State revenue: ‘Regressive tax system’

If Washington didn’t have such a regressive tax system, we wouldn’t have to choose between cutting down 100-year-old trees or funding schools and county services [“Trading timber for firetrucks,” Feb 23, A1]. The state now lets companies pay to log sta…

March 3, 2023
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Snake River ecosystem: Lessons from Alaska

Re: “EPA blocks Alaska Pebble Mine in salmon-rich Bristol Bay region” [Jan. 31, Northwest] and “US reinstates road, logging restrictions on Alaska forest” [Jan. 25, Nation]: In his essay “The Land Ethic,” Aldo Leopold writes: “A thing is right when it …

March 3, 2023
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