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Local highlining guide Faith Dickey receives Southern Entrepreneur Award

Faith Dickey, owner of Elevate Outdoors Guiding, has been recognized as the Southern Entrepreneur of the Year by the Women’s Business Center of Utah at the recent Exploring Possibilities Conference in Cedar City. The award honors her innovative approach to making highlining—the sport of walking on narrow webbing stretched between high points—accessible to people of all abilities in the Moab area.

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Walt Dabney: “I’ve helped manage Utah’s public lands. Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is a far-reaching assault.” (opinion)

When President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1) passed Congress, its supporters celebrated a sweeping return to “energy dominance.” But buried beneath the headlines is a quiet, far-reaching assault on America’s outdoor recreation heritage — one that puts the $1.2 trillion dollar recreation economy at risk.

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Marjorie Haun-Storland: “A majority of people living in the unincorporated areas of San Juan County oppose the proposed [land use ordinance]” (opinion)

“A majority of people living in the unincorporated areas of San Juan County oppose the proposed LUDMO because it is more suited to a densely populated suburban locale than it is an open, sparsely populated, agricultural county covering 8,000 square miles where more than one-third of the population do not pay taxes.”