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"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Cascadia Daily News email newsletter image, with the text below a heading of "Business Matters with Frank Catalano": Growing new tech companies SWIFTly: A spark near a forested area is usually a bad idea. Unless that spark is one of business innovation. That admittedly dad-joke-adjacent thought crossed my mind as I wound my car through worn historic buildings that still dominate the tree-filled former campus of Northern State Hospital in Skagit County. Yet as I passed a tennis court on Northsound Drive, a modern sign on a newer one-story building came into view: “IRC Lab-SWIFT,” it declared in large green letters. I’d come to check on the progress of this initiative of the Northwest Innovation Resource Center, a Bellingham-based nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs build innovative businesses in Northwest Washington. It had planted its latest physical shared space on the inside edge of what is today called SWIFT (Sedro-Woolley Innovation for Tomorrow) Center, run by the Port of Skagit.
Fusion energy. Sustainable aviation fuel. Ocean monitoring.
All in a shared workspace and tech startup lab tucked into a forested area of Skagit County, WA from the Northwest Innovation Resource Center.
My first Business Matters newsletter for @cascadiadaily.com, available to subscribers today.
Image showing a clipping of an email newsletter: Happy Birthday — to us! It’s a notable day in our Bellingham newsroom: Today marks the fourth anniversary of CDN Vol. I, Issue I, our print newspaper, which hit the streets and coffee shops of Whatcom and Skagit on March 2, 2022. We had been online for more than a month by then, but the rolling of the presses in Mount Vernon was a special occasion. Particularly so for me, a veteran of four decades in the news business who still had some amount of ink flowing through his veins up on launching CDN. Includes a photo of CDN's Jaya Flanary holding up a copy of the first printed CDN at Skagit Press in Mount Vernon, WA.
It's a doubly auspicious day for @cascadiadaily.com: the first subscriber-only newsletter (this regular one from Exec Editor @ronjudd.bsky.social looks Inside CDN) and the fourth Cascadia Daily News print anniversary.
More focused newsletters, and more hyper-local coverage, ahead for Northwest WA.
Truly remarkable that the NYT devoted this much space to a piece about nostalgia for owning one's own music, via obsolete iPods, without even a nod to the world of cheaper, better digital music players that has never gone away outside the closed Apple universe. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...
Thousands of people are working to get their Canadian citizenship under Bill C-3. The new law addresses what has been called “unacceptable outcomes” for people whose Canadian parents were themselves born abroad — a group often referred to as “lost Canadians.”
Bellingham, WA health care provider PeaceHealth threw our @cascadiadaily.com reporter, @owenracer.bsky.social, out of this important meeting about changes to local cardiac programs. He reported it anyway thanks to help from patients in attendance. Support local news.
Jam-packed, group-effort Business Briefs from @cascadiadaily.com staff for the third week in a row. Pizza! Japanese! Gardens! Beer! Piroshky! Coffee! Plus ... a bank.
Catch up on Northwest Washington #business news in one carefully balanced recipe. www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/feb/26/...
When I filed this, the headline alone elicited audible groans from the mostly-renter newsroom. Sorry folks. It’s rough out there.
Fine weekend feature by CDN's @jayaflanary.bsky.social about #audiobooks, why many consider them "reading," AI's verbal limitations and how a human Bellingham narrator works.
Really gets you inside the process, as a reader or writer. www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/feb/21/...
"My kidney failure started after 24/7 burn‑pit exposure while serving in Afghanistan with the Marine Corps. It took persistence and the power of local journalism to secure that connection’s recognition," Sean Libby writes in a CDN guest commentary.
PeaceHealth has effectively shuttered its advance care planning program after laying off the four employees running the service.
My thoughts on Stephen A Smith potentially running for president are:
Could we please stop fucking electing celebrities and get back to the business of running the country with boring people who just want to do a good job.
Thanks
Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
If an increasing unpopular leader, known for shaping reality w/ lies, wanted to subvert democracy, would they: A) complain that the polls are “fake news”, B) threaten polling organizations into silence, C) sow distrust in election results, or D) find ways to disenfranchise voters of the other party?
Witnesses say they saw federal immigration agents arrest a man outside the Bellingham Public Library Monday morning. Agents told the man they had a warrant for his arrest but ICE has not confirmed if the man had broken any U.S. criminal laws.
On February 9, 1969, the first Boeing 747 took wing less than five months after its rollout.
#OnThisDay in 1969, the first Boeing 747 had its maiden flight at Paine Field. historylink.org/File/1181
“This year’s theme feels built for CDN. Startups like ours are vulnerable — but we may also be the antidote to an ailing industry,” Anderson said. #journalism
We're looking for stories from Bellingham residents about the high cost of living. Are you a young person shopping for a home and realizing it may be out of your reach? Are you a parent who is making hard choices to afford child care?
Dear Peter Baker: Everybody already knows it's OUT OF THE NORM. Please move forward one space.
It may be four years old, but CDN still feels and runs like an energetic startup. This is a good job. #journalism
Stack of Lemon Berry cookies sit ready to be packaged at Erin Baker's near downtown Bellingham. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)
After three decades, Erin Baker’s Bellingham-based business has shown it has staying power in the homespun-on-the-outside, viciously competitive inside world of big-time baked goods manufacturing.
I love news obits.
Dozens of people huddled together on a wet and windy Wednesday night at Skagit Riverwalk Park to hold a vigil for those killed by ICE or who died in their custody.
This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan
Before you go out to protest immigration-related actions, know your legal rights and what to do if you're detained.
I've never canceled a long-planned European vacation before. But this month, I did.
So I've written about how belittling and threatening countries affects #tourism, both into the US and now heading out, in a @cascadiadaily.com guest commentary (free to read). www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jan/26/...
🧵 Deming residents signed up for a new county alert system in 2023 after the life-threatening flood in 2021 devastated the unincorporated community in Whatcom County.
So when flooding was predicted on Dec. 9, they assumed an evacuation alert would go out...
www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jan/26/...
Fascinating thread.
Today @cascadiadaily.com launched a way for the public to tell us when they witness an immigration-related detainment. Help us tell the stories of our immigrant neighbors.
Today marks 326 years since the last #earthquake and #tsunami on the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Our Hazards and Outreach Team experts take a moment to remind you about the hazard, but *most importantly* share what you can do to prepare for the next ones.
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