Polyamory in the Pac NW + OR rep calls for major federal boost to address Cascadia housing crisis, Seattle bans students without measles vaccines, "Curing Spokane" video stirs debate on homeless, why are dungeness crabs dying in high numbers on Oregon coast? & poetry by Jeanette Vo.
Polyamory in the Pac NW + court rules First Nations challenge to BC pipeline can continue, Seattle's new strategy on homelessness, Trump denies Idaho's plan to expand Medicaid, can relocation save the sage grouse?, Portland's Time Based Art Festival & an interview with poet Alex Gallo-Brown.
Polyamorous in the Pacific NW + group stokes fear of the homeless in WA, Google's questionable political ad campaign in Spokane, salmon to be transported by truck around BC landslide, BC authors nominated for Giller Prize for fiction & poetry by Sarah de Leeuw.
Non-monogamy and polyamory are on the rise in the Pacific Northwest. Karin Jones talks to people in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and elsewhere in the region who are creating new relationship rules and building community.
Hike Washington's Green Mountain, a flurry of small quakes in Cascadia, lawsuit against Seattle City Light, discovery of oldest human artifacts in North America in Idaho, real cities have public restrooms, J.C. Geiger, Eugene's master storyteller, and poetry by Ed Harkeness.
Of all the Green Mountains in Washington, this one is probably the grandest, with magnificent views of Glacier Peak, stunning wildflower displays, and huckleberries in late summer.
Oregon governor calls special session to deal with loopholes in new death penalty law, overdose prevention medication now available across WA, Seattle's white students get more recess than black students, Vancouver developers "artwashing" to put spin on luxury condos & poetry by Quenton Baker.
Cascadia Magazine's Evening of Words & Ideas is Sept 13! Plus, last-ditch lawsuit against Site C dam, new homeless center opens in Portland, a quiet wildfire season in Cascadia, a new biography of vagabond Vancouver writer Jim Christy, & Seattle libraries not please with e-book price hikes.
"You don't always have to travel to explore," Portland writer Vix Gutierrez discovers in an essay about adjusting to life in her thirties. Her epiphany comes as she faces mortality in a CPR course while her partner is on vacation in New Orleans.
Art by Barry Johnson, middle-class gangs on the rise in BC, Portland's Rohingya refugees, infiltrating right-wing Patriot Prayer, should kids get to vote?, Seattle's LGBTQ community embraces "stick & poke" tattoos, and fiction by Melisa Gregorio.
