Cascadia Journal (Page 15)

A schematic view of downtown Vancouver with three proposed towers, one over a thousand feet tall, at the center.

Daily Digest: Wildfire season gets started, more anti-LGBTQ protests and tall towers for Vancouver

Good morning! Here's your daily wrap-up of news, environmental reporting, and arts coverage from across Cascadia. I'm still 18 members shy of my goal of 50 paid subscribers by the end of the month. If you appreciate this newsletter, please consider chipping in $5 a month

A Seattle Police Officer forcefully straddles and arrests someone wearing tie dye at a religious right wing protest in Seattle.

Daily Digest: Anti-LGBTQ rally in Seattle, Trump wants Oregon to be digitally illiterate, and a free Black Belt Eagle Scout show!

Anti-LGBTQ rally in the heart of Seattle's queer community Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's administration approved a permit for a controversial rally by the far-right Christian group Mayday USA over the Memorial Day weekend, resulting in SPD arresting 23 counter-protesters, The Stranger reports. In other municipal news,

Cascadia will do what the US won't: Tackle climate change

The Trump administration loves to create a phony crisis. No, the Tren de Aragua gang isn't taking over the US. There's no "energy emergency" that demands more oil drilling. And peaceful protesters challenging the genocide in Gaza aren't an existential threat to

Washington governor Bob Ferguson looks at a stack of bills lined up to sign on a desk, with the flags of the United States and Washington in the background.

Daily Digest: Bob signs budget with few cuts, nurses leave US for BC, and weekend poetry

Sign me up for the free Cascadia Journal newsletter WA governor signs budget with $9 billion in new taxes Yesterday, according to Washington State Standard, Washington governor Bob Ferguson signed a $78 billion, two-year state budget that includes $9 billion in new revenue, mostly in higher business taxes and a

A light rail train enters a news Link station in Redmond Washington with apartments under construction in the background.

Daily Digest: Building affordable housing, time to fund Cascadia journalism, and it's Summer Book Bingo time! 📚

Sign me up for the free Cascadia Journal e-newsletter Removing roadblocks to affordable housing We all know that housing is expensive all over Cascadia. And that's especially true in suburbs like the east side of King county. In my latest article for the Urbanist, I look at how

Poet Martha Silano sits in an office in front of a shelf full of books.

Daily Digest: Cascadia farmers hit by tariffs, BC ponders election reform and remembering poet Martha Silano

Hope you all had a good weekend and a fun Cascadia Day! Cascadia Journal brings you a daily round-up of news and arts coverage from around the Pacific Northwest as well as a weekly essay on issues important to our bioregion. If you like what you're reading, please

Mount St Helens, with a wide open crater, sends up a plume of steam from the growing volcanic dome at the center of the crater. The mountain is covered in snow.

Daily Digest:Celebrate Cascadia Day, farm activist sues ICE, & renaming offensive place names

May 18 is Cascadia Day 💙🤍💚 May 18, the date that Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, has become the unofficial Cascadia Day – a time to celebrate the bioregion that stretches from northern California to southeast Alaska. In Seattle, on Saturday May 17 at 6 pm at the Georgetown Steam Plant,

Two Washington state ferries cross Puget Sound with the Olympic mountains in the background.

Daily Digest: Oregon tax revenue slumps $500 million, Trump hates Columbia River, and new soundtrack to Old Joy

Oregon revenue $500 million below estimates OPB reports on some very bad news for Oregon – the state's chief economist says the state will have $500 million less in projected tax revenue during the 2025-2027 budget cycle, thanks to trade wars and economic instability. Also, Seattle Times notes that

Daily Digest: Making shrooms legal in Cascadia, OR school elections and 25 years of geocaching

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A hiker holds a Cascadia Doug flag in the wind at the top of a peak in the Cacade range.

Daily Digest: It's time to talk Cascadia independence, Trump wants Oregon to go hungry, Blazers for sale 🏀

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A view of the Earth from space, with the Pacific Ocean and the mountains and deserts of Cascadia, including Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia visible.

It’s time for Washington and Oregon to work for an independent Cascadia

Sign up for the free Cascadia Journal e-newsletter by Andrew Engelson, Drew Alcosser, and Brandon Letsinger Earlier this month, there was a pivotal moment in Donald Trump’s four-month attack on democracy and the rule of law in the United States. When asked by Meet The Press interviewer Kristen Welker

Daily Digest: Texas kicking Cascadia's ass on renewables but we'll fight wildfires together

Good morning and welcome to your fact-filled news source for fighting fascism across Cascadia! I'm trying to reach a goal of 50 subscriber by the end of May. It's only $5 a month – the cost of latte. Thanks for helping out! Heck yeah, I'll

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