Center News and Notes

The off-again, on-again effort to approve Alaska’s Pebble Mine is off again; the damage car tires do to urban waterways; the lure of lithium under the Salton Sea; a multi-pronged Native plan to fight climate change; and other recent environmental news from the West.

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

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.