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Rolling with it | Kohl-Welles bows out | Community support

By | February 1, 2023

Rolling with it

The city of Seattle and the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) provided unlimited transit passes good through 2026 to SHA’s more than 10,000 residents.

The passes are funded through the Seattle Transit Measure, a 0.15 percent sales tax that voters passed in 2020. It’s an expansion of a pilot program that started during former mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration. The pilot program served nearly 2,000 SHA residents. ...
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New legislation could make Seattle the first city in North America to ban caste-based discrimination

By Guy Oron | February 1, 2023

On Jan. 24, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant announced at a press conference at City Hall new legislation to prohibit caste-based discrimination in the city of Seattle. If passed, the ordinance would add caste to the city’s list of protected classes, outlawing discrimination in employment, housing, public places and contracting. It would also empower the Seattle Office for Civil Rights to investigate complaints of caste discrimination and facilitate a settlement for monetary damages or other forms of recompense. ...
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It’s Real Change’s annual vendor week!

By Real Change Staff | February 1, 2023

Find local celebrities selling the paper around Westlake Center on Thurs., Feb. 2, from 1 to 3 p.m., and follow the activities at @RealChangeNews on social media. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/557101503128558 for more information.

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Letter to the Editor

By Constance | February 1, 2023

Your article on homelessness [Jan. 11’s “Service refusal is not a myth, but it is surrounded by them”] was very informative, so thanks. ...
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Dazzling and cruel transitions: Helping an unhoused person doesn’t end at housing them

By Sparrow Etter Carlson | February 1, 2023

In the book “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” Annie Dillard writes of an example of a patient who was blind since birth but could see after cataract surgery. There were significant anomalies in his perceptions of space and time. Someone who was trying to learn how to use this new skill would take off one of his boots and throw it out in front of him across the room. He would then try to guess the distance and take a few steps toward it, trying to grab it but missing entirely. ...
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‘By the time you heal, you’re right back out there’

By Tobias Coughlin-Bogue | January 25, 2023

Sandra Rouse and her partner Tim have really been through the wringer. It might sound melodramatic, but it certainly doesn’t feel that way from the kitchen table of their Studio 6 extended stay room in Mountlake Terrace. Nine of Rouse’s fingers are covered in pink medical tape, a brightly colored reminder of why they spent the last of their money to get inside. ...
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Romanian goatherd music is the best

By Dr. Wes Browning | January 25, 2023

The Supreme Court is considering possible changes in how social media platforms deal with content.

There are two main issues: Should social media platforms be able to take down content without any process in place? And can they be held liable for content they don’t take down? ...
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Humanity, alone: ‘Arlington’ arrives right on time to deliver excellent performances, hidden truths

By W. Barnett Marcus | January 25, 2023

PLAY REVIEW: ‘Arlington’ Written by Enda Walsh | Directed by Maggie L. Rogers | Jan. 13–30 at 12th Avenue Arts | Washington Ensemble Theater

The Washington Ensemble Theatre (WET), assembled in 2004 with aspirations to challenge norms of Seattle theater, opens 2023 with a haunting and jarring script by Enda Walsh. What you need to know about Walsh’s play, “Arlington,” is that you are not merely an observer of it.

Think of a number. Any number. Now imagine you’re at the DMV, and you’ve been waiting 20 minutes for that number. A number comes up, not yours. You wait another 20. Another number. Another 20. Another — never yours. ...
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Finding healing and the self in art: ‘Negative Capability’ at Gallery 110 presents artists’ introspection amid beautiful uncertainty

By Andrea Kreidler | January 25, 2023

I’m in need of some healing. Recently, my cat, who suffered from late-stage kidney disease, was euthanized, and I also commemorated the one-year anniversary of my sister’s death from ALS. I have a bad cold. It seemed an apt time to view the portraiture exhibit “Negative Capability: The Artist as Healer,” curated by the Seattle artist Saundra Fleming, at Gallery 110 in Pioneer Square. ...
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‘Stayed On Freedom’ chronicles more than six decades of Black Power activism

By Guy Oron | January 25, 2023

If you grew up in the United States, you’ve probably heard about the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. There’s a good chance that in history class you also learned about the Black Power movement and Malcolm X, Huey Newton or Fred Hampton. But how much did you learn about the rank-and-file of famous organizations such as the Black Panther Party or the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)? About the grassroots organizers and activists who made those movements possible? ...
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Antisemitism definition sparks response from progressive Jews

By Guy Oron | January 25, 2023

Progressive Jews, Palestinians and other community members mobilized opposition to the proposed adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism that would stigmatize criticism of Israel ahead of a Jan. 24 King County Council meeting. ...
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Mutual aid groups criticize LIHI’s management of tiny home villages

By Tobias Coughlin-Bogue | January 25, 2023

A scathing open letter from local mutual aid groups, sent Jan. 19, outlines a litany of complaints against the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) over what the letter’s authors say is mismanagement of the nonprofit’s network of Seattle tiny home villages and mistreatment of current and former tiny home village residents. These complaints, said the letter’s authors, come principally from encampment residents they’ve worked with who ended up in LIHI tiny home villages, often after a sweep. ...
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