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The Garden Gate Gazette
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: the Voting Rights Act's quiet unraveling reaches Alabama and the Senate floor, the Bureau of Reclamation stops waiting on the basin states, and the deep ocean coughs …
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a $1.776 billion fund the Justice Department announced for itself, a new BLM director with a privatization brief, and — for counterweight — a gray wolf walking into S…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a Supreme Court ruling on voting rights is reshaping local elections faster than anyone expected, a new Ebola strain has crossed a border the WHO did not want it to c…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: water as the through-line — a federal Colorado River framework that could cut basin allocations by 40 percent, a desert town fighting over its mesquite forest, and Ca…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: California's water managers have raised allocations even as the snowpack vanishes, Huntington Beach learns the price of housing defiance, and a coalition of thirty-si…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a House war-powers resolution ties at 212-212, Saudi Arabia drafts a Gulf security pact that quietly excludes the United States and Israel, and the West confronts a s…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a Senate war-powers vote that came within one senator of binding the president's hand on Iran, California suing State Farm over wildfire claims handling, and — for ba…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: the West's water arithmetic tightens around almonds and the Colorado, Trump lands in Beijing with Iran and a fresh Russian missile test in tow, and — quieter but love…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a record-early heat day for the Central Valley, a hard-won 25-year water deal in Sacramento, a 'super' El Niño rounding into view, and a Trump–Xi summit opening in Be…
Today on The Garden Gate Gazette: a fragile ceasefire turned brittle, the Voting Rights Act unraveling in real time, and a Colorado River bargain that may or may not hold. Plus chaos gardening, a rege…