Environment
A Columbia Shutdown Puts Tens Of Millions A Day On The Line
Corps figures put roughly $44 million a day in cargo value on the lower Columbia and lower Willamette route, with about $66 million a day across the wider Columbia-Snake system.
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Columbia Risk Does Not Stop At The Oregon Line
Washington's own Columbia River records put communities, farms, industry, fish, and navigation in the same water-use frame as the Oregon-side Port Westward proposal.
Environment
Port Westward Risk Does Not Stop At The Fence Line
DEQ's 401 certification places the proposed discharge path in waters connected to McLean Slough and the Clatskanie River. DEQ also lists existing dissolved oxygen, temperature, dioxin, total dissolved gas, PCB, and DDE impairments in the receiving-water system.
Environment
Port Westward Is Not An Empty Industrial Pad. It's A Working Floodplain And Habitat Complex.
DEQ's Jan. 7, 2025 certification says the project would create 72.6 acres of new impervious surface. NOAA's biological opinion says 23 ESA-listed species or distinct population segments are likely to be adversely affected.
Environment
The NEXT Port Westward Review Is Still A Wetlands-And-Water Story First
If you want to understand the Port Westward fight, start with the public record: wetland fill, fish habitat impacts, impaired receiving waters, and a permit history that has already forced the project back through review more than once.
Corruption
The Public-Land Trail Around Thomas Tull Runs Through The Idaho Land Board
If you want to know who helped a Tull-adjacent land play move, start with the officials already on the paper: the Idaho Department of Lands, the State Board of Land Commissioners, and local actors like Ron James who declined to join the objection.
Corruption
Thomas Tull's Money And Land Footprint Is Now Part Of Teton County Politics
Official records and reporting describe land interest, political money, philanthropy, and local government decision-making colliding around one county commissioner and one billionaire ranch owner.
Corruption
Victor's Wastewater Land Push Runs Through Annexation, Debt, And A Threatened Taking
Official records and reporting describe a city stacking contract pressure, annexation, zoning, lot-splitting, and debt confirmation around one wastewater project, while the letter reviewed by the site shows the owners were also being told a condemnation path was on the table.
War Money
Gaza's Hospital System Is Still Trapped By Border Chokepoints
The current record already shows a damaged health system being kept in crisis by border chokepoints: patients cannot get out fast enough, equipment cannot get in fast enough, and medicine stocks remain critically depleted.
War Money
Gaza's Aid Bottleneck Was Still Plainly Measurable In April 2026
The operational bottleneck is visible in the data: too much depends on one crossing, too little equipment clears quickly, too few patients get out for care, and key water and hospital systems are still badly constrained.
War Money
Current Gaza Data Still Shows A Humanitarian Collapse
The current UN file lists continuing casualties, no fully functioning hospitals, an 18,500-patient evacuation backlog, water-system damage, and acute food insecurity for 1.6 million people.
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Wild Horse Roundups Now Feed A Large Private Holding System
Official records and reporting describe a federal program spending most of its money after removal, not on the range itself, while private operators keep winning million-dollar awards to warehouse the animals BLM keeps taking off public land.