Lawsuit in OR challenges feds expanding grazing Oregon Capital Chronicle reports that the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oregon opposing the Trump regime's plan to vastly expand cattle grazing on 24 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Member of Congress visit Tacoma ICE camp Oregon Live reports that two Democratic members of Congress from Cascadia, Maxine Dexter of Portland, and Emily Randall, whose district includes Tacoma, paid an unannounced visit to ICE's Northwest Detention Center this past weekend. The ICE detention camp was the focus
Tribe works to save endangered sunflowers stars KUOW reports on work wildlife biologists and the Samish tribe are doing to breed and release sunflowers stars, which have been devastated by a bacterial pandemic that has wiped out 5 billion of the Pacific coast creatures. Members of the Salish Sea tribe
Concern that ICE camp in Tacoma will be sold to feds KUOW reports on speculation that ICE is looking to purchase the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma from the private company GEO Group. The ICE camp, which has been at the center of hundreds of complaints of unsanitary food, inadequate
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Seattle passes junk fee ban + $300K trans assistance The Seattle city council was busy yesterday, unanimously passing mayor Katie Wilson's rental junk fee ban as well also unanimously approving a $300,000 addition to the supplemental budget (introduced by council member Alexis Mercedes Rinck) that would assist trans
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Seattle and Portland have become safe havens from places passing restrictive anti-trans laws.
Vote on Seattle rental junk fee ban today The Seattle city council will vote this afternoon on a proposed ban on, junk rental fees, including charges for things like pet rent, fees for in-unit appliances, cleaning of common areas, and other excessive fees. It would also require landlords to
Thanks again to all who donated in Cascadia Democratic Action's bottled water and N-95 mask drive. Wash Masks mutual aid is coordinating with Latinos en Seattle to ensure masks are getting to people who need them in the Spokane area, and they sent along this message to
In case you missed it, I was on the CityCast Seattle podcast last week talking about how our region could benefit from a state bank: more funds for affordable housing and low-cost student loans, more certainty about disaster relief, and keeping money in Cascadia instead of with mega banks.
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Mix of centrists and progressives win in WA primary Yesterday was election day in Washington, and the results didn't show one particular trend but rather a mix of centrists and progressives prevailing, and Trump-backed right wingers winning where you'd expect. OPB reports on the most
