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.
Scott Owens is one of more than 2,000 people living in their vehicles across Seattle. In vans and cars, this segment of the homeless population lives a fragile existence on the margins, finding it difficult to get access to bathrooms and showers--and always facing the possibility of eviction by police.
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.
Eden Robinson, a Haisla/Heiltsuk author from British Columbia, talks with poet Rachel Rose about her Trickster series of novels, her goofy sense of humor, forming a writing community among Indigenous writers, and her approach to crafting narrative and finding a compelling narrator.
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.
Looking for a hike near Vancouver and Bellingham? Campbell Valley Regional park offers 18 miles (29 km) of trails and features mature second growth forest, parcels from six historic farmsteads, wildlife-rich wetlands, an old race track, a one-room school house, and other historic barns and dwellings.
Amazon stops construction of Seattle HQ to protest tax for affordable housing, more First Nations oppose BC pipeline, will salmon return to Columbia above Grand Coulee, eastern Oregon school districts afraid of transgender kids book, and a poem by Seattle activist Nikita Oliver.
Oregon Book Awards announced, Vancouver's bold & expensive transit expansion, Spokane Teacher of the Year to school Trump, time running out for South Selkirk caribou, some hiking trails in Oregon's Columbia Gorge to reopen this summer, and an interview with Portland slam poet Anis Mojgani.
