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July 03, 2008: Headlines

Fortunate freedom

Posted Thu, Jul 3, 11 p.m.

Our citizenship must be exercised conscientiously and every day, especially at the local levels of government, where we can have the greatest effect.

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The 100-year gamble to save our quality of life

Posted Thu, Jul 3, 5 a.m.

A close look at the ambitious "Cascade Agenda," which hopes to preserve the central Puget Sound region's natural systems from a Pugetopolis that sprawls all the way to the Cascades. The mechanisms are known, but it's not clear they can work well enough or soon enough.

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Conservation groups buy pieces of Montana — a lot of pieces

Posted Thu, Jul 3, 5 a.m.

The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land are buying 500 square miles of western Montana from Plum Creek, the timber real estate investment trust, for $510 million. It involves a federal financing mechanism, to the consternation of conservatives, and compromise, to the displeasure of some environmentalists. But it is preventing development of forest habitat.

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Dino Rossi refuses to release his federal tax returns; the governor hasn't decided

Posted Thu, Jul 3, 5 a.m.

We asked for them, they refused for now. Here's why that information could be helpful as voters evaluate the GOP challenger and incumbent Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire.

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