Editor's Take: April 25, 2008
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Seattle Thinks Dense
More than 40 cities in the Seattle area signed on to a plan that emphasizes growth in urban cores, and discourages sprawling exurbs, the Seattle Times reports. Meanwhile, Everett is trying to ban big, bad subdivisions on the city’s outskirts. One super-sized development the city is battling would include 6,000 houses and a golf course. Yikes!
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Seattle Turns Inward
Seattle Times
04/25/2008
The combined populations of Seattle and Bellevue could grow by nearly 300,000 under a plan that attempts to direct much of the region's projected growth to its largest cities.
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Mini-cities are Mega-problems
Everett Herald
04/25/2008
Snohomish County is heading off a proposal to build 6,000 houses near Lake Roesiger and any other similar project that would create an urban island in the county's rural areas.
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Hanford: Nuclear Crossroads
High Country News
04/25/2008
In Washington state, a 1-million-gallon plume of radioactive waste is seeping from Hanford Nuclear Reserve toward the Columbia River. But in Washington, D.C., Dennis Spurgeon foresees a rosy future for the Department of Energy's nuclear program.
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Rice Rationing -- in Portland
Oregonian
04/25/2008
The dynamics of the world food economy are playing out in full force in Oregon as real and perceived shortages are driving prices to record highs. Some local stores have started to ration rice sales, and relief agencies fear a new crisis in trying to feed the world's hungry.
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Governors Take up Pens against Emissions Plan
Los Angeles Times
04/25/2008
Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and 11 others say in a letter to President Bush that a greenhouse gas proposal for autos is 'an end run around 40 years of precedent.'
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Coming Soon: Peak-oil Refugees?
Georgia Straight
04/25/2008
When Vancouver-based strategic planner, architect, and peak-oil proponent Richard Balfour talks about environmental refugees, he mentions his own speculation that "20 to 30 million people" could be living in the Georgia Basin in the next 15 to 20 years.
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Northern BC Actually Affordable
canada.com
04/25/2008
The escalating cost of housing in the Lower Mainland and other parts of B.C. is not translating into a problem for Northern residents, according to the B.C. Northern Real Estate Board.
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Clinton Focusing on Small Towns in Oregon
Oregonian
04/25/2008
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bringing to Oregon the small-town strategy that helped her win Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary.
"Sen. Clinton has been performing extremely well with working class union households and rural Democrats," Josh Kardon, chairman of Clinton's Oregon steering committee, said in a telephone interview Thursday. "We are going to take this campaign to places that most presidential candidates never venture."
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To Save Salmon, Sea Lions Banished to Sea World
Vancouver Columbian
04/24/2008
State workers hauled at least two sea lions out of the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam that they say can be legally shipped to Sea World.
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Views: Vancouver is the American Dream
The Tyee
04/25/2008
Most Americans are tired of endlessly hearing about Portland. We need additional models. Europe is too alien for most Americans (remember that only 20 percent of us have passports). Canada is so close and you have been exporting friendly images and personalities to us for years; who can't relate to Red Green?
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