Boise city council to decide on election day bond for open space

Without cruising around the country, it is hard for me to think of another city that's hurting itself more often and badly by sprawl development than my pre-Air Force career hometown of Boise, Idaho. The Boise City Council will decide soon whether voters should be given the chance to approve a $10 million bond to be spent for the preservation of fast-diminishing open, green space. This photo shows just one case study to consider.

Obama seeks to use oil and gas money to develop alternative fuel cars

For the Nth time, reporting like this skips entirely over the best alternative fuel of all time: Walking, as in burning calories not gasoline. The oil and gas royalties Mr. Obama targets to fund the development of alternative-fuel cars would simply continue the status quo. The current way of operating in the U.S. is to pave over nature and to keep doing so, ostensibly forever. I strongly suggest putting the same royalties to work for Wild Nature by spending them to buy and preserve - forever - the nation's dwindling natural landscape.