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||| FROM EMMA HELVERSON for WILD FISH CONSERVANCY ||| Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives released text of the draft reconciliation bill revealing Congress is on track to make the largest investment in northwest hatchery infrastructure on record that could cause irreparable damage to wild fish populations and to endangered Southern Resident killer whales.
||| FROM BRUCE BENTON ||| Merck & Co. donated newly-discovered Ivermectin to treat all impacted by onchocerciasis (riverblindness) while I was Manager of the World Bank/World Health Organization effort to control the disease throughout Africa. It was a game-changer. Ivermectin has proven pivotal in the near-elimination of onchocerciasis Africa-wide where 99.6% of the world’s cases
||| FROM WILD FISH CONSERVANCY and THE CONSERVATION ANGLER ||| This week, conservation organizations Wild Fish Conservancy and The Conservation Angler filed suit against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for its repeated refusal to follow state environmental laws when setting statewide hatchery policy, including when it recently embarked upon a massive expansion in
||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| The San Juan Islands Farm Tours present a newly released film for online viewing through Thursday Sept 30. https://youtu.be/6J29qHOMm8k This award-winning documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, and the gaps between the rich
||| FROM JANET ALDERTON ||| I understand that trying to fulfill this docket request would consume vast amounts of staff time and attention, if the goal is to get as close to a perfect analysis as possible. It has been said that the perfect is the enemy of the good. I do not think an exact analysis
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| "The last U.S. personnel departed Afghanistan yesterday, ending our 20-year engagement there. However people feel about this moment, what should resonate and unify us is our respect for the American men and women who gave Afghanistan two decades of opportunity. "We can all recognize the decision
||| FROM SURVIVING TOMORROW ||| Dear founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, board members Angela Ahrendts, Ken Chenault, Belinda Johnson, Jeff Jordan, Alfred Lin, and Ann Mather, and all investors, hosts, and guests; I write to you today in the hope that you will radically re-structure your company before it starts a class war in which you will almost certainly lose the
‘It’s soul-draining’ ||| FROM STAT NEWS at request of ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| BATON ROUGE, La. — Bren Ingle watched through a set of twin glass doors as her patient drew his final, halting breaths, a terrifyingly long pause separating each one. She could hear every haunted exhalation he made, a sound halfway
||| KRUSE REVIEWS by JENS KRUSE ||| In 2004, Stephen Greenblatt, the great Shakespearean, published Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare. In this book, which is not quite a biography, he presents us with a wealth of information about the world in which Shakespeare lived and wrote, but also admits that what we
||| FROM BUSINESS JOURNAL ||| Oprah Winfrey has sold her 43-acre waterfront estate known as Madroneagle on Orcas Island’s Catspaw Lane for $14 million, the Business Journal has learned. Sources familiar with the deal say it is the highest price ever paid for an Orcas Island property. Winfrey, who bought the property in 2018 without personally