| Excerpt: | As we bid adieu to 2022 and welcome in a new year, it's the perfect time to look back at the most popular Cascadia Advocate posts of 2022. Here's the top twenty most read posts from the past three hundred and sixty-four days, in descending order. |
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| Published at: | 5:11 PM on Saturday, December 31st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Meta |
| Tags: | Most Read Posts |
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These were the most popular, widely-read Cascadia Advocate posts of 2022
NPI’s tricolor logo gets a new, Cascadia-inspired palette: Meet “Forest & Mountains”
| Excerpt: | A new year has arrived, and with it a new look for NPI. Today, we’re unveiling a new iteration of our durable tricolor logo, using a palette inspired by the region we serve and love. Take a look: We call this palette “Forest & Mountains” because it was inspired by one of our favorite photographs of Mount […] |
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| Published at: | 1:06 PM on Monday, January 2nd, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Announcements |
| Tags: | NPI's Identity |
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Browse with confidence: NPI’s core network now encrypting all visits by default
| Excerpt: | It seems like hardly a week goes by these days when we don’t hear about yet another data breach or newly-discovered exploit in widely used software. Bad neighborhoods have existed on the Internet for a long time, but danger now seems to present itself at every turn. There’s malware lurking all over the place, email […] |
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| Published at: | 8:29 AM on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Announcements, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Hardening, Site Improvements |
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U.S. Representative Denny Heck to keynote NPI’s 2014 Spring Fundraising Gala
| Excerpt: | As of this evening, we are just seventeen days away from our 2014 Spring Fundraising Gala, which (as in past years!) will be taking place in the heart of King County at the Mercer Island Community & Events Center. For the past few months, we’ve been busy organizing the event and putting together a great […] |
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| Published at: | 6:28 PM on Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Announcements, Events |
| Tags: | Spring Fundraising Gala |
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Grandpa George Storm: 1915–2014
| Excerpt: | Sad news to share today: I’ve just learned that Grandpa George Storm, the patriarch of my mother’s family and the best storyteller I’ve ever known, died peacefully this morning, before dawn. He was ninety-eight years old. My family and I had known this day was coming for some time — Grandpa had been coping with complications […] |
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| Published at: | 5:45 PM on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Meta |
| Tags: | Obituaries |
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Robert Cruickshank elected president of the Northwest Progressive Institute for 2014
| Excerpt: | Spring has often been called the season of renewal, and we’ve always thought it’s as good of a time as any to recalibrate and reorganize. To that end, each March, before we file our yearly report with the Secretary of State’s office, our board holds its annual meeting. The principal business of this meeting is […] |
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| Published at: | 7:19 PM on Saturday, March 29th, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Announcements |
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NPI launches BallotGuide.info, a microsite that demystifies ballot measures
| Excerpt: | On behalf of the team at here at the Northwest Progressive Institute, I’m pleased to announce this evening that we have launched BallotGuide.info, a new microsite designed to help progressive voters navigate the many measures on the 2013 general election ballot in Washington State. (Microsites, for those who don’t speak tech, are very small standalone websites […] |
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| Published at: | 8:06 PM on Sunday, October 20th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Announcements, Elections |
| Tags: | BallotGuide, Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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Michael King’s embezzlement demonstrates why progressive and Democratic organizations need strong internal controls
| Excerpt: | Yesterday, King County prosecutors charged Michael Walter King, the former executive director of the now-defunct Senate Democratic Campaign Committee (SDCC) with six counts of theft following a six month investigation, in which Seattle police found that King had stolen more than a quarter of a million dollars from the Senate Democratic caucus to fund his […] |
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| Published at: | 10:14 AM on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Ethical Business |
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Pacific NW Portal 5.6 (Otter Rock) released
| Excerpt: | On behalf of the NPI team, I’m pleased to announce that we have completed work on a new release of Pacific NW Portal – Version 5.6, codenamed Otter Rock. Otter Rock is a maintenance release – the sixth in the Newport series. In other words, there aren’t any new major features… just bug fixes, updates to the […] |
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| Published at: | 8:39 AM on Monday, September 23rd, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Announcements |
| Tags: | Pacific NW Portal |
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NPI’s (unconventional) newsgathering credo: Accuracy and context are more important than getting it first or getting it fast
| Excerpt: | Editor’s Note: This month and this week, NPI is celebrating its tenth anniversary. This is the third post in a seven-part series reflecting on NPI’s first decade. Each installment will be penned by one of NPI’s board members. I came to Washington in 1992, but I didn’t become involved in politics until 1999 when I […] |
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| Published at: | 11:30 PM on Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Ralph Gorin |
| Other Categories: | Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Reflections on NPI's First Decade |
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Ready for a new decade: NPI to begin its next ten years with a capable, committed board
| Excerpt: | Editor’s Note: This month and this week, NPI is celebrating its tenth anniversary. This is the second post in a seven-part series reflecting on NPI’s first decade. Each installment will be penned by one of NPI’s board members. NPI has come a long way in ten years. I moved to Washington State in 1997, but […] |
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| Published at: | 9:29 PM on Monday, August 19th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Martin Chaney |
| Other Categories: | Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Reflections on NPI's First Decade |
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From opposition to proposition: NPI is working to make the defeat of Tim Eyman’s initiative factory a beginning — not an end
| Excerpt: | Editor’s Note: This month and this week, NPI is celebrating its tenth anniversary. This is the inaugural post in a seven-part series reflecting on NPI’s first decade. Each installment will be penned by one of NPI’s board members. As I reflect on NPI’s tenth anniversary, I find myself thinking back to where we were as […] |
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| Published at: | 9:45 PM on Sunday, August 18th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Robert Cruickshank |
| Other Categories: | Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Reflections on NPI's First Decade |
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Pacific NW Portal 5.5 (Waldport) released
| Excerpt: | On behalf of the NPI team, I’m pleased to announce that we have completed work tonight on a new release of Pacific NW Portal — Version 5.5, codenamed Waldport. Waldport is a maintenance release – the fifth in the Newport series. In other words, there aren’t any new major features… just bug fixes, updates to the […] |
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| Published at: | 7:30 PM on Saturday, March 16th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Announcements |
| Tags: | Pacific NW Portal |
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How sound data enabled NPI to anticipate a big Democratic victory in the 2022 midterms