The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a netroots powered strategy center working to raise America's quality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | As the 2020-2021 school year approaches, the longer-term repercussions of the nation's failure to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic are starting to become painfully apparent. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 PM on Thursday, August 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Healthcare |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Personal Wellness |
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| Excerpt: | The Pacific Northwest is trying to determine the best combination of restrictions to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 without going back to a full scale lockdown. |
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| Published at: | 8:21 PM on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Personal Wellness |
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| Excerpt: | While new cases of COVID-19 proliferate, the right wing continues to hamper efforts to fight the virus, despite losing a major legal challenge. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 PM on Monday, July 20th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Healthcare |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Personal Wellness |
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| Excerpt: | The Pacific Northwest faces increased rate of infection from the pandemic and considers its options. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Friday, July 17th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Healthcare |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update |
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| Excerpt: | The longtime scammer is essentially trying to organize a "COVID party", where people could contract the novel coronavirus in large numbers. |
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| Published at: | 8:41 PM on Thursday, July 16th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | Throwing on a face covering can help frustrate the very technology that Tim Eyman says is a danger to our personal liberty. But Eyman has likened mask wearing to tyranny. |
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| Published at: | 10:17 AM on Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Personal Wellness, Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | As British Columbia makes additional moves to reopen its economy, Washington has mandated the wearing of masks in public and Oregon has completed a special legislative session focusing on COVID-19 and police reform. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 PM on Monday, June 29th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Criminal Justice, Personal Wellness |
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| Excerpt: | An LGBTQ+ Democratic Party leader shares his views on the importance and meaning of PRIDE during the novel coronavirus pandemic. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 27th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Jeffrey Robinson |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | Nondiscrimination, The Pandemic is Personal |
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| Excerpt: | Food processing facilities remain a primary coronavirus outbreak nexus. We look at the fallout in that industry and highlight two areas within the Pacific Northwest hard hit by the pandemic in this installment of COVID-19 Update. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 PM on Sunday, June 7th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Healthcare, Series & Special Reports, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Global Health, Personal Wellness |
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| Excerpt: | Pacific Northwestern states are moving towards reopening their economies at different speeds. Idaho is on the fastest track, followed by Oregon, and then Washington. |
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| Published at: | 10:51 PM on Sunday, May 31st, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update |
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| Excerpt: | NPI's Transit Advocate writes about what it's like to be a senior during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic, which unexpectedly ended the Class of 2020's in-person learning. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, May 30th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Bobby Aiyer |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Education, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | School Funding, Testing & Evaluation, The Pandemic is Personal |
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| Excerpt: | In Washington, food processing plants are becoming hotspots for both disease and dissatisfaction, Oregon's Supreme Court has told a circuit court judge to explain at length why he thinks Governor Brown overstepped her authority, and Idaho is implementing a new plan for testing and tracking. |
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| Published at: | 10:45 PM on Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Criminal Justice, Global Health, Personal Wellness |
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| Excerpt: | A Sammamish resident discusses what it's like to live with two other people who are also at higher than average risk from COVID-19 under one roof. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Ed Hodapp |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Economic Security, Healthcare, Series & Special Reports, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Global Health, Personal Wellness, The Pandemic is Personal |
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| Excerpt: | Two gyms were given cease and desist orders in Washington State, while Oregon's stay at home order is under review by the state's Supreme Court, and a test used in Eastern Idaho is being questioned as to its accuracy. |
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| Published at: | 10:34 AM on Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | COVID-19 Update, Criminal Justice, Global Health, Personal Wellness |
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