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: | NPI is calling on Washington's lawmakers to appropriate funding so geologic hazards like slides can be researched by our Department of Natural Resources. |
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| Published at: | 9:58 PM on Friday, March 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness |
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| Excerpt: | A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the City of Anchorage, its suburbs, and points beyond this morning, causing widespread damage in Alaska's largest city. |
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| Published at: | 9:20 PM on Friday, November 30th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Earthquakes |
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| Excerpt: | A horrific scene is unfolding in Pierce County, where the first Amtrak Cascades train in revenue service on the new Point Defiance bypass has been wrecked. |
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| Published at: | 12:52 PM on Monday, December 18th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | Sunshine will soon be but a memory in the Sunshine State, with the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded set to roar ashore in a matter of hours. "If" is no longer a question. Irma is coming, and it's going to be bad. |
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| Published at: | 11:17 AM on Friday, September 8th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness |
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| Excerpt: | For months, authorities across the Pacific Northwest have been warning that our region was facing an extreme wildfire risk this summer that would only be exacerbated by a lack of precipitation. As we approach the autumnal equinox, those fears have come to pass, with a series of devastating fires burning up and down the Cascade […] |
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| Published at: | 10:59 PM on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness |
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| Excerpt: | Last week, as readers know, Hurricane Harvey roared ashore in Texas, making its first landfall at Rockport around 03:00 UTC. It is the first hurricane to make landfall in the southern United States in twelve years, ending a record stretch that began following the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005. Since then, […] |
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| Published at: | 11:28 PM on Monday, August 28th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness |
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| Excerpt: | Last night, as most of the Pacific timezone was headed to bed or snoozing away following the end of another workweek, a massive earthquake struck Nepal, including the capital of Kathmandu. Initially reported as a magnitude 7.5 tremblor by the U.S. Geological Survey, it was later revised to 7.8. The quake stuck at a depth […] |
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| Published at: | 12:18 PM on Saturday, April 25th, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Aid |
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| Excerpt: | Good news. This just in from the White House: Today, the President declared an emergency in the State of Washington and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from flooding and mudslides beginning on March 22, 2014, and continuing. The President’s action authorizes the Department of […] |
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| Published at: | 6:42 PM on Monday, March 24th, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness |
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| Excerpt: | As pictures and eyewitness accounts continue to come in from the Philippines, depicting the terrible devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan, the United Nations is launching a $300+ million appeal for aid from the world community to help the more than eleven million people affected by the storm. (Many of them are without shelter after the […] |
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| Published at: | 9:55 AM on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Aid |
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| Excerpt: | The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has devised a plan to make Interstate 5 between Mount Vernon and Burlington passable again by mid-June, Governor Jay Inslee announced this afternoon. State bridge engineers have been working feverishly to figure out how the bridge that carries Interstate 5 over the Skagit River might be repaired. The […] |
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| Published at: | 2:23 PM on Sunday, May 26th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | Yesterday afternoon on Daily Kos, progressive activist Wu Ming suggested that, in the wake of the failure of Interstate 5’s Skagit River crossing, which carries more than seventy thousand vehicles a day, it would be appropriate to give the span a new name: The Tim Eyman Memorial Bridge. Ming wrote: As I watched the coverage […] |
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| Published at: | 8:01 AM on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness, Permanent Defense, Strong Commonwealth, Transportation, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | A big kudos to WSDOT, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Sound Transit for figuring out how to pull this new service together on short notice: To assist travelers affected by yesterday’s I-5 highway bridge collapse in Skagit County, Amtrak Cascades will add one round trip route between Seattle and Bellingham, Wash., in the coming weeks. […] |
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| Published at: | 9:59 PM on Friday, May 24th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | It’s only been sixteen hours since a section of the bridge that carries Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapsed, but already the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is working on a plan to put the span back together. Experts have estimated the cost of a bridge repair at around $15 million, according to […] |
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| Published at: | 10:50 AM on Friday, May 24th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness, Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | As the evening goes on, more and more elected leaders are reacting to tonight’s breaking news out of Skagit County. A section of the bridge that carries Interstate 5 over the Skagit River, just north of Mount Vernon, has collapsed into the water. The cause of the disaster is believed to be an overheight truck […] |
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| Published at: | 10:39 PM on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Transportation |
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