As the April 15 federal tax deadline approaches, it’s worth taking a moment to consider how a tax strike could help Oregon and Washington assert fiscal independence and send a message to Congress that it needs to work harder to halt fascism in the US.
To learn more about this rapidly-growing civil disobedience movement in which people refuse to pay federal income taxes to protest and defund US authoritarianism, I spoke with Christina Thompson, who lives in Maryland and is coordinator of the National Tax Strike.
1.6 million people live in high hazard areas. As the region continues to build in flammable landscapes, policymakers can protect communities with smarter building choices and the truth about rising risk.
The unanimous vote follows a similar moratorium in SeaTac, with Burien, Renton, and Seattle expected to follow suit. As an epicenter of ICE activity in Puget Sound, Tukwila had unique reason to believe a detention center could be coming to their city.
It's mid-summer, and for some reason I had a moment of nostalgia for gray, cold, rainy days. If you're like me, here's a reminder of what we can look forward to in a few months...
On June 8th, protesters in Portland, OR set up camp on the driveway of the U.S Immigrants Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, located at 4310 S Macadam Ave. A call went out for others to join the demonstration, maintaining a 24/7 presence in order to stop all movement of vehicles to and from the building and interrupt “Enforcement and Removal” operations.
Colonel Michael Rose, commander of the 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF), stated that a second battery of "Tomahawk" missiles, to be mounted on "Typhoon" launchers, will be deployed in the Asia-Pacific region. It will be stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, which houses the I Corps and the 62nd Air Wing of the U.S. Air Force. The first battery of these missiles is currently located in the Philippines.
THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — A wildfire in Oregon prompted officials to issue evacuation orders for hundreds of homes and to close nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) of an interstate in the Columbia River Gorge on Wednesday.
I moved up north of Bellingham recently and visit Bellingham and Ferndale pretty regularly and those two towns specifically are just so incredibly dog friendly. Or at least they are in the outdoor space, I don't take my dog to shops or downtown or anything.
Of the 469 large renewable projects that applied to connect to Bonneville’s grid since 2015, only one has reached approval. Those are longer odds than in any other region of the country, the news organizations found. No major grid operator is as stingy as Bonneville in its approach to financing new transmission lines and substations needed to grow the power supply, according to industry groups that represent power producers.
A cascade of actions from the Trump administration represents a “grave threat” to health care, social, educational and other critical services in Indian Country, including for Native American communities in the Northwest, tribal leaders say.
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