Cross-border Passenger Rail Upgrades Sought On West Coast
This news segment includes an interview of Cascadia Center’s Bruce Agnew.
Flexible Tolling: The Key To Solving Our Congestion
Transit can’t solve the problem, and we can’t afford to build enough highways. So modern tolling, with prices varied by demand, will be necessary. Here’s a look at how the Legislature is quietly laying the political and conceptual groundwork. Start with the transportation facts of life. Population in the four counties of Central Puget Sound will have grown from the 2008 total Read More ›
John Wohlstetter on Dennis Miller
Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John Wohlstetter, author of the book “The Long War Ahead and the Short War Upon Us”, will be interviewed on Dennis Miller’s radio program Thursday, May 21st. The show airs in the Seattle market on KVI 570 AM from 9 AM to Noon. Mr. Wohlstetter’s interview is scheduled to run at approximately 9:20 AM. You can also listen online by clicking Read More ›
Where Theistic Evolution Leads
Some readers thought I was unfair in a previous entry explaining the difference between my perspective on evolution and that of my fellow Beliefnet blogger Dr. Francis Collins over at Science and the Sacred. Am I really not being fair? Well, let’s test that hypothesis by picking out one idea from Dr. Collins’s book and from his website BioLogos. It’s Read More ›
Why Darwinism Is False
Jerry A. Coyne is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at The University of Chicago. In Why Evolution is True, he summarizes Darwinism — the modern theory of evolution — as follows: “Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive species — perhaps a self-replicating molecule — that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it Read More ›
High(er) Speed Rail Update
Tourism Leaders Steaming Over Train Holdup
Cascadia Rail Week Highlights Cross-Border & Interstate Ties
A Primer on the Tree of Life
Evolutionists often claim that universal common ancestry and the “tree of life” are established facts. One recent opinion article argued, “The evidence that all life, plants and animals, humans and fruit flies, evolved from a common ancestor by mutation and natural selection is beyond theory. It is a fact. Anyone who takes the time to read the evidence with an Read More ›
Is Cascadia’s Train Coming In?
This article, published by Crosscut, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: According to Cascadia’s Matt Rosenberg: Here in the Pacific Northwest, the existing Amtrak Cascades route between Portland and Seattle includes extensions south to Eugene and north to Bellingham, Wash. and Vancouver, B.C. The rest of the article can be found here.