User: irge304 Topic: Environmental Justice Issues
Category: Land Conflicts
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Surviving the Downturn: Lessons From Emerging Markets 23.3.2009 WSJ: Most Emailed Today
As Western companies struggle to navigate the worst economy in generations, here's one piece of advice: Look at places where volatility is business as usual -- emerging ...
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The Caucus: Senate Will Weigh Risks of Bonus Taxation 23.3.2009 NY Times: Business
The will gauge whether the cost of quelling public outrage with new taxes on bailout bonuses could damage efforts to stabilize the financial industry.

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How your U.S. lawmaker voted 22.3.2009 Seattle Times: Local
How state members of Congress voted in the week ended Friday.
How Texans voted in Congress 22.3.2009 Houston Chronicle: Texas
Issues included public lands conservation.

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Game on 20.3.2009 BBC: Technology
From Resident Evil to airborne combat
A wish list for wildlife 18.3.2009 Star Tribune: Politics
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Not by Accident 18.3.2009 American Prospect
Building a sustainable New Orleans.
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Editorial: Promised Land 14.3.2009 NY Times: Editorials
Federal dollars promised to complete long-pending acquisitions of threatened lands across the country should not be diverted.

$68 million conservation wish list stalls at council 10.3.2009 Star Tribune: Local
Some worries about the lack of metro projects recommended by the Lessard Outdoor Heritage Council prompt changes and a vote next week.
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$68 million conservation wish list stalls at council 10.3.2009 Star Tribune: Politics
Some worries about the lack of metro projects prompt changes and a vote next week.
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$68 million conservation wish list stalls at council 10.3.2009 Star Tribune: Latest
Some worries about the lack of metro projects prompt changes and a vote next week.
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Effort is underway to keep green, open space around Santa Clarita 12.2.2009 LA Times: Environment
The city's goal is to acquire and protect the unspoiled land and wildlife sanctuaries surrounding it. But the use of taxpayer money draws criticism.

Gazing out at the expanse of pristine, sun-kissed hills in Santa Clarita's Golden Valley Ranch, City Councilwoman Laurene Weste couldn't help but be moved.

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Proposals pour in for spending on prairies, wetlands 10.2.2009 Star Tribune: Latest
The $95 million in projects exceeds what the Legacy amendment is expected to take in, and fish and wildlife haven't even had a crack at it yet.
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Governance Worries Hit India Real Estate 3.2.2009 Wall St. Journal: Asia
India's once-hot real-estate sector is suffering from a lending clampdown that has hurt residential and commercial ...
Coordinated effort to save Sierra lands 2.2.2009 SFGate: Top Stories
The valley known as Perazzo Meadows is a stunning landscape of woods and watershed habitat surrounded by glimmering Sierra Nevada peaks, but there is more to the high-country Shangri-La than sheer beauty. The 982-acre meadow northwest of Truckee is an... ...
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Bill to expand boundaries of Saguaro National Park is introduced 28.1.2009 Tucson Citizen
A bill to expand the boundaries of Saguaro National Park at the east and west units has been introduced by Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
Land transfer close to an end 23.1.2009 Steamboat Pilot

The Routt County Board of Commissioners is expected to vote Tuesday on a plan to conserve more than 900 acres on a private ranch near Thorpe Mountain. It would be accomplished by transferring the development rights from the private ranch to the Alpine Mountain Ranch and Club just outside the city limits of Steamboat Springs, a move that could usher in a new method of land preservation.

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Chopping-block time for budgets 17.1.2009 Rocky Mountain News: Local stories
The state must slash spending by $201 million by June, and the year after that looks even worse, Gov. Bill Ritter's budget director said Friday.
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Cash crunch halts 4,000 conservation projects 16.1.2009 SFGate: Top Stories
California's fiscal crisis has derailed 4,000 conservation projects across the state, from restoration of tidal marshes on San Francisco Bay to expansion of the coastal trail, and threatens major land acquisitions on the Sonoma, Big Sur and Mendocino coasts,... ...
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Top 10 Things Launched Into Space in 2008 5.1.2009 Wired Top Stories
Among the best things launched into space in 2008 were a tourist, a heat-seaking missile an Indian moon probe and the first Chinese astronauts to do a space walk. ...
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