Coyote Crossing

Fantastic news: Ivanpah Airport project suspended

Last week the Mojave Desert got some good news for a change:

Development of the proposed Ivanpah Airport, considered crucial to Southern Nevada’s future just a few years ago, has been suspended indefinitely because of lower passenger numbers and

Dubai Buys Time for Ivanpah Valley

Near Primm, NV. If they ever get around to building the Ivanpah Airport — and who knows if they will, with Vegas’ economy still tanking — this will become satellite long-term parking or a Sbarros or something equally valuable.

Incidentally,

Turning 49

I’m offline and sleeping on the cold, cold ground until my personal odometer clicks over. Enjoy the next few days, please.

In the meantime, I’m pleased and slightly befuddled to note that the RedBubble group American Southwest has named me a

Comment on the Draft Alternatives Working Paper for the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport EIS

In the evening of October 1, two days before the deadline for public comment on the Draft Alternatives Working Paper for the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport Environmental Impact Statement, I left the little house I am renting in the Ivanpah

Letters from the desert: Light and Sound

This valley I live in is quiet.

It’s not silent. Sometimes, in fact, there is a hell of a lot of noise here. Eighteen-wheelers roar down the road in front of my house fairly often, as do RVs ridiculously towing boats through the desert toward the

Public Obfuscation

Those of you who went to the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport Site to check out the Draft Alternatives Working Paper for the Environmental Impact Report for the proposed Ivanpah Airport, a few miles from my temporary digs here in Nipton, were