Brown pressures Whitman on Prop 23 | 89.3 KPCC

Analysts say the Republican may be reluctant to endorse Prop 23 because polls suggest that the independent voters she needs to attract tend to be concerned about global warming and the environment.

The Whitman camp said she’d take a position on Prop 23 — and the other measures on the November ballot — by early next week.

Cool, short season puts silage corn behind schedule

Cool weather has south-central Idaho's silage corn crop running two to three weeks behind, said Dave Sass, agronomist for Pioneer Hybrids in the Treasure Valley.

"It's really immature and really wet," he said.

US climate change fighter now oil sands cheerleader :: The Hook

A Republican senator who once declared global warming an urgent issue – and willing to fight his party over it – referred last week to Alberta’s carbon-polluting oil industry as “a national treasure for Canada and the United States.”

One prominent climate change blogger is now convinced Graham has drunk the “tar sands Kool-Aid.”