The City of Bellingham has hired Seth Vidaña as its first-ever Climate and Energy Manager. He begins in the position on Feb. 18. . . . Bellingham City Council approved funding for the new position in its 2019-2020 biennial budget, recognizing the need for additional staff as the City works toward reducing municipal and community…
A few weeks ago, as I walked through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, a T.S.A. agent grabbed onto my braids and snapped them like reins. “Giddy up!” she said. I’m a Native American woman, and my hair is part of my spirit. The woman treated me like a horse. This lack of respect is…
States are passing laws abolishing private prisons and businesses are cutting ties with the facilities. And private prison companies are planning for a future in which their core service is illegal. Increasingly, these criticisms of private, for-profit facilities have been reflected in policy and spending. Fueled in part by opposition from their constituents, lawmakers of…
The Fridays for Future movement held a press conference Friday focused on the need for the world to better recognize the amazing climate activism taking place in Africa — a continent that is already enduring severe impacts of global heating in spite of its limited contributions to creating the crisis. Climate activists and experts joined…
The federal government helped make the islands a national monument. But locals worry a Trump-era focus on making public lands productive could be their undoing. For at least 10,000 years, this cluster of 450 green-on-gray islands has drawn Native people who followed the salmon and seasons. In the 1860s, English and American soldiers shared one…
