What to do at AWP Portland, WA budget to boost taxes, why bike lanes need buy-in from black communities, new wolf pack found in Oregon, Seattle looks to end library fines, photos from Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1970s & 80s, and poetry by Martha Silano.
A profile of Cascadia Magazine at The Tyee, two new poems by Fiona Tinwei Lam, Oregon tackles campaign finance reform, will Vancouver address homeless death crisis?, electric seaplanes to connect Cascadia, learning lessons from Oso landslide, fiction by Carla Cristofaro & poetry by Kamari Bright.
Two poems by Vancouver's Fiona Tinwei Lam explore human interactions with nature in Cascadia: observations on the endangered sunflower sea stars of the West Coast, and an ode to Canuck, Vancouver's most famous crow.
Vancouver's modular housing success story, will OR pass major pesticide restrictions?, a wedding at a Tacoma immigration detention center, nullifying the Warm Springs treaty, paintings of angry white men in Vancouver, and poetry by Tess Gallagher.
Criminal investigation into Boeing 737 approval, more money for housing in BC, but what about renters?, the doctor behind Oregon's anti-vaxx movement, democracy & ecology on Haida Gwaii, Oregon Shakespeare Festival's appoints Nataki Garrett as artistic director, and remembering BC poet Patrick Lane.
Controversy over transgender rights in Vancouver, Portland approves plan to allow more housing, more monitoring of Cascadia's volcanoes, making banking easier for leg cannabis businesses, will Oregon's strippers change employment status?, celebrating women-owned presses, & poetry by Channdika Thayver.
Seattle approves higher density across city, Boeing & FAA went forward with 737 MAX despite flaws, kids with disabilities restrained in OR & WA schools, cold winter hard on Cascadia wildlife, climate youth strikes, confronting trauma through Godzila & a dress of a thousand flowers & a new novel by Ian Williams.
Workers at Renton Boeing plant react to 737 crash, debate heats up about I-5 expansion in Portland, "bowl of Jell-O" effect would affect Cascadia skyscrapers, salmon cannons help migrating fish in BC, Lindy West on the TV adaptation of Shrill, and fiction by Sharma Shields.
How Seattle faced the early AIDS crisis, thousands of WA buildings could collapse in major quake, Seattle safe injection site on hold, a mining company wants to pollute more radioactive waste in cleanup, saving a historic Oregon backcountry ski cabin, and poetry by Martha Silano.
"Nothing spooks the horses into flight
like inertia. Not lightning, barn fire.
Not the whips we take to their sides
to drive them forward."
Two news poems, "Appaloosa," and "A Jar to Keep the Earth In" by Portland's John Sibley Williams.
