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Nov 17 2020 | ... & the West Blog, ... & the Best | Stories Recommended by the ‘... & the West’ Blog
New effort to speed the first oil leases on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; light pollution in growing communities lures deer — and the mountain lions that hunt them; a push for a Canadian carbon-offset system; the history of Black cowboys revived with Arizona’s Black rodeo, and more recent environmental stories from around the West.
Nov 17 2020 | Center News
Lane Center associate director moves to Stanford's Office of Community Engagement.
Nov 13 2020 | Center News, Happenings, Research Notes
A Pension Tracker tool newly housed at the Bill Lane Center offers data on public sector debt for pension liabilities with a focus on California
Nov 10 2020 | ... & the West Blog
What has been done and what still needs to be done to untangle physical, financial and political barriers blocking fair access to clean drinking water in California?
No matter who wins the 2020 election, governing will be difficult, say Stanford political scientists
Whoever wins the U.S. 2020 election will need to find ways to govern over a persisting political divide and get back to the art of politics, say Stanford scholars Bruce Cain and Hakeem Jefferson.
World War II and the West It Wrought
Co-edited by former Lane Center Director David M. Kennedy and Mark Brilliant, the new volume World War II and the West It Wroughtbuilds on our 2017 conference considering the War's impact on our region.
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