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Table of Contents
April 15, 2000, Vol. 7, No. 8
Headlines:
- E.O. Anthony
- First things First
- Heroin Relief
Table of Contents:
Counted. Census takers come up short on street count by Molly Rhodes, Pages 1, 14
- Picture: Despite the efforts of homeless guides like Tom French, the Census 2000 homeless count as come up far short of the real numbers
- Photo by Josh Root
Mailbag, Page 2
- Doing Time by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid, tenant of Bell Tower and staff writer, Seattle Gay News
- From March 10...from Anonymous voicemail
Opinion: Keeping to Themselves. In Washington State, the rich get to keep while the poor must pay. Does Olympia care? By Yoram Bauman, Page 3
| It's tax time, and the burden's on the poor
This Just In! Sacramento is using an Anabuse Reversion System in place of jails. If inhabitants stray from their neighborhood, they will feel nauseous. By Bob Redmond via Rudy Reardon, Page 3
News You Can Use, Close to Home, Page 4
Briefs by Adam Holdorf:
- Housing plans start, stop
- Logo logjam. Re: Councilmember Kent Pullen
- Coming to your kommunity: cash for birth control
Brief by Jimmy So:
- Needle exchanges lower Seattle's HIV rate
Heroin's Take-Home Treatment by Ellen L. Boyer, Page 6
| Heroin's latest enemy
- Picture: Andrew Saxon, M.D. VA doctor test prescription pill for addicts. "Clearly, methadone dramatically reduces illicit drug use. It reduces people's involvement in criminal activity, it reduces the mortality rate. But it doesn't work for everyone."
- Photo by Christina Larson
Home Safe. Controversial program protects vulnerable by Shauna Curphey, Page 7
| Harm reduction housing sparks controversy
Poetry Tribute to the late E.O. Anthony. [Elluage Anthony] by Anitra Freeman and Michele Marchand, Pages 8, 9
Poems:
- Scenarios/Ontic Delusion
- Every/body Electric
Rally 'Round the Flag. Winter shelters close...tent cities open by Chris Gordon Owen, Page 10
| SHARE/WHEEL say survival is everything - City disagrees
- Quote by Shannon Reilly, neighbor
- Photo by Lisa Waldo
Shooed Out. Pioneer Square artists sent packing by Trevor Griffey, Pages 11, 14
| No room of their own: artists forced out
Real Profile. Homeless Artist R find a place at StreetLife by Chris Gordon Owen, Page 12
- Illustration: Dragon by R
Tenant Talk. Educate. Agitate. Organize. By Mark Chattin, Legal Action Center, Page 13
Landlord Laws | the law on the land(lord)
Classics Corner by Perfess'r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 14
Calendar, Page 15 | Compiled by Gretchen King
Citizens Participation Project, Page 16 | By Molly Rhodes
Raise the Minimum Wage
- Issue: Congress is poised to increase the minimum wage by one dollar - from $5.15 to $6.15 - over the next two or three years. Don't let them delay on choosing the two-year option and implementing the first half of the increase that was supposed to take place April 1, 2000.