This original article by Jan Larson McLaughlin appeared in the, BG Independent News on September 14, 2017. The legal battle to get an anti-pipeline charter amendment on Bowling Green’s ballot has come down to two sides – those who want to stop the pipeline and those who would want the jobs building it. MORE... [...]
This article by Dahr Jamail originally appeared in Truthout, July 26, 2017. On July 24, the Siletz River Ecosystem (SRE) in Northwestern Oregon took legal action to protect itself. MORE...
This article by Eric Tegethoff originally appeared in the Public News Service, July 25, 2017. The Siletz River ecosystem could take some novel legal action in an Oregon case over a measure banning aerial pesticides. In May, Lincoln County residents passed a measure outlawing the spraying of pesticides from aircraft. The measure is the first [...]
“We thought they would protect us. They wouldn’t.” This article by Jeremy Deaton and Mariana Surillo originally appeared in Nexus Media, July 20, 2017. There only about a dozen countries on Earth that don’t recognize the right to a healthy environment. The United States is one. Now, a small town in rural western Pennsylvania is [...]
This article by Lawrence Pantages originally appeared in The Gazette, July 18, 2017. A visiting judge ruled Tuesday that a citizens group’s petition seeking a November vote to create a charter form of government was legally ruled off the ballot last week by the Medina County Board of Elections. MORE...
This article by Thomas Clouse originally appeared in The Spokesman Review, July 17, 2017. The Raging Grannies’ attempts to stop coal and oil trains through Spokane has been derailed again. MORE...
This article by Lawrence Pantages originally appeared in The Gazette on July 11, 2017. The Medina County Board of Elections on Monday did not certify petitions with 6,494 signatures of registered voters supporting the placement of a county charter form of government on the Nov. 7 ballot. MORE...
This original article Lawrence Pantages by appeared in The Gazette, June 29, 2017. The citizens group Sustainable Medina County delivered petitions containing 6,494 signatures to the Medina County Board of Elections at 2:10 p.m. Thursday in support of a ballot issue Nov. 7 that would create a charter form of county government. MORE...
This original article by Cathy Holt appeared in Mountain XPress, June 29, 2017. At the July 4 Independence From Fossil Fuels gathering at Lake Julian, many T-shirts and signs will ask “Who decides?” Who determines what kind of energy will power our city? Right now, the answer is “Duke Energy decides.” Duke (the largest electric utility [...]
This original article by David DeWitt appeared in The Athens News, June 28, 2017. For the third year in a row, the Athens County Bill of Rights Committee will seek to place the question of turning the county into a charter form of government before voters in November. MORE...