Pacific Northwest - OR,WA,BC

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Seattle road sign's message raises questions after CEO's shooting (komonews.com)
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Bell Canada to buy Ziply Fiber. (www.oregonlive.com)
submitted 2 months ago by pdxfed to c/pnw
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Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.

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[UPDATE: Found safe] Daughter of Flaming Lips guitarist missing in Seattle (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/pnw
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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

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Washington state drivers snap up EV rebates so fast that half of funds are gone 60 days into program (www.geekwire.com)
submitted 3 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Oregon Measure 118 - $1,600 for every Oregonian, paid for by giant corps who mostly pay less taxes than you do. (www.yesonmeasure118.com)
submitted 4 months ago by pdxfed to c/pnw
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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.

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WA county to replicate Texas’ huge solution to homelessness (www.seattletimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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What will Oregon’s fall weather look like? NOAA has a few predictions (www.oregonlive.com)
submitted 4 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Metro Vancouver is the fourth-most dense region in North America (vancouversun.com)
submitted 4 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Battery farms, energy industry’s new darling, lining up to enter Pacific NW (salish-current.org)
submitted 4 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Daily high records could be threatened this week in Western WA (www.seattletimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/pnw
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Running Down the Walls 2024 – The 25th Anniversary! (kolektiva.social)
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You can easily learn Chinuk Wawa, the common language of the Pacific Northwest! Search Chinuk Wawa on Apple/Play stores. (fedia.io)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/pnw
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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

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OR/WA wildfires for 26 July (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/pnw
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Wildfire season sucks.

Here's the map in case anyone is curious to zoom in and look around.

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Heatwave causes Eastern Washington roads to buckle (www.khq.com)
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What’s being done now about radioactive water that threatens the Columbia River in WA? (www.tri-cityherald.com)
submitted 6 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Mount Baker from White Rock (lemmy.today)
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Mount Baker from the White Rock Pier (CN89oa)

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Proposed Oregon Corporate Tax to fund resident $750 rebate headed to ballot. (www.oregonrebate.org)
submitted 7 months ago by pdxfed to c/pnw
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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.

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Obscure political group amps up massive spending against Oregon candidate for Congress (www.oregonlive.com)
submitted 8 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Wildfire burning near Fort Nelson continues to rapidly grow (vancouversun.com)
submitted 8 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Boomtown: WSDOT's plans for North-South Freeway's final stretches unveiled (www.krem.com)
submitted 8 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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OPALCO proposes to harness tidal power for San Juans (salish-current.org)
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Feds greenlight return of grizzlies to WA’s North Cascades (www.seattletimes.com)
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City of Spokane invites residents to speak at two Fair Housing Plan info meetings (www.krem.com)
submitted 9 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Ferry prices, electricity bills go up in B.C. (bc.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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Federal Conservatives climb to top of B.C. polls, impacting potential votes in the province: Angus Reid (bc.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by kinther to c/pnw
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