OR legislature passes business tax cut, BC sues Alberta over threat to shut off oil, WA progressive women run for office, OR timber industry's huge impact on climate, what's next for Seattle as a UNESCO city of literature, and Charles Demer's comic novel about Vancouver's high housing costs.
UpZones podcast interviews Andrew Engelson, teenager owes $36 million for Oregon wildfire, Seattle's costly bike lanes, cougar attack leaves one mountain biker dead, Puyallup Tribe welcome first salmon, a "accidental cartoonist" fights racism against Sikhs, and Kim Stafford is new OR poet laureate.
Happy Cascadia Day! Flooding continues in eastern BC & WA, nobody likes Kate Brown's business tax cut, OR businesses compete to become the Starbucks of pot, the gentrification of Tacoma, The Blob killed Cassin's auklets, and BC First Nations writer Terese Mailhot on facing racism.
Cascadia Magazine's Almost Summer Reading event is June 1! Idaho could elect first Native American governor, eastern WA dam may fail, BC fish farm company wants "no go" zone, Christie Charles: Vancouver's first Indigenous poet laureate, & and an interview with Seattle author Nicola Griffith.
Seattle passes business tax to help homeless, flooding hits eastern BC & WA, Ian Campbell, chief of Squamish Nation, to run for Vancouver mayor, the activist who unionized Burgerville, an interview with Portland still-life painter Sherrie Wolf, and poetry by Seattle's Quenton Baker.
When home is a parking spot, Seattle moves forward on "head tax" for housing & homeless services, Portland delays on earthquake retrofits, Vancouver's high overdose death rate, taking the Sounders-Timbers rivalry to new levels, how moss can help prison inmates, and fiction by Spokane's Sharma Shields.
Oregon and Seattle battle over new taxes, BC residents concerned about housing affordability, Chinook tribe fights in court for federal recognition, a Cascadia no-hitter for the Seattle Mariners, an artist who forages for materials in the Salish Sea, and a poem at The Capilano Review by Ian Williams.
Spokane outlaws homelessness, BC lowers its greenhouse gas reduction targets, WA tribe on Puget Sound confronts opioid crisis, new Portland podcast on racial equity in the cannabis industry, farmed salmon spread disease to wild Chinook, and new music from Vancouver band The Long War.
Meet the candidates for Portland city council, the BC pipeline project you've never heard of, BC guest farmworker program failing to prevent sexual assault, say goodbye to mountain goats in Olympic National Park, BC Book Prizes awarded, and two poems by Mercedes Lawry.
BC Hydro gobbled farmland for Site C dam, hate-filled meeting about housing in Seattle, Oregon pot businesses find banking almost impossible, North Cascades national park almost wasn't created, Douglas Coupland's art at Vancouver Aquarium, and a poem on sexual assault by Fallon Sullivan.
