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Four Hundred Trees and a Tee Time
Read more . . . →Four hundred and thirty trees. Cut down in a few hours on a holiday weekend while nobody was watching. Not for housing or a hospital or anything a resident of D.C. asked for. For a golf course. The president of the United States looked at a public park on federal land and decided the fairway wasn’t pretty enough for him. A federal judge called it bad faith and blocked the chainsaws. The National Park Service broke environmental law doing it. The administration’s move after getting caught was to announce a 15-month closure and share a redesign map like a kid...
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