The Puget Sound Partnership has produced its draft action agenda, tempered by the fiscal realities of the coming Legislature. It locates the real challenge: how we treat the land around the Sound.
A class-action lawsuit would force Washington to provide "evidence-based treatment" for children with mental illnesses. The goal is to head off big problems by letting families remain together.
The parties are back in court this morning to revisit the federal government's unadopted plans to protect the river system's salmon, listed 15 years ago as endangered.