Seattle mayor seeks big boost in funding for preschool, college, how will Starbucks confront racial bias?, transgender activist Morgane Oger considers a run for Vancouver mayor, rediscovering camas, a Cascadia Indigenous food, how to write in the age of Trump, & a poem by Michael Schmeltzer.
Alberta steps up trade war with BC over Trans Mountain pipeline, environmentalists hope to put carbon fee on WA ballot, is cross-laminated timber the next big thing in architecture, an interview with Portland rapper Mic Capes, and a poem by Spokane's Kathryn Smith.
Clash over Kinder Morgan pipeline in BC goes to Ottawa, a pension crisis is hitting Oregon, helping find missing Indigenous women in WA, peacemaking programs show promise for juvenile offenders, getting "unlikely" hikers in the woods, and poet and anti-war activist Sam Hamill dies.
Seattle has WA's most regressive system of taxes, Kinder Morgan is playing the Canadian government, Seattle mayor isn't a friend of transit, cleaning up radioactive sludge at Hanford, Cascadia children's author Beverly Cleary turns 102, and the poem "First Confession" by Jeanine Walker.
Inside Central Washington's Bitcoin boom, Portland's anti-gentrification program isn't working, Microsoft fails to confront male-centric workplace, rare San Juan Island butterfly to get endangered designation, how the Canucks' Sedin brothers never overcame toxic hockey culture, and a poem by Kary Wayson.
Seattle homeless turning to cars and camper vans, what does Kinder Morgan's pipeline announcement mean?, new trade war with China will hurt WA cherry growers, an interview with Jackie Winters, a Black Republican leader in OR legislature, and an interview with WA author Jonathan Evison.
Kinder Morgan puts Trans Mountain pipeline on hold, OR succeeds in lowering opioid overdose fatality rate, sleep is a neglected health issue among Vancouver's homeless, huge solar energy project coming to eastern WA, & a Flathead reservation basketball team in Montana unites a small town.
Seattle housing prices continue to leap upward, major chefs oppose BC fish farms, BC changes rules so nurses can prescribe opioid substitutes, boost in firefighting budgets, a meditation on civil disobedience against pipelines, and a biography of poems by Julie Marie Wade.
Seattle adds new transit-to-trails service, will Portland elect first woman of color to its city council?, OR may put second gun control measure on ballot, new funds for housing in Spokane, a memoir from a Gitxsan leader in, and Willamette Week remembers when the Bhagwan was big news in Oregon.
April is National Poetry Month, a watch house defies Kinder Morgan's pipeline, will unused Multnomah jail house the homeless?, Seattleites like to hike, BC First Nation is no longer "extinct," an interview with BC First Nations author Terese Mailhot, and a poem by Jeanine Walker.
