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May
31 |
Informational
meeting on the Department of Natural Resources' Road Maintenance and
Abandonment Plan (RMAP) regulations to be held June 10 in Bremerton, WA
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May
31 |
Elko,
Nevada: Local protesters plan to picket BLM office -
Elko Daily News
Threats
claimed by rival livestock group -
Elko Daily News
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May
31 |
Plan
unveiled to create new wilderness area -
Seattle Times
The
Wildlands Project
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May
31 |
CA:
Cypress invokes eminent domain to seize church land
- Cottonwood
center will seek an injunction to stop the forced $14.6 million sale
meant to make way for a Costco plaza - Orange
County Register
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May
31 |
Political
Terrorism: On a collision course with the Constitution -
Government power should be limited; regulations and codes go far beyond
reasonable exercise of government authority
by
Keith Allison, D.Dn.
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May
30 |
Farm
Bill includes billions of taxpayers' dollars to buy up development
rights, "conserve" land -
Liberty Matters
Farmland
"protection" program emerges from 2002 farm bill -
conservation easements to restrict land forever funded at more than a
billion dollars - ENN
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May
30 |
Federal
government to buy up mineral rights in Florida with taxpayers' dollars -
Washington Post
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May
30 |
Washington
State Farm Bureau's News Watch
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Grassroots
applying pressure to change broken RMAP rule -
by Steve Appel, WA State Farm Bureau
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May
30 |
BLM
plans Friday auction in Reno for seized cattle -
Las Vegas Sun
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May
30 |
New
Guidelines Open Up FBI Investigative Techniques
- Fox News
FBI
Given More Latitude -
New Surveillance Rules Remove Evidence Hurdle -
Washington Post
A
New And Improved F.B.I. by
Chuck Baldwin
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May
29 |
Land-use
plan gets new hearing-Citizens
groups persuade board to make county revisit blueprint -
Spokesman Review
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May
29 |
Indicators
show Washington still in recession last month
- Seattle PI
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May
29 |
‘Contentious’
river property owners unwilling to sell,
but some feel they have no choice - by
Sue Forde, Citizen Review Online
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May
28 |
Anti-Defamation
League Labels Conservative Event 'Extremist'
- CNS News
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May
28 |
Diverse
recreation and government groups say Boxer/Capps Wilderness Bill is a
bad idea
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May
26 |
Cascades
conservation group buys 4,000 acres
- Spokesman Review
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May
26 |
Citizens
speak out against river buyout; county to proceed with grant application
anyway
- by Sue Forde, Citizen Review Online
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May
26 |
Salmon
recovery efforts killing Twin Lakes, group claims
- Department
of Ecology says lakes are returning to naturally sustainable levels
- Methow Valley News
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May
26 |
Methow
Valley Irrigation District appeals Ecology order
- Methow Valley News
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May
26 |
U.N.
report: World environmental outlook is bleak
- King 5 News
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May
26 |
Portland-area
voters preserve urban growth boundary
- King 5 News
Portland
votes to grow like Los Angeles - UN model 'sustainable city'
increases traffic congestion, air pollution and reduces urban open space
- by Randal O'Toole, Thoreau Institute
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May
26 |
From the North Olympic Peninsula:
The Olympic Discovery Trail – helping create 'livable'
communities at taxpayers' expense by Sue
Forde, Citizen Review Online
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May
26 |
Education 'Reform' and Agenda 21: It
All Ties Together – Controlling the Opposition
by Charlene Sanders
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May
24 |
Seat
Belt Infractions a Draconian Law - Politics
in the Law, A Commentary by Keith
Allison, D.Dn.
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May
24 |
Seeking
Justice: Ranchers, Indians appeal to county sheriff -
Elko Daily News
Malevolent
Government strikes again, and again -
letter from Julie Kay Smithson
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May
24 |
Skagit:
Local entities applying for disaster-plan grant -
Skagit Valley Herald
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May
24 |
Nature
Conservancy (TNC) Land Trust sets land auction to sell off holding
Land
deal has something for everyone
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May
24 |
Making
RMAPs Work For Family Forests and Fish by
Pat McElroy, Washington State Forester
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May
24 |
Act
Would OK Snail Mail Searches
- Wired News
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May
24 |
Plenty
of snow, but where’s the water? -
Low reservoir levels leave boat ramps high and dry -
Skagit Valley Herald
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May
22 |
Grant
County passes measure allowing cutting timber without permission -
AP
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May
22 |
Yakima
Basin water program to be tested -
Yakima Herald
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May
22 |
Port
Townsend: Council members defend private meeting
- PDN
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May
22 |
Growth
boundaries will stay: - County report says cities big enough for next 20
years -
Eastside Journal
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May
22 |
Small
forest owners cry foul about RMAPS -
The Olympian
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May
22 |
Politics
in the Law, A Commentary
by: Keith Allison, D.Dn.
