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Under a 137-year-old mining law, land freed from the protections of official designation as a wilderness study area is land that anyone can run a road through. And once that road is worn and claimed, future wilderness designation is next to impossible. But subsequent clarifications of the law have failed to douse the controversy over what can be defined as a road. For the wilderness contingent, a road is a "highway" that accommodates all four wheels of a jeep, truck or car. For developers and their friends in government, a road is merely that which allows the passage of vehicles, including dusty old hiking trails. Ben Fulton describes the Utah politics playing out over these issues and their impact on the Bush Interior Department's plans to open wild, remote areas to access and development.

Outing Abe, Adolf, Jesus and other historical greats. The life of a young black dom on the streets in D.C. Gay predators of the new millennium. Homothugs on the down low come out in Brooklyn. Finding a Jewish mohel to circumcise a baby coming into a family composed of one lesbian and two gay men. It's all in The Village Voice's "Queer Issue."

Lewis & Clark College President Michael Mooney resigns this week after revelations that he loaned $10.5 million in college funds to a former wildcatter looking for a way to reprocess waste oil. Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss wraps up a three-part series on the scandal with a visit to Environmental Oil Processing Technology's dormant refinery 22 miles west of Boise, Idaho, an unlikely spot to have marked the end of the respected college president's 14-year reign.

Partners in Housing, an Indianapolis non-profit developer specializing in housing for the homeless and other special needs tenants, will begin major rehabilitation work on several 70-year-old buildings this fall. Using the innovative concept of "supportive housing," the 106 units will be linked with an array of social services to provide counseling, job training and placement, access to mental and physical health care and other forms of assistance to help the low-income tenants stay housed and healthy. NUVO's Summer Wood talks to the developer, potential tenants, and community leaders about the plan and its pros and cons.