The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | This guest post from macro-economist Alphecca Muttardy discusses the need for legislation that could strengthen our economy and reduce our infrastructure deficit: H.R. 3339. |
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| Published at: | 3:19 PM on Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alphecca Muttardy |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Critical Infrastructure |
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| Excerpt: | The United States is finally taking meaningful steps to address its painfully deep infrastructure deficit, President Joe Biden declared today to a supportive crowd in Portland during his first visit to the Beaver State as Commander-in-Chief. |
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| Published at: | 5:00 PM on Thursday, April 21st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Events, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Presidential Visits |
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| Excerpt: | Will the Democrats who advocated for Amtrak (only a handful of House Republicans voted “yea” on infrastructure) find a way to “sell” to the public what will be substantial improvements in public services? |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, February 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Party Politics, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Partybuilding |
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| Excerpt: | More than seven in ten likely 2022 Washington voters support the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework that President Joe Biden will sign into law on November 15th, 2021, a statewide poll conducted for the Northwest Progressive Institute has found. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Friday, November 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Research Poll Findings |
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| Excerpt: | President Biden is expected to quickly sign it into law while Congress continues work on the remaining pieces of his Jobs and Families Plan, which have been merged into one piece of legislation that has become known as the Build Back Better framework. |
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| Published at: | 9:51 PM on Friday, November 5th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | Progressive and partially conservative Democrats are split on how quickly to approve infrastructure. The Republicans are directing their fire at the priorities included in the budget reconciliation process. Can Democrats unite to wage a strong front in the midterms? |
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| Published at: | 5:55 PM on Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Party Politics, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | WA-08, WA-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | Bipartisan legislation to invest serious money in tackling America's persistent infrastructure deficit has won final approval, with more than a dozen Republicans crossing the aisle to deliver a lopsided margin of victory for President Joe Biden's top legislative priority. |
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| Published at: | 8:22 PM on Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Critical Infrastructure |
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| Excerpt: | The compromise legislation, which has the support of the White House, is being hailed by the Biden-Harris administration as a groundbreaking set of investments in everything from bridges and broadband to mass transit and water pipes. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 PM on Wednesday, July 28th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power, Municipal Broadband |
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| Excerpt: | Wall Street was well represented in these infrastructure legislative framework negotiations. The diverse constituencies that make up the American public? Not so much. |
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| Published at: | 6:39 PM on Thursday, June 24th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Party Politics, Policy Topics, Public Planning, Public Service |
| Tags: | Critical Infrastructure |
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| Excerpt: | Nine years after taking on debt to buy Verizon's assets in the Pacific Northwest, Frontier Communications is offloading those same assets in a $1.35 billion sale to Kirkland-based WaveDivision Capital, which must be approved by regulators. |
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| Published at: | 12:04 PM on Thursday, May 30th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning, Technology |
| Tags: | Critical Infrastructure |
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| Excerpt: | Billions of dollars in sorely needed funding for mass transit and infrastructure projects in Washington State will be included in the Fiscal Year 2018 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill now moving to the full United States Senate, Patty Murray’s office announced today. “Today, a bipartisan group of senators came together to reject [Donald] […] |
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| Published at: | 11:32 AM on Thursday, July 27th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | April may not seem like an election month, but in Washington, it’s actually one of two times during the year when local jurisdictions may schedule special elections, most often for the purpose of sending the voters a levy for their consideration. This year, the nine-member King County Council has opted to place a proposition on […] |
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| Published at: | 9:07 PM on Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Safe Neighborhoods, WA-Counties |
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| Excerpt: | For the past few days, many homes and businesses in the greater Redmond area have been without phone, Internet, and television service after a construction crew working on a stormwater treatment project sliced through fiber and copper lines belonging to Frontier Communications when they dug in the wrong place. The damage caused was appraised by […] |
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| Published at: | 5:19 PM on Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Critical Infrastructure |
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| Excerpt: | This morning, at around at 9:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, a construction crew working on a stormwater treatment project in NPI’s hometown of Redmond, Washington accidentally caused a major telecommunications outage for nearly six thousand customers of Frontier Communications (including yours truly) when they dug in the wrong place and severed vital fiber and copper wires. […] |
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| Published at: | 6:06 PM on Saturday, September 20th, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Critical Infrastructure |
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