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The Presidency Could Hang on North Carolina’s Absentee Cure Process
If rejection rates hold steady in North Carolina, the Electoral College–and the presidency–could hang on the state’s absentee cure process.Read more » -
Cover Crops: Let’s Pay Farmers to Protect Our Water
Across the United States, nearly six million people drink from water systems with elevated nitrate levels, a number which does not include households on private well water, for which there is no consistent testing standard. Latino residents living in rural areas disproportionately bear the exposure to this toxic discharge. Cover crops interrupt the pollution pathway, transforming the typically slick sheets of bare winter fields into obstacle courses that slow the water’s...Read more » -
Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic: #4. Cheap Beef
Will cheap beef go the way of handshakes and junk mail, among the COVID-19 losses to celebrate rather than mourn? The pandemic is knocking this climate-killing food down a notch.Read more » -
A Federal One-Two Punch to Protect Renters—Pandemic and Beyond
Together, these two strategies can turn around the coronavirus housing emergency, and set the course for long-term housing abundance and affordability.Read more » -
Where Do You Go to Find Community?
Why do we love cities? For all their stresses and shortcomings, cities hold unfathomable promise for intersecting lives and friendships, experiences and cultures. In cities—big and small—we find our communities! At their best, cities are beacons of innovation and progress. But even our most prosperous cities are far from urban utopias. Economic inequality and residential segregation run rampant, excluding poor people and communities of color from sharing in the prosperity...Read more » -
End Apartment Bans to Save the Planet, UN Climate Report Says
Local bans on attached homes in cities are driving up energy use and helping cook the climate, the United Nations Environment Program wrote in a report published Tuesday. “In some locations, spatial planning prevents the construction of multifamily residences and locks in suburban forms at high social and environmental costs,” the report’s authors wrote. They suggest a 20 percent cut to average floor area per person by 2050. UN institutions...Read more » -
Our Bans on Stacked Homes Are Bans on Age-Ready Homes
If you want to understand the new housing crisis that’s looming over the Pacific Northwest like a big silver wave about to break, consider three numbers from Oregon. 616. 3,810. And 6,781. The first is the approximate number of wheelchair-ready homes the state needed to add to its housing stock in 2011 to keep up with the increase of age-related ambulatory disabilities that year. The second, six times larger, is...Read more » -
FAQ About I-5 Rose Quarter Expansion and Decongestion Pricing in Portland
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King County Poised to Lock Out Fossil Fuels
Update: The King County Council voted 6-2 to support the moratorium. King County is poised to join the ranks of Northwest communities that are locking out coal, oil, and gas developments. Later this month, County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove will introduce legislation to prohibit major new fossil fuel infrastructure, including gas pipeline expansions. It’s the right time for King County to act. Over the last decade, Northwest communities have faced down...Read more » -
Of 60 Oregon Councils, School Boards, All but Two Underrepresent People of Color
Voters often feel their influence is more powerful at the local level than over state or federal decisions. A voter can implore their city council person to fix a pothole or change the noise ordinances and see a tangible result. A voter can elect a school board member who promises to address racial inequities in graduation rates and follows through on that promise. One local elected official can have a...Read more »
