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Carbon cap and trade in Olympia The Legislature is considering, but not committing to, the governor’s proposal for school funding. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — Ask people if they like the idea of making companies pay for what they pollute and using the money for schools, roads and a cleaner environment, and many will tell you yes. But when they are told a capand-trade program proposed by Gov. Jay Inslee to accomplish all that might cost them a few dollars, well, they are not as excited. Polling shows voters are conflicted by a desire to reduce emissions of carbon, which scientists say is a major contributor to climate change, and a worry the governor’s approach won’t pan out quite as nicely as forecast. They aren’t alone. Lawmakers are wrestling with similar questions and divided on the answers. The schism, which is mostly but not entirely along party lines, is dimming prospects for passage this year of the centerpiece of Inslee’s environmental agenda. “I don’t think in the first week of the session people should rule things out,” Inslee told reporters Friday. “This is like any new See STATE, Page A7
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PHOTO COURTESY HIBULB CULTURAL CENTER
Boys from the Tulalip Indian Boarding School marched in their uniforms to the longhouse for the Treaty Days celebration. It was the first day they were allowed to witness their culture without punishment.
Treaty Days: Beyond the long, dark night TULALIP — A man will come, following the path of the sun. His voice will be like thunder, and it will mark the beginning of a long, dark night for Indian people. Wayne Williams recalls hearing that prophcommemoration, not a celebration,” Williams ecy as a young boy at the annual Treaty Days said of his grandfather. “The treaty really meant gathering on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. the end of our way of life. Hardly anything to His grandfather, William Shelton, was the last celebrate. He wanted to commemorate it.” hereditary chief of the Snohomish Treaty Days was started as a means people. Shelton started the annual By Andrew Gobin to remember the traditional dances gathering, organizing the first in and Eric Stevick and songs, and to remind the children Herald Writers 1912. of their culture at a time when it was at More than a century later, Treaty risk of slipping away. Days continues, though it is not Shelton believed in fostering good widely known, if at all, off the reservation. relations between Indians at Tulalip and their Tribes still gather each year at Tulalip to mark non-Indian counterparts. Throughout his life, the signing of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, he seized every opportunity to share his culture remembering a time of worry and great change. See TREATY DAYS, Page A6 “He was adamant that Treaty Days was a
J.A. Juleen’s portrait of Tulalip artist and activist William Shelton was taken in 1913.
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