Columbia Citizens

Hillman City neighbor Pramila Jayapal has co-written an op-ed with Gloria Steinem: Surprise! Immigration Is a Woman's Issue!

Thanks to Erica Barnett (also a neighbor) who posted about the piece on Publicola.

Pramila has pointed to another must-read by a Columbia Citizen, Naomi Ishisaka's Head First, about her experience with a brain tumor. It appears in this month's Seattle Magazine.

Columbia Citizen and executive director of Hanford Challenge, Tom Carpenter writes this op-ed in the Times:

This leads to the question of what we can expect next, now that we have had a financial meltdown, a coal mine disaster, and an oil drilling explosion, all within the last two years. A nuclear disaster at a cleanup site like Hanford is to be avoided at all costs. The persistence of radioactivity in the environment for thousands of years makes large areas of land uninhabitable, and wreaks an ongoing and incalculable human health toll. Prevention, rather than reaction, to such tragedies should be driving law and policy.

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