Editor's Take: August 20, 2008
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Making Space for Car-Sharing
Car-sharing gets a boost in Seattle today as the city adds more dedicated parking spaces and lets police crack down on violators. Meanwhile, Oregon Governor Kulongoski has called for stronger affirmative action within state agencies. Also, could the tiny pika be the next polar bear in the fight against global warming?
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Seattle Car-Sharing in Gets a Boost
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
08/19/2008
Members of a Seattle City Council committee on Tuesday approved a measure that could increase street parking dedicated to "car sharing" in which group members drive vehicles on an hourly basis.
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Oregon Beefs Up Affirmative Action
Oregonian
08/20/2008
Gov. Ted Kulongoski has issued two new executive orders to add muscle to state equal opportunity programs, one aimed at companies owned by women and minorities, and the other at affirmative action within state agencies.
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Glacier Park: The Next Century
Missoulian
08/20/2008
One hundred years ago, when Glacier National Park first became a park, grizzly bears roamed along the spine of the Rocky Mountains, north into Canada, south into Sun River country, west to the Cabinets and east onto lowland plains. Wolves wandered, too, and wolverines and big bull elk. They had no idea someone had drawn a new political boundary onto their landscape. They still don't.
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Tiny Mammal in West at Center of Global Warming
Bellingham Herald
08/19/2008
Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 19, in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, Calif., to force the Bush administration to decide whether to list the pika for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit claims the animal is threatened by rising temperatures and says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dragged its feet for months on whether to list it.
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Geologists Fly Over Hood to Study Unstable Slopes
Oregonian
08/20/2008
State geologists teamed with the Civil Air Patrol over the weekend on reconnaissance flights around Mount Hood, a dual mission to study landslides on the volcano's unstable slopes and train for possible future volcanic activity.
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Study: BC's Mental Health System Fares Poorly
Vancouver Sun
08/20/2008
When mental health patients are released from hospital in B.C., they're more likely to be back in a hospital bed within 30 days than patients in all but one Canadian province. Experts connect the readmission rates with another glaring statistic in the study, showing that mental health patients are being discharged from hospital faster than ever.
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Court Rejects EPA Limits on Emissions Rules
New York Times
08/19/2008
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out an Environmental Protection Agency rule limiting the ability of states to require monitoring of industrial emissions. The 2-to-1 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the most recent in a series of judicial setbacks to the Bush administration's efforts to reshape federal policies under the Clean Air Act.
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Around Resorts, Boomlet Towns Thrive, Too
NPR
08/20/2008
Around the country, more Americans are living where they want to, not where they have to. They're making new lives for themselves by the beach, in the mountains, in college towns. Inevitably, these new residents are changing their new hometowns, making them more expensive places to live. And it can be hard for the original residents to keep up.
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Views: Gender Equity Requires Valuing Families
Everett Herald
08/20/2008
Today, women make up about half of Washington's workforce. There have been some positive changes in employment patterns. For instance, the number of women in construction has tripled since 1990. We know there are vestiges of old attitudes, and occasional acts of active discrimination. But we generally assume the job market is pretty open these days, with both women and men able to follow non-traditional careers.
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Views: Is T. Boone Pickens right?
Los Angeles Times
08/19/2008
V. John White says the oil giant has done us a service by sparking a conversation on renewable energy. Jerry Taylor says Pickens is only trying to rig the energy market in his favor.
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