Indigenous Peoples Day across Cascadia, Oregon gubernatorial candidates on homelessness, is proportional representation coming to BC? WA could be first state with a carbon fee, and poetry, fiction and essays by Indigenous writers Gail Tremblay, Elizabeth Woody, Terese Mailhot, & Eden Robinson.
Where to find autumn larches, northeast WA economy is lagging behind, call for Portland State police to disarm, Hanford seeks extension for radioactive cleanup, Alaska votes on salmon protection, growing up Sikh on a BC farm, and poetry by Spokane's Ellen Welcker.
Happy birthday to North Cascades National Park, reaction across Cascadia to Kavanaugh hearing & MeToo, climate change threatens national parks, Oregon's support for abortion faces election test, a program that gets Vancouver drug users out in nature, six poems to take on Cascadia hikes, plus a beautiful poem by Suzanne Bottelli.
Seattle bike commuting numbers are down, a plan to save orcas in the Salish Sea, Oregon to log trees accidentally killed by herbicide, does WA need single-payer health care, Idaho sect refuses medical care, and an excerpt from WA writer Robert Michael Pyle's new novel Magdalena Mountain.
Debate over removal of lower Snake River dams heats up, Site C dam is "utter nonsense," Spokane sues Monsanto, Portland's huge housing gambit, MAX transit fare checks unconstitutional, an interview with Indigenous playwright Kim Senklip Harvey, and poetry by Kate Peterson.
Take a challenging hike to Glacier Basin, how will BC meet its climate goals? WA's foster care system is a mess, duplexes are NOT evil, Vancouver's InSite safe injection site open 10 years this week, fixing bus service in BC after Greyhound pulls out, a field guide to old Portland, and a new album from Indigenous singer songwriter Black Belt Eagle Scout.
Vancouver changes zoning to allow duplexes across city, Seattle University divests from fossil fuels, Oregon test scores are still low, protecting clean-up workers at Hanford, Buddhist ceremony brings together tragedy victims, Victoria writer Esi Edugyan on Booker prize shortlist, and a poem by Maya Jewell Zeller.
An essay on Vancouver's expensive housing by Chelene Knight, economic benefits of wildfire, UW expansion raises transit concerns, why is abortion on the OR ballot?, building a Cascadia innovation corridor, can Oregon's sand dunes be saved?, what does marriage mean in 2018?, and an exhibition of work by Vancouver artist Anna Wong.
A Cascadia poetry retreat, US & Canada in talks to protect Cascadia salmon, BC wildfire tornado video goes viral, Vancouver harm reduction site faces closure, coastal waters lack oxygen, celebrating the Seattle Storm's third championship, and fiction by Portland writer Nicole Calande.
New fiction from Matt Briggs at Cascadia Magazine, what would it cost to fix homelessness in Seattle?,Teacher strikes end, Canadian government ponders next moves on BC pipeline, a real life hermit on Vancouver Island, the Western nostalgia of the Pendleton Round-Up, and poetry by Seattle's Rob Arnold.
