Spokane outlaws homelessness, BC lowers its greenhouse gas reduction targets, WA tribe on Puget Sound confronts opioid crisis, new Portland podcast on racial equity in the cannabis industry, farmed salmon spread disease to wild Chinook, and new music from Vancouver band The Long War.
Meet the candidates for Portland city council, the BC pipeline project you've never heard of, BC guest farmworker program failing to prevent sexual assault, say goodbye to mountain goats in Olympic National Park, BC Book Prizes awarded, and two poems by Mercedes Lawry.
BC Hydro gobbled farmland for Site C dam, hate-filled meeting about housing in Seattle, Oregon pot businesses find banking almost impossible, North Cascades national park almost wasn't created, Douglas Coupland's art at Vancouver Aquarium, and a poem on sexual assault by Fallon Sullivan.
Amazon stops construction of Seattle HQ to protest tax for affordable housing, more First Nations oppose BC pipeline, will salmon return to Columbia above Grand Coulee, eastern Oregon school districts afraid of transgender kids book, and a poem by Seattle activist Nikita Oliver.
Oregon Book Awards announced, Vancouver's bold & expensive transit expansion, Spokane Teacher of the Year to school Trump, time running out for South Selkirk caribou, some hiking trails in Oregon's Columbia Gorge to reopen this summer, and an interview with Portland slam poet Anis Mojgani.
Seattle to vacate pot convictions, BC asks courts to give it authority to block pipeline expansion, scathing report may stop Hanford cleanup, Emily Strelow on how seeing death in nature changed her as a writer, the vanishing bees of Cascadia, and the Seattle chapter of the Black Panthers 50 years later.
Seattle sweeps another homeless camp despite activist pushback, Vancouver succeeded in building around transit, innovative housing solution for BC Indigenous youth, Seattle musician deals with childhood sexual abuse through music, and visual poetry by Kelli Russell Agodon.
Remembering poet Sam Hamill, WA state fighting tribes over salmon & culverts, BC pipeline would only benefit oil companies, US Teacher of the Year is from Spokane, studying pollution in otter poop, tulips blooming now in the Skagit valley, & poetry in English and Vietnamese by Portland's Dao Strom.
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.