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May
22 |
Kansas
Republican leadership sells out on Constitution - TRACKSIDE
© by John D’Aloia Jr.
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May
22 |
Youngest
competitor, age 10, wins National Geographic Bee -
AP
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May
21 |
Action
Alert! Land Grab Vote on Wednesday! Heritage Areas Act would
create a new form of federal land use control
- from American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network
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May
21 |
BLM
prepares to rustle more cattle - cowboys and Indians say 'No' -
press release from Nevada Livestock Assn.
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May
21 |
Leaving
the Delivery Business - Insurance costs drive away baby docs -
Skagit Valley Herald
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May
21 |
Agency
changes tack on threat to fish - Regulators: Dredging okay for salmon
- The
Columbian
Dredging
won't hurt salmon, NMFS says
- Spokesman Review
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May
21 |
Growth
Management: County's comp plan withstands legal appeal
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An appeals court finds no error by Kitsap County in drafting the 1998
document - Bremerton Sun
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May
21 |
Wyoming: Controversy
erupts over state land access - AP
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May
21 |
Arkansas: Sustainable Development brought
in through Community Development Dept. vis-a-vis the Dept. of
Agriculture by
Charlene Sanders, Sierra Times
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May
21 |
UN
Secretary-General Names five key areas for advancement of Sustainable
Development worldwide
UN
Agenda 21 and its ties to the local communities
- from Charlene Sanders
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May
20 |
North
Carolina:
Citizens Decry Rules on River Buffers -
Carolina Journal
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May
20 |
Conservation
Easements: “Century 21” of the Environmental Movement;IUCN and IRS -
by Jay Zane Walley
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May
20 |
Inslee
wants to protect roadless areas in state forests -58 MILLION
acres would be "protected" from roads and logging - nearly 1/3
of all national forests
Bremerton Sun
Socialism
by a landslide -
by Henry Lamb from WND
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May
20 |
Property
Rights Research.org - a great new site to check out!
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May
19 |
Texas:
Valley farmers plot out bridge 'tractorcade' -
The Monitor
Leading
lawmaker says Mexico has no water to give to the U.S. -
The NewsMexico.com
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May
19 |
Ecology
will scrap wetlands 'banks' - The
Olympian
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May
19 |
Some
schools are rethinking federal dollars for education: it's costing twice
as much as we're getting, they say -
John D'Aloia Jr.
Complaints
force revisions in 'school climate survey' - Seattle
P-I
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May
19 |
Park
Service Plans Massive New Land Grabs! Appointees in the National Park
Service are hatching a new attack on private property rights! from
American Land Rights Association
See The
Wildlands Project
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May
19 |
Property
rights under assault in Arizona - By
Vin Suprynowicz-Sierra Times
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May
19 |
ACLU
Says Standardized Driver's License Proposals Walk and Talk
Like National ID Schemes
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May
19 |
Writing
on the Wall - Big Brother goes after vitamins - Health
Sciences Institute
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May
19 |
Streamkeeper
calls for building up instead of out to save fish
- Daily Herald of Everett, WA
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May
19 |
Politics
in the Law, A Commentary By
Keith Allison, D.Dn.
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May
18 |
The
Olympic Peninsula in Washington: UN mountains and UN sustainability -
by Sue Forde, Citizen Review Online
(as published in the Sierra Times)
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May
18 |
Lands
Commissioner proposes new trust to pay for recreation -
King 5 News
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May
18 |
Private
Land Lockup: Rural Washington faces another onslaught -
Federal and state agencies are, in essence, pulling the land
right out from under the feet of private property owners as part of the
United Nations’ radical Wildlands Project -
New American
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May
18 |
Arena
challenge last thing to get knocked down
- A judge rules that a petition opposing the
event center site was invalid, weeks after buildings on the site were
razed
- The Daily Herald
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May
18 |
U.S. &
Canada: Too Many People for West Coast Health from
Environment News Service
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May
18 |
Crying
Wolf Again - The Federal Cover-Up
By
Montana State Rep. Joe Balyeat
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May
18 |
"Livable"
Delaware plan - one of many varieties of the same across the U.S.
