Book review: ’Bridge Builders: Bringing People Together in a Polarized Age’ by Nathan Bomey

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We plead for exegesis, illustration and homily

By Dr. Wes Browning | April 21, 2021

So one former short-term mayor, Bruce Harrell, would like to try it again for a full term, and while that’s going on, another short-term former mayor, Tim Burgess, is willing to pass on running for mayor. No, Burgess merely wants a city charter amendment passed to force the city to handle the homelessness crisis his way forever.

Reading his group’s Compassion Seattle Amendment, my first thought was, could we ramp up the Orwellian language, please? ...

Our community our Responsibility: Stop Asian hate

By Jill Mullins | April 21, 2021

As our society reopens, mass shootings reemerge to show oppressive forces. One of the recent tragedies was caused by a white man assailing nine people at spas in Atlanta, killing eight. Six of the seven women he shot are Asian American: four are Korean American; two are Chinese American; one of the two men is an Army veteran and a handyman; and one man is a Guatemalan immigrant and a passerby. Their names are: ...

Why don’t PCC leaders want us workers elected to the co-op board?

By Donna Rasmussen and Laurae McIntyre | April 21, 2021

PCC’s corporate-dominated board and CEO are doing everything they can to put heavy thumbs on the scales and prevent us from joining them in the co-op boardroom.

About 90,000 PCC co-op members are able to vote now through May 3, and for the first time in recent history, two of the five candidates for the board are PCC member-workers. ...

Thank you, Real Change volunteers!

By Ainsley Meyer and Katie Comboy | April 21, 2021

A Real Change vendor approaches the sales desk to purchase this week’s paper.

“Do you have any lunch today?” he asks. And then he laughs as we read the myriad of options — the list of choices doesn’t seem to end.

After a few minutes, he leaves with a bag full of groceries, homemade burritos, pastries and more. All of which were donated, or home-cooked, by Real Change volunteers to help offset the decline in income amid COVID-19. ...

Arts

Haunted by history

By Nancy Pickett | April 21, 2021

Hauntings of mental health care

Northern State Hospital opened in 1912 due to overcrowding in Washington’s Western State and Eastern State mental hospitals. It quickly became the largest mental health facility in Washington, housing at least 2,700 patients by the 1950s. ...

Seattle

Auburn Council criminalizes camping on city property | J&J vaccine pause | Sounders ticket fiasco rough start for sports fans

By Christy Carley and Anonymous | April 21, 2021

Auburn Council criminalizes camping on city property

The Auburn City Council voted April 19 to institute a criminal penalty for anyone living outside on city property. People experiencing homelessness found guilty of camping in parks or on sidewalks could face up to $1,000 in fines and/or 90 days in jail — penalties that critics say would effectively criminalize homelessness without addressing its causes. The decision comes at the heels of a camping ban passed by the Mercer Island City Council in February. ...

Book review

Book review: ’Bridge Builders: Bringing People Together in a Polarized Age’ by Nathan Bomey

By Megan Wildhood | April 21, 2021

Lately, we’ve been abusing each other. So wrote Nathan Bomey in his forthcoming book “Bridge Builders: Bringing People Together in a Polarized Age.” Bomey’s research covers the country, from Washington, D.C., where youth are making art to combat the city’s stereotypes as dangerous and politicized, to Detroit’s bankruptcy to the national fight against climate change in American politics. ...

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