Get your hands dirty on a Cascadia farm-stay, Portland's incentives to create affordable housing aren't working, King County makes a grab for an arts organization, BC ministers urge turnaround on Site C dam, museums work to better tell Indigenous stories, and a poem by Quenton Baker.
Farm-stay vacations are thriving across Cascadia as authentic, rural experiences and a connection to local, organic food that’s deeper than a stop at the farmers’ market. For small-scale farmers, welcoming visitors and sharing their knowledge is not only fun, it provides needed extra cash.
Exploring the toxic legacy of Washington's nuclear sites in words & photos, BC overdose deaths hit a disturbing new high, will the WA legislature confront its harassment problem?, inside Amazon's spheres, Portland in the bizarro world, and an incredible basketball-themed story by Seattle's Richard Chiem
Photographer Dan Hawkins and former Washington poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken witness the toxic legacy of nuclear sites in Washington: Hawkins' obsolete process involving uranium gives his images a reddish tint; two poems from Flenniken's collection Plume shed light on radioactivity lingering in the Columbia River.
Cascadia Magazine's first book review: a bio of Chief Seattle, salmon farm misled WA officials, the success of medically-assisted death in BC, a Seattle poet confronts climate change, an Indigenous woman's journey from the streets to film, and an interview with two of Cascadia's most talented architects.
Michael Upchurch reviews David Buerge's book "Chief Seattle and the Town the Took His Name," a history that rejects simple mythologies and draws a complicated portrait of the man the city of Seattle was named for-- as well offering a rich account of Duwamish and Suquamish tribal culture.
A new zombie story at Cascadia Magazine by Anca Szilágyi, BC puts up roadblocks to pipeline, Seattle immigration activist threatened with deportation will be at State of the Union, fishers are returning to the Cascades, OR Book Award finalists announced, and a poem by Kevin Craft.
"Every day I think I’ve done the wrong thing. It’s an exhausting way to live. One time, I was walking down Cherry Street to get some Thai for dinner, and this white guy in a polo shirt came running toward me. He looked worried. I slipped to the side. Maybe he was trying to catch a bus, I thought. A minute later another white guy in a gray t-shirt came after him with a big smile and a steak knife."
Cascadia cities confront the housing crisis, WA governor kills Columbia River oil terminal, a $1 billion loss for BC's public-owned auto insurer, will the real Tonya Harding please stand up?, a profile of a multi-cultural modern-day witch, and visual poetry from Seattle's Colleen Louise Barry.
Faced with skyrocketing housing costs, the three largest cities in the Pacific Northwest -- Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland-- are taking different approaches to reigning in costs and building more affordable units, whether it's changing zoning, increasing public-funded housing, or making deals with developers.