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May
18 |
Revolution
via home schooling - WND
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May
16 |
Farmers
want county to keep fighting buffers -
Skagit Valley Herald
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May
16 |
Methow
Valley farmers seek funds
- Irrigators raising money for
court battle against federal government -
Spokesman Review
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May
16 |
The card game: As
more grocery chains deal out discount cards, shoppers take sides:
savings versus privacy -
Seattle Times
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May
16 |
Initiative
6 gets a minor win by
Sue Forde, Citizen Review Online
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May
16 |
Growth
Management: How Dense Is Dense Enough? -
Thoreau Institute
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May
16 |
Clallam aide discusses dike concerns
- Official dismisses link to flooding on Kinkade
Island -
PDN
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May
15 |
Global
Warming Models Labeled 'Fairy Tale' By Team of Scientists
- CNS
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May
15 |
State
weighs turning away federal funds for schools -
CS Monitor
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May
15 |
Social
Security numbers need legislative protection
By
Rep. Ron Paul
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May
15 |
Police/community
partnership hand selects appointees, prevent citizen participation
by
Niki Raapana
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May
15 |
Freedom
County files their case with the State Supreme Court
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May
15 |
Washington
State jobless rate inches up -
Seattle Times
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May
15 |
Cattlemen
and The Nature Conservancy Jointly Hail New Grassland Reserve
Program -
Liberty Matters
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May
14 |
6
new UN environmental treaties go to Senate
by Henry Lamb - WND
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May
14 |
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May
14 |
Governor
Locke promotes a "sustainable Washington" - Unable to define
the word, this article is quite revealing - from
Governor Locke's website, "Toward a Sustainable Washington"
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May
14 |
'Smart
Growth' - or 'dumbed down by consensus politicians -
by Betty Freauf
'Smart
growth' plan's perils -
WA Times
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May
14 |
'NO
AMERICAN LEFT ALONE!
The trail of control over U.S. lives
- Charlotte Iserbyt
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May
14 |
Public
Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland addresses RMAPs and other land issues
- by Mary Swoboda
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May
14 |
Ballard
to end 20-year career in House
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May
13 |
Agenda
2002: Census 2000 shows unsettling trends - South
Sound growth stressing communities, families
- News Tribune
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May
13 |
Denial
of Water and What it Provides - from Paragon
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May
11 |
Delay
likely on buffer deadline
- Skagit Valley Herald
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May
11 |
Lawmaker
seeks Ritalin recommendation ban -
Palm Beach Post
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May
11 |
A
dangerous game - Orlando Sentinel
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May
11 |
Teachers
support EFF's efforts to hold union accountable -
EFF
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May
10 |
Home
Rule Charter Commission gets down to business in changes needed - KONP
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May
10 |
“I’m
not about to be run out of town by a fascist law with no constitutional
basis!” says law instructor about RMAPs -
by Mark Alan
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May
10 |
Buying
up the land and water rights - 510 acres along Nooksack River gets
bought up - Governor Locke's "Salmon
Recovery" Funding Board
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May
10 |
Eden
Revisited -
The Darker Side of the Environmental Movement -
from Sierra
Times
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May
10 |
‘Willing
Sellers’ sought along Dungeness River –Agencies
work to rid river of private ownership by
Sue Forde, Editor
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Rural
America Under Siege -from
OC3 newsletter
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May
9 |
"How
Smart Is It? "Smart Growth: Tight state budgets may reduce funding
for anti-sprawl efforts, and that has some fretting. Not us.-
Defenders of Property Rights
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May
9 |
Salmon
recovery aid drying up
- $2 to $3 billion needed to restore viable
Puget Sound chinook runs - The Olympian
Dwindling
salmon funds predicted
Officials
urge more bang for the bucks - News Tribune
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May
9 |
CA: Boxer
bill would set aside 3,800 sq. miles for wilderness
Mountain
Democrat Online
See
The Wildlands Project
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May
9 |
Desert
storm: Lines drawn in battle over storage of nuclear waste -
Seattle Times
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May
