When George W. Bush campaigned for president, he stumped in the Northwest as a friend of forgotten rural residents. Now, proposed cuts in Bush’s fiscal year 2003 budget may pull the rug out from under some of those people. Over the last several years, Pacific Northwest timber communities and workers have retooled to perform more […]
Larry Swisher
Posted inOctober 14, 1996: Greens prune their message to win the West's voters
Washington: Greens storm the suburbs
Northwest environmental activists have branched out from their natural urban habitat and invaded the bright shiny suburbs of the Pacific Northwest, looking to wake up the green vote that slept through the 1994 election. Washington state has become a national battleground since 1994, when it threw out five Democratic House members – including Speaker Tom […]
Posted inAugust 22, 1994: Whose fault? A Utah canyon turns deadly
Ex-rancher heads Wilderness Society
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Wilderness Society’s new president says he knows firsthand about life in a small rural community, which is why he opposes Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt’s consensus approach to grazing reform. Babbitt’s advisory councils “lend themselves to responding too much to local biases,” Jon Roush said in an interview last month. “I’ve lived […]