May 12, 2008
by Deb
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Metro and Counties Prepares to Designate Long-term Urban and Rural Reserves. Decisions will shape regional growth for decades and determine the fate of some of the region’s critical biodiversity lands and surrounding farmland. Should Metro expand the Urban Growth Boundary … Continue reading
March 4, 2008
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The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (IES) for the (highly controversial) proposed River of the Gods Casino in Cascade Locks has been published. Since it is finally published, meetings are scheduled for public comment. This is a critical piece of the … Continue reading
October 21, 2007
by Deb
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From FAUNA: The No on Measure 49 campaign has distributed a very misleading glossy flyer just as people are receiving their ballots this weekend. Please see the response to this misleading information below prepared by the Yes on Measure 49 … Continue reading
October 21, 2007
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From FAUNA: The No on Measure 49 campaign has distributed a very misleading glossy flyer just as people are receiving their ballots this weekend. Please see the response to this misleading information below prepared by the Yes on Measure 49 … Continue reading
October 18, 2007
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Feather & Fin Productions has just released a new video. COMMON CAUSE/ COMMON SENSE educates voters about the urgency to fix Measure 37 by passing Measure 49. Measurer 49 allows landowners to build up to 3 houses on their property … Continue reading
October 8, 2007
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“Don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes. Save Oregon. Vote for 49!”By way of Rick Seifert’s The Red Electric. (Yes, go read his post.)I wish I were a graphic designer. With the resources of the developers who gain … Continue reading
September 25, 2007
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Brought to you by American Public Media™ …a game to test your environmental footprint. . How’d you do? SIghtings…
August 28, 2007
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Even Ron Wyden’s office sent a message (that he is “fiercely opposed” to more waste at Hanford) for the largest gathering the DOE had seen yet for this specific topic—where to site a disposal for a special grade of radioactive … Continue reading
January 29, 2007
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Some may recall that the BPA cut off funding for an independant scientific research group, Portland’s Fish Passage Center, based on language Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho, placed in a bill in 2005. He wanted an independant contractor used instead, claiming … Continue reading
January 21, 2007
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4 Kids in street-clothes, careening down the gritty-white slope, grab boards’ edges. Graffiti-blazoned fealty-marks transform full-head respirators into the glowing maws and eyes of otherworldly insects. The tall skinny teenagers are especially formidable, mechanical preying mantises with full-grown wings, in … Continue reading