Interior backs off plan to raise fees at national parks in Cascadia, Seattle halts streetcar expansion, dams on Columbia & Snake ordered to let more water spill for salmon, co-ops on the rise in Vancouver, a visit to Astoria's Fisher Poetry Gathering, and Seattle's Ijeoma Oluo on the lie behind angry white men.
An interview with Red Clocks author Leni Zumas, will Spokane build more housing? Native American activists build long house in LNG protest, cougar-human interactions on the rise in Willamette valley, seagulls love to poop on humans, contemporary & historic Haida art, and fiction from David Chariandy.
Burnaby BC mayor takes pipeline fight to the courts, will Burgerville workers unionize?, Washington company aims to mine asteroids, oldest footprints in North America found in BC, Richard Chiem doesn't want to make eye contact, and an essay on a bus stop incident by Donna Miscolta.
A poem, "The Return of the Elwha King" by Paul Nelson, Cascadia challenges Trump on census citizenship question, sketchy real estate practices in PDX, megaquake would send 60-foot tsunami to WA coast, whale watching season in Depoe Bay, and a poem by Andrew Shattuck McBride.
Can British Columbia meet climate targets and build LNG plants? New film documents loss of mobile homes near Seattle, when an apology isn't enough for crimes against First Nations, returning to Marilyn Robinson's novel Housekeeping years later, and an interview with composer John Luther Adams.
March for Our Lives protests across Cascadia, courts deny First Nation's bid to stop fish farm transfer, Russian consulate in Seattle closed, land trusts shift focus toward cities, new film based on Portland author Willy Vlautin's novel, and an excerpt from Chelsea Johnson's Stray City.
Get out hiking in Cascadia this weekend, region prepares for March for Our Lives, protesters arrested at Trans Mountain site, wifi helping improve lives of Seattle's homeless, an immigration jail transformed into artist housing, Portland photographer Austin Granger loves film, & a poem by Alexandra Teague.
A book review of the theMystery.doc, teens help organize Seattle gun control march this weekend, economic benefits of high speed rail, the blob retreats from coast of Cascadia, Sonic Boom festival showcases Vancouver composers, and an interview with poet and AIDS activist Julene Tripp Weaver.
A new podcast for Cascadians in Seattle, the Facebook scandal's Cascadia connection, tribes come together to urge ban on fish farms, new groups fighting for affordable housing in Vancity, Oregon lawsuit targets ICE, how Lee Maracle changed Indigenous literature, and a poem by Charlotte Zhang.
Cascadia leaders come together to find solutions on climate change & opioid crisis, BC funds study for regional high speed rail, shortage of doctors in rural WA, Spokane investigates public broadband system, Emily Strelow's new novel The Wild Birds, and a poem by Portland poet Matthew Dickman.
