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Washington and Oregon
Both of the bordering states in these United States like to talk a lot of trash about each other, but they have a lot in common
Both began as part of Oregon Territory, established by the United States in 1848 after originally being inhabited by Native Americans, the Russians, a even the British for a bit.
Both border the Pacific Ocean and are in the infamous Ring of Fire, an area where lots of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions tend to occur. Both are geographically diverse.
And yep, both have similar climates. West of the Cascades, the mountain range that runs north-south through both of the states, gets a lot of rain and the temperature is more moderate, whereas east of the Cascades is much drier with varied temperatures. That’s why you’ll get a picture like this, where you’re in the rainforest, and then drive east five hours and get a picture like this, where you’re basically in the freaking desert.
Both are known for wine.
Some of the best wine in the world is produced from the grapes grown in the Willamette Valley in Oregon and the Yakima Valley, Walla Walla Valley, and Tri-Cities region of Washington. Speaking of alcohol, both states have a ton of craft beer breweries, although Oregon has more per capita than Washington.
Both states have a similar poverty rate and similar income levels, although Washington citizens definitely earn more, on average.
The cost of living is similar in both states, overall, which is higher than most of the rest of the country.
Both states’ biggest industries are healthcare, retail, and manufacturing, in that order, but you can’t mention the two states without their lumber production. They’ve got mad forests, there, I’m telling you.
A lot of people in both Oregon and Washington have lighter skin. Only 4% in Washington and 2% in Oregon consider themselves African American.
Around ⅕ of Oregon residents and Washington residents can trace their ancestry to Germany. Many of the earliest residents of European ancestry of both states came via the Oregon Trail, from the Midwest.
Marijuana is legal in both states, although the laws that regulate it are less strict in Oregon.
Both states lean to the left politically, and typically vote Democratic. Although the Cascades split both states politically, as east of them people tend to be more conservative.
Both states are not that religious. Less residents belong to churches in Oregon and Washington than nearly all other states.
Both border a foreign country. Washington borders Canada to the north and Oregon borders California to the south. Wait a sec...apparently California is also part of the United States. Scratch that, I’m sorry.
So what about their differences? I mean, there are a lot of differences when you nitpick, like the fact that Washington produces much more apples than any other state and Oregon produces more hazelnuts than any other state, but in general terms, there are few major differences.
Washington has a lot bigger population, despite being ⅔ the size of Oregon. Washington has around 7.3 million people, and Oregon just 4.1 million. So that’s why Washington gets 12 votes in the Electoral College and Oregon gets just 7. Washington’s population is also growing more quickly than Oregon’s.
Washington residents are smarter than Oregon residents. Ok, I joke here, obviously. However, more than 41% of Washington residents have a college degree, whereas just under 38% of Oregon residents have one.
Washington doesn’t have an income tax, Oregon has one of the highest income tax rates in the country. That’s quite misleading though, as Washington residents pay some of the highest sales tax rates in the country while Oregon residents pay some of the lowest.
Washington state issued its first legal-marijuana business license Wednesday, launching a new phase
Washington state issued its first legal-marijuana business license Wednesday, launching a new phase in the state's ambitious effort to regulate a market that has been illegal for more than 75 years.
Sean Green, who has operated medical marijuana dispensaries in Spokane and the Seattle suburb of Shoreline, proclaimed the document beautiful as it was handed to him at a state Liquor Control Board meeting in Olympia.
The license will allow him to grow 21,000 square feet of cannabis at his Spokane facility _ the first pot that will be grown for sale under the highly taxed system approved by voters in 2012.
The possession of marijuana became legal for adults over 21 soon after the vote, but it's still illegal to grow or sell it for recreational use until pot shops open in the state later this year.
Green plans to start by growing marijuana starter plants to sell to other growers, and later expand to growing buds for retail pot shops.
