric. Wyoming’s notorious jackalope and the outlandish 19th-century prevarications of fellow journalists Mark Twain and Dan de Quille, at Virginia City, Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise newspaper, may serve as outstanding examples.
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Watching Ken Burns' Country Music Documentary on PBS, so far
Mr. Burns’ new documentary, “Country Music,” has aired on PBS TV over the past three evenings, each installment running a full two hours. Five more installments are still to air. Last night’s (on Sept. 17th) dealt with a period up to the early 1950s, ending with the premature death of …
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OP: Time for Shoshone County to Get a Fair Shake From the U.S. Forest Service
A not very optimistic article in the New York Times a few days ago, suggested that America’s rural economies are probably in a death spiral. Something called “agglomeration,” said the author, was killing them. High tech expertises, he wrote, like to co-locate with themselves, thus creating so-called agglomerations of fast-paced, …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
