If this process is ever gonna work, it needs fundamental reform. A starting point would be to NOT have COPs each year, but only when it benefits the process. Otherwise, the outcomes feel forced, like "We better decide something since we all came all this way."
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The Dodgers got a lot more attention for failing to stand up for Latino communities than for refusing to cut ties with Big Oil. But the two stories are related.

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First, a bit of backstory. This spring, I started tracking how many times immigration agents detained American citizens.

I spoke to experts who warned that the scattered cases I initially found would only grow as Trump's aggressive deportation plans took shape.

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This isn’t the first time a typhoon has caused major damage to the Native Village of Kipnuk. Typhoon Merbok worsened the riverbank erosion in 2022. And a summer storm last year exacerbated the problem further. Read this story and keep supporting public radio! www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...

In a June court declaration, Paul wrote any further delay in starting the project “will create a risk that our village will suffer environmental, physical, and cultural harms that cannot be reversed.”

The village’s environmental director Rayna Paul told me earlier this year, if or when the grant is reinstated, the hold up has delayed the project for at least a year. That’s because the river – from which materials come in by barge – is frozen for nearly half the year.