Sign me up for the free e-newsletter When did empathy become political? Good afternoon! When the Trump administration included the word "empathy" in those to be avoided by NOAA employees, it said a lot about this administration's priorities. In my weekly essay for Cascadia Digest, I
Bill Gates will give away his fortune early The Associated Press reports that Microsoft founder Bill Gates ramp up his philanthropic donations and will give way $107 billion, 99 percent of his wealth, and close down the Gates Foundation, which funds global health initiatives, by 2045. The move comes as
There's a person who lives on my block in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood who regularly sits on the street corner and yells. It's an angry monologue, disjointed and incoherent, but sincere. She's a middle-aged black woman – and yes, this matters. I'
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Happy May Day! Go fight fascism 🌹 Today is May Day – not, as some in the US would have you believe, a Hallmark card holiday – but a day of international action supporting rights and fair wages for working people. Hundreds of protests across the country will take the opportunity to speak
At the westernmost point of what we now call Washington State, I like to sit and think about the past. Cape Alava is magical place where forests of Sitka spruce meet the rocky shores of the Pacific. It's a landscape where deer wander into the surf, tide pools
OR and WA sue feds to fund Head Start OPB reports that Oregon and Washington are part of a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Trump administration from ending the Head Start preschool program, which provides early learning services to some 800,000 children and low-income families across the US. The
Liberals win in Canada as leftist parties lose ground in BC In a stunning reversal from its position in the polls a few months ago, Canada's centrist Liberal party won Canada's federal election last night, selecting Mark Carney to lead the country as he took aim
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