Portland budget would boost police, homeless services, the ecological costs of salmon farms in BC, Amazon adds new center in Vancouver, who will pay to clean up toxic Portland harbor?, Seattle artist Ellen Forney's new book on bipolar disorder, and a review of a book on the fight against BC's Site C dam.
Seattle to vacate pot convictions, BC asks courts to give it authority to block pipeline expansion, scathing report may stop Hanford cleanup, Emily Strelow on how seeing death in nature changed her as a writer, the vanishing bees of Cascadia, and the Seattle chapter of the Black Panthers 50 years later.
The young activists fighting to build more housing in Seattle, BC proposes regulations for legal pot, Congress passes law favoring dams over salmon, will grizzlies return to WA's North Cascades, Portland's 100-year vegan history, and an interview with Seattle poet Shankar Narayan.
A new poem at Cascadia Magazine from Ellen Welcker, Canadian government's flawed permit process for BC pipeline, Jo Ann Hardesty's historic run for Portland city council, Yakima has high rates of asthma, the beauty of Garry oak landscapes, Dan Savage on "incels" and a poem by Fernando Pérez.
Spokane poet Ellen Welcker explores the simple joys of being a parent:
"when you’re blue at the ocean it swallows you
you enter each other you merge
you become something old
barnacled
soft"
Seattle sweeps another homeless camp despite activist pushback, Vancouver succeeded in building around transit, innovative housing solution for BC Indigenous youth, Seattle musician deals with childhood sexual abuse through music, and visual poetry by Kelli Russell Agodon.
Remembering poet Sam Hamill, WA state fighting tribes over salmon & culverts, BC pipeline would only benefit oil companies, US Teacher of the Year is from Spokane, studying pollution in otter poop, tulips blooming now in the Skagit valley, & poetry in English and Vietnamese by Portland's Dao Strom.
Seattle mayor seeks big boost in funding for preschool, college, how will Starbucks confront racial bias?, transgender activist Morgane Oger considers a run for Vancouver mayor, rediscovering camas, a Cascadia Indigenous food, how to write in the age of Trump, & a poem by Michael Schmeltzer.
Alberta steps up trade war with BC over Trans Mountain pipeline, environmentalists hope to put carbon fee on WA ballot, is cross-laminated timber the next big thing in architecture, an interview with Portland rapper Mic Capes, and a poem by Spokane's Kathryn Smith.
Clash over Kinder Morgan pipeline in BC goes to Ottawa, a pension crisis is hitting Oregon, helping find missing Indigenous women in WA, peacemaking programs show promise for juvenile offenders, getting "unlikely" hikers in the woods, and poet and anti-war activist Sam Hamill dies.
