Streaming to stay sane

Pipe organ guardians carry through a classic resonance

by Samira George | December 2nd, 2020

Few people think about what happens to a church after it closes its doors for good. Some are turned into hip coffee shops; others, repurposed into art galleries; and some torn down completely to make way for luxury apartments. Before the age of electronic...

Path with Art endeavors to keep art accessible in the virtual world

by Kamna Shastri | December 2nd, 2020

When COVID-19 shut down the world, the local arts organizers of Path with Art knew they couldn’t abandon their students. For many students, the free classes offered by Path with Art created a community and a belonging that would become even more necessary...

Seattle voters approve Proposition 1, increasing funding for public transportation

via Tyler Agafonov | December 2nd, 2020

After Seattle voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1 , a new 0.15% sales and use tax for public transit in the city, King County Metro riders will begin to see increased service hours and reliability, more support for reduced fares and improved...

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Seattle Public Safety Survey probes safety for everyone, including people who are unhoused

via Jacqueline B. Helfgott and William S. Parkin | November 12th, 2020

The Seattle Public Safety Survey was launched in 2015 with the Seattle Police Department’s Micro-Community Policing Plans as a collaborative initiative between Seattle University and the police department. Now in its sixth year, the survey is a tool unique...
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Real Change launches critical Winter Fund Drive

by Camilla Walter | November 12th, 2020

Dear Readers, Over the past year, community members like you have rallied to support Real Change and make our work possible during even the darkest times. Thank you. In the face of uncertainty, Real Change has built a supportive network to meet each other’s...
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Streaming to stay sane

by Michelle Galluzzo | November 4th, 2020

Almost all King County events are canceled, so we’re listing streaming events for optimal physical distancing

November 11 Free Veterinary Care for our Unhoused Neighbors Seattle Veterinary Outreach: 5130 Leary Ave NW, Seattle; 11 a.m.–2 p.m., free tinyurl.com/y38ux4k7 The Ballard Food Bank is hosting Seattle Veterinary Outreach for anyone receiving snap food...
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Future people think they’re so special because they know stuff I don’t

by Dr. Wes Browning | November 4th, 2020

I’m again trapped in your past, unable to say anything useful about your present. The big news for you is the 2020 election, which has mostly happened. The big news for me at 6 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, is the sun isn’t up yet. Daylight Savings Time is still in...
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The cashlessness of coronavirus

by Hanna Brooks Olsen | November 4th, 2020

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic — days most of us can barely remember — the uncertainty of how the virus was spread led to any number of policy changes. As folks slowly peeled off their rubber gloves and realized that they didn’t need to engage...
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Help out of the black hole of ideology

by Joe Martin | November 4th, 2020

Book review: ‘The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It’

It was inevitable that our errant commander in chief would contract the coronavirus. After months of flaunting common sense and belittling scientific and medical arguments for wearing a simple face mask, Donald Trump and others near him finally got sick. He...
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Eagle Village honors native people with home and autonomy

by Samira George | November 4th, 2020

A Real Change vendor among them

Donalda Lyons’ phone began ringing on the first day Eagle Village opened its doors to Indigenous homeless people in November 2019. The shelter, tucked away in Seattle’s industrial SODO neighborhood, was created to address the unique financial disparities...
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Voter engagement: King County data for 2020 and before

by Kamna Shastri | November 4th, 2020

During this contentious U.S. general election season, King County ballot boxes saw record numbers of returns piling in. Some boxes needed to be emptied multiple times a day in mid-October as voters mobilized to cast their ballots. In fact, data from King...
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Peacemaker and strategist Rev. Cecilia Kingman on ‘Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy’

by Martha Baskin | November 4th, 2020

After President Donald Trump ordered members of the military to repress non-violent demonstrators in Washington, D.C., last June, an intergenerational, interracial group of organizers and activists came together to write “ Hold the Line: A Guide to...
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Pets take flight

by Ashley Archibald | November 4th, 2020

There is still good news in the world and it is fluffy.

Ruffly 600 dogs, cats and kittens landed at Boeing Field aboard the largest Wings of Rescue flight in the organization’s history. Wings of Rescue flies animals from high-intake and/or high-kill shelters to no-kill shelters in other parts of the country. So...
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Super-chronic

by Ashley Archibald | November 4th, 2020

Seattle may miss its erstwhile basketball team, the Supersonics, but one of its greats has a cure for what ails you. Shawn “Reign Man” Kemp is opening a pot shop in downtown Seattle — the first of what he plans to be five outlets opening in the next two...
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New homeless outreach team would be quite different, raising questions among city leaders

by Ashley Archibald | November 4th, 2020

If it moves forward, the HOPE team would allow service providers to offer their clients shelter directly.

The Seattle City Council is mulling a replacement to the Navigation Team that would not only remove police from the unit but also empower outreach workers to make direct referrals to shelter. The Homelessness Outreach & Provider Ecosystem (HOPE) team...
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Biased refusal of services: When sanctioned somewhere, the threat is everywhere

by Ainsley Meyer | November 4th, 2020

The Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners voted unanimously to allow social workers to refuse services to LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities on Oct. 12. Gov. Greg Abbott’s office recommended this change, their reasoning being that the...
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Community members hold strong with defunding demands while City Council backslides

via Deepa Bhandaru | November 4th, 2020

Morales and other councilmembers are backsliding, saying a 50% cut conflicts with the labor contract the city has with the Seattle Police Officers Guild.

For over 150 days, protesters have marched in Seattle, demanding an end to the state-sanctioned killings of Black people and exposing the systemic anti-Black racism that defines policing in this country. Last week, the energy of this historic uprising was...
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Streaming to stay sane

by Michelle Galluzzo | October 28th, 2020

Almost all King County events are canceled, so we’re listing streaming events for optimal physical distancing

November 7 Movies at MOPOP: ‘The Virgin Suicides’ watchalong Museum of Pop Culture: online event; free, appropriate for varying ages based on film tinyurl.com/y48o2be9 Ah, the teenage years: What Hollywood tricked you into thinking would be your glory years...
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