The numbers and policies behind the immigration-incarceration economy.
How private prisons became a booming business
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
‘If you don’t want us, tell us to go back’
The making of a California prison town.
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Gas explosions, the numbers behind King Coal and LA policing
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
EPA’s dirty past
Your story about Anne Gorsuch Burford’s tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency brings back some bad memories, especially for those working in chemical industries in the early 1980s (“Scott Pruitt isn’t the first administrator hostile to the EPA’s mission,” HCN, 3/20/17). The chemical industry was quite successful in getting implementation of new and lower exposure […]
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Congress vs. agency mission
I wonder if under President Donald Trump we’ll go back to Congress deciding every policy detail and micromanaging federal agencies, creating massive stagnation in light of a Congress that views collaboration as capitulation to the enemy (“Shifting scales,” HCN, 5/1/17). I don’t have a legal background but I can’t see that the Chevron decision is […]
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Choosing to ride
Your “Recapture Canyon rules” update in the May 1 issue had this quote from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: “For many persons with disabilities or for people who just don’t get around like they used to, our public lands aren’t accessible without motorized vehicles.” For folks with legitimate disabilities, I can see this in appropriate spots, […]
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Chevron cuts both ways
This is a thoughtful article, but I would like to advance a contrary view (“Shifting scales,” HCN, 5/1/17). Our basic theory of government is that Congress enacts the laws, the executive enforces the laws, and the courts decide the facts and the laws’ meaning. Administrative agencies have been fit into this structure under the theory […]
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
A new face on staff and new pups in the office
We welcome Christie, Porter and Lefty to HCN.
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Week in review: May 12
Methane rules live! Plus, DAPL spill, monuments and, at long last, FERC appointments.
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¿Qué debe hacer una comunidad para proteger a sus migrantes?
Un condado conservador en Colorado se enfrenta a una nueva realidad política.
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From cribbage to wildfire in just 5 minutes
Inside a Helitack crew’s fast response to wildland fires.
Posted inMay 29, 2017: The Cost of a Comeback
Zinke went to Bears Ears to listen, but supporters felt unheard
The Interior Secretary’s monument review is off to a complicated start.
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Oregon keeps the Elliott State Forest public
The state reverses course and decides not to sell its first state forest.
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Climate change is unraveling natural cycles in the West
Spring’s early arrival creates more mismatches in ecosystems.
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Homesick for nowhere
An Oregon man finds his sense of place in the Zumwalt Prairie.
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What citizen science can say about seabird deaths
In the Pacific Northwest, the diligence of citizen scientists helps discern patterns in die-offs.
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In a prairie dog colony, the power dynamics of modern America
How do we care for the vulnerable?
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Latest: Dam on Yellowstone River moves ahead
The effects on the pallid sturgeon remain uncertain.
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A New Mexico electricity co-op declares its independence
A co-op leaves its power provider, whose reliance on coal kept prices too high.
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Could Trump dismantle the American West?
How the president’s ‘deconstruction’ doctrine threatens public lands.