What if you built a new city from the ground up? The idea has tantalized urban planners and utopian dreamers for centuries. In 2017, Jan Sramek joined their crusade.Mr. Sramek, […]
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Back to news homeA California Land Mystery Is Solved. Now the Political Fight Begins.
Jan Sramek was 15 years old the first time he tried to get a government to do something he wanted. Back then, he was an internet- and science fiction-obsessed teenager […]
Can Affluence and Affordable Housing Coexist in Colorado’s Rockies?
In the recreation-fueled, amenity-rich economy of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain region, there are two peak seasons: summer, with its rafting, hiking, fishing and biking, and the cold months filled with skiing […]
Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud
One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and […]
DeSantis Signs Into Law Latest Wrinkle in Disney Feud
There is a new wrinkle in the ongoing tussle between Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Walt Disney Company.On Friday, Mr. DeSantis signed a bill into law giving a […]
A Copper Mine Could Advance Green Energy but Scar Sacred Land
SUPERIOR, Ariz. — As Wendsler Nosie finished his evening prayers sitting before a mesquite fire, a ceremonial yucca staff festooned with eagle feathers by his side, he gazed sternly toward […]
It’s Public Land. But the Public Can’t Reach It.
“Hunting has become big business,” Mr. Herring said. “And people who have leased land for hunting don’t want people who aren’t paying to be on it. As a result, the […]
In California’s Housing Fight, It’s Newsom vs. NIMBY
As affordable housing problems spread, California’s enforcement kick could be an indication of an increasingly pitched battle between cities and states over housing. It also gives a clue into how […]
Does This Fisherman Have the Right to Be in a Billionaire’s Backyard?
“You see it on rivers like the Taylor,” Mr. Caimi said. “Somebody comes along and builds a bunch of million-dollar homes, and then they decide they don’t want to see […]
How New Zealand’s Climate Fight Is Threatening Its Iconic Farmland
GISBORNE, New Zealand — Horehore Station, a sheep and cattle ranch, sprawls across 4,000 acres on New Zealand’s North Island, its jagged expanse of uneven hills and steep gullies blanketed […]