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Council, mayor wrestle over sweeps legislation

Click to view larger Cecelia Linsley, center, and her daughters Chiara, left, and Thea attended a charged City Council meeting to support the rights of their neighbors homelessness. Photo by Ashley Archibald, Real Change A storm brewed at the special Hum ...

October 19th, 2016 - Ashley Archibald
Service providers counter mayor’s homeless plan

It’s not that the organizations that provide services to homeless people don’t like Mayor Ed Murray’s new plan to combat homelessness in Seattle. They’re just not sure how it can possibly work. The Seattle Human Services Coalition, a group of service prov ...

October 12th, 2016 - Ashley Archibald
Mayor releases new encampment sweeps plan

Click to view larger Seattle Mayor Ed Murray Mayor Ed Murray’s office released details on new guidelines for outreach and cleanup of unauthorized homeless encampments Friday evening, calling for almost $7.7 million to improve encampment cleanups and expan ...

October 26th, 2016 - Ashley Archibald
Seattle youth jail permits moved forward days before Christmas, with short appeal window

Click to view larger Dozens demonstrated outside of Mayor Ed Murray’s house to resist the approval of a new youth jail that King County plans to build in 2017. Photo by Ashley Archibald Roughly 60 people of all ages, genders and colors lined the sidewalks ...

December 28th, 2016 - Ashley Archibald
Seattle crisis center open for homelessness

Mayor Ed Murray announced during the State of the City speech on Feb. 20 that he would open the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to coordinate a response to the homelessness crisis, prompting some in the community to ask: Why now? Members of the advocacy ...

March 1st, 2017 - Ashley Archibald
Mayor Ed Murray's vision for 2017

In an address to the city on Feb. 21, Mayor Ed Murray outlined his vision for the year to come, and the path that the city charted in its desire to work toward social, racial and economic justice. The following are a sampling of his priorities, in no part ...

March 1st, 2017 - Ashley Archibald
Protestors crash Irish Heritage event to protest youth jail

Click to view larger Natalie Evans protests with European Dissent outside of an event where Mayor Ed Murray was speaking to kick off Irish Week. The group is protesting the new youth detention facility. Photo by Ashley Archibald Attendees of a private eve ...

March 15th, 2017 - Ashley Archibald
Murray has halted the bunker, but we know this is just the beginning

Click to view larger Black Lives Matter activists protest at an Aug. 15 City Council meeting about the planned police bunker in North Seattle. Photo by Alex Garland Mayor Ed Murray, in a joint announcement with Councilmembers Debora Juarez, Lorena Gonzale ...

September 28th, 2016 - #BlocktheBunker
The police precinct is on hold, but it needs to be completely abandoned

In the past few years, I have looked with increasing horror at the ending of Black lives in this country from an increasingly hostile and militarized police force. Since the ’70s, when Ronald Reagan asked the military to start providing local police depar ...

October 12th, 2016 - Cynthia Linet
Director's Corner

Click to view larger The first thing you need to know about Mayor Ed Murray’s new interim action plan on unsheltered homelessness is that it was released after 6 p.m. on a Friday. When a major policy announcement is timed to bury media response, that’s a ...

October 26th, 2016 - Timothy Harris