Sometimes a local event is deemed too relevant or too important to live only in our Calendar / Events section, as is the case with the Earth and Sustainability Forum. Being held on Sunday, February 22 from 1 to 4:30, this brainstorming, informational, knock your…
Last month the EPA published a disturbing report about pervasive contaminants throughout the vast Columbia River Basin. To wit: “The Columbia River Basin is contaminated with many toxic contaminants that are moving up the food chain, threatening the health of the Basin’s people, fish, and…
One would hope this is a day of reckoning for the nation’s top bank executives when they testify before a House committee. Most likely though, it will be a toothless dressing-down, where executives squirm their way out of accountability, and rationalize symbolic sacrificial gestures like…