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Seattle’s homeless winter palaces won't be a NY Times Great Homes & Destinations feature article
The first (6 sec) segment of this compilation was video’d from a seat in Seattle’s First Hill trolley. Construction began in April 2012. The line opened in 2016. According to Wikipedia, the cost of the 2.5 mile trolley line was $134,000,000.00
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The following footage was taken Jan. 4 and Jan. 6, 2017 walking along the sidewalk on the east side of Rainier Ave So., Seattle, under the I-90 Interstate overpass; and while walking from the north and the south end of that sidewalk while facing east to the west side of Rainier Ave by the I-90 interstate overpass and exit ramp.
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A number of people live in makeshift tents under the interstate most are under the west side of Rainier Ave So.
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There are more people living in makeshift tents in an open air area just to the north of interstate on the west side of Rainier Ave So; their tent-homes straddle the I-90 exit ramp onto Rainier Ave So ; and Rainier Ave So itself to the immediate west of the encampments.
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There are people living in a makeshift encampment (which looks like wood boards, old blankets, and other materials) adjacent to the sidewalk on the east side of Rainier Ave just south and next to the I-90 entry ramp off of Rainier Ave S (which takes drivers east to Mercer Island, Bellevue and points beyond across Washington state).
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I passed someone (man or woman) sleeping under a blanket just north of the bike-ped path on the north side of the underpass (east side of Rainier Ave). That homeless person is on a little grassy area perhaps two feet from the I-90 bike-ped path pavement.
Even though I couldn’t see a face peering out from under the blanket I chose to not video their on-the-ground blanket home.
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The 2 second footage of a run-over rat on-the-pavement was taken in the alley by buildings where the artist (who posted this video) resides. There are a vast number of rats living in bushes and foliage alongside sidewalks and in park areas throughout the the city of Seattle.
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I’ve seen them everywhere downtown, especially at dusk and at night. For the homeless who must sleep outdoors, the presence of vermin is an ongoing health menace among all the other health crises the homeless contend with.
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A Christian friend once said to me me that if Jesus were here he wouldn't be preaching at a fancy church but would be living with the poorest of the poor.
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The next (9 sec) segment was taken when boarding Seattle’s new light rail station at the 5th Ave & S. Jackson Street stop.
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The first stops of the Light Rail (between Seattle Tacoma airport and downtown Seattle) were from a voter approved initiative that Wikipedia states the pre-construction cost was to be $3,900,000,000.00. (I don't see the final post-construction cost in the Wikipedia info page on the light rail).
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The newest extension stations - in Seattle's Capitol Hill district and in the University district, opened March 2016.
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The next video segment, 53 sec., is a non-narrated overview of a drawing by artist & tolerance educator Akiva Kenny Segan:
Two girls on Warsaw ghetto street, the 9th drawing (drawn 1992) of his Under the Wings series portraying victims of the Nazis and Fascists in Europe, 1933-45.
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While some Holocaust educators shy away from analogies between the Holocaust and other genocides, and/or other human rights atrocities, Segan believes the relevance of lessons to be learned from the Nazi perpetrated Holocaust (which saw the deaths of 10 million), as well as other victims who lost their lives at the hands of Fascism is important, useful, more timely and more needed than ever – per the ascension of race and faith hate bigotry, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, white supremacism, Klan and Nazi beliefs into the White House; and the ongoing increasing support for far-right political movements in various European countries in 2016 and on into 2017.
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The last 4 video segments were done on January 9, 2017. While the temp is again warmer (about 40 degrees Fahrenheit late morning) someone is again sleeping under a white blanket on the sidewalk on the east side of Rainier Ave S. under the I-90 interstate overpass.
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The last 2 segments were video'd on the sidewalk on the north side of Dearborn Street under the I-5 interstate. A sizeable number of homeless are living in tents on the sidewalk on both the north and south sides of Dearborn St there, and also high up on the sloped concrete directly under the interstate structure.
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The person who posted this footage, Akiva Kenny Segan, is an artist and guest tolerance educator in schools, houses of worship, colleges and universities, art museums/galleries and history museums, Holocaust education centers and other venues.
