Editor's Take: May 02, 2008
Elk Grove, Calif.
Ghost 'Burbs
We’ve heard a lot about the casualties of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Here’s another one: suburbia. The Guardian reports from a suburb of Sacramento, Calif., where cul de sacs are emptying and houses are shuttered. The Atlantic Monthly ran a great piece (The Next Slum?) on this in their March issue -- and also spotlighted Elk Grove.
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Mortgage Crisis Sees Suburbs Slump
Guardian
04/21/2008
As the banks foreclose on loans across the US, worried householders watch their tree-lined streets change. The view from suburban Sacramento, Calif.
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Victoria Puts Housing First
CBC BC
05/02/2008
CBC TV news show The National looks at how Victoria plans to mimic the efforts of Portland to reduce homelessness by taking a "housing first" approach. A video segment.
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Union's War Protest Shuts West Coast Ports
New York Times
05/02/2008
Cranes and forklifts stood still from Seattle to San Diego, and ships were stalled at sea as workers held rallies up and down the coast to blame the war for distracting public attention and money from domestic needs like health care and education.
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Study: Caregivers Earn Less than Gas Station Clerks
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
05/02/2008
Child care workers typically earn less than locker-room attendants and service-station workers, pulling in $18,820 a year in 2006, according to a report released Thursday.
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New I-5 Bridge Would Make Traffic Disappear
Oregonian
05/02/2008
Replacing the decrepit Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River with mass transit lines and new car lanes on a toll bridge would reduce future traffic congestion by two-thirds, from a whopping 15 hours a day to potentially less than five.
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Dead Zones Growing
Los Angeles Times
05/02/2008
Oxygen-starved waters are expanding in the Pacific and Atlantic as ocean temperatures increase with global warming, threatening fisheries and other marine life, a study published today concludes.
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More Giant Worms!
Seattle Times
05/02/2008
The giant Palouse earthworm is still among the Northwest's rarest inhabitants, but two new discoveries suggest the native wigglers might be a bit more abundant than previously thought.
A pair of pinkish-white worms from opposite margins of the Columbia River basin appear to be members of the species, reputed to grow up to 3 feet long.
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Palco Bankruptcy Update
Eureka Times-Standard
05/02/2008
The Pacific Lumber Co. and its parent company, Maxxam Inc., have struck a deal with the Mendocino Redwood Co. and a key creditor, and raised the ante with an all-cash offer for the Scotia company's timberlands.
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The New Geopolitics of Energy
The Nation
05/02/2008
While the day-to-day focus of US military planning remains Iraq and Afghanistan, American strategists are increasingly looking beyond these two conflicts to envision the global combat environment of the emerging period--and the world they see is one where the struggle over vital resources, rather than ideology or balance-of-power politics, dominates the martial landscape.
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Views: Menu Planning
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
05/02/2008
As gasoline prices rise, questions about how people shop for groceries will increase. But for working-class and poorer neighborhoods, convenient access to reasonably priced, healthy foods has been a concern for too long.
More of us are starting to pay attention.
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