In a powerful poem, Paul Nelson helps us grieve along with an orca mother who has been keeping her dead calf afloat for more than five days in the Salish Sea.
Cascadia Daily, July 27, 2018
Hike a great trail near Mount St. Helens, an orca mother in Salish Sea grieves for dead calf, anti-abortion measure qualifies for OR ballot, will small growers succeed in BC's legal weed industry?, company hopes electric jets will take off, can Seattle's Showbox Theater be saved & poetry by Chelsea Dingman.
Get Outside! Ape Canyon
Ape Canyon Trail is one of the most popular trails in the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, offering views of a narrow canyon, the effects of a mile-wide mudflow created by the 1980 eruption, and spectacular views of the volcanic peak.
Cascadia Daily, July 26, 2018
Cascadia high-speed rail takes a step forward, LGBTQ refugee held in Tacoma, NRA sues Seattle, can Vancouver' Chinatown retain its character amid growth?, Camas Davis's quest for responsible meat, and an exhibit confronting historic images of Native Americans at Seattle Art Museum.
Cascadia Daily, July 20, 2018
Where to hike this weekend, helping prevent homelessness by slowing evictions, wildfires grow in eastern OR & BC, new solar projects in Cascadia, fighting natural gas, an interview with Gus Van Sant about his new film about Portland cartoonist John Callahan, and poetry by Seattle's Kamari Bright.
Cascadia Daily, July 19, 2018
Wide-open race for Vancouver city government, wildfires grow in east Cascadia, Seattle restaurant owner accused of sexual assault, will Oregon repeal sanctuary laws?, finding ancient footprints, hard-hitting stand-up from Indigenous comic Howie Echo-Hawk, and short fiction by Leni Zumas.
Cascadia Daily, July 18, 2018
Seattle names new police chief, wildfires spark evacuations in eastern Cascadia, making sense of proportional representation in BC, anti-union efforts on the rise, threatened butterfly returns to Oregon, imaginary maps of Cascadia, and raising children in a doomed world.
Cascadia Daily, July 17, 2018
Essay: "We Hope You Enjoy Portland Spirit," Vancouver's housing-income gap highest in North America, asylum seekers in Seattle consider suicide, Cascadia's farmers facing huge pressures, youths oppose pipeline, a poem by Laura Reed, and a harrowing essay by Spokane writer Kevin Taylor.
We Hope You Enjoy Portland Spirit
In an essay by Terrence Petty, it's just another strange day in Portland full of protests, counter-protests, colorful characters, police flashbang grenades, and tourists sailing by oblivious to it all.
Cascadia Daily, July 10, 2018
Hike near Mount Rainier without the crowds, can Vancouver get beyond ideology to build affordable housing?, Seattle bans plastic drinking straws, a pesticide is killing southern Oregon's ponderosa pines, Portland OMSI shows experimental films, and a poem by Kary Wayson.