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The organization of governance in Cascadia is one of those arcane but essential topics that only gets wonks excited and, consequently, rarely gets fixed. Like tax policy and insurance regulation, it’s awesomely important and powerful but very hard to move politically. (My earlier post on boring things that change the world is here.) A few […]