A great day in Montgomery, AL as thousands gathered under the theme “All Roads Lead to the South” - a rally to mobilize awareness & action in opposition to southern states racial gerrymandering to dismantle majority Black congressional districts after the SCOTUS decision in Louisiana v Calláis.

🌱Another "front yard in the rain" picture. It's pouring as I type, and it rained yesterday and more is forecast tomorrow. Meanwhile we have a statewide drought declaration because our summer and fall water supply depends on snowpack, and it is way below normal.

New short documentary directed by a young friend -- Molly Stark Ragsdale: aeon.co/videos/meet-...

Seattle soared to prosperity with the help of cheap power from city-owned dams in the North Cascades. Now, after more than a century, it has agreed to pay three Indigenous tribes about $1.35 billion for some of the wealth it extracted from the Skagit River.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

#StreetArt 🌸 The Living Afro By Fabio Gomes Trindade in #Trindade, #Brazil

The Murray Morgan Bridge (aka my dad's bridge) looking mysterious.

GiveBIG has begun! This year, we’re asking for your support to help sustain fact-based local journalism and community building across Skagit, Whatcom and San Juan counties. www.wagives.org/donate/Salis...

A newly appointed San Juan County committee will examine whether shoreline restoration efforts at Jackson Beach on San Juan Island can coexist with the county’s barge landing at Griffin Bay. Read the full story by Richard Arlin Walker at the link below. salish-current.org/2026/05/05/c...

She played for our Sumner High School Class of 67 senior party.

Big news for a small newsroom: Cascadia Daily News' Owen Racer and Sophia Gates have won a Best of the West and a National Headliner award, respectively. Racer is a Report for America journalist, Gates a WA Murrow News Fellow. Those #journalism programs work. www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/apr/29/...

What an an incredible project of Pacific Northwest #EnivroHistory, highlighting the ways in which community and nature interact.

Ongoing Call for Submissions to PNQ! Essays on the history of AK, WA, B.C., OR, ID, western MT and the North American West are welcomed. We're especially interested in innovative looks at old ideas, and under theorized perspectives on the region. sites.uw.edu/cspn/pnq/pnq...

Selected as the winner of Salish Current’s Earth Day poetry contest, “Poems for the Earth” is featured in the latest Artist’s Corner. Read the full entry at the link below. salish-current.org/2026/04/22/p...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

For fans of Chris Morgan's "The Wild Podcast" and other projects, we interviewed him on a spring stroll through Whatcom Falls Park near his home (when he's home). The ice-bedazzled photo is from a different expedition. salish-current.org/2026/04/23/a...

Self-taught wildlife photographer Paul Brennan will have four of his images featured during Crescendo: A Symphonic Celebration of Washington Landscape on April 26, where his work will be paired with live, nature-inspired music by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra.

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

This comparison was a big help to me.

This is a lovely and powerful zine about the logging of the Box of Rain legacy forest parcel in Whatcom County. It also shows of how good our new brand new website looks at Salish-Current.org salish-current.org/2026/04/13/p...

Every day, we consume tree products, often without knowing it. The tears of trees, gums and resins, are ubiquitous in our lives. The fragrance of frankincense is probably familiar to most of us. We encounter tears of trees every day, in food, drink, cosmetics, printed pages, and may not realize it.

Whatcom County is preparing to release a new jail needs assessment as officials debate size, cost and how to balance incarceration with behavioral health investments. The current facility is overcrowded, but funding challenges and differing priorities continue to shape the project.

Elder care: We are old. I head out minus keys, glasses, phone. Husband stashes little things in his shoes and then forgets, which is bad as he has lost feeling in his feet and doesn't notice until they do damage. His daughter and my granddaughter have stepped in. (Husband is a thee/thy Quaker.)

FYI, Seattle.

1. Idaho banned the pride flag on government property. So Boise made the pride flag their official city flag, which allowed them to fly it. Then Idaho banned new city flags. So in response, Boise has now wrapped the poles themselves in rainbows! Subscribe to support our journalism.

Today, I delivered another 18 bags of groceries (+ Girl Scout cookies!) from the White Center Food Bank to 9 families in White Center and Seattle for the @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use bikes, + trailers to bring fresh food by bike to neighbors with mobility or accessibility challenges

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Washington state health inspectors have been trying for months to enter the Tacoma immigrant detention center amid longstanding concerns about the conditions there. They've made nine unsuccessful attempts to inspect the site. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/despi...

Author Terry Tempest Williams will speak in Bellingham as part of the Nature of Writing series, bringing her reflections on attention, community and the natural world.

The thing is once you’ve been deported from somewhere it makes it substantially harder to apply for immigration to travel, study or live anywhere else. Not that Miller or Trump or anyone cares about anything else but the whitening of US universities

Artist Benjamin Vanderwerff traces the Skagit Valley’s rugged terrain, shifting access and deep artistic lineage inform his work. From cold camps to spray paint in open air, creation here is not about comfort. It is about connection, persistence and honoring the raw spirit of the Pacific Northwest.

Ok, now do the bass clef.

I'd read a piece of historical fiction about a pistol-packing 73-year-old former First Lady taking on the Klan.

Cartoon by David Horsey | The Seattle Times

In the Kitsap County, Washington, we take care of our Veterans! Since 2017 we have reduced the number of homeless Veterans from 91 to 7. This is in a county of 277k with 35k Veterans. A 1/10 of 1% sales and property tax funds a $1 million/year budget dedicated to assisting low income Veterans.

Proposed 2026 federal funding cuts could significantly impact Coast Salish nations. These cuts could also complicate ongoing efforts in salmon recovery, environmental protection and climate resilience, raising concerns about the federal government’s ability to uphold treaty obligations.

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

James Beard Award semifinalist Jordan Koplowitz and partner Christy Wyble have closed their Bellingham pizzeria Starla's, and plan to move the venture to Seattle, where they previously ran Blotto. "Expect a legit pizzeria, expect table service, expect more pies."

This would probably be a more effective argument if Trump hadn't advocated and rolled out a policy by which people could become citizens FOR PAY.

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

A fare increase approved by Whatcom Transportation Authority in December will raise bus fixed-route costs across the county from $1 to $2 and paratransit fares from $1 to $3 beginning in fall of this year. The proposal has already sparked concerns about affordability.

NEW! Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis/ (But journalists are still letting him write the headlines) presswatchers.org/2026/03/befo...

While landlines have gone out of fashion in recent years, the folks behind Telehamster, a new independent landline network, are trying to bring them back. Had a blast talking to these folks. Now I'm feeling nostalgic for being a kid and calling my best friend's landline to find times to hang out.

Stunning photo: James Bradford in 1961, arrested for reading in the Jackson, Mississippi public library.

This isn't true. I wish people would stop saying this. Specifically the banned additives. The US actually bans slightly more additives than the EU, just different ones. The EU for example allows cyclamates the US doesn't

Psst. I don't think this has been officially announced yet, but @cascadiadaily.com now has a website for its new newsletters. If you're a CDN subscriber, your login gets you to an archive of ones you may have missed. Like the first Business Matters. newsletters.cascadiadaily.com/p/business-m...

🌱My goals for my front yard include looking good in the rain, deer resistance (eg, no tulips), edibility (strawberries, blueberries, herbs), native plants (most are behind the azalea bushes and not up yet), and frogs (the tiny pond is just out of sight to the left). March 24, 2026