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Cascadia statement on the continuation of second train to Vancouver

For Immediate Release 10/15/2010 Official Statement on the Second Train to Vancouver: Bruce Agnew, director, Cascadia Center for Regional Development “Cascadia Center supports the Canadian government’s decision to pay the border fee costs needed to keep a second Amtrak Cascades train running between Seattle and Vancouver. This represents an important victory for the region and for passenger rail. We congratulate Read More ›

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Discovery Institute Sues California Science Center for Suppressing Public Documents Showing Viewpoint Discrimination Against Intelligent Design

Los Angeles, CA — Discovery Institute has filed a lawsuit against the California Science Center (the “Center”) for unlawfully refusing to disclose public documents requested by Discovery Institute under the California Public Records Act. Discovery Institute filed the public documents request on October 9, 2009, following the Center’s October 6, 2009 cancellation of a contract with the American Freedom Alliance Read More ›

Cascadia Center director Bruce Agnew on decision to keep Eastside corridor in public domain

-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- 1 p.m. PT Nov. 6, 2009 OFFICIAL STATEMENT Bruce Agnew, Director Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute CASCADIA CENTER DIRECTOR BRUCE AGNEW ON DECISION TO KEEP EASTSIDE CORRIDOR IN PUBLIC DOMAIN SEATTLE (Nov. 6, 2009) – The Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute is very pleased that in these tough economic times, the Port of Seattle has found partners Read More ›

Cascadia Center Applauds Decision To Replace Viaduct With Tunnel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 p.m. PT Contact: Bruce Agnew (206-228-4011); Mike Wussow (206-292-0401 x158); or Matt Rosenberg (206-938-2082) CASCADIA CENTER APPLAUDS DECISION TO REPLACE VIADUCT WITH TUNNEL Transportation Center Says Governor, Mayor, County Executive Show Leadership, Vision SEATTLE (Jan. 13, 2009) – The Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute applauded the decision announced today to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The Read More ›

Feasibility Study’s Eastside Rail Dollar Projections Too High

SEATTLE, WASH. (Nov. 19, 2008) - When the Puget Sound Regional Council and Sound Transit present their draft feasibility findings for commuter rail cost and ridership estimates this morning in Seattle, they might have some persuading to do. The Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute, which has analyzed the Eastside’s BNSF corridor extensively, says the cost estimates in the draft Phase II Feasibility Report are much higher than necessary to make the corridor operational. See Cascadia's full release and interurban commuter rail comparison chart. Read More ›

CASCADIA CENTER TO DISCUSS EASTSIDE TRAILWAY CONCEPTS

-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- 10:00 a.m. PDT Contact: Mike Wussow Director of Public Affairs +1 (206) 292-0401 x158 direct CASCADIA CENTER TO DISCUSS EASTSIDE TRAILWAY CONCEPTS Regional Transportation Center to Address Snohomish City Council Seattle, Wash. (April 15, 2008)-This evening, the Cascadia Center for Regional Development will present its Eastside TRailway “rails and trails” concept to the Snohomish City Council. Cascadia Read More ›

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Darwin’s Black Box Celebrates New 10th Anniversary Edition

Seattle — Ten years ago, biochemist Michael Behe helped to launch the modern intelligent design movement. when he outlined the theory of irreducible complexity in his book Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, which dared to question the basic tenets of Darwinism.   Arguing that unintelligent accounts failed to explain the development of irreducibly complex systems such as blood clotting, the Read More ›

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New Podcast on Intelligent Design Launched by Center for Science & Culture

Click here to subscribe to the new IDTF podcast.Click here to see past podcasts and links to additional information. With their website and blogs receiving more than 25,000 visitors a day, Discovery Institute’’s Center for Science & Culture is launching a new podcast on intelligent design and evolution. The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast carries on the Center’’s mission of Read More ›

Dover Intelligent Design Decision Criticized as a Futile Attempt to Censor Science Education

SEATTLE — “The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won’t work,” said Dr. John West, Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading think tank Read More ›