Articles by Jonathan Hiskes
Jonathan Hiskes is a writer in Seattle and a former Grist staff reporter. Find him at jonathanhiskes.com and on Twitter.
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Michigan governor’s race: Snyder vs. Bernero
Michigan Republican Rick Snyder is a high-tech venture capitalist, a one-time Nature Conservancy board member, and a Smart Growth backer who talks about investing in transit and reining in sprawl. And he could well become governor of a state with huge challenges and huge opportunities to reshape its economy. For enviros searching for the elusive "green Republican," he's worth tracking.
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Colorado governor’s race: Hickenlooper vs. Maes vs. Tancredo
Colorado gubernatorial candidates: a mayor who's promoted biking; a Tea Partier who thinks bike-sharing is a U.N. scheme; or a third-party candidate who only talks about immigration.
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Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire
You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, "Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there's no end in sight."
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Oil-platform explosion in the Gulf. Yes, another one.
It's unclear whether the platform is in danger of sinking or whether the explosion may had set off underwater oil leaks. The platform, 20 miles west of the massive April explosion and leak, wasn't actively producing oil at the time of the accident.
