by Editor | Oct 22, 2012 | Govt Agencies, War on the West
By TIM HEARDEN Capital Press Posted 10/21/2012 SACRAMENTO — Gary Van Ryn has been feeling the pressure from low milk prices. The 48-year-old dairyman milks about 1,200 cows at the Visalia, Calif., dairy his family has owned for 50 years. Like many other dairymen...
by Editor | Oct 22, 2012 | Govt Agencies, War on the West
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Posted 10/21/2012 A federal judge has agreed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the Colorado river cutthroat trout doesn’t warrant protection as a threatened or endangered species. The subspecies of trout, found in...
by Editor | Oct 22, 2012 | Govt Agencies
Posted 10/21/2012 Op/Ed by The Heritage Foundation It’s been a pretty big year for welfare—and a new report shows welfare is bigger than ever. The Obama Administration turned a giant spotlight on the welfare system in July when the Department of Health and Human...
by Editor | Sep 13, 2012 | Agenda 21, Govt Agencies, Property Rights, WA State DOE, Water Issues
Published on Wed, Sep 12, 2012 by MARK ST.J. COUHIG Sequim Gazette With the deadline for approval approaching, the Washington Department of Ecology is still hard at work on the new Dungeness Water Management Rule. Agency Director Ted Sturdevant says they have a lot of...
by Editor | Sep 12, 2012 | Agenda 21
Seattle P-I Posted 9/11/2012 Seattle, WA – People for Puget Sound, one of the Northwest’s highest profile conservation groups, will cease operations later this fall and try to transfer its work to other environmental activists. “We don’t have the runway to keep...