Seattle has WA's most regressive system of taxes, Kinder Morgan is playing the Canadian government, Seattle mayor isn't a friend of transit, cleaning up radioactive sludge at Hanford, Cascadia children's author Beverly Cleary turns 102, and the poem "First Confession" by Jeanine Walker.
This hike, a quick drive from Portland, features views of a magnificent 249-foot waterfall, and beyond the crowds, offers quiet groves of Douglas-fir, maples, and cedars. Plus, it's one of the few trails on the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge not closed by damage from the 2017 Eagle Creek fire.
Inside Central Washington's Bitcoin boom, Portland's anti-gentrification program isn't working, Microsoft fails to confront male-centric workplace, rare San Juan Island butterfly to get endangered designation, how the Canucks' Sedin brothers never overcame toxic hockey culture, and a poem by Kary Wayson.
Seattle homeless turning to cars and camper vans, what does Kinder Morgan's pipeline announcement mean?, new trade war with China will hurt WA cherry growers, an interview with Jackie Winters, a Black Republican leader in OR legislature, and an interview with WA author Jonathan Evison.
Kinder Morgan puts Trans Mountain pipeline on hold, OR succeeds in lowering opioid overdose fatality rate, sleep is a neglected health issue among Vancouver's homeless, huge solar energy project coming to eastern WA, & a Flathead reservation basketball team in Montana unites a small town.
Seattle housing prices continue to leap upward, major chefs oppose BC fish farms, BC changes rules so nurses can prescribe opioid substitutes, boost in firefighting budgets, a meditation on civil disobedience against pipelines, and a biography of poems by Julie Marie Wade.
Seattle adds new transit-to-trails service, will Portland elect first woman of color to its city council?, OR may put second gun control measure on ballot, new funds for housing in Spokane, a memoir from a Gitxsan leader in, and Willamette Week remembers when the Bhagwan was big news in Oregon.
April is National Poetry Month, a watch house defies Kinder Morgan's pipeline, will unused Multnomah jail house the homeless?, Seattleites like to hike, BC First Nation is no longer "extinct," an interview with BC First Nations author Terese Mailhot, and a poem by Jeanine Walker.
Interior backs off plan to raise fees at national parks in Cascadia, Seattle halts streetcar expansion, dams on Columbia & Snake ordered to let more water spill for salmon, co-ops on the rise in Vancouver, a visit to Astoria's Fisher Poetry Gathering, and Seattle's Ijeoma Oluo on the lie behind angry white men.
An interview with Red Clocks author Leni Zumas, will Spokane build more housing? Native American activists build long house in LNG protest, cougar-human interactions on the rise in Willamette valley, seagulls love to poop on humans, contemporary & historic Haida art, and fiction from David Chariandy.
