Seattle names new police chief, wildfires spark evacuations in eastern Cascadia, making sense of proportional representation in BC, anti-union efforts on the rise, threatened butterfly returns to Oregon, imaginary maps of Cascadia, and raising children in a doomed world.
Essay: "We Hope You Enjoy Portland Spirit," Vancouver's housing-income gap highest in North America, asylum seekers in Seattle consider suicide, Cascadia's farmers facing huge pressures, youths oppose pipeline, a poem by Laura Reed, and a harrowing essay by Spokane writer Kevin Taylor.
Poetry by Judith Barrington, BC fish processors fouling the Salish Sea, Boise shocked by attack on refugees, eastern OR ranchers fear beef tariffs but still support Trump, health outcomes for homeless in Vancouver are poor, a conversation with Ijeoma Oluo, and poetry by Floyd Skloot.
Immigrant seeks refuge in Seattle church, white resident calls cops on black OR legislator campaigning, a big, bad wolf biologist tangles with ranchers, artist RYAN! Feddersen shatters Native American stereotypes, and paintings of people on the margins by Vancouver artist Alex Sandvoss.
A report from the Cascadia Convergence, the region resists ICE & immigration policy, controversial use of police force at Portland State University, wildfires in Naches, WA and southwest OR, an interview with hip-hop artist Logic Aman, and the Seattle mystery pop machine has vanished!
What do new BC rules for fish farms mean for wild salmon? Hike Mount Wells outside Victoria, BC, a new app used to harass the homeless, OR gun safety measure probably won't be on ballot, "Leave No Trace," a new film set in Cascadia, and an essay by Celestine Aleck (Sahiltiniye).
BC First Nations fight for wild salmon, blockade of Portland ICE facility ended, scandal grows over BC casino money laundering, did the NRA kill two Oregon gun safety initiatives?, a new collection of writing on food and sustenance by BC writers, and poetry by Seattle's Lok Fung.
Hike Oregon's Lookout Mountain this weekend, Victoria opens safe injection site, Vancouver transit breaks records, what's causing Salem's toxic water?, the dangers of the Columbia Bar, why a mother threw her children from a Portland bridge, and mapping the liminal weirdness of Seattle.
Looking for solutions to Cascadia's overdose crisis, WA & OR to sue feds over family separations, how to fix Indigenous child welfare?, improving conditions for Seattle's domestic workers, pikas are in peril across Cascadia, an interview with OR poet laureate Kim Stafford, & a poem by EJ Koh.
First Nations get veto power over BC fish farms, protesters close down Portland ICE facility, what next for Seattle homeless policy after head tax repeal?, Seattle's queer heroes, a Buddhist monastery in White Salmon, WA, and "In This America," poetry by Spokane's Kathryn Smith.
