We live in one of the most beautiful places in the world and you use AI to generate some jank Temu Moab landscape? A half-assed effort, just like the last time on the commission.

Help fund the next generation of shuttles. Even a dollar helps!

The Arches Shuttle is KILLING it !!!! 14 riders a day, on average. Great success! Absolutely incredible.

Y’all should be proud to have spent $500,000 in local tax dollars on what I wasn’t aware were essentially PRIVATE shuttle experiences.
Can we get bottle service in them next season?

It was pretty funny seeing the convoy of endurance athletes clogging the road out while the elk hunters stood out in the rain filling their tags like it’s just any another weekend.

I was just visiting Moab and saw a wooden topo map in one of the stores in the downtown. It has different shades of orange and some teals. I absolutely love it and regret not buying. I’m hoping someone can help me figure out what shop it was in so I can contact them and buy it over the phone to be shipped to me. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of it. It was about 12”x12” and had a wooden frame and was priced at $480. It was sitting on the top shelf of a bookshelf near the back of the store and there were a couple other small ones next to it. All done by the same artist. I’m guessing it was a local artist. Does anyone happen to know what store this was? I would be so grateful.

Biking White Rim on Saturday. How's the rain been, any idea on what the trail will be like Saturday? Hero dirt? Mud puddles everywhere? Thanks!

Is there noticeable difference between Grand View Point (or Green River Overlook) in Island in the Sky vs Arches (say Panorama Point)?

Arches would be just over 30 min away vs just over 60 for Canyonlands, but I'd be willing to travel further if it's truly a different experience.

Or would you​ recommend a different nearby location from those 2? Thank you.

Howdy folks! I’m trying to list a property for sale and need the landscaping and house deep cleaned for photos. Who do you recommend? Can you please drop contact information?
Thank you!!!

Okay. It’s been like 12 years now but when I visited Moab they told us to do fins and things because it was easy. I had a front wheel drive jeep liberty. Somewhere along the way I think we took a wrong turn and ended up on a much more difficult trail. Not difficult in the way of like fun obstacles, but one lane roads with steep drop offs, switchbacks and it was very gravely and we had a hard time climbing sometimes. Can you identify it from these photos? I’d love to know what we actually did!

After two candidate forums, multiple questionnaires, and an op-ed explaining why Mike McCurdy deserves another four years on the County Commission, I have developed a working theory of the McCurdy Theory of Government:

Step 1: Mike is on the County Commission.
Step 2: Something good happens.
Step 3: Mike did that.

I remain a little fuzzy on Step 2.

Mike tells us tourism is stronger. Tax revenues are up. Housing is being built. Relationships have improved. The economy is recovering.

Fantastic.

I have only one small, persnickety, apparently unreasonable request:

Could someone please show me the verbs?

Not “Mike was commissioner while...”

Not “Mike supported...”

Not “the Commission worked hard on...”

What did Mike do?

Did he propose something? Negotiate something? Rewrite something? Find funding for something? Build a coalition around something? Drag some hopelessly stalled project across the finish line through sheer lumberyard-fueled determination?

Give me a noun and a verb.

Because at one forum Mike said sales-tax revenue was up more than 25% and that this “comes directly from the work that I’ve done on the commission.”

That is an impressively direct causal claim for a sentence containing absolutely no information about the cause.

It's like standing next to a tomato plant in August and saying, “As you can see, tomatoes are up substantially this year. This comes directly from the work I've done in the garden.”

Okay.

What did you do to the tomato plant, Mike?

Did you water it?

Plant it?

Fertilize it?

Defend it heroically from aphids?

Or were you simply on the patio when the tomatoes happened?

And that's before we get to the fact that the roughly 25% figure included a voter-approved increase in the rural-health-care tax. Without that increase, the year-over-year growth was about 14%—still good, but rather less useful for the “behold the fruits of my personal economic stewardship” portion of the program.

The same mysterious fog descends whenever the questions become specific.

How should the county balance tourism revenue against residents' quality of life?

Tourism is important.

Correct. Next question: how should we balance it?

What should the county prioritize when money is tight?

Things that benefit locals.

Excellent. Which things?

How should we deal with political conflict?

Talk to people.

Groundbreaking. What happens when they still disagree?

How should the City and County work together?

By having good relationships.

We have now reached a dangerous level of insight.

And the truly baffling part is that Mike has been doing this job for nearly four years.

