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9h ago
A financial Sword of Damocles still hangs over Washington’s budget as uncertainty remains over a federal funding freeze. The state might have to trim additional billions of dollars from the Washington Legislature’s upcoming 2025-27 budget – already facing a $12 billion shortfall – if President Donald Trump follows through on his order to halt all federal grants and loans to the states. No one knows how much will be trimmed ..read more
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19h ago
Late last week President Donald Trump suddenly appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Amid the onslaught of alarming news streaming out of the Oval Office since his inauguration, this move sent a particular chill through arts and culture organizations ..read more
Cascade PBS
1d ago
Just hours after being sworn into office for a second term, President Donald Trump signed numerous executive orders on immigration. While some were policies he had executed in his first term, others were unprecedented, such as ending birthright citizenship and designating international drug cartels as terrorists. Shortly thereafter, the Trump administration sent a memo to the Justice Department directing it to boost efforts on immigration enforcement, a swift follow-through on a promise Trump made during his presidential campaign. In the past several weeks, thousands of people, in do ..read more
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2d ago
Topics: Columbia River, Geology, History, Mossback, Mossback's Northwest, Podcast ..read more
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2d ago
In Washington, the nickname “The Evergreen State” winks at you across Washington from road signs, license plates, even quarters. It’s a popular sobriquet, but it’s never been made an official nickname. We’ve been conducting a casual relationship with it for more than a century.   ..read more
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3d ago
After the first round of ballot counting Tuesday night, Seattle voters have definitively shown they want to fund social housing and are on track to levy a new tax on businesses to do so.   ..read more
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3d ago
Prior to the influx of colonial settlers in the mid-19th century and the eventual development of large dams blocking fish passageway along the river, the Columbia River Basin was teeming with anadromous salmon and steelhead returning from the ocean annually. Jeremy FiveCrows, communications director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC), said 15 to 20 million adult salmon and steelhead returned to the basin historically, which “represented an annual infusion of so much nutrient wealth that fed this entire ecosystem.” By the 1990s, that number ..read more