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Cascadia today: Feds cancel WA meeting vote-by-mail + AK cruise kills whale + the moody art of Takao Tanabe
Good morning! If you're new to Cascadia Journal, welcome! I write this newsletter every day, bringing you an opinionated roundup of news, environmental reporting, and arts & culture coverage from across the Cascadia bioregion. I also write weekly articles and essays about what's great about Cascadia
Cascadia today: OR needs more heat pumps + opposing a BC gold mine + queer Seattle writers to read this summer
Good morning, and happy belated summer solstice! Enjoy the the sunny evenings – it's important for Cascadians to stock up on vitamin D before the Big Dark of winter! If you're looking for some good news from the Pacific Northwest and haven't read it yet,
Coast Salish Indigenous canoes inspire little poetry bookcases in Auburn & Muckleshoot land
Mateo Quispe, who's the poet laureate of Auburn – a suburban city south of Seattle – wishes they'd had more access to Indigenous poetry growing up. Quispe spent most of their life in Auburn, and is Red River Métis and Little Shell Chippewa (unenrolled) as well as Two-
Cascadia today: Feds to put back ocean monitors + Seattle hotel workers strike + Jeff VanderMeer at home in Portland
Happy Juneteenth! Looking for ways to enjoy the holiday that celebrates Black freedom, art, and culture? Here are some events across Cascadia today and through the weekend: The South Seattle Emerald has a great guide to Juneteenth in central and South Seattle & South King county. The Juneteenth Oregon Festival