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THE article on the (Skipton) Gateway Project (£7.8m Gateway project on track, Craven Herald, August 31) was very informative and, as was suggested,…

I WRITE in response to the letter in the Keighley News from Jennifer Greenwood concerning her opposition to the proposed green bridge over the Aire…

A DEAD tree and weed-covered planter in Hayton Way, Skipton, has been replaced in a joint operation by residents and the towns Civic Society. The…

I AGREE wholeheartedly with Bruce McLeod when he called for a total ban on planting trees in plastic tubes in the national park, or indeed anywhere…

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The urban forest of the future: how to turn our cities into Treetopias We are and will continue to plant more street trees, urban groves and informal clusters of trees in our parks and green spaces. Treetopia has begun. The Bosco Verticale In Milan in spring, West side. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The 21st century is the urban century. It has been forecast that urban areas across the world will have expanded by more than 2.5 billion people by 2050. The scale and speed of urbanisation has created...

Alone. and offering a reminder that republicans never vetoed a single bill in 6 1/2 years. how is that for cutting spending? as for the partisan impasse, mr. simpson adding, there isnt a single sitting member of congress, not one, that doesnt know exactly where were headed. lets furnish to the washington bureau chief of mother jones magazine, david corn. david, good evening. >> good to be with you, keith. >> deficit reduction. can we say this is something republican lawmakers are for, only until...

Most republicans, in the senate we saw a lot of republicans, seven, i think, who supported the bill to create a deficit commission. and then when it became obamas bill, they opposed it. these guys are just playing an opposite game. and theyre really hoping -- this is the -- i think, the basic principle here, that things are going to get worse in the country and that all they can do -- all they can -- all theyll have to do next november is say, look what barack obama did to us. >> following the i...

Most republicans, in the senate we saw a lot of republicans, seven, i think, who supported the bill to create a deficit commission. and then when it became obamas bill, they opposed it. these guys are just playing an opposite game. and theyre really hoping -- this is the -- i think, the basic principle here, that things are going to get worse in the country and that all they can do -- all they can -- all theyll have to do next november is say, look what barack obama did to us. >> following the i...

Go back and look at what happened with thomas jefferson and john adams. they actually arrested political opponents back in those days. i mean, the thing is that we have real, honest to goodness philosophical and political and policy differences in this country. and theres nothing wrong with having dragdown fights over this. but what is wrong is when its only about partisan politics. when there is no concern about facts and about policy making. and i think, perhaps, simpson maybe a throwback to t...