A new hiking column at Cascadia Magazine, WA moves toward banning death penalty, ways BC can lower climate impact, WA Republican to Trump: don't drill our coast, how Portland says farewell to Portlandia, a documentary on Iraqi refugees, and two authors talk about magical realism in political fiction.
In his debut "Get Outside!" column, hiking expert Craig Romano takes us to Ebey's Landing, a gorgeous four-season hike on Washington's Whidbey Island. It's a stroll through pioneer history that offers stunning views of the Salish Sea from some of the highest coastal bluffs in the state.
US Justice Dept targets Cascadia's sanctuary cities, Salish Sea tribes worry about impact of salmon farms, why dams don't provide clean energy, confronting sexism in Seattle's tech industry, a poem about Mount St. Helens, and First Nations filmmaker Mary Galloway screened at Vancouver Short Film Festival.
A Cascadia Magazine interview with Portland novelist Leni Zumas, Oregon voters approve health funding measure, Cascadia cities debate building more housing, tsunami warnings ignored, a researchers calls out misogyny in the sciences, and WA author Scott Freeman on reclaiming a simple life.
Portland author Leni Zumas talks about her ambitious new novel, Red Clocks, which imagines a future where abortion is illegal and witches are persecuted. In an interview with Sarah Marshall, Zumas delves into topics ranging from the #MeToo movement to Arctic exploration.
Ursula K. Le Guin dies at age 88, an original poem at Cascadia Magazine by Claudia Castro Luna, Oregon votes on health care today, hearings begin on BC pipeline, two Tacoma, WA artists contemplate the moon, a Seattle poet interview poetry superstar Kaveh Akbar, and more.
A new poem by Washington state poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna:
Imagine every spoken word/as part of a very large scaffold/that when we hear “hold” and “please”/steel decks, posts and leveling jacks/
shift this way and that
Though WA Attorney General Bob Ferguson gets most of the attention, two female attorneys in the civil rights division, Colleen Melody and Marsha Chien, are leading the fight against Trump's controversial executive orders, from the Muslim travel ban to DACA.
Cascadia Magazine's original feature on two women with the WA attorney general's office fighting Trump's policies. Plus, thousands of women march across Cascadia, will OR pass a "cap and invest" climate bill, why are marbled murrelets still in decline?, and staging a BDSM opera in Seattle.
The Pacific Northwest is changing at a breakneck pace, from Amazon's takeover of Seattle to the split between rural and urban communities. Cascadia Magazine can help you make sense of those changes, by exploring ideas and culture from across the bio-region.
