AltWeeklies Wire
Seattle's Program for Handling Injured Workers is in a World of Hurtnew
Employers complain that Washington's workers'-comp system is generous to the point of crippling employers. They believe rates are being raised to support ever-expanding benefits that are too easily obtained, and a bloated bureaucracy.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Onstot |
01-25-2010 |
Business & Labor
The Harshest Cut: Brutal Devastation of Clear-Cutting in the Sierra Continuesnew
A decade ago, logging and forestry practices in the Sierra were big news. Media reports, protests, and legislative action focused on Sierra Pacific Industries' practice of slicing through entire large tracts of land, hacking down every tree, bush, and seedling and leaving nothing but devastation behind. But most of the news media have long since moved on to other issues -- and the clear-cutting continues.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cecile Lepage |
09-10-2009 |
Environment
Logging Companies Look to Flip Forests in British Columbianew
Despite the province's climate-change policy and a social contract with the public to maintain properties as forests, more and more logging corporations are hoping to convert private forestlands into real estate.
The Georgia Straight |
Carlito Pablo |
07-28-2008 |
Environment
Why Aren't Oregon's Schools Protected from Pesticides?new
Parents drove up to Triangle Lake School and found it surrounded by a clearcut. Then they found out a timber company planned to spray pesticides and there's no laws to stop them.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
03-01-2008 |
Environment
The Battle of Biscuitnew
A debate over post-fire federal forest management policy has morphed into a question of academic freedom at Oregon State University's College of Forestry.
Eugene Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
04-13-2006 |
Environment
Logging for Votesnew
If there was no ecological nor economic rationale for the Biscuit salvage project in the Siskiyou National Forest, why did the Forest Service push it?
Eugene Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
01-20-2006 |
Environment
