Pacific Northwest - OR,WA,BC
Seattle / PNW: Keep an eye out and call the contact numbers if you have any info https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/flaming-lips-band-member-daughter-missing-seattle/281-d30a9381-3073-4cd8-9bcf-9e505593d11f
www.yesonmeasure118.com
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count. Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
Chinuk Wawa, also called Chinook Trade Jargon, is an incredibly simple language with like ~1000 words and basically no grammar. It's a pidgin of several native languages with some english and french influence. The language was spoken by settler and native alike, until the railroad arrived and English overwhelmed it. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde built a very nice app to help learn this very important part of our region's heritage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon https://www.grandronde.org/services/education/chinuk-wawa-education/chinuk-wawa-app/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chinuk.wawa&hl=en_US https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chinuk-wawa/id908108231
Wildfire season sucks. [Here's the map](https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=485292c7a3cd4b5ab3d4539162420d4b&extent=-15293678.3364%2C4586960.9504%2C-10597387.3186%2C6859280.9273%2C102100) in case anyone is curious to zoom in and look around.
 Mount Baker from the White Rock Pier (CN89oa)
www.oregonrebate.org
Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to *each* Oregon resident (including children). Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.
www.seattletimes.com
Puget Sound Energy, the state’s largest provider of electricity and natural gas, proposed its two-year rate hike to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission this month. Under the proposal, the typical residential electricity customer would see a monthly bill increase of $7.84 starting in 2025 and an additional $11.20 in 2026. The typical natural gas customer would see a $13.96 increase in 2025 and $1.51 in 2026, according to the utility.
