Cascadia Daily News

We're always dropping people from the roles because the time has come in where we get address updates or someone has died.

There was a headline in Cascadia Daily recently about the federal government using Whatcom County voting rolls to ramp up deportation efforts.

They were identifying, in one case, a permanent resident who had been detained at the US border for six hours and questioned about their voting history.

At least two Whatcom County residents in the last month or so who crossed back into the US from Canada were served notices to appear before deportation judges on the grounds that they illegally voted or were registered to vote.

And so trying to concentrate our resources on those things, I think of greater importance to Washingtonians.

Just one more thing though on this motor voter thing.

There was an attorney that the Cascadia Daily quoted, Len Saunders, who's a Blaine-based immigration attorney.

He said, sometimes green card holders are registered to vote in U.S. elections at the DMV when they get their license.

Instead, they teamed up to run a successful write-in campaign for four positions, county clerk, coroner, sheriff, and treasurer.

So what do they stand for, and what are their chances of winning? Isaac Simonelli is an investigative reporter at Cascadia Daily News and looked into this slate of candidates.

Hey, Isaac.

Thanks for being on the show.

Um, I was struck by what you heard from Amanda Toscana, the candidate for county clerk who was on that constitutional slate, basically saying that she feels she would be reporting to not just the auditor, but also the Navy.

Um, just kind of different, uh, philosophy about what the chain of command is there in, in Skagit County.

Um, anything else you wanna add about this constitutional candidate slate in Skagit County? It was a really interesting read in Cascadia Daily News, Isaac.

Um, anything else you wanna let people know about?

No, it's definitely, um, not as popular as it was.

I just did an interview with Cascadia Daily, which is a local-

Cool

... publication here in Bellingham, and they kind of ... 'Cause I build and restore ventriloquist figures as well.

Uh, the bee poop, though, I...

Right, right when I was thinking about the bee poop, the Cascadia Daily News had their own animal headline float by, and I don't know if I've heard, uh, a headline that goes harder than this one.

Um, Whatcom County man disemboweled by hippo on honeymoon.

[laughs] The way that's written, I thought the hippo was on the honeymoon.

Kate Stone reports.

reports.Snohomish County paid $35,000 to settle one claim, according to Cascadia Daily News.

The county admitted no liability, calling the payment a risk management decision.

It's part of a wave of claims brought by activist Jose Rodriguez, who filed 53 requests for flock images with local governments around Washington.

But interesting to really hash out the full history of what happened with the crop of peas that was such a big deal here and isn't anymore.

Uh, wrote this piece for Cascadia Daily News.

Sophia, thanks for being here with us this morning.

Um, how did you get started on this? What, what sparked this? Why did you decide to dig into peas specifically?

Uh, well, firstly, thank you for having me, Dylan.

Uh, yeah, I mean, where this came from is that essentially I've been reporting on agriculture kind of off and on in my two years so far, uh, with Cascadia Daily News.

I'm on the, quote, unquote, "rural news beat." Um, so obviously agriculture is really big.

And something that I hear over and over again from farmers, particularly when we talk about past years, but really, you know, it, it just comes up all the time, is just things are very, very difficult f- in farming right now.

We are a group of parents from around the district, mainly Carl Kosier and Columbia students.

who kind of came together as a response to the news breaking with that Cascadia Daily article about the proposed closures.

So we came together to try to work with the district to offer our expertise, insights, community connection, to look at alternatives and help engage the community and also just make sure that the process was kind of transparent, that there was good rigorous analysis in the process.

and in the end, to hope to keep neighborhood schools open in Bellingham.