Editor's Take: May 01, 2008
Standing-room only on a Seattle bus.
The Long and Winding Road to the Store
Today’s Seattle P-I offers an eye-opening article on a key to healthy, walkable neighborhoods -- the grocery store. And the number of grocers differs wildly depending on where you live in the city. In South Seattle -- the locus of many of the city’s low-income neighborhoods -- good luck finding a well-stocked store within a 30-minute bus ride.
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A Long Haul to Seattle Grocery Stores
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
05/01/2008
Many parts of Seattle lack a grocery store within walking distance or a 30-minute bus ride.
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Wild Salmon Rationing in BC
CBC BC
04/30/2008
First Nations leaders along the Fraser River are being asked to do something they've never been asked to do -- ration their salmon catch and share among themselves. Sto:lo Nation fisheries adviser Ernie Crey said 2008 is the worst year he's seen in five decades for returning sockeye on the Fraser.
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Greening Away Poverty
San Francisco Bay Guardian
05/01/2008
If green is the new black, eco-populism is the new environmentalism.
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Live from Downtown Tacoma!
KUOW
05/01/2008
The city is working on a new strategic plan to develop the downtown economy. What businesses are key to making downtown bustle? How is downtown defined anyway? A special report.
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Wyden Pushes Salvage Logging
Oregonian
05/01/2008
Sen. Ron Wyden is asking the U.S. Forest Service to speed approval of logging in areas of eastern Oregon burned by two recent wildfires.
The two salvage logging sales are the subject of a proposed agreement between the timber companies and environmentalists that would log about 38 million board feet of timber in Grant and Harney counties.
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Mount St. Helens Not Mine
Vancouver Columbian
04/30/2008
The Bureau of Land Management has rejected a lease application from a Colorado-based company that applied to mine for copper 12 miles northeast of the Mount St. Helens crater, just outside the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
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Canada's Income Gap
Toronto Globe and Mail
05/01/2008
The earnings gap between the rich and the poor is widening in Canada, with incomes among recent immigrants showing especially dramatic declines in recent years, according to sweeping new census data.
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May Day's History of Protest in NW
Oregon Public Broadcasting
05/01/2008
Thursday is May Day and in Portland, as in other cities, anti-war marches, pro-immigrant rallies, and even a university education event are planned.
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Views: A Streetcar Named Small-Town Desire
The Dalles Chronicle
05/01/2008
It's time to dramatically expand our national investment in automobile alternatives. The time must return when every little town has streetcars, for example, and not just for waterfront tourists. Europe manages to prosper despite gasoline prices still much higher than ours; our challenge will be adapting their solutions to our wide-open spaces.
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Views: Top Secret! BC Climate Policy
The Tyee
05/01/2008
Later this month, the Canadian Association of Journalists will announce the winner of its annual Code of Silence Award -- recognizing the most secretive government department in Canada. And this year we're proud to nominate the Campbell administration's climate action secretariat for that award.
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