Editor's Take: Top Story For May 09, 2008
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Salmon Fishing a Relic of the Past?
Today, the New York Times visits Southern Oregon’s coast to find out how salmon fisherman are going to make it through the summer. Some are giving up on their craft altogether and turning to other means of making a living. In Cascadia’s more remote fishing and logging towns, these are really hard times.
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Salmon Gone, Fishermen Adapt
New York Times
05/09/2008
With most of Oregon and California's commercial salmon fishery shut down because of sharp declines in the number of the fish returning to the Sacramento River to spawn, many fishermen are looking for almost any alternative, trying to diversify along with the rest of the regional economy.
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Millions for Timber Payments Added to Iraq Bill
Portland Oregonian
05/09/2008
The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee has agreed to add $400 million for county payments to the must-pass Iraq war funding bill, giving rural communities in Oregon and beyond unexpected hope that federal aid could be delivered this year.
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Olympia Food Bank Sees Jump in Demand
Olympia Olympian
05/09/2008
The number of individuals seeking help increased 27 percent to more than 17,000 in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period last year, food bank executive director Robert Coit said. The number of households seeking help rose 28 percent to more than 7,000, he said.
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BC has Worst Child Poverty in Canada
Georgia Straight
05/09/2008
British Columbia holds the dubious record of having the worst child-poverty rate in the country for five consecutive years, from 2002 to 2006.
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Sam Sullivan: We Must Care for Our Most Vulnerable
Toronto Globe and Mail
05/09/2008
You have all read about international surveys ranking Vancouver as one of the best places in the world to live, work and visit.
But for every one of those, you will also read about the social challenges of homelessness, drug addiction and mental health facing our city.
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Backing off Biofuels
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
05/09/2008
Local officials behind the enthusiastic rush toward biofuels are tapping the brakes, thanks to mounting concerns about the impact on food supplies and the environment. Representatives of Seattle, King County and the University of Washington this week said they wanted to take a closer look at where the fuel comes from and what effect it's having on the planet.
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Medford's H2O is No. 1
Medford Mail-Tribune
05/09/2008
Next time you take a swig of Medford tap water, appreciate the clarity of its color in the glass, the full-mouth feel, the mineral finish.
You're drinking an award winner.
Judges at the regional conference of the American Water Works Association said Medford has the best-tasting tap water in the Northwest.
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Murrelet Populations Trend Down
Eureka Times-Standard
05/09/2008
Studies started in 2000 appear to show a decline in the population of federally protect marbled murrelets on the West Coast -- but not at the high end of earlier estimates, said a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wildlife biologist.
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Montana Biologists Use Trout to Study Dam Removal
Missoula Missoulian
05/09/2008
State fisheries biologists implanted telemetry devices into seven more trout Thursday, the latest batch to be followed in a decade-long study of the biological impact of the removal of the Milltown Dam and the toxic mining wastes that accumulated behind it over the past century.
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Wild Sky Wilderness Backers Celebrate
Everett Herald
05/09/2008
In July 2001, environmentalists, east Snohomish County residents and federal lawmakers marched along a path among old-growth trees near Troublesome Creek north of U.S. 2. It was a part of a tour to show off a wild area that some thought should be preserved forever.
On Thursday, most of those areas were added to Washington's protected areas.
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