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His social justice artworks (on victims of the Nazis, Fascists in Europe 1933-45, and portrayals of pre and post WWII human rights atrocity victims) can be viewed in albums in flickr dot com
Decades of skullduggery on both sides at U.S. embassy in Cuba
The seven-story building on Havana's famed Malecon seafront has for decades been a flashpoint in the Cold War's most enduring rivalry.
Spy games and dirty tricks have been directed by and against the U.S. officials working inside the beige structure, which is nondescript architecturally but among the most famous in Havana.
Cuba's Communist government regularly organized protests outside and once tried to seize the building to turn it into the fishing ministry.
Now the U.S. embassy is a symbol of the new, friendlier relationship between Washington and Havana.
Secretary of State John Kerry will walk inside its iron fence on Friday and raise a U.S. flag to mark the restoration of diplomatic ties after five decades of Cold War hostility.
Built in 1953, the embassy worked closely with Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista until he was ousted by Fidel Castro's revolutionaries in 1959.
It is unknown how many of the U.S.-backed assassination attempts on Castro - Cuba says there were more than 600 - may have been plotted there.
Washington severed diplomatic ties with Castro's government in 1961, three months before the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by U.S.-armed Cuban exiles, and the building was largely unoccupied until 1977, when it reopened as a U.S. Interests Section.
The Cold War skullduggery quickly resumed.
Everything in Cuba is bugged, even the coconut trees, said James Cason, chief of the U.S. mission from 2002 to 2005.
Cason, now mayor of the Miami suburb Coral Gables, said U.S. Marines inside provided an effective physical barrier so the Cubans tried sex appeal to get at the mission's secrets.
We had a cipher code clerk go to a bar and be approached by a good looking person, Cason said. When the wife of the (head of Marine detachment) went on vacation, two blondes knocked on the door and asked if he wanted company.
The Americans had their own spooks inside, of course.
We were not a nest of spies by any means, but there were some people there who were working on intelligence, said Wayne Smith, a former U.S. diplomat who worked at the embassy from 1958 until 1961, and then returned in 1977.
To one side, built on the site of the former Fourth of July Park, is the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, put up by Cuba in 2000 to organize anti-American rallies.
During the presidency of George W. Bush, the Americans delivered political messages with a Times Square-style ticker directed toward the protest site.
The Cubans responded by suspending nearly all bilateral contacts and erecting a forest of flag poles with banners blocking the messages.
Since the historic rapprochement between U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro late last year, the Cold War-era tensions have been significantly lowered and the old building on the Malecon formally became an embassy again on July 20 as the two sides re-established diplomatic relations.
Restored ties mean U.S. diplomats will be able to travel more freely in Cuba and increase embassy staff from about 50 to 75. Cuba has also greatly reduced the number of security guards posted outside to keep on eye on Cubans going in and out.
SPY GEAR, SECRET TUNNELS
To the Americans, the building long represented the one place where Cubans under the thumb of communism could come to learn about the outside world.
From revolutionary Cuba's point of view, the embassy of the 1950s was where Yankee imperialists collaborated with Batista in plundering the island and turning it into a Mafia-controlled playground of casinos and brothels.
Later, the Cubans saw the U.S. interests section as a forward base of operations where the Americans would train, fund and direct Cuba's dissidents.
Cuba spied back. The extent of its success was revealed in 1987 after a high-ranking counterintelligence agent defected and told a stunned CIA that dozens of its assets in Havana were actually double-agents working for the Cuban government.
With his double-agents now exposed, Fidel Castro chose to embarrass the Americans with a series of programs on state television that showed numerous CIA operatives filmed surreptitiously while retrieving packages from dead drops.
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Trains, Planes, Automobiles - Tom Banse Discusses It All
Transportation is the theme — whether in the air, on a train or on a road. With Washington voters passing I-976, how will counties fund transportation projects? And if you want to get on a plane, you’ll need to make sure you Washington or Oregon ID is up to standard. Hurry! Also, will high-speed rail EVER come to the region? Don’t hold your breath. Tom Banse joins to discuss it all.
