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After Head Tax Repeal, Seattle Must Choose Between Homeless Services and Everything Else
The city council repealed the controversial "head tax." Now what?
The Seattle City Council’s repeal of a controversial business “head tax” last week didn’t just eliminate future spending on solutions to the city’s homelessness crisis—it also killed funding for several ongoing programs that are currently being funded with one-time revenues, casting the future of existing homeless programs in doubt at a time when Mayor Jenny…
With the Help of Bike Share, Ballard High School Students Pull an Awesome Senior Prank
The school parking lot was filled with Lime Bike and Ofo bicycles
As a parent of two teenage boys, the last few weeks of the school year is like a slow, torturous, drip of a march to the end with finals, concerts, awards programs, last day parties and potlucks and signup genius lists to volunteer for this that and the other. So when I pulled in today…
Meet the Faith-Based Activists From Ballard Who Are Fighting for Environmental Protection
Trump’s environmental policies have energized protests by citizens all around town. What place does a faith-based group—with a moral imperative—have in this climate?
Jessie Dye and Jessica Zimmerle, who work with Earth Ministry, are pictured at First Lutheran Church in Ballard, a partner in Earth Ministry’s work. The group’s advocacy agenda is backed by values and a belief that protecting the Earth is a faith calling
‘Homelessness Is Not a Choice’: The State of the Crisis in Seattle and King County
The county’s 2018 “one-night count” provides a closer look at the facts about the people experiencing homelessness in the region.
Three years after the city of Seattle declared a homelessness state of emergency, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the region continues to increase. This year’s one-night count of people experiencing homelessness in King County, conducted by the county’s homelessness response agency All Home, found 12,112 people living outdoors, in vehicles, and in shelters—a…
There’s a Farm Equipment Demolition Derby in Eastern Washington that Every Seattleite Should Go See
The annual Combine Demolition Derby in Lind is happening from June 8 to 10, and it's an off-beat sight to behold
There are plenty of summer events around the state that offer entertainment that is, well, exotic from a Seattle standpoint. If you’re looking for off-beat and off-the-beaten-track entertainment, you might be drawn to events like the McCleary Bear Fest in Gray’s Harbor County which features a giant communal pot of bear meat stew (July 6-8)….
How Seattle’s Appetite for Construction Is Creating a Growing Waste Problem
Buildings are coming down all around town at a frenzied pace as old makes way for new. But what happens to the wood, concrete, metal, glass and other materials that come down with the structure?
WASTE NOT: When he deconstructs a building, Noel Stout of Dedicated Deconstruction distributes the salvage to places like Second Use in SoDo
A Bomb Scare that Nearly Shut Down Seattle Central Library Turned Out To Be an Army Training Exercise
The incident was one of several "realistic" military exercises that took place in Seattle in mid-April
On Saturday, April 14, staffers at the downtown Seattle library discovered two alarming objects on its third-floor shelves: Two books, including South of Broad, a family drama by Pat Conroy, that had been hollowed out and filled with what appeared to library staffers to be two primitive homemade bombs, according to an internal library email…
A University of Washington Professor Is Sharing the True Stories of ‘Real Black Grandmothers’
With the Real Black Grandmothers website, University of Washington assistant professor of American ethnic studies LaShawnDa Pittman archives the experience of a vital member of the black community
LaShawnDa Pittman of Real Black Grandmothers
For Generations, Seattle’s Innovators Have Called Dexter and Westlake Home
Change is the only constant, they say, and it’s happening all over Seattle— no place more so than along a stretch of Dexter and Westlake where yesterday’s innovators settled and today’s dreamers are also finding a home
This article appears in print in the May 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. White-haired Claude N. Nelson, an 86-year-old retired Boeing technical illustrator, takes two buses to get to the Friday lunch of Swedish meatballs at the Swedish Club, housed in an early 1960s-era building perched above Lake Union on Dexter Avenue. Nelson grew up on the…
What’s Next For Seattle’s ‘Head Tax’?
With a vote set for Monday, negotiations ongoing, and a veto threat from Mayor Jenny Durkan looming, what's the path forward for the hotly debated proposed tax to fund housing and homelessness services?
With the Seattle City Council poised to pass a proposed $500-per-employee “head tax” on Seattle’s 600 largest businesses, and Mayor Jenny Durkan equally prepared to veto the proposal in its current form, the question now is: What’s next? With council members heading into a weekend of negotiations, it’s possible that both sides could emerge on Monday with a compromise solution that splits the difference…
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