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Cascadia Magazine original: Ninety Days
Have you read Corinne Manning’s work of fiction, “Ninety Days” at Cascadia Magazine? If not, you should!
It’s a sharply funny story of gender-fluid relationships, the pain of a breakup, and well, gardening.
“If most pronouns are already an interruption of your intimacy because you are speaking about someone in the third person, rather than to them in a bed, that sense of plurality, that singular “they” asserts even more that Denise doesn’t belong to me and never did. This is capitalist. I know this.”
Read the full story, accompanied by artwork by Mita Mahato, here.
Vancouver builds housing, but it’s still unaffordable
A piece at the Vancouver Sun analyzes the strategy of easing rules to build more market rate housing, and questions why rents are still astronomical. And at Crosscut, Seattle city council member Abel Pacheco takes issue with Seattle’s intense campaign to save the Showbox Theater when the condo project that would replace it would contribute $5 million to affordable housing across the city. Also at Crosscut, Josh Cohen notes that the departure of the National Guard from a 25-acre site in Seattle could be used for missing middle housing.
Candidate for Portland city council urges district representation
OPB profiles Portland city council candidate Candace Avalos, who supports converting the council to a neighborhood-based district system, which she believes would add more diversity to the council–and a recent study backs up that assertion.
Changes to Montana Medicaid could affect 26,000
Montana Public Radio notes that new work requirements added to Montana’s Medicaid system passed by the legislature could hit 26,000 residents. Meanwhile, Idaho’s Republican governor publicly committed to protecting expansion of Medicaid in his state whatever courts rule. In November of last year 61 percent of voters in Idaho elected to substantially increase the program.
Burning of Rattlenake Mountain akin to Nortre Dame, say tribes
NW News Network reports on the wildfire burning on Rattlesnake mountain in central Washington near Hanford–a wildlife refuge of sagebrush and rare plants, and a place sacred to many of the tribes along the Columbia River. ““It almost, it’s like taking you to the point where you want to cry it’s so beautiful,” says a Yakama Nation archaeologist.
Oregon’s first Bigfoot museum
Willamette Week has a special issue dedicated to all things Sasquatch, and you should check out the feature on Oregon’s very first museum dedicated to Bigfoot. It’s got an animatronic Sasquatch, lots of fun facts (they apparently love Nutella), footprint casts, and plenty of exhibits on the Native American experience of the big, hairy critter that some believe roams the deep forests of Cascadia. WW also suggests eight places to spot Bigfoot in PDX.
Poetry by Megan Fennya Jones
At Poetry Northwest, treat yourself to “In the City We Sleep,” by Vancouver-based poet Megan Fennya Jones. It’s a lovely look at the stark and simple facts of rural life…
“Tractor, sky, barn—
each thing has its own name here
Except for the cows
and the elk who travel like secrets
through the bare trunks of trees…”
Read the full poem here.
That’s today’s collection of news, arts, and big hairy creatures from all across the great Northwest. Today’s newsletter was put together despite the incessant roaring of noisy death-planes over the skies of Seattle. But we consider ourselves lucky–at least we weren’t this person who had to make an emergency landing of their little plane on a highway near Tacoma. –Andrew Engelson
Photo credits: Rattlesnake Mountain fire by Sheri Whitfield, US Fish & Wildlife (public domain)