Editor's Take: April 10, 2008
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20 Minutes with Hillary in Oregon
Portland’s Willamette Week scored an exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton during her tour of Oregon last weekend. The presidential candidate talks about Oregon Senator Ron Wyden’s health care bill, timber payments, LNG, and, of course, what tattoo she’d like to get. (You guess which one: a. the word “love”; b. the U.S. flag; c. a picture of Chelsea.)
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Willamette Week Interviews Hillary Clinton
Willamette Week
04/10/2008
Here's what she had to say about timber payments, domestic partnerships and why Bill Clinton may not have been president without her.
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Yakima Middle Class Worse Off than 5 Years Ago
Yakima Herald-Republic
04/10/2008
Interviews with Yakima residents reflect a national trend. A new study by the Pew Research Center found that 56 percent of Americans say they either have failed to progress or are in worse financial shape than five years ago.
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Tribes See Economic Opportunity in Carbon Market
Indian Country Today
04/10/2008
The Nez Perce Tribe has been a leader in trading credits on the Chicago Climate Exchange, based on tree-planting the tribe has done on its lands since 2003.
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NW Salmon Pact Only Getting $540 Million
AP
04/09/2008
A deal unveiled this week commits federal agencies to spend $900 million to help endangered Northwest salmon - but just $540 million would go to new projects.
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First Fish in 100 Years Swims Past Montana Dam
Missoulian
04/10/2008
The first documented fish to swim upstream past the old Milltown Dam site in 100 years made the journey Tuesday, slipping through the dark waters and into the pages of history.
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Big Trucking Deal in California
In These Times
04/07/2008
A diverse coalition -- including the Teamsters, the National Resources Defense Council and the American Lung Association -- wins a battle to regulate air pollution at California ports.
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EcoDensity Anxiety in Vancouver
Georgia Straight
04/10/2008
Why has Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan's EcoDensity plan aroused such passion? The Georgia Straight attends public hearings to find out.
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Commentary: Medford Plans to Get Out of the Car
Medford Mail-Tribune
04/10/2008
Step away from the Rogue Valley for a minute, and it's easy to see a world that is looking at cars in ways it didn't just a few years ago.
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Commentary: Mark Jaccard on BC's Climate Politics
Vancouver Sun
04/10/2008
Public policies based on voluntarily reducing carbon emissions have failed to change behavior.
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Commentary: Seattle Local Food Plan Good for All
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
04/10/2008
The Seattle City Council is about to launch a local food initiative. It's a smart move that will help shape the city's ability to apply good ideas from an ever-growing understanding of how individual and societal food decisions affect health, the environment and the welfare of vulnerable residents.
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