9 |
Forest
Service accountability needed, says Sen. Cantwell -
Wenatchee World
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May
9 |
Is
it a gate, or a trap? Blanchard
tide gate project streams into political snag -
Skagit Valley Herald
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May
9 |
Environmental
group to sue for Libby Dam water release
Corps should already have implemented
higher spring flows, center contends - Spokesman
Review
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May
9 |
King
County jurist announces bid for high court - AP
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May
9 |
Casino
to give tribal members $2,000 a month -
King 5 News
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May
9 |
DNA
banking and do-it-yourself DNA kits -
King 5 News
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May
8 |
Changing
the 2nd Amendment - Journalists hope that only a collective right
to guns through state and federal militias, not an individual's absolute
right will be affirmed by courts -
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The
individual right to bear arms
Editorial from Washington Times
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May
7 |
EDITORIAL:
Property rights under assault
Arizona case has national ramifications
by
Vin Suprynowicz
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May
7 |
Committee
formed to figure out how to pay for watershed plans -
DOE news release
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May
6 |
Public Lands Commissioner to appear at Belfair, WA to answer questions about RMAPs
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May
6 |
Letter
to the editor:
Secret
on-campus encounter sessions violate families, children; coming to a
school near you
- Andrew
Madison
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May
6 |
Texas
Farmers Claim Mexico Is Stealing Water
Blockade Of International Bridges Planned by
Thomas D. Segel
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May
6 |
THE
PERFECT CRIME: How psychology and high-tech marketing have
"deformed" education -
by Beverly Eakman
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May
3 |
Water
Fight: U.S. Farmers plan to blockade three bridges from Mexico; Farmers
Betrayed by USDA & IBWC
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May
3 |
County,
tribe try to resolve land dispute -
County again appeals status of marina site -
Skagit Valley Herald
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May
2 |
Columbia
dredging won't harm salmon, agency finds
Tribal groups worried project could be setback
for fish -
Spokesman-Review
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May
2 |
Skagit
County applies to federal buffer program -
Skagit Herald
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May
2 |
Grant
PUD faces suit over fish protection -
Wenatchee World
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May
2 |
State
steps up decisions on water rights
- Permit
backlog is still a problem -
Olympian
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May
2 |
About
the Klez virus - from khouse.org
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May
2 |
As the Wildlands
Project continues to grow, carnivore encounters occur more frequently -
Bend Bulletin
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May
2 |
Mayday,
Mayday - Marx lives on — in America, National
Review
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May
1 |
Initiative
6 presses forward in the courts to defend constitutional government -
GMA-related local ordinance repeal stopped before going to voters -
by Sue Forde, Citizen Review
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May
1 |
Senators
Fighting Federal Zoning Bill - American
Land Rights Assn.
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May
1 |
Justice
wants halt to coho salmon action - Department
says boost in flows would cost farmers, wildlife - L.A.
Times
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May
1 |
The
Many Facets of The Endangered Species Act
by
Julie Kay Smithson
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May
1 |
Another
Federal Court Okays Forcible Administration of Mind-Altering Drugs-
Alchemind Society
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May
1 |
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May
1 |
Bill
would push driver's license with chip -
UPI
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May
1 |
Hinton,
West Virginia: Same Old Government Land Grab
By
Tom DeWeese
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May
1 |
Coalition
fights critical habitat designation -
Fish & Wildlife has violated ESA by failing to conduct a proper
economic analysis, says group -Amarillo
Globe-News
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May
1 |
Bill
to Give Feds Control of Zoning Kept Private
- Washington Times
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May
1 |
Tahoe
Case Leaves Door Open for Property Owners
- Liberty Matters
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May
1 |
What's
happening in U.S. schools
- by Henry Lamb, WND
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May
1 |
Sequim,
WA: Ecology holds Clean Water Strategy public hearing; 2nd
version focuses on ‘human’ caused problems for the watershed
- by Sue Forde, Citizen Review
Online
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Apr.
28 |
State
Agency issues "Model" Critical Areas Ordinance"
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