by Editor | Jun 17, 2013 | Wildlands Project
Posted 6/16/2013 Daily Record Washington State – 5/1/2013 – U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert introduced a bill in Congress that would designate a stretch of scenic landscape from Seattle to Ellensburg as a National Heritage Area. The Mountains to Sound Greenway...
by Editor | Jun 16, 2013 | Education
Public School Censorship Posted on June 15, 2013 by Pearl Rains Hewett Comment SILENCING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? SINCE WHEN did American PUBLIC SCHOOLS become CENSORS of FREE SPEECH AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? SINCE A high school teacher in Illinois was DISCIPLINED...
by Editor | Jun 14, 2013 | Sustainability
Posted 6/14/2013 Capital Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — One of every three bites of food we consume depends on pollination by honeybees, but these overlooked contributors to our food system are continuing to die in stubbornly perplexing ways. Beekeeping groups...
by Editor | Jun 14, 2013 | War on the West, Water Issues
Posted 6/14/2013 Capital Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Some of the ranchers facing irrigation shutoffs in the upper Klamath Basin are asking a judge to stop state officials from enforcing newly recognized water rights held by the Klamath Tribes. Klamath County...
by Editor | Jun 14, 2013 | War on the West, Water Issues
By JOHN O’CONNELL, Capital Press ABERDEEN, Idaho — Growers with Southeast Idaho’s Aberdeen-Springfield Canal Co. will soon exhaust their share of natural flows in the Upper Snake River about a month ahead of normal, and will then have just 48 percent...