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Making 'X' an ex: CDN moves upward, with more purpose, on social media

Nov 22, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

RIP, “X.”Count Cascadia Daily News among the many news organizations that will cease actively posting on the Elon Musk-controlled social media platform formerly known as Twitter. It’s a decision we have been mulling for a long time, accelerated by Musk’s takeover of the once-revolutionary, breaking-news-geared social platform that transformed — for better or worse — the way one segment of Planet Earth has kibbitzed with itself and shared news headlines for the past decade and a half.
News orgs have different standards for crime reporting; here's a look at CDN's

Nov 15, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

When crime news including a police arrest occurs on deadline, one question always leaps to the fore in newsrooms: “Do we name this suspect?”The short answer at Cascadia Daily News: As a general rule, no. But it depends. It’s complicated, with decisions made on a case-by-case basis. And different newsrooms have their own standards, which often makes it confusing to readers.
America's world shifts; your Bellingham-based newsroom shifts with it

Nov 8, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

Among historians and journalists, our national story often is referred to, with guarded optimism, as “the American experiment.”Wednesday morning was the first time it occurred to me that it very well might fail. Or perhaps already has. Not a happy thought. (And not, please note, an ideological response. I’m not an ideologue, and our newspaper does not make presidential endorsements.
Turning Point: As an election like no other unfolds, CDN will document the moment

Nov 4, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

Tuesday’s culmination of the U.S. presidential election stands as something none of us have ever seen: A true national turning point, likely to stand as an indelible bookmark in the story of America. No matter what happens Tuesday and thereafter, the choice of U.S. voters seems sure to have not just national, but dramatic global implications. When the national-election dust finally settles, America will be a different place.
Breaking news: Your government does NOT control the weather; that is my job

Oct 18, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

Nobody really expects a knee-slapper legacy from a couple vicious hurricanes. But the recent double gut punch to Florida thrown by dual hurricanes, during peak election and storm season, delivered one anyway. Post-storm charges were immediately leveled by some of the nation’s prominent droolers, including addle-brained U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Mensa, that the government of the United States of America is “controlling the weather.”Oh lordy.
Trump or Harris, big win or squeaker, U.S. election will be felt in the gut of NW WA

Oct 11, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

This election reporting is provided free to all readers as a public service by your locally owned Cascadia Daily News. Thanks for supporting truly local news by donating to CDN or subscribing here. So here it all comes. The pending election hangs over the national psyche like a dank, dark blanket. And if anyone knows about dank, dark blankets, it’s us here in Lower Juneau, the place where sunlight is about to go to die. The seasonal suffering that comes with that is manageable.
Are the port's Three Wise Men actually getting wiser to their own structure?

Sep 20, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

It’s almost too easy to entertain by simply reporting the day-to-day doings of the Three-Wise-Men ruling junta of the Port of Bellingham. This has never stopped us before. It will not now. But let’s begin with a plaudit for a change:In this week’s episode of (Way, Way) Below Deck, Salish Sea Edition, one of the port’s commissioners, Ken Bell, turned on his mic Tuesday night with a couple thoughts that not only had merit, but showed a rare dash of institutional self-awareness.
All politics might be 'local,' but Northwest races show hints of super-national

Sep 13, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

This election reporting is provided free to all readers as a public service by your locally owned Cascadia Daily News. Thanks for supporting truly local news by donating to CDN or subscribing here. Bits and pieces of flotsam from election season, rising to a quiet boil nationally this week thanks to the Kamala Harris/Donald Trump debate in Philadelphia; the heat is felt all the way across the continent.
A few dogged journalists still tell the truth about Boeing; will it matter?

Sep 6, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

A lot of folks in corporate America won’t be excited to acknowledge this. But old-school, afflict-the-comfortable journalism isn’t dead yet. In an industry clearly about as vigorous as a clearcut Douglas fir, a handful of pesky, patriotic American journalists still cling to the cascading branches and get the job done, anyway.
With fall sports season looming, your hometown news org ups its game(s)

Aug 23, 2024 | cascadiadaily.com | Ron Judd

Follow the bouncing balls. Since the inception of Cascadia Daily News, we’ve always been happy to include a regular milieu of sports and recreation coverage to readers. It remains a central part of our commitment to replacing — and building upon — the traditional role of a community newspaper. We think coverage of school programs and sports, in the news and sports sections, is an important glimpse into the daily lives of local youth.