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It has been four months, but the letters keep coming. Standing in her home office on a warm July day, Sarah Perry shuffles through piles of the kind messages she has received after the April death of her husband. One of the more recent was left on Perry’s porch by her 7-year-old neighbor, Clementine. “I’m sorry your husband died,” Clementine wrote. “He was very nice to me, and he let me pick the strawberries you grow.” Continue reading at Valley Record. (Grace Gorenflo)
WA to conserve 77,000 acres of older forests on state lands
Eight months after Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove entered office and paused logging sales in older forests on state land, Washington’s Department of Natural Resources has identified 77,000 acres to set aside for conservation. Called “structurally complex forests” by the Department of Natural Resources and “legacy forests” by some conservationists, these older forests aren’t quite old enough to qualify for old-growth protections but are biologically diverse and naturally resistant to wildfire. Continue reading at Washington State Standard. (Emily Fitzgerald)
Trump knee-caps America’s institutions
President Trump is gradually testing, stretching and gutting the independence of America’s major institutions, leaving few stones unturned in his pursuit of unchecked power. Why it matters: In Trump’s vision of America, authority flows only from his consent. The firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook — a first in modern history — shows that even the central bank’s legendary independence is no longer untouchable. The big picture: In just seven months, Trump has consolidated vast power by following a simple playbook: Capture what he can, contest what he can’t and punish those who resist. Continue reading at Axios. (Aïda Amer)
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