To Lees or not to Lee's; Mike Lee goes after roadless rule; Trump steps up oil and gas leasing

Plus a dash of historical mass murder and its connection to today's copyediting and political battles

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Looking down at Lees Ferry and Lee Ferry, but probably not Lee’s Ferry or Lees’ Ferry. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

Recently, my colleagues at High Country News and I had a bit of a kerfuffle over whether the place on the Colorado River that divides the Upper Basin from the Lower Basin was called Lee Ferry, Lee’s Ferry, or …