Nancy DeVaux writes for the Salish Current. She is a member of the San Juan County Housing Advisory Committee, and retired four years ago from her position as executive director of San Juan Community Home Trust, where she helped create three neighborhoods of permanently affordable homes. She moved to San Juan County in 1975 after graduating from Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, and returned to WWU in 1997 for a master's degree in political science.
Mayor Lisa Brown is calling for a study to assess the risks of transporting 2,000 gallons of radioactive liquid from Hanford to Utah and Texas via I-90.
