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February 15, 2008: Headlines

Orca recovery effort: more of the same

Posted Fri, Feb 15, 5 a.m.

A plan to save Puget Sound orcas calls for $50 million spent over 28 years but amounts to doing no more than we're already doing. Meanwhile, no one knows why the orca population is declining, and the only clear culprit is a lack of their favorite food: chinook salmon. A moratorium on chinook fishing may be the only solution.

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Portland music: one hit and one miss

Posted Fri, Feb 15, 5 a.m.

The opera whiffs on a Handel production, while the symphony struts its stuff in a John Adams' piece. The pair of performances raises an interesting question of how "regional" factors come into play.

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