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- Hi I'm Scott Leadingham, thanks for joining us here, in the unique Northwest. We are with Tom Banse today, and the theme is: Transportation of all sorts. Tom thanks for joining us today.
- Happy to be with you.
- So Tom. Okay so it covers a lot of transportation issues, and there are multiple ones that we're gonna talk about today. First Tom, I'm wondering, what do you have in your wallet and are you real ID compliant? Because that is going to be something very important, for Washington and Oregon travelers here, in the next year. Tell us why.
- Well, I'll tell you. I have an enhanced driver license, which I'm very glad I got a number of years ago. This will be very valuable, for getting on airplanes starting next October. So October 2020, the federal government says: no more extensions, you have to have a secure driver's license, to get on a domestic flight, basically pass through the TSA checkpoint, not Spokane, nor Seattle or Portland International or any other federal airport checkpoints. This as you can see on your screen there, is an enhanced driver license from Washington State, the Oregon version doesn't come out till next summer. So there's gonna be a very short amount of time, in Oregon, to get, a compliant document. The distinguishing element, is that star in the upper right hand corner in the Oregon license, or the flag you can see, overlaid on the photo on the Washington license, those indicate to the TSA agent that you have a secure license that meets the federal requirements. A regular driver's license from Oregon or Washington, will be good for almost everything, a license is good for now, except for going into say a federal military base, starting next year. And going through airport security, which is federally controlled.
- Okay so, it make us wonder Tom, or at least it makes me wonder, why have Washington and Oregon been, I guess out of compliance for so long? Like why aren't all 50 states just on the same standard, and why are some playing catch up at this point?
- Yeah it's a very good question. Because This dates back to 2005, when congress passed what's known as the Real ID Act, and that is a follow on from the 2001 terrorist attacks, when some of the terrorists in the nine eleven attacks, used fake licenses to learn how to fly. So, the federal government's been harping on this for a while on the states to improve their document verification, to scan everything, somebody brings into the DMB when they apply for a license and save that information on a server forever. Make those photos that they take of us digital. That was considered by states, many states, probably half the states in the US at one time, until unfounded mandates, so they dragged their feet, and Washington and Oregon are among them. Over time, a lot the things the federal government wanted, states came around to saying yeah that's a good idea anyway, and we'll do it, and it hasn't become that big of a burden now in recent years. And the federal government gave our states, many extensions over the years but now they're saying this October 20 date, that's hard deadline, we're not gonna give you anymore chances to kick the can down the road.
- Well, we encourage everyone to look into their wallets, and see if their license does comply with these standards, and if not, you have about a year, to figure it out.
- Yeah and one thing we should point out very quickly is, you may have an alternative in your wallet already. And this may not affect you if you have a US passport, or another country's passport, or you have a military ID, or a federally recognized tribes ID. There is a lot alternatives that may put you right, at the airport which is mainly what we're talking about, at this point, domestic air travel anyway.
- Right, so let's move off of planes and unto trains. I-976, passed by Washington voters, the 30 dollar car tabs initiative, meaning that a lot of transportation projects, are potentially at risk. And so Tom, we've heard a lot about maybe the federal impacts in King County, in the Seattle area, based on the South Transit Budgets, and they're gonna sue, to possibly try to change things there. But let's hope beyond that, to maybe Central and Eastern Washington, a lot of counties are scrambling for what they might do with this. What are some of the impacts out of the South region, and across the rest of the state.
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For the last month, Cardi B has been traveling the country and shutting down venues on her first ever Underestimated Tour. Sadly this Friday the tour ends in New York. But before the final dates, Cardi B stopped in Philly and threw an amazing concert at The TLA on South street. While performing, Cardi B stopped her set and decided to bring some girls on stage from the crowd so they could show they could twerk.
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