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: | Charles "Chuck" Sams, of Oregon, will be first Native American to head the National Park Service if the United States Senate concurs. He has lived the history of one park unit. |
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| Published at: | 8:21 AM on Thursday, August 19th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics, Public Service |
| Other Tags: | Conservation |
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| Excerpt: | Despite the opposition of Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, the United States Senate today voted to confirm torturer Gina Haspel to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, further harming the United States' international standing and handing Donald Trump another victory. |
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| Published at: | 1:46 PM on Thursday, May 17th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Confirmation Votes, Human Rights, Intelligence |
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| Excerpt: | Pompeo seems more interested in pleasing Donald Trump and hiding whatever members of the Foreign Relations Committee want to know about their secret meeting regarding Mueller's investigation. He should not be confirmed. |
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| Published at: | 11:40 PM on Thursday, April 12th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Essie Hicks |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Service, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Confirmation Hearings |
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| Excerpt: | Washington’s junior United States Senator Maria Cantwell announced today that she will be joining her seatmate Patty Murray and many other Democratic Senators in filibustering Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as well as voting no on his nomination should the filibuster be broken. “We need a U.S. Supreme Court justice who will stand […] |
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| Published at: | 12:17 PM on Thursday, March 30th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Public Service |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Supreme Court Vacancies |
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| Excerpt: | If news reports are to be believed, Donald Trump is on the verge of naming Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers as his choice for Secretary of the Interior. McMorris Rodgers has represented Eastern Washington in Congress for nearly ten years, having been elected and reelected five times. Ms. McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking woman in the House […] |
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| Published at: | 10:40 AM on Friday, December 9th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Elections, Party Politics, Public Service |
| Other Tags: | WA-05 |
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