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In the frenzy to pass a federal budget that slashes funding for Medicaid, food assistance, and education, Senator Mike Lee, chair of the committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced a plan that would have forced the sale of between 2 and 3 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau
First hybrid electric ferry enters service With governor Bob Ferguson and former governor Jay Inslee on board, the Washington state ferry system debuted its first conversion of a ferry to hybrid electric power, Washington State Standard reports. Earlier this month, Ferguson announced it would contract with a Florida company to
WA governor will cover lost Planned Parenthood funding According to the Washington State Standard, Washington governor Bob Ferguson pledged to backfill $11 million in Medicaid funding cuts approved recently by Congress to health services provided by Planned Parentood in the state. The state is suing to recover the funds – none
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Farm workers not showing up for harvest As the Trump administration doubles down in its efforts at mass deportations of undocumented workers (US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently implied undocumented workers will quickly be replaced with Medicaid recipients and robots) OPB reports that Oregon cherry farmers are in crisis as
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Today, Sen. Lisa Murkowski did a cowardly thing. Murkowski, a centrist who has flirted with the idea of leaving the Republican party and joining the Democrats, represents a portion of Cascadia in the US Senate (areas of southeast Alaska, including Juneau, are part of the bioregion). Murkowski was apparently very
ICE ramps up assault in Cascadia The Portland Mercury notes that ICE is using email alerts to asylum seekers to ramp of detentions at immigration facilities in Portland, including a trans woman known as OJM who fears threats to her life if returned to Mexico. Meanwhile, in response to aggressive
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Public land sell-off scaled back but not dead Yesterday, I wrote for Columbia Insight about Utah Senator Mike Lee's proposed plan to sell off up to 3.2 million acres of US Forest Service and BLM lands across the West, including wildlands in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
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It was in my early fifties when I came out as bisexual (or, pansexual if you prefer, though I like the definition of bisexuality as being attracted to people of the same or different genders as oneself). When I first lived on Capitol Hill, the heart of Seattle's