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Drought
By John Whipple Every year, our family would take the day’s long drive to my grandparent’s farm in Western Missouri. It is from these experiences that drought draws its blood. The song speaks to what my…
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Feb
19
Wed
9:30 pm Harvest – Jazz and Poetry @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Harvest – Jazz and Poetry @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Feb 19 @ 9:30 pm – Feb 20 @ 1:00 am
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.” – Wallace Stevens 10PM FREE (9:30PM signup, or signup in advance by contacting the host) Come join us at the Brew Wednesday November 13th for HARVEST, an experiment...
Feb
20
Thu
6:00 pm Open Jam w/ Lucky Lenny @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Open Jam w/ Lucky Lenny @ Flagstaff Brewing Company 
Feb 20 @ 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Grab your strings and come ready to sing at the Open Jam with Lucky Lenny. We got beer, Lucky Lenny’s got the sound, you got a song. Sign up at 6pm.
Feb
22
Sat
8:00 pm The Redifusion 2 / A Music for C... @ Firecreek Coffee Company
The Redifusion 2 / A Music for C... @ Firecreek Coffee Company 
Feb 22 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
The Redifusion is a “rock potluck” where we bring together 25 members picked from 25 different bands to form 6 new groups with new names that will perform for the first time together on stage at...
Environment-News
Environment-News
Instead of getting serious about moving away from single-use plastic, corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging...
Emerging efforts by cities and the federal government show that progress is possible, but experts say systemic changes are still...
While the reading in Antarctica still needs to be confirmed, the Brazilian scientists who logged it called the new record...
More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife...
Flagstaff The Trump administration has suspended 4,200 acres of oil and gas leases on public land in Arizona’s Little Colorado...
The administration's new managment plans "are the latest in a series of insults... that began when Trump illegally dismantled Bears...
"There is no way to build a greener, more inclusive economy without strong, thriving labor unions." By Andrea Germanos, staff...
Climate change has caused record-breaking ocean temperatures, and that means more dangerous storms, trouble for coral reefs and big changes...
by Massimo Paciotto Biggers , Jeff Biggers Common Dreams While President Trump dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and scientists as...
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco Editor’s note: California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos,...
"It is time to get out of our comfort zones." by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Youth climate activists marched through...
"This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever...
Environment-Water
More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife...
Flagstaff The Trump administration has suspended 4,200 acres of oil and gas leases on public land in Arizona’s Little Colorado...
The administration's new managment plans "are the latest in a series of insults... that began when Trump illegally dismantled Bears...
"This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever...
“It shouldn’t take a lawsuit to keep livestock from trampling these fragile southwestern rivers, but the Forest Service has turned...
Editor’s note: This report is part of an AZCIR collaboration with KPBS’ Fronteras Project, a regional news collaborative that produces...
Recently, a number of gas stations have disappeared from Flagstaff. A couple have been replaced but the rest appear to...
The Little Colorado River is the focus of two pumped hydro storage power plant proposals that have met with resistance...
Flagstaff Flagstaff's future water supply is a target for potentially harmful toxins. Red Gap Ranch, located 40 miles east of...
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Drought by John Whipple
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Feb
21
Fri
10:00 pm Pete Henry @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Pete Henry @ Flagstaff Brewing Company
Feb 21 @ 10:00 pm – Feb 22 @ 1:00 am
Jazzy pop rock guitar, vocalist.
Feb
22
Sat
8:00 pm The Redifusion 2 / A Music for C... @ Firecreek Coffee Company
The Redifusion 2 / A Music for C... @ Firecreek Coffee Company
Feb 22 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
The Redifusion is a “rock potluck” where we bring together 25 members picked from 25 different bands to form 6 new groups with new names that will perform for the first time together on stage at...
The Founding Fathers sing “The Day Democracy Died”
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