''Cascadia Daily News'' is a digital daily and print

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published in

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, United States. It was founded on January 24, 2022, as the successor to the ''Cascadia Weekly'', and features daily news stories on its website. The newspaper is independent and locally owned, competing with the ''

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''. It is a

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for Whatcom County.

History

In 1997, Tim Johnson co-founded ''The Every Other Weekly,'' an

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based in

. Its final issue was published on Nov. 27, 2002. Following the closure, Johnson entered into partnership with Douglas Tolchin to launch ''The Bellingham Weekly'' on April 24, 2003. The two co-owned the paper's publisher, Atomic Telegraph, LLC, and constantly feuded as the business faced financial difficulties and failed to pay federal taxes. Tolchin fired Johnson on Dec. 13, 2005, alleging he was scheming to force the company into dissolution and liquidation as a means to become its sole owner. Tolchin laid off the entire staff and scrapped the paper's last issue. Johnson took him to court and was granted a

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against Tolchin so he could print the paper's last edition. However, the judge required Johnson to post a $22,000 bond, which he declined. Tolchin published a four-page issue on Jan. 6, 2006, announcing ''The Bellingham Weekly'' was going into “hibernation." This led Johnson to start a third altweekly on March 15, 2006, called the ''Cascadia Weekly''. The paper garnered controversy in 2019 when in it was caught stealing movie reviews. The paper took articles and republished them without permission or compensating the authors. Johnson issued an apology and the practice stopped. By 2020, businessman David Syre was the sole owner of the Cascadia Newspaper Company, which published the ''Cascadia Weekly.'' Syre commissioned a study to uncover ways to revive the paper amid the

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. One option was to shift coverage from arts and culture to hard news. So he hired former ''

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'' columnist Ron Judd to lead the paper, which was rebranded as ''Cascadia Daily News''. The paper's website launched on Jan. 24, 2022, followed by its first print edition on March 2. Six months later after launching the paper added a

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to its website.

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