Promises to Coal Country Aside, Trump’s Budget Cuts Will End an Economic Lifeline
One of the fundamental ideas behind these regional commissions is that some economic issues, which affect multiple states, are too big for one state government to take on but too localized for traditional federal policy to be effective. A regional commission provides a partnership between the federal government and all the affected states.
April 5, 2017
Where Citizens Can Run for Office Without Big Money—and Win
State representative Joyce McCreight never thought she would run for office.
December 1, 2016
Why Seattleites Think They Can Stop Shell Oil From Drilling in the Arctic
During the afternoon on Sunday, April 26, protestors gathered in Seattle’s Myrtle Edwards Park to protest plans by oil company Shell to conduct exploratory drilling for oil off the northern coast of Alaska.
April 28, 2015
Paradise Farmed: Inside Kaua’i’s Local Food Movement
…the beauty of Kaua’i is legendary. Yet most of the roughly one million visitors…don’t realize that Kaua’i grows only a small fraction of the food that’s eaten here.
January 28, 2014