An incumbent should be able to answer these questions almost unfairly well.

He has sat through the budgets. Read the staff reports. Heard the legal advice. Watched projects succeed and fail. Dealt with state agencies. Dealt with federal agencies. Dealt with the City. Dealt with developers. Dealt with angry residents. Presumably discovered at least once that something he thought was simple was, in fact, an unholy municipal hydra with six funding sources, three interlocal agreements, and a lawyer attached to it.

There should be stories.

There should be scars.

There should be at least one sentence beginning:

“When we tried that in 2024, here's what we learned...”

Instead, the accumulated wisdom of four years in county government sometimes appears to have distilled down to:

Economy: strong.
Tourism: important.
Housing: needed.
Communication: good.
Locals: benefit.

This is not a governing philosophy so much as a collection of refrigerator magnets.

And to be clear, I don't doubt that Mike cares deeply about Grand County. I don't doubt that he talks to people. I don't doubt that he works hard.

But “I care,” “I listen,” and “good things happened while I was here” are three different propositions from:

“Here is what I accomplished.”

If Mike wants to run on the record of the last four years, great.

I'm just asking for the record.

Not the trailer.

Not the inspirational voice-over.

Not the montage where Main Street looks busy while uplifting music plays.

The part with the plot.

What did you push for?

What changed because you pushed for it?

What did you learn?

What would you do differently?

What do you want to do next?

At this point, I am not asking for a white paper.

I would settle for one completed Mad Lib:

“As commissioner, I ________, which resulted in ________, and in a second term I would ________.”

Any verbs accepted.

Sources:

https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/this-is-my-home/

https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/grand-county-commission-district-5-candidates-on-housing-tourism-and-spending/

https://moabsunnews.com/2026/10/01/kzmu-candidate-forum-2026-transcript/

https://moabsunnews.com/2026/10/02/kzmu-candidate-forum-fact-check-grand-county-2026/

https://moabsunnews.com/2026/10/06/lwv-forum-2026-commission-district-5/

The 2001 Roadless rule protects public lands from future roads being built through them for logging and other purposes. This rule protects roadless public lands across the nation - including areas surrounding Moab.

The public comment period was supposed to end on the 21st last month - but was extended for 15 days. Today is your last chance to speak up.

Here is the link to the government webpage to submit your comment:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/11/2026-18648/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation

The LWV put on a great debate last night. It was well attended, well organized and the topics were great. My thoughts on who presented themselves and ideas the best.
Diego and Shalee - I think this is the tightest race, both seemed to have good, well thought out responses.
Rory and Neal - Definitely Neal! Rory kind of blundered, spoke more on the fact he is self funding his campaign, which if you look at his disclosure $35,000, donated by his father. Besides that Neal was well spoken, great answers and seems fairly middle of the road. Rory didn’t come off as a great option in my mind.
Mike and Everett - No contest here! Everett crushed it. Mike is a nice guy, but he seemed off, confused, and kept riding on the fact that he is from Moab. Everett had real answers, and spoke with confidence and directness. Not a huge fan of Mike to begin with so maybe a bit biased, but in commission meeting he always just regurgitates what the other three say and when he had to speak for himself in this setting he didn’t really have anything intelligent to say.
Winder and Wiggins- Both did a good job. Wiggins I think pulled it off in my mind as Winder is a great speaker, lots of fluff, but in the end I thought Wiggins spoke truthfully, thoughtful and has real world knowledge of Grand County.
Good event LWV!

My brother, uncle, dad and i are stuck in Moab until we find a working voltage regulator for a 1998 Harley Davidson Softail with an evo engine. Please contact me i’ll check my messages.

Do any of the hotels have saunas or hot tubs that locals can pay to use in winter?

Let’s all hope that Ken has better influence in the next life when it comes to the location and timing of preeeecision earthquakes.

We just lost a great one and this one hurts.

Can we dismantle this BS?

I've been waiting for a good night to try this shot, but after visiting again during the day I'm not sure I want to do it alone after dark because of that scrambling section. Especially with a camera bag, tripod, etc.

Does anyone who's done it before want to go out tonight? To shoot or if you're super brave reppel in the dark?

(Pic for attention)

LINK

Scrub to 1hr33m

About time!

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/107W-2025-04447-Sam-Kim-CoW.pdf

I'm not holding my breath, but sometimes humanity warms my heart. Went up to try and find it - no dice. Found a helmet, shoes, jackets and some gloves.