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January 25, 2001, Vol. 8, No. 3
Headlines:
- Out-Spoken. Welfare Administrator says DSHS is broken and getting worse
- Goodbye Uncle Bob
- Sweet Deal for Downtown Developers
- Shutters in South Bronx
- Nancy Amidei's Olympia Watch
Table of Contents:
Out-Spoken. Welfare Administrator says DSHS is broken and getting worse. Interview with Margey Rubado by Joe Martin, Pages 1, 11
| DSHS director quits and tells all
- Picture: Margey Rubado
- Photo by Rick Dahms
Mailbag: Page 2
- Bean counting by Peter Kolb | Seattle
- Beating the odds by Harold E. Bartko | Anchorage, AK
Opinion: Pinpricks of Light. Keep a close watch on Bush's faith-based anti-poverty agenda by Adam Holdorf, Page 3
| Bush’s faith-based anti-poverty agenda
This Just In! by Bob Redmond, Page 3
News You Can Use! Close to Home. By Adam Holdorf, Page 4
- Santos spirited away
- Picture: "Uncle" Bob Santos ended his seven-year leadership of the regional HUD office this month
- We miss him already
- Picture: Resurrecting Tent City at Martin Luther King park, only to move again this past weekend.
- Photo by George Hickey
- Haggling over the landlord law
- Look it up [RE: Tent City]
- Power to the people [RE: Seattle City Light, ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now]
High Rise, Low Wage. Labor, housing, environmental activists want city to rethink realtors' sweet deal by Adam Holdorf, Page 5
| Rethinking realtors’ sweet deal
Policy Watch by Nancy Amidei, Page 5
| State health, welfare, and housing bills
Gated Ghetto. Publicly funded roadblock segregates Kent communities by Manny Frishberg, Page 6 [RE: Pacific Pointe Apartments]
| Public funds for Kent segregation
- Picture: Bruce Charley by the newly-installed Kent gate
- Photo by John Caputo
Essay: Angry Enough to Care. Unanswerable questions and the people who ask them by Michele Marchand, Page 7
| Memorial stirs up ideas of faith
- Poem by Elizabeth Romero
- Picture: King County Executive Ron Sims at the Compass Center's annual memorial service. The ceremony honored 86 homeless and formerly homeless men and women who passed away in 2000.
- Photo by Lisa Waldo
Adventures in Poetry with ©Dr. Wes Browning, Page 8
Poetry, Pages 8, 9
- The Two Virgins by Anon.
- Equi Noctis by F.L.
- Poem by Adele Armstrong
- Angeline's by Chanira Reang Sperry
- Ryan's Song by Patrick Bissell
- Be Yourself by Estella Wallace
Against Oblivion. New offerings from Curbstone celebrate the politics of memory. Books: In the South Bronx of America. Photographs by Mel Rosenthal With essays by Grace Paley, Martha Rosler and Barry Phillips; The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems by William Jay Smith. Review by Timothy Harris, Pages 10, 11
| Books to celebrate the politics of memory
- Picture: St. Athaniasia's baseball team
- Pictures (2): The Social Club didn't survive the times when photographer Mel Rosenthal revisted the site 15 years later
- Picture: Paulina and her son, Eddy, don't even have enough money to make it back to Puerto Rico.
- All photos from In the South Bronx of America
Notes From The Kitchen. Celebrate your Sunday with Brunch by Liz Smith, Page 12
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 13
Seattle Timeline. From the Files of HistoryLink, Page 14
- Picture: The original "Battle in Seattle"
- The photo of Ivar Haglund that made its way around the world
Classics Corner by Perfess'r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 14
Calendar. Compiled by Kristen Alexander, Page 15
Citizens Participation Project. ACT NOW!
Support Wheels for the Poor
- Issue: Senate Bill 5031, the "Wheels to Work" program, would be a step in the right direction in providing tools for children and their families to move